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the waters which were 13
And the evening and the waters bring forth
Genesis under the firmament the morning were the abundantly the moving
from the waters which third day. creature that hath life,
Chapter 1 were above the 14
And God said, Let and fowl that may fly
firmament: and it was there be lights in the above the earth in the
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In the beginning God so. 8And God called the firmament of the heaven open firmament of
created the heaven and firmament Heaven. And to divide the dayd from heaven. 21
And God
the earth. 2And the earth the evening and the the night; and let them created great whales,
was without form, and morning were the be for signs, and for and every living
void; and darkness was second day. seasons, and for days, creature that moveth,
upon the face of the 9
And God said, Let the and years: 15
And let which the waters
deep. And the Spirit of waters under the heaven them be for lights in the brought forth
God moved upon the be gathered together firmament of the heaven abundantly, after their
face of the waters. unto one place, and let to give light upon the kind, and every winged
3
And God said, Let the dry land appear: and earth: and it was so. fowl after his kind: and
there be light: and there it was so. 10And God 16
And God made two God saw that it was
was light. 4And God saw called the dry land Earth; great lights; the greater good. 22
And God
the light, that it was and the gathering light to rule the daye, blessed them, saying,
good: and God divided together of the waters and the lesser light to Be fruitful, and multiply,
the light from the called he Seas: and God rule the night: he made and fill the waters in
darkness. 5
And God saw that it was good. the stars also. 17And God the seas, and let fowl
called the light Day, and 11
And God said, Let the set them in the multiply in the earth.
the darkness he called earth bring forth grassc, firmament of the heaven 23
And the evening and
Night. And the eveningi the herb yielding seed, to give light upon the the morning were the
and the morning were and the fruit tree earth, 18And to rule over fifth day.
the first day. yielding fruit after his the day and over the 24
And God said, Let
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And God said, Let kind, whose seed is in night, and to divide the the earth bring forth
there be a firmamentb in itself, upon the earth: light from the darkness: the living creature after
the midst of the waters, and it was so. 12And the and God saw that it was his kind, cattle, and
and let it divide the earth brought forth good. 19And the evening creeping thing, and
waters from the waters. grass, and herb yielding and the morning were beast of the earth after
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And God made the seed after his kind, and the fourth day. his kind: and it was so.
firmament, and divided the tree yielding fruit, 20
And God said, Let 25
And God made the
ia
whose seed was in itself, d
beast of the earth after
And the evening...: Heb. And after his kind: and God the day...: Heb. between the his kind, and cattle
the evening was, and the saw that it was good. day and between the night after their kind, and
e
morning was to rule the day...: Heb. for the every thing that
b c
firmament: Heb. expansion grass: Heb. tender grass rule of the day, etc.
creepeth upon the earth is the fruit of a tree 4
These are the midst of the garden,
after his kind: and God yielding seed; to you it generations of the and the tree of
saw that it was good. shall be for meat. 30And heavens and of the earth knowledge of good and
26
And God said, Let us to every beast of the when they were created, evil. 10And a river went
make man in our image, earth, and to every fowl in the day that the LORD out of Eden to water the
after our likeness: and of the air, and to every God made the earth and garden; and from
let them have dominion thing that creepeth upon the heavens, 5And every thence it was parted,
over the fish of the sea, the earth, wherein there plant of the field before and became into four
and over the fowl of the is lifeh, I have given it was in the earth, and heads. 11The name of
air, and over the cattle, every green herb for every herb of the field the first is Pison: that is
and over all the earth, meat: and it was so. before it grew: for the it which compasseth
and over every creeping 31
And God saw every LORD God had not the whole land of
thing that creepeth upon thing that he had made, caused it to rain upon Havilah, where there is
the earth. 27So God and, behold, it was very the earth, and there was gold; 12And the gold of
created man in his own good. And the evening not a man to till the that land is good: there
image, in the image of and the morning were ground. 6But there went is bdellium and the
God created he him; the sixth day. up a mist from the earth, onyx stone. 13And the
male and female created and watered the whole name of the second
he them. 28And God Chapter 2 face of the ground. 7And river is Gihon: the same
blessed them, and God the LORD God formed is it that compasseth
said unto them, Be Thus the heavens
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man of the dust of the the whole land of
fruitful, and multiply, and and the earth were ground, and breathed Ethiopia .b 14
And the
replenish the earth, and finished, and all the host into his nostrils the name of the third river
subdue it: and have of them. 2And on the breath of life; and man is Hiddekel: that is it
dominion over the fish of seventh day God ended became a living soul. which goeth towardc the
the sea, and over the his work which he had 8
And the LORD God east of Assyria. And the
fowl of the air, and over made; and he rested on planted a garden fourth river is
every living thing that the seventh day from all eastward in Eden; and Euphrates. 15
And the
movethf upon the earth. his work which he had there he put the man LORD God took the
29
And God said, made. 3And God blessed whom he had formed. mand, and put him into
Behold, I have given you the seventh day, and 9
And out of the ground the garden of Eden to
every herb bearingg sanctified it: because made the LORD God to dress it and to keep it.
seed, which is upon the that in it he had rested grow every tree that is 16
And the LORD God
face of all the earth, and from all his work which pleasant to the sight, b
every tree, in the which God createda and made. and good for food; the Ethiopia: Heb. Cush
c
tree of life also in the toward...: or, eastward to
f h
moveth: Heb. creepeth life: Heb. a living soul Assyria
g a d
bearing...: Heb. seeding seed created...: Heb. created to make the man: or, Adam
commanded the man, him. the woman, Yeaa, hath that they were naked;
saying, Of every tree of And the LORD God
21
God said, Ye shall not and they sewed fig
the garden thou mayest caused a deep sleep to eat of every tree of the leaves together, and
freely eat: 17But of the fall upon Adam, and he garden? 2
And the made themselves
tree of the knowledge of slept: and he took one of woman said unto the apronsc. 8
And they
good and evil, thou shalt his ribs, and closed up serpent, We may eat of heard the voice of the
not eat of it: for in the the flesh instead thereof; the fruit of the trees of LORD God walking in
day that thou eatest 22
And the rib, which the the garden: 3But of the the garden in the coold
thereof thou shalt surelye LORD God had taken fruit of the tree which is of the day: and Adam
die. from man, madei he a in the midst of the and his wife hid
18
And the LORD God woman, and brought her garden, God hath said, themselves from the
said, It is not good that unto the man. 23
And Ye shall not eat of it, presence of the LORD
the man should be Adam said, This is now neither shall ye touch it, God amongst the trees
alone; I will make him an bone of my bones, and lest ye die. 4And the of the garden.
help meetf for him. flesh of my flesh: she serpent said unto the 9
And the LORD God
19
And out of the ground shall be called Womanj, woman, Ye shall not called unto Adam, and
the LORD God formed because she was taken surely die: 5For God doth said unto him, Where
every beast of the field, out of Man. 24Therefore know that in the day ye art thou? 10And he said,
and every fowl of the air; shall a man leave his eat thereof, then your I heard thy voice in the
and brought them unto father and his mother, eyes shall be opened, garden, and I was
Adamg to see what he and shall cleave unto his and ye shall be as gods, afraid, because I was
would call them: and wife: and they shall be knowing good and evil. naked; and I hid myself.
whatsoever Adam called one flesh. 25And they 6
And when the 11
And he said, Who
every living creature, were both naked, the woman saw that the tree told thee that thou wast
that was the name man and his wife, and was good for food, and naked? Hast thou eaten
thereof. 20
And Adam were not ashamed. that it was pleasantb to of the tree, whereof I
gave h
names to all the eyes, and a tree to commanded thee that
cattle, and to the fowl of Chapter 3 be desired to make one thou shouldest not eat?
the air, and to every wise, she took of the 12
And the man said, The
beast of the field; but for Now the serpent was
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fruit thereof, and did eat, woman whom thou
Adam there was not more subtil than any and gave also unto her gavest to be with me,
found an help meet for beast of the field which husband with her; and she gave me of the
the LORD God had he did eat. 7
And the tree, and I did eat.
e
thou shalt surely...: Heb. dying made. And he said unto eyes of them both were 13
And the LORD God
thou shalt die opened, and they knew
f c
meet...: Heb. as before him aprons: or, things to gird
g i a
Adam: or, the man made: Heb. built Yea...: Heb. Yea, because, etc. about
h j b d
gave: Heb. called Woman: Heb. Isha pleasant: Heb. a desire cool: Heb. wind
said unto the woman, thee, saying, Thou shalt till the ground from fat thereof. And the
What is this that thou not eat of it: cursed is whence he was taken. LORD had respect unto
hast done? And the the ground for thy sake; 24
So he drove out the Abel and to his offering:
woman said, The serpent in sorrow shalt thou eat man; and he placed at 5
But unto Cain and to
beguiled me, and I did of it all the days of thy the east of the garden of his offering he had not
eat. life; 18Thorns also and Eden Cherubims, and a respect. And Cain was
14
And the LORD God thistles shall it bring flaming sword which very wroth, and his
said unto the serpent, forth to thee; and thou turned every way, to countenance fell.
Because thou hast done shalt eat the herb of the keep the way of the tree 6
And the LORD said
this, thou art cursed field; 19In the sweat of of life. unto Cain, Why art thou
above all cattle, and thy face shalt thou eat wroth? and why is thy
above every beast of the bread, till thou return Chapter 4 countenance fallen? 7If
field; upon thy belly shalt unto the ground; for out thou doest well, shalt
thou go, and dust shalt of it wast thou taken: for
1
And Adam knew Eve thou not be acceptede?
thou eat all the days of dust thou art, and unto his wife; and she and if thou doest not
thy life: 15And I will put dust shalt thou return. conceived, and bare well, sin lieth at the
enmity between thee 20
And Adam called his Caina, and said, I have door. And unto thee
and the woman, and wife’s name Evee; gotten a man from the shall be his desire, and
between thy seed and because she was the LORD. 2And she again thou shalt rule over
her seed; it shall bruise mother of all living. bare his brother Abelb. him.
thy head, and thou shalt 21
Unto Adam also and And Abel was a keeper 8
And Cain talked
bruise his heel. to his wife did the LORD of sheep, but Cain was a with Abel his brother:
16
Unto the woman he God make coats of skins, tiller of the ground. and it came to pass,
said, I will greatly and clothed them.
3
And in processc of when they were in the
multiply thy sorrow and 22
And the LORD God time it came to pass, field, that Cain rose up
thy conception; in sorrow said, Behold, the man is that Cain brought of the against Abel his
thou shalt bring forth become as one of us, to fruit of the ground an brother, and slew him.
children; and thy desire know good and evil: and offering unto the LORD. 9
And the LORD said
shall be to thy husband, now, lest he put forth his
4
And Abel, he also unto Cain, Where is
and he shall rule over hand, and take also of brought of the firstlings Abel thy brother? And
thee. the tree of life, and eat, of his flockd and of the he said, I know not: Am
17
And unto Adam he and live for ever: a
I my brother’s keeper?
said, Because thou hast 23
Therefore the LORD Cain: that is Gotten, or, 10
And he said, What
hearkened unto the God sent him forth from Acquired hast thou done? the
b
voice of thy wife, and the garden of Eden, to Abel: Heb. Hebel voice of thy brother’s
c
hast eaten of the tree, of in process...: Heb. at the end
e e
which I commanded Eve: Heb. Chavah: that is of days be accepted: or, have the
d
Living flock: Heb. sheep, or, goats excellency
bloodf crieth unto me him. iron: and the sister of likeness of God made
from the ground. 11And 16
And Cain went out Tubalcain was Naamah. he him; 2Male and
now art thou cursed from from the presence of the 23
And Lamech said female created he
the earth, which hath LORD, and dwelt in the unto his wives, Adah and them; and blessed
opened her mouth to land of Nod, on the east Zillah, Hear my voice; ye them, and called their
receive thy brother’s of Eden. 17And Cain knew wives of Lamech, name Adam, in the day
blood from thy hand; his wife; and she hearken unto my when they were
12
When thou tillest the conceived, and bare speech: for I have slain a created. 3
And Adam
ground, it shall not Enochg: and he builded a man to my wounding, lived an hundred and
henceforth yield unto city, and called the name and a young man to my thirty years, and begat
thee her strength; a of the city, after the hurt. 24
If Cain shall be a son in his own
fugitive and a vagabond name of his son, Enoch. avenged sevenfold, truly likeness, after his
shalt thou be in the 18
And unto Enoch was Lamech seventy and image; and called his
earth. born Irad: and Irad begat sevenfold. name Seth: 4And the
13
And Cain said unto Mehujael: and Mehujael 25
And Adam knew his days of Adam after he
the LORD, My begat Methusael: and wife again; and she bare had begotten Seth were
punishment is greater Methusael begat a son, and called his eight hundred years:
than I can bear. Lamech . h
name Sethi: For God, and he begat sons and
14
Behold, thou hast 19
And Lamech took said she, hath appointed daughters: 5And all the
driven me out this day unto him two wives: the me another seed instead days that Adam lived
from the face of the name of the one was of Abel, whom Cain slew. were nine hundred and
earth; and from thy face Adah, and the name of 26
And to Seth, to him thirty years: and he
shall I be hid; and I shall the other Zillah. 20And also there was born a died.
be a fugitive and a Adah bare Jabal: he was son; and he called his 6
And Seth lived an
vagabond in the earth; the father of such as name Enosj: then began hundred and five years,
and it shall come to dwell in tents, and of men to call upon the and begat Enosa: 7And
pass, that every one that such as have cattle. name of the LORD. Seth lived after he
findeth me shall slay me. 21
And his brother’s name begat Enos eight
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And the LORD said unto was Jubal: he was the Chapter 5 hundred and seven
him, Therefore father of all such as years, and begat sons
whosoever slayeth Cain, handle the harp and This is the book of
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and daughters: 8And all
vengeance shall be organ. 22And Zillah, she the generations of Adam. the days of Seth were
taken on him sevenfold. also bare Tubalcain, an In the day that God nine hundred and
And the LORD set a mark instructer of every created man, in the twelve years: and he
upon Cain, lest any artificer in brass and i
died. 9And Enos lived
finding him should kill Seth: Heb. Sheth: that is ninety years, and begat
g
Enoch: Heb. Chanoch Appointed, or, Put
f h j a
blood: Heb. bloods Lamech: Heb. Lemech Enos: Heb. Enosh Enos: Heb. Enosh
Cainanb: 10
And Enos begat Enoch: 19And Jared died. and they took them
lived after he begat lived after he begat 28
And Lamech lived an wives of all which they
Cainan eight hundred Enoch eight hundred hundred eighty and two chose.
and fifteen years, and years, and begat sons years, and begat a son: 3
And the LORD said,
begat sons and and daughters: 20And all 29
And he called his name My spirit shall not
daughters: And all the
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the days of Jared were Noahg, saying, This same always strive with man,
days of Enos were nine nine hundred sixty and shall comfort us for that he also is flesh:
hundred and five years: two years: and he died. concerning our work and yet his days shall be an
and he died. 12And 21
And Enoch lived toil of our hands, hundred and twenty
Cainan lived seventy sixty and five years, and because of the ground years.
years, and begat begat Methuselahe: which the LORD hath 4
There were giants in
Mahalaleel :
c 13
And 22
And Enoch walked with cursed. 30
And Lamech the earth in those days;
Cainan lived after he God after he begat lived after he begat and also after that,
begat Mahalaleel eight Methuselah three Noah five hundred ninety when the sons of God
hundred and forty years, hundred years, and and five years, and came in unto the
and begat sons and begat sons and begat sons and daughters of men, and
daughters: 14And all the daughters: 23And all the daughters: 31And all the they bare children to
days of Cainan were nine days of Enoch were days of Lamech were them, the same
hundred and ten years: three hundred sixty and seven hundred seventy became mighty men
and he died. 15And five years: 24And Enoch and seven years: and he which were of old, men
Mahalaleel lived sixty walked with God: and he died. 32And Noah was of renown. 5And GOD
and five years, and was not; for God took five hundred years old: saw that the
begat Jaredd: 16
And him. and Noah begat Shem, wickedness of man was
Mahalaleel lived after he 25
And Methuselah Ham, and Japheth. great in the earth, and
begat Jared eight lived an hundred eighty that every imagination
hundred and thirty and seven years, and Chapter 6 of the thoughts of his
years, and begat sons begat Lamech: 26And heart was only evil
and daughters: 17And all Methuselah lived after And it came to pass,
1
continually.
the days of Mahalaleel he begat Lamechf seven when men began to 6
And it repented the
were eight hundred hundred eighty and two multiply on the face of LORD that he had made
ninety and five years: years, and begat sons the earth, and daughters man on the earth, and
and he died. 18And Jared and daughters: 27And all were born unto them, it grieved him at his
lived an hundred sixty the days of Methuselah
2
That the sons of God heart. 7And the LORD
and two years, and he were nine hundred sixty saw the daughters of said, I will destroy man
and nine years: and he men that they were fair; whom I have created
b
Cainan: Heb. Kenan from the face of the
c e g
Mahalaleel: Gr. Maleleel Methuselah: Gr. Mathusala Noah: Gr. Noe: that is Rest, earth; both man, and
d f
Jared: Heb. Jered Lamech: Heb. Lemech or, Comfort
beast, and the creeping roomsc shalt thou make ark, to keep them alive the air by sevensb, the
thing, and the fowls of in the ark, and shalt with thee; they shall be male and the female; to
the air; for it repenteth pitch it within and male and female. 20Of keep seed alive upon
me that I have made without with pitch. And
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fowls after their kind, the face of all the earth.
them. this is the fashion which and of cattle after their 4
For yet seven days,
8
But Noah found thou shalt make it of: kind, of every creeping and I will cause it to
grace in the eyes of the The length of the ark thing of the earth after rain upon the earth
LORD. 9These are the shall be three hundred his kind, two of every forty days and forty
generations of Noah: cubits, the breadth of it sort shall come unto nights; and every living
Noah was a just man fifty cubits, and the thee, to keep them alive. substance that I have
and perfecta in his height of it thirty cubits. 21
And take thou unto made will I destroyc
generations, and Noah 16
A window shalt thou thee of all food that is from off the face of the
walked with God. 10And make to the ark, and in a eaten, and thou shalt earth.
Noah begat three sons, cubit shalt thou finish it gather it to thee; and it 5
And Noah did
Shem, Ham, and above; and the door of shall be for food for thee, according unto all that
Japheth. the ark shalt thou set in and for them. the LORD commanded
11
The earth also was the side thereof; with 22
Thus did Noah; him. 6And Noah was six
corrupt before God, and lower, second, and third according to all that God hundred years old when
the earth was filled with stories shalt thou make commanded him, so did the flood of waters was
violence. 12
And God it. 17And, behold, I, even he. upon the earth. 7And
looked upon the earth, I, do bring a flood of Noah went in, and his
and, behold, it was waters upon the earth, Chapter 7 sons, and his wife, and
corrupt; for all flesh had to destroy all flesh, his sons’ wives with
corrupted his way upon wherein is the breath of And the LORD said
1
him, into the ark,
the earth. life, from under heaven; unto Noah, Come thou because of the waters
13
And God said unto and every thing that is in and all thy house into of the flood. 8Of clean
Noah, The end of all the earth shall die. 18But the ark; for thee have I beasts, and of beasts
flesh is come before me; with thee will I establish seen righteous before that are not clean, and
for the earth is filled with my covenant; and thou me in this generation. of fowls, and of every
violence through them; shalt come into the ark,
2
Of every clean beast thing that creepeth
and, behold, I will thou, and thy sons, and thou shalt take to thee upon the earth, 9There
destroy them with the thy wife, and thy sons’ by sevensa, the male and went in two and two
earthb. 14Make thee an wives with thee. 19And of his female: and of beasts unto Noah into the ark,
ark of gopher wood; every living thing of all that are not clean by the male and the
flesh, two of every sort two, the male and his female, as God had
a
perfect: or, upright shalt thou bring into the female. 3Of fowls also of
b b
with the earth: or, from the by sevens: Heb. seven seven
c a c
earth rooms: Heb. nests by sevens: Heb. seven seven destroy: Heb. blot out
commanded Noah. 10And and two of all flesh, nostrils was the breathf from off the earth
it came to pass after wherein is the breath of of life, of all that was in continuallya: and after
seven days, that the life. 16And they that went the dry land, died. 23And the end of the hundred
waters of the flood were in, went in male and every living substance and fifty days the
upon the earth. female of all flesh, as was destroyed which waters were abated.
11
In the six hundredth God had commanded was upon the face of the 4
And the ark rested
year of Noah’s life, in the him: and the LORD shut ground, both man, and in the seventh month,
second month, the him in. cattle, and the creeping on the seventeenth day
seventeenth day of the 17
And the flood was things, and the fowl of of the month, upon the
month, the same day forty days upon the the heaven; and they mountains of Ararat.
were all the fountains of earth; and the waters were destroyed from the 5
And the waters
the great deep broken increased, and bare up earth: and Noah only decreased b
continually
up, and the windowsd of the ark, and it was lift up remained alive, and they until the tenth month:
heaven were opened. above the earth. 18And that were with him in the in the tenth month, on
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And the rain was upon the waters prevailed, ark. 24And the waters the first day of the
the earth forty days and and were increased prevailed upon the earth month, were the tops of
forty nights. greatly upon the earth; an hundred and fifty the mountains seen.
13
In the selfsame day and the ark went upon days. 6
And it came to pass
entered Noah, and the face of the waters. at the end of forty days,
Shem, and Ham, and 19
And the waters Chapter 8 that Noah opened the
Japheth, the sons of prevailed exceedingly window of the ark which
Noah, and Noah’s wife, upon the earth; and all And
1
God he had made: 7And he
and the three wives of the high hills, that were remembered Noah, and sent forth a raven,
his sons with them, into under the whole heaven, every living thing, and all which went forth toc
the ark; 14They, and were covered. 20Fifteen the cattle that was with and fro, until the waters
every beast after his cubits upward did the him in the ark: and God were dried up from off
kind, and all the cattle waters prevail; and the made a wind to pass the earth. 8Also he sent
after their kind, and mountains were covered. over the earth, and the forth a dove from him,
every creeping thing 21
And all flesh died waters asswaged; 2The to see if the waters
that creepeth upon the that moved upon the fountains also of the were abated from off
earth after his kind, and earth, both of fowl, and deep and the windows of the face of the ground;
every fowl after his kind, of cattle, and of beast, heaven were stopped,
a
every bird of every sorte. and of every creeping and the rain from continually: Heb. in going
15
And they went in unto thing that creepeth upon heaven was restrained; and returning
b
Noah into the ark, two the earth, and every
3
And the waters returned decreased...: Heb. were in
man: 22All in whose going and decreasing
d f c
windows: or, floodgates the breath...: Heb. the breath to...: Heb. in going forth and
e
sort: Heb. wing of the spirit of life returning
9
But the dove found no the seven and twentieth a sweete savour; and the thing that liveth shall
rest for the sole of her day of the month, was LORD said in his heart, I be meat for you; even
foot, and she returned the earth dried. will not again curse the as the green herb have
unto him into the ark, for 15
And God spake unto ground any more for I given you all things.
the waters were on the Noah, saying, 16Go forth man’s sake; for the 4
But flesh with the life
face of the whole earth: of the ark, thou, and thy imagination of man’s thereof, which is the
then he put forth his wife, and thy sons, and heart is evil from his blood thereof, shall ye
hand, and took her, and thy sons’ wives with youth; neither will I not eat. 5And surely
pulled her in unto him thee. 17Bring forth with again smite any more your blood of your lives
into the ark. 10And he thee every living thing every thing living, as I will I require; at the
stayed yet other seven that is with thee, of all have done. 22While the hand of every beast will
days; and again he sent flesh, both of fowl, and earth remaineth, I require it, and at the
forth the dove out of the of cattle, and of every seedtime and harvest, hand of man; at the
ark; 11And the dove creeping thing that and cold and heat, and hand of every man’s
came in to him in the creepeth upon the earth; summer and winter, and brother will I require the
evening; and, lo, in her that they may breed day and night shall not life of man. 6Whoso
mouth was an olive leaf abundantly in the earth, cease. sheddeth man’s blood,
pluckt off: so Noah knew and be fruitful, and by man shall his blood
that the waters were multiply upon the earth. Chapter 9 be shed: for in the
abated from off the 18
And Noah went forth, image of God made he
earth. 12And he stayed and his sons, and his
1
And God blessed man. 7And you, be ye
yet other seven days; wife, and his sons’ wives Noah and his sons, and fruitful, and multiply;
and sent forth the dove; with him: 19Every beast, said unto them, Be bring forth abundantly
which returned not again every creeping thing, fruitful, and multiply, and in the earth, and
unto him any more. and every fowl, and replenish the earth. 2And multiply therein.
13
And it came to pass whatsoever creepeth the fear of you and the 8
And God spake unto
in the six hundredth and upon the earth, after dread of you shall be Noah, and to his sons
first year, in the first their kindsd, went forth upon every beast of the with him, saying, 9And I,
month, the first day of out of the ark. earth, and upon every behold, I establish my
the month, the waters 20
And Noah builded an fowl of the air, upon all covenant with you, and
were dried up from off altar unto the LORD; and that moveth upon the with your seed after
the earth: and Noah took of every clean earth, and upon all the you; 10And with every
removed the covering of beast, and of every clean fishes of the sea; into living creature that is
the ark, and looked, and, fowl, and offered burnt your hand are they with you, of the fowl, of
behold, the face of the offerings on the altar. delivered. 3Every moving the cattle, and of every
ground was dry. 14And in 21
And the LORD smelled e
beast of the earth with
the second month, on a sweet...: Heb. a savour of you; from all that go out
d
kinds: Heb. families rest or, satisfaction
of the ark, to every beast everlasting covenant of their father; and their after the flood. 2The
of the earth. 11And I will between God and every faces were backward, sons of Japheth; Gomer,
establish my covenant living creature of all flesh and they saw not their and Magog, and Madai,
with you; neither shall all that is upon the earth. father’s nakedness. and Javan, and Tubal,
flesh be cut off any more 17
And God said unto 24
And Noah awoke and Meshech, and
by the waters of a flood; Noah, This is the token from his wine, and knew Tiras. And the sons of
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neither shall there any of the covenant, which I what his younger son Gomer; Ashkenaz, and
more be a flood to have established had done unto him. Riphath, and Togarmah.
destroy the earth. between me and all flesh 25
And he said, Cursed be 4
And the sons of Javan;
12
And God said, This that is upon the earth. Canaan; a servant of Elishah, and Tarshish,
is the token of the 18
And the sons of servants shall he be unto Kittim, and Dodanima.
covenant which I make Noah, that went forth of his brethren. 26And he 5
By these were the isles
between me and you the ark, were Shem, and said, Blessed be the of the Gentiles divided
and every living creature Ham, and Japheth: and LORD God of Shem; and in their lands; every
that is with you, for Ham is the father of Canaan shall be his one after his tongue,
perpetual generations: Canaana. 19
These are servantb. 27
God shall after their families, in
13
I do set my bow in the the three sons of Noah: enlarge Japheth, and he
c
their nations.
cloud, and it shall be for and of them was the shall dwell in the tents of 6
And the sons of
a token of a covenant whole earth overspread. Shem; and Canaan shall Ham; Cush, and
between me and the 20
And Noah began to be be his servant. Mizraim, and Phut, and
earth. 14And it shall come an husbandman, and he 28
And Noah lived after Canaan. 7And the sons
to pass, when I bring a planted a vineyard: the flood three hundred of Cush; Seba, and
cloud over the earth, 21
And he drank of the and fifty years. 29And all Havilah, and Sabtah,
that the bow shall be wine, and was drunken; the days of Noah were and Raamah, and
seen in the cloud: 15And I and he was uncovered nine hundred and fifty Sabtecha: and the sons
will remember my within his tent. 22And years: and he died. of Raamah; Sheba, and
covenant, which is Ham, the father of Dedan. 8
And Cush
between me and you Canaan, saw the Chapter 10 begat Nimrod: he
and every living creature nakedness of his father, began to be a mighty
of all flesh; and the and told his two brethren Now these are the
1
one in the earth. 9He
waters shall no more without. 23And Shem and generations of the sons was a mighty hunter
become a flood to Japheth took a garment, of Noah, Shem, Ham, before the LORD:
destroy all flesh. 16And and laid it upon both and Japheth: and unto wherefore it is said,
the bow shall be in the their shoulders, and them were sons born Even as Nimrod the
cloud; and I will look went backward, and b
mighty hunter before
upon it, that I may covered the nakedness his servant: or, servant to
a
remember the them Dodanim: or, as some read it,
a c
Canaan: Heb. Chenaan enlarge: or, persuade Rodanim
the LORD. 10And the from Sidon, as thou begat Almodad, and there. 3And they saidb
beginning of his kingdom comest to Gerar, unto Sheleph, and one to another, Go to,
was Babelb, and Erech, Gazad; as thou goest, Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, let us make brick, and
and Accad, and Calneh, unto Sodom, and 27
And Hadoram, and burn them throughly.
in the land of Shinar. Gomorrah, and Admah, Uzal, and Diklah, 28And And they had brick for
11
Out of that land went and Zeboim, even unto Obal, and Abimael, and stone, and slime had
forth Asshur, and builded Lasha. 20These are the Sheba, 29And Ophir, and they for morter. 4
And
Nineveh, and the city sons of Ham, after their Havilah, and Jobab: all they said, Go to, let us
Rehoboth, and Calah, families, after their these were the sons of build us a city and a
12
And Resen between tongues, in their Joktan. 30
And their tower, whose top may
Nineveh and Calah: the countries, and in their dwelling was from reach unto heaven; and
same is a great city. nations. Mesha, as thou goest let us make us a name,
13
And Mizraim begat 21
Unto Shem also, the unto Sephar a mount of lest we be scattered
Ludim, and Anamim, and father of all the children the east. 31These are the abroad upon the face of
Lehabim, and of Eber, the brother of sons of Shem, after their the whole earth.
Naphtuhim, 14
And Japheth the elder, even families, after their 5
And the LORD came
Pathrusim, and to him were children tongues, in their lands, down to see the city
Casluhim, (out of whom born. 22The children of after their nations. and the tower, which
came Philistim,) and Shem; Elam, and Asshur, 32
These are the families the children of men
Caphtorim. and Arphaxade, and Lud, of the sons of Noah, builded. 6And the LORD
15
And Canaan begat and Aram. 23
And the after their generations, said, Behold, the people
Sidonc his firstborn, and children of Aram; Uz, and in their nations: and by is one, and they have
Heth, 16And the Jebusite, Hul, and Gether, and these were the nations all one language; and
and the Amorite, and the Mash. 24And Arphaxad divided in the earth after this they begin to do:
Girgasite, 17
And the begat Salahf; and Salah the flood. and now nothing will be
Hivite, and the Arkite, begat Eber. 25And unto restrained from them,
and the Sinite, 18And the Eber were born two Chapter 11 which they have
Arvadite, and the sons: the name of one imagined to do. Go to,
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Zemarite, and the was Pelegg; for in his And the whole earth
1
let us go down, and
Hamathite: and days was the earth was of one languagea, there confound their
afterward were the divided; and his and of one speech. language, that they
families of the brother’s name was
2
And it came to pass, as may not understand
Canaanites spread Joktan. 26
And Joktan they journeyed from the one another’s speech.
abroad. 19And the border east, that they found a 8
So the LORD scattered
d
of the Canaanites was Gaza: Heb. Azzah plain in the land of them abroad from
e
Arphaxad: Heb. Arpachshad Shinar; and they dwelt
b f b
Babel: Gr. Babylon Salah: Heb. Shelah they said...: Heb. a man said
c g a
Sidon: Heb. Tzidon Peleg: that is Division language: Heb. lip. to his neighbour
thence upon the face of Eber lived four and thirty and daughters. 26And Chapter 12
all the earth: and they years, and begat Pelegd: Terah lived seventy
left off to build the city. 17
And Eber lived after he years, and begat Abram, 1
Now the LORD had
9
Therefore is the name begat Peleg four Nahor, and Haran. said unto Abram, Get
of it called Babelc; hundred and thirty 27
Now these are the thee out of thy country,
because the LORD did years, and begat sons generations of Terah: and from thy kindred,
there confound the and daughters. 18And Terah begat Abram, and from thy father’s
language of all the earth: Peleg lived thirty years, Nahor, and Haran; and house, unto a land that
and from thence did the and begat Reu: 19And Haran begat Lot. 28And I will shew thee: 2And I
LORD scatter them Peleg lived after he Haran died before his will make of thee a
abroad upon the face of begat Reu two hundred father Terah in the land great nation, and I will
all the earth. and nine years, and of his nativity, in Ur of bless thee, and make
10
These are the begat sons and the Chaldees. 29
And thy name great; and
generations of Shem: daughters. 20
And Reu Abram and Nahor took thou shalt be a
Shem was an hundred lived two and thirty them wives: the name of blessing: 3And I will
years old, and begat years, and begat Seruge: Abram’s wife was Sarai; bless them that bless
Arphaxad two years after 21
And Reu lived after he and the name of Nahor’s thee, and curse him
the flood: 11And Shem begat Serug two wife, Milcah, the that curseth thee: and
lived after he begat hundred and seven daughter of Haran, the in thee shall all families
Arphaxad five hundred years, and begat sons father of Milcah, and the of the earth be blessed.
years, and begat sons and daughters. 22And father of Iscah. 30But 4
So Abram departed,
and daughters. 12And Serug lived thirty years, Sarai was barren; she as the LORD had
Arphaxad lived five and and begat Nahor: 23And had no child. 31And Terah spoken unto him; and
thirty years, and begat Serug lived after he took Abram his son, and Lot went with him: and
Salah: 13And Arphaxad begat Nahor two Lot the son of Haran his Abram was seventy and
lived after he begat hundred years, and son’s son, and Sarai his five years old when he
Salah four hundred and begat sons and daughter in law, his son departed out of Haran.
three years, and begat daughters. 24
And Nahor Abram’s wife; and they 5
And Abram took Sarai
sons and daughters. lived nine and twenty went forth with them his wife, and Lot his
14
And Salah lived thirty years, and begat Terahf: from Ur of the Chaldees, brother’s son, and all
years, and begat Eber: 25
And Nahor lived after to go into the land of their substance that
15
And Salah lived after he begat Terah an Canaan; and they came they had gathered, and
he begat Eber four hundred and nineteen unto Haran, and dwelt the souls that they had
hundred and three years, and begat sons there. 32And the days of gotten in Haran; and
years, and begat sons d
Terah were two hundred they went forth to go
and daughters. 16And Peleg: Gr. Phalec and five years: and into the land of Canaan;
e
Serug: Gr. Saruch Terah died in Haran.
c f and into the land of
Babel: that is, Confusion Terah: Gr. Thara
Canaan they came. that thou art a fair and said, What is this LORD.
6
And Abram passed woman to look upon: that thou hast done unto 5
And Lot also, which
through the land unto 12
Therefore it shall come me? why didst thou not went with Abram, had
the place of Sichem, to pass, when the tell me that she was thy flocks, and herds, and
unto the plain of Moreh. Egyptians shall see thee, wife? 19Why saidst thou, tents. 6And the land
And the Canaanite was that they shall say, This She is my sister? so I was not able to bear
then in the land. 7And is his wife: and they will might have taken her to them, that they might
the LORD appeared unto kill me, but they will me to wife: now dwell together: for their
Abram, and said, Unto save thee alive. 13Say, I therefore behold thy substance was great, so
thy seed will I give this pray thee, thou art my wife, take her, and go that they could not
land: and there builded sister: that it may be thy way. 20And Pharaoh dwell together. 7And
he an altar unto the well with me for thy commanded his men there was a strife
LORD, who appeared sake; and my soul shall concerning him: and between the herdmen
unto him. 8
And he live because of thee. they sent him away, and of Abram’s cattle and
removed from thence 14
And it came to pass, his wife, and all that he the herdmen of Lot’s
unto a mountain on the that, when Abram was had. cattle: and the
east of Bethel, and come into Egypt, the Canaanite and the
pitched his tent, having Egyptians beheld the Chapter 13 Perizzite dwelled then
Bethel on the west, and woman that she was in the land. 8And Abram
Hai on the east: and very fair. 15The princes
1
And Abram went up said unto Lot, Let there
there he builded an altar also of Pharaoh saw her, out of Egypt, he, and his be no strife, I pray thee,
unto the LORD, and and commended her wife, and all that he had, between me and thee,
called upon the name of before Pharaoh: and the and Lot with him, into and between my
the LORD. 9And Abram woman was taken into the south. 2And Abram herdmen and thy
journeyed, going on still Pharaoh’s house. 16And was very rich in cattle, in herdmen; for we be
toward the south. he entreated Abram well silver, and in gold. 3And brethrena. 9Is not the
10
And there was a for her sake: and he had he went on his journeys whole land before thee?
famine in the land: and sheep, and oxen, and he from the south even to separate thyself, I pray
Abram went down into asses, and menservants, Bethel, unto the place thee, from me: if thou
Egypt to sojourn there; and maidservants, and where his tent had been wilt take the left hand,
for the famine was she asses, and camels. at the beginning, then I will go to the
grievous in the land. 17
And the LORD plagued between Bethel and Hai; right; or if thou depart
11
And it came to pass, Pharaoh and his house
4
Unto the place of the to the right hand, then I
when he was come near with great plagues altar, which he had will go to the left.
to enter into Egypt, that because of Sarai made there at the first: 10
And Lot lifted up
he said unto Sarai his Abram’s wife. 18
And and there Abram called his eyes, and beheld all
wife, Behold now, I know Pharaoh called Abram, on the name of the
a
brethren: Heb. men brethren
the plain of Jordan, that dust of the earth: so that served Chedorlaomer, and Arioch king of
it was well watered if a man can number the and in the thirteenth Ellasar; four kings with
every where, before the dust of the earth, then year they rebelled. 5And five. 10And the vale of
LORD destroyed Sodom shall thy seed also be in the fourteenth year Siddim was full of
and Gomorrah, even as numbered. 17Arise, walk came Chedorlaomer, and slimepits; and the kings
the garden of the LORD, through the land in the the kings that were with of Sodom and
like the land of Egypt, as length of it and in the him, and smote the Gomorrah fled, and fell
thou comest unto Zoar. breadth of it; for I will Rephaims in Ashteroth there; and they that
11
Then Lot chose him all give it unto thee. 18Then Karnaim, and the Zuzims remained fled to the
the plain of Jordan; and Abram removed his tent, in Ham, and the Emims mountain. 11And they
Lot journeyed east: and and came and dwelt in in Shaveh Kiriathaim, took all the goods of
they separated the plainb of Mamre, 6
And the Horites in their Sodom and Gomorrah,
themselves the one from which is in Hebron, and mount Seir, unto and all their victuals,
the other. 12
Abram built there an altar unto Elparan , which is by the
a
and went their way.
dwelled in the land of the LORD. wilderness. 7
And they 12
And they took Lot,
Canaan, and Lot dwelled returned, and came to Abram’s brother’s son,
in the cities of the plain, Chapter 14 Enmishpat, which is who dwelt in Sodom,
and pitched his tent Kadesh, and smote all and his goods, and
toward Sodom. 13But the And it came to pass
1
the country of the departed.
men of Sodom were in the days of Amraphel Amalekites, and also the 13
And there came
wicked and sinners king of Shinar, Arioch Amorites, that dwelt in one that had escaped,
before the LORD king of Ellasar, Hazezontamar. 8
And and told Abram the
exceedingly. Chedorlaomer king of there went out the king Hebrew; for he dwelt in
14
And the LORD said Elam, and Tidal king of of Sodom, and the king the plain of Mamre the
unto Abram, after that nations; 2
That these of Gomorrah, and the Amorite, brother of
Lot was separated from made war with Bera king king of Admah, and the Eshcol, and brother of
him, Lift up now thine of Sodom, and with king of Zeboiim, and the Aner: and these were
eyes, and look from the Birsha king of Gomorrah, king of Bela (the same is confederate with
place where thou art Shinab king of Admah, Zoar;) and they joined Abram. 14
And when
northward, and and Shemeber king of battle with them in the Abram heard that his
southward, and Zeboiim, and the king of vale of Siddim; 9With brother was taken
eastward, and westward: Bela, which is Zoar. 3All Chedorlaomer the king captive, he armedb his
15
For all the land which these were joined of Elam, and with Tidal trained servants, born
thou seest, to thee will I together in the vale of king of nations, and in his own house, three
give it, and to thy seed Siddim, which is the salt Amraphel king of Shinar, hundred and eighteen,
for ever. 16And I will sea. 4Twelve years they and pursued them unto
a
make thy seed as the Elparan: or, The plain of
b b
plain: Heb. plains Paran armed: or, led forth
Dan. 15
And he divided And the king of
21
GOD, what wilt thou give she goat of three years
himself against them, he Sodom said unto Abram, me, seeing I go childless, old, and a ram of three
and his servants, by Give me the personsc, and the steward of my years old, and a
night, and smote them, and take the goods to house is this Eliezer of turtledove, and a young
and pursued them unto thyself. 22
And Abram Damascus? 3And Abram pigeon. 10And he took
Hobah, which is on the said to the king of said, Behold, to me thou unto him all these, and
left hand of Damascus. Sodom, I have lift up hast given no seed: and, divided them in the
16
And he brought back all mine hand unto the lo, one born in my house midst, and laid each
the goods, and also LORD, the most high is mine heir. 4
And, piece one against
brought again his God, the possessor of behold, the word of the another: but the birds
brother Lot, and his heaven and earth, 23That LORD came unto him, divided he not. 11And
goods, and the women I will not take from a saying, This shall not be when the fowls came
also, and the people. thread even to a thine heir; but he that down upon the
17
And the king of shoelatchet, and that I shall come forth out of carcases, Abram drove
Sodom went out to meet will not take any thing thine own bowels shall them away.
him after his return from that is thine, lest thou be thine heir. 5And he 12
And when the sun
the slaughter of shouldest say, I have brought him forth was going down, a deep
Chedorlaomer, and of made Abram rich: 24Save abroad, and said, Look sleep fell upon Abram;
the kings that were with only that which the now toward heaven, and and, lo, an horror of
him, at the valley of young men have eaten, tell the stars, if thou be great darkness fell upon
Shaveh, which is the and the portion of the able to number them: him. 13And he said unto
king’s dale. 18
And men which went with and he said unto him, So Abram, Know of a
Melchizedek king of me, Aner, Eshcol, and shall thy seed be. 6And surety that thy seed
Salem brought forth Mamre; let them take he believed in the LORD; shall be a stranger in a
bread and wine: and he their portion. and he counted it to him land that is not theirs,
was the priest of the for righteousness. and shall serve them;
most high God. 19And he Chapter 15 7
And he said unto and they shall afflict
blessed him, and said, him, I am the LORD that them four hundred
Blessed be Abram of the After these things
1
brought thee out of Ur of years; 14And also that
most high God, the word of the LORD the Chaldees, to give nation, whom they shall
possessor of heaven and came unto Abram in a thee this land to inherit serve, will I judge: and
earth: 20And blessed be vision, saying, Fear not, it. 8And he said, Lord afterward shall they
the most high God, Abram: I am thy shield, GOD, whereby shall I come out with great
which hath delivered and thy exceeding great know that I shall inherit substance. 15And thou
thine enemies into thy reward. it? 9And he said unto shalt go to thy fathers
hand. And he gave him
2
And Abram said, Lord him, Take me an heifer in peace; thou shalt be
tithes of all. c
of three years old, and a buried in a good old
persons: Heb. souls
age. 16But in the fourth handmaid, an Egyptian, do to her as it pleaseth against every man, and
generation they shall whose name was Hagar. thee. And when Sarai every man’s hand
come hither again: for 2
And Sarai said unto dealt hardly with her, against him; and he
the iniquity of the Abram, Behold now, the she fled from her face. shall dwell in the
Amorites is not yet full. LORD hath restrained 7
And the angel of the presence of all his
17
And it came to pass, me from bearing: I pray LORD found her by a brethren. 13
And she
that, when the sun went thee, go in unto my fountain of water in the called the name of the
down, and it was dark, maid; it may be that I wilderness, by the LORD that spake unto
behold a smoking may obtain children by fountain in the way to her, Thou God seest
furnace, and a burninga her. And Abram Shur. 8And he said, me: for she said, Have I
lamp that passed hearkened to the voice Hagar, Sarai’s maid, also here looked after
between those pieces. of Sarai. 3
And Sarai whence camest thou? him that seeth me?
18
In the same day the Abram’s wife took Hagar and whither wilt thou 14
Wherefore the well
LORD made a covenant her maid the Egyptian, go? And she said, I flee was called
with Abram, saying, Unto after Abram had dwelt from the face of my Beerlahairoib; behold, it
thy seed have I given ten years in the land of mistress Sarai. 9And the is between Kadesh and
this land, from the river Canaan, and gave her to angel of the LORD said Bered.
of Egypt unto the great her husband Abram to unto her, Return to thy 15
And Hagar bare
river, the river be his wife. mistress, and submit Abram a son: and
Euphrates: The Kenites,
19 4
And he went in unto thyself under her hands. Abram called his son’s
and the Kenizzites, and Hagar, and she 10
And the angel of the name, which Hagar
the Kadmonites, 20And conceived: and when she LORD said unto her, I will bare, Ishmael. 16And
the Hittites, and the saw that she had multiply thy seed Abram was fourscore
Perizzites, and the conceived, her mistress exceedingly, that it shall and six years old, when
Rephaims, 21
And the was despised in her not be numbered for Hagar bare Ishmael to
Amorites, and the eyes. 5And Sarai said multitude. 11
And the Abram.
Canaanites, and the unto Abram, My wrong angel of the LORD said
Girgashites, and the be upon thee: I have unto her, Behold, thou Chapter 17
Jebusites. given my maid into thy art with child, and shalt
bosom; and when she bear a son, and shalt call And when Abram
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Chapter 16 saw that she had his name Ishmaela; was ninety years old
conceived, I was because the LORD hath and nine, the LORD
Now Sarai Abram’s
1
despised in her eyes: the heard thy affliction. appeared to Abram,
wife bare him no LORD judge between me 12
And he will be a wild and said unto him, I am
children: and she had an and thee. 6But Abram man; his hand will be b
said unto Sarai, Behold, Beerlahairoi: that is, The
a a
a burning...: Heb. a lamp of thy maid is in thy hand; Ishmael: that is, God shall well of him that liveth and
fire hear seeth me
the Almighty God; walk 8
And I will give unto with thy money, must son indeed; and thou
before me, and be thou thee, and to thy seed needs be circumcised: shalt call his name
perfecta. 2
And I will after thee, the land and my covenant shall Isaac: and I will
make my covenant wherein thou art a be in your flesh for an establish my covenant
between me and thee, stranger, all the land of everlasting covenant. with him for an
and will multiply thee Canaan, for an 14
And the uncircumcised everlasting covenant,
exceedingly. 3And Abram everlasting possession; man child whose flesh of and with his seed after
fell on his face: and God and I will be their God. his foreskin is not him. 20
And as for
talked with him, saying, 9
And God said unto circumcised, that soul Ishmael, I have heard
4
As for me, behold, Abraham, Thou shalt shall be cut off from his thee: Behold, I have
my covenant is with keep my covenant people; he hath broken blessed him, and will
thee, and thou shalt be a therefore, thou, and thy my covenant. make him fruitful, and
father of manyb nations. seed after thee in their 15
And God said unto will multiply him
5
Neither shall thy name generations. 10This is my Abraham, As for Sarai exceedingly; twelve
any more be called covenant, which ye shall thy wife, thou shalt not princes shall he beget,
Abram, but thy name keep, between me and call her name Sarai, but and I will make him a
shall be Abrahamc; for a you and thy seed after Sarahe shall her name great nation. 21But my
father of many nations thee; Every man child be. 16And I will bless her, covenant will I establish
have I made thee. 6And I among you shall be and give thee a son also with Isaac, which Sarah
will make thee circumcised. 11And ye of her: yea, I will bless shall bear unto thee at
exceeding fruitful, and I shall circumcise the flesh her, and she shall be a this set time in the next
will make nations of of your foreskin; and it mother of nations; kings year. 22And he left off
thee, and kings shall shall be a token of the of people shall be of her. talking with him, and
come out of thee. covenant betwixt me 17
Then Abraham fell God went up from
7
And I will establish and you. 12And he that is upon his face, and Abraham.
my covenant between eightd days old shall be laughed, and said in his 23
And Abraham took
me and thee and thy circumcised among you, heart, Shall a child be Ishmael his son, and all
seed after thee in their every man child in your born unto him that is an that were born in his
generations for an generations, he that is hundred years old? and house, and all that were
everlasting covenant, to born in the house, or shall Sarah, that is bought with his money,
be a God unto thee, and bought with money of ninety years old, bear? every male among the
to thy seed after thee. any stranger, which is 18
And Abraham said unto men of Abraham’s
a
not of thy seed. 13
He God, O that Ishmael house; and circumcised
perfect: or, upright, or, sincere that is born in thy house, might live before thee! the flesh of their
b
many...: Heb. multitude of and he that is bought 19
And God said, Sarah foreskin in the selfsame
nations thy wife shall bear thee a day, as God had said
c d
Abraham: that is, Father of a he that is eight...: Heb. a son unto him. 24
And
e
great multitude of eight days Sarah: that is Princess
Abraham was ninety from thy servant: 4Let a according to the time of them to bring them on
years old and nine, when little water, I pray you, life; and, lo, Sarah thy the way. 17And the
he was circumcised in be fetched, and wash wife shall have a son. LORD said, Shall I hide
the flesh of his foreskin. your feet, and rest And Sarah heard it in the from Abraham that
25
And Ishmael his son yourselves under the tent door, which was thing which I do;
was thirteen years old, tree: 5And I will fetch a behind him. 11
Now 18
Seeing that Abraham
when he was morsel of bread, and Abraham and Sarah shall surely become a
circumcised in the flesh comfort ye your hearts; were old and well great and mighty
of his foreskin. 26In the after that ye shall pass stricken in age; and it nation, and all the
selfsame day was on: for therefore are ye ceased to be with Sarah nations of the earth
Abraham circumcised, come to your servant. after the manner of shall be blessed in him?
and Ishmael his son. And they said, So do, as women. 12
Therefore 19
For I know him, that
27
And all the men of his thou hast said. 6
And Sarah laughed within he will command his
house, born in the Abraham hastened into herself, saying, After I children and his
house, and bought with the tent unto Sarah, and am waxed old shall I household after him,
money of the stranger, said, Make ready quickly have pleasure, my lord and they shall keep the
were circumcised with three measures of fine being old also? 13And the way of the LORD, to do
him. meal, knead it, and LORD said unto justice and judgment;
make cakes upon the Abraham, Wherefore did that the LORD may
Chapter 18 hearth. 7And Abraham Sarah laugh, saying, bring upon Abraham
ran unto the herd, and Shall I of a surety bear a that which he hath
1
And the LORD fetcht a calf tender and child, which am old? 14Is spoken of him. 20And
appeared unto him in good, and gave it unto a any thing too hard for the LORD said, Because
the plains of Mamre: and young man; and he the LORD? At the time the cry of Sodom and
he sat in the tent door in hasted to dress it. 8And appointed I will return Gomorrah is great, and
the heat of the day; 2And he took butter, and milk, unto thee, according to because their sin is
he lift up his eyes and and the calf which he the time of life, and very grievous; 21I will go
looked, and, lo, three had dressed, and set it Sarah shall have a son. down now, and see
men stood by him: and before them; and he 15
Then Sarah denied, whether they have
when he saw them, he stood by them under the saying, I laughed not; for done altogether
ran to meet them from tree, and they did eat. she was afraid. And he according to the cry of
the tent door, and bowed 9
And they said unto said, Nay; but thou didst it, which is come unto
himself toward the him, Where is Sarah thy laugh. me; and if not, I will
ground, And said, My
3
wife? And he said, 16
And the men rose know. 22And the men
Lord, if now I have found Behold, in the tent. 10And up from thence, and turned their faces from
favour in thy sight, pass he said, I will certainly looked toward Sodom: thence, and went
not away, I pray thee, return unto thee and Abraham went with toward Sodom: but
Abraham stood yet If I find there forty and 1
And there came two this night? bring them
before the LORD. five, I will not destroy it. angels to Sodom at out unto us, that we
23
And Abraham drew 29
And he spake unto him even; and Lot sat in the may know them. 6And
near, and said, Wilt thou yet again, and said, gate of Sodom: and Lot Lot went out at the door
also destroy the Peradventure there shall seeing them rose up to unto them, and shut the
righteous with the be forty found there. And meet them; and he door after him, 7And
wicked? 24Peradventure he said, I will not do it for bowed himself with his said, I pray you,
there be fifty righteous forty’s sake. 30And he face toward the ground; brethren, do not so
within the city: wilt thou said unto him, Oh let not 2
And he said, Behold wickedly. 8Behold now, I
also destroy and not the Lord be angry, and I now, my lords, turn in, I have two daughters
spare the place for the will speak: Peradventure pray you, into your which have not known
fifty righteous that are there shall thirty be servant’s house, and man; let me, I pray you,
therein? 25That be far found there. And he said, tarry all night, and wash bring them out unto
from thee to do after this I will not do it, if I find your feet, and ye shall you, and do ye to them
manner, to slay the thirty there. 31And he rise up early, and go on as is good in your eyes:
righteous with the said, Behold now, I have your ways. And they only unto these men do
wicked: and that the taken upon me to speak said, Nay; but we will nothing; for therefore
righteous should be as unto the Lord: abide in the street all came they under the
the wicked, that be far Peradventure there shall night. 3And he pressed shadow of my roof.
from thee: Shall not the be twenty found there. upon them greatly; and 9
And they said, Stand
Judge of all the earth do And he said, I will not they turned in unto him, back. And they said
right? 26And the LORD destroy it for twenty’s and entered into his again, This one fellow
said, If I find in Sodom sake. 32And he said, Oh house; and he made came in to sojourn, and
fifty righteous within the let not the Lord be them a feast, and did he will needs be a
city, then I will spare all angry, and I will speak bake unleavened bread, judge: now will we deal
the place for their sakes. yet but this once: and they did eat. worse with thee, than
27
And Abraham Peradventure ten shall 4
But before they lay with them. And they
answered and said, be found there. And he down, the men of the pressed sore upon the
Behold now, I have taken said, I will not destroy it city, even the men of man, even Lot, and
upon me to speak unto for ten’s sake. 33And the Sodom, compassed the came near to break the
the Lord, which am but LORD went his way, as house round, both old door. 10But the men put
dust and ashes: soon as he had left and young, all the forth their hand, and
28
Peradventure there communing with people from every pulled Lot into the
shall lack five of the fifty Abraham: and Abraham quarter: 5And they called house to them, and
righteous: wilt thou returned unto his place. unto Lot, and said unto shut to the door. 11And
destroy all the city for him, Where are the men they smote the men
lack of five? And he said, Chapter 19 which came in to thee that were at the door of
the house with of the city. 16And while accepted theeb and Gomorrah, and
blindness, both small he lingered, the men laid concerning this thing toward all the land of
and great: so that they hold upon his hand, and also, that I will not the plain, and beheld,
wearied themselves to upon the hand of his overthrow this city, for and, lo, the smoke of
find the door. wife, and upon the hand the which thou hast the country went up as
12
And the men said of his two daughters; the spoken. 22
Haste thee, the smoke of a furnace.
unto Lot, Hast thou here LORD being merciful escape thither; for I 29
And it came to pass,
any besides? son in law, unto him: and they cannot do any thing till when God destroyed
and thy sons, and thy brought him forth, and thou be come thither. the cities of the plain,
daughters, and set him without the city. Therefore the name of that God remembered
whatsoever thou hast in 17
And it came to pass, the city was called Zoarc. Abraham, and sent Lot
the city, bring them out when they had brought 23
The sun was risend out of the midst of the
of this place: 13For we them forth abroad, that upon the earth when Lot overthrow, when he
will destroy this place, he said, Escape for thy entered into Zoar. overthrew the cities in
because the cry of them life; look not behind 24
Then the LORD the which Lot dwelt.
is waxen great before thee, neither stay thou in rained upon Sodom and 30
And Lot went up
the face of the LORD; all the plain; escape to upon Gomorrah out of Zoar, and dwelt
and the LORD hath sent the mountain, lest thou brimstone and fire from in the mountain, and
us to destroy it. 14And be consumed. 18And Lot the LORD out of heaven; his two daughters with
Lot went out, and spake said unto them, Oh, not 25
And he overthrew him; for he feared to
unto his sons in law, so, my Lord: 19Behold those cities, and all the dwell in Zoar: and he
which married his now, thy servant hath plain, and all the dwelt in a cave, he and
daughters, and said, Up, found grace in thy sight, inhabitants of the cities, his two daughters.
get you out of this place; and thou hast magnified and that which grew 31
And the firstborn said
for the LORD will destroy thy mercy, which thou upon the ground. unto the younger, Our
this city. But he seemed hast shewed unto me in 26
But his wife looked father is old, and there
as one that mocked unto saving my life; and I back from behind him, is not a man in the
his sons in law. cannot escape to the and she became a pillar earth to come in unto
15
And when the mountain, lest some evil of salt. us after the manner of
morning arose, then the take me, and I die: 27
And Abraham gat up all the earth: 32Come,
angels hastened Lot, 20
Behold now, this city is early in the morning to let us make our father
saying, Arise, take thy near to flee unto, and it the place where he stood drink wine, and we will
wife, and thy two is a little one: Oh, let me before the LORD: 28And lie with him, that we
daughters, which are escape thither, (is it not he looked toward Sodom may preserve seed of
herea; lest thou be a little one?) and my soul b
our father. 33And they
consumed in the iniquity shall live. 21And he said thee: Heb. thy face made their father drink
c
unto him, See, I have Zoar: that is, Little wine that night: and the
a d
are here: Heb. are found risen: Heb. gone forth
firstborn went in, and lay 1
And Abraham integrity of thy heart; for thought, Surely the fear
with her father; and he journeyed from thence I also withheld thee from of God is not in this
perceived not when she toward the south sinning against me: place; and they will slay
lay down, nor when she country, and dwelled therefore suffered I thee me for my wife’s sake.
arose. 34And it came to between Kadesh and not to touch her. 7Now 12
And yet indeed she is
pass on the morrow, that Shur, and sojourned in therefore restore the my sister; she is the
the firstborn said unto Gerar. 2And Abraham man his wife; for he is a daughter of my father,
the younger, Behold, I said of Sarah his wife, prophet, and he shall but not the daughter of
lay yesternight with my She is my sister: and pray for thee, and thou my mother; and she
father: let us make him Abimelech king of Gerar shalt live: and if thou became my wife. 13And
drink wine this night sent, and took Sarah. restore her not, know it came to pass, when
also; and go thou in, and 3
But God came to thou that thou shalt God caused me to
lie with him, that we may Abimelech in a dream by surely die, thou, and all wander from my
preserve seed of our night, and said to him, that are thine. father’s house, that I
father. 35And they made Behold, thou art but a 8
Therefore Abimelech said unto her, This is
their father drink wine dead man, for the rose early in the thy kindness which thou
that night also: and the woman which thou hast morning, and called all shalt shew unto me; at
younger arose, and lay taken; for she is a man’sa his servants, and told all every place whither we
with him; and he wife. 4
But Abimelech these things in their shall come, say of me,
perceived not when she had not come near her: ears: and the men were He is my brother.
lay down, nor when she and he said, Lord, wilt sore afraid. 9
Then 14
And Abimelech
arose. 36Thus were both thou slay also a Abimelech called took sheep, and oxen,
the daughters of Lot with righteous nation? 5Said Abraham, and said unto and menservants, and
child by their father. he not unto me, She is him, What hast thou womenservants, and
37
And the firstborn bare a my sister? and she, even done unto us? and what gave them unto
son, and called his name she herself said, He is have I offended thee, Abraham, and restored
Moab: the same is the my brother: in the that thou hast brought him Sarah his wife.
father of the Moabites integrity of my heart
b
on me and on my 15
And Abimelech said,
unto this day. 38And the and innocency of my kingdom a great sin? Behold, my land is
younger, she also bare a hands have I done this. thou hast done deeds before thee: dwell
son, and called his name 6
And God said unto him unto me that ought not where it pleaseth thee.
Benammi: the same is in a dream, Yea, I know to be done. 10
And 16
And unto Sarah he
the father of the children that thou didst this in the Abimelech said unto said, Behold, I have
of Ammon unto this day. a
Abraham, What sawest given thy brother a
a man’s...: Heb. married to an thou, that thou hast thousand pieces of
Chapter 20 husband done this thing? 11And silver: behold, he is to
b
integrity: or, simplicity, or, Abraham said, Because I thee a covering of the
sincerity
eyes, unto all that are born unto him. 6And voice; for in Isaac shall up the lad, and hold
with thee, and with all Sarah said, God hath thy seed be called. 13And him in thine hand; for I
other: thus she was made me to laugh, so also of the son of the will make him a great
reproved. 17So Abraham that all that hear will bondwoman will I make nation. 19
And God
prayed unto God: and laugh with me. 7And she a nation, because he is opened her eyes, and
God healed Abimelech, said, Who would have thy seed. she saw a well of water;
and his wife, and his said unto Abraham, that 14
And Abraham rose and she went, and filled
maidservants; and they Sarah should have given up early in the morning, the bottle with water,
bare children. 18For the children suck? for I have and took bread, and a and gave the lad drink.
LORD had fast closed up born him a son in his old bottle of water, and gave 20
And God was with the
all the wombs of the age. 8And the child grew, it unto Hagar, putting it lad; and he grew, and
house of Abimelech, and was weaned: and on her shoulder, and the dwelt in the wilderness,
because of Sarah Abraham made a great child, and sent her away: and became an archer.
Abraham’s wife. feast the same day that and she departed, and 21
And he dwelt in the
Isaac was weaned. wandered in the wilderness of Paran:
Chapter 21 9
And Sarah saw the wilderness of Beersheba. and his mother took
son of Hagar the 15
And the water was him a wife out of the
1
And the LORD visited Egyptian, which she had spent in the bottle, and land of Egypt.
Sarah as he had said, born unto Abraham, she cast the child under 22
And it came to pass
and the LORD did unto mocking. 10
Wherefore one of the shrubs. 16And at that time, that
Sarah as he had spoken. she said unto Abraham, she went, and sat her Abimelech and Phichol
2
For Sarah conceived, Cast out this down over against him a the chief captain of his
and bare Abraham a son bondwoman and her good way off, as it were host spake unto
in his old age, at the set son: for the son of this a bowshot: for she said, Abraham, saying, God
time of which God had bondwoman shall not be Let me not see the death is with thee in all that
spoken to him. 3And heir with my son, even of the child. And she sat thou doest: 23
Now
Abraham called the with Isaac. 11And the over against him, and lift therefore swear unto
name of his son that was thing was very grievous up her voice, and wept. me here by God that
born unto him, whom in Abraham’s sight 17
And God heard the thou wilt not deal
Sarah bare to him, Isaac. because of his son. And
12
voice of the lad; and the falsely with me, nor
4
And Abraham God said unto Abraham, angel of God called to with my son, nor with
circumcised his son Isaac Let it not be grievous in Hagar out of heaven, my son’s son: but
being eight days old, as thy sight because of the and said unto her, What according to the
God had commanded lad, and because of thy aileth thee, Hagar? fear kindness that I have
him. 5And Abraham was bondwoman; in all that not; for God hath heard done unto thee, thou
an hundred years old, Sarah hath said unto the voice of the lad shalt do unto me, and
when his son Isaac was thee, hearken unto her where he is. 18Arise, lift to the land wherein
thou hast sojourned. because there they tell thee of. Abraham said, My son,
24
And Abraham said, I sware both of them. 3
And Abraham rose God will provide himself
will swear. 25
And 32
Thus they made a up early in the morning, a lamb for a burnt
Abraham reproved covenant at Beersheba: and saddled his ass, and offering: so they went
Abimelech because of a then Abimelech rose up, took two of his young both of them together.
well of water, which and Phichol the chief men with him, and Isaac 9
And they came to the
Abimelech’s servants captain of his host, and his son, and clave the place which God had
had violently taken they returned into the wood for the burnt told him of; and
away. 26And Abimelech land of the Philistines. offering, and rose up, Abraham built an altar
said, I wot not who hath 33
And Abraham and went unto the place there, and laid the
done this thing: neither planted a groveb in of which God had told wood in order, and
didst thou tell me, Beersheba, and called him. 4Then on the third bound Isaac his son,
neither yet heard I of it, there on the name of the day Abraham lifted up and laid him on the
but to day. 27
And LORD, the everlasting his eyes, and saw the altar upon the wood.
Abraham took sheep and God. 34
And Abraham place afar off. 5And 10
And Abraham
oxen, and gave them sojourned in the Abraham said unto his stretched forth his
unto Abimelech; and Philistines’ land many young men, Abide ye hand, and took the
both of them made a days. here with the ass; and I knife to slay his son.
covenant. 28
And and the lad will go 11
And the angel of
Abraham set seven ewe Chapter 22 yonder and worship, and the LORD called unto
lambs of the flock by come again to you. 6And him out of heaven, and
themselves. 29
And And it came to pass
1
Abraham took the wood said, Abraham,
Abimelech said unto after these things, that of the burnt offering, and Abraham: and he said,
Abraham, What mean God did tempt Abraham, laid it upon Isaac his son; Here am I. 12And he
these seven ewe lambs and said unto him, and he took the fire in said, Lay not thine hand
which thou hast set by Abraham: and he said, his hand, and a knife; upon the lad, neither do
themselves? 30And he Behold, here I am. a 2And and they went both of thou any thing unto
said, For these seven he said, Take now thy them together. 7
And him: for now I know
ewe lambs shalt thou son, thine only son Isaac, Isaac spake unto that thou fearest God,
take of my hand, that whom thou lovest, and Abraham his father, and seeing thou hast not
they may be a witness get thee into the land of said, My father: and he withheld thy son, thine
unto me, that I have Moriah; and offer him said, Here am I, my son. only son from me. 13And
digged this well. there for a burnt offering And he said, Behold the Abraham lifted up his
31
Wherefore he called upon one of the fire and the wood: but eyes, and looked, and
that place Beershebaa; mountains which I will where is the lambb for a behold behind him a
a b
burnt offering? 8
And ram caught in a thicket
Beersheba: that is, The well of grove: or, tree by his horns: and
a b
the oath Behold...: Heb. Behold me lamb: or, kid
Abraham went and took men, and they rose up same is Hebron in the hear me, and intreat for
the ram, and offered him and went together to land of Canaan: and me to Ephron the son of
up for a burnt offering in Beersheba; and Abraham came to mourn Zohar, 9That he may
the stead of his son. Abraham dwelt at for Sarah, and to weep give me the cave of
14
And Abraham called Beersheba. for her. Machpelah, which he
the name of that place 20
And it came to pass 3
And Abraham stood hath, which is in the
Jehovahjirehc: as it is after these things, that it up from before his dead, end of his field; for as
said to this day, In the was told Abraham, and spake unto the sons muchb money as it is
mount of the LORD it saying, Behold, Milcah, of Heth, saying, 4I am a worth he shall give it
shall be seen. she hath also born stranger and a sojourner me for a possession of
15
And the angel of the children unto thy brother with you: give me a a buryingplace amongst
LORD called unto Nahor; 21
Huz his possession of a you. 10
And Ephron
Abraham out of heaven firstborn, and Buz his buryingplace with you, dwelt among the
the second time, 16And brother, and Kemuel the that I may bury my dead children of Heth: and
said, By myself have I father of Aram, 22And out of my sight. 5And the Ephron the Hittite
sworn, saith the LORD, Chesed, and Hazo, and children of Heth answered Abraham in
for because thou hast Pildash, and Jidlaph, and answered Abraham, the audiencec of the
done this thing, and hast Bethuel. 23And Bethuel saying unto him, 6Hear children of Heth, even
not withheld thy son, begat Rebekahe: these us, my lord: thou art a of all that went in at the
thine only son: 17That in eight Milcah did bear to mightya prince among gate of his city, saying,
blessing I will bless thee, Nahor, Abraham’s us: in the choice of our 11
Nay, my lord, hear
and in multiplying I will brother. 24
And his sepulchres bury thy me: the field give I
multiply thy seed as the concubine, whose name dead; none of us shall thee, and the cave that
stars of the heaven, and was Reumah, she bare withhold from thee his is therein, I give it thee;
as the sand which is also Tebah, and Gaham, sepulchre, but that thou in the presence of the
upon the sea shored; and and Thahash, and mayest bury thy dead. sons of my people give
thy seed shall possess Maachah. 7
And Abraham stood up, I it thee: bury thy dead.
the gate of his enemies; and bowed himself to 12
And Abraham bowed
18
And in thy seed shall all Chapter 23 the people of the land, down himself before the
the nations of the earth even to the children of people of the land.
be blessed; because And Sarah was an
1
Heth. 8
And he 13
And he spake unto
thou hast obeyed my hundred and seven and communed with them, Ephron in the audience
voice. 19
So Abraham twenty years old: these saying, If it be your mind of the people of the
returned unto his young were the years of the life that I should bury my land, saying, But if thou
of Sarah. 2And Sarah dead out of my sight; wilt give it, I pray thee,
c
Jehovahjireh: that is, The Lord died in Kirjatharba; the
a b
will see, or, provide a mighty...: Heb. a prince of as much...: Heb. full money
d e c
shore: Heb. lip Rebekah: Gr. Rebecca God audience: Heb. ears
hear me: I will give thee city. 19And after this, kindred, and take a wife took ten camels of the
money for the field; take Abraham buried Sarah unto my son Isaac. 5And camels of his master,
it of me, and I will bury his wife in the cave of the servant said unto and departed; for all
my dead there. 14And the field of Machpelah him, Peradventure the the goods of his master
Ephron answered before Mamre: the same woman will not be willing were in his hand: and
Abraham, saying unto is Hebron in the land of to follow me unto this he arose, and went to
him, 15My lord, hearken Canaan. 20And the field, land: must I needs bring Mesopotamia, unto the
unto me: the land is and the cave that is thy son again unto the city of Nahor. 11And he
worth four hundred therein, were made sure land from whence thou made his camels to
shekels of silver; what is unto Abraham for a camest? 6And Abraham kneel down without the
that betwixt me and possession of a said unto him, Beware city by a well of water
thee? bury therefore thy buryingplace by the sons thou that thou bring not at the time of the
dead. of Heth. my son thither again. evening, even the time
16
And Abraham 7
The LORD God of that women go out to
hearkened unto Ephron; Chapter 24 heaven, which took me draw water. 12And he
and Abraham weighed to from my father’s house, said, O LORD God of my
Ephron the silver, which
1
And Abraham was and from the land of my master Abraham, I pray
he had named in the old, and well stricken in kindred, and which thee, send me good
audience of the sons of age: and the LORD had spake unto me, and that speed this day, and
Heth, four hundred blessed Abraham in all sware unto me, saying, shew kindness unto my
shekels of silver, current things. 2
And Abraham Unto thy seed will I give master Abraham.
money with the said unto his eldest this land; he shall send 13
Behold, I stand here
merchant. 17And the field servant of his house, his angel before thee, by the well of water;
of Ephron, which was in that ruled over all that and thou shalt take a and the daughters of
Machpelah, which was he had, Put, I pray thee, wife unto my son from the men of the city
before Mamre, the field, thy hand under my thence. 8And if the come out to draw
and the cave which was thigh: 3And I will make woman will not be willing water: 14And let it come
therein, and all the trees thee swear by the LORD, to follow thee, then thou to pass, that the damsel
that were in the field, the God of heaven, and shalt be clear from this to whom I shall say, Let
that were in all the the God of the earth, my oath: only bring not down thy pitcher, I pray
borders round about, that thou shalt not take my son thither again. thee, that I may drink;
were made sure 18Unto a wife unto my son of 9
And the servant put his and she shall say,
Abraham for a the daughters of the hand under the thigh of Drink, and I will give thy
possession in the Canaanites, among Abraham his master, and camels drink also: let
presence of the children whom I dwell: 4But thou sware to him concerning the same be she that
of Heth, before all that shalt go unto my that matter. thou hast appointed for
went in at the gate of his country, and to my 10
And the servant thy servant Isaac; and
thereby shall I know that the trough, and ran Abraham, who hath not camels, and water to
thou hast shewed again unto the well to left destitute my master wash his feet, and the
kindness unto my draw water, and drew for of his mercy and his men’s feet that were
master. And it came to
15
all his camels. 21And the truth: I being in the way, with him. 33And there
pass, before he had done man wondering at her the LORD led me to the was set meat before
speaking, that, behold, held his peace, to wit house of my master’s him to eat: but he said,
Rebekah came out, who whether the LORD had brethren. 28
And the I will not eat, until I
was born to Bethuel, son made his journey damsel ran, and told have told mine errand.
of Milcah, the wife of prosperous or not. 22And them of her mother’s And he said, Speak on.
Nahor, Abraham’s it came to pass, as the house these things. 34
And he said, I am
brother, with her pitcher camels had done 29
And Rebekah had a Abraham’s servant.
upon her shoulder. 16And drinking, that the man brother, and his name 35
And the LORD hath
the damsel was verya fair took a golden earringb of was Laban: and Laban blessed my master
to look upon, a virgin, half a shekel weight, and ran out unto the man, greatly; and he is
neither had any man two bracelets for her unto the well. 30And it become great: and he
known her: and she went hands of ten shekels came to pass, when he hath given him flocks,
down to the well, and weight of gold; 23
And saw the earring and and herds, and silver,
filled her pitcher, and said, Whose daughter bracelets upon his and gold, and
came up. 17
And the art thou? tell me, I pray sister’s hands, and when menservants, and
servant ran to meet her, thee: is there room in he heard the words of maidservants, and
and said, Let me, I pray thy father’s house for us Rebekah his sister, camels, and asses.
thee, drink a little water to lodge in? 24And she saying, Thus spake the 36
And Sarah my
of thy pitcher. 18And she said unto him, I am the man unto me; that he master’s wife bare a
said, Drink, my lord: and daughter of Bethuel the came unto the man; and, son to my master when
she hasted, and let down son of Milcah, which she behold, he stood by the she was old: and unto
her pitcher upon her bare unto Nahor. 25She camels at the well. 31And him hath he given all
hand, and gave him said moreover unto him, he said, Come in, thou that he hath. 37And my
drink. 19And when she We have both straw and blessed of the LORD; master made me swear,
had done giving him provender enough, and wherefore standest thou saying, Thou shalt not
drink, she said, I will room to lodge in. 26And without? for I have take a wife to my son of
draw water for thy the man bowed down his prepared the house, and the daughters of the
camels also, until they head, and worshipped room for the camels. Canaanites, in whose
have done drinking. the LORD. 27And he said, 32
And the man came into land I dwell: 38But thou
20
And she hasted, and Blessed be the LORD the house: and he shalt go unto my
emptied her pitcher into God of my master ungirded his camels, and father’s house, and to
a b
gave straw and my kindred, and take a
very...: Heb. good of earring: or, jewel for the provender for the wife unto my son. 39And
countenance forehead
I said unto my master, 45
And before I had done and if not, tell me; that I brother and her mother
Peradventure the woman speaking in mine heart, may turn to the right said, Let the damsel
will not follow me. 40And behold, Rebekah came hand, or to the left. abide with us a few
he said unto me, The forth with her pitcher on 50
Then Laban and days, at the least ten;
LORD, before whom I her shoulder; and she Bethuel answered and after that she shall go.
walk, will send his angel went down unto the well, said, The thing 56
And he said unto
with thee, and prosper and drew water: and I proceedeth from the them, Hinder me not,
thy way; and thou shalt said unto her, Let me LORD: we cannot speak seeing the LORD hath
take a wife for my son of drink, I pray thee. 46And unto thee bad or good. prospered my way;
my kindred, and of my she made haste, and let 51
Behold, Rebekah is send me away that I
father’s house: 41Then down her pitcher from before thee, take her, may go to my master.
shalt thou be clear from her shoulder, and said, and go, and let her be 57
And they said, We will
this my oath, when thou Drink, and I will give thy thy master’s son’s wife, call the damsel, and
comest to my kindred; camels drink also: so I as the LORD hath enquire at her mouth.
and if they give not thee drank, and she made the spoken. 52And it came to 58
And they called
one, thou shalt be clear camels drink also. 47And I pass, that, when Rebekah, and said unto
from my oath. 42And I asked her, and said, Abraham’s servant heard her, Wilt thou go with
came this day unto the Whose daughter art their words, he this man? And she said,
well, and said, O LORD thou? And she said, The worshipped the LORD, I will go. 59And they sent
God of my master daughter of Bethuel, bowing himself to the away Rebekah their
Abraham, if now thou do Nahor’s son, whom earth. 53And the servant sister, and her nurse,
prosper my way which I Milcah bare unto him: brought forth jewelsc of and Abraham’s servant,
go: 43Behold, I stand by and I put the earring silver, and jewels of gold, and his men. 60And they
the well of water; and it upon her face, and the and raiment, and gave blessed Rebekah, and
shall come to pass, that bracelets upon her them to Rebekah: he said unto her, Thou art
when the virgin cometh hands. 48
And I bowed gave also to her brother our sister, be thou the
forth to draw water, and down my head, and and to her mother mother of thousands of
I say to her, Give me, I worshipped the LORD, precious things. millions, and let thy
pray thee, a little water and blessed the LORD 54
And they did eat and seed possess the gate
of thy pitcher to drink; God of my master drink, he and the men of those which hate
44
And she say to me, Abraham, which had led that were with him, and them. 61And Rebekah
Both drink thou, and I me in the right way to tarried all night; and arose, and her damsels,
will also draw for thy take my master’s they rose up in the and they rode upon the
camels: let the same be brother’s daughter unto morning, and he said, camels, and followed
the woman whom the his son. 49And now if ye Send me away unto my the man: and the
LORD hath appointed out will deal kindly and truly master. 55
And her servant took Rebekah,
for my master’s son. with my master, tell me: c
and went his way.
jewels: Heb. vessels
And
62
Isaac came name was Keturah. 2And Machpelah, in the field of their castles; twelve
from the way of the well she bare him Zimran, Ephron the son of Zohar princes according to
Lahairoi; for he dwelt in and Jokshan, and Medan, the Hittite, which is their nations. 17
And
the south country. 63And and Midian, and Ishbak, before Mamre; 10
The these are the years of
Isaac went out to and Shuah. 3And Jokshan field which Abraham the life of Ishmael, an
meditate in the field at
d
begat Sheba, and purchased of the sons of hundred and thirty and
the eventide: and he Dedan. And the sons of Heth: there was seven years: and he
lifted up his eyes, and Dedan were Asshurim, Abraham buried, and gave up the ghost and
saw, and, behold, the and Letushim, and Sarah his wife. died; and was gathered
camels were coming. Leummim. And the sons
4 11
And it came to pass unto his people. 18And
64
And Rebekah lifted up of Midian; Ephah, and after the death of they dwelt from Havilah
her eyes, and when she Epher, and Hanoch, and Abraham, that God unto Shur, that is
saw Isaac, she lighted off Abida, and Eldaah. All blessed his son Isaac; before Egypt, as thou
the camel. 65For she had these were the children and Isaac dwelt by the goest toward Assyria:
said unto the servant, of Keturah. 5
And well Lahairoi. 12
Now and he diedb in the
What man is this that Abraham gave all that he these are the presence of all his
walketh in the field to had unto Isaac. 6But unto generations of Ishmael, brethren.
meet us? And the the sons of the Abraham’s son, whom 19
And these are the
servant had said, It is my concubines, which Hagar the Egyptian, generations of Isaac,
master: therefore she Abraham had, Abraham Sarah’s handmaid, bare Abraham’s son:
took a vail, and covered gave gifts, and sent unto Abraham: 13And Abraham begat Isaac:
herself. 66
And the them away from Isaac these are the names of 20
And Isaac was forty
servant told Isaac all his son, while he yet the sons of Ishmael, by years old when he took
things that he had done. lived, eastward, unto the their names, according Rebekah to wife, the
67
And Isaac brought her east country. 7And these to their generations: the daughter of Bethuel the
into his mother Sarah’s are the days of the years firstborn of Ishmael, Syrian of Padanaram,
tent, and took Rebekah, of Abraham’s life which Nebajoth; and Kedar, the sister to Laban the
and she became his he lived, an hundred and Adbeel, and Mibsam, Syrian. 21
And Isaac
wife; and he loved her: threescore and fifteen 14
And Mishma, and intreated the LORD for
and Isaac was comforted years. 8Then Abraham Dumah, and Massa, his wife, because she
after his mother’s death. gave up the ghost, and 15
Hadara, and Tema, was barren: and the
died in a good old age, Jetur, Naphish, and LORD was intreated of
Chapter 25 an old man, and full of Kedemah: 16
These are him, and Rebekah his
years; and was gathered the sons of Ishmael, and wife conceived. 22And
Then again Abraham
1
to his people. 9And his these are their names, the children struggled
took a wife, and her sons Isaac and Ishmael by their towns, and by together within her; and
d
buried him in the cave of a b
to meditate: or, to pray Hadar: or, Hadad died: Heb. fell
she said, If it be so, why And
29
Jacob sod king of the Philistines look upon. 8And it came
am I thus? And she went pottage: and Esau came unto Gerar. 2And the to pass, when he had
to enquire of the LORD. from the field, and he LORD appeared unto been there a long time,
23
And the LORD said unto was faint: 30And Esau him, and said, Go not that Abimelech king of
her, Two nations are in said to Jacob, Feed me, I down into Egypt; dwell in the Philistines looked
thy womb, and two pray thee, withc that the land which I shall tell out at a window, and
manner of people shall same red pottage; for I thee of: 3Sojourn in this saw, and, behold, Isaac
be separated from thy am faint: therefore was land, and I will be with was sporting with
bowels; and the one his name called Edom. thee, and will bless thee; Rebekah his wife. 9And
people shall be stronger 31
And Jacob said, Sell me for unto thee, and unto Abimelech called Isaac,
than the other people; this day thy birthright. thy seed, I will give all and said, Behold, of a
and the elder shall serve 32
And Esau said, Behold, these countries, and I surety she is thy wife:
the younger. 24And when I am at the point to die: will perform the oath and how saidst thou,
her days to be delivered and what profit shall this which I sware unto She is my sister? And
were fulfilled, behold, birthright do to me? Abraham thy father; Isaac said unto him,
there were twins in her 33
And Jacob said, Swear 4
And I will make thy seed Because I said, Lest I
womb. 25And the first to me this day; and he to multiply as the stars die for her. 10
And
came out red, all over sware unto him: and he of heaven, and will give Abimelech said, What is
like an hairy garment; sold his birthright unto unto thy seed all these this thou hast done
and they called his name Jacob. 34Then Jacob gave countries; and in thy unto us? one of the
Esau. 26And after that Esau bread and pottage seed shall all the nations people might lightly
came his brother out, of lentiles; and he did of the earth be blessed; have lien with thy wife,
and his hand took hold eat and drink, and rose 5
Because that Abraham and thou shouldest
on Esau’s heel; and his up, and went his way: obeyed my voice, and have brought guiltiness
name was called Jacob: thus Esau despised his kept my charge, my upon us. 11
And
and Isaac was birthright. commandments, my Abimelech charged all
threescore years old statutes, and my laws. his people, saying, He
when she bare them. Chapter 26 6
And Isaac dwelt in that toucheth this man
27
And the boys grew: and Gerar: 7And the men of or his wife shall surely
Esau was a cunning And there was a
1
the place asked him of be put to death.
hunter, a man of the famine in the land, his wife; and he said, 12
Then Isaac sowed
field; and Jacob was a beside the first famine She is my sister: for he in that land, and
plain man, dwelling in that was in the days of feared to say, She is my receiveda in the same
tents. 28And Isaac loved Abraham. And Isaac wife; lest, said he, the year an hundredfold:
Esau, because he did eat went unto Abimelech men of the place should and the LORD blessed
of his venison: but c
kill me for Rebekah; him. 13
And the man
Rebekah loved Jacob. with...: Heb. with that red, because she was fair to a
with that red pottage received: Heb. found
waxed great, and wentb in the valley, and found servant Abraham’s sake. 31
And they rose up
forward, and grew until there a well of springingd 25
And he builded an altar betimes in the morning,
he became very great: water. 20
And the there, and called upon and sware one to
14
For he had possession herdmen of Gerar did the name of the LORD, another: and Isaac sent
of flocks, and possession strive with Isaac’s and pitched his tent them away, and they
of herds, and great store herdmen, saying, The there: and there Isaac’s departed from him in
of servantsc: and the water is ours: and he servants digged a well. peace. 32And it came to
Philistines envied him. called the name of the 26
Then Abimelech pass the same day, that
15
For all the wells which well Eseke; because they went to him from Gerar, Isaac’s servants came,
his father’s servants had strove with him. 21And and Ahuzzath one of his and told him concerning
digged in the days of they digged another friends, and Phichol the the well which they had
Abraham his father, the well, and strove for that chief captain of his army. digged, and said unto
Philistines had stopped also: and he called the 27
And Isaac said unto him, We have found
them, and filled them name of it Sitnahf. 22And them, Wherefore come water. 33And he called it
with earth. 16
And he removed from ye to me, seeing ye hate Shebahi: therefore the
Abimelech said unto thence, and digged me, and have sent me name of the city is
Isaac, Go from us; for another well; and for away from you? 28And Beersheba unto this
thou art much mightier that they strove not: and they said, We sawh day.
than we. 17And Isaac he called the name of it certainly that the LORD 34
And Esau was forty
departed thence, and Rehobothg; and he said, was with thee: and we years old when he took
pitched his tent in the For now the LORD hath said, Let there be now an to wife Judith the
valley of Gerar, and made room for us, and oath betwixt us, even daughter of Beeri the
dwelt there. 18And Isaac we shall be fruitful in the betwixt us and thee, and Hittite, and Bashemath
digged again the wells of land. 23And he went up let us make a covenant the daughter of Elon
water, which they had from thence to with thee; 29That thou the Hittite: 35
Which
digged in the days of Beersheba. 24
And the wilt do us no hurt, as we were a grief of mind
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Abraham his father; for LORD appeared unto him have not touched thee, unto Isaac and to
the Philistines had the same night, and and as we have done Rebekah.
stopped them after the said, I am the God of unto thee nothing but
death of Abraham: and Abraham thy father: fear good, and have sent Chapter 27
he called their names not, for I am with thee, thee away in peace: thou
after the names by and will bless thee, and art now the blessed of And it came to pass,
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which his father had multiply thy seed for my the LORD. 30
And he that when Isaac was
called them. 19
And made them a feast, and old, and his eyes were
d
Isaac’s servants digged springing: Heb. living they did eat and drink.
e i
Esek: that is, Contention Shebah: That is, an oath
b f h j
went...: Heb. went going Sitnah: that is, Hatred We saw...: Heb. Seeing we a grief...: Heb. bitterness of
c g
servants: or, husbandry Rehoboth: that is Room saw spirit
dim, so that he could not that which I command were with her in the went near unto Isaac
see, he called Esau his thee. 9Go now to the house, and put them his father; and he felt
eldest son, and said unto flock, and fetch me from upon Jacob her younger him, and said, The
him, My son: and he said thence two good kids of son: 16And she put the voice is Jacob’s voice,
unto him, Behold, here the goats; and I will skins of the kids of the but the hands are the
am I. 2And he said, make them savoury goats upon his hands, hands of Esau. 23And he
Behold now, I am old, I meat for thy father, such and upon the smooth of discerned him not,
know not the day of my as he loveth: 10And thou his neck: 17And she gave because his hands were
death: 3Now therefore shalt bring it to thy the savoury meat and hairy, as his brother
take, I pray thee, thy father, that he may eat, the bread, which she had Esau’s hands: so he
weapons, thy quiver and and that he may bless prepared, into the hand blessed him. 24And he
thy bow, and go out to thee before his death. of her son Jacob. said, Art thou my very
the field, and takea me 11
And Jacob said to 18
And he came unto son Esau? And he said, I
some venison; 4
And Rebekah his mother, his father, and said, My am. 25And he said, Bring
make me savoury meat, Behold, Esau my brother father: and he said, Here it near to me, and I will
such as I love, and bring is a hairy man, and I am am I; who art thou, my eat of my son’s
it to me, that I may eat; a smooth man: 12My son? 19And Jacob said venison, that my soul
that my soul may bless father peradventure will unto his father, I am may bless thee. And he
thee before I die. 5And feel me, and I shall seem Esau thy firstborn; I have brought it near to him,
Rebekah heard when to him as a deceiver; done according as thou and he did eat: and he
Isaac spake to Esau his and I shall bring a curse badest me: arise, I pray brought him wine, and
son. And Esau went to upon me, and not a thee, sit and eat of my he drank. 26And his
the field to hunt for blessing. 13
And his venison, that thy soul father Isaac said unto
venison, and to bring it. mother said unto him, may bless me. 20And him, Come near now,
6
And Rebekah spake Upon me be thy curse, Isaac said unto his son, and kiss me, my son.
unto Jacob her son, my son: only obey my How is it that thou hast 27
And he came near,
saying, Behold, I heard voice, and go fetch me found it so quickly, my and kissed him: and he
thy father speak unto them. 14And he went, son? And he said, smelled the smell of his
Esau thy brother, saying, and fetched, and Because the LORD thy raiment, and blessed
7
Bring me venison, and brought them to his God brought it to mec. him, and said, See, the
make me savoury meat, mother: and his mother 21
And Isaac said unto smell of my son is as
that I may eat, and bless made savoury meat, Jacob, Come near, I pray the smell of a field
thee before the LORD such as his father loved. thee, that I may feel which the LORD hath
before my death. 8Now 15
And Rebekah took thee, my son, whether blessed: 28
Therefore
therefore, my son, obey goodlyb raiment of her thou be my very son God give thee of the
my voice according to eldest son Esau, which Esau or not. 22And Jacob dew of heaven, and the
a b c
fatness of the earth,
take: Heb. hunt goodly: Heb. desirable to me: Heb. before me
and plenty of corn and brought it me, and I unto his father, Hast touching thee, doth
wine: 29Let people serve have eaten of all before thou but one blessing, comfort himself,
thee, and nations bow thou camest, and have my father? bless me, purposing to kill thee.
down to thee: be lord blessed him? yea, and even me also, O my 43
Now therefore, my
over thy brethren, and he shall be blessed. father. And Esau lifted son, obey my voice;
let thy mother’s sons 34
And when Esau heard up his voice, and wept. and arise, flee thou to
bow down to thee: the words of his father, 39
And Isaac his father Laban my brother to
cursed be every one that he cried with a great and answered and said unto Haran; 44And tarry with
curseth thee, and exceeding bitter cry, and him, Behold, thy dwelling him a few days, until
blessed be he that said unto his father, shall be the fatnessg of thy brother’s fury turn
blesseth thee. Bless me, even me also, the earth, and of the away; 45
Until thy
30
And it came to pass, O my father. 35And he dew of heaven from brother’s anger turn
as soon as Isaac had said, Thy brother came above; 40
And by thy away from thee, and he
made an end of blessing with subtilty, and hath sword shalt thou live, forget that which thou
Jacob, and Jacob was yet taken away thy blessing. and shalt serve thy hast done to him: then I
scarce gone out from the 36
And he said, Is not he brother; and it shall will send, and fetch
presence of Isaac his rightly named Jacobe? for come to pass when thou thee from thence: why
father, that Esau his he hath supplanted me shalt have the dominion, should I be deprived
brother came in from his these two times: he took that thou shalt break his also of you both in one
hunting. 31And he also away my birthright; and, yoke from off thy neck. day? 46And Rebekah
had made savoury meat, behold, now he hath 41
And Esau hated said to Isaac, I am
and brought it unto his taken away my blessing. Jacob because of the weary of my life
father, and said unto his And he said, Hast thou blessing wherewith his because of the
father, Let my father not reserved a blessing father blessed him: and daughters of Heth: if
arise, and eat of his for me? 37
And Isaac Esau said in his heart, Jacob take a wife of the
son’s venison, that thy answered and said unto The days of mourning for daughters of Heth, such
soul may bless me. 32And Esau, Behold, I have my father are at hand; as these which are of
Isaac his father said unto made him thy lord, and then will I slay my the daughters of the
him, Who art thou? And all his brethren have I brother Jacob. 42
And land, what good shall
he said, I am thy son, thy given to him for these words of Esau her my life do me?
firstborn Esau. 33
And servants; and with corn elder son were told to
Isaac trembled d
very and wine have I Rebekah: and she sent Chapter 28
exceedingly, and said, sustainedf him: and what and called Jacob her
Who? where is he that shall I do now unto thee, younger son, and said
1
And Isaac called
hath taken venison, and my son? 38And Esau said unto him, Behold, thy Jacob, and blessed him,
brother Esau, as and charged him, and
d e
trembled...: Heb. trembled Jacob: that is, A supplanter said unto him, Thou
f g
with a great trembling greatly sustained: or, supported the fatness: or, of the fatness
shalt not take a wife of he gave him a charge, of it reached to heaven: house of God, and this
the daughters of saying, Thou shalt not and behold the angels of is the gate of heaven.
Canaan. 2Arise, go to take a wife of the God ascending and 18
And Jacob rose up
Padanaram, to the house daughters of Canaan; descending on it. And,
13
early in the morning,
of Bethuel thy mother’s 7
And that Jacob obeyed behold, the LORD stood and took the stone that
father; and take thee a his father and his above it, and said, I am he had put for his
wife from thence of the mother, and was gone to the LORD God of pillows, and set it up for
daughters of Laban thy Padanaram; 8And Esau Abraham thy father, and a pillar, and poured oil
mother’s brother. 3And seeing that the the God of Isaac: the upon the top of it. 19And
God Almighty bless thee, daughters of Canaan land whereon thou liest, he called the name of
and make thee fruitful, pleasedb not Isaac his to thee will I give it, and that place Bethele: but
and multiply thee, that father; 9Then went Esau to thy seed; 14And thy the name of that city
thou mayest be a unto Ishmael, and took seed shall be as the dust was called Luz at the
multitude a
of people; unto the wives which he of the earth, and thou first. 20
And Jacob
4
And give thee the had Mahalathc the shalt spread abroad to vowed a vow, saying, If
blessing of Abraham, to daughter of Ishmael the west, and to the God will be with me,
thee, and to thy seed Abraham’s son, the east, and to the north, and will keep me in this
with thee; that thou sister of Nebajoth, to be and to the south: and in way that I go, and will
mayest inherit the land his wife. thee and in thy seed give me bread to eat,
wherein thou art a 10
And Jacob went out shall all the families of and raiment to put on,
stranger, which God from Beersheba, and the earth be blessed. 21
So that I come again
gave unto Abraham. went toward Harand. 15
And, behold, I am with to my father’s house in
5
And Isaac sent away 11
And he lighted upon a thee, and will keep thee peace; then shall the
Jacob: and he went to certain place, and tarried in all places whither thou LORD be my God: 22And
Padanaram unto Laban, there all night, because goest, and will bring thee this stone, which I have
son of Bethuel the the sun was set; and he again into this land; for I set for a pillar, shall be
Syrian, the brother of took of the stones of that will not leave thee, until I God’s house: and of all
Rebekah, Jacob’s and place, and put them for have done that which I that thou shalt give me
Esau’s mother. his pillows, and lay down have spoken to thee of. I will surely give the
6
When Esau saw that in that place to sleep. 16
And Jacob awaked tenth unto thee.
Isaac had blessed Jacob, 12
And he dreamed, and out of his sleep, and he
and sent him away to behold a ladder set up said, Surely the LORD is Chapter 29
Padanaram, to take him on the earth, and the top in this place; and I knew
a wife from thence; and it not. 17And he was Then Jacob went on
1
b
that as he blessed him pleased...: Heb. were evil in afraid, and said, How his journey, and came
the eyes, etc dreadful is this place!
a c e
a multitude...: Heb. an Mahalath: or, Bashemath this is none other but the Bethel: that is, The house of
d
assembly of people Haran: Gr. Charran God
into the land of the until all the flocks be him to his house. And he Jacob said unto Laban,
people of the east. 2And gathered together, and told Laban all these Give me my wife, for
he looked, and behold a till they roll the stone things. 14And Laban said my days are fulfilled,
well in the field, and, lo, from the well’s mouth; to him, Surely thou art that I may go in unto
there were three flocks then we water the my bone and my flesh. her. 22
And Laban
of sheep lying by it; for sheep. And he abode with him gathered together all
out of that well they 9
And while he yet the spaceb of a month. the men of the place,
watered the flocks: and a spake with them, Rachel 15
And Laban said unto and made a feast. 23And
great stone was upon came with her father’s Jacob, Because thou art it came to pass in the
the well’s mouth. 3And sheep: for she kept my brother, shouldest evening, that he took
thither were all the them. 10And it came to thou therefore serve me Leah his daughter, and
flocks gathered: and pass, when Jacob saw for nought? tell me, what brought her to him; and
they rolled the stone Rachel the daughter of shall thy wages be? he went in unto her.
from the well’s mouth, Laban his mother’s 16
And Laban had two 24
And Laban gave unto
and watered the sheep, brother, and the sheep daughters: the name of his daughter Leah
and put the stone again of Laban his mother’s the elder was Leah, and Zilpah his maid for an
upon the well’s mouth in brother, that Jacob went the name of the younger handmaid. 25
And it
his place. 4And Jacob near, and rolled the was Rachel. 17Leah was came to pass, that in
said unto them, My stone from the well’s tender eyed; but Rachel the morning, behold, it
brethren, whence be ye? mouth, and watered the was beautiful and well was Leah: and he said
And they said, Of Haran flock of Laban his favoured. 18And Jacob to Laban, What is this
are we. 5And he said mother’s brother. 11
And loved Rachel; and said, I thou hast done unto
unto them, Know ye Jacob kissed Rachel, and will serve thee seven me? did not I serve with
Laban the son of Nahor? lifted up his voice, and years for Rachel thy thee for Rachel?
And they said, We know wept. 12And Jacob told younger daughter. 19And wherefore then hast
him. 6And he said unto Rachel that he was her Laban said, It is better thou beguiled me?
them, Is he well? And father’s brother, and that I give her to thee, 26
And Laban said, It
they said, He is well: that he was Rebekah’s than that I should give must not be so done in
and, behold, Rachel his son: and she ran and her to another man: our countryc, to give the
daughter cometh with told her father. 13And it abide with me. 20And younger before the
the sheep. 7And he said, came to pass, when Jacob served seven firstborn. 27
Fulfil her
Lo, it is yet high day, Laban heard the tidingsa years for Rachel; and week, and we will give
neither is it time that the of Jacob his sister’s son, they seemed unto him thee this also for the
cattle should be that he ran to meet him, but a few days, for the service which thou shalt
gathered together: water and embraced him, and love he had to her. 21And serve with me yet
ye the sheep, and go kissed him, and brought b
seven other years.
and feed them. 8
And the space...: Heb. a month of
a c
they said, We cannot, tidings: Heb. hearing days country: Heb. place
28
And Jacob did so, and Now this time will my in unto her. 5And Bilhah his name Asher.
fulfilled her week: and he husband be joined unto conceived, and bare 14
And Reuben went
gave him Rachel his me, because I have born Jacob a son. 6And Rachel in the days of wheat
daughter to wife also. him three sons: said, God hath judged harvest, and found
29
And Laban gave to therefore was his name me, and hath also heard mandrakes in the field,
Rachel his daughter called Levif. 35And she my voice, and hath given and brought them unto
Bilhah his handmaid to conceived again, and me a son: therefore his mother Leah. Then
be her maid. 30And he bare a son: and she said, called she his name Rachel said to Leah,
went in also unto Rachel, Now will I praise the Dana. 7
And Bilhah Give me, I pray thee, of
and he loved also Rachel LORD: therefore she Rachel’s maid conceived thy son’s mandrakes.
more than Leah, and called his name Judahg; again, and bare Jacob a 15
And she said unto her,
served with him yet and left bearing. second son. 8And Rachel Is it a small matter that
seven other years. said, With greatb thou hast taken my
31
And when the LORD Chapter 30 wrestlings have I husband? and wouldest
saw that Leah was wrestled with my sister, thou take away my
hated, he opened her And when Rachel
1
and I have prevailed: son’s mandrakes also?
womb: but Rachel was saw that she bare Jacob and she called his name And Rachel said,
barren. 32
And Leah no children, Rachel Naphtali. 9
When Leah Therefore he shall lie
conceived, and bare a envied her sister; and saw that she had left with thee to night for
son, and she called his said unto Jacob, Give me bearing, she took Zilpah thy son’s mandrakes.
name Reubend: for she children, or else I die. her maid, and gave her 16
And Jacob came out of
said, Surely the LORD
2
And Jacob’s anger was Jacob to wife. 10And the field in the evening,
hath looked upon my kindled against Rachel: Zilpah Leah’s maid bare and Leah went out to
affliction; now therefore and he said, Am I in Jacob a son. 11And Leah meet him, and said,
my husband will love God’s stead, who hath said, A troop cometh: Thou must come in
me. 33And she conceived withheld from thee the and she called his name unto me; for surely I
again, and bare a son; fruit of the womb? 3And Gadc. 12
And Zilpah have hired thee with
and said, Because the she said, Behold my Leah’s maid bare Jacob a my son’s mandrakes.
LORD hath heard that I maid Bilhah, go in unto second son. 13And Leah And he lay with her that
was hated, he hath her; and she shall bear said, Happy am I, for the night. 17
And God
therefore given me this upon my knees, that I daughters will call me hearkened unto Leah,
son also: and she called may also have children blessed: and she called and she conceived, and
his name Simeone. 34And by her. 4And she gave bare Jacob the fifth son.
a
she conceived again, him Bilhah her handmaid Dan: that is, Judging 18
And Leah said, God
b
and bare a son; and said, to wife: and Jacob went great...: Heb. wrestlings of hath given me my hire,
God because I have given
d f c
Reuben: that is, See a son Levi: that is, Joined Gad: that is, A troop, or, my maiden to my
e g
Simeon: that is, Hearing Judah: that is, Praise company
husband: and she called my wives and my day, removing from rest of Laban’s flocks.
his name Issachard. children, for whom I thence all the speckled 37
And Jacob took him
19
And Leah conceived have served thee, and and spotted cattle, and rods of green poplar,
again, and bare Jacob let me go: for thou all the brown cattle and of the hazel and
the sixth son. 20And Leah knowest my service among the sheep, and chesnut tree; and pilled
said, God hath endued which I have done thee. the spotted and speckled white strakes in them,
me with a good dowry; 27
And Laban said unto among the goats: and of and made the white
now will my husband him, I pray thee, if I have such shall be my hire. appear which was in
dwell with me, because I found favour in thine 33
So shall my the rods. 38And he set
have born him six sons: eyes, tarry: for I have righteousness answer for the rods which he had
and she called his name learned by experience me in timei to come, pilled before the flocks
Zebulune. 21
And that the LORD hath when it shall come for in the gutters in the
afterwards she bare a blessed me for thy sake. my hire before thy face: watering troughs when
daughter, and called her 28
And he said, Appoint every one that is not the flocks came to
name Dinahf. 22And God me thy wages, and I will speckled and spotted drink, that they should
remembered Rachel, and give it. 29And he said among the goats, and conceive when they
God hearkened to her, unto him, Thou knowest brown among the sheep, came to drink. 39And
and opened her womb. how I have served thee, that shall be counted the flocks conceived
23
And she conceived, and and how thy cattle was stolen with me. 34And before the rods, and
bare a son; and said, with me. 30For it was Laban said, Behold, I brought forth cattle
God hath taken away my little which thou hadst would it might be ringstraked, speckled,
reproach: 24
And she before I came, and it is according to thy word. and spotted. 40
And
called his name Josephg; now increasedh unto a 35
And he removed that Jacob did separate the
and said, The LORD shall multitude; and the LORD day the he goats that lambs, and set the
add to me another son. hath blessed thee since were ringstraked and faces of the flocks
25
And it came to pass, my coming: and now spotted, and all the she toward the ringstraked,
when Rachel had born when shall I provide for goats that were speckled and all the brown in the
Joseph, that Jacob said mine own house also? and spotted, and every flock of Laban; and he
unto Laban, Send me 31
And he said, What shall one that had some white put his own flocks by
away, that I may go unto I give thee? And Jacob in it, and all the brown themselves, and put
mine own place, and to said, Thou shalt not give among the sheep, and them not unto Laban’s
my country. 26Give me me any thing: if thou wilt gave them into the hand cattle. 41And it came to
d
do this thing for me, I of his sons. 36And he set pass, whensoever the
Issachar: that is, An hire will again feed and keep three days’ journey stronger cattle did
e
Zebulun: that is, Dwelling: Gr. thy flock: 32I will pass betwixt himself and conceive, that Jacob
Zabulon through all thy flock to Jacob: and Jacob fed the laid the rods before the
f
Dinah: that is Judgment eyes of the cattle in the
g h i
Joseph: that is, Adding increased: Heb. broken forth in time...: Heb. to morrow
gutters, that they might unto his flock, 5And said Jacob: And I said, Here his cattle, and all his
conceive among the unto them, I see your am I. 12And he said, Lift goods which he had
rods. 42But when the father’s countenance, up now thine eyes, and gotten, the cattle of his
cattle were feeble, he that it is not toward me see, all the rams which getting, which he had
put them not in: so the as before; but the God of leap upon the cattle are gotten in Padanaram,
feebler were Laban’s, my father hath been ringstraked, speckled, for to go to Isaac his
and the stronger Jacob’s. with me. 6And ye know and grisled: for I have father in the land of
43
And the man increased that with all my power I seen all that Laban Canaan. 19And Laban
exceedingly, and had have served your father. doeth unto thee. 13I am went to shear his
much cattle, and 7
And your father hath the God of Bethel, where sheep: and Rachel had
maidservants, and deceived me, and thou anointedst the stolen the imagesc that
menservants, and changed my wages ten pillar, and where thou were her father’s.
camels, and asses. times; but God suffered vowedst a vow unto me: 20
And Jacob stole away
him not to hurt me. 8If he now arise, get thee out unawaresd to Laban the
Chapter 31 said thus, The speckled from this land, and Syrian, in that he told
shall be thy wages; then return unto the land of him not that he fled.
And he heard the
1
all the cattle bare thy kindred. 14
And 21
So he fled with all that
words of Laban’s sons, speckled: and if he said Rachel and Leah he had; and he rose up,
saying, Jacob hath taken thus, The ringstraked answered and said unto and passed over the
away all that was our shall be thy hire; then him, Is there yet any river, and set his face
father’s; and of that bare all the cattle portion or inheritance for toward the mount
which was our father’s ringstraked. Thus God
9
us in our father’s house? Gilead. And it was told
22

hath he gotten all this hath taken away the 15


Are we not counted of Laban on the third day
glory. 2And Jacob beheld cattle of your father, and him strangers? for he that Jacob was fled.
the countenance of given them to me. 10And hath sold us, and hath 23
And he took his
Laban, and, behold, it it came to pass at the quite devoured also our brethren with him, and
was not toward him as time that the cattle money. 16For all the pursued after him
beforea. 3And the LORD conceived, that I lifted riches which God hath seven days’ journey;
said unto Jacob, Return up mine eyes, and saw taken from our father, and they overtook him
unto the land of thy in a dream, and, behold, that is ours, and our in the mount Gilead.
fathers, and to thy the ramsb which leaped children’s: now then, 24
And God came to
kindred; and I will be upon the cattle were whatsoever God hath Laban the Syrian in a
with thee. 4And Jacob ringstraked, speckled, said unto thee, do. dream by night, and
sent and called Rachel and grisled. 11
And the 17
Then Jacob rose up, said unto him, Take
and Leah to the field angel of God spake unto and set his sons and his c
me in a dream, saying, wives upon camels; images: Heb. teraphim
a d
as before: Heb. as yesterday 18
And he carried away all unawares...: Heb. the heart
b
and the day before rams: or, he goats of Laban
heed that thou speak not needs be gone, because cannot rise up before and the frost by night;
to Jacob either good or thou sore longedst after thee; for the custom of and my sleep departed
bad. thy father’s house, yet women is upon me. And from mine eyes. 41Thus
25
Then Laban wherefore hast thou he searched, but found have I been twenty
overtook Jacob. Now stolen my gods? 31And not the images. years in thy house; I
Jacob had pitched his Jacob answered and said 36
And Jacob was served thee fourteen
tent in the mount: and to Laban, Because I was wroth, and chode with years for thy two
Laban with his brethren afraid: for I said, Laban: and Jacob daughters, and six
pitched in the mount of Peradventure thou answered and said to years for thy cattle: and
Gilead. 26And Laban said wouldest take by force Laban, What is my thou hast changed my
to Jacob, What hast thou thy daughters from me. trespass? what is my sin, wages ten times.
done, that thou hast 32
With whomsoever thou that thou hast so hotly 42
Except the God of my
stolen away unawares to findest thy gods, let him pursued after me? father, the God of
me, and carried away not live: before our 37
Whereas thou hast Abraham, and the fear
my daughters, as brethren discern thou searchedf all my stuff, of Isaac, had been with
captives taken with the what is thine with me, what hast thou found of me, surely thou hadst
sword? 27Wherefore didst and take it to thee. For all thy household stuff? sent me away now
thou flee away secretly, Jacob knew not that set it here before my empty. God hath seen
and steal away from me; Rachel had stolen them. brethren and thy mine affliction and the
and didst not tell me, 33
And Laban went into brethren, that they may labour of my hands,
that I might have sent Jacob’s tent, and into judge betwixt us both. and rebuked thee
thee away with mirth, Leah’s tent, and into the 38
This twenty years have yesternight.
and with songs, with two maidservants’ tents; I been with thee; thy 43
And Laban
tabret, and with harp? but he found them not. ewes and thy she goats answered and said unto
28
And hast not suffered Then went he out of have not cast their Jacob, These daughters
me to kiss my sons and Leah’s tent, and entered young, and the rams of are my daughters, and
my daughters? thou hast into Rachel’s tent. 34Now thy flock have I not these children are my
now done foolishly in so Rachel had taken the eaten. 39That which was children, and these
doing. 29It is in the power images, and put them in torn of beasts I brought cattle are my cattle,
of my hand to do you the camel’s furniture, not unto thee; I bare the and all that thou seest
hurt: but the God of your and sat upon them. And loss of it; of my hand is mine: and what can I
father spake unto me Laban searchede all the didst thou require it, do this day unto these
yesternight, saying, Take tent, but found them not. whether stolen by day, my daughters, or unto
thou heed that thou 35
And she said to her or stolen by night. 40Thus their children which
speak not to Jacob either father, Let it not I was; in the day the they have born? 44Now
good or bad. 30And now, displease my lord that I drought consumed me, therefore come thou,
though thou wouldest e f
let us make a covenant,
searched: Heb. felt searched: Heb. felt
I and thou; and let it be and behold this pillar, he said, This is God’s the camels, into two
for a witness between which I have cast betwixt host: and he called the bands; 8And said, If
me and thee. 45And Jacob me and thee; 52This heap name of that place Esau come to the one
took a stone, and set it be witness, and this Mahanaima. company, and smite it,
up for a pillar. 46And pillar be witness, that I 3
And Jacob sent then the other company
Jacob said unto his will not pass over this messengers before him which is left shall
brethren, Gather stones; heap to thee, and that to Esau his brother unto escape.
and they took stones, thou shalt not pass over the land of Seir, the 9
And Jacob said, O
and made an heap: and this heap and this pillar countryb of Edom. 4And God of my father
they did eat there upon unto me, for harm. 53The he commanded them, Abraham, and God of
the heap. 47And Laban God of Abraham, and the saying, Thus shall ye my father Isaac, the
called it God of Nahor, the God of speak unto my lord Esau; LORD which saidst unto
Jegarsahaduthag: but their father, judge Thy servant Jacob saith me, Return unto thy
Jacob called it Galeed. betwixt us. And Jacob thus, I have sojourned country, and to thy
48
And Laban said, This sware by the fear of his with Laban, and stayed kindred, and I will deal
heap is a witness father Isaac. 54
Then there until now: 5And I well with thee: 10I am
between me and thee Jacob offered sacrifice
i
have oxen, and asses, not worthy of the least
this day. Therefore was upon the mount, and flocks, and menservants, of all the mercies, and
the name of it called called his brethren to eat and womenservants: and of all the truth, which
Galeed; 49And Mizpahh; bread: and they did eat I have sent to tell my thou hast shewed unto
for he said, The LORD bread, and tarried all lord, that I may find thy servant; for with my
watch between me and night in the mount. grace in thy sight. 6And staff I passed over this
thee, when we are 55
And early in the the messengers returned Jordan; and now I am
absent one from morning Laban rose up, to Jacob, saying, We become two bands.
another. 50If thou shalt and kissed his sons and came to thy brother 11
Deliver me, I pray
afflict my daughters, or if his daughters, and Esau, and also he thee, from the hand of
thou shalt take other blessed them: and Laban cometh to meet thee, my brother, from the
wives beside my departed, and returned and four hundred men hand of Esau: for I fear
daughters, no man is unto his place. with him. 7Then Jacob him, lest he will come
with us; see, God is was greatly afraid and and smite me, and the
witness betwixt me and Chapter 32 distressed: and he mother withc the
thee. 51And Laban said to divided the people that children. 12
And thou
Jacob, Behold this heap, And Jacob went on
1
was with him, and the saidst, I will surely do
his way, and the angels flocks, and herds, and thee good, and make
g
Jegarsahadutha: that is, The of God met him. 2And thy seed as the sand of
a
heap of witness, Chaldee when Jacob saw them, Mahanaim: that is, Two hosts, the sea, which cannot
h
Mizpah: that is, A beacon, or, or, camps
i b c
watchtower offered...: or, killed beasts country: Heb. field with: Heb. upon
be numbered for commanded he the that he prevailed not 32
Therefore the children
multitude. second, and the third, against him, he touched of Israel eat not of the
13
And he lodged there and all that followed the the hollow of his thigh; sinew which shrank,
that same night; and droves, saying, On this and the hollow of Jacob’s which is upon the
took of that which came manner shall ye speak thigh was out of joint, as hollow of the thigh,
to his hand a present for unto Esau, when ye find he wrestled with him. unto this day: because
Esau his brother; 14Two him. 20
And say ye 26
And he said, Let me go, he touched the hollow
hundred she goats, and moreover, Behold, thy for the day breaketh. of Jacob’s thigh in the
twenty he goats, two servant Jacob is behind And he said, I will not let sinew that shrank.
hundred ewes, and us. For he said, I will thee go, except thou
twenty rams, 15Thirty appease him with the bless me. 27And he said Chapter 33
milch camels with their present that goeth unto him, What is thy
colts, forty kine, and ten before me, and name? And he said, And Jacob lifted up
1

bulls, twenty she asses, afterward I will see his Jacob. 28And he said, Thy his eyes, and looked,
and ten foals. 16And he face; peradventure he name shall be called no and, behold, Esau
delivered them into the will accept of med. 21So more Jacob, but Israelf: came, and with him
hand of his servants, went the present over for as a prince hast thou four hundred men. And
every drove by before him: and himself power with God and with he divided the children
themselves; and said lodged that night in the men, and hast prevailed. unto Leah, and unto
unto his servants, Pass company. 22And he rose 29
And Jacob asked him, Rachel, and unto the
over before me, and put up that night, and took and said, Tell me, I pray two handmaids. 2And he
a space betwixt drove his two wives, and his thee, thy name. And he put the handmaids and
and drove. 17And he two womenservants, and said, Wherefore is it that their children foremost,
commanded the his eleven sons, and thou dost ask after my and Leah and her
foremost, saying, When passed over the ford name? And he blessed children after, and
Esau my brother Jabbok. 23And he took him there. 30And Jacob Rachel and Joseph
meeteth thee, and them, and sent them called the name of the hindermost. 3And he
asketh thee, saying, over the brook, and sent place Penielg: for I have passed over before
Whose art thou? and over that he had. seen God face to face, them, and bowed
whither goest thou? and 24
And Jacob was left and my life is preserved. himself to the ground
whose are these before alone; and there 31
And as he passed over seven times, until he
thee? 18Then thou shalt wrestled a man with him Penuel the sun rose came near to his
say, They be thy servant until the breakinge of the upon him, and he halted brother. 4And Esau ran
Jacob’s; it is a present day. 25And when he saw upon his thigh. to meet him, and
sent unto my lord Esau: embraced him, and fell
d f
and, behold, also he is of me: Heb. my face Israel: that is, A prince of God on his neck, and kissed
e g
behind us. 19And so breaking...: Heb. ascending of Peniel: that is, The face of him: and they wept.
the morning God
And he lifted up his
5
with me. 11Take, I pray that day on his way unto 2
And when Shechem
eyes, and saw the thee, my blessing that is Seir. 17
And Jacob the son of Hamor the
women and the children; brought to thee; because journeyed to Succothd, Hivite, prince of the
and said, Who are those God hath dealt and built him an house, country, saw her, he
with thee? And he said, graciously with me, and and made booths for his took her, and lay with
The children which God because I have enoughb. cattle: therefore the her, and defiled her.
hath graciously given thy And he urged him, and name of the place is 3
And his soul clave unto
servant. 6
Then the he took it. 12And he said, called Succoth. 18
And Dinah the daughter of
handmaidens came Let us take our journey, Jacob came to Shalem, a Jacob, and he loved the
near, they and their and let us go, and I will city of Shecheme, which damsel, and spake
children, and they bowed go before thee. 13And he is in the land of Canaan, kindlya unto the damsel.
themselves. 7And Leah said unto him, My lord when he came from 4
And Shechem spake
also with her children knoweth that the Padanaram; and pitched unto his father Hamor,
came near, and bowed children are tender, and his tent before the city. saying, Get me this
themselves: and after the flocks and herds with 19
And he bought a parcel damsel to wife. 5And
came Joseph near and young are with me: and of a field, where he had Jacob heard that he had
Rachel, and they bowed if men should overdrive spread his tent, at the defiled Dinah his
themselves. 8
And he them one day, all the hand of the children of daughter: now his sons
said, What meanest thou flock will die. 14Let my Hamorf, Shechem’s were with his cattle in
by all this drovea which I lord, I pray thee, pass father, for an hundred the field: and Jacob held
met? And he said, These over before his servant: pieces of money. 20And his peace until they
are to find grace in the and I will lead on softly, he erected there an were come.
sight of my lord. 9And according as the cattle altar, and called it 6
And Hamor the
Esau said, I have that goeth before me Elelohe-Israel .
g
father of Shechem went
enough, my brother; and the children be able out unto Jacob to
keep that thou hast unto to endure, until I come Chapter 34 commune with him.
thyself. 10And Jacob said, unto my lord unto Seir. 7
And the sons of Jacob
Nay, I pray thee, if now I 15
And Esau said, Let me And
1
Dinah the came out of the field
have found grace in thy now leavec with thee daughter of Leah, which when they heard it: and
sight, then receive my some of the folk that are she bare unto Jacob, the men were grieved,
present at my hand: for with me. And he said, went out to see the and they were very
therefore I have seen thy What needeth it? let me daughters of the land. wroth, because he had
face, as though I had find grace in the sight of d
wrought folly in Israel in
seen the face of God, my lord. Succoth: that is, Booths lying with Jacob’s
e
and thou wast pleased 16
So Esau returned Shechem: Gr. Sychem daughter; which thing
f
Hamor: Gr. Emmor
a b g a
What...: Heb. What is all this enough: Heb. all things Elelohe-Israel: that is God the kindly...: Heb. to the heart of
c
band to thee? leave: Heb. set, or, place God of Israel the damsel
ought not to be done. for that were a reproach behold, it is large the edgeb of the sword,
8
And Hamor communed unto us: 15But in this will enough for them; let us and took Dinah out of
with them, saying, The we consent unto you: If take their daughters to Shechem’s house, and
soul of my son Shechem ye will be as we be, that us for wives, and let us went out. 27The sons of
longeth for your every male of you be give them our Jacob came upon the
daughter: I pray you give circumcised; 16Then will daughters. Only herein
22
slain, and spoiled the
her him to wife. 9And we give our daughters will the men consent city, because they had
make ye marriages with unto you, and we will unto us for to dwell with defiled their sister.
us, and give your take your daughters to us, to be one people, if 28
They took their sheep,
daughters unto us, and us, and we will dwell every male among us be and their oxen, and
take our daughters unto with you, and we will circumcised, as they are their asses, and that
you. 10And ye shall dwell become one people. circumcised. 23Shall not which was in the city,
with us: and the land 17
But if ye will not their cattle and their and that which was in
shall be before you; hearken unto us, to be substance and every the field, 29And all their
dwell and trade ye circumcised; then will we beast of theirs be ours? wealth, and all their
therein, and get you take our daughter, and only let us consent unto little ones, and their
possessions therein. we will be gone. them, and they will dwell wives took they captive,
11
And Shechem said unto 18
And their words with us. 24And unto and spoiled even all
her father and unto her pleased Hamor, and Hamor and unto that was in the house.
brethren, Let me find Shechem Hamor’s son. Shechem his son 30
And Jacob said to
grace in your eyes, and 19
And the young man hearkened all that went Simeon and Levi, Ye
what ye shall say unto deferred not to do the out of the gate of his have troubled me to
me I will give. 12Ask me thing, because he had city; and every male was make me to stink
never so much dowry delight in Jacob’s circumcised, all that among the inhabitants
and gift, and I will give daughter: and he was went out of the gate of of the land, among the
according as ye shall say more honourable than all his city. Canaanites and the
unto me: but give me the house of his father. 25
And it came to pass Perizzites: and I being
the damsel to wife. 13And 20
And Hamor and on the third day, when few in number, they
the sons of Jacob Shechem his son came they were sore, that two shall gather themselves
answered Shechem and unto the gate of their of the sons of Jacob, together against me,
Hamor his father city, and communed with Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s and slay me; and I shall
deceitfully, and said, the men of their city, brethren, took each man be destroyed, I and my
because he had defiled saying, 21These men are his sword, and came house. 31And they said,
Dinah their sister: 14And peaceable with us; upon the city boldly, and Should he deal with our
they said unto them, We therefore let them dwell slew all the males. 26And sister as with an harlot?
cannot do this thing, to in the land, and trade they slew Hamor and
give our sister to one therein; for the land, Shechem his son with b
that is uncircumcised; edge: Heb. mouth
Chapter 35 sons of Jacob. and kings shall come out called his name
6
So Jacob came to of thy loins; 12And the Benoni : but his father
d

1
And God said unto Luz, which is in the land land which I gave called him Benjamin.
Jacob, Arise, go up to of Canaan, that is, Abraham and Isaac, to 19
And Rachel died, and
Bethel, and dwell there: Bethel, he and all the thee I will give it, and to was buried in the way
and make there an altar people that were with thy seed after thee will I to Ephrath, which is
unto God, that appeared him. 7And he built there give the land. 13And God Bethlehem. 20And Jacob
unto thee when thou an altar, and called the went up from him in the set a pillar upon her
fleddest from the face of place Elbethela: because place where he talked grave: that is the pillar
Esau thy brother. 2Then there God appeared unto with him. 14And Jacob set of Rachel’s grave unto
Jacob said unto his him, when he fled from up a pillar in the place this day.
household, and to all the face of his brother. where he talked with 21
And Israel
that were with him, Put 8
But Deborah Rebekah’s him, even a pillar of journeyed, and spread
away the strange gods nurse died, and she was stone: and he poured a his tent beyond the
that are among you, and buried beneath Bethel drink offering thereon, tower of Edar. 22And it
be clean, and change under an oak: and the and he poured oil came to pass, when
your garments: 3And let name of it was called thereon. 15
And Jacob Israel dwelt in that land,
us arise, and go up to Allonbachuthb. 9And God called the name of the that Reuben went and
Bethel; and I will make appeared unto Jacob place where God spake lay with Bilhah his
there an altar unto God, again, when he came out with him, Bethel. father’s concubine: and
who answered me in the of Padanaram, and 16
And they journeyed Israel heard it. Now the
day of my distress, and blessed him. And God
10
from Bethel; and there sons of Jacob were
was with me in the way said unto him, Thy name was but a littlec way to twelve: 23The sons of
which I went. 4And they is Jacob: thy name shall come to Ephrath: and Leah; Reuben, Jacob’s
gave unto Jacob all the not be called any more Rachel travailed, and she firstborn, and Simeon,
strange gods which were Jacob, but Israel shall be had hard labour. 17And it and Levi, and Judah,
in their hand, and all thy name: and he called came to pass, when she and Issachar, and
their earrings which his name Israel. 11And was in hard labour, that Zebulun: The sons of
24

were in their ears; and God said unto him, I am the midwife said unto Rachel; Joseph, and
Jacob hid them under the God Almighty: be fruitful her, Fear not; thou shalt Benjamin: 25And the
oak which was by and multiply; a nation have this son also. 18And sons of Bilhah, Rachel’s
Shechem. 5
And they and a company of it came to pass, as her handmaid; Dan, and
journeyed: and the terror nations shall be of thee, soul was in departing, Naphtali: 26And the sons
of God was upon the a
(for she died) that she of Zilpah, Leah’s
cities that were round Elbethel: that is, The God of handmaid; Gad, and
about them, and they Bethel
b c d
Allonbachuth: that is, The oak a little...: Heb. a little piece of Benoni: that is, The son of
did not pursue after the
of weeping ground my sorrow
Asher: these are the Aholibamah bare Jeush, Esau. 11And the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke
sons of Jacob, which and Jaalam, and Korah: Eliphaz were Teman, Nahath, duke Zerah,
were born to him in these are the sons of Omar, Zephoc, and duke Shammah, duke
Padanaram. 27And Jacob Esau, which were born Gatam, and Kenaz. Mizzah: these are the
came unto Isaac his unto him in the land of 12
And Timna was dukes that came of
father unto Mamre, unto Canaan. 6And Esau took concubine to Eliphaz Reuel in the land of
the city of Arbah, which his wives, and his sons, Esau’s son; and she bare Edom; these are the
is Hebron, where and his daughters, and to Eliphaz Amalek: these sons of Bashemath
Abraham and Isaac all the personsa of his were the sons of Adah Esau’s wife. 18And these
sojourned. 28
And the house, and his cattle, Esau’s wife. 13And these are the sons of
days of Isaac were an and all his beasts, and all are the sons of Reuel; Aholibamah Esau’s
hundred and fourscore his substance, which he Nahath, and Zerah, wife; duke Jeush, duke
years. 29And Isaac gave had got in the land of Shammah, and Mizzah: Jaalam, duke Korah:
up the ghost, and died, Canaan; and went into these were the sons of these were the dukes
and was gathered unto the country from the Bashemath Esau’s wife. that came of
his people, being old and face of his brother Jacob. 14
And these were the Aholibamah the
full of days: and his sons 7
For their riches were sons of Aholibamah, the daughter of Anah,
Esau and Jacob buried more than that they daughter of Anah the Esau’s wife. 19These are
him. might dwell together; daughter of Zibeon, the sons of Esau, who is
and the land wherein Esau’s wife: and she Edom, and these are
Chapter 36 they were strangers bare to Esau Jeush, and their dukes.
could not bear them Jaalam, and Korah. 20
These are the sons
1
Now these are the because of their cattle. 15
These were dukes of of Seir the Horite, who
generations of Esau, who 8
Thus dwelt Esau in the sons of Esau: the inhabited the land;
is Edom. 2Esau took his mount Seir: Esau is sons of Eliphaz the Lotan, and Shobal, and
wives of the daughters Edom. firstborn son of Esau; Zibeon, and Anah, 21And
of Canaan; Adah the 9
And these are the duke Teman, duke Omar, Dishon, and Ezer, and
daughter of Elon the generations of Esau the duke Zepho, duke Kenaz, Dishan: these are the
Hittite, and Aholibamah father of the Edomitesb 16
Duke Korah, duke dukes of the Horites,
the daughter of Anah the in mount Seir: 10These Gatam, and duke the children of Seir in
daughter of Zibeon the are the names of Esau’s Amalek: these are the the land of Edom. 22And
Hivite; 3And Bashemath sons; Eliphaz the son of dukes that came of the children of Lotan
Ishmael’s daughter, Adah the wife of Esau, Eliphaz in the land of were Hori and Hemamd;
sister of Nebajoth. 4And Reuel the son of Edom; these were the and Lotan’s sister was
Adah bare to Esau Bashemath the wife of sons of Adah. 17And Timna. 23
And the
Eliphaz; and Bashemath these are the sons of children of Shobal were
a
bare Reuel; 5
And persons: Heb. souls
b c d
the Edomites: Heb. Edom Zepho: or, Zephi Hemam: or, Homam
these; Alvane, and there reigned any king are the names of the brought unto his father
Manahath, and Ebal, over the children of dukes that came of Esau, their evil report. 3Now
Shepho, and Onam. Israel. 32And Bela the son according to their Israel loved Joseph
24
And these are the of Beor reigned in Edom: families, after their more than all his
children of Zibeon; both and the name of his city places, by their names; children, because he
Ajah, and Anah: this was was Dinhabah. 33And duke Timnah, duke was the son of his old
that Anah that found the Bela died, and Jobab the Alvahh, duke Jetheth, age: and he made him
mules in the wilderness, son of Zerah of Bozrah 41
Duke Aholibamah, duke a coat of many coloursa.
as he fed the asses of reigned in his stead. Elah, duke Pinon, 42Duke 4
And when his brethren
Zibeon his father. 25And 34
And Jobab died, and Kenaz, duke Teman, saw that their father
the children of Anah Husham of the land of duke Mibzar, 43
Duke loved him more than all
were these; Dishon, and Temani reigned in his Magdiel, duke Iram: his brethren, they hated
Aholibamah the stead. 35And Husham these be the dukes of him, and could not
daughter of Anah. And
26
died, and Hadad the son Edom, according to their speak peaceably unto
these are the children of of Bedad, who smote habitations in the land of him.
Dishon; Hemdanf, and Midian in the field of their possession: he is 5
And Joseph
Eshban, and Ithran, and Moab, reigned in his Esau the father of the dreamed a dream, and
Cheran. 27The children stead: and the name of Edomitesi. he told it his brethren:
of Ezer are these; Bilhan, his city was Avith. 36And and they hated him yet
and Zaavan, and Akang. Hadad died, and Samlah Chapter 37 the more. 6And he said
28
The children of Dishan of Masrekah reigned in unto them, Hear, I pray
are these; Uz, and Aran. his stead. 37And Samlah And Jacob dwelt in
1
you, this dream which I
29
These are the dukes died, and Saul of the land wherein his have dreamed: 7For,
that came of the Horites; Rehoboth by the river father was a stranger, in behold, we were
duke Lotan, duke Shobal, reigned in his stead. the land of Canaan. binding sheaves in the
duke Zibeon, duke Anah, 38
And Saul died, and
2
These are the field, and, lo, my sheaf
30
Duke Dishon, duke Baalhanan the son of generations of Jacob. arose, and also stood
Ezer, duke Dishan: these Achbor reigned in his Joseph, being seventeen upright; and, behold,
are the dukes that came stead. 39And Baalhanan years old, was feeding your sheaves stood
of Hori, among their the son of Achbor died, the flock with his round about, and made
dukes in the land of Seir. and Hadar reigned in his brethren; and the lad obeisance to my sheaf.
31
And these are the stead: and the name of was with the sons of 8
And his brethren said
kings that reigned in the his city was Pau; and his Bilhah, and with the sons to him, Shalt thou
land of Edom, before wife’s name was of Zilpah, his father’s indeed reign over us? or
Mehetabel, the daughter wives: and Joseph shalt thou indeed have
e
Alvan: or, Alian of Matred, the daughter dominion over us? And
f h
Hemdan: or, Amram of Mezahab. 40And these Alvah: or, Aliah
g i a
Akan: or, Jakan the Edomites: Heb. Edom colours: or, pieces
they hated him yet the thee, seeb whether it be cast him into some pit, balm and myrrh, going
more for his dreams, and well with thy brethren, and we will say, Some to carry it down to
for his words. 9And he and well with the flocks; evil beast hath devoured Egypt. 26And Judah said
dreamed yet another and bring me word him: and we shall see unto his brethren, What
dream, and told it his again. So he sent him what will become of his profit is it if we slay our
brethren, and said, out of the vale of dreams. 21And Reuben brother, and conceal his
Behold, I have dreamed Hebron, and he came to heard it, and he blood? 27Come, and let
a dream more; and, Shechem. 15
And a delivered him out of us sell him to the
behold, the sun and the certain man found him, their hands; and said, Ishmeelites, and let not
moon and the eleven and, behold, he was Let us not kill him. 22And our hand be upon him;
stars made obeisance to wandering in the field: Reuben said unto them, for he is our brother
me. 10And he told it to and the man asked him, Shed no blood, but cast and our flesh. And his
his father, and to his saying, What seekest him into this pit that is in brethren were content.
brethren: and his father thou? 16And he said, I the wilderness, and lay 28
Then there passed by
rebuked him, and said seek my brethren: tell no hand upon him; that Midianites
unto him, What is this me, I pray thee, where he might rid him out of merchantmen; and they
dream that thou hast they feed their flocks. their hands, to deliver drew and lifted up
dreamed? Shall I and thy 17
And the man said, They him to his father again. Joseph out of the pit,
mother and thy brethren are departed hence; for I 23
And it came to pass, and sold Joseph to the
indeed come to bow heard them say, Let us when Joseph was come Ishmeelites for twenty
down ourselves to thee go to Dothan. And unto his brethren, that pieces of silver: and
to the earth? 11And his Joseph went after his they stript Joseph out of they brought Joseph
brethren envied him; but brethren, and found his coat, his coat of into Egypt. 29
And
his father observed the them in Dothan. 18And many coloursd that was Reuben returned unto
saying. when they saw him afar on him; 24And they took the pit; and, behold,
12
And his brethren off, even before he came him, and cast him into a Joseph was not in the
went to feed their near unto them, they pit: and the pit was pit; and he rent his
father’s flock in conspired against him to empty, there was no clothes. 30
And he
Shechem. 13And Israel slay him. 19And they said water in it. 25And they returned unto his
said unto Joseph, Do not one to another, Behold, sat down to eat bread: brethren, and said, The
thy brethren feed the this dreamerc cometh. and they lifted up their child is not; and I,
flock in Shechem? come, 20
Come now therefore, eyes and looked, and, whither shall I go?
and I will send thee unto and let us slay him, and behold, a company of 31
And they took
them. And he said to b
Ishmeelites came from Joseph’s coat, and killed
him, Here am I. 14And he see...: Heb. see the peace of Gilead with their camels a kid of the goats, and
said to him, Go, I pray thy brethren, etc bearing spicery and dipped the coat in the
c
dreamer: Heb. master of blood; 32And they sent
d
dreams colours: or, pieces
the coat of many 1
And it came to pass went in unto his garments off from her,
colours, and they at that time, that Judah brother’s wife, that he and covered her with a
brought it to their father; went down from his spilled it on the ground, vail, and wrapped
and said, This have we brethren, and turned in lest that he should give herself, and sat in an
found: know now to a certain Adullamite, seed to his brother. openc place, which is by
whether it be thy son’s whose name was Hirah. 10
And the thing which he the way to Timnath; for
coat or no. 33And he 2
And Judah saw there a did displeaseda the she saw that Shelah
knew it, and said, It is daughter of a certain LORD: wherefore he slew was grown, and she
my son’s coat; an evil Canaanite, whose name him also. 11
Then said was not given unto him
beast hath devoured was Shuah; and he took Judah to Tamar his to wife. 15When Judah
him; Joseph is without her, and went in unto daughter in law, Remain saw her, he thought her
doubt rent in pieces. her. 3And she conceived, a widow at thy father’s to be an harlot;
34
And Jacob rent his and bare a son; and he house, till Shelah my son because she had
clothes, and put called his name Er. 4And be grown: for he said, covered her face. And
16

sackcloth upon his loins, she conceived again, Lest peradventure he die he turned unto her by
and mourned for his son and bare a son; and she also, as his brethren did. the way, and said, Go
many days. 35And all his called his name Onan. And Tamar went and to, I pray thee, let me
sons and all his 5
And she yet again dwelt in her father’s come in unto thee; (for
daughters rose up to conceived, and bare a house. he knew not that she
comfort him; but he son; and called his name 12
And in processb of was his daughter in
refused to be comforted; Shelah: and he was at time the daughter of law.) And she said,
and he said, For I will go Chezib, when she bare Shuah Judah’s wife died; What wilt thou give me,
down into the grave unto him. 6And Judah took a and Judah was that thou mayest come
my son mourning. Thus wife for Er his firstborn, comforted, and went up in unto me? 17And he
his father wept for him. whose name was Tamar. unto his sheepshearers said, I will send thee a
36
And the Midianites sold 7
And Er, Judah’s to Timnath, he and his kidd from the flock. And
him into Egypt unto firstborn, was wicked in friend Hirah the she said, Wilt thou give
Potiphar, an officere of the sight of the LORD; Adullamite. 13
And it was me a pledge, till thou
Pharaoh’s, and captain and the LORD slew him. told Tamar, saying, send it? 18And he said,
of the guard. 8
And Judah said unto Behold thy father in law What pledge shall I give
Onan, Go in unto thy goeth up to Timnath to thee? And she said, Thy
Chapter 38 brother’s wife, and shear his sheep. 14And signet, and thy
marry her, and raise up she put her widow’s bracelets, and thy staff
e
seed to thy brother. 9And a
that is in thine hand.
officer: Heb. eunuch: but the Onan knew that the seed displeased...: Heb. was evil in
c
word doth signify not only should not be his; and it the eyes of the Lord an open...: Heb. the door of
b
eunuchs, but also chamberlains, came to pass, when he in process...: Heb. the days eyes, or, of Enajim
d
courtiers, and officers were multiplied a kid: Heb. a kid of the goats
And he gave it her, and Judah, saying, Tamar thy his brother came out: that he had he put into
came in unto her, and daughter in law hath and she said, How hast his hand. 5And it came
she conceived by him. played the harlot; and thou broken forth? this to pass from the time
19
And she arose, and also, behold, she is with breach be upon thee: that he had made him
went away, and laid by child by whoredom. And therefore his name was overseer in his house,
her vail from her, and Judah said, Bring her called Pharez. 30
And and over all that he
put on the garments of forth, and let her be afterward came out his had, that the LORD
her widowhood. 20And burnt. 25When she was brother, that had the blessed the Egyptian’s
Judah sent the kid by the brought forth, she sent scarlet thread upon his house for Joseph’s sake;
hand of his friend the to her father in law, hand: and his name was and the blessing of the
Adullamite, to receive saying, By the man, called Zarah. LORD was upon all that
his pledge from the whose these are, am I he had in the house,
woman’s hand: but he with child: and she said, Chapter 39 and in the field. 6And he
found her not. 21Then he Discern, I pray thee, left all that he had in
asked the men of that whose are these, the
1
And Joseph was Joseph’s hand; and he
place, saying, Where is signet, and bracelets, brought down to Egypt; knew not ought he had,
the harlot, that was and staff. 26And Judah and Potiphar, an officer save the bread which
openlye by the way side? acknowledged them, and of Pharaoh, captain of he did eat. And Joseph
And they said, There was said, She hath been the guard, an Egyptian, was a goodly person,
no harlot in this place. more righteous than I; bought him of the hands and well favoured.
22
And he returned to because that I gave her of the Ishmeelites, which 7
And it came to pass
Judah, and said, I cannot not to Shelah my son. had brought him down after these things, that
find her; and also the And he knew her again thither. 2And the LORD his master’s wife cast
men of the place said, no more. 27And it came was with Joseph, and he her eyes upon Joseph;
that there was no harlot to pass in the time of her was a prosperous man; and she said, Lie with
in this place. 23And Judah travail, that, behold, and he was in the house me. 8But he refused,
said, Let her take it to twins were in her womb. of his master the and said unto his
her, lest we be shamedf: 28
And it came to pass, Egyptian. 3
And his master’s wife, Behold,
behold, I sent this kid, when she travailed, that master saw that the my master wotteth not
and thou hast not found the one put out his hand: LORD was with him, and what is with me in the
her. and the midwife took that the LORD made all house, and he hath
24
And it came to pass and bound upon his that he did to prosper in committed all that he
about three months hand a scarlet thread, his hand. 4And Joseph hath to my hand;
after, that it was told saying, This came out found grace in his sight, 9
There is none greater
first. 29And it came to and he served him: and in this house than I;
e
openly: or, in Enajim pass, as he drew back he made him overseer neither hath he kept
f
be shamed: Heb. become a his hand, that, behold, over his house, and all back any thing from me
contempt
but thee, because thou 15
And it came to pass, mercy, and gave him Joseph was bound. 4And
art his wife: how then when he heard that I favour in the sight of the the captain of the guard
can I do this great lifted up my voice and keeper of the prison. charged Joseph with
wickedness, and sin cried, that he left his 22
And the keeper of the them, and he served
against God? 10And it garment with me, and prison committed to them: and they
came to pass, as she fled, and got him out. Joseph’s hand all the continued a season in
spake to Joseph day by 16
And she laid up his prisoners that were in ward.
day, that he hearkened garment by her, until his the prison; and 5
And they dreamed a
not unto her, to lie by lord came home. 17And whatsoever they did dream both of them,
her, or to be with her. she spake unto him there, he was the doer each man his dream in
11
And it came to pass according to these of it. 23The keeper of the one night, each man
about this time, that words, saying, The prison looked not to any according to the
Joseph went into the Hebrew servant, which thing that was under his interpretation of his
house to do his business; thou hast brought unto hand; because the LORD dream, the butler and
and there was none of us, came in unto me to was with him, and that the baker of the king of
the men of the house mock me: 18And it came which he did, the LORD Egypt, which were
there within. 12And she to pass, as I lifted up my made it to prosper. bound in the prison.
caught him by his voice and cried, that he 6
And Joseph came in
garment, saying, Lie with left his garment with me, Chapter 40 unto them in the
me: and he left his and fled out. morning, and looked
garment in her hand, 19
And it came to pass,
1
And it came to pass upon them, and,
and fled, and got him when his master heard after these things, that behold, they were sad.
out. the words of his wife, the butler of the king of 7
And he asked
13
And it came to pass, which she spake unto Egypt and his baker had Pharaoh’s officers that
when she saw that he him, saying, After this offended their lord the were with him in the
had left his garment in manner did thy servant king of Egypt. 2And ward of his lord’s
her hand, and was fled to me; that his wrath Pharaoh was wroth house, saying,
forth, 14That she called was kindled. 20
And against two of his Wherefore looka ye so
unto the men of her Joseph’s master took officers, against the chief sadly to day? 8And they
house, and spake unto him, and put him into of the butlers, and said unto him, We have
them, saying, See, he the prison, a place where against the chief of the dreamed a dream, and
hath brought in an the king’s prisoners bakers. 3And he put there is no interpreter
Hebrew unto us to mock were bound: and he was them in ward in the of it. And Joseph said
us; he came in unto me there in the prison. 21But house of the captain of unto them, Do not
to lie with me, and I the LORD was with the guard, into the interpretations belong
cried with a louda voice: Joseph, and shewedb him prison, the place where
a
look...: Heb. are your faces
a b
loud: Heb. great shewed...: Heb. extended kindness unto him evil?
to God? tell me them, I make mention of me from off thee. stood by the other kine
pray you. 9And the chief unto Pharaoh, and bring 20
And it came to pass upon the brink of the
butler told his dream to me out of this house: the third day, which was river. 4
And the ill
Joseph, and said to him, 15
For indeed I was stolen Pharaoh’s birthday, that favoured and
In my dream, behold, a away out of the land of he made a feast unto all leanfleshed kine did eat
vine was before me; the Hebrews: and here his servants: and he up the seven well
10
And in the vine were also have I done nothing lifted up the head of the favoured and fat kine.
three branches: and it that they should put me chief butler and of the So Pharaoh awoke. 5And
was as though it budded, into the dungeon. chief baker among his he slept and dreamed
and her blossoms shot 16
When the chief baker servants. 21
And he the second time: and,
forth; and the clusters saw that the restored the chief butler behold, seven ears of
thereof brought forth interpretation was good, unto his butlership corn came up upon one
ripe grapes: 11
And he said unto Joseph, I again; and he gave the stalk, ranka and good.
Pharaoh’s cup was in my also was in my dream, cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 6
And, behold, seven
hand: and I took the and, behold, I had three 22
But he hanged the thin ears and blasted
grapes, and pressed whitec baskets on my chief baker: as Joseph with the east wind
them into Pharaoh’s cup, head: 17
And in the had interpreted to them. sprung up after them.
and I gave the cup into uppermost basket there 23
Yet did not the chief 7
And the seven thin
Pharaoh’s hand. 12And was of all manner of butler remember Joseph, ears devoured the
Joseph said unto him, bakemeatsd for Pharaoh; but forgat him. seven rank and full
This is the interpretation and the birds did eat ears. And Pharaoh
of it: The three branches them out of the basket Chapter 41 awoke, and, behold, it
are three days: 13Yet upon my head. 18
And was a dream. 8And it
within three days shall Joseph answered and
1
And it came to pass came to pass in the
Pharaoh lift up thine said, This is the at the end of two full morning that his spirit
head, and restore thee interpretation thereof: years, that Pharaoh was troubled; and he
unto thy place: and thou The three baskets are dreamed: and, behold, sent and called for all
shalt deliver Pharaoh’s three days: 19Yet within he stood by the river. the magicians of Egypt,
cup into his hand, after three days shall Pharaoh
2
And, behold, there came and all the wise men
the former manner when lift up thy head from off up out of the river seven thereof: and Pharaoh
thou wast his butler. thee, and shall hang well favoured kine and told them his dream;
14
But thinkb on me when thee on a tree; and the fatfleshed; and they fed but there was none that
it shall be well with thee, birds shall eat thy flesh in a meadow. 3And, could interpret them
and shew kindness, I behold, seven other kine unto Pharaoh.
c
pray thee, unto me, and white: or, full of holes came up after them out 9
Then spake the
d
bakemeats...: Heb. meat of of the river, ill favoured chief butler unto
b
think...: Heb. remember me Pharaoh, the work of a baker, and leanfleshed; and
a
with thee or, cook rank: Heb. fat
Pharaoh, saying, I do it: and I have heard say came up in one stalk, full all the land of Egypt:
remember my faults this of thee, that thou canst and good: 23And, behold, 30
And there shall arise
day: 10
Pharaoh was understand a dream to seven ears, witheredb, after them seven years
wroth with his servants, interpret it. 16And Joseph thin, and blasted with of famine; and all the
and put me in ward in answered Pharaoh, the east wind, sprung up plenty shall be
the captain of the saying, It is not in me: after them: 24
And the forgotten in the land of
guard’s house, both me God shall give Pharaoh thin ears devoured the Egypt; and the famine
and the chief baker: an answer of peace. seven good ears: and I shall consume the land;
11
And we dreamed a 17
And Pharaoh said told this unto the 31
And the plenty shall
dream in one night, I and unto Joseph, In my magicians; but there not be known in the
he; we dreamed each dream, behold, I stood was none that could land by reason of that
man according to the upon the bank of the declare it to me. 25And famine following; for it
interpretation of his river: 18
And, behold, Joseph said unto shall be very grievousc.
dream. And there was
12
there came up out of the Pharaoh, The dream of 32
And for that the
there with us a young river seven kine, Pharaoh is one: God hath dream was doubled
man, an Hebrew, servant fatfleshed and well shewed Pharaoh what he unto Pharaoh twice; it
to the captain of the favoured; and they fed in is about to do. 26The is because the thing is
guard; and we told him, a meadow: 19
And, seven good kine are establishedd by God,
and he interpreted to us behold, seven other kine seven years; and the and God will shortly
our dreams; to each man came up after them, seven good ears are bring it to pass.
according to his dream poor and very ill seven years: the dream 33
Now therefore let
he did interpret. 13And it favoured and is one. 27And the seven Pharaoh look out a man
came to pass, as he leanfleshed, such as I thin and ill favoured kine discreet and wise, and
interpreted to us, so it never saw in all the land that came up after them set him over the land of
was; me he restored of Egypt for badness: are seven years; and the Egypt. 34Let Pharaoh do
unto mine office, and 20
And the lean and the ill seven empty ears this, and let him
him he hanged. 14Then favoured kine did eat up blasted with the east appoint officerse over
Pharaoh sent and called the first seven fat kine: wind shall be seven the land, and take up
Joseph, and they brought 21
And when they had years of famine. 28This is the fifth part of the land
him hastily out of the eaten them up, it could the thing which I have of Egypt in the seven
dungeon: and he shaved not be known that they spoken unto Pharaoh: plenteous years. 35And
himself, and changed his had eaten them; but What God is about to do let them gather all the
raiment, and came in they were still ill he sheweth unto food of those good
unto Pharaoh. 15
And favoured, as at the Pharaoh. Behold, there
29
c
Pharaoh said unto beginning. So I awoke. come seven years of grievous: Heb. heavy
d
Joseph, I have dreamed 22
And I saw in my dream, great plenty throughout established...: or, prepared of
a dream, and there is and, behold, seven ears God
b e
none that can interpret withered: or, small officers: or, overseers
years that come, and lay Egypt. 42And Pharaoh presence of Pharaoh, God hath caused me to
up corn under the hand took off his ring from his and went throughout all be fruitful in the land of
of Pharaoh, and let them hand, and put it upon the land of Egypt. 47And my affliction. 53And the
keep food in the cities. Joseph’s hand, and in the seven plenteous seven years of
36
And that food shall be arrayed him in vestures years the earth brought plenteousness, that was
for store to the land of fine linen, and put a forth by handfuls. 48And in the land of Egypt,
against the seven years gold chain about his he gathered up all the were ended. 54And the
of famine, which shall be neck; 43
And he made food of the seven years, seven years of dearth
in the land of Egypt; that him to ride in the second which were in the land of began to come,
the land perishf not chariot which he had; Egypt, and laid up the according as Joseph had
through the famine. and they cried before food in the cities: the said: and the dearth
37
And the thing was good him, Bow the knee: and food of the field, which was in all lands; but in
in the eyes of Pharaoh, he made him ruler over was round about every all the land of Egypt
and in the eyes of all his all the land of Egypt. city, laid he up in the there was bread. 55And
servants. 38And Pharaoh 44
And Pharaoh said unto same. 49
And Joseph when all the land of
said unto his servants, Joseph, I am Pharaoh, gathered corn as the Egypt was famished,
Can we find such a one and without thee shall no sand of the sea, very the people cried to
as this is, a man in man lift up his hand or much, until he left Pharaoh for bread: and
whom the Spirit of God foot in all the land of numbering; for it was Pharaoh said unto all
is? 39And Pharaoh said Egypt. 45And Pharaoh without number. 50And the Egyptians, Go unto
unto Joseph, Forasmuch called Joseph’s name unto Joseph were born Joseph; what he saith to
as God hath shewed Zaphnathpaaneahh; and two sons before the you, do. 56And the
thee all this, there is he gave him to wife years of famine came, famine was over all the
none so discreet and Asenath the daughter of which Asenath the face of the earth: And
wise as thou art: 40Thou Potipherah priest of On. daughter of Potipherah Joseph opened all the
shalt be over my house, And Joseph went out priesti of On bare unto storehouses, and soldl
and according unto thy over all the land of him. 51And Joseph called unto the Egyptians; and
word shall all my people Egypt. the name of the firstborn the famine waxed sore
be ruledg: only in the 46
And Joseph was Manassehj: For God, said in the land of Egypt.
throne will I be greater thirty years old when he he, hath made me forget 57
And all countries
than thou. 41
And stood before Pharaoh all my toil, and all my came into Egypt to
Pharaoh said unto king of Egypt. And father’s house. 52
And Joseph for to buy corn;
Joseph, See, I have set Joseph went out from the the name of the second because that the
thee over all the land of h
called he Ephraimk: For famine was so sore in
Zaphnathpaaneah: which in all lands.
f i
perish...: Heb. be not cut off the Coptic signifies, A revealer priest: or, prince
g j l
be ruled: Heb. be armed, or, of secrets, or, The man to Manasseh: that is, Forgetting all the storehouses: Heb. all
k
kiss whom secrets are revealed Ephraim: that is, Fruitful wherein was
Chapter 42 them, but made himself That is it that I spake when he besought us,
strange unto them, and unto you, saying, Ye are and we would not hear;
1
Now when Jacob saw spake roughlya unto spies: 15Hereby ye shall therefore is this distress
that there was corn in them; and he said unto be proved: By the life of come upon us. 22And
Egypt, Jacob said unto them, Whence come ye? Pharaoh ye shall not go Reuben answered
his sons, Why do ye look And they said, From the forth hence, except your them, saying, Spake I
one upon another? 2And land of Canaan to buy youngest brother come not unto you, saying,
he said, Behold, I have food. 8And Joseph knew hither. 16Send one of Do not sin against the
heard that there is corn his brethren, but they you, and let him fetch child; and ye would not
in Egypt: get you down knew not him. 9And your brother, and ye hear? therefore, behold,
thither, and buy for us Joseph remembered the shall be kept in prison, also his blood is
from thence; that we dreams which he that your words may be required. 23
And they
may live, and not die. dreamed of them, and proved, whether there knew not that Joseph
3
And Joseph’s ten said unto them, Ye are be any truth in you: or understood them; for
brethren went down to spies; to see the else by the life of he spake unto them by
buy corn in Egypt. 4But nakedness of the land ye Pharaoh surely ye are an interpreter. 24And he
Benjamin, Joseph’s are come. 10And they spies. 17And he put them turned himself about
brother, Jacob sent not said unto him, Nay, my all together into ward from them, and wept;
with his brethren; for he lord, but to buy food are three days. 18And Joseph and returned to them
said, Lest peradventure thy servants come. 11We said unto them the third again, and communed
mischief befall him. 5And are all one man’s sons; day, This do, and live; with them, and took
the sons of Israel came we are true men, thy for I fear God: 19If ye be from them Simeon, and
to buy corn among those servants are no spies. true men, let one of your bound him before their
that came: for the 12
And he said unto them, brethren be bound in the eyes. 25
Then Joseph
famine was in the land of Nay, but to see the house of your prison: go commanded to fill their
Canaan. 6And Joseph nakedness of the land ye ye, carry corn for the sacks with corn, and to
was the governor over are come. 13And they famine of your houses: restore every man’s
the land, and he it was said, Thy servants are 20
But bring your money into his sack,
that sold to all the twelve brethren, the youngest brother unto and to give them
people of the land: and sons of one man in the me; so shall your words provision for the way:
Joseph’s brethren came, land of Canaan; and, be verified, and ye shall and thus did he unto
and bowed down behold, the youngest is not die. And they did so. them. 26And they laded
themselves before him this day with our father, 21
And they said one to their asses with the
with their faces to the and one is not. 14And another, We are verily corn, and departed
earth. Joseph said unto them, guilty concerning our thence. 27And as one of
7
And Joseph saw his a
brother, in that we saw them opened his sack
roughly...: Heb. hard things the anguish of his soul, to give his ass
brethren, and he knew
with them
provender in the inn, he one of your brethren alone: if mischief befall said, The man askeda us
espied his money; for, here with me, and take him by the way in the straitly of our state, and
behold, it was in his food for the famine of which ye go, then shall of our kindred, saying,
sack’s mouth. 28And he your households, and be ye bring down my gray Is your father yet alive?
said unto his brethren, gone: 34And bring your hairs with sorrow to the have ye another
My money is restored; youngest brother unto grave. brother? and we told
and, lo, it is even in my me: then shall I know him according to the
sack: and their heart that ye are no spies, but Chapter 43 tenor of these words:
failedb them, and they that ye are true men: so could we certainly know
were afraid, saying one will I deliver you your
1
And the famine was that he would say,
to another, What is this brother, and ye shall sore in the land. 2And it Bring your brother
that God hath done unto traffick in the land. 35And came to pass, when they down? 8
And Judah
us? it came to pass as they had eaten up the corn said unto Israel his
29
And they came unto emptied their sacks, which they had brought father, Send the lad
Jacob their father unto that, behold, every out of Egypt, their father with me, and we will
the land of Canaan, and man’s bundle of money said unto them, Go arise and go; that we
told him all that befell was in his sack: and again, buy us a little may live, and not die,
unto them; saying, 30The when both they and their food. 3And Judah spake both we, and thou, and
man, who is the lord of father saw the bundles unto him, saying, The also our little ones. 9I
the land, spake roughlyc of money, they were man did solemnly will be surety for him;
to us, and took us for afraid. 36And Jacob their protest unto us, saying, of my hand shalt thou
spies of the country. father said unto them, Ye shall not see my face, require him: if I bring
31
And we said unto him, Me have ye bereaved of except your brother be him not unto thee, and
We are true men; we are my children: Joseph is with you. 4If thou wilt set him before thee,
no spies: 32We be twelve not, and Simeon is not, send our brother with us, then let me bear the
brethren, sons of our and ye will take we will go down and buy blame for ever: 10For
father; one is not, and Benjamin away: all these thee food: 5But if thou except we had lingered,
the youngest is this day things are against me. wilt not send him, we will surely now we had
with our father in the 37
And Reuben spake unto not go down: for the man returned this second
land of Canaan. 33And his father, saying, Slay said unto us, Ye shall not time.
the man, the lord of the my two sons, if I bring see my face, except your 11
And their father
country, said unto us, him not to thee: deliver brother be with you. Israel said unto them, If
Hereby shall I know that him into my hand, and I
6
And Israel said, it must be so now, do
ye are true men; leave will bring him to thee Wherefore dealt ye so ill this; take of the best
again. 38And he said, My with me, as to tell the fruits in the land in your
b
failed...: Heb. went forth son shall not go down man whether ye had yet
c a
roughly...: Heb. with us hard with you; for his brother a brother? 7And they asked...: Heb. asking asked
things is dead, and he is left us
vessels, and carry down home, and slayc, and other money have we man of whom ye spake?
the man a present, a make ready; for these brought down in our Is he yet alive? 28And
little balm, and a little men shall dine with me hands to buy food: we they answered, Thy
honey, spices, and at noon. 17And the man cannot tell who put our servant our father is in
myrrh, nuts, and did as Joseph bade; and money in our sacks. good health, he is yet
almonds: 12
And take the man brought the 23
And he said, Peace be alive. And they bowed
double money in your men into Joseph’s house. to you, fear not: your down their heads, and
hand; and the money 18
And the men were God, and the God of your made obeisance. 29And
that was brought again afraid, because they father, hath given you he lifted up his eyes,
in the mouth of your were brought into treasure in your sacks: I and saw his brother
sacks, carry it again in Joseph’s house; and they hadd your money. And he Benjamin, his mother’s
your hand; peradventure said, Because of the brought Simeon out unto son, and said, Is this
it was an oversight: money that was returned them. 24
And the man your younger brother,
13
Take also your brother, in our sacks at the first brought the men into of whom ye spake unto
and arise, go again unto time are we brought in; Joseph’s house, and me? And he said, God
the man: 14And God that he may seek gave them water, and be gracious unto thee,
Almighty give you mercy occasion against us, and they washed their feet; my son. 30And Joseph
before the man, that he fall upon us, and take us and he gave their asses made haste; for his
may send away your for bondmen, and our provender. 25And they bowels did yearn upon
other brother, and asses. 19And they came made ready the present his brother: and he
Benjamin. Ifb I be near to the steward of against Joseph came at sought where to weep;
bereaved of my children, Joseph’s house, and they noon: for they heard that and he entered into his
I am bereaved. communed with him at they should eat bread chamber, and wept
15
And the men took the door of the house, there. there. And he washed
31

that present, and they 20


And said, O sir, we 26
And when Joseph his face, and went out,
took double money in came indeed down at came home, they and refrained himself,
their hand, and the first time to buy brought him the present and said, Set on bread.
Benjamin; and rose up, food: 21And it came to which was in their hand 32
And they set on for
and went down to Egypt, pass, when we came to into the house, and him by himself, and for
and stood before Joseph. the inn, that we opened bowed themselves to them by themselves,
16
And when Joseph saw our sacks, and, behold, him to the earth. 27And and for the Egyptians,
Benjamin with them, he every man’s money was he asked them of their which did eat with him,
said to the ruler of his in the mouth of his sack, welfaree, and said, Is by themselves: because
house, Bring these men our money in full weight: your father well, the old the Egyptians might not
and we have brought it d
eat bread with the
again in our hand. 22And I had...: Heb. your money Hebrews; for that is an
b
If...: or, And I, as I have been, came to me abomination unto the
c e
etc slay: Heb. kill a killing welfare: Heb. peace
Egyptians. 33And they sat not yet far off, Joseph is found shall be my found. 17And he said,
before him, the firstborn said unto his steward, servant; and ye shall be God forbid that I should
according to his Up, follow after the men; blameless. 11Then they do so: but the man in
birthright, and the and when thou dost speedily took down whose hand the cup is
youngest according to overtake them, say unto every man his sack to found, he shall be my
his youth: and the men them, Wherefore have the ground, and opened servant; and as for you,
marvelled one at ye rewarded evil for every man his sack. get you up in peace
another. 34
And he took good? 5Is not this it in 12
And he searched, and unto your father.
and sent messes unto which my lord drinketh, began at the eldest, and 18
Then Judah came
them from before him: and whereby indeed he left at the youngest: and near unto him, and
but Benjamin’s mess was divinetha? ye have done the cup was found in said, Oh my lord, let thy
five times so much as evil in so doing. 6And he Benjamin’s sack. 13Then servant, I pray thee,
any of theirs. And they overtook them, and he they rent their clothes, speak a word in my
drank, and were merry spake unto them these and laded every man his lord’s ears, and let not
with him. same words. 7And they ass, and returned to the thine anger burn
said unto him, Wherefore city. 14And Judah and his against thy servant: for
Chapter 44 saith my lord these brethren came to thou art even as
words? God forbid that Joseph’s house; for he Pharaoh. 19
My lord
1
And he commanded thy servants should do was yet there: and they asked his servants,
the steward of his house, according to this thing: fell before him on the saying, Have ye a
saying, Fill the men’s 8
Behold, the money, ground. 15And Joseph father, or a brother?
sacks with food, as much which we found in our said unto them, What 20
And we said unto my
as they can carry, and sacks’ mouths, we deed is this that ye have lord, We have a father,
put every man’s money brought again unto thee done? wot ye not that an old man, and a child
in his sack’s mouth. out of the land of such a man as I can of his old age, a little
2
And put my cup, the Canaan: how then should certainly divineb? 16And one; and his brother is
silver cup, in the sack’s we steal out of thy lord’s Judah said, What shall dead, and he alone is
mouth of the youngest, house silver or gold? we say unto my lord? left of his mother, and
and his corn money. And 9
With whomsoever of thy what shall we speak? or his father loveth him.
he did according to the servants it be found, how shall we clear 21
And thou saidst unto
word that Joseph had both let him die, and we ourselves? God hath thy servants, Bring him
spoken. 3As soon as the also will be my lord’s found out the iniquity of down unto me, that I
morning was light, the bondmen. 10And he said, thy servants: behold, we may set mine eyes
men were sent away, Now also let it be are my lord’s servants, upon him. 22And we said
they and their asses. according unto your both we, and he also unto my lord, The lad
4
And when they were words: he with whom it with whom the cup is cannot leave his father:
gone out of the city, and for if he should leave
a b
divineth: or, maketh trial? divine: or, make trial?
his father, his father life; 31It shall come to there stood no man with preservec you a
would die. 23And thou pass, when he seeth that him, while Joseph made posterity in the earth,
saidst unto thy servants, the lad is not with us, himself known unto his and to save your lives
Except your youngest that he will die: and thy brethren. 2And he wepta by a great deliverance.
brother come down with servants shall bring aloud: and the Egyptians 8
So now it was not you
you, ye shall see my face down the gray hairs of and the house of that sent me hither, but
no more. 24And it came thy servant our father Pharaoh heard. 3
And God: and he hath made
to pass when we came with sorrow to the grave. Joseph said unto his me a father to Pharaoh,
up unto thy servant my 32
For thy servant became brethren, I am Joseph; and lord of all his
father, we told him the surety for the lad unto doth my father yet live? house, and a ruler
words of my lord. 25And my father, saying, If I And his brethren could throughout all the land
our father said, Go bring him not unto thee, not answer him; for they of Egypt. 9Haste ye, and
again, and buy us a little then I shall bear the were troubledb at his go up to my father, and
food. 26And we said, We blame to my father for presence. 4And Joseph say unto him, Thus
cannot go down: if our ever. 33Now therefore, I said unto his brethren, saith thy son Joseph,
youngest brother be with pray thee, let thy Come near to me, I pray God hath made me lord
us, then will we go down: servant abide instead of you. And they came of all Egypt: come down
for we may not see the the lad a bondman to my near. And he said, I am unto me, tarry not:
man’s face, except our lord; and let the lad go Joseph your brother, 10
And thou shalt dwell in
youngest brother be with up with his brethren. whom ye sold into Egypt. the land of Goshen, and
us. 27And thy servant my 34
For how shall I go up to 5
Now therefore be not thou shalt be near unto
father said unto us, Ye my father, and the lad grieved, nor angry with me, thou, and thy
know that my wife bare be not with me? lest yourselves, that ye sold children, and thy
me two sons: 28And the peradventure I see the me hither: for God did children’s children, and
one went out from me, evil that shall come on send me before you to thy flocks, and thy
and I said, Surely he is my father. preserve life. 6For these herds, and all that thou
torn in pieces; and I saw two years hath the hast: 11And there will I
him not since: 29And if ye famine been in the land: nourish thee; for yet
take this also from me, and yet there are five there are five years of
and mischief befall him, Chapter 45 years, in the which there famine; lest thou, and
ye shall bring down my shall neither be earing thy household, and all
gray hairs with sorrow to
1
Then Joseph could nor harvest. 7And God that thou hast, come to
the grave. 30
Now not refrain himself sent me before you to poverty. 12And, behold,
therefore when I come to before all them that your eyes see, and the
thy servant my father, stood by him; and he eyes of my brother
a
and the lad be not with cried, Cause every man wept...: Heb. gave forth his
c
us; seeing that his life is to go out from me. And voice in weeping to preserve...: Heb. to put for
b
bound up in the lad’s troubled: or, terrified you a remnant
Benjamin, that it is my land. 19Now thou art unto them, See that ye 3
And he said, I am God,
mouth that speaketh commanded, this do ye; fall not out by the way. the God of thy father:
unto you. 13And ye shall take you wagons out of 25
And they went up fear not to go down into
tell my father of all my the land of Egypt for out of Egypt, and came Egypt; for I will there
glory in Egypt, and of all your little ones, and for into the land of Canaan make of thee a great
that ye have seen; and your wives, and bring unto Jacob their father, nation: 4I will go down
ye shall haste and bring your father, and come. 26
And told him, saying, with thee into Egypt;
down my father hither. 20
Also regarde not your Joseph is yet alive, and and I will also surely
14
And he fell upon his stuff; for the good of all he is governor over all bring thee up again:
brother Benjamin’s neck, the land of Egypt is the land of Egypt. And and Joseph shall put his
and wept; and Benjamin yours. 21And the children Jacob’s heart fainted, for hand upon thine eyes.
wept upon his neck. of Israel did so: and he believed them not. 5
And Jacob rose up
15
Moreover he kissed all Joseph gave them 27
And they told him all from Beersheba: and
his brethren, and wept wagons, according to the the words of Joseph, the sons of Israel
upon them: and after commandmentf of which he had said unto carried Jacob their
that his brethren talked Pharaoh, and gave them them: and when he saw father, and their little
with him. provision for the way. the wagons which Joseph ones, and their wives,
16
And the fame 22
To all of them he gave had sent to carry him, in the wagons which
thereof was heard in each man changes of the spirit of Jacob their Pharaoh had sent to
Pharaoh’s house, saying, raiment; but to Benjamin father revived: 28And carry him. 6And they
Joseph’s brethren are he gave three hundred Israel said, It is enough; took their cattle, and
come: and it pleasedd pieces of silver, and five Joseph my son is yet their goods, which they
Pharaoh well, and his changes of raiment. alive: I will go and see had gotten in the land
servants. 17And Pharaoh 23
And to his father he him before I die. of Canaan, and came
said unto Joseph, Say sent after this manner; into Egypt, Jacob, and
unto thy brethren, This ten asses ladeng with the Chapter 46 all his seed with him:
do ye; lade your beasts, good things of Egypt, 7
His sons, and his sons’
and go, get you unto the and ten she asses laden
1
And Israel took his sons with him, his
land of Canaan; 18And with corn and bread and journey with all that he daughters, and his
take your father and meat for his father by had, and came to sons’ daughters, and all
your households, and the way. 24So he sent his Beersheba, and offered his seed brought he
come unto me: and I will brethren away, and they sacrifices unto the God with him into Egypt.
give you the good of the departed: and he said of his father Isaac. 2And 8
And these are the
land of Egypt, and ye God spake unto Israel in names of the children
e
shall eat the fat of the regard...: Heb. let not your eye the visions of the night, of Israel, which came
spare, etc and said, Jacob, Jacob. into Egypt, Jacob and
d f
pleased...: Heb. was good in commandment: Heb. mouth And he said, Here am I. his sons: Reuben,
g
the eyes of Pharaoh laden...: Heb. carrying
Jacob’s firstborn. 9And and Haggi, Shuni, and Naphtali; Jahzeel, and have seen thy face,
the sons of Reuben; Ezbon, Eri, and Arodi, Guni, and Jezer, and because thou art yet
Hanoch, and Phallu, and and Areli. 17
And the Shillem. 25These are the alive. 31And Joseph said
Hezron, and Carmi. 10And sons of Asher; Jimnah, sons of Bilhah, which unto his brethren, and
the sons of Simeon; and Ishuah, and Isui, and Laban gave unto Rachel unto his father’s house,
Jemuela, and Jamin, and Beriah, and Serah their his daughter, and she I will go up, and shew
Ohad, and Jachin, and sister: and the sons of bare these unto Jacob: Pharaoh, and say unto
Zohar, and Shaul the son Beriah; Heber, and all the souls were seven. him, My brethren, and
of a Canaanitish woman. Malchiel. 18These are the 26
All the souls that came my father’s house,
11
And the sons of Levi; sons of Zilpah, whom with Jacob into Egypt, which were in the land
Gershonb, Kohath, and Laban gave to Leah his which came out of his of Canaan, are come
Merari. 12And the sons of daughter, and these she loinsh, besides Jacob’s unto me; 32And the men
Judah; Er, and Onan, and bare unto Jacob, even sons’ wives, all the souls are shepherds, for their
Shelah, and Pharez, and sixteen souls. 19The sons were threescore and six; trade hath been to feed
Zerah: but Er and Onan of Rachel Jacob’s wife; 27
And the sons of Joseph, cattle; and they have
died in the land of Joseph, and Benjamin. which were born him in brought their flocks,
Canaan. And the sons of 20
And unto Joseph in the Egypt, were two souls: and their herds, and all
Pharez were Hezron and land of Egypt were born all the souls of the house that they have. 33And it
Hamul. 13And the sons of Manasseh and Ephraim, of Jacob, which came shall come to pass,
Issachar; Tola, and which Asenath the into Egypt, were when Pharaoh shall call
Phuvah, and Jobc, and daughter of Potipherah threescore and ten. you, and shall say,
Shimron. 14And the sons prieste of On bare unto 28
And he sent Judah What is your
of Zebulun; Sered, and him. 21And the sons of before him unto Joseph, occupation? 34That ye
Elon, and Jahleel. 15These Benjamin were Belah, to direct his face unto shall say, Thy servants’
be the sons of Leah, and Becher, and Ashbel, Goshen; and they came trade hath been about
which she bare unto Gera, and Naaman, Ehif, into the land of Goshen. cattle from our youth
Jacob in Padanaram, with and Rosh, Muppim, and 29
And Joseph made ready even until now, both
his daughter Dinah: all Huppim, and Ard. his chariot, and went up we, and also our
the souls of his sons and 22
These are the sons of to meet Israel his father, fathers: that ye may
his daughters were thirty Rachel, which were born to Goshen, and dwell in the land of
and three. 16And the to Jacob: all the souls presented himself unto Goshen; for every
sons of Gad; Ziphiond, were fourteen. 23And the him; and he fell on his shepherd is an
a
sons of Dan; Hushimg. neck, and wept on his abomination unto the
Jemuel: or, Nemuel 24
And the sons of neck a good while. 30And Egyptians.
b
Gershon: or, Gershom Israel said unto Joseph,
c e
Phuvah, and Job: or, Puah, priest: or, prince Now let me die, since I
f
and Jashub Ehi: or, Ahiram
d g h
Ziphion: or, Zephon Hushim: or, Shuham loins: Heb. thigh
Chapter 47 The land of Egypt is in the land of Egypt, in the money faileth. 16And
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before thee; in the best the best of the land, in Joseph said, Give your
1
Then Joseph came of the land make thy the land of Rameses, as cattle; and I will give
and told Pharaoh, and father and brethren to Pharaoh had you for your cattle, if
said, My father and my dwell; in the land of commanded. 12
And money fail. 17And they
brethren, and their Goshen let them dwell: Joseph nourished his brought their cattle
flocks, and their herds, and if thou knowest any father, and his brethren, unto Joseph: and Joseph
and all that they have, men of activity among and all his father’s gave them bread in
are come out of the land them, then make them household, with bread, exchange for horses,
of Canaan; and, behold, rulers over my cattle. accordingb to their and for the flocks, and
they are in the land of 7
And Joseph brought in families. for the cattle of the
Goshen. 2And he took Jacob his father, and set 13
And there was no herds, and for the
some of his brethren, him before Pharaoh: and bread in all the land; for asses: and he fedc them
even five men, and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. the famine was very with bread for all their
presented them unto 8
And Pharaoh said unto sore, so that the land of cattle for that year.
Pharaoh. 3And Pharaoh Jacob, Howa old art thou? Egypt and all the land of 18
When that year was
said unto his brethren, 9
And Jacob said unto Canaan fainted by ended, they came unto
What is your occupation? Pharaoh, The days of the reason of the famine. him the second year,
And they said unto years of my pilgrimage 14
And Joseph gathered and said unto him, We
Pharaoh, Thy servants are an hundred and up all the money that will not hide it from my
are shepherds, both we, thirty years: few and evil was found in the land of lord, how that our
and also our fathers. have the days of the Egypt, and in the land of money is spent; my lord
4
They said moreover years of my life been, Canaan, for the corn also hath our herds of
unto Pharaoh, For to and have not attained which they bought: and cattle; there is not
sojourn in the land are unto the days of the Joseph brought the ought left in the sight of
we come; for thy years of the life of my money into Pharaoh’s my lord, but our bodies,
servants have no fathers in the days of house. 15
And when and our lands:
pasture for their flocks; their pilgrimage. 10And money failed in the land 19
Wherefore shall we
for the famine is sore in Jacob blessed Pharaoh, of Egypt, and in the land die before thine eyes,
the land of Canaan: now and went out from of Canaan, all the both we and our land?
therefore, we pray thee, before Pharaoh. 11And Egyptians came unto buy us and our land for
let thy servants dwell in Joseph placed his father Joseph, and said, Give us bread, and we and our
the land of Goshen. 5And and his brethren, and bread: for why should we land will be servants
Pharaoh spake unto gave them a possession die in thy presence? for unto Pharaoh: and give
Joseph, saying, Thy a b
us seed, that we may
father and thy brethren How...: Heb. How many are according...: or, as a little live, and not die, that
the days of the years of thy child is nourished: Heb.
are come unto thee: c
life? according to the little ones fed...: Heb. led them
the land be not desolate. and for them of your me not, I pray thee, in will give this land to thy
20
And Joseph bought all households, and for food Egypt: 30But I will lie with seed after thee for an
the land of Egypt for for your little ones. 25And my fathers, and thou everlasting possession.
Pharaoh; for the they said, Thou hast shalt carry me out of 5
And now thy two sons,
Egyptians sold every saved our lives: let us Egypt, and bury me in Ephraim and Manasseh,
man his field, because find grace in the sight of their buryingplace. And which were born unto
the famine prevailed my lord, and we will be he said, I will do as thou thee in the land of
over them: so the land Pharaoh’s servants. hast said. 31And he said, Egypt before I came
became Pharaoh’s. 21And 26
And Joseph made it a Swear unto me. And he unto thee into Egypt,
as for the people, he law over the land of sware unto him. And are mine; as Reuben
removed them to cities Egypt unto this day, that Israel bowed himself and Simeon, they shall
from one end of the Pharaoh should have the upon the bed’s head. be mine. 6And thy issue,
borders of Egypt even to fifth part; except the which thou begettest
the other end thereof. land of the priestse only, Chapter 48 after them, shall be
22
Only the land of the which became not thine, and shall be
priestsd bought he not; Pharaoh’s.
1
And it came to pass called after the name of
for the priests had a 27
And Israel dwelt in after these things, that their brethren in their
portion assigned them of the land of Egypt, in the one told Joseph, Behold, inheritance. 7And as for
Pharaoh, and did eat country of Goshen; and thy father is sick: and he me, when I came from
their portion which they had possessions took with him his two Padan, Rachel died by
Pharaoh gave them: therein, and grew, and sons, Manasseh and me in the land of
wherefore they sold not multiplied exceedingly. Ephraim. And one told
2
Canaan in the way,
their lands. 23
Then 28
And Jacob lived in the Jacob, and said, Behold, when yet there was but
Joseph said unto the land of Egypt seventeen thy son Joseph cometh a little way to come
people, Behold, I have years: so the whole age unto thee: and Israel unto Ephrath: and I
bought you this day and of Jacob was an hundred strengthened himself, buried her there in the
your land for Pharaoh: lo, forty and seven years. and sat upon the bed. way of Ephrath; the
here is seed for you, and 29
And the time drew nigh
3
And Jacob said unto same is Bethlehem.
ye shall sow the land. that Israel must die: and Joseph, God Almighty 8
And Israel beheld
24
And it shall come to he called his son Joseph, appeared unto me at Luz Joseph’s sons, and said,
pass in the increase, that and said unto him, If now in the land of Canaan, Who are these? 9And
ye shall give the fifth I have found grace in thy and blessed me, 4And Joseph said unto his
part unto Pharaoh, and sight, put, I pray thee, said unto me, Behold, I father, They are my
four parts shall be your thy hand under my will make thee fruitful, sons, whom God hath
own, for seed of the thigh, and deal kindly and multiply thee, and I given me in this place.
field, and for your food, and truly with me; bury will make of thee a And he said, Bring
multitude of people; and them, I pray thee, unto
d e
priests: or, princes priests: or, princes
me, and I will bless my fathers Abraham and greater than he, and his my firstborn, my might,
them. 10Now the eyes of Isaac did walk, the God seed shall become a and the beginning of
Israel were dima for age, which fed me all my life multituded of nations. my strength, the
so that he could not see. long unto this day, 16The 20
And he blessed them excellency of dignity,
And he brought them Angel which redeemed that day, saying, In thee and the excellency of
near unto him; and he me from all evil, bless shall Israel bless, saying, power: 4Unstable as
kissed them, and the lads; and let my God make thee as water, thou shalt not
embraced them. 11
And name be named on Ephraim and as excel; because thou
Israel said unto Joseph, I them, and the name of Manasseh: and he set wentest up to thy
had not thought to see my fathers Abraham and Ephraim before father’s bed; then
thy face: and, lo, God Isaac; and let them Manasseh. 21And Israel defiledst thou it: he
hath shewed me also thy growb into a multitude in said unto Joseph, Behold, went up to my couch.
seed. 12
And Joseph the midst of the earth. I die: but God shall be 5
Simeon and Levi
brought them out from 17
And when Joseph saw with you, and bring you are brethren;
between his knees, and that his father laid his again unto the land of instrumentsa of cruelty
he bowed himself with right hand upon the your fathers. 22Moreover are in their habitations.
his face to the earth. head of Ephraim, it I have given to thee one 6
O my soul, come not
13
And Joseph took them displeasedc him: and he portion above thy thou into their secret;
both, Ephraim in his right held up his father’s brethren, which I took unto their assembly,
hand toward Israel’s left hand, to remove it from out of the hand of the mine honour, be not
hand, and Manasseh in Ephraim’s head unto Amorite with my sword thou united: for in their
his left hand toward Manasseh’s head. 18And and with my bow. anger they slew a man,
Israel’s right hand, and Joseph said unto his and in their selfwill they
brought them near unto father, Not so, my father: Chapter 49 digged down a wall.
him. 14
And Israel for this is the firstborn; 7
Cursed be their anger,
stretched out his right put thy right hand upon And Jacob called unto
1
for it was fierce; and
hand, and laid it upon his head. 19And his father his sons, and said, their wrath, for it was
Ephraim’s head, who refused, and said, I know Gather yourselves cruel: I will divide them
was the younger, and his it, my son, I know it: he together, that I may tell in Jacob, and scatter
left hand upon also shall become a you that which shall them in Israel.
Manasseh’s head, people, and he also shall befall you in the last 8
Judah, thou art he
guiding his hands be great: but truly his days. 2Gather yourselves whom thy brethren
wittingly; for Manasseh younger brother shall be together, and hear, ye shall praise: thy hand
was the firstborn. 15And sons of Jacob; and shall be in the neck of
b
he blessed Joseph, and grow: Heb. as fishes do hearken unto Israel your
a
said, God, before whom increase father. 3Reuben, thou art instruments...: or, their
c
displeased...: was evil in his swords are weapons of
a d
dim: Heb. heavy eyes multitude: Heb. fulness violence
thine enemies; thy pleasant; and bowed his the shepherd, the stone gathered unto my
father’s children shall shoulder to bear, and of Israel:) 25Even by the people: bury me with
bow down before thee. became a servant unto God of thy father, who my fathers in the cave
9
Judah is a lion’s whelp: tribute. 16Dan shall judge shall help thee; and by that is in the field of
from the prey, my son, his people, as one of the the Almighty, who shall Ephron the Hittite, 30In
thou art gone up: he tribes of Israel. 17Dan bless thee with blessings the cave that is in the
stooped down, he shall be a serpent by the of heaven above, field of Machpelah,
couched as a lion, and as way, an adderb in the blessings of the deep which is before Mamre,
an old lion; who shall path, that biteth the that lieth under, in the land of Canaan,
rouse him up? 10The horse heels, so that his blessings of the breasts, which Abraham bought
sceptre shall not depart rider shall fall backward. and of the womb: 26The with the field of Ephron
from Judah, nor a 18
I have waited for thy blessings of thy father the Hittite for a
lawgiver from between salvation, O LORD. have prevailed above possession of a
his feet, until Shiloh 19
Gad, a troop shall the blessings of my buryingplace. 31
There
come; and unto him overcome him: but he progenitors unto the they buried Abraham
shall the gathering of the shall overcome at the utmost bound of the and Sarah his wife;
people be. 11Binding his last. 20Out of Asher his everlasting hills: they there they buried Isaac
foal unto the vine, and bread shall be fat, and shall be on the head of and Rebekah his wife;
his ass’s colt unto the he shall yield royal Joseph, and on the crown and there I buried Leah.
choice vine; he washed dainties. 21Naphtali is a of the head of him that 32
The purchase of the
his garments in wine, hind let loose: he giveth was separate from his field and of the cave
and his clothes in the goodly words. brethren. 27
Benjamin that is therein was from
blood of grapes: 12His 22
Joseph is a fruitful shall ravin as a wolf: in the children of Heth.
eyes shall be red with bough, even a fruitful the morning he shall 33
And when Jacob had
wine, and his teeth white bough by a well; whose devour the prey, and at made an end of
with milk. branchesc run over the night he shall divide the commanding his sons,
13
Zebulun shall dwell wall: 23The archers have spoil. he gathered up his feet
at the haven of the sea; sorely grieved him, and 28
All these are the into the bed, and
and he shall be for an shot at him, and hated twelve tribes of Israel: yielded up the ghost,
haven of ships; and his him: 24But his bow abode and this is it that their and was gathered unto
border shall be unto in strength, and the father spake unto them, his people.
Zidon. 14Issachar is a arms of his hands were and blessed them; every
strong ass couching made strong by the one according to his Chapter 50
down between two hands of the mighty God blessing he blessed
burdens: 15And he saw of Jacob; (from thence is them. 29And he charged
1
And Joseph fell upon
that rest was good, and them, and said unto his father’s face, and
b
the land that it was an adder: Heb. an arrow snake them, I am to be wept upon him, and
c
branches: Heb. daughters
kissed him. 2And Joseph to bury his father: and sons did unto him trespass of the servants
commanded his servants with him went up all the according as he of the God of thy father.
the physicians to servants of Pharaoh, the commanded them: 13For And Joseph wept when
embalm his father: and elders of his house, and his sons carried him into they spake unto him.
the physicians all the elders of the land the land of Canaan, and 18
And his brethren also
embalmed Israel. 3And of Egypt, 8And all the buried him in the cave of went and fell down
forty days were fulfilled house of Joseph, and his the field of Machpelah, before his face; and
for him; for so are brethren, and his which Abraham bought they said, Behold, we
fulfilled the days of those father’s house: only their with the field for a be thy servants. 19And
which are embalmed: little ones, and their possession of a Joseph said unto them,
and the Egyptians flocks, and their herds, buryingplace of Ephron Fear not: for am I in the
mourned a
for him they left in the land of the Hittite, before place of God? 20But as
threescore and ten days. Goshen. 9And there went Mamre. 14And Joseph for you, ye thought evil
4
And when the days of up with him both returned into Egypt, he, against me; but God
his mourning were past, chariots and horsemen: and his brethren, and all meant it unto good, to
Joseph spake unto the and it was a very great that went up with him to bring to pass, as it is
house of Pharaoh, company. 10And they bury his father, after he this day, to save much
saying, If now I have came to the had buried his father. people alive. 21
Now
found grace in your threshingfloor of Atad, 15
And when Joseph’s therefore fear ye not: I
eyes, speak, I pray you, which is beyond Jordan, brethren saw that their will nourish you, and
in the ears of Pharaoh, and there they mourned father was dead, they your little ones. And he
saying, 5My father made with a great and very said, Joseph will comforted them, and
me swear, saying, Lo, I sore lamentation: and he peradventure hate us, spake kindlyc unto
die: in my grave which I made a mourning for his and will certainly requite them.
have digged for me in father seven days. 11And us all the evil which we
the land of Canaan, when the inhabitants of did unto him. 16And they
22
And Joseph dwelt in
there shalt thou bury the land, the Canaanites, sent a messenger unto Egypt, he, and his
me. Now therefore let saw the mourning in the Joseph, saying, Thy father’s house: and
me go up, I pray thee, floor of Atad, they said, father did command Joseph lived an hundred
and bury my father, and This is a grievous before he died, saying, and ten years. 23And
I will come again. 6And mourning to the 17
So shall ye say unto Joseph saw Ephraim’s
Pharaoh said, Go up, and Egyptians: wherefore the Joseph, Forgive, I pray children of the third
bury thy father, name of it was called thee now, the trespass of generation: the children
according as he made Abelmizraimb, which is thy brethren, and their also of Machir the son
thee swear. beyond Jordan. 12And his sin; for they did unto of Manasseh were
7
And Joseph went up thee evil: and now, we brought up upon
b
Abelmizraim: that is, The pray thee, forgive the
a c
mourned: Heb. wept mourning of the Egyptians kindly...: Heb. to their hearts
Joseph’s knees. 24And 3
Issachar, Zebulun, and over them taskmasters feared God, and did not
Joseph said unto his Benjamin, 4
Dan, and to afflict them with their as the king of Egypt
brethren, I die: and God Naphtali, Gad, and burdens. And they built commanded them, but
will surely visit you, and Asher. 5And all the souls for Pharaoh treasure saved the men children
bring you out of this land that came out of the cities, Pithom and alive. 18And the king of
unto the land which he loinsa of Jacob were Raamses. But the more
12
Egypt called for the
sware to Abraham, to seventy souls: for Joseph they afflicted them, the midwives, and said unto
Isaac, and to Jacob. was in Egypt already. more they multiplied and them, Why have ye
25
And Joseph took an 6
And Joseph died, and all grew. And they were done this thing, and
oath of the children of his brethren, and all that grieved because of the have saved the men
Israel, saying, God will generation. 7
And the children of Israel. 13And children alive? 19And
surely visit you, and ye children of Israel were the Egyptians made the the midwives said unto
shall carry up my bones fruitful, and increased children of Israel to Pharaoh, Because the
from hence. 26So Joseph abundantly, and serve with rigour: 14And Hebrew women are not
died, being an hundred multiplied, and waxed they made their lives as the Egyptian women;
and ten years old: and exceeding mighty; and bitter with hard for they are lively, and
they embalmed him, and the land was filled with bondage, in morter, and are delivered ere the
he was put in a coffin in them. in brick, and in all midwives come in unto
Egypt. 8
Now there arose up a manner of service in the them. 20Therefore God
new king over Egypt, field: all their service, dealt well with the
which knew not Joseph. wherein they made them midwives: and the
9
And he said unto his serve, was with rigour. people multiplied, and
people, Behold, the 15
And the king of waxed very mighty.
people of the children of Egypt spake to the 21
And it came to pass,
Israel are more and Hebrew midwives, of because the midwives
mightier than we: which the name of the feared God, that he
10
Come on, let us deal one was Shiphrah, and made them houses.
Exodus wisely with them; lest the name of the other 22
And Pharaoh charged
they multiply, and it Puah: 16And he said, all his people, saying,
Chapter 1 come to pass, that, when When ye do the office of Every son that is born
1
Now these are the there falleth out any war, a midwife to the Hebrew ye shall cast into the
names of the children of they join also unto our women, and see them river, and every
Israel, which came into enemies, and fight upon the stools; if it be a daughter ye shall save
Egypt; every man and against us, and so get son, then ye shall kill alive.
his household came with them up out of the land. him: but if it be a
Jacob. 2Reuben, Simeon,
11
Therefore they did set daughter, then she shall Chapter 2
Levi, and Judah, a
live. 17But the midwives
loins: Heb. thigh
1
And there went a Pharaoh’s daughter, he slew the Egyptian, 18
And when they came
man of the house of Shall I go and call to thee and hid him in the sand. to Reueld their father,
Levi, and took to wife a a nurse of the Hebrew 13
And when he went out he said, How is it that
daughter of Levi. 2And women, that she may the second day, behold, ye are come so soon to
the woman conceived, nurse the child for thee? two men of the Hebrews day? 19And they said,
and bare a son: and 8
And Pharaoh’s daughter strove together: and he An Egyptian delivered
when she saw him that said to her, Go. And the said to him that did the us out of the hand of
he was a goodly child, maid went and called the wrong, Wherefore the shepherds, and also
she hid him three child’s mother. 9
And smitest thou thy fellow? drew water enough for
months. And when she
3
Pharaoh’s daughter said 14
And he said, Who made us, and watered the
could not longer hide unto her, Take this child thee a princeb and a flock. 20And he said
him, she took for him an away, and nurse it for judge over us? intendest unto his daughters, And
ark of bulrushes, and me, and I will give thee thou to kill me, as thou where is he? why is it
daubed it with slime and thy wages. And the killedst the Egyptian? that ye have left the
with pitch, and put the woman took the child, And Moses feared, and man? call him, that he
child therein; and she and nursed it. 10And the said, Surely this thing is may eat bread. 21And
laid it in the flags by the child grew, and she known. 15
Now when Moses was content to
river’s brink. 4And his brought him unto Pharaoh heard this thing, dwell with the man: and
sister stood afar off, to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he sought to slay Moses. he gave Moses
wit what would be done he became her son. And But Moses fled from the Zipporah his daughter.
to him. she called his name face of Pharaoh, and 22
And she bare him a
5
And the daughter of Mosesa: and she said, dwelt in the land of son, and he called his
Pharaoh came down to Because I drew him out Midian: and he sat down name Gershome: for he
wash herself at the river; of the water. by a well. said, I have been a
and her maidens walked 11
And it came to pass 16
Now the priestc of stranger in a strange
along by the river’s side; in those days, when Midian had seven land.
and when she saw the Moses was grown, that daughters: and they 23
And it came to pass
ark among the flags, she he went out unto his came and drew water, in process of time, that
sent her maid to fetch it. brethren, and looked on and filled the troughs to the king of Egypt died:
6
And when she had their burdens: and he water their father’s flock. and the children of
opened it, she saw the spied an Egyptian 17
And the shepherds Israel sighed by reason
child: and, behold, the smiting an Hebrew, one came and drove them of the bondage, and
babe wept. And she had of his brethren. 12And he away: but Moses stood they cried, and their cry
compassion on him, and looked this way and that up and helped them, and d
said, This is one of the way, and when he saw watered their flock. Reuel: called also Jethro, or,
Hebrews’ children. 7Then that there was no man, Jether
b e
said his sister to a prince: Heb. a man, a prince Gershom: that is, A stranger
a c
Moses: that is, Drawn out priest: or, prince here
came up unto God by midst of the bush, and therefore, behold, the Moses, I AM THAT I AM:
reason of the bondage. said, Moses, Moses. And cry of the children of and he said, Thus shalt
24
And God heard their he said, Here am I. 5And Israel is come unto me: thou say unto the
groaning, and God he said, Draw not nigh and I have also seen the children of Israel, I AM
remembered his hither: put off thy shoes oppression wherewith hath sent me unto you.
covenant with Abraham, from off thy feet, for the the Egyptians oppress 15
And God said
with Isaac, and with place whereon thou them. 10
Come now moreover unto Moses,
Jacob. 25And God looked standest is holy ground. therefore, and I will send Thus shalt thou say
upon the children of 6
Moreover he said, I am thee unto Pharaoh, that unto the children of
Israel, and God had the God of thy father, thou mayest bring forth Israel, The LORD God of
respect unto them. the God of Abraham, the my people the children your fathers, the God of
God of Isaac, and the of Israel out of Egypt. Abraham, the God of
Chapter 3 God of Jacob. And Moses 11
And Moses said unto Isaac, and the God of
hid his face; for he was God, Who am I, that I Jacob, hath sent me
1
Now Moses kept the afraid to look upon God. should go unto Pharaoh, unto you: this is my
flock of Jethro his father 7
And the LORD said, I and that I should bring name for ever, and this
in law, the priest of have surely seen the forth the children of is my memorial unto all
Midian: and he led the affliction of my people Israel out of Egypt? 12And generations.
flock to the backside of which are in Egypt, and he said, Certainly I will 16
Go, and gather the
the desert, and came to have heard their cry by be with thee; and this elders of Israel
the mountain of God, reason of their shall be a token unto together, and say unto
even to Horeb. 2And the taskmasters; for I know thee, that I have sent them, The LORD God of
angel of the LORD their sorrows; 8And I am thee: When thou hast your fathers, the God of
appeared unto him in a come down to deliver brought forth the people Abraham, of Isaac, and
flame of fire out of the them out of the hand of out of Egypt, ye shall of Jacob, appeared unto
midst of a bush: and he the Egyptians, and to serve God upon this me, saying, I have
looked, and, behold, the bring them up out of that mountain. 13And Moses surely visited you, and
bush burned with fire, land unto a good land said unto God, Behold, seen that which is done
and the bush was not and a large, unto a land when I come unto the to you in Egypt: 17And I
consumed. 3And Moses flowing with milk and children of Israel, and have said, I will bring
said, I will now turn honey; unto the place of shall say unto them, The you up out of the
aside, and see this great the Canaanites, and the God of your fathers hath affliction of Egypt unto
sight, why the bush is Hittites, and the sent me unto you; and the land of the
not burnt. 4And when the Amorites, and the they shall say to me, Canaanites, and the
LORD saw that he turned Perizzites, and the What is his name? what Hittites, and the
aside to see, God called Hivites, and the shall I say unto them? Amorites, and the
unto him out of the Jebusites. 9
Now 14
And God said unto Perizzites, and the
Hivites, and the jewels of silver, and Isaac, and the God of the LORD, O my Lord, I
Jebusites, unto a land jewels of gold, and Jacob, hath appeared am not eloquenta,
flowing with milk and raiment: and ye shall put unto thee. 6And the neither heretofore, nor
honey. 18And they shall them upon your sons, LORD said furthermore since thou hast spoken
hearken to thy voice: and upon your unto him, Put now thine unto thy servant: but I
and thou shalt come, daughters; and ye shall hand into thy bosom. am slow of speech, and
thou and the elders of spoil the Egyptiansb. And he put his hand into of a slow tongue.
Israel, unto the king of his bosom: and when he 11
And the LORD said
Egypt, and ye shall say Chapter 4 took it out, behold, his unto him, Who hath
unto him, The LORD God hand was leprous as made man’s mouth? or
of the Hebrews hath met And Moses answered
1
snow. 7And he said, Put who maketh the dumb,
with us: and now let us and said, But, behold, thine hand into thy or deaf, or the seeing,
go, we beseech thee, they will not believe me, bosom again. And he put or the blind? have not I
three days’ journey into nor hearken unto my his hand into his bosom the LORD? 12
Now
the wilderness, that we voice: for they will say, again; and plucked it out therefore go, and I will
may sacrifice to the The LORD hath not of his bosom, and, be with thy mouth, and
LORD our God. 19And I appeared unto thee. behold, it was turned teach thee what thou
am sure that the king of
2
And the LORD said unto again as his other flesh. shalt say. 13And he said,
Egypt will not leta you him, What is that in thine 8
And it shall come to O my Lord, send, I pray
go, no, not by a mighty hand? And he said, A pass, if they will not thee, by the hand of
hand. 20And I will stretch rod. 3And he said, Cast it believe thee, neither him whom thou wilt
out my hand, and smite on the ground. And he hearken to the voice of send. 14And the anger
Egypt with all my cast it on the ground, the first sign, that they of the LORD was
wonders which I will do and it became a serpent; will believe the voice of kindled against Moses,
in the midst thereof: and and Moses fled from the latter sign. 9And it and he said, Is not
after that he will let you before it. 4And the LORD shall come to pass, if Aaron the Levite thy
go. 21And I will give this said unto Moses, Put they will not believe also brother? I know that he
people favour in the forth thine hand, and these two signs, neither can speak well. And
sight of the Egyptians: take it by the tail. And he hearken unto thy voice, also, behold, he cometh
and it shall come to put forth his hand, and that thou shalt take of forth to meet thee: and
pass, that, when ye go, caught it, and it became the water of the river, when he seeth thee, he
ye shall not go empty: a rod in his hand: 5That and pour it upon the dry will be glad in his heart.
22
But every woman shall they may believe that land: and the water 15
And thou shalt speak
borrow of her neighbour, the LORD God of their which thou takest out of unto him, and put
and of her that fathers, the God of the river shall become words in his mouth: and
sojourneth in her house, Abraham, the God of blood upon the dry land. a
10
And Moses said unto eloquent: Heb. a man or
a b
no...: or, but by strong hand the Egyptians: or, Egypt words
I will be with thy mouth, thou goest to return into mount of God, and voice to let Israel go? I
and with his mouth, and Egypt, see that thou do kissed him. 28And Moses know not the LORD,
will teach you what ye all those wonders before told Aaron all the words neither will I let Israel
shall do. 16And he shall Pharaoh, which I have of the LORD who had go.
be thy spokesman unto put in thine hand: but I sent him, and all the 3
And they said, The
the people: and he shall will harden his heart, signs which he had God of the Hebrews
be, even he shall be to that he shall not let the commanded him. 29And hath met with us: let us
thee instead of a mouth, people go. 22And thou Moses and Aaron went go, we pray thee, three
and thou shalt be to him shalt say unto Pharaoh, and gathered together days’ journey into the
instead of God. 17And Thus saith the LORD, all the elders of the desert, and sacrifice
thou shalt take this rod Israel is my son, even children of Israel: 30And unto the LORD our God;
in thine hand, wherewith my firstborn: 23And I say Aaron spake all the lest he fall upon us with
thou shalt do signs. unto thee, Let my son words which the LORD pestilence, or with the
18
And Moses went and go, that he may serve had spoken unto Moses, sword. 4And the king of
returned to Jethrob his me: and if thou refuse to and did the signs in the Egypt said unto them,
father in law, and said let him go, behold, I will sight of the people. 31And Wherefore do ye, Moses
unto him, Let me go, I slay thy son, even thy the people believed: and and Aaron, let the
pray thee, and return firstborn. when they heard that people from their
unto my brethren which 24
And it came to pass the LORD had visited the works? get you unto
are in Egypt, and see by the way in the inn, children of Israel, and your burdens. 5
And
whether they be yet that the LORD met him, that he had looked upon Pharaoh said, Behold,
alive. And Jethro said to and sought to kill him. their affliction, then they the people of the land
Moses, Go in peace. 25
Then Zipporah took a bowed their heads and now are many, and ye
19
And the LORD said unto sharp stone, and cut off worshipped. make them rest from
Moses in Midian, Go, the foreskin of her son, their burdens. 6
And
return into Egypt: for all and cast it at his feet, Chapter 5 Pharaoh commanded
the men are dead which and said, Surely a bloody the same day the
sought thy life. 20And husband art thou to me.
1
And afterward Moses taskmasters of the
Moses took his wife and 26
So he let him go: then and Aaron went in, and people, and their
his sons, and set them she said, A bloody told Pharaoh, Thus saith officers, saying, 7
Ye
upon an ass, and he husband thou art, the LORD God of Israel, shall no more give the
returned to the land of because of the Let my people go, that people straw to make
Egypt: and Moses took circumcision. 27And the they may hold a feast brick, as heretofore: let
the rod of God in his LORD said to Aaron, Go unto me in the them go and gather
hand. 21And the LORD into the wilderness to wilderness. 2And Pharaoh straw for themselves.
said unto Moses, When meet Moses. And he said, Who is the LORD, 8
And the tale of the
went, and met him in the that I should obey his bricks, which they did
b
Jethro: Heb. Jether
make heretofore, ye demanded, Wherefore said unto them, The unto him, I am the
shall lay upon them; ye have ye not fulfilled your LORD look upon you, and LORDa: 3And I appeared
shall not diminish ought task in making brick both judge; because ye have unto Abraham, unto
thereof: for they be idle; yesterday and to day, as made our savour to be Isaac, and unto Jacob,
therefore they cry, heretofore? abhorred in the eyes of by the name of God
saying, Let us go and 15
Then the officers of Pharaoh, and in the eyes Almighty, but by my
sacrifice to our God. 9Let the children of Israel of his servants, to put a name JEHOVAH was I
there more work be laid came and cried unto sword in their hand to not known to them.
upon the men, that they Pharaoh, saying, slay us. 22
And Moses 4
And I have also
may labour therein; and Wherefore dealest thou returned unto the LORD, established my
let them not regard vain thus with thy servants? and said, Lord, covenant with them, to
words. 16
There is no straw given wherefore hast thou so give them the land of
10
And the taskmasters unto thy servants, and evil entreated this Canaan, the land of
of the people went out, they say to us, Make people? why is it that their pilgrimage,
and their officers, and brick: and, behold, thy thou hast sent me? 23For wherein they were
they spake to the servants are beaten; but since I came to Pharaoh strangers. And I have
5

people, saying, Thus the fault is in thine own to speak in thy name, he also heard the groaning
saith Pharaoh, I will not people. 17But he said, Ye hath done evil to this of the children of Israel,
give you straw. 11Go ye, are idle, ye are idle: people; neither hast thou whom the Egyptians
get you straw where ye therefore ye say, Let us delivered thy people at keep in bondage; and I
can find it: yet not ought go and do sacrifice to all. have remembered my
of your work shall be the LORD. 18Go therefore covenant. 6
Wherefore
diminished. 12
So the now, and work; for there say unto the children of
people were scattered shall no straw be given Israel, I am the LORD,
abroad throughout all you, yet shall ye deliver Chapter 6 and I will bring you out
the land of Egypt to the tale of bricks. 19And from under the burdens
gather stubble instead of the officers of the
1
Then the LORD said of the Egyptians, and I
straw. 13
And the children of Israel did see unto Moses, Now shalt will rid you out of their
taskmasters hasted that they were in evil thou see what I will do to bondage, and I will
them, saying, Fulfil your case, after it was said, Pharaoh: for with a redeem you with a
works, your daily tasks, Ye shall not minish strong hand shall he let stretched out arm, and
as when there was ought from your bricks of them go, and with a with great judgments:
straw. 14And the officers your daily task. 20And strong hand shall he 7
And I will take you to
of the children of Israel, they met Moses and drive them out of his me for a people, and I
which Pharaoh’s Aaron, who stood in the land. 2And God spake will be to you a God:
taskmasters had set over way, as they came forth unto Moses, and said and ye shall know that I
them, were beaten, and from Pharaoh: 21And they a
the LORD: or, JEHOVAH
am the LORD your God, them a charge unto the three years. 19And the are that Aaron and
which bringeth you out children of Israel, and sons of Merari; Mahali Moses, to whom the
from under the burdens unto Pharaoh king of and Mushi: these are the LORD said, Bring out
of the Egyptians. 8And I Egypt, to bring the families of Levi the children of Israel
will bring you in unto the children of Israel out of according to their from the land of Egypt
land, concerning the the land of Egypt. generations. 20
And according to their
which I did swearb to 14
These be the heads Amram took him armies. 27
These are
give it to Abraham, to of their fathers’ houses: Jochebed his father’s they which spake to
Isaac, and to Jacob; and I The sons of Reuben the sister to wife; and she Pharaoh king of Egypt,
will give it you for an firstborn of Israel; bare him Aaron and to bring out the children
heritage: I am the LORD. Hanoch, and Pallu, Moses: and the years of of Israel from Egypt:
9
And Moses spake so Hezron, and Carmi: the life of Amram were these are that Moses
unto the children of these be the families of an hundred and thirty and Aaron. 28And it
Israel: but they Reuben. 15And the sons and seven years. 21And came to pass on the
hearkened not unto of Simeon; Jemuel, and the sons of Izhar; Korah, day when the LORD
Moses for anguishc of Jamin, and Ohad, and and Nepheg, and Zichri. spake unto Moses in the
spirit, and for cruel Jachin, and Zohar, and 22
And the sons of Uzziel; land of Egypt, 29That
bondage. Shaul the son of a Mishael, and Elzaphan, the LORD spake unto
10
And the LORD spake Canaanitish woman: and Zithri. 23And Aaron Moses, saying, I am the
unto Moses, saying, 11Go these are the families of took him Elisheba, LORD: speak thou unto
in, speak unto Pharaoh Simeon. 16And these are daughter of Amminadab, Pharaoh king of Egypt
king of Egypt, that he let the names of the sons of sister of Naashon, to all that I say unto thee.
the children of Israel go Levi according to their wife; and she bare him 30
And Moses said before
out of his land. 12And generations; Gershon, Nadab, and Abihu, the LORD, Behold, I am
Moses spake before the and Kohath, and Merari: Eleazar, and Ithamar. of uncircumcised lips,
LORD, saying, Behold, and the years of the life 24
And the sons of Korah; and how shall Pharaoh
the children of Israel of Levi were an hundred Assir, and Elkanah, and hearken unto me?
have not hearkened unto thirty and seven years. Abiasaph: these are the
me; how then shall 17
The sons of Gershon; families of the Korhites. Chapter 7
Pharaoh hear me, who Libni, and Shimi, 25
And Eleazar Aaron’s
am of uncircumcised according to their son took him one of the
1
And the LORD said
lips? 13And the LORD families. And the sons
18
daughters of Putiel to unto Moses, See, I have
spake unto Moses and of Kohath; Amram, and wife; and she bare him made thee a god to
unto Aaron, and gave Izhar, and Hebron, and Phinehas: these are the Pharaoh: and Aaron thy
Uzziel: and the years of heads of the fathers of brother shall be thy
b
swear: Heb. lift up my hand the life of Kohath were the Levites according to prophet. 2Thou shalt
c
anguish: Heb. shortness, or, an hundred thirty and their families. 26These speak all that I
straitness
command thee: and you, saying, Shew a morning; lo, he goeth ponds, and upon all
Aaron thy brother shall miracle for you: then out unto the water; and their poolsa of water,
speak unto Pharaoh, that thou shalt say unto thou shalt stand by the that they may become
he send the children of Aaron, Take thy rod, and river’s brink against he blood; and that there
Israel out of his land. cast it before Pharaoh, come; and the rod which may be blood
3
And I will harden and it shall become a was turned to a serpent throughout all the land
Pharaoh’s heart, and serpent. 10And Moses shalt thou take in thine of Egypt, both in
multiply my signs and and Aaron went in unto hand. 16And thou shalt vessels of wood, and in
my wonders in the land Pharaoh, and they did so say unto him, The LORD vessels of stone. 20And
of Egypt. 4But Pharaoh as the LORD had God of the Hebrews hath Moses and Aaron did
shall not hearken unto commanded: and Aaron sent me unto thee, so, as the LORD
you, that I may lay my cast down his rod before saying, Let my people commanded; and he
hand upon Egypt, and Pharaoh, and before his go, that they may serve lifted up the rod, and
bring forth mine armies, servants, and it became me in the wilderness: smote the waters that
and my people the a serpent. 11
Then and, behold, hitherto were in the river, in the
children of Israel, out of Pharaoh also called the thou wouldest not hear. sight of Pharaoh, and in
the land of Egypt by wise men and the 17
Thus saith the LORD, In the sight of his
great judgments. 5And sorcerers: now the this thou shalt know that servants; and all the
the Egyptians shall know magicians of Egypt, they I am the LORD: behold, I waters that were in the
that I am the LORD, also did in like manner will smite with the rod river were turned to
when I stretch forth mine with their enchantments. that is in mine hand blood. 21And the fish
hand upon Egypt, and 12
For they cast down upon the waters which that was in the river
bring out the children of every man his rod, and are in the river, and they died; and the river
Israel from among them. they became serpents: shall be turned to blood. stank, and the
6
And Moses and Aaron but Aaron’s rod 18
And the fish that is in Egyptians could not
did as the LORD swallowed up their rods. the river shall die, and drink of the water of the
commanded them, so 13
And he hardened the river shall stink; and river; and there was
did they. 7And Moses Pharaoh’s heart, that he the Egyptians shall lothe blood throughout all the
was fourscore years old, hearkened not unto to drink of the water of land of Egypt. 22And the
and Aaron fourscore and them; as the LORD had the river. 19And the LORD magicians of Egypt did
three years old, when said. spake unto Moses, Say so with their
they spake unto 14
And the LORD said unto Aaron, Take thy enchantments: and
Pharaoh. unto Moses, Pharaoh’s rod, and stretch out Pharaoh’s heart was
8
And the LORD spake heart is hardened, he thine hand upon the hardened, neither did
unto Moses and unto refuseth to let the waters of Egypt, upon he hearken unto them;
Aaron, saying, 9When people go. 15
Get thee their streams, upon their a
Pharaoh shall speak unto unto Pharaoh in the rivers, and upon their pools...: Heb. gathering of
their waters
as the LORD had said. kneadingtroughsa: 4And thee, and for thy was respite, he
23
And Pharaoh turned the frogs shall come up servants, and for thy hardened his heart, and
and went into his house, both on thee, and upon people, to destroy the hearkened not unto
neither did he set his thy people, and upon all frogs from thee and thy them; as the LORD had
heart to this also. 24And thy servants. 5And the houses, that they may said.
all the Egyptians digged LORD spake unto Moses, remain in the river only? 16
And the LORD said
round about the river for Say unto Aaron, Stretch 10
And he said, To unto Moses, Say unto
water to drink; for they forth thine hand with thy morrow . And he said, Be
c
Aaron, Stretch out thy
could not drink of the rod over the streams, it according to thy word: rod, and smite the dust
water of the river. 25And over the rivers, and over that thou mayest know of the land, that it may
seven days were the ponds, and cause that there is none like become lice throughout
fulfilled, after that the frogs to come up upon unto the LORD our God. all the land of Egypt.
LORD had smitten the the land of Egypt. 6And 11
And the frogs shall 17
And they did so; for
river. Aaron stretched out his depart from thee, and Aaron stretched out his
hand over the waters of from thy houses, and hand with his rod, and
Chapter 8 Egypt; and the frogs from thy servants, and smote the dust of the
came up, and covered from thy people; they earth, and it became
1
And the LORD spake the land of Egypt. 7And shall remain in the river lice in man, and in
unto Moses, Go unto the magicians did so only. 12And Moses and beast; all the dust of
Pharaoh, and say unto with their enchantments, Aaron went out from the land became lice
him, Thus saith the and brought up frogs Pharaoh: and Moses throughout all the land
LORD, Let my people go, upon the land of Egypt. cried unto the LORD of Egypt. 18And the
that they may serve me. 8
Then Pharaoh called for because of the frogs magicians did so with
2
And if thou refuse to let Moses and Aaron, and which he had brought their enchantments to
them go, behold, I will said, Intreat the LORD, against Pharaoh. 13And bring forth lice, but they
smite all thy borders that he may take away the LORD did according could not: so there
with frogs: 3And the river the frogs from me, and to the word of Moses; were lice upon man,
shall bring forth frogs from my people; and I and the frogs died out of and upon beast. 19Then
abundantly, which shall will let the people go, the houses, out of the the magicians said unto
go up and come into that they may do villages, and out of the Pharaoh, This is the
thine house, and into thy sacrifice unto the LORD. fields. 14
And they finger of God: and
bedchamber, and upon 9
And Moses said unto gathered them together Pharaoh’s heart was
thy bed, and into the Pharaoh, Gloryb over me: upon heaps: and the hardened, and he
house of thy servants, when shall I intreat for land stank. 15But when hearkened not unto
and upon thy people, Pharaoh saw that there them; as the LORD had
a
and into thine ovens, kneadingtroughs: or, dough said.
b c
and into thy Glory...: or, Have this honour To morrow: or, Against to 20
And the LORD said
over me, etc morrow
unto Moses, Rise up house of Pharaoh, and depart from Pharaoh, upon the horses, upon
early in the morning, and into his servants’ from his servants, and the asses, upon the
stand before Pharaoh; lo, houses, and into all the from his people, to camels, upon the oxen,
he cometh forth to the land of Egypt: the land morrow: but let not and upon the sheep:
water; and say unto him, was corruptedf by reason Pharaoh deal deceitfully there shall be a very
Thus saith the LORD, Let of the swarm of flies. any more in not letting grievous murrain. 4And
my people go, that they 25
And Pharaoh called for the people go to sacrifice the LORD shall sever
may serve me. 21Else, if Moses and for Aaron, to the LORD. 30And between the cattle of
thou wilt not let my and said, Go ye, sacrifice Moses went out from Israel and the cattle of
people go, behold, I will to your God in the land. Pharaoh, and intreated Egypt: and there shall
send swarmsd of flies 26
And Moses said, It is the LORD. 31And the nothing die of all that is
upon thee, and upon thy not meet so to do; for we LORD did according to the children’s of Israel.
servants, and upon thy shall sacrifice the the word of Moses; and 5
And the LORD
people, and into thy abomination of the he removed the swarms appointed a set time,
houses: and the houses Egyptians to the LORD of flies from Pharaoh, saying, To morrow the
of the Egyptians shall be our God: lo, shall we from his servants, and LORD shall do this thing
full of swarms of flies, sacrifice the abomination from his people; there in the land. 6And the
and also the ground of the Egyptians before remained not one. 32And LORD did that thing on
whereon they are. 22And their eyes, and will they Pharaoh hardened his the morrow, and all the
I will sever in that day not stone us? 27We will heart at this time also, cattle of Egypt died: but
the land of Goshen, in go three days’ journey neither would he let the of the cattle of the
which my people dwell, into the wilderness, and people go. children of Israel died
that no swarms of flies sacrifice to the LORD our not one. 7And Pharaoh
shall be there; to the end God, as he shall Chapter 9 sent, and, behold, there
thou mayest know that I command us. 28
And was not one of the
am the LORD in the Pharaoh said, I will let
1
Then the LORD said cattle of the Israelites
midst of the earth. 23And you go, that ye may unto Moses, Go in unto dead. And the heart of
I will put a divisione sacrifice to the LORD Pharaoh, and tell him, Pharaoh was hardened,
between my people and your God in the Thus saith the LORD God and he did not let the
thy people: to morrow wilderness; only ye shall of the Hebrews, Let my people go.
shall this sign be. 24And not go very far away: people go, that they may 8
And the LORD said
the LORD did so; and intreat for me. 29And serve me. 2For if thou unto Moses and unto
there came a grievous Moses said, Behold, I go refuse to let them go, Aaron, Take to you
swarm of flies into the out from thee, and I will and wilt hold them still, handfuls of ashes of the
intreat the LORD that the
3
Behold, the hand of the furnace, and let Moses
d
swarms...: or, a mixture of swarms of flies may LORD is upon thy cattle sprinkle it toward the
noisome beasts, etc which is in the field, heaven in the sight of
e f
a division: Heb. a redemption corrupted: or, destroyed
Pharaoh. 9And it shall plagues upon thine come down upon them, 25
And the hail smote
become small dust in all heart, and upon thy and they shall die. 20He throughout all the land
the land of Egypt, and servants, and upon thy that feared the word of of Egypt all that was in
shall be a boil breaking people; that thou mayest the LORD among the the field, both man and
forth with blains upon know that there is none servants of Pharaoh beast; and the hail
man, and upon beast, like me in all the earth. made his servants and smote every herb of the
throughout all the land 15
For now I will stretch his cattle flee into the field, and brake every
of Egypt. 10And they took out my hand, that I may houses: 21And he that tree of the field. 26Only
ashes of the furnace, smite thee and thy regardeda not the word in the land of Goshen,
and stood before people with pestilence; of the LORD left his where the children of
Pharaoh; and Moses and thou shalt be cut off servants and his cattle in Israel were, was there
sprinkled it up toward from the earth. 16And in the field. no hail. 27And Pharaoh
heaven; and it became a very deed for this cause 22
And the LORD said sent, and called for
boil breaking forth with have I raised thee up, for unto Moses, Stretch forth Moses and Aaron, and
blains upon man, and to shew in thee my thine hand toward said unto them, I have
upon beast. 11And the power; and that my heaven, that there may sinned this time: the
magicians could not name may be declared be hail in all the land of LORD is righteous, and I
stand before Moses throughout all the earth. Egypt, upon man, and and my people are
because of the boils; for 17
As yet exaltest thou upon beast, and upon wicked. 28Intreat the
the boil was upon the thyself against my every herb of the field, LORD (for it is enough)
magicians, and upon all people, that thou wilt not throughout the land of that there be no more
the Egyptians. 12And the let them go? 18Behold, to Egypt. 23
And Moses mightyb thunderings
LORD hardened the morrow about this time I stretched forth his rod and hail; and I will let
heart of Pharaoh, and he will cause it to rain a toward heaven: and the you go, and ye shall
hearkened not unto very grievous hail, such LORD sent thunder and stay no longer. 29And
them; as the LORD had as hath not been in hail, and the fire ran Moses said unto him, As
spoken unto Moses. Egypt since the along upon the ground; soon as I am gone out
13
And the LORD said foundation thereof even and the LORD rained hail of the city, I will spread
unto Moses, Rise up until now. 19
Send upon the land of Egypt. abroad my hands unto
early in the morning, and therefore now, and 24
So there was hail, and the LORD; and the
stand before Pharaoh, gather thy cattle, and all fire mingled with the thunder shall cease,
and say unto him, Thus that thou hast in the hail, very grievous, such neither shall there be
saith the LORD God of field; for upon every man as there was none like it any more hail; that thou
the Hebrews, Let my and beast which shall be in all the land of Egypt mayest know how that
people go, that they may found in the field, and since it became a nation. the earth is the LORD’S.
serve me. 14For I will at shall not be brought a b
this time send all my home, the hail shall regarded...: Heb. set not his mighty...: Heb. voices of
heart unto God
30
But as for thee and thy Pharaoh: for I have which groweth for you LORD. 10And he said
servants, I know that ye hardened his heart, and out of the field: 6And unto them, Let the
will not yet fear the the heart of his servants, they shall fill thy houses, LORD be so with you, as
LORD God. 31And the flax that I might shew these and the houses of all thy I will let you go, and
and the barley was my signs before him: servants, and the houses your little ones: look to
smitten: for the barley 2
And that thou mayest of all the Egyptians; it; for evil is before you.
was in the ear, and the tell in the ears of thy which neither thy 11
Not so: go now ye that
flax was bolled. 32But the son, and of thy son’s fathers, nor thy fathers’ are men, and serve the
wheat and the rie were son, what things I have fathers have seen, since LORD; for that ye did
not smitten: for they wrought in Egypt, and the day that they were desire. And they were
were not grown up. my signs which I have upon the earth unto this driven out from
33
And Moses went out of done among them; that day. And he turned Pharaoh’s presence.
the city from Pharaoh, ye may know how that I himself, and went out 12
And the LORD said
and spread abroad his am the LORD. 3And from Pharaoh. 7
And unto Moses, Stretch out
hands unto the LORD: Moses and Aaron came Pharaoh’s servants said thine hand over the
and the thunders and in unto Pharaoh, and unto him, How long shall land of Egypt for the
hail ceased, and the rain said unto him, Thus saith this man be a snare unto locusts, that they may
was not poured upon the the LORD God of the us? let the men go, that come up upon the land
earth. 34
And when Hebrews, How long wilt they may serve the of Egypt, and eat every
Pharaoh saw that the thou refuse to humble LORD their God: knowest herb of the land, even
rain and the hail and the thyself before me? let thou not yet that Egypt all that the hail hath
thunders were ceased, my people go, that they is destroyed? 8
And left. 13
And Moses
he sinned yet more, and may serve me. 4Else, if Moses and Aaron were stretched forth his rod
hardened his heart, he thou refuse to let my brought again unto over the land of Egypt,
and his servants. 35And people go, behold, to Pharaoh: and he said and the LORD brought
the heart of Pharaoh was morrow will I bring the unto them, Go, serve the an east wind upon the
hardened, neither would locusts into thy coast: LORD your God: but who land all that day, and all
he let the children of 5
And they shall cover the are they that shall gob? that night; and when it
Israel go; as the LORD facea of the earth, that 9
And Moses said, We will was morning, the east
had spoken by Mosesc. one cannot be able to go with our young and wind brought the
see the earth: and they with our old, with our locusts. 14
And the
Chapter 10 shall eat the residue of sons and with our locusts went up over all
that which is escaped, daughters, with our the land of Egypt, and
And the LORD said
1
which remaineth unto flocks and with our herds rested in all the coasts
unto Moses, Go in unto you from the hail, and will we go; for we must of Egypt: very grievous
c
shall eat every tree hold a feast unto the were they; before them
by Moses: Heb. by the hand of there were no such
a b
Moses face: Heb. eye who...: Heb. who and who, etc
locusts as they, neither 20
But the LORD hardened there shall not an hoof neighbour, and every
after them shall be such. Pharaoh’s heart, so that be left behind; for woman of her
15
For they covered the he would not let the thereof must we take to neighbour, jewels of
face of the whole earth, children of Israel go. serve the LORD our God; silver, and jewels of
so that the land was 21
And the LORD said and we know not with gold. 3And the LORD
darkened; and they did unto Moses, Stretch out what we must serve the gave the people favour
eat every herb of the thine hand toward LORD, until we come in the sight of the
land, and all the fruit of heaven, that there may thither. 27But the LORD Egyptians. Moreover
the trees which the hail be darkness over the hardened Pharaoh’s the man Moses was
had left: and there land of Egypt, even heart, and he would not very great in the land of
remained not any green darkness which may be let them go. 28
And Egypt, in the sight of
thing in the trees, or in felt. 22
And Moses Pharaoh said unto him, Pharaoh’s servants, and
the herbs of the field, stretched forth his hand Get thee from me, take in the sight of the
through all the land of toward heaven; and heed to thyself, see my people.
Egypt. 16Then Pharaoh there was a thick face no more; for in that 4
And Moses said,
calledc for Moses and darkness in all the land day thou seest my face Thus saith the LORD,
Aaron in haste; and he of Egypt three days: thou shalt die. 29And About midnight will I go
said, I have sinned 23
They saw not one Moses said, Thou hast out into the midst of
against the LORD your another, neither rose spoken well, I will see Egypt: 5And all the
God, and against you. any from his place for thy face again no more. firstborn in the land of
17
Now therefore forgive, I three days: but all the Egypt shall die, from
pray thee, my sin only children of Israel had the firstborn of Pharaoh
this once, and intreat the light in their dwellings. that sitteth upon his
LORD your God, that he 24
And Pharaoh called Chapter 11 throne, even unto the
may take away from me unto Moses, and said, Go firstborn of the
this death only. 18And he ye, serve the LORD; only
1
And the LORD said maidservant that is
went out from Pharaoh, let your flocks and your unto Moses, Yet will I behind the mill; and all
and intreated the LORD. herds be stayed: let your bring one plague more the firstborn of beasts.
19
And the LORD turned a little ones also go with upon Pharaoh, and upon 6
And there shall be a
mighty strong west wind, you. 25And Moses said, Egypt; afterwards he will great cry throughout all
which took away the Thou must give use also let you go hence: when the land of Egypt, such
locusts, and castd them sacrifices and burnt he shall let you go, he as there was none like
into the Red sea; there offerings, that we may shall surely thrust you it, nor shall be like it
remained not one locust sacrifice unto the LORD out hence altogether. any more. 7But against
in all the coasts of Egypt. our God. 26
Our cattle
2
Speak now in the ears any of the children of
also shall go with us; of the people, and let Israel shall not a dog
c
called: Heb. hastened to call every man borrow of his move his tongue,
d e
cast: Heb. fastened us: Heb. into our hands
against man or beast: saying, 2This month shall take of the blood, and the LORD. 13
And the
that ye may know how be unto you the strike it on the two side blood shall be to you for
that the LORD doth put a beginning of months: it posts and on the upper a token upon the
difference between the shall be the first month door post of the houses, houses where ye are:
Egyptians and Israel. of the year to you. wherein they shall eat it. and when I see the
8
And all these thy 3
Speak ye unto all the 8
And they shall eat the blood, I will pass over
servants shall come congregation of Israel, flesh in that night, roast you, and the plague
down unto me, and bow saying, In the tenth day with fire, and shall not be upon you to
down themselves unto of this month they shall unleavened bread; and destroyd you, when I
me, saying, Get thee take to them every man with bitter herbs they smite the land of Egypt.
out, and all the people a lamba, according to the shall eat it. 9Eat not of it 14
And this day shall be
that followa thee: and house of their fathers, a raw, nor sodden at all unto you for a
after that I will go out. lamb for an house: 4And with water, but roast memorial; and ye shall
And he went out from if the household be too with fire; his head with keep it a feast to the
Pharaoh in a great little for the lamb, let his legs, and with the LORD throughout your
anger. 9
And the LORD him and his neighbour purtenance thereof. generations; ye shall
said unto Moses, next unto his house take 10
And ye shall let nothing keep it a feast by an
Pharaoh shall not it according to the of it remain until the ordinance for ever.
hearken unto you; that number of the souls; morning; and that which 15
Seven days shall ye
my wonders may be every man according to remaineth of it until the eat unleavened bread;
multiplied in the land of his eating shall make morning ye shall burn even the first day ye
Egypt. 10And Moses and your count for the lamb. with fire. 11And thus shall shall put away leaven
Aaron did all these 5
Your lamb shall be ye eat it; with your loins out of your houses: for
wonders before Pharaoh: without blemish, a male girded, your shoes on whosoever eateth
and the LORD hardened of the first year: ye shall your feet, and your staff leavened bread from
Pharaoh’s heart, so that take it out from the in your hand; and ye the first day until the
he would not let the sheep, or from the goats: shall eat it in haste: it is seventh day, that soul
children of Israel go out 6
And ye shall keep it up the LORD’S passover. shall be cut off from
of his land. until the fourteenth day 12
For I will pass through Israel. 16And in the first
of the same month: and the land of Egypt this day there shall be an
Chapter 12 the whole assembly of night, and will smite all holy convocation, and
the congregation of the firstborn in the land in the seventh day
And the LORD spake
1
Israel shall kill it inb the of Egypt, both man and there shall be an holy
unto Moses and Aaron in evening. 7And they shall beast; and against all convocation to you; no
the land of Egypt, the godsc of Egypt I will manner of work shall be
a
lamb: or, kid execute judgment: I am
a b d
that follow...: Heb. that is at in...: Heb. between the two to destroy...: Heb. for a
c
thy feet evenings gods: or, princes destruction
done in them, save that them, Draw out and take you, What mean ye by where there was not
which every mane must you a lambf according to this service? 27That ye one dead. 31And he
eat, that only may be your families, and kill the shall say, It is the called for Moses and
done of you. 17And ye passover. 22And ye shall sacrifice of the LORD’S Aaron by night, and
shall observe the feast take a bunch of hyssop, passover, who passed said, Rise up, and get
of unleavened bread; for and dip it in the blood over the houses of the you forth from among
in this selfsame day that is in the bason, and children of Israel in my people, both ye and
have I brought your strike the lintel and the Egypt, when he smote the children of Israel;
armies out of the land of two side posts with the the Egyptians, and and go, serve the
Egypt: therefore shall ye blood that is in the delivered our houses. LORD, as ye have said.
observe this day in your bason; and none of you And the people bowed 32
Also take your flocks
generations by an shall go out at the door the head and and your herds, as ye
ordinance for ever. 18In of his house until the worshipped. 28And the have said, and be gone;
the first month, on the morning. 23For the LORD children of Israel went and bless me also.
fourteenth day of the will pass through to away, and did as the 33
And the Egyptians
month at even, ye shall smite the Egyptians; and LORD had commanded were urgent upon the
eat unleavened bread, when he seeth the blood Moses and Aaron, so did people, that they might
until the one and upon the lintel, and on they. send them out of the
twentieth day of the the two side posts, the 29
And it came to pass, land in haste; for they
month at even. 19Seven LORD will pass over the that at midnight the said, We be all dead
days shall there be no door, and will not suffer LORD smote all the men. 34And the people
leaven found in your the destroyer to come in firstborn in the land of took their dough before
houses: for whosoever unto your houses to Egypt, from the firstborn it was leavened, their
eateth that which is smite you. 24And ye shall of Pharaoh that sat on kneadingtroughsh being
leavened, even that soul observe this thing for an his throne unto the bound up in their
shall be cut off from the ordinance to thee and to firstborn of the captive clothes upon their
congregation of Israel, thy sons for ever. 25And that was in the shoulders. 35
And the
whether he be a it shall come to pass, dungeon ; and all the
g
children of Israel did
stranger, or born in the when ye be come to the firstborn of cattle. 30And according to the word
land. 20Ye shall eat land which the LORD will Pharaoh rose up in the of Moses; and they
nothing leavened; in all give you, according as night, he, and all his borrowed of the
your habitations shall ye he hath promised, that servants, and all the Egyptians jewels of
eat unleavened bread. ye shall keep this Egyptians; and there was silver, and jewels of
21
Then Moses called service. 26
And it shall a great cry in Egypt; for gold, and raiment:
for all the elders of come to pass, when your there was not a house 36
And the LORD gave
Israel, and said unto children shall say unto g
the people favour in the
dungeon: Heb. house of the
e f h
man: Heb. soul lamb: or, kid pit kneadingtroughs: or, dough
sight of the Egyptians, so all the hosts of the LORD will keep the passover to out from Egypt, out of
that they lent unto them went out from the land the LORD, let all his the house of bondagea;
such things as they of Egypt. 42It is a nightj to males be circumcised, for by strength of hand
required. And they be much observed unto and then let him come the LORD brought you
spoiled the Egyptians. the LORD for bringing near and keep it; and he out from this place:
37
And the children of them out from the land shall be as one that is there shall no leavened
Israel journeyed from of Egypt: this is that born in the land: for no bread be eaten. 4This
Rameses to Succoth, night of the LORD to be uncircumcised person day came ye out in the
about six hundred observed of all the shall eat thereof. 49One month Abib. 5And it
thousand on foot that children of Israel in their law shall be to him that shall be when the LORD
were men, beside generations. is homeborn, and unto shall bring thee into the
children. And a mixedi
38 43
And the LORD said the stranger that land of the Canaanites,
multitude went up also unto Moses and Aaron, sojourneth among you. and the Hittites, and
with them; and flocks, This is the ordinance of 50
Thus did all the the Amorites, and the
and herds, even very the passover: There shall children of Israel; as the Hivites, and the
much cattle. 39And they no stranger eat thereof: LORD commanded Jebusites, which he
baked unleavened cakes 44
But every man’s Moses and Aaron, so did sware unto thy fathers
of the dough which they servant that is bought they. 51And it came to to give thee, a land
brought forth out of for money, when thou pass the selfsame day, flowing with milk and
Egypt, for it was not hast circumcised him, that the LORD did bring honey, that thou shalt
leavened; because they then shall he eat thereof. the children of Israel out keep this service in this
were thrust out of Egypt, 45
A foreigner and an of the land of Egypt by month. 6Seven days
and could not tarry, hired servant shall not their armies. thou shalt eat
neither had they eat thereof. 46In one unleavened bread, and
prepared for themselves house shall it be eaten; Chapter 13 in the seventh day shall
any victual. 40Now the thou shalt not carry forth be a feast to the LORD.
sojourning of the ought of the flesh abroad
1
And the LORD spake 7
Unleavened bread shall
children of Israel, who out of the house; neither unto Moses, saying, be eaten seven days;
dwelt in Egypt, was four shall ye break a bone
2
Sanctify unto me all the and there shall no
hundred and thirty thereof. 47
All the firstborn, whatsoever leavened bread be seen
years. 41And it came to congregation of Israel openeth the womb with thee, neither shall
pass at the end of the shall keepk it. 48
And among the children of there be leaven seen
four hundred and thirty when a stranger shall Israel, both of man and with thee in all thy
years, even the selfsame sojourn with thee, and of beast: it is mine. 3And quarters. 8
And thou
day it came to pass, that Moses said unto the shalt shew thy son in
j
a night...: Heb. a night of people, Remember this that day, saying, This is
i
a mixed...: Heb. a great observations day, in which ye came
k a
mixture keep...: Heb. do it bondage: Heb. servants
done because of that among thy children shalt people repent when they 1
And the LORD spake
which the LORD did unto thou redeem. 14And it see war, and they return unto Moses, saying,
me when I came forth shall be when thy son to Egypt: 18But God led 2
Speak unto the
out of Egypt. 9And it shall asketh thee in time to the people about, children of Israel, that
be for a sign unto thee come, saying, What is through the way of the they turn and encamp
upon thine hand, and for this? that thou shalt say wilderness of the Red before Pihahiroth,
a memorial between unto him, By strength of sea: and the children of between Migdol and the
thine eyes, that the hand the LORD brought Israel went up sea, over against
LORD’S law may be in us out from Egypt, from harnessedc out of the Baalzephon: before it
thy mouth: for with a the house of bondage: land of Egypt. 19
And shall ye encamp by the
strong hand hath the 15
And it came to pass, Moses took the bones of sea. 3For Pharaoh will
LORD brought thee out when Pharaoh would Joseph with him: for he say of the children of
of Egypt. 10Thou shalt hardly let us go, that the had straitly sworn the Israel, They are
therefore keep this LORD slew all the children of Israel, saying, entangled in the land,
ordinance in his season firstborn in the land of God will surely visit you; the wilderness hath
from year to year. Egypt, both the firstborn and ye shall carry up my shut them in. 4And I will
11
And it shall be when of man, and the firstborn bones away hence with harden Pharaoh’s heart,
the LORD shall bring of beast: therefore I you. 20And they took that he shall follow
thee into the land of the sacrifice to the LORD all their journey from after them; and I will be
Canaanites, as he sware that openeth the matrix, Succoth, and encamped honoured upon
unto thee and to thy being males; but all the in Etham, in the edge of Pharaoh, and upon all
fathers, and shall give it firstborn of my children I the wilderness. 21And the his host; that the
thee, 12That thou shalt redeem. 16And it shall be LORD went before them Egyptians may know
set apart unto the LORD for a token upon thine by day in a pillar of a that I am the LORD.
all that openeth the hand, and for frontlets cloud, to lead them the And they did so. 5And it
matrix, and every between thine eyes: for way; and by night in a was told the king of
firstling that cometh of a by strength of hand the pillar of fire, to give Egypt that the people
beast which thou hast; LORD brought us forth them light; to go by day fled: and the heart of
the males shall be the out of Egypt. and night: 22He took not Pharaoh and of his
LORD’S. 13
And every 17
And it came to pass, away the pillar of the servants was turned
firstling of an ass thou when Pharaoh had let cloud by day, nor the against the people, and
shalt redeem with a the people go, that God pillar of fire by night, they said, Why have we
lambb; and if thou wilt led them not through the from before the people. done this, that we have
not redeem it, then thou way of the land of the let Israel go from
shalt break his neck: and Philistines, although that Chapter 14 serving us? 6And he
all the firstborn of man was near; for God said, c
made ready his chariot,
Lest peradventure the harnessed: or, by five in a and took his people
b
lamb: or, kid rank
with him: 7And he took carry us forth out of Egyptians, and they shall divided. 22
And the
six hundred chosen Egypt? 12Is not this the follow them: and I will children of Israel went
chariots, and all the word that we did tell get me honour upon into the midst of the
chariots of Egypt, and thee in Egypt, saying, Pharaoh, and upon all his sea upon the dry
captains over every one Let us alone, that we host, upon his chariots, ground: and the waters
of them. 8And the LORD may serve the and upon his horsemen. were a wall unto them
hardened the heart of Egyptians? For it had 18
And the Egyptians shall on their right hand, and
Pharaoh king of Egypt, been better for us to know that I am the on their left. 23And the
and he pursued after the serve the Egyptians, LORD, when I have Egyptians pursued, and
children of Israel: and than that we should die gotten me honour upon went in after them to
the children of Israel in the wilderness. 13And Pharaoh, upon his the midst of the sea,
went out with an high Moses said unto the chariots, and upon his even all Pharaoh’s
hand. 9But the Egyptians people, Fear ye not, horsemen. 19
And the horses, his chariots,
pursued after them, all stand still, and see the angel of God, which went and his horsemen.
the horses and chariots salvation of the LORD, before the camp of 24
And it came to pass,
of Pharaoh, and his which he will shew to Israel, removed and that in the morning
horsemen, and his army, you to day: for the went behind them; and watch the LORD looked
and overtook them Egyptians whom ye have the pillar of the cloud unto the host of the
encamping by the sea, seen to day, ye shall see went from before their Egyptians through the
beside Pihahiroth, before them again no more for face, and stood behind pillar of fire and of the
Baalzephon. ever. 14The LORD shall them: 20And it came cloud, and troubled the
10
And when Pharaoh fight for you, and ye between the camp of the host of the Egyptians,
drew nigh, the children shall hold your peace. Egyptians and the camp 25
And took off their
of Israel lifted up their 15
And the LORD said of Israel; and it was a chariot wheels, that
eyes, and, behold, the unto Moses, Wherefore cloud and darkness to they drave them
Egyptians marched after criest thou unto me? them, but it gave light heavily: so that the
them; and they were speak unto the children by night to these: so that Egyptians said, Let us
sore afraid: and the of Israel, that they go the one came not near flee from the face of
children of Israel cried forward: 16But lift thou the other all the night. Israel; for the LORD
out unto the LORD. 11And up thy rod, and stretch 21
And Moses stretched fighteth for them
they said unto Moses, out thine hand over the out his hand over the against the Egyptians.
Because there were no sea, and divide it: and sea; and the LORD 26
And the LORD said
graves in Egypt, hast the children of Israel caused the sea to go unto Moses, Stretch out
thou taken us away to shall go on dry ground back by a strong east thine hand over the
die in the wilderness? through the midst of the wind all that night, and sea, that the waters
wherefore hast thou sea. 17And I, behold, I will made the sea dry land, may come again upon
dealt thus with us, to harden the hearts of the and the waters were the Egyptians, upon
their chariots, and upon people feared the LORD, greatness of thine thou hast redeemed:
their horsemen. 27And and believed the LORD, excellency thou hast thou hast guided them
Moses stretched forth his and his servant Moses. overthrown them that in thy strength unto thy
hand over the sea, and rose up against thee: holy habitation. 14The
the sea returned to his Chapter 15 thou sentest forth thy people shall hear, and
strength when the wrath, which consumed be afraid: sorrow shall
morning appeared; and
1
Then sang Moses and them as stubble. 8And take hold on the
the Egyptians fled the children of Israel this with the blast of thy inhabitants of Palestina.
against it; and the LORD song unto the LORD, and nostrils the waters were 15
Then the dukes of
overthrewa the Egyptians spake, saying, I will sing gathered together, the Edom shall be amazed;
in the midst of the sea. unto the LORD, for he floods stood upright as the mighty men of
28
And the waters hath triumphed an heap, and the depths Moab, trembling shall
returned, and covered gloriously: the horse and were congealed in the take hold upon them;
the chariots, and the his rider hath he thrown heart of the sea. 9The all the inhabitants of
horsemen, and all the into the sea. 2The LORD enemy said, I will Canaan shall melt
host of Pharaoh that is my strength and song, pursue, I will overtake, I away. Fear and dread
16

came into the sea after and he is become my will divide the spoil; my shall fall upon them; by
them; there remained salvation: he is my God, lust shall be satisfied the greatness of thine
not so much as one of and I will prepare him an upon them; I will draw arm they shall be as
them. 29But the children habitation; my father’s my sword, my hand shall still as a stone; till thy
of Israel walked upon dry God, and I will exalt him. destroya them. 10
Thou people pass over, O
land in the midst of the
3
The LORD is a man of didst blow with thy wind, LORD, till the people
sea; and the waters war: the LORD is his the sea covered them: pass over, which thou
were a wall unto them name. 4
Pharaoh’s they sank as lead in the hast purchased. 17Thou
on their right hand, and chariots and his host mighty waters. 11Who is shalt bring them in, and
on their left. 30Thus the hath he cast into the like unto thee, O LORD, plant them in the
LORD saved Israel that sea: his chosen captains among the godsb? who is mountain of thine
day out of the hand of also are drowned in the like thee, glorious in inheritance, in the
the Egyptians; and Israel Red sea. 5The depths holiness, fearful in place, O LORD, which
saw the Egyptians dead have covered them: they praises, doing wonders? thou hast made for thee
upon the sea shore. sank into the bottom as 12
Thou stretchedst out to dwell in, in the
31
And Israel saw that a stone. 6Thy right hand, thy right hand, the earth Sanctuary, O Lord,
great workb which the O LORD, is become swallowed them. 13Thou which thy hands have
LORD did upon the glorious in power: thy in thy mercy hast led established. 18The LORD
Egyptians: and the right hand, O LORD, hath forth the people which shall reign for ever and
dashed in pieces the ever. 19For the horse of
a a
overthrew: Heb. shook off enemy. 7And in the destroy: or, repossess Pharaoh went in with
b b
work: Heb. hand gods: or, mighty ones?
his chariots and with his shall we drink? 25And he came unto the they bring in; and it
horsemen into the sea, cried unto the LORD; and wilderness of Sin, which shall be twice as much
and the LORD brought the LORD shewed him a is between Elim and as they gather daily.
again the waters of the tree, which when he had Sinai, on the fifteenth 6
And Moses and Aaron
sea upon them; but the cast into the waters, the day of the second month said unto all the
children of Israel went on waters were made after their departing out children of Israel, At
dry land in the midst of sweet: there he made for of the land of Egypt. even, then ye shall
the sea. 20And Miriam the them a statute and an 2
And the whole know that the LORD
prophetess, the sister of ordinance, and there he congregation of the hath brought you out
Aaron, took a timbrel in proved them, 26And said, children of Israel from the land of Egypt:
her hand; and all the If thou wilt diligently murmured against Moses 7
And in the morning,
women went out after hearken to the voice of and Aaron in the then ye shall see the
her with timbrels and the LORD thy God, and wilderness: 3
And the glory of the LORD; for
with dances. 21
And wilt do that which is right children of Israel said that he heareth your
Miriam answered them, in his sight, and wilt give unto them, Would to God murmurings against the
Sing ye to the LORD, for ear to his we had died by the hand LORD: and what are we,
he hath triumphed commandments, and of the LORD in the land that ye murmur against
gloriously; the horse and keep all his statutes, I of Egypt, when we sat by us? 8And Moses said,
his rider hath he thrown will put none of these the flesh pots, and when This shall be, when the
into the sea. diseases upon thee, we did eat bread to the LORD shall give you in
22
So Moses brought which I have brought full; for ye have brought the evening flesh to
Israel from the Red sea, upon the Egyptians: for I us forth into this eat, and in the morning
and they went out into am the LORD that wilderness, to kill this bread to the full; for
the wilderness of Shur; healeth thee. And they
27
whole assembly with that the LORD heareth
and they went three came to Elim, where hunger. 4Then said the your murmurings which
days in the wilderness, were twelve wells of LORD unto Moses, ye murmur against him:
and found no water. water, and threescore Behold, I will rain bread and what are we? your
23
And when they came to and ten palm trees: and from heaven for you; murmurings are not
Marahc, they could not they encamped there by and the people shall go against us, but against
drink of the waters of the waters. out and gather a certain the LORD. 9And Moses
Marah, for they were rate every day, that I spake unto Aaron, Say
bitter: therefore the Chapter 16 may prove them, unto all the
name of it was called whether they will walk in congregation of the
Marah. 24And the people
1
And they took their my law, or no. 5And it children of Israel, Come
murmured against journey from Elim, and shall come to pass, that near before the LORD:
Moses, saying, What all the congregation of on the sixth day they for he hath heard your
the children of Israel shall prepare that which murmurings. 10And it
c
Marah: that is Bitterness
came to pass, as Aaron said unto them, This is and when the sun waxed people on the seventh
spake unto the whole the bread which the hot, it melted. day for to gather, and
congregation of the LORD hath given you to 22
And it came to pass, they found none. 28And
children of Israel, that eat. 16This is the thing that on the sixth day the LORD said unto
they looked toward the which the LORD hath they gathered twice as Moses, How long refuse
wilderness, and, behold, commanded, Gather of it much bread, two omers ye to keep my
the glory of the LORD every man according to for one man: and all the commandments and
appeared in the cloud. his eating, an omer for rulers of the my laws? 29See, for that
11
And the LORD spake every man, according to congregation came and the LORD hath given
unto Moses, saying, 12I the number of your told Moses. 23And he said you the sabbath,
have heard the persons; take ye every unto them, This is that therefore he giveth you
murmurings of the man for them which are which the LORD hath on the sixth day the
children of Israel: speak in his tents. 17
And the said, To morrow is the bread of two days;
unto them, saying, At children of Israel did so, rest of the holy sabbath abide ye every man in
even ye shall eat flesh, and gathered, some unto the LORD: bake his place, let no man go
and in the morning ye more, some less. 18And that which ye will bake out of his place on the
shall be filled with bread; when they did mete it to day, and seethe that seventh day. 30So the
and ye shall know that I with an omer, he that ye will seethe; and that people rested on the
am the LORD your God. gathered much had which remaineth over lay seventh day. 31And the
13
And it came to pass, nothing over, and he up for you to be kept house of Israel called
that at even the quails that gathered little had until the morning. 24And the name thereof
came up, and covered no lack; they gathered they laid it up till the Manna: and it was like
the camp: and in the every man according to morning, as Moses bade: coriander seed, white;
morning the dew lay his eating. 19And Moses and it did not stink, and the taste of it was
round about the host. said, Let no man leave of neither was there any like wafers made with
14
And when the dew that it till the morning. worm therein. 25
And honey.
lay was gone up, behold, 20
Notwithstanding they Moses said, Eat that to 32
And Moses said,
upon the face of the hearkened not unto day; for to day is a This is the thing which
wilderness there lay a Moses; but some of them sabbath unto the LORD: the LORD commandeth,
small round thing, as left of it until the to day ye shall not find it Fill an omer of it to be
small as the hoar frost morning, and it bred in the field. 26Six days ye kept for your
on the ground. 15And worms, and stank: and shall gather it; but on generations; that they
when the children of Moses was wroth with the seventh day, which may see the bread
Israel saw it, they said them. 21
And they is the sabbath, in it there wherewith I have fed
one to another, It is gathered it every shall be none. 27And it you in the wilderness,
manna: for they wist not morning, every man came to pass, that there when I brought you
what it was. And Moses according to his eating: went out some of the forth from the land of
Egypt. 33And Moses said And Moses said unto Massaha, and Meribah, the other on the other
unto Aaron, Take a pot, them, Why chide ye with because of the chiding of side; and his hands
and put an omer full of me? wherefore do ye the children of Israel, were steady until the
manna therein, and lay it tempt the LORD? 3And and because they going down of the sun.
up before the LORD, to the people thirsted there tempted the LORD, 13
And Joshua
be kept for your for water; and the people saying, Is the LORD discomfited Amalek and
generations. 34As the murmured against among us, or not? his people with the
LORD commanded Moses, and said, 8
Then came Amalek, edge of the sword.
Moses, so Aaron laid it Wherefore is this that and fought with Israel in 14
And the LORD said
up before the Testimony, thou hast brought us up Rephidim. 9And Moses unto Moses, Write this
to be kept. 35And the out of Egypt, to kill us said unto Joshuab, for a memorial in a
children of Israel did eat and our children and our Choose us out men, and book, and rehearse it in
manna forty years, until cattle with thirst? 4And go out, fight with the ears of Joshua: for I
they came to a land Moses cried unto the Amalek: to morrow I will will utterly put out the
inhabited; they did eat LORD, saying, What shall stand on the top of the remembrance of
manna, until they came I do unto this people? hill with the rod of God in Amalek from under
unto the borders of the they be almost ready to mine hand. 10So Joshua heaven. 15And Moses
land of Canaan. 36Now an stone me. 5And the LORD did as Moses had said to built an altar, and
omer is the tenth part of said unto Moses, Go on him, and fought with called the name of it
an ephah. before the people, and Amalek: and Moses, Jehovahnissic: 16For he
take with thee of the Aaron, and Hur went up said, Because the LORD
Chapter 17 elders of Israel; and thy to the top of the hill. hath sworn that the
rod, wherewith thou 11
And it came to pass, LORD will have war with
1
And all the smotest the river, take in when Moses held up his Amalek from generation
congregation of the thine hand, and go. hand, that Israel to generation.
children of Israel 6
Behold, I will stand prevailed: and when he
journeyed from the before thee there upon let down his hand, Chapter 18
wilderness of Sin, after the rock in Horeb; and Amalek prevailed. 12But
their journeys, according thou shalt smite the Moses’ hands were When Jethro, the
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to the commandment of rock, and there shall heavy; and they took a priest of Midian, Moses’
the LORD, and pitched in come water out of it, stone, and put it under father in law, heard of
Rephidim: and there was that the people may him, and he sat thereon; all that God had done
no water for the people drink. And Moses did so and Aaron and Hur for Moses, and for Israel
to drink. 2Wherefore the in the sight of the elders stayed up his hands, the his people, and that the
people did chide with of Israel. 7And he called one on the one side, and LORD had brought
Moses, and said, Give us the name of the place a c
water that we may drink. Massah: that is, Temptation Jehovahnissi: that is, The
b
Joshua: called Jesus LORD my banner
Israel out of Egypt; 2Then welfarec; and they came the elders of Israel, to thou, and this people
Jethro, Moses’ father in into the tent. 8
And eat bread with Moses’ that is with thee: for
law, took Zipporah, Moses told his father in father in law before God. this thing is too heavy
Moses’ wife, after he had law all that the LORD 13
And it came to pass for thee; thou art not
sent her back, 3And her had done unto Pharaoh on the morrow, that able to perform it
two sons; of which the and to the Egyptians for Moses sat to judge the thyself alone.
name of the one was Israel’s sake, and all the people: and the people 19
Hearken now unto my
Gershoma; for he said, I travail that had comed stood by Moses from the voice, I will give thee
have been an alien in a upon them by the way, morning unto the counsel, and God shall
strange land: 4And the and how the LORD evening. 14
And when be with thee: Be thou
name of the other was delivered them. 9
And Moses’ father in law saw for the people to God-
Eliezerb; for the God of Jethro rejoiced for all the all that he did to the ward, that thou mayest
my father, said he, was goodness which the people, he said, What is bring the causes unto
mine help, and delivered LORD had done to Israel, this thing that thou doest God: 20And thou shalt
me from the sword of whom he had delivered to the people? why teach them ordinances
Pharaoh: 5
And Jethro, out of the hand of the sittest thou thyself and laws, and shalt
Moses’ father in law, Egyptians. 10And Jethro alone, and all the people shew them the way
came with his sons and said, Blessed be the stand by thee from wherein they must
his wife unto Moses into LORD, who hath morning unto even? walk, and the work that
the wilderness, where he delivered you out of the 15
And Moses said unto they must do.
encamped at the mount hand of the Egyptians, his father in law, 21
Moreover thou shalt
of God: 6And he said and out of the hand of Because the people provide out of all the
unto Moses, I thy father Pharaoh, who hath come unto me to enquire people able men, such
in law Jethro am come delivered the people of God: 16When they as fear God, men of
unto thee, and thy wife, from under the hand of have a matter, they truth, hating
and her two sons with the Egyptians. 11Now I come unto me; and I covetousness; and
her. know that the LORD is judge between onee and place such over them,
7
And Moses went out greater than all gods: for another, and I do make to be rulers of
to meet his father in law, in the thing wherein they them know the statutes thousands, and rulers of
and did obeisance, and dealt proudly he was of God, and his laws. hundreds, rulers of
kissed him; and they above them. 12
And 17
And Moses’ father in fifties, and rulers of
asked each other of their Jethro, Moses’ father in law said unto him, The tens: 22And let them
law, took a burnt offering thing that thou doest is judge the people at all
a
and sacrifices for God: not good. 18Thou wilt seasons: and it shall be,
Gershom: that is A stranger and Aaron came, and all surely wear away, both that every great matter
there they shall bring unto
b c e
Eliezer: that is, My God is an welfare: Heb. peace one...: Heb. a man and his thee, but every small
d
help come...: Heb. found them fellow
matter they shall judge: out of the land of Egypt, and called for the elders not up into the mount,
so shall it be easier for the same day came they of the people, and laid or touch the border of
thyself, and they shall into the wilderness of before their faces all it: whosoever toucheth
bear the burden with Sinai. 2For they were these words which the the mount shall be
thee. 23If thou shalt do departed from Rephidim, LORD commanded him. surely put to death:
this thing, and God and were come to the 8
And all the people 13
There shall not an
command thee so, then desert of Sinai, and had answered together, and hand touch it, but he
thou shalt be able to pitched in the said, All that the LORD shall surely be stoned,
endure, and all this wilderness; and there hath spoken we will do. or shot through;
people shall also go to Israel camped before the And Moses returned the whether it be beast or
their place in peace. 24So mount. 3And Moses went words of the people unto man, it shall not live:
Moses hearkened to the up unto God, and the the LORD. when the trumpeta
voice of his father in law, LORD called unto him 9
And the LORD said soundeth long, they
and did all that he had out of the mountain, unto Moses, Lo, I come shall come up to the
said. 25And Moses chose saying, Thus shalt thou unto thee in a thick mount. 14
And Moses
able men out of all say to the house of cloud, that the people went down from the
Israel, and made them Jacob, and tell the may hear when I speak mount unto the people,
heads over the people, children of Israel; 4Ye with thee, and believe and sanctified the
rulers of thousands, have seen what I did thee for ever. And Moses people; and they
rulers of hundreds, rulers unto the Egyptians, and told the words of the washed their clothes.
of fifties, and rulers of how I bare you on people unto the LORD. 15
And he said unto the
tens. 26And they judged eagles’ wings, and 10
And the LORD said unto people, Be ready
the people at all brought you unto myself. Moses, Go unto the against the third day:
seasons: the hard causes 5
Now therefore, if ye will people, and sanctify come not at your wives.
they brought unto obey my voice indeed, them to day and to 16
And it came to pass
Moses, but every small and keep my covenant, morrow, and let them on the third day in the
matter they judged then ye shall be a wash their clothes, 11And morning, that there
themselves. And Moses
27
peculiar treasure unto be ready against the were thunders and
let his father in law me above all people: for third day: for the third lightnings, and a thick
depart; and he went his all the earth is mine: day the LORD will come cloud upon the mount,
way into his own land. 6
And ye shall be unto me down in the sight of all and the voice of the
a kingdom of priests, the people upon mount trumpet exceeding
Chapter 19 and an holy nation. Sinai. 12And thou shalt loud; so that all the
These are the words set bounds unto the people that was in the
1
In the third month, which thou shalt speak people round about, camp trembled. 17And
when the children of unto the children of saying, Take heed to Moses brought forth the
Israel were gone forth Israel. 7And Moses came yourselves, that ye go a
trumpet: or, cornet
people out of the camp said unto the LORD, The water under the earth: that in them is, and
to meet with God; and people cannot come up 5
Thou shalt not bow rested the seventh day:
they stood at the nether to mount Sinai: for thou down thyself to them, wherefore the LORD
part of the mount. 18And chargedst us, saying, Set nor serve them: for I the blessed the sabbath
mount Sinai was bounds about the mount, LORD thy God am a day, and hallowed it.
altogether on a smoke, and sanctify it. 24And the jealous God, visiting the 12
Honour thy father
because the LORD LORD said unto him, iniquity of the fathers and thy mother: that
descended upon it in Away, get thee down, upon the children unto thy days may be long
fire: and the smoke and thou shalt come up, the third and fourth upon the land which the
thereof ascended as the thou, and Aaron with generation of them that LORD thy God giveth
smoke of a furnace, and thee: but let not the hate me; 6And shewing thee. 13Thou shalt not
the whole mount quaked priests and the people mercy unto thousands of kill. 14Thou shalt not
greatly. 19And when the break through to come them that love me, and commit adultery. 15Thou
voice of the trumpet up unto the LORD, lest keep my shalt not steal. 16Thou
sounded long, and he break forth upon commandments. 7Thou shalt not bear false
waxed louder and them. 25So Moses went shalt not take the name witness against thy
louder, Moses spake, down unto the people, of the LORD thy God in neighbour. 17Thou shalt
and God answered him and spake unto them. vain; for the LORD will not covet thy
by a voice. 20And the not hold him guiltless neighbour’s house, thou
LORD came down upon Chapter 20 that taketh his name in shalt not covet thy
mount Sinai, on the top vain. 8Remember the neighbour’s wife, nor
of the mount: and the And God spake all
1
sabbath day, to keep it his manservant, nor his
LORD called Moses up to these words, saying, 2I holy. 9Six days shalt thou maidservant, nor his ox,
the top of the mount; am the LORD thy God, labour, and do all thy nor his ass, nor any
and Moses went up. which have brought thee work: 10But the seventh thing that is thy
21
And the LORD said unto out of the land of Egypt, day is the sabbath of the neighbour’s.
Moses, Go down, chargeb out of the house of LORD thy God: in it thou 18
And all the people
the people, lest they bondagea. 3
Thou shalt shalt not do any work, saw the thunderings,
break through unto the have no other gods thou, nor thy son, nor and the lightnings, and
LORD to gaze, and many before me. 4Thou shalt thy daughter, thy the noise of the
of them perish. 22And let not make unto thee any manservant, nor thy trumpet, and the
the priests also, which graven image, or any maidservant, nor thy mountain smoking: and
come near to the LORD, likeness of any thing that cattle, nor thy stranger when the people saw it,
sanctify themselves, lest is in heaven above, or that is within thy gates: they removed, and
the LORD break forth that is in the earth 11
For in six days the stood afar off. 19And
upon them. 23And Moses beneath, or that is in the LORD made heaven and they said unto Moses,
b a
earth, the sea, and all Speak thou with us, and
charge: Heb. contest bondage: Heb. servants
we will hear: but let not hewn stone: for if thou free: 6Then his master man, so that he die,
God speak with us, lest lift up thy tool upon it, shall bring him unto the shall be surely put to
we die. 20And Moses said thou hast polluted it. judges; he shall also death. 13And if a man lie
unto the people, Fear 26
Neither shalt thou go bring him to the door, or not in wait, but God
not: for God is come to up by steps unto mine unto the door post; and deliver him into his
prove you, and that his altar, that thy nakedness his master shall bore his hand; then I will appoint
fear may be before your be not discovered ear through with an aul; thee a place whither he
faces, that ye sin not. thereon. and he shall serve him shall flee. 14But if a man
21
And the people stood for ever. 7And if a man come presumptuously
afar off, and Moses drew Chapter 21 sell his daughter to be a upon his neighbour, to
near unto the thick maidservant, she shall slay him with guile;
darkness where God
1
Now these are the not go out as the thou shalt take him
was. judgments which thou menservants do. 8If she from mine altar, that he
22
And the LORD said shalt set before them. 2If pleaseb not her master, may die. 15And he that
unto Moses, Thus thou thou buy an Hebrew who hath betrothed her smiteth his father, or
shalt say unto the servant, six years he to himself, then shall he his mother, shall be
children of Israel, Ye shall serve: and in the let her be redeemed: to surely put to death.
have seen that I have seventh he shall go out sell her unto a strange 16
And he that stealeth a
talked with you from free for nothing. 3If he nation he shall have no man, and selleth him,
heaven. 23Ye shall not came in by himselfa, he power, seeing he hath or if he be found in his
make with me gods of shall go out by himself: if dealt deceitfully with hand, he shall surely be
silver, neither shall ye he were married, then her. 9
And if he have put to death. 17And he
make unto you gods of his wife shall go out with betrothed her unto his that cursethc his father,
gold. 24An altar of earth him. 4If his master have son, he shall deal with or his mother, shall
thou shalt make unto given him a wife, and her after the manner of surely be put to death.
me, and shalt sacrifice she have born him sons daughters. 10If he take 18
And if men strive
thereon thy burnt or daughters; the wife him another wife; her together, and one smite
offerings, and thy peace and her children shall be food, her raiment, and anotherd with a stone,
offerings, thy sheep, and her master’s, and he her duty of marriage, or with his fist, and he
thine oxen: in all places shall go out by himself. shall he not diminish. die not, but keepeth his
where I record my name
5
And if the servant shall 11
And if he do not these bed: 19If he rise again,
I will come unto thee, plainly say, I love my three unto her, then and walk abroad upon
and I will bless thee. master, my wife, and my shall she go out free his staff, then shall he
25
And if thou wilt make children; I will not go out without money. that smote him be quit:
me an altar of stone, 12
He that smiteth a only he shall pay for the
thou shalt not buildb it of hewing
a b c
by himself: Heb. with his please...: Heb. be evil in the curseth: or, revileth
b d
build...: Heb. build them with body eyes of, etc another: or, his neighbour
loss of his time, and shall out his manservant’s and the ox shall be shed for him. 3If the sun
cause him to be tooth, or his stoned. 33And if a man be risen upon him,
thoroughly healed. maidservant’s tooth; he shall open a pit, or if a there shall be blood
20
And if a man smite his shall let him go free for man shall dig a pit, and shed for him; for he
servant, or his maid, his tooth’s sake. 28If an not cover it, and an ox or should make full
with a rod, and he die ox gore a man or a an ass fall therein; 34The restitution; if he have
under his hand; he shall woman, that they die: owner of the pit shall nothing, then he shall
be surely punishede. then the ox shall be make it good, and give be sold for his theft. 4If
21
Notwithstanding, if he surely stoned, and his money unto the owner of the theft be certainly
continue a day or two, flesh shall not be eaten; them; and the dead found in his hand alive,
he shall not be punished: but the owner of the ox beast shall be his. 35And whether it be ox, or ass,
for he is his money. shall be quit. 29But if the if one man’s ox hurt or sheep; he shall
22
If men strive, and ox were wont to push another’s, that he die; restore double. 5If a
hurt a woman with child, with his horn in time then they shall sell the man shall cause a field
so that her fruit depart past, and it hath been live ox, and divide the or vineyard to be eaten,
from her, and yet no testified to his owner, money of it; and the and shall put in his
mischief follow: he shall and he hath not kept him dead ox also they shall beast, and shall feed in
be surely punished, in, but that he hath killed divide. 36Or if it be known another man’s field; of
according as the a man or a woman; the that the ox hath used to the best of his own
woman’s husband will ox shall be stoned, and push in time past, and field, and of the best of
lay upon him; and he his owner also shall be his owner hath not kept his own vineyard, shall
shall pay as the judges put to death. 30If there him in; he shall surely he make restitution. 6If
determine. 23And if any be laid on him a sum of pay ox for ox; and the fire break out, and
mischief follow, then money, then he shall dead shall be his own. catch in thorns, so that
thou shalt give life for give for the ransom of the stacks of corn, or
life, 24Eye for eye, tooth his life whatsoever is laid Chapter 22 the standing corn, or
for tooth, hand for hand, upon him. 31Whether he the field, be consumed
foot for foot, 25Burning have gored a son, or If a man shall steal
1
therewith; he that
for burning, wound for have gored a daughter, an ox, or a sheepa, and kindled the fire shall
wound, stripe for stripe. according to this kill it, or sell it; he shall surely make restitution.
26
And if a man smite the judgment shall it be restore five oxen for an 7
If a man shall
eye of his servant, or the done unto him. 32If the ox, and four sheep for a deliver unto his
eye of his maid, that it ox shall push a sheep. 2
If a thief be neighbour money or
perish; he shall let him manservant or a found breaking up, and stuff to keep, and it be
go free for his eye’s maidservant; he shall be smitten that he die, stolen out of the man’s
sake. 27And if he smite give unto their master there shall no blood be house; if the thief be
e
thirty shekels of silver, a
found, let him pay
punished: Heb. avenged or a sheep: or, or a goat
double. 8If the thief be torn in pieces, then let land of Egypt. 22Ye shall firstborn of thy sons
not found, then the him bring it for witness, not afflict any widow, or shalt thou give unto
master of the house shall and he shall not make fatherless child. 23If thou me. 30
Likewise shalt
be brought unto the good that which was afflict them in any wise, thou do with thine
judges, to see whether torn. 14And if a man and they cry at all unto oxen, and with thy
he have put his hand borrow ought of his me, I will surely hear sheep: seven days it
unto his neighbour’s neighbour, and it be their cry; 24And my wrath shall be with his dam;
goods. For all manner of
9
hurt, or die, the owner shall wax hot, and I will on the eighth day thou
trespass, whether it be thereof being not with it, kill you with the sword; shalt give it me. 31And
for ox, for ass, for sheep, he shall surely make it and your wives shall be ye shall be holy men
for raiment, or for any good. 15But if the owner widows, and your unto me: neither shall
manner of lost thing, thereof be with it, he children fatherless. ye eat any flesh that is
which another shall not make it good: if 25
If thou lend money torn of beasts in the
challengeth to be his, it be an hired thing, it to any of my people that field; ye shall cast it to
the cause of both parties came for his hire. is poor by thee, thou the dogs.
shall come before the 16
And if a man entice shalt not be to him as an
judges; and whom the a maid that is not usurer, neither shalt Chapter 23
judges shall condemn, betrothed, and lie with thou lay upon him usury.
he shall pay double unto her, he shall surely 26
If thou at all take thy Thou shalt not raisea
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his neighbour. 10If a man endow her to be his wife. neighbour’s raiment to a false report: put not
deliver unto his 17
If her father utterly pledge, thou shalt thine hand with the
neighbour an ass, or an refuse to give her unto deliver it unto him by wicked to be an
ox, or a sheep, or any him, he shall payb money that the sun goeth down: unrighteous witness.
beast, to keep; and it according to the dowry 27
For that is his covering
2
Thou shalt not follow a
die, or be hurt, or driven of virgins. 18Thou shalt only, it is his raiment for multitude to do evil;
away, no man seeing it: not suffer a witch to live. his skin: wherein shall he neither shalt thou
11
Then shall an oath of 19
Whosoever lieth with a sleep? and it shall come speakb in a cause to
the LORD be between beast shall surely be put to pass, when he crieth decline after many to
them both, that he hath to death. 20He that unto me, that I will hear; wrest judgment:
not put his hand unto his sacrificeth unto any god, for I am gracious. 28Thou
3
Neither shalt thou
neighbour’s goods; and save unto the LORD shalt not revile the countenance a poor
the owner of it shall only, he shall be utterly godsc, nor curse the ruler man in his cause. 4If
accept thereof, and he destroyed. 21Thou shalt of thy people. 29
Thou thou meet thine
shall not make it good. neither vex a stranger, shalt not delay to offer enemy’s ox or his ass
12
And if it be stolen from nor oppress him: for ye the first of thy ripe fruits, going astray, thou shalt
him, he shall make were strangers in the and of thy liquors: the a
restitution unto the raise: or, receive
b c b
owner thereof. If it be
13 pay: Heb. weigh gods: or, judges speak: Heb. answer
surely bring it back to eat. In like manner thou ingathering, which is in adversaryg unto thine
him again. 5If thou see shalt deal with thy the end of the year, adversaries. 23For mine
the ass of him that vineyard, and with thy when thou hast gathered Angel shall go before
hateth thee lying under oliveyarde. 12
Six days in thy labours out of the thee, and bring thee in
his burden, and wouldest thou shalt do thy work, field. 17Three times in the unto the Amorites, and
forbear to help him, thou and on the seventh day year all thy males shall the Hittites, and the
shalt surely help with thou shalt rest: that appear before the Lord Perizzites, and the
him. 6
Thou shalt not thine ox and thine ass GOD. 18Thou shalt not Canaanites, the Hivites,
wrest the judgment of may rest, and the son of offer the blood of my and the Jebusites: and I
thy poor in his cause. thy handmaid, and the sacrificef with leavened will cut them off. 24Thou
7
Keep thee far from a stranger, may be bread; neither shall the shalt not bow down to
false matter; and the refreshed. 13
And in all fat of my sacrifice their gods, nor serve
innocent and righteous things that I have said remain until the them, nor do after their
slay thou not: for I will unto you be morning. 19
The first of works: but thou shalt
not justify the wicked. circumspect: and make the firstfruits of thy land utterly overthrow them,
8
And thou shalt take no no mention of the name thou shalt bring into the and quite break down
gift: for the gift blindeth of other gods, neither let house of the LORD thy their images. 25And ye
the wisec, and perverteth it be heard out of thy God. Thou shalt not shall serve the LORD
the words of the mouth. 14Three times seethe a kid in his your God, and he shall
righteous. 9
Also thou thou shalt keep a feast mother’s milk. bless thy bread, and thy
shalt not oppress a unto me in the year. 20
Behold, I send an water; and I will take
stranger: for ye know the 15
Thou shalt keep the Angel before thee, to sickness away from the
heartd of a stranger, feast of unleavened keep thee in the way, midst of thee. 26There
seeing ye were strangers bread: (thou shalt eat and to bring thee into shall nothing cast their
in the land of Egypt. unleavened bread seven the place which I have young, nor be barren, in
10
And six years thou days, as I commanded prepared. 21Beware of thy land: the number of
shalt sow thy land, and thee, in the time him, and obey his voice, thy days I will fulfil. 27I
shalt gather in the fruits appointed of the month provoke him not; for he will send my fear before
thereof: 11
But the Abib; for in it thou will not pardon your thee, and will destroy
seventh year thou shalt camest out from Egypt: transgressions: for my all the people to whom
let it rest and lie still; and none shall appear name is in him. 22But if thou shalt come, and I
that the poor of thy before me empty:) 16And thou shalt indeed obey will make all thine
people may eat: and the feast of harvest, the his voice, and do all that enemies turn their
what they leave the firstfruits of thy labours, I speak; then I will be an backs unto thee. And
h 28

beasts of the field shall which thou hast sown in enemy unto thine g
the field: and the feast of enemies, and an an adversary...: or, I will
c
the wise: Heb. the seeing afflict them that afflict thee
d e f h
heart: Heb. soul oliveyard: or, olive trees sacrifice: or, feast backs: Heb. neck
I will send hornets before 1
And he said unto sprinkled on the altar. a law, and
thee, which shall drive Moses, Come up unto 7
And he took the book of commandments which I
out the Hivite, the the LORD, thou, and the covenant, and read have written; that thou
Canaanite, and the Aaron, Nadab, and in the audience of the mayest teach them.
Hittite, from before thee. Abihu, and seventy of people: and they said, All 13
And Moses rose up,
29
I will not drive them out the elders of Israel; and that the LORD hath said and his minister Joshua:
from before thee in one worship ye afar off. 2And will we do, and be and Moses went up into
year; lest the land Moses alone shall come obedient. 8And Moses the mount of God. 14And
become desolate, and near the LORD: but they took the blood, and he said unto the elders,
the beast of the field shall not come nigh; sprinkled it on the Tarry ye here for us,
multiply against thee. neither shall the people people, and said, Behold until we come again
30
By little and little I will go up with him. 3And the blood of the unto you: and, behold,
drive them out from Moses came and told the covenant, which the Aaron and Hur are with
before thee, until thou people all the words of LORD hath made with you: if any man have
be increased, and inherit the LORD, and all the you concerning all these any matters to do, let
the land. 31And I will set judgments: and all the words. him come unto them.
thy bounds from the Red people answered with 9
Then went up Moses, 15
And Moses went up
sea even unto the sea of one voice, and said, All and Aaron, Nadab, and into the mount, and a
the Philistines, and from the words which the Abihu, and seventy of cloud covered the
the desert unto the river: LORD hath said will we the elders of Israel: 10And mount. And the glory
16

for I will deliver the do. 4And Moses wrote all they saw the God of of the LORD abode
inhabitants of the land the words of the LORD, Israel: and there was upon mount Sinai, and
into your hand; and thou and rose up early in the under his feet as it were the cloud covered it six
shalt drive them out morning, and builded an a paved work of a days: and the seventh
before thee. 32Thou shalt altar under the hill, and sapphire stone, and as it day he called unto
make no covenant with twelve pillars, according were the body of heaven Moses out of the midst
them, nor with their to the twelve tribes of in his clearness. 11And of the cloud. 17And the
gods. 33They shall not Israel. 5And he sent upon the nobles of the sight of the glory of the
dwell in thy land, lest young men of the children of Israel he laid LORD was like
they make thee sin children of Israel, which not his hand: also they devouring fire on the
against me: for if thou offered burnt offerings, saw God, and did eat top of the mount in the
serve their gods, it will and sacrificed peace and drink. eyes of the children of
surely be a snare unto offerings of oxen unto 12
And the LORD said Israel. 18
And Moses
thee. the LORD. 6And Moses unto Moses, Come up to went into the midst of
took half of the blood, me into the mount, and the cloud, and gat him
Chapter 24 and put it in basons; and be there: and I will give up into the mount: and
half of the blood he thee tables of stone, and Moses was in the mount
forty days and forty pattern of all the give thee. 17And thou seat, from between the
nights. instruments thereof, shalt make a mercy seat two cherubims which
even so shall ye make it. of pure gold: two cubits are upon the ark of the
Chapter 25 10
And they shall make and a half shall be the testimony, of all things
an ark of shittim wood: length thereof, and a which I will give thee in
And the LORD spake
1
two cubits and a half cubit and a half the commandment unto the
unto Moses, saying, shall be the length breadth thereof. 18And children of Israel.
2
Speak unto the children thereof, and a cubit and thou shalt make two 23
Thou shalt also
of Israel, that they bring a half the breadth cherubims of gold, of make a table of shittim
me an offering: of every thereof, and a cubit and beaten work shalt thou wood: two cubits shall
man that giveth it a half the height thereof. make them, in the two be the length thereof,
willingly with his heart 11
And thou shalt overlay ends of the mercy seat. and a cubit the breadth
ye shall take my it with pure gold, within 19
And make one cherub thereof, and a cubit and
offering. And this is the
3
and without shalt thou on the one end, and the a half the height
offeringa which ye shall overlay it, and shalt other cherub on the thereof. 24
And thou
take of them; gold, and make upon it a crown of other end: even of the shalt overlay it with
silver, and brass, 4And gold round about. 12And mercy seat shall ye pure gold, and make
blue, and purple, and thou shalt cast four rings make the cherubims on thereto a crown of gold
scarlet, and fine linen, of gold for it, and put the two ends thereof. round about. 25And thou
and goats’ hair, 5
And them in the four corners 20
And the cherubims shalt make unto it a
rams’ skins dyed red, thereof; and two rings shall stretch forth their border of an hand
and badgers’ skins, and shall be in the one side wings on high, covering breadth round about,
shittim wood, 6Oil for the of it, and two rings in the the mercy seat with their and thou shalt make a
light, spices for anointing other side of it. 13And wings, and their faces golden crown to the
oil, and for sweet thou shalt make staves shall look one to border thereof round
incense, Onyx stones,
7
of shittim wood, and another; toward the about. 26And thou shalt
and stones to be set in overlay them with gold. mercy seat shall the make for it four rings of
the ephod, and in the 14
And thou shalt put the faces of the cherubims gold, and put the rings
breastplate. 8
And let staves into the rings by be. 21And thou shalt put in the four corners that
them make me a the sides of the ark, that the mercy seat above are on the four feet
sanctuary; that I may the ark may be borne upon the ark; and in the thereof. 27Over against
dwell among them. with them. 15The staves ark thou shalt put the the border shall the
9
According to all that I shall be in the rings of testimony that I shall rings be for places of
shew thee, after the the ark: they shall not be give thee. 22And there I the staves to bear the
pattern of the taken from it. 16And thou will meet with thee, and I table. 28And thou shalt
tabernacle, and the shalt put into the ark the will commune with thee make the staves of
a
testimony which I shall from above the mercy shittim wood, and
offering: or, heave offering
overlay them with gold, candlestick. 34And in the Chapter 26 curtain that is in the
that the table may be candlestick shall be four coupling of the second;
borne with them. 29And bowls made like unto 1
Moreover thou shalt that the loops may take
thou shalt make the almonds, with their make the tabernacle hold one of another.
dishes thereof, and knops and their flowers. with ten curtains of fine 6
And thou shalt make
spoons thereof, and 35
And there shall be a twined linen, and blue, fifty taches of gold, and
covers thereof, and knop under two and purple, and scarlet: couple the curtains
bowls thereof, to cover branches of the same, with cherubims of together with the
withal: of pure gold shalt and a knop under two cunninga work shalt thou taches: and it shall be
thou make them. 30And branches of the same, make them. 2The length one tabernacle.
thou shalt set upon the and a knop under two of one curtain shall be 7
And thou shalt
table shewbread before branches of the same, eight and twenty cubits, make curtains of goats’
me alway. according to the six and the breadth of one hair to be a covering
31
And thou shalt make branches that proceed curtain four cubits: and upon the tabernacle:
a candlestick of pure out of the candlestick. every one of the curtains eleven curtains shalt
gold: of beaten work 36
Their knops and their shall have one measure. thou make. 8The length
shall the candlestick be branches shall be of the 3
The five curtains shall of one curtain shall be
made: his shaft, and his same: all it shall be one be coupled together one thirty cubits, and the
branches, his bowls, his beaten work of pure to another; and other breadth of one curtain
knops, and his flowers, gold. 37And thou shalt five curtains shall be four cubits: and the
shall be of the same. make the seven lamps coupled one to another. eleven curtains shall be
32
And six branches shall thereof: and they shall 4
And thou shalt make all of one measure.
come out of the sides of lightb the lamps thereof, loops of blue upon the 9
And thou shalt couple
it; three branches of the that they may give light edge of the one curtain five curtains by
candlestick out of the over against it. 38
And from the selvedge in the themselves, and six
one side, and three the tongs thereof, and coupling; and likewise curtains by themselves,
branches of the the snuffdishes thereof, shalt thou make in the and shalt double the
candlestick out of the shall be of pure gold. uttermost edge of sixth curtain in the
other side: 33Three bowls 39
Of a talent of pure gold another curtain, in the forefront of the
made like unto almonds, shall he make it, with all coupling of the second. tabernacle. 10
And thou
with a knop and a flower these vessels. 40And look 5
Fifty loops shalt thou shalt make fifty loops
in one branch; and three that thou make them make in the one curtain, on the edge of the one
bowls made like almonds after their pattern, which and fifty loops shalt thou curtain that is outmost
in the other branch, with was shewed thee in the make in the edge of the in the coupling, and
a knop and a flower: so mount. a
fifty loops in the edge
in the six branches that of cunning...: Heb. the work of the curtain which
b
come out of the shall light: or, shall cause to of a cunning workman, or, coupleth the second.
ascend embroiderer
11
And thou shalt make be in one board, set in be coupled together 31
And thou shalt
fifty taches of brass, and order one against above the head of it unto make a vail of blue, and
put the taches into the another: thus shalt thou one ring: thus shall it be purple, and scarlet, and
loops, and couple the make for all the boards for them both; they shall fine twined linen of
tentb together, that it of the tabernacle. 18And be for the two corners. cunning work: with
may be one. 12And the thou shalt make the 25
And they shall be eight cherubims shall it be
remnant that remaineth boards for the boards, and their sockets made: 32And thou shalt
of the curtains of the tabernacle, twenty of silver, sixteen sockets; hang it upon four pillars
tent, the half curtain that boards on the south side two sockets under one of shittim wood overlaid
remaineth, shall hang southward. 19And thou board, and two sockets with gold: their hooks
over the backside of the shalt make forty sockets under another board. shall be of gold, upon
tabernacle. 13And a cubit of silver under the 26
And thou shalt make the four sockets of
on the one side, and a twenty boards; two bars of shittim wood; five silver. 33And thou shalt
cubit on the other side of sockets under one board for the boards of the one hang up the vail under
that which remaineth in for his two tenons, and side of the tabernacle, the taches, that thou
the length of the curtains two sockets under 27
And five bars for the mayest bring in thither
of the tent, it shall hang another board for his two boards of the other side within the vail the ark
over the sides of the tenons. 20And for the of the tabernacle, and of the testimony: and
tabernacle on this side second side of the five bars for the boards the vail shall divide
and on that side, to tabernacle on the north of the side of the unto you between the
cover it. 14
And thou side there shall be tabernacle, for the two holy place and the most
shalt make a covering twenty boards: 21And sides westward. 28And holy. 34And thou shalt
for the tent of rams’ their forty sockets of the middle bar in the put the mercy seat
skins dyed red, and a silver; two sockets under midst of the boards shall upon the ark of the
covering above of one board, and two reach from end to end. testimony in the most
badgers’ skins. sockets under another 29
And thou shalt overlay holy place. 35And thou
15
And thou shalt make board. 22And for the the boards with gold, shalt set the table
boards for the sides of the tabernacle and make their rings of without the vail, and
tabernacle of shittim westward thou shalt gold for places for the the candlestick over
wood standing up. 16Ten make six boards. And 23
bars: and thou shalt against the table on the
cubits shall be the length two boards shalt thou overlay the bars with side of the tabernacle
of a board, and a cubit make for the corners of gold. 30And thou shalt toward the south: and
and a half shall be the the tabernacle in the two rear up the tabernacle thou shalt put the table
breadth of one board. sides. 24And they shall be according to the fashion on the north side. 36And
17
Two tenonsc shall there coupledd together thereof which was thou shalt make an
b
beneath, and they shall shewed thee in the hanging for the door of
tent: or, covering mount. the tent, of blue, and
c d
tenons: Heb. hands coupled: Heb. twinned
purple, and scarlet, and network of brass; and the north side in length with silver; their hooks
fine twined linen, upon the net shalt thou there shall be hangings shall be of silver, and
wrought with make four brasen rings of an hundred cubits their sockets of brass.
needlework. 37
And thou in the four corners long, and his twenty 18
The length of the
shalt make for the thereof. 5And thou shalt pillars and their twenty court shall be an
hanging five pillars of put it under the compass sockets of brass; the hundred cubits, and the
shittim wood, and of the altar beneath, that hooks of the pillars and breadth fiftya every
overlay them with gold, the net may be even to their fillets of silver. where, and the height
and their hooks shall be the midst of the altar. 12
And for the breadth of five cubits of fine
of gold: and thou shalt 6
And thou shalt make the court on the west twined linen, and their
cast five sockets of brass staves for the altar, side shall be hangings of sockets of brass. 19All
for them. staves of shittim wood, fifty cubits: their pillars the vessels of the
and overlay them with ten, and their sockets tabernacle in all the
Chapter 27 brass. 7And the staves ten. 13And the breadth of service thereof, and all
shall be put into the the court on the east the pins thereof, and all
1
And thou shalt make rings, and the staves side eastward shall be the pins of the court,
an altar of shittim wood, shall be upon the two fifty cubits. 14
The shall be of brass.
five cubits long, and five sides of the altar, to bear hangings of one side of 20
And thou shalt
cubits broad; the altar it. 8Hollow with boards the gate shall be fifteen command the children
shall be foursquare: and shalt thou make it: as it cubits: their pillars three, of Israel, that they bring
the height thereof shall was shewed thee in the and their sockets three. thee pure oil olive
be three cubits. 2And mount, so shall they 15
And on the other side beaten for the light, to
thou shalt make the make it. shall be hangings fifteen cause the lamp to burnb
horns of it upon the four 9
And thou shalt make cubits: their pillars three, always. 21
In the
corners thereof: his the court of the and their sockets three. tabernacle of the
horns shall be of the tabernacle: for the south 16
And for the gate of the congregation without
same: and thou shalt side southward there court shall be an the vail, which is before
overlay it with brass. shall be hangings for the hanging of twenty the testimony, Aaron
3
And thou shalt make his court of fine twined linen cubits, of blue, and and his sons shall order
pans to receive his of an hundred cubits purple, and scarlet, and it from evening to
ashes, and his shovels, long for one side: 10And fine twined linen, morning before the
and his basons, and his the twenty pillars thereof wrought with LORD: it shall be a
fleshhooks, and his and their twenty sockets needlework: and their statute for ever unto
firepans: all the vessels shall be of brass; the pillars shall be four, and their generations on the
thereof thou shalt make hooks of the pillars and their sockets four. 17All behalf of the children of
of brass. 4And thou shalt their fillets shall be of the pillars round about a
make for it a grate of silver. 11And likewise for the court shall be filleted fifty...: Heb. fifty by fifty
b
to burn: Heb. to ascend up
Israel. unto me in the priest’s children of Israel: thou settings of stones, even
office. 5And they shall shalt make them to be four rows of stones: the
Chapter 28 take gold, and blue, and set in ouches of gold. first row shall be a
purple, and scarlet, and 12
And thou shalt put the sardius, a topaz, and a
1
And take thou unto fine linen. two stones upon the carbuncle: this shall be
thee Aaron thy brother, 6
And they shall make shoulders of the ephod the first row. 18And the
and his sons with him, the ephod of gold, of for stones of memorial second row shall be an
from among the children blue, and of purple, of unto the children of emerald, a sapphire,
of Israel, that he may scarlet, and fine twined Israel: and Aaron shall and a diamond. 19And
minister unto me in the linen, with cunning work. bear their names before the third row a ligure,
priest’s office, even 7
It shall have the two the LORD upon his two an agate, and an
Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, shoulderpieces thereof shoulders for a amethyst. 20
And the
Eleazar and Ithamar, joined at the two edges memorial. 13And thou fourth row a beryl, and
Aaron’s sons. 2And thou thereof; and so it shall shalt make ouches of an onyx, and a jasper:
shalt make holy be joined together. 8And gold; 14And two chains of they shall be set in gold
garments for Aaron thy the curious girdle of the pure gold at the ends; of in their inclosingsb.
brother for glory and for ephod, which is upon it, wreathen work shalt 21
And the stones shall
beauty. 3And thou shalt shall be of the same, thou make them, and be with the names of
speak unto all that are according to the work fasten the wreathen the children of Israel,
wise hearted, whom I thereof; even of gold, of chains to the ouches. twelve, according to
have filled with the spirit blue, and purple, and 15
And thou shalt make their names, like the
of wisdom, that they scarlet, and fine twined the breastplate of engravings of a signet;
may make Aaron’s linen. 9And thou shalt judgment with cunning every one with his
garments to consecrate take two onyx stones, work; after the work of name shall they be
him, that he may and grave on them the the ephod thou shalt according to the twelve
minister unto me in the names of the children of make it; of gold, of blue, tribes. 22And thou shalt
priest’s office. 4
And Israel: 10Six of their and of purple, and of make upon the
these are the garments names on one stone, and scarlet, and of fine breastplate chains at
which they shall make; a the other six names of twined linen, shalt thou the ends of wreathen
breastplate, and an the rest on the other make it. 16Foursquare it work of pure gold. 23And
ephod, and a robe, and a stone, according to their shall be being doubled; a thou shalt make upon
broidered coat, a mitre, birth. 11With the work of span shall be the length the breastplate two
and a girdle: and they an engraver in stone, thereof, and a span shall rings of gold, and shalt
shall make holy like the engravings of a be the breadth thereof. put the two rings on the
garments for Aaron thy signet, shalt thou 17
And thou shalt seta in it two ends of the
brother, and his sons, engrave the two stones breastplate. And thou
24
a
that he may minister with the names of the set...: Heb. fill in it fillings of
b
stone inclosings: Heb. fillings
shalt put the two loosed from the ephod. of scarlet, round about embroider the coat of
wreathen chains of gold 29
And Aaron shall bear the hem thereof; and fine linen, and thou
in the two rings which the names of the bells of gold between shalt make the mitre of
are on the ends of the children of Israel in the them round about: 34A fine linen, and thou
breastplate. 25And the breastplate of judgment golden bell and a shalt make the girdle of
other two ends of the upon his heart, when he pomegranate, a golden needlework.
two wreathen chains goeth in unto the holy bell and a pomegranate, 40
And for Aaron’s
thou shalt fasten in the place, for a memorial upon the hem of the sons thou shalt make
two ouches, and put before the LORD robe round about. 35And coats, and thou shalt
them on the continually. 30
And thou it shall be upon Aaron to make for them girdles,
shoulderpieces of the shalt put in the minister: and his sound and bonnets shalt thou
ephod before it. 26And breastplate of judgment shall be heard when he make for them, for
thou shalt make two the Urim and the goeth in unto the holy glory and for beauty.
rings of gold, and thou Thummim; and they place before the LORD, 41
And thou shalt put
shalt put them upon the shall be upon Aaron’s and when he cometh them upon Aaron thy
two ends of the heart, when he goeth in out, that he die not. brother, and his sons
breastplate in the border before the LORD: and 36
And thou shalt make a with him; and shalt
thereof, which is in the Aaron shall bear the plate of pure gold, and anoint them, and
side of the ephod judgment of the children grave upon it, like the consecrated them, and
inward. And two other
27
of Israel upon his heart engravings of a signet, sanctify them, that they
rings of gold thou shalt before the LORD HOLINESS TO THE LORD. may minister unto me
make, and shalt put continually. 37
And thou shalt put it on in the priest’s office.
them on the two sides of 31
And thou shalt make a blue lace, that it may 42
And thou shalt make
the ephod underneath, the robe of the ephod all be upon the mitre; upon them linen breeches to
toward the forepart of blue. 32And there shall the forefront of the mitre cover their nakedness;
thereof, over against the be an hole in the top of it shall be. 38And it shall from the loins even
other coupling thereof, it, in the midst thereof: it be upon Aaron’s unto the thighs they
above the curious girdle shall have a binding of forehead, that Aaron shall reach: 43And they
of the ephod. 28And they woven work round about may bear the iniquity of shall be upon Aaron,
shall bind the the hole of it, as it were the holy things, which and upon his sons,
breastplate by the rings the hole of an the children of Israel when they come in unto
thereof unto the rings of habergeon, that it be not shall hallow in all their the tabernacle of the
the ephod with a lace of rent. 33And beneath upon holy gifts; and it shall be congregation, or when
blue, that it may be the hemc of it thou shalt always upon his they come near unto
above the curious girdle make pomegranates of forehead, that they may the altar to minister in
of the ephod, and that blue, and of purple, and be accepted before the d
the breastplate be not LORD. 39And thou shalt consecrate...: Heb. fill their
c
hem: or, skirts hand
the holy place; that they breastplate, and gird him altar with thy finger, and it is a sweet savour, an
bear not iniquity, and with the curious girdle of pour all the blood beside offering made by fire
die: it shall be a statute the ephod: 6And thou the bottom of the altar. unto the LORD. 19And
for ever unto him and his shalt put the mitre upon 13
And thou shalt take all thou shalt take the
seed after him. his head, and put the the fat that covereth the other ram; and Aaron
holy crown upon the inwards, and the caulb and his sons shall put
Chapter 29 mitre. 7Then shalt thou that is above the liver, their hands upon the
take the anointing oil, and the two kidneys, and head of the ram. 20Then
1
And this is the thing and pour it upon his the fat that is upon shalt thou kill the ram,
that thou shalt do unto head, and anoint him. them, and burn them and take of his blood,
them to hallow them, to 8
And thou shalt bring his upon the altar. 14But the and put it upon the tip
minister unto me in the sons, and put coats upon flesh of the bullock, and of the right ear of
priest’s office: Take one them. 9And thou shalt his skin, and his dung, Aaron, and upon the tip
young bullock, and two gird them with girdles, shalt thou burn with fire of the right ear of his
rams without blemish, Aaron and his sons, and without the camp: it is a sons, and upon the
2
And unleavened bread, puta the bonnets on sin offering. 15Thou shalt thumb of their right
and cakes unleavened them: and the priest’s also take one ram; and hand, and upon the
tempered with oil, and office shall be theirs for Aaron and his sons shall great toe of their right
wafers unleavened a perpetual statute: and put their hands upon the foot, and sprinkle the
anointed with oil: of thou shalt consecrate head of the ram. 16And blood upon the altar
wheaten flour shalt thou Aaron and his sons. thou shalt slay the ram, round about. 21And thou
make them. 3And thou 10
And thou shalt cause a and thou shalt take his shalt take of the blood
shalt put them into one bullock to be brought blood, and sprinkle it that is upon the altar,
basket, and bring them before the tabernacle of round about upon the and of the anointing oil,
in the basket, with the the congregation: and altar. 17And thou shalt and sprinkle it upon
bullock and the two Aaron and his sons shall cut the ram in pieces, Aaron, and upon his
rams. 4And Aaron and his put their hands upon the and wash the inwards of garments, and upon his
sons thou shalt bring head of the bullock. him, and his legs, and sons, and upon the
unto the door of the 11
And thou shalt kill the put them unto his garments of his sons
tabernacle of the bullock before the LORD, pieces, and unto his with him: and he shall
congregation, and shalt by the door of the head. 18And thou shalt be hallowed, and his
wash them with water. tabernacle of the burn the whole ram upon garments, and his sons,
5
And thou shalt take the congregation. 12And thou the altar: it is a burnt and his sons’ garments
garments, and put upon shalt take of the blood of offering unto the LORD: with him. 22Also thou
Aaron the coat, and the the bullock, and put it shalt take of the ram
b
robe of the ephod, and upon the horns of the the caul: it seemeth by the fat and the rump,
the ephod, and the anatomy, and the Hebrew and the fat that
a
put: Heb. bind doctors, to be the midriff
covereth the inwards, offering, and the his sons shall eat the atonement for the altar,
and the caul above the shoulder of the heave flesh of the ram, and the and sanctify it; and it
liver, and the two offering, which is waved, bread that is in the shall be an altar most
kidneys, and the fat that and which is heaved up, basket, by the door of holy: whatsoever
is upon them, and the of the ram of the the tabernacle of the toucheth the altar shall
right shoulder; for it is a consecration, even of congregation. 33And they be holy.
ram of consecration: that which is for Aaron, shall eat those things 38
Now this is that
23
And one loaf of bread, and of that which is for wherewith the which thou shalt offer
and one cake of oiled his sons: 28And it shall be atonement was made, to upon the altar; two
bread, and one wafer out Aaron’s and his sons’ by consecrate and to lambs of the first year
of the basket of the a statute for ever from sanctify them: but a day by day continually.
unleavened bread that is the children of Israel: for stranger shall not eat 39
The one lamb thou
before the LORD: 24And it is an heave offering: thereof, because they shalt offer in the
thou shalt put all in the and it shall be an heave are holy. 34And if ought morning; and the other
hands of Aaron, and in offering from the of the flesh of the lamb thou shalt offer at
the hands of his sons; children of Israel of the consecrations, or of the even: 40And with the
and shalt wavec them for sacrifice of their peace bread, remain unto the one lamb a tenth deal
a wave offering before offerings, even their morning, then thou shalt of flour mingled with
the LORD. 25
And thou heave offering unto the burn the remainder with the fourth part of an hin
shalt receive them of LORD. 29And the holy fire: it shall not be eaten, of beaten oil; and the
their hands, and burn garments of Aaron shall because it is holy. 35And fourth part of an hin of
them upon the altar for a be his sons’ after him, to thus shalt thou do unto wine for a drink
burnt offering, for a be anointed therein, and Aaron, and to his sons, offering. 41And the other
sweet savour before the to be consecrated in according to all things lamb thou shalt offer at
LORD: it is an offering them. 30And that sond which I have even, and shalt do
made by fire unto the that is priest in his stead commanded thee: seven thereto according to the
LORD. 26And thou shalt shall put them on seven days shalt thou meat offering of the
take the breast of the days, when he cometh consecrate them. 36
And morning, and according
ram of Aaron’s into the tabernacle of thou shalt offer every to the drink offering
consecration, and wave the congregation to day a bullock for a sin thereof, for a sweet
it for a wave offering minister in the holy offering for atonement: savour, an offering
before the LORD: and it place. 31And thou shalt and thou shalt cleanse made by fire unto the
shall be thy part. 27And take the ram of the the altar, when thou hast LORD. 42This shall be a
thou shalt sanctify the consecration, and seethe made an atonement for continual burnt offering
breast of the wave his flesh in the holy it, and thou shalt anoint throughout your
c
place. 32And Aaron and it, to sanctify it. 37Seven generations at the door
shalt wave: or, shalt shake to days thou shalt make an of the tabernacle of the
d
and fro that son: Heb. he of his sons
congregation before the horns thereof shall be of it. 8
And when Aaron there be no plague
LORD: where I will meet the same. 3And thou lightethd the lamps at among them, when
you, to speak there unto shalt overlay it with pure even, he shall burn thou numberest them.
thee. 43And there I will gold, the topa thereof, incense upon it, a 13
This they shall give,
meet with the children of and the sides thereof perpetual incense before every one that passeth
Israel, and the round about, and the the LORD throughout among them that are
tabernacle shall be horns thereof; and thou your generations. 9
Ye numbered, half a shekel
sanctified by my glory. shalt make unto it a shall offer no strange after the shekel of the
44
And I will sanctify the crown of gold round incense thereon, nor sanctuary: (a shekel is
tabernacle of the about. 4And two golden burnt sacrifice, nor meat twenty gerahs:) an half
congregation, and the rings shalt thou make to offering; neither shall ye shekel shall be the
altar: I will sanctify also it under the crown of it, pour drink offering offering of the LORD.
both Aaron and his sons, by the two cornersb thereon. 10And Aaron 14
Every one that
to minister to me in the thereof, upon the two shall make an passeth among them
priest’s office. 45And I will sides of it shalt thou atonement upon the that are numbered,
dwell among the children make it; and they shall horns of it once in a year from twenty years old
of Israel, and will be their be for places for the with the blood of the sin and above, shall give
God. 46And they shall staves to bear it withal. offering of atonements: an offering unto the
know that I am the LORD 5
And thou shalt make the once in the year shall he LORD. 15The rich shall
their God, that brought staves of shittim wood, make atonement upon it not give moref, and the
them forth out of the and overlay them with throughout your poor shall not give less
land of Egypt, that I may gold. 6And thou shalt put generations: it is most than half a shekel,
dwell among them: I am it before the vail that is holy unto the LORD. when they give an
the LORD their God. by the ark of the 11
And the LORD spake offering unto the LORD,
testimony, before the unto Moses, saying, to make an atonement
Chapter 30 mercy seat that is over 12
When thou takest the for your souls. 16
And
the testimony, where I sum of the children of thou shalt take the
1
And thou shalt make will meet with thee. 7And Israel after their atonement money of
an altar to burn incense Aaron shall burn thereon numbere, then shall they the children of Israel,
upon: of shittim wood sweet incensec every give every man a and shalt appoint it for
shalt thou make it. 2A morning: when he ransom for his soul unto the service of the
cubit shall be the length dresseth the lamps, he the LORD, when thou tabernacle of the
thereof, and a cubit the shall burn incense upon numberest them; that congregation; that it
breadth thereof; may be a memorial
a d
foursquare shall it be: top: Heb. roof lighteth: or setteth up: Heb. unto the children of
b
and two cubits shall be corners: Heb. ribs causeth to ascend Israel before the LORD,
c e
the height thereof: the sweet incense: Heb. incense of their number: Heb. them that
f
spices are to be numbered give more: Heb. multiply
to make an atonement five hundred shekels, them, that they may it before the testimony
for your souls. and of sweet cinnamon minister unto me in the in the tabernacle of the
17
And the LORD spake half so much, even two priest’s office. 31And thou congregation, where I
unto Moses, saying, hundred and fifty shalt speak unto the will meet with thee: it
18
Thou shalt also make a shekels, and of sweet children of Israel, saying, shall be unto you most
laver of brass, and his calamus two hundred This shall be an holy holy. 37And as for the
foot also of brass, to and fifty shekels, 24And anointing oil unto me perfume which thou
wash withal: and thou of cassia five hundred throughout your shalt make, ye shall not
shalt put it between the shekels, after the shekel generations. 32
Upon make to yourselves
tabernacle of the of the sanctuary, and of man’s flesh shall it not according to the
congregation and the oil olive an hin: 25And be poured, neither shall composition thereof: it
altar, and thou shalt put thou shalt make it an oil ye make any other like shall be unto thee holy
water therein. 19
For of holy ointment, an it, after the composition for the LORD.
Aaron and his sons shall ointment compound of it: it is holy, and it 38
Whosoever shall make
wash their hands and after the art of the shall be holy unto you. like unto that, to smell
their feet thereat: apothecaryg: it shall be 33
Whosoever thereto, shall even be
20
When they go into the an holy anointing oil. compoundeth any like it, cut off from his people.
tabernacle of the 26
And thou shalt anoint or whosoever putteth
congregation, they shall the tabernacle of the any of it upon a stranger, Chapter 31
wash with water, that congregation therewith, shall even be cut off
they die not; or when and the ark of the from his people. 34And
1
And the LORD spake
they come near to the testimony, 27
And the the LORD said unto unto Moses, saying,
altar to minister, to burn table and all his vessels, Moses, Take unto thee
2
See, I have called by
offering made by fire and the candlestick and sweet spices, stacte, and name Bezaleel the son
unto the LORD: 21So they his vessels, and the altar onycha, and galbanum; of Uri, the son of Hur, of
shall wash their hands of incense, 28And the these sweet spices with the tribe of Judah: 3And
and their feet, that they altar of burnt offering pure frankincense: of I have filled him with
die not: and it shall be a with all his vessels, and each shall there be a like the spirit of God, in
statute for ever to them, the laver and his foot. weight: 35And thou shalt wisdom, and in
even to him and to his 29
And thou shalt sanctify make it a perfume, a understanding, and in
seed throughout their them, that they may be confection after the art knowledge, and in all
generations. most holy: whatsoever of the apothecary, manner of
22
Moreover the LORD toucheth them shall be temperedh together, workmanship, 4
To
spake unto Moses, holy. 30And thou shalt pure and holy: 36
And devise cunning works,
saying, 23Take thou also anoint Aaron and his thou shalt beat some of to work in gold, and in
unto thee principal sons, and consecrate it very small, and put of silver, and in brass,
spices, of pure myrrh
5
And in cutting of
g h
apothecary: or, perfumer tempered...: Heb. salted
stones, to set them, and anointing oil, and sweet sabbath throughout their wives, of your sons, and
in carving of timber, to incense for the holy generations, for a of your daughters, and
work in all manner of place: according to all perpetual covenant. 17It bring them unto me.
workmanship. 6And I, that I have commanded is a sign between me 3
And all the people
behold, I have given with thee shall they do. and the children of Israel brake off the golden
him Aholiab, the son of 12
And the LORD spake for ever: for in six days earrings which were in
Ahisamach, of the tribe unto Moses, saying, the LORD made heaven their ears, and brought
of Dan: and in the hearts 13
Speak thou also unto and earth, and on the them unto Aaron. 4And
of all that are wise the children of Israel, seventh day he rested, he received them at
hearted I have put saying, Verily my and was refreshed. 18And their hand, and
wisdom, that they may sabbaths ye shall keep: he gave unto Moses, fashioned it with a
make all that I have for it is a sign between when he had made an graving tool, after he
commanded thee; 7The me and you throughout end of communing with had made it a molten
tabernacle of the your generations; that him upon mount Sinai, calf: and they said,
congregation, and the ye may know that I am two tables of testimony, These be thy gods, O
ark of the testimony, and the LORD that doth tables of stone, written Israel, which brought
the mercy seat that is sanctify you. 14Ye shall with the finger of God. thee up out of the land
thereupon, and all the keep the sabbath of Egypt. 5And when
furniturea of the therefore; for it is holy Chapter 32 Aaron saw it, he built an
tabernacle, 8
And the unto you: every one that altar before it; and
table and his furnitureb, defileth it shall surely be
1
And when the people Aaron made
and the pure candlestick put to death: for saw that Moses delayed proclamation, and said,
with all his furniture, and whosoever doeth any to come down out of the To morrow is a feast to
the altar of incense, work therein, that soul mount, the people the LORD. 6And they
9
And the altar of burnt shall be cut off from gathered themselves rose up early on the
offering with all his among his people. 15Six together unto Aaron, and morrow, and offered
furniturec, and the laver days may work be done; said unto him, Up, make burnt offerings, and
and his foot, 10And the but in the seventh is the us gods, which shall go brought peace
cloths of service, and the sabbath of rest, holyd to before us; for as for this offerings; and the
holy garments for Aaron the LORD: whosoever Moses, the man that people sat down to eat
the priest, and the doeth any work in the brought us up out of the and to drink, and rose
garments of his sons, to sabbath day, he shall land of Egypt, we wot up to play.
minister in the priest’s surely be put to death. not what is become of 7
And the LORD said
office, 11
And the 16
Wherefore the children him. 2And Aaron said unto Moses, Go, get
of Israel shall keep the unto them, Break off the thee down; for thy
a
furniture: Heb. vessels sabbath, to observe the golden earrings, which people, which thou
b
furniture: Heb. vessels are in the ears of your broughtest out of the
c d
furniture: Heb. vessels holy: Heb. holiness
land of Egypt, have say, For mischief did he tables. 17
And when hot: thou knowest the
corrupted themselves: bring them out, to slay Joshua heard the noise people, that they are
8
They have turned aside them in the mountains, of the people as they set on mischief. 23For
quickly out of the way and to consume them shouted, he said unto they said unto me,
which I commanded from the face of the Moses, There is a noise Make us gods, which
them: they have made earth? Turn from thy of war in the camp. 18And shall go before us: for
them a molten calf, and fierce wrath, and repent he said, It is not the as for this Moses, the
have worshipped it, and of this evil against thy voice of them that shout man that brought us up
have sacrificed people. 13
Remember for mastery, neither is it out of the land of Egypt,
thereunto, and said, Abraham, Isaac, and the voice of them that we wot not what is
These be thy gods, O Israel, thy servants, to cry for being overcome: become of him. 24And I
Israel, which have whom thou swarest by but the noise of them said unto them,
brought thee up out of thine own self, and that sing do I hear. Whosoever hath any
the land of Egypt. 9And saidst unto them, I will 19
And it came to pass, as gold, let them break it
the LORD said unto multiply your seed as the soon as he came nigh off. So they gave it me:
Moses, I have seen this stars of heaven, and all unto the camp, that he then I cast it into the
people, and, behold, it is this land that I have saw the calf, and the fire, and there came out
a stiffnecked people: spoken of will I give unto dancing: and Moses’ this calf. 25And when
10
Now therefore let me your seed, and they shall anger waxed hot, and he Moses saw that the
alone, that my wrath inherit it for ever. 14And cast the tables out of his people were naked; (for
may wax hot against the LORD repented of hands, and brake them Aaron had made them
them, and that I may the evil which he beneath the mount. naked unto their shame
consume them: and I will thought to do unto his 20
And he took the calf among their enemiesb:)
make of thee a great people. which they had made, 26
Then Moses stood in
nation. 11
And Moses 15
And Moses turned, and burnt it in the fire, the gate of the camp,
besought the LORDa his and went down from the and ground it to powder, and said, Who is on the
God, and said, LORD, mount, and the two and strawed it upon the LORD’S side? let him
why doth thy wrath wax tables of the testimony water, and made the come unto me. And all
hot against thy people, were in his hand: the children of Israel drink of the sons of Levi
which thou hast brought tables were written on it. gathered themselves
forth out of the land of both their sides; on the 21
And Moses said unto together unto him.
Egypt with great power, one side and on the Aaron, What did this 27
And he said unto
and with a mighty hand? other were they written. people unto thee, that them, Thus saith the
12
Wherefore should the 16
And the tables were thou hast brought so LORD God of Israel, Put
Egyptians speak, and the work of God, and the great a sin upon them? every man his sword by
a
writing was the writing of 22
And Aaron said, Let not b
the LORD: Heb. the face of God, graven upon the the anger of my lord wax their enemies: Heb. those
the LORD that rose up against them
his side, and go in and have sinned a great sin, Unto thy seed will I give it without the camp,
out from gate to gate and have made them it: 2And I will send an afar off from the camp,
throughout the camp, gods of gold. 32Yet now, angel before thee; and I and called it the
and slay every man his if thou wilt forgive their will drive out the Tabernacle of the
brother, and every man sin--; and if not, blot me, Canaanite, the Amorite, congregation. And it
his companion, and I pray thee, out of thy and the Hittite, and the came to pass, that
every man his book which thou hast Perizzite, the Hivite, and every one which sought
neighbour. 28
And the written. 33And the LORD the Jebusite: 3Unto a land the LORD went out unto
children of Levi did said unto Moses, flowing with milk and the tabernacle of the
according to the word of Whosoever hath sinned honey: for I will not go congregation, which
Moses: and there fell of against me, him will I up in the midst of thee; was without the camp.
the people that day blot out of my book. for thou art a stiffnecked 8
And it came to pass,
about three thousand 34
Therefore now go, lead people: lest I consume when Moses went out
men. 29For Mosesc had the people unto the thee in the way. 4And unto the tabernacle,
said, Consecrate place of which I have when the people heard that all the people rose
yourselves to day to the spoken unto thee: these evil tidings, they up, and stood every
LORD, even every man behold, mine Angel shall mourned: and no man man at his tent door,
upon his son, and upon go before thee: did put on him his and looked after Moses,
his brother; that he may nevertheless in the day ornaments. 5
For the until he was gone into
bestow upon you a when I visit I will visit LORD had said unto the tabernacle. 9And it
blessing this day. their sin upon them. Moses, Say unto the came to pass, as Moses
30
And it came to pass 35
And the LORD plagued children of Israel, Ye are entered into the
on the morrow, that the people, because they a stiffnecked people: I tabernacle, the cloudy
Moses said unto the made the calf, which will come up into the pillar descended, and
people, Ye have sinned a Aaron made. midst of thee in a stood at the door of the
great sin: and now I will moment, and consume tabernacle, and the
go up unto the LORD; Chapter 33 thee: therefore now put LORD talked with
peradventure I shall off thy ornaments from Moses. 10
And all the
make an atonement for And the LORD said
1
thee, that I may know people saw the cloudy
your sin. 31And Moses unto Moses, Depart, and what to do unto thee. pillar stand at the
returned unto the LORD, go up hence, thou and 6
And the children of tabernacle door: and all
and said, Oh, this people the people which thou Israel stripped the people rose up and
hast brought up out of themselves of their worshipped, every man
c
For Moses...: or, And Moses the land of Egypt, unto ornaments by the mount in his tent door. 11And
said, Consecrate yourselves to the land which I sware Horeb. the LORD spake unto
day to the LORD, because unto Abraham, to Isaac, 7
And Moses took the Moses face to face, as a
every man hath been against and to Jacob, saying, tabernacle, and pitched man speaketh unto his
his brother, etc
friend. And he turned and thy people, from all but my face shall not be and stood with him
again into the camp: but the people that are upon seen. there, and proclaimed
his servant Joshua, the the face of the earth. the name of the LORD.
son of Nun, a young 17
And the LORD said unto Chapter 34 6
And the LORD passed
man, departed not out of Moses, I will do this thing by before him, and
the tabernacle. also that thou hast
1
And the LORD said proclaimed, The LORD,
12
And Moses said unto spoken: for thou hast unto Moses, Hew thee The LORD God, merciful
the LORD, See, thou found grace in my sight, two tables of stone like and gracious,
sayest unto me, Bring up and I know thee by unto the first: and I will longsuffering, and
this people: and thou name. 18And he said, I write upon these tables abundant in goodness
hast not let me know beseech thee, shew me the words that were in and truth, 7
Keeping
whom thou wilt send thy glory. 19And he said, I the first tables, which mercy for thousands,
with me. Yet thou hast will make all my thou brakest. 2And be forgiving iniquity and
said, I know thee by goodness pass before ready in the morning, transgression and sin,
name, and thou hast thee, and I will proclaim and come up in the and that will by no
also found grace in my the name of the LORD morning unto mount means clear the guilty;
sight. 13Now therefore, I before thee; and will be Sinai, and present visiting the iniquity of
pray thee, if I have found gracious to whom I will thyself there to me in the fathers upon the
grace in thy sight, shew be gracious, and will the top of the mount. children, and upon the
me now thy way, that I shew mercy on whom I
3
And no man shall come children’s children, unto
may know thee, that I will shew mercy. 20And up with thee, neither let the third and to the
may find grace in thy he said, Thou canst not any man be seen fourth generation. 8And
sight: and consider that see my face: for there throughout all the Moses made haste, and
this nation is thy people. shall no man see me, mount; neither let the bowed his head toward
14
And he said, My and live. 21And the LORD flocks nor herds feed the earth, and
presence shall go with said, Behold, there is a before that mount. 4And worshipped. 9
And he
thee, and I will give thee place by me, and thou he hewed two tables of said, If now I have
rest. 15And he said unto shalt stand upon a rock: stone like unto the first; found grace in thy
him, If thy presence go 22
And it shall come to and Moses rose up early sight, O Lord, let my
not with me, carry us not pass, while my glory in the morning, and went Lord, I pray thee, go
up hence. 16For wherein passeth by, that I will put up unto mount Sinai, as among us; for it is a
shall it be known here thee in a clift of the rock, the LORD had stiffnecked people; and
that I and thy people and will cover thee with commanded him, and pardon our iniquity and
have found grace in thy my hand while I pass by: took in his hand the two our sin, and take us for
sight? is it not in that 23
And I will take away tables of stone. thine inheritance.
thou goest with us? so mine hand, and thou
5
And the LORD 10
And he said,
shall we be separated, I shalt see my back parts: descended in the cloud, Behold, I make a
covenant: before all thy after their gods, and do empty. 21Six days thou mother’s milk. 27And the
people I will do marvels, sacrifice unto their gods, shalt work, but on the LORD said unto Moses,
such as have not been and one call thee, and seventh day thou shalt Write thou these words:
done in all the earth, nor thou eat of his sacrifice; rest: in earing time and for after the tenor of
in any nation: and all the 16
And thou take of their in harvest thou shalt these words I have
people among which daughters unto thy sons, rest. 22And thou shalt made a covenant with
thou art shall see the and their daughters go a observe the feast of thee and with Israel.
work of the LORD: for it whoring after their gods, weeks, of the firstfruits 28
And he was there
is a terrible thing that I and make thy sons go a of wheat harvest, and with the LORD forty
will do with thee. whoring after their gods. the feast of ingathering days and forty nights;
11
Observe thou that 17
Thou shalt make thee at the year’s endd. he did neither eat
which I command thee no molten gods. 23
Thrice in the year shall bread, nor drink water.
this day: behold, I drive 18
The feast of all your men children And he wrote upon the
out before thee the unleavened bread shalt appear before the Lord tables the words of the
Amorite, and the thou keep. Seven days GOD, the God of Israel. covenant, the ten
Canaanite, and the thou shalt eat 24
For I will cast out the commandments . Ande 29

Hittite, and the Perizzite, unleavened bread, as I nations before thee, and it came to pass, when
and the Hivite, and the commanded thee, in the enlarge thy borders: Moses came down from
Jebusite. 12Take heed to time of the month Abib: neither shall any man mount Sinai with the
thyself, lest thou make a for in the month Abib desire thy land, when two tables of testimony
covenant with the thou camest out from thou shalt go up to in Moses’ hand, when
inhabitants of the land Egypt. 19All that openeth appear before the LORD he came down from the
whither thou goest, lest the matrix is mine; and thy God thrice in the mount, that Moses wist
it be for a snare in the every firstling among thy year. 25Thou shalt not not that the skin of his
midst of thee: 13But ye cattle, whether ox or offer the blood of my face shone while he
shall destroy their altars, sheepb, that is male. sacrifice with leaven; talked with him. 30And
break their imagesa, and 20
But the firstling of an neither shall the sacrifice when Aaron and all the
cut down their groves: ass thou shalt redeem of the feast of the children of Israel saw
14
For thou shalt worship with a lambc: and if thou passover be left unto the Moses, behold, the skin
no other god: for the redeem him not, then morning. 26The first of of his face shone; and
LORD, whose name is shalt thou break his the firstfruits of thy land they were afraid to
Jealous, is a jealous God: neck. All the firstborn of thou shalt bring unto the come nigh him. 31And
15
Lest thou make a thy sons thou shalt house of the LORD thy Moses called unto
covenant with the redeem. And none shall God. Thou shalt not them; and Aaron and all
inhabitants of the land, appear before me seethe a kid in his the rulers of the
and they go a whoring b d
congregation returned
sheep: or, kid year’s end: Heb. revolution of
a c e
images: Heb. statues lamb: or, kid the year commandments: Heb. words
unto him: and Moses ye should do them. 2Six every wise hearted of the court, and their
talked with them. 32And days shall work be done, among you shall come, cords, 19The cloths of
afterward all the children but on the seventh day and make all that the service, to do service in
of Israel came nigh: and there shall be to you an LORD hath commanded; the holy place, the holy
he gave them in holy day, a sabbath of 11
The tabernacle, his garments for Aaron the
commandment all that rest to the LORD: tent, and his covering, priest, and the
the LORD had spoken whosoever doeth work his taches, and his garments of his sons, to
with him in mount Sinai. therein shall be put to boards, his bars, his minister in the priest’s
33
And till Moses had done death. 3Ye shall kindle pillars, and his sockets, office.
speaking with them, he no fire throughout your 12
The ark, and the staves 20
And all the
put a vail on his face. habitations upon the thereof, with the mercy congregation of the
34
But when Moses went sabbath day. And Moses
4
seat, and the vail of the children of Israel
in before the LORD to spake unto all the covering, 13The table, departed from the
speak with him, he took congregation of the and his staves, and all presence of Moses.
the vail off, until he children of Israel, saying, his vessels, and the 21
And they came, every
came out. And he came This is the thing which shewbread, 14
The one whose heart stirred
out, and spake unto the the LORD commanded, candlestick also for the him up, and every one
children of Israel that saying, 5Take ye from light, and his furniture, whom his spirit made
which he was among you an offering and his lamps, with the willing, and they
commanded. 35
And the unto the LORD: oil for the light, 15And the brought the LORD’S
children of Israel saw the whosoever is of a willing incense altar, and his offering to the work of
face of Moses, that the heart, let him bring it, an staves, and the the tabernacle of the
skin of Moses’ face offering of the LORD; anointing oil, and the congregation, and for
shone: and Moses put gold, and silver, and sweet incense, and the all his service, and for
the vail upon his face brass, 6And blue, and hanging for the door at the holy garments.
again, until he went in to purple, and scarlet, and the entering in of the 22
And they came, both
speak with him. fine linen, and goats’ tabernacle, 16The altar of men and women, as
hair, 7And rams’ skins burnt offering, with his many as were willing
Chapter 35 dyed red, and badgers’ brasen grate, his staves, hearted, and brought
skins, and shittim wood, and all his vessels, the bracelets, and earrings,
1
And Moses gathered 8
And oil for the light, and laver and his foot, 17The and rings, and tablets,
all the congregation of spices for anointing oil, hangings of the court, all jewels of gold: and
the children of Israel and for the sweet his pillars, and their every man that offered
together, and said unto incense, 9
And onyx sockets, and the hanging offered an offering of
them, These are the stones, and stones to be for the door of the court, gold unto the LORD.
words which the LORD set for the ephod, and 18
The pins of the 23
And every man, with
hath commanded, that for the breastplate. 10And tabernacle, and the pins whom was found blue,
and purple, and scarlet, work, which the LORD the weaver, even of of the sanctuary, came
and fine linen, and had commanded to be them that do any work, every man from his
goats’ hair, and red skins made by the hand of and of those that devise work which they made;
of rams, and badgers’ Moses. cunning work. 5
And they spake unto
skins, brought them. 30
And Moses said unto Moses, saying, The
24
Every one that did offer the children of Israel, Chapter 36 people bring much
an offering of silver and See, the LORD hath more than enough for
brass brought the called by name Bezaleel
1
Then wrought the service of the work,
LORD’S offering: and the son of Uri, the son of Bezaleel and Aholiab, which the LORD
every man, with whom Hur, of the tribe of and every wise hearted commanded to make.
was found shittim wood Judah; 31And he hath man, in whom the LORD 6
And Moses gave
for any work of the filled him with the spirit put wisdom and commandment, and
service, brought it. 25And of God, in wisdom, in understanding to know they caused it to be
all the women that were understanding, and in how to work all manner proclaimed throughout
wise hearted did spin knowledge, and in all of work for the service of the camp, saying, Let
with their hands, and manner of workmanship; the sanctuary, according neither man nor woman
brought that which they 32
And to devise curious to all that the LORD had make any more work
had spun, both of blue, works, to work in gold, commanded. 2And Moses for the offering of the
and of purple, and of and in silver, and in called Bezaleel and sanctuary. So the
scarlet, and of fine linen. brass, 33And in the Aholiab, and every wise people were restrained
26
And all the women cutting of stones, to set hearted man, in whose from bringing. 7For the
whose heart stirred them them, and in carving of heart the LORD had put stuff they had was
up in wisdom spun wood, to make any wisdom, even every one sufficient for all the
goats’ hair. 27And the manner of cunning work. whose heart stirred him work to make it, and
rulers brought onyx 34
And he hath put in his up to come unto the too much.
stones, and stones to be heart that he may teach, work to do it: 3And they 8
And every wise
set, for the ephod, and both he, and Aholiab, the received of Moses all the hearted man among
for the breastplate; 28And son of Ahisamach, of the offering, which the them that wrought the
spice, and oil for the tribe of Dan. 35Them hath children of Israel had work of the tabernacle
light, and for the he filled with wisdom of brought for the work of made ten curtains of
anointing oil, and for the heart, to work all manner the service of the fine twined linen, and
sweet incense. 29
The of work, of the engraver, sanctuary, to make it blue, and purple, and
children of Israel brought and of the cunning withal. And they brought scarlet: with cherubims
a willing offering unto workman, and of the yet unto him free of cunning work made
the LORD, every man embroiderer, in blue, offerings every morning. he them. 9The length of
and woman, whose heart and in purple, in scarlet,
4
And all the wise men, one curtain was twenty
made them willing to and in fine linen, and of that wrought all the work and eight cubits, and
bring for all manner of
the breadth of one and four cubits was the boards for the south side bars of shittim wood;
curtain four cubits: the breadth of one curtain: southward: 24And forty five for the boards of
curtains were all of one the eleven curtains were sockets of silver he the one side of the
size. 10And he coupled of one size. 16And he made under the twenty tabernacle, 32And five
the five curtains one coupled five curtains by boards; two sockets bars for the boards of
unto another: and the themselves, and six under one board for his the other side of the
other five curtains he curtains by themselves. two tenons, and two tabernacle, and five
coupled one unto 17
And he made fifty loops sockets under another bars for the boards of
another. 11And he made upon the uttermost edge board for his two tenons. the tabernacle for the
loops of blue on the of the curtain in the 25
And for the other side sides westward. 33And
edge of one curtain from coupling, and fifty loops of the tabernacle, which he made the middle bar
the selvedge in the made he upon the edge is toward the north to shoot through the
coupling: likewise he of the curtain which corner, he made twenty boards from the one
made in the uttermost coupleth the second. boards, 26And their forty end to the other. 34And
side of another curtain, 18
And he made fifty sockets of silver; two he overlaid the boards
in the coupling of the taches of brass to couple sockets under one with gold, and made
second. 12
Fifty loops the tent together, that it board, and two sockets their rings of gold to be
made he in one curtain, might be one. 19And he under another board. places for the bars, and
and fifty loops made he made a covering for the 27
And for the sides of the overlaid the bars with
in the edge of the tent of rams’ skins dyed tabernacle westward he gold.
curtain which was in the red, and a covering of made six boards. 28And 35
And he made a vail
coupling of the second: badgers’ skins above two boards made he for of blue, and purple, and
the loops held one that. 20And he made the corners of the scarlet, and fine twined
curtain to another. 13And boards for the tabernacle in the two linen: with cherubims
he made fifty taches of tabernacle of shittim sides. 29And they were made he it of cunning
gold, and coupled the wood, standing up. 21The coupleda beneath, and work. 36And he made
curtains one unto length of a board was coupled together at the thereunto four pillars of
another with the taches: ten cubits, and the head thereof, to one shittim wood, and
so it became one breadth of a board one ring: thus he did to both overlaid them with
tabernacle. cubit and a half. 22One of them in both the gold: their hooks were
14
And he made board had two tenons, corners. 30
And there of gold; and he cast for
curtains of goats’ hair for equally distant one from were eight boards; and them four sockets of
the tent over the another: thus did he their sockets were silver. 37And he made
tabernacle: eleven make for all the boards sixteen sockets of silver, an hanging for the
curtains he made them. of the tabernacle. 23And under every board two tabernacle door of blue,
15
The length of one he made boards for the sockets. 31And he made and purple, and scarlet,
curtain was thirty cubits, tabernacle; twenty a
and fine twined linen, of
coupled: Heb. twinned
needleworkb; 38And the made the mercy seat of pure gold, and made same: 18
And six
five pillars of it with their pure gold: two cubits thereunto a crown of branches going out of
hooks: and he overlaid and a half was the length gold round about. 12Also the sides thereof; three
their chapiters and their thereof, and one cubit he made thereunto a branches of the
fillets with gold: but their and a half the breadth border of an candlestick out of the
five sockets were of thereof. 7And he made handbreadth round one side thereof, and
brass. two cherubims of gold, about; and made a three branches of the
beaten out of one piecea crown of gold for the candlestick out of the
Chapter 37 made he them, on the border thereof round other side thereof:
two ends of the mercy about. 13And he cast for 19
Three bowls made
And Bezaleel made
1
seat; 8
One cherub on it four rings of gold, and after the fashion of
the ark of shittim wood: the end on this side,
b
put the rings upon the almonds in one branch,
two cubits and a half and another cherub on four corners that were in a knop and a flower;
was the length of it, and the other end on that the four feet thereof. and three bowls made
a cubit and a half the side: out of the mercy 14
Over against the border like almonds in another
breadth of it, and a cubit seat made he the were the rings, the branch, a knop and a
and a half the height of cherubims on the two places for the staves to flower: so throughout
it: 2And he overlaid it ends thereof. 9And the bear the table. 15And he the six branches going
with pure gold within cherubims spread out made the staves of out of the candlestick.
and without, and made a their wings on high, and shittim wood, and 20
And in the candlestick
crown of gold to it round covered with their wings overlaid them with gold, were four bowls made
about. 3And he cast for it over the mercy seat, to bear the table. 16And like almonds, his knops,
four rings of gold, to be with their faces one to he made the vessels and his flowers: 21And a
set by the four corners of another; even to the which were upon the knop under two
it; even two rings upon mercy seatward were table, his dishes, and his branches of the same,
the one side of it, and the faces of the spoons, and his bowls, and a knop under two
two rings upon the other cherubims. and his covers to coverc branches of the same,
side of it. 4And he made 10
And he made the withal, of pure gold. and a knop under two
staves of shittim wood, table of shittim wood: 17
And he made the branches of the same,
and overlaid them with two cubits was the candlestick of pure gold: according to the six
gold. 5And he put the length thereof, and a of beaten work made he branches going out of
staves into the rings by cubit the breadth the candlestick; his it. 22Their knops and
the sides of the ark, to thereof, and a cubit and shaft, and his branch, his their branches were of
bear the ark. 6And he a half the height thereof: bowls, his knops, and his the same: all of it was
b
11
And he overlaid it with flowers, were of the one beaten work of
of needlework: Heb. the work pure gold. 23And he
a c
of a needleworker or, on...: or, out of, etc to cover...: or, to pour out made his seven lamps,
b
embroiderer on the end: or, out of, etc withal
and his snuffers, and his Chapter 38 sides of the altar, to bear side eastward fifty
snuffdishes, of pure gold. it withal; he made the cubits. 14
The hangings
24
Of a talent of pure gold 1
And he made the altar hollow with boards. of the one side of the
made he it, and all the altar of burnt offering of 8
And he made the laver gate were fifteen
vessels thereof. shittim wood: five cubits of brass, and the foot of cubits; their pillars
25
And he made the was the length thereof, it of brass, of the three, and their sockets
incense altar of shittim and five cubits the lookingglassesa of the three. 15And for the
wood: the length of it breadth thereof; it was women assembling, other side of the court
was a cubit, and the foursquare; and three which assembled at the gate, on this hand and
breadth of it a cubit; it cubits the height thereof. door of the tabernacle of that hand, were
was foursquare; and two 2
And he made the horns the congregation. hangings of fifteen
cubits was the height of thereof on the four 9
And he made the cubits; their pillars
it; the horns thereof corners of it; the horns court: on the south side three, and their sockets
were of the same. 26And thereof were of the southward the hangings three. 16All the hangings
he overlaid it with pure same: and he overlaid it of the court were of fine of the court round
gold, both the top of it, with brass. 3And he twined linen, an hundred about were of fine
and the sides thereof made all the vessels of cubits: 10
Their pillars twined linen. 17And the
round about, and the the altar, the pots, and were twenty, and their sockets for the pillars
horns of it: also he made the shovels, and the brasen sockets twenty; were of brass; the
unto it a crown of gold basons, and the the hooks of the pillars hooks of the pillars and
round about. 27And he fleshhooks, and the and their fillets were of their fillets of silver; and
made two rings of gold firepans: all the vessels silver. 11And for the north the overlaying of their
for it under the crown thereof made he of side the hangings were chapiters of silver; and
thereof, by the two brass. 4And he made for an hundred cubits, their all the pillars of the
corners of it, upon the the altar a brasen grate pillars were twenty, and court were filleted with
two sides thereof, to be of network under the their sockets of brass silver. 18
And the
places for the staves to compass thereof twenty; the hooks of the hanging for the gate of
bear it withal. 28And he beneath unto the midst pillars and their fillets of the court was
made the staves of of it. 5And he cast four silver. 12And for the west needlework, of blue,
shittim wood, and rings for the four ends of side were hangings of and purple, and scarlet,
overlaid them with gold. the grate of brass, to be fifty cubits, their pillars and fine twined linen:
29
And he made the holy places for the staves. ten, and their sockets and twenty cubits was
anointing oil, and the 6
And he made the staves ten; the hooks of the the length, and the
pure incense of sweet of shittim wood, and pillars and their fillets of height in the breadth
spices, according to the overlaid them with brass. silver. 13And for the east was five cubits,
work of the apothecary. 7
And he put the staves a
answerable to the
lookingglasses: or, brasen hangings of the court.
into the rings on the
glasses
19
And their pillars were 21
This is the sum of fifteen shekels, after the brasen grate for it, and
four, and their sockets of the tabernacle, even of shekel of the sanctuary: all the vessels of the
brass four; their hooks of the tabernacle of 26
A bekah for every altar, 31And the sockets
silver, and the overlaying testimony, as it was manb, that is, half a of the court round
of their chapiters and counted, according to shekel, after the shekel about, and the sockets
their fillets of silver. the commandment of of the sanctuary, for of the court gate, and
20
And all the pins of the Moses, for the service of every one that went to all the pins of the
tabernacle, and of the the Levites, by the hand be numbered, from tabernacle, and all the
court round about, were of Ithamar, son to Aaron twenty years old and pins of the court round
of brass. the priest. 22And Bezaleel upward, for six hundred about.
the son of Uri, the son of thousand and three
Hur, of the tribe of Judah, thousand and five Chapter 39
made all that the LORD hundred and fifty men.
commanded Moses. 27
And of the hundred
1
And of the blue, and
23
And with him was talents of silver were purple, and scarlet,
Aholiab, son of cast the sockets of the they made cloths of
Ahisamach, of the tribe sanctuary, and the service, to do service in
of Dan, an engraver, and sockets of the vail; an the holy place, and
a cunning workman, and hundred sockets of the made the holy
an embroiderer in blue, hundred talents, a talent garments for Aaron; as
and in purple, and in for a socket. 28And of the the LORD commanded
scarlet, and fine linen. thousand seven hundred Moses. 2And he made
24
All the gold that was seventy and five shekels the ephod of gold, blue,
occupied for the work in he made hooks for the and purple, and scarlet,
all the work of the holy pillars, and overlaid their and fine twined linen.
place, even the gold of chapiters, and filleted
3
And they did beat the
the offering, was twenty them. 29And the brass of gold into thin plates,
and nine talents, and the offering was seventy and cut it into wires, to
seven hundred and thirty talents, and two work it in the blue, and
shekels, after the shekel thousand and four in the purple, and in the
of the sanctuary. 25And hundred shekels. 30And scarlet, and in the fine
the silver of them that therewith he made the linen, with cunning
were numbered of the sockets to the door of work. 4
They made
congregation was an the tabernacle of the shoulderpieces for it, to
hundred talents, and a congregation, and the couple it together: by
thousand seven hundred brasen altar, and the the two edges was it
and threescore and coupled together. 5And
b
every man: Heb. a poll
the curious girdle of his carbuncle: this was the the shoulderpieces of made upon the hems of
ephod, that was upon it, first row. 11
And the the ephod, before it. the robe pomegranates
was of the same, second row, an emerald, 19
And they made two of blue, and purple, and
according to the work a sapphire, and a rings of gold, and put scarlet, and twined
thereof; of gold, blue, diamond. 12And the third them on the two ends of linen. 25And they made
and purple, and scarlet, row, a ligure, an agate, the breastplate, upon bells of pure gold, and
and fine twined linen; as and an amethyst. 13And the border of it, which put the bells between
the LORD commanded the fourth row, a beryl, was on the side of the the pomegranates upon
Moses. 6
And they an onyx, and a jasper: ephod inward. 20And they the hem of the robe,
wrought onyx stones they were inclosed in made two other golden round about between
inclosed in ouches of ouches of gold in their rings, and put them on the pomegranates; 26A
gold, graven, as signets inclosings. 14
And the the two sides of the bell and a
are graven, with the stones were according to ephod underneath, pomegranate, a bell
names of the children of the names of the toward the forepart of it, and a pomegranate,
Israel. 7And he put them children of Israel, twelve, over against the other round about the hem of
on the shoulders of the according to their coupling thereof, above the robe to minister in;
ephod, that they should names, like the the curious girdle of the as the LORD
be stones for a memorial engravings of a signet, ephod. 21And they did commanded Moses.
to the children of Israel; every one with his name, bind the breastplate by 27
And they made coats
as the LORD according to the twelve his rings unto the rings of fine linen of woven
commanded Moses. 8And tribes. 15And they made of the ephod with a lace work for Aaron, and for
he made the breastplate upon the breastplate of blue, that it might be his sons, 28And a mitre
of cunning work, like the chains at the ends, of above the curious girdle of fine linen, and goodly
work of the ephod; of wreathen work of pure of the ephod, and that bonnets of fine linen,
gold, blue, and purple, gold. 16And they made the breastplate might and linen breeches of
and scarlet, and fine two ouches of gold, and not be loosed from the fine twined linen, 29And
twined linen. 9It was two gold rings; and put ephod; as the LORD a girdle of fine twined
foursquare; they made the two rings in the two commanded Moses. linen, and blue, and
the breastplate double: a ends of the breastplate. 22
And he made the robe purple, and scarlet, of
span was the length 17
And they put the two of the ephod of woven needlework; as the
thereof, and a span the wreathen chains of gold work, all of blue. 23And LORD commanded
breadth thereof, being in the two rings on the there was an hole in the Moses. 30And they made
doubled. 10And they set ends of the breastplate. midst of the robe, as the the plate of the holy
in it four rows of stones: 18
And the two ends of hole of an habergeon, crown of pure gold, and
the first row was a the two wreathen chains with a band round about wrote upon it a writing,
sardiusa, a topaz, and a they fastened in the two the hole, that it should like to the engravings of
a
ouches, and put them on not rend. 24And they a signet, HOLINESS TO
sardius: or, ruby
THE LORD. 31And they Thus was all the
32
for the tabernacle door, the first day of the first
tied unto it a lace of work of the tabernacle of 39
The brasen altar, and month shalt thou set up
blue, to fasten it on high the tent of the his grate of brass, his the tabernacle of the
upon the mitre; as the congregation finished: staves, and all his tent of the
LORD commanded and the children of Israel vessels, the laver and his congregation. 3And thou
Moses. did according to all that foot, 40The hangings of shalt put therein the ark
the LORD commanded the court, his pillars, and of the testimony, and
Moses, so did they. 33And his sockets, and the cover the ark with the
they brought the hanging for the court vail. 4And thou shalt
tabernacle unto Moses, gate, his cords, and his bring in the table, and
the tent, and all his pins, and all the vessels set in order the things
furniture, his taches, his of the service of the that are to be set in
boards, his bars, and his tabernacle, for the tent order upon it; and thou
pillars, and his sockets, of the congregation, shalt bring in the
34
And the covering of 41
The cloths of service to candlestick, and light
rams’ skins dyed red, do service in the holy the lamps thereof. 5And
and the covering of place, and the holy thou shalt set the altar
badgers’ skins, and the garments for Aaron the of gold for the incense
vail of the covering, priest, and his sons’ before the ark of the
35
The ark of the garments, to minister in testimony, and put the
testimony, and the the priest’s office. hanging of the door to
staves thereof, and the 42
According to all that the tabernacle. 6And
mercy seat, 36The table, the LORD commanded thou shalt set the altar
and all the vessels Moses, so the children of of the burnt offering
thereof, and the Israel made all the work. before the door of the
shewbread, 37
The pure 43
And Moses did look tabernacle of the tent
candlestick, with the upon all the work, and, of the congregation.
lamps thereof, even with behold, they had done it 7
And thou shalt set the
the lamps to be set in as the LORD had laver between the tent
order, and all the vessels commanded, even so of the congregation and
thereof, and the oil for had they done it: and the altar, and shalt put
light, 38And the golden Moses blessed them. water therein. 8
And
altar, and the anointing thou shalt set up the
oil, and the sweetb Chapter 40 court round about, and
incense, and the hanging hang up the hanging at
And the LORD spake
1
the court gate. 9And
b
the sweet...: Heb. the incense unto Moses, saying, 2On thou shalt take the
of sweet spices
anointing oil, and anoint surely be an everlasting 22
And he put the table in laver between the tent
the tabernacle, and all priesthood throughout the tent of the of the congregation and
that is therein, and shalt their generations. congregation, upon the the altar, and put water
hallow it, and all the 16
Thus did Moses: side of the tabernacle there, to wash withal.
vessels thereof: and it according to all that the northward, without the 31
And Moses and Aaron
shall be holy. 10And thou LORD commanded him, vail. 23And he set the and his sons washed
shalt anoint the altar of so did he. 17And it came bread in order upon it their hands and their
the burnt offering, and to pass in the first month before the LORD; as the feet thereat: 32When
all his vessels, and in the second year, on LORD had commanded they went into the tent
sanctify the altar: and it the first day of the Moses. 24And he put the of the congregation,
shall be an altar most month, that the candlestick in the tent of and when they came
holya. 11And thou shalt tabernacle was reared the congregation, over near unto the altar,
anoint the laver and his up. 18And Moses reared against the table, on the they washed; as the
foot, and sanctify it. up the tabernacle, and side of the tabernacle LORD commanded
12
And thou shalt bring fastened his sockets, southward. 25
And he Moses. 33And he reared
Aaron and his sons unto and set up the boards lighted the lamps before up the court round
the door of the thereof, and put in the the LORD; as the LORD about the tabernacle
tabernacle of the bars thereof, and reared commanded Moses. and the altar, and set
congregation, and wash up his pillars. 19And he 26
And he put the golden up the hanging of the
them with water. 13And spread abroad the tent altar in the tent of the court gate. So Moses
thou shalt put upon over the tabernacle, and congregation before the finished the work.
Aaron the holy put the covering of the vail: 27And he burnt
garments, and anoint tent above upon it; as sweet incense thereon;
34
Then a cloud covered
him, and sanctify him; the LORD commanded as the LORD the tent of the
that he may minister Moses. 20And he took and commanded Moses. congregation, and the
unto me in the priest’s put the testimony into 28
And he set up the glory of the LORD filled
office. 14And thou shalt the ark, and set the hanging at the door of the tabernacle. 35And
bring his sons, and staves on the ark, and the tabernacle. 29And he Moses was not able to
clothe them with coats: put the mercy seat put the altar of burnt enter into the tent of
15
And thou shalt anoint above upon the ark: offering by the door of the congregation,
them, as thou didst 21
And he brought the ark the tabernacle of the because the cloud
anoint their father, that into the tabernacle, and tent of the congregation, abode thereon, and the
they may minister unto set up the vail of the and offered upon it the glory of the LORD filled
me in the priest’s office: covering, and covered burnt offering and the the tabernacle. 36And
for their anointing shall the ark of the testimony; meat offering; as the when the cloud was
as the LORD LORD commanded taken up from over the
a
most holy: Heb. holiness of commanded Moses. Moses. 30And he set the tabernacle, the children
holinesses
of Israel went onwardb in 1
And the LORD called
all their journeys: 37But unto Moses, and spake
if the cloud were not unto him out of the
taken up, then they tabernacle of the
journeyed not till the day congregation, saying,
that it was taken up. 2
Speak unto the
38
For the cloud of the children of Israel, and
LORD was upon the say unto them, If any
tabernacle by day, and man of you bring an
fire was on it by night, in offering unto the LORD,
the sight of all the house ye shall bring your
of Israel, throughout all offering of the cattle,
their journeys. even of the herd, and of
the flock.
3
If his offering be a
burnt sacrifice of the
herd, let him offer a
male without blemish:
he shall offer it of his
own voluntary will at
the door of the
tabernacle of the
congregation before the
LORD. 4And he shall put
his hand upon the head
of the burnt offering;
and it shall be accepted
for him to make
atonement for him.
5
And he shall kill the
bullock before the
LORD: and the priests,
Aaron’s sons, shall
bring the blood, and
Leviticus sprinkle the blood
round about upon the
b
Chapter 1 altar that is by the door
went onward: Heb. journeyed
of the tabernacle of the his pieces, with his head asunder: and the priest oblation of a meat
congregation. 6And he and his fat: and the shall burn it upon the offering baken in the
shall flay the burnt priest shall lay them in altar, upon the wood oven, it shall be
offering, and cut it into order on the wood that that is upon the fire: it is unleavened cakes of
his pieces. 7And the sons is on the fire which is a burnt sacrifice, an fine flour mingled with
of Aaron the priest shall upon the altar: 13But he offering made by fire, of oil, or unleavened
put fire upon the altar, shall wash the inwards a sweet savour unto the wafers anointed with
and lay the wood in and the legs with water: LORD. oil. 5And if thy oblation
order upon the fire: 8And and the priest shall bring be a meat offering
the priests, Aaron’s sons, it all, and burn it upon Chapter 2 baken in a pana, it shall
shall lay the parts, the the altar: it is a burnt be of fine flour
head, and the fat, in sacrifice, an offering
1
And when any will unleavened, mingled
order upon the wood made by fire, of a sweet offer a meat offering with oil. 6
Thou shalt
that is on the fire which savour unto the LORD. unto the LORD, his part it in pieces, and
is upon the altar: 9But his 14
And if the burnt offering shall be of fine pour oil thereon: it is a
inwards and his legs sacrifice for his offering flour; and he shall pour meat offering. 7And if
shall he wash in water: to the LORD be of fowls, oil upon it, and put thy oblation be a meat
and the priest shall burn then he shall bring his frankincense thereon: offering baken in the
all on the altar, to be a offering of turtledoves,
2
And he shall bring it to fryingpan, it shall be
burnt sacrifice, an or of young pigeons. Aaron’s sons the priests: made of fine flour with
offering made by fire, of 15
And the priest shall and he shall take oil. 8And thou shalt
a sweet savour unto the bring it unto the altar, thereout his handful of bring the meat offering
LORD. and wring off his head, the flour thereof, and of that is made of these
10
And if his offering and burn it on the altar; the oil thereof, with all things unto the LORD:
be of the flocks, namely, and the blood thereof the frankincense thereof; and when it is
of the sheep, or of the shall be wrung out at the and the priest shall burn presented unto the
goats, for a burnt side of the altar: 16And the memorial of it upon priest, he shall bring it
sacrifice; he shall bring it he shall pluck away his the altar, to be an unto the altar. 9And the
a male without blemish. crop with his feathersa, offering made by fire, of priest shall take from
11
And he shall kill it on and cast it beside the a sweet savour unto the the meat offering a
the side of the altar altar on the east part, by LORD: 3And the remnant memorial thereof, and
northward before the the place of the ashes: of the meat offering shall burn it upon the
LORD: and the priests, 17
And he shall cleave it shall be Aaron’s and his altar: it is an offering
Aaron’s sons, shall with the wings thereof, sons’: it is a thing most made by fire, of a sweet
sprinkle his blood round but shall not divide it holy of the offerings of savour unto the LORD.
about upon the altar. the LORD made by fire.
a a
12
And he shall cut it into his feathers: or, the filth 4
And if thou bring an in a pan: or, on a flat plate,
thereof or, slice
10
And that which is left of 15
And thou shalt put oil inwards, and all the fat of the peace offering an
the meat offering shall upon it, and lay that is upon the inwards, offering made by fire
be Aaron’s and his sons’: frankincense thereon: it 4
And the two kidneys, unto the LORD; the fat
it is a thing most holy of is a meat offering. 16And and the fat that is on thereof, and the whole
the offerings of the LORD the priest shall burn the them, which is by the rump, it shall he take
made by fire. memorial of it, part of flanks, and the caulb off hard by the
11
No meat offering, the beaten corn thereof, above the liver, with the backbone; and the fat
which ye shall bring unto and part of the oil kidneys, it shall he take that covereth the
the LORD, shall be made thereof, with all the away. 5And Aaron’s sons inwards, and all the fat
with leaven: for ye shall frankincense thereof: it shall burn it on the altar that is upon the
burn no leaven, nor any is an offering made by upon the burnt sacrifice, inwards, 10And the two
honey, in any offering of fire unto the LORD. which is upon the wood kidneys, and the fat
the LORD made by fire. that is on the fire: it is an that is upon them,
12
As for the oblation of Chapter 3 offering made by fire, of which is by the flanks,
the firstfruits, ye shall a sweet savour unto the and the caul above the
offer them unto the And if his oblation be
1
LORD. liver, with the kidneys,
LORD: but they shall not a sacrifice of peace 6
And if his offering for it shall he take away.
be burntb on the altar for offering, if he offer it of a sacrifice of peace 11
And the priest shall
a sweet savour. 13And the herd; whether it be a offering unto the LORD burn it upon the altar: it
every oblation of thy male or female, he shall be of the flock; male or is the food of the
meat offering shalt thou offer it without blemish female, he shall offer it offering made by fire
season with salt; neither before the LORD. 2And without blemish. 7If he unto the LORD. 12And if
shalt thou suffer the salt he shall lay his hand offer a lamb for his his offering be a goat,
of the covenant of thy upon the head of his offering, then shall he then he shall offer it
God to be lacking from offering, and kill it at the offer it before the LORD. before the LORD. 13And
thy meat offering: with door of the tabernacle of 8
And he shall lay his he shall lay his hand
all thine offerings thou the congregation: and hand upon the head of upon the head of it, and
shalt offer salt. 14And if Aaron’s sons the priests his offering, and kill it kill it before the
thou offer a meat shall sprinkle the blood before the tabernacle of tabernacle of the
offering of thy firstfruits upon the altar round the congregation: and congregation: and the
unto the LORD, thou about. 3And he shall offer Aaron’s sons shall sons of Aaron shall
shalt offer for the meat of the sacrifice of the sprinkle the blood sprinkle the blood
offering of thy firstfruits peace offering an thereof round about thereof upon the altar
green ears of corn dried offering made by fire upon the altar. 9And he round about. 14And he
by the fire, even corn unto the LORD; the fata shall offer of the sacrifice shall offer thereof his
beaten out of full ears. that covereth the offering, even an
b
caul...: or, midriff over the offering made by fire
b a
be burnt: Heb. ascend fat: or, suet liver, and over the kidneys
unto the LORD; the fat anointed do sin offering, which is at the 13
And if the whole
that covereth the according to the sin of door of the tabernacle of congregation of Israel
inwards, and all the fat the people; then let him the congregation. 8And sin through ignorance,
that is upon the inwards, bring for his sin, which he shall take off from it and the thing be hid
15
And the two kidneys, he hath sinned, a young all the fat of the bullock from the eyes of the
and the fat that is upon bullock without blemish for the sin offering; the assembly, and they
them, which is by the unto the LORD for a sin fat that covereth the have done somewhat
flanks, and the caul offering. 4And he shall inwards, and all the fat against any of the
above the liver, with the bring the bullock unto that is upon the inwards, commandments of the
kidneys, it shall he take the door of the 9
And the two kidneys, LORD concerning things
away. 16And the priest tabernacle of the and the fat that is upon which should not be
shall burn them upon the congregation before the them, which is by the done, and are guilty;
altar: it is the food of the LORD; and shall lay his flanks, and the caul 14
When the sin, which
offering made by fire for hand upon the bullock’s above the liver, with the they have sinned
a sweet savour: all the head, and kill the bullock kidneys, it shall he take against it, is known,
fat is the LORD’S. 17It before the LORD. 5And away, 10As it was taken then the congregation
shall be a perpetual the priest that is off from the bullock of shall offer a young
statute for your anointed shall take of the sacrifice of peace bullock for the sin, and
generations throughout the bullock’s blood, and offerings: and the priest bring him before the
all your dwellings, that bring it to the tabernacle shall burn them upon the tabernacle of the
ye eat neither fat nor of the congregation: altar of the burnt congregation. 15And the
blood. 6
And the priest shall dip offering. And the skin
11
elders of the
his finger in the blood, of the bullock, and all his congregation shall lay
Chapter 4 and sprinkle of the blood flesh, with his head, and their hands upon the
seven times before the with his legs, and his head of the bullock
1
And the LORD spake LORD, before the vail of inwards, and his dung, before the LORD: and
unto Moses, saying, the sanctuary. 7And the 12
Even the whole bullock the bullock shall be
2
Speak unto the children priest shall put some of shall he carry forth killed before the LORD.
of Israel, saying, If a soul the blood upon the horns withouta the camp unto a 16
And the priest that is
shall sin through of the altar of sweet clean place, where the anointed shall bring of
ignorance against any of incense before the ashes are poured out, the bullock’s blood to
the commandments of LORD, which is in the and burn him on the the tabernacle of the
the LORD concerning tabernacle of the wood with fire: where congregation: 17And the
things which ought not congregation; and shall the ashes are poured out priest shall dip his
to be done, and shall do pour all the blood of the shall he be burnt. finger in some of the
against any of them: 3If bullock at the bottom of blood, and sprinkle it
a
the priest that is the altar of the burnt without...: Heb. to without the seven times before the
camp
LORD, even before the concerning things which against any of the 32
And if he bring a lamb
vail. 18And he shall put should not be done, and commandments of the for a sin offering, he
some of the blood upon is guilty; 23Or if his sin, LORD concerning things shall bring it a female
the horns of the altar wherein he hath sinned, which ought not to be without blemish. 33And
which is before the come to his knowledge; done, and be guilty; he shall lay his hand
LORD, that is in the he shall bring his 28
Or if his sin, which he upon the head of the
tabernacle of the offering, a kid of the hath sinned, come to his sin offering, and slay it
congregation, and shall goats, a male without knowledge: then he shall for a sin offering in the
pour out all the blood at blemish: 24And he shall bring his offering, a kid place where they kill
the bottom of the altar of lay his hand upon the of the goats, a female the burnt offering. 34And
the burnt offering, which head of the goat, and kill without blemish, for his the priest shall take of
is at the door of the it in the place where sin which he hath the blood of the sin
tabernacle of the they kill the burnt sinned. 29And he shall lay offering with his finger,
congregation. 19
And he offering before the his hand upon the head and put it upon the
shall take all his fat from LORD: it is a sin offering. of the sin offering, and horns of the altar of
him, and burn it upon 25
And the priest shall slay the sin offering in burnt offering, and shall
the altar. 20And he shall take of the blood of the the place of the burnt pour out all the blood
do with the bullock as he sin offering with his offering. 30And the priest thereof at the bottom of
did with the bullock for a finger, and put it upon shall take of the blood the altar: 35And he shall
sin offering, so shall he the horns of the altar of thereof with his finger, take away all the fat
do with this: and the burnt offering, and shall and put it upon the thereof, as the fat of
priest shall make an pour out his blood at the horns of the altar of the lamb is taken away
atonement for them, and bottom of the altar of burnt offering, and shall from the sacrifice of the
it shall be forgiven them. burnt offering. 26And he pour out all the blood peace offerings; and
21
And he shall carry forth shall burn all his fat upon thereof at the bottom of the priest shall burn
the bullock without the the altar, as the fat of the altar. 31And he shall them upon the altar,
camp, and burn him as the sacrifice of peace take away all the fat according to the
he burned the first offerings: and the priest thereof, as the fat is offerings made by fire
bullock: it is a sin shall make an taken away from off the unto the LORD: and the
offering for the atonement for him as sacrifice of peace priest shall make an
congregation. concerning his sin, and it offerings; and the priest atonement for his sin
22
When a ruler hath shall be forgiven him. shall burn it upon the that he hath
sinned, and done 27
And if any oneb of altar for a sweet savour committed, and it shall
somewhat through the common people sin unto the LORD; and the be forgiven him.
ignorance against any of through ignorance, while priest shall make an
the commandments of he doeth somewhat atonement for him, and Chapter 5
the LORD his God b
it shall be forgiven him.
any one: Heb. any soul
1
And if a soul sin, and confess that he hath second for a burnt priest’s, as a meat
hear the voice of sinned in that thing: offering, according to the offering.
swearing, and is a 6
And he shall bring his mannera: and the priest 14
And the LORD
witness, whether he hath trespass offering unto shall make an spake unto Moses,
seen or known of it; if he the LORD for his sin atonement for him for saying, 15
If a soul
do not utter it, then he which he hath sinned, a his sin which he hath commit a trespass, and
shall bear his iniquity. female from the flock, a sinned, and it shall be sin through ignorance,
2
Or if a soul touch any lamb or a kid of the forgiven him. 11But if he in the holy things of the
unclean thing, whether it goats, for a sin offering; be not able to bring two LORD; then he shall
be a carcase of an and the priest shall turtledoves, or two bring for his trespass
unclean beast, or a make an atonement for young pigeons, then he unto the LORD a ram
carcase of unclean him concerning his sin. that sinned shall bring without blemish out of
cattle, or the carcase of 7
And if he be not able for his offering the tenth the flocks, with thy
unclean creeping things, to bring a lamb, then he part of an ephah of fine estimation by shekels
and if it be hidden from shall bring for his flour for a sin offering; of silver, after the
him; he also shall be trespass, which he hath he shall put no oil upon shekel of the sanctuary,
unclean, and guilty. 3Or committed, two it, neither shall he put for a trespass offering:
if he touch the turtledoves, or two any frankincense 16
And he shall make
uncleanness of man, young pigeons, unto the thereon: for it is a sin amends for the harm
whatsoever uncleanness LORD; one for a sin offering. 12Then shall he that he hath done in the
it be that a man shall be offering, and the other bring it to the priest, and holy thing, and shall
defiled withal, and it be for a burnt offering. the priest shall take his add the fifth part
hid from him; when he 8
And he shall bring them handful of it, even a thereto, and give it unto
knoweth of it, then he unto the priest, who shall memorial thereof, and the priest: and the
shall be guilty. 4Or if a offer that which is for the burn it on the altar, priest shall make an
soul swear, pronouncing sin offering first, and according to the atonement for him with
with his lips to do evil, or wring off his head from offerings made by fire the ram of the trespass
to do good, whatsoever his neck, but shall not unto the LORD: it is a sin offering, and it shall be
it be that a man shall divide it asunder: 9And offering. 13And the priest forgiven him. 17And if a
pronounce with an oath, he shall sprinkle of the shall make an soul sin, and commit
and it be hid from him; blood of the sin offering atonement for him as any of these things
when he knoweth of it, upon the side of the touching his sin that he which are forbidden to
then he shall be guilty in altar; and the rest of the hath sinned in one of be done by the
one of these. 5And it blood shall be wrung out these, and it shall be commandments of the
shall be, when he shall at the bottom of the forgiven him: and the LORD; though he wist it
be guilty in one of these altar: it is a sin offering. remnant shall be the not, yet is he guilty, and
things, that he shall 10
And he shall offer the a
shall bear his iniquity.
manner: or, ordinance
18
And he shall bring a 4
Then it shall be, 8
And the LORD spake the altar; it shall never
ram without blemish out because he hath sinned, unto Moses, saying, go out.
of the flock, with thy and is guilty, that he 9
Command Aaron and his 14
And this is the law
estimation, for a shall restore that which sons, saying, This is the of the meat offering:
trespass offering, unto he took violently away, law of the burnt offering: the sons of Aaron shall
the priest: and the priest or the thing which he It is the burnt offering, offer it before the
shall make an hath deceitfully gotten, because of the burning LORD, before the altar.
atonement for him or that which was upon the altar all night 15
And he shall take of it
concerning his ignorance delivered him to keep, or unto the morning, and his handful, of the flour
wherein he erred and the lost thing which he the fire of the altar shall of the meat offering,
wist it not, and it shall be found, 5Or all that about be burning in it. 10And and of the oil thereof,
forgiven him. 19It is a which he hath sworn the priest shall put on his and all the frankincense
trespass offering: he falsely; he shall even linen garment, and his which is upon the meat
hath certainly restore it in the principal, linen breeches shall he offering, and shall burn
trespassed against the and shall add the fifth put upon his flesh, and it upon the altar for a
LORD. part more thereto, and take up the ashes which sweet savour, even the
give it unto him to whom the fire hath consumed memorial of it, unto the
Chapter 6 it appertaineth, in the with the burnt offering LORD. 16
And the
dayb of his trespass on the altar, and he shall remainder thereof shall
And the LORD spake
1
offering. 6And he shall put them beside the Aaron and his sons eat:
unto Moses, saying, 2If a bring his trespass altar. 11And he shall put with unleavened bread
soul sin, and commit a offering unto the LORD, off his garments, and put shall it be eaten in the
trespass against the a ram without blemish on other garments, and holy place; in the court
LORD, and lie unto his out of the flock, with thy carry forth the ashes of the tabernacle of the
neighbour in that which estimation, for a without the camp unto a congregation they shall
was delivered him to trespass offering, unto clean place. 12And the eat it. 17It shall not be
keep, or in fellowshipa, or the priest: 7And the fire upon the altar shall baken with leaven. I
in a thing taken away by priest shall make an be burning in it; it shall have given it unto them
violence, or hath atonement for him not be put out: and the for their portion of my
deceived his neighbour; before the LORD: and it priest shall burn wood on offerings made by fire;
3
Or have found that shall be forgiven him for it every morning, and lay it is most holy, as is the
which was lost, and lieth any thing of all that he the burnt offering in sin offering, and as the
concerning it, and hath done in trespassing order upon it; and he trespass offering. 18All
sweareth falsely; in any therein. shall burn thereon the the males among the
of all these that a man fat of the peace children of Aaron shall
b
doeth, sinning therein: in the day...: or, in the day of offerings. The fire shall
13
eat of it. It shall be a
his being found guilty: Heb. in ever be burning upon statute for ever in your
a
in fellowship: or, in dealing the day of his trespass
generations concerning to his sons, saying, This eaten: it shall be burnt in them: the priest that
the offerings of the LORD is the law of the sin the fire. maketh atonement
made by fire: every one offering: In the place therewith shall have it.
that toucheth them shall where the burnt offering Chapter 7 8
And the priest that
be holy. 19And the LORD is killed shall the sin offereth any man’s
spake unto Moses, offering be killed before
1
Likewise this is the burnt offering, even the
saying, 20This is the the LORD: it is most law of the trespass priest shall have to
offering of Aaron and of holy. 26The priest that offering: it is most holy. himself the skin of the
his sons, which they offereth it for sin shall
2
In the place where they burnt offering which he
shall offer unto the LORD eat it: in the holy place kill the burnt offering hath offered. 9And all
in the day when he is shall it be eaten, in the shall they kill the the meat offering that
anointed; the tenth part court of the tabernacle trespass offering: and is baken in the oven,
of an ephah of fine flour of the congregation. the blood thereof shall and all that is dressed
for a meat offering 27
Whatsoever shall touch he sprinkle round about in the fryingpan, and in
perpetual, half of it in the flesh thereof shall be upon the altar. 3And he the pana, shall be the
the morning, and half holy: and when there is shall offer of it all the fat priest’s that offereth it.
thereof at night. 21In a sprinkled of the blood thereof; the rump, and 10
And every meat
pan it shall be made with thereof upon any the fat that covereth the offering, mingled with
oil; and when it is baken, garment, thou shalt inwards, 4And the two oil, and dry, shall all the
thou shalt bring it in: wash that whereon it kidneys, and the fat that sons of Aaron have, one
and the baken pieces of was sprinkled in the holy is on them, which is by as much as another.
the meat offering shalt place. 28But the earthen the flanks, and the caul 11
And this is the law
thou offer for a sweet vessel wherein it is that is above the liver, of the sacrifice of peace
savour unto the LORD. sodden shall be broken: with the kidneys, it shall offerings, which he shall
22
And the priest of his and if it be sodden in a he take away: 5And the offer unto the LORD. 12If
sons that is anointed in brasen pot, it shall be priest shall burn them he offer it for a
his stead shall offer it: it both scoured, and rinsed upon the altar for an thanksgiving, then he
is a statute for ever unto in water. 29All the males offering made by fire shall offer with the
the LORD; it shall be among the priests shall unto the LORD: it is a sacrifice of thanksgiving
wholly burnt. 23For every eat thereof: it is most trespass offering. 6Every unleavened cakes
meat offering for the holy. 30
And no sin male among the priests mingled with oil, and
priest shall be wholly offering, whereof any of shall eat thereof: it shall unleavened wafers
burnt: it shall not be the blood is brought into be eaten in the holy anointed with oil, and
eaten. the tabernacle of the place: it is most holy. 7As cakes mingled with oil,
24
And the LORD spake congregation to the sin offering is, so is of fine flour, fried.
unto Moses, saying, reconcile withal in the the trespass offering:
a
25
Speak unto Aaron and holy place, shall be there is one law for in the pan: or, on the flat
plate or, slice
13
Besides the cakes, he that offereth it: it shall beast that dieth of itself, bring, that the breast
shall offer for his offering be an abomination, and and the fat of that which may be waved for a
leavened bread with the the soul that eateth of it is torn with beastsb, may wave offering before
sacrifice of thanksgiving shall bear his iniquity. be used in any other the LORD. 31And the
of his peace offerings. 19
And the flesh that use: but ye shall in no priest shall burn the fat
14
And of it he shall offer toucheth any unclean wise eat of it. 25
For upon the altar: but the
one out of the whole thing shall not be eaten; whosoever eateth the fat breast shall be Aaron’s
oblation for an heave it shall be burnt with fire: of the beast, of which and his sons’. 32And the
offering unto the LORD, and as for the flesh, all men offer an offering right shoulder shall ye
and it shall be the that be clean shall eat made by fire unto the give unto the priest for
priest’s that sprinkleth thereof. 20But the soul LORD, even the soul that an heave offering of the
the blood of the peace that eateth of the flesh eateth it shall be cut off sacrifices of your peace
offerings. 15And the flesh of the sacrifice of peace from his people. offerings. 33He among
of the sacrifice of his offerings, that pertain 26
Moreover ye shall eat the sons of Aaron, that
peace offerings for unto the LORD, having no manner of blood, offereth the blood of
thanksgiving shall be his uncleanness upon whether it be of fowl or the peace offerings,
eaten the same day that him, even that soul shall of beast, in any of your and the fat, shall have
it is offered; he shall not be cut off from his dwellings. 27Whatsoever the right shoulder for
leave any of it until the people. 21Moreover the soul it be that eateth any his part. 34For the wave
morning. 16But if the soul that shall touch any manner of blood, even breast and the heave
sacrifice of his offering unclean thing, as the that soul shall be cut off shoulder have I taken of
be a vow, or a voluntary uncleanness of man, or from his people. 28And the children of Israel
offering, it shall be eaten any unclean beast, or the LORD spake unto from off the sacrifices
the same day that he any abominable unclean Moses, saying, 29Speak of their peace offerings,
offereth his sacrifice: thing, and eat of the unto the children of and have given them
and on the morrow also flesh of the sacrifice of Israel, saying, He that unto Aaron the priest
the remainder of it shall peace offerings, which offereth the sacrifice of and unto his sons by a
be eaten: 17But the pertain unto the LORD, his peace offerings unto statute for ever from
remainder of the flesh of even that soul shall be the LORD shall bring his among the children of
the sacrifice on the third cut off from his people. oblation unto the LORD Israel.
day shall be burnt with 22
And the LORD spake of the sacrifice of his 35
This is the portion
fire. 18And if any of the unto Moses, saying, peace offerings. 30His of the anointing of
flesh of the sacrifice of 23
Speak unto the children own hands shall bring Aaron, and of the
his peace offerings be of Israel, saying, Ye shall the offerings of the LORD anointing of his sons,
eaten at all on the third eat no manner of fat, of made by fire, the fat with out of the offerings of
day, it shall not be ox, or of sheep, or of the breast, it shall he the LORD made by fire,
accepted, neither shall it goat. 24And the fat of the b
in the day when he
be imputed unto him beast...: Heb. carcase
presented them to and a basket of mitre, even upon his and Moses took the
minister unto the LORD unleavened bread; And3
forefront, did he put the blood, and put it upon
in the priest’s office; gather thou all the golden plate, the holy the horns of the altar
36
Which the LORD congregation together crown; as the LORD round about with his
commanded to be given unto the door of the commanded Moses. finger, and purified the
them of the children of tabernacle of the 10
And Moses took the altar, and poured the
Israel, in the day that he congregation. 4
And anointing oil, and blood at the bottom of
anointed them, by a Moses did as the LORD anointed the tabernacle the altar, and sanctified
statute for ever commanded him; and and all that was therein, it, to make
throughout their the assembly was and sanctified them. reconciliation upon it.
generations. 37This is the gathered together unto 11
And he sprinkled 16
And he took all the fat
law of the burnt offering, the door of the thereof upon the altar that was upon the
of the meat offering, and tabernacle of the seven times, and inwards, and the caul
of the sin offering, and of congregation. 5
And anointed the altar and all above the liver, and the
the trespass offering, Moses said unto the his vessels, both the two kidneys, and their
and of the consecrations, congregation, This is the laver and his foot, to fat, and Moses burned
and of the sacrifice of thing which the LORD sanctify them. 12And he it upon the altar. 17But
the peace offerings; commanded to be done. poured of the anointing the bullock, and his
38
Which the LORD 6
And Moses brought oil upon Aaron’s head, hide, his flesh, and his
commanded Moses in Aaron and his sons, and and anointed him, to dung, he burnt with fire
mount Sinai, in the day washed them with water. sanctify him. 13
And without the camp; as
that he commanded the 7
And he put upon him Moses brought Aaron’s the LORD commanded
children of Israel to offer the coat, and girded him sons, and put coats upon Moses. 18
And he
their oblations unto the with the girdle, and them, and girded them brought the ram for the
LORD, in the wilderness clothed him with the with girdles, and put burnt offering: and
of Sinai. robe, and put the ephod bonnetsa upon them; as Aaron and his sons laid
upon him, and he girded the LORD commanded their hands upon the
Chapter 8 him with the curious Moses. head of the ram. 19And
girdle of the ephod, and 14
And he brought the he killed it; and Moses
1
And the LORD spake bound it unto him bullock for the sin sprinkled the blood
unto Moses, saying, therewith. 8And he put offering: and Aaron and upon the altar round
2
Take Aaron and his sons the breastplate upon his sons laid their hands about. 20And he cut the
with him, and the him: also he put in the upon the head of the ram into pieces; and
garments, and the breastplate the Urim and bullock for the sin Moses burnt the head,
anointing oil, and a the Thummim. 9And he offering. 15And he slew it; and the pieces, and the
bullock for the sin put the mitre upon his fat. 21And he washed
a
offering, and two rams, head; also upon the put bonnets: Heb. bound the inwards and the
bonnets
legs in water; and Moses kidneys, and their fat, his sons, and upon his keep the charge of the
burnt the whole ram and the right shoulder: sons’ garments with him; LORD, that ye die not:
upon the altar: it was a 26
And out of the basket and sanctified Aaron, for so I am
burnt sacrifice for a of unleavened bread, and his garments, and commanded. So Aaron
36

sweet savour, and an that was before the his sons, and his sons’ and his sons did all
offering made by fire LORD, he took one garments with him. things which the LORD
unto the LORD; as the unleavened cake, and a 31
And Moses said unto commanded by the
LORD commanded cake of oiled bread, and Aaron and to his sons, hand of Moses.
Moses. 22And he brought one wafer, and put them Boil the flesh at the door
the other ram, the ram on the fat, and upon the of the tabernacle of the Chapter 9
of consecration: and right shoulder: 27And he congregation: and there
Aaron and his sons laid put all upon Aaron’s eat it with the bread that
1
And it came to pass
their hands upon the hands, and upon his is in the basket of on the eighth day, that
head of the ram. 23And sons’ hands, and waved consecrations, as I Moses called Aaron and
he slew it; and Moses them for a wave offering commanded, saying, his sons, and the elders
took of the blood of it, before the LORD. 28And Aaron and his sons shall of Israel; 2And he said
and put it upon the tip of Moses took them from eat it. 32And that which unto Aaron, Take thee a
Aaron’s right ear, and off their hands, and remaineth of the flesh young calf for a sin
upon the thumb of his burnt them on the altar and of the bread shall ye offering, and a ram for
right hand, and upon the upon the burnt offering: burn with fire. 33And ye a burnt offering,
great toe of his right they were consecrations shall not go out of the without blemish, and
foot. 24And he brought for a sweet savour: it is door of the tabernacle of offer them before the
Aaron’s sons, and Moses an offering made by fire the congregation in LORD. 3And unto the
put of the blood upon unto the LORD. 29And seven days, until the children of Israel thou
the tip of their right ear, Moses took the breast, days of your shalt speak, saying,
and upon the thumbs of and waved it for a wave consecration be at an Take ye a kid of the
their right hands, and offering before the end: for seven days shall goats for a sin offering;
upon the great toes of LORD: for of the ram of he consecrate you. 34As and a calf and a lamb,
their right feet: and consecration it was he hath done this day, both of the first year,
Moses sprinkled the Moses’ part; as the LORD so the LORD hath without blemish, for a
blood upon the altar commanded Moses. commanded to do, to burnt offering; 4Also a
round about. 25And he 30
And Moses took of the make an atonement for bullock and a ram for
took the fat, and the anointing oil, and of the you. 35Therefore shall ye peace offerings, to
rump, and all the fat that blood which was upon abide at the door of the sacrifice before the
was upon the inwards, the altar, and sprinkled tabernacle of the LORD; and a meat
and the caul above the it upon Aaron, and upon congregation day and offering mingled with
liver, and the two his garments, and upon night seven days, and oil: for to day the LORD
will appear unto you. 10
But the fat, and the offering, and tookb an peace offerings.
5
And they brought that kidneys, and the caul handful thereof, and 23
And Moses and
which Moses above the liver of the sin burnt it upon the altar, Aaron went into the
commanded before the offering, he burnt upon beside the burnt tabernacle of the
tabernacle of the the altar; as the LORD sacrifice of the morning. congregation, and came
congregation: and all the commanded Moses. 18
He slew also the out, and blessed the
congregation drew near 11
And the flesh and the bullock and the ram for a people: and the glory of
and stood before the hide he burnt with fire sacrifice of peace the LORD appeared
LORD. 6And Moses said, without the camp. 12And offerings, which was for unto all the people.
This is the thing which he slew the burnt the people: and Aaron’s 24
And there came a fire
the LORD commanded offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him out from before the
that ye should do: and sons presented unto him the blood, which he LORD, and consumed
the glory of the LORD the blood, which he sprinkled upon the altar upon the altar the burnt
shall appear unto you. sprinkled round about round about, 19And the offering and the fat:
7
And Moses said unto upon the altar. 13And fat of the bullock and of which when all the
Aaron, Go unto the altar, they presented the burnt the ram, the rump, and people saw, they
and offer thy sin offering unto him, with that which covereth the shouted, and fell on
offering, and thy burnt the pieces thereof, and inwards, and the their faces.
offering, and make an the head: and he burnt kidneys, and the caul
atonement for thyself, them upon the altar. above the liver: 20And Chapter 10
and for the people: and 14
And he did wash the they put the fat upon the
offer the offering of the inwards and the legs, breasts, and he burnt
1
And Nadab and
people, and make an and burnt them upon the the fat upon the altar: Abihu, the sons of
atonement for them; as burnt offering on the 21
And the breasts and Aaron, took either of
the LORD commanded. altar. 15And he brought the right shoulder Aaron them his censer, and
8
Aaron therefore went the people’s offering, waved for a wave put fire therein, and put
unto the altar, and slew and took the goat, which offering before the incense thereon, and
the calf of the sin was the sin offering for LORD; as Moses offered strange fire
offering, which was for the people, and slew it, commanded. 22
And before the LORD, which
himself. 9And the sons of and offered it for sin, as Aaron lifted up his hand he commanded them
Aaron brought the blood the first. 16
And he toward the people, and not. 2And there went
unto him: and he dipped brought the burnt blessed them, and came out fire from the LORD,
his finger in the blood, offering, and offered it down from offering of and devoured them,
and put it upon the according to the the sin offering, and the and they died before
horns of the altar, and mannera. 17
And he burnt offering, and the LORD.
poured out the blood at brought the meat
3
Then Moses said
b
the bottom of the altar: took...: Heb. filled his hand unto Aaron, This is it
a
manner: or, ordinance out of it
that the LORD spake, to the word of Moses. wave breast and heave before the LORD?
saying, I will be 8
And the LORD spake shoulder shall ye eat in a 18
Behold, the blood of it
sanctified in them that unto Aaron, saying, 9Do clean place; thou, and was not brought in
come nigh me, and not drink wine nor strong thy sons, and thy within the holy place:
before all the people I drink, thou, nor thy sons daughters with thee: for ye should indeed have
will be glorified. And with thee, when ye go they be thy due, and thy eaten it in the holy
Aaron held his peace. into the tabernacle of sons’ due, which are place, as I commanded.
4
And Moses called the congregation, lest ye given out of the 19
And Aaron said unto
Mishael and Elzaphan, die: it shall be a statute sacrifices of peace Moses, Behold, this day
the sons of Uzziel the for ever throughout your offerings of the children have they offered their
uncle of Aaron, and said generations: 10And that of Israel. 15The heave sin offering and their
unto them, Come near, ye may put difference shoulder and the wave burnt offering before
carry your brethren from between holy and breast shall they bring the LORD; and such
before the sanctuary out unholy, and between with the offerings made things have befallen
of the camp. 5So they unclean and clean; 11And by fire of the fat, to wave me: and if I had eaten
went near, and carried that ye may teach the it for a wave offering the sin offering to day,
them in their coats out of children of Israel all the before the LORD; and it should it have been
the camp; as Moses had statutes which the LORD shall be thine, and thy accepted in the sight of
said. 6And Moses said hath spoken unto them sons’ with thee, by a the LORD? 20And when
unto Aaron, and unto by the hand of Moses. statute for ever; as the Moses heard that, he
Eleazar and unto 12
And Moses spake LORD hath commanded. was content.
Ithamar, his sons, unto Aaron, and unto 16
And Moses diligently
Uncover not your heads, Eleazar and unto sought the goat of the Chapter 11
neither rend your Ithamar, his sons that sin offering, and, behold,
clothes; lest ye die, and were left, Take the meat it was burnt: and he was
1
And the LORD spake
lest wrath come upon all offering that remaineth angry with Eleazar and unto Moses and to
the people: but let your of the offerings of the Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, saying unto
brethren, the whole LORD made by fire, and Aaron which were left them, Speak unto the
2

house of Israel, bewail eat it without leaven alive, saying, children of Israel,
the burning which the beside the altar: for it is 17
Wherefore have ye not saying, These are the
LORD hath kindled. 7And most holy: 13And ye shall eaten the sin offering in beasts which ye shall
ye shall not go out from eat it in the holy place, the holy place, seeing it eat among all the
the door of the because it is thy due, is most holy, and God beasts that are on the
tabernacle of the and thy sons’ due, of the hath given it you to bear earth. 3
Whatsoever
congregation, lest ye sacrifices of the LORD the iniquity of the parteth the hoof, and is
die: for the anointing oil made by fire: for so I am congregation, to make clovenfooted, and
of the LORD is upon you. commanded. 14And the atonement for them cheweth the cud,
And they did according
among the beasts, that waters, and of any living 20
All fowls that creep, whatsoever goeth upon
shall ye eat. thing which is in the going upon all four, shall his paws, among all
4
Nevertheless these shall waters, they shall be an be an abomination unto manner of beasts that
ye not eat of them that abomination unto you: you. 21Yet these may ye go on all four, those are
chew the cud, or of them 11
They shall be even an eat of every flying unclean unto you:
that divide the hoof: as abomination unto you; creeping thing that whoso toucheth their
the camel, because he ye shall not eat of their goeth upon all four, carcase shall be
cheweth the cud, but flesh, but ye shall have which have legs above unclean until the even.
divideth not the hoof; he their carcases in their feet, to leap withal 28
And he that beareth
is unclean unto you. abomination. upon the earth; 22Even the carcase of them
5
And the coney, because 12
Whatsoever hath no these of them ye may shall wash his clothes,
he cheweth the cud, but fins nor scales in the eat; the locust after his and be unclean until
divideth not the hoof; he waters, that shall be an kind, and the bald locust the even: they are
is unclean unto you. abomination unto you. after his kind, and the unclean unto you.
6
And the hare, because 13
And these are they beetle after his kind, and 29
These also shall be
he cheweth the cud, but which ye shall have in the grasshopper after his unclean unto you
divideth not the hoof; he abomination among the kind. 23But all other among the creeping
is unclean unto you. fowls; they shall not be flying creeping things, things that creep upon
7
And the swine, though eaten, they are an which have four feet, the earth; the weasel,
he divide the hoof, and abomination: the eagle, shall be an abomination and the mouse, and the
be clovenfooted, yet he and the ossifrage, and unto you. 24And for these tortoise after his kind,
cheweth not the cud; he the ospray, 14And the ye shall be unclean: 30
And the ferret, and
is unclean to you. 8Of vulture, and the kite whosoever toucheth the the chameleon, and the
their flesh shall ye not after his kind; 15Every carcase of them shall be lizard, and the snail,
eat, and their carcase raven after his kind; unclean until the even. and the mole. 31These
shall ye not touch; they 16
And the owl, and the 25
And whosoever beareth are unclean to you
are unclean to you. night hawk, and the ought of the carcase of among all that creep:
9
These shall ye eat of cuckow, and the hawk them shall wash his whosoever doth touch
all that are in the waters: after his kind, 17And the clothes, and be unclean them, when they be
whatsoever hath fins and little owl, and the until the even. 26The dead, shall be unclean
scales in the waters, in cormorant, and the great carcases of every beast until the even. 32And
the seas, and in the owl, 18And the swan, and which divideth the hoof, upon whatsoever any of
rivers, them shall ye eat. the pelican, and the gier and is not clovenfooted, them, when they are
10
And all that have not eagle, 19And the stork, nor cheweth the cud, are dead, doth fall, it shall
fins and scales in the the heron after her kind, unclean unto you: every be unclean; whether it
seas, and in the rivers, of and the lapwing, and the one that toucheth them be any vessel of wood,
all that move in the bat. shall be unclean. 27And or raiment, or skin, or
sack, whatsoever vessel clean. 38But if any water unclean with them, that woman have conceived
it be, wherein any work be put upon the seed, ye should be defiled seed, and born a man
is done, it must be put and any part of their thereby. 44For I am the child: then she shall be
into water, and it shall carcase fall thereon, it LORD your God: ye shall unclean seven days;
be unclean until the shall be unclean unto therefore sanctify according to the days of
even; so it shall be you. 39And if any beast, yourselves, and ye shall the separation for her
cleansed. 33And every of which ye may eat, die; be holy; for I am holy: infirmity shall she be
earthen vessel, he that toucheth the neither shall ye defile unclean. 3And in the
whereinto any of them carcase thereof shall be yourselves with any eighth day the flesh of
falleth, whatsoever is in unclean until the even. manner of creeping thing his foreskin shall be
it shall be unclean; and 40
And he that eateth of that creepeth upon the circumcised. 4And she
ye shall break it. 34Of all the carcase of it shall earth. 45For I am the shall then continue in
meat which may be wash his clothes, and be LORD that bringeth you the blood of her
eaten, that on which unclean until the even: up out of the land of purifying three and
such water cometh shall he also that beareth the Egypt, to be your God: thirty days; she shall
be unclean: and all drink carcase of it shall wash ye shall therefore be touch no hallowed
that may be drunk in his clothes, and be holy, for I am holy. 46This thing, nor come into the
every such vessel shall unclean until the even. is the law of the beasts, sanctuary, until the
be unclean. 35And every 41
And every creeping and of the fowl, and of days of her purifying be
thing whereupon any thing that creepeth upon every living creature that fulfilled. 5But if she bear
part of their carcase the earth shall be an moveth in the waters, a maid child, then she
falleth shall be unclean; abomination; it shall not and of every creature shall be unclean two
whether it be oven, or be eaten. 42Whatsoever that creepeth upon the weeks, as in her
ranges for pots, they goeth upon the belly, earth: 47To make a separation: and she
shall be broken down: and whatsoever goeth difference between the shall continue in the
for they are unclean, and upon all four, or unclean and the clean, blood of her purifying
shall be unclean unto whatsoever hath more and between the beast threescore and six
you. 36Nevertheless a feet among all creeping that may be eaten and days.
fountain or pit, wherein things that creep upon the beast that may not 6
And when the days
there is plenty of water, the earth, them ye shall be eaten. of her purifying are
shall be clean: but that not eat; for they are an fulfilled, for a son, or for
which toucheth their abomination. Chapter 12 a daughter, she shall
carcase shall be unclean. 43
Ye shall not make bring a lamb of the
37
And if any part of their yourselves abominable
1
And the LORD spake firsta year for a burnt
carcase fall upon any with any creeping thing unto Moses, saying, offering, and a young
sowing seed which is to that creepeth, neither
2
Speak unto the children
a
be sown, it shall be shall ye make yourselves of Israel, saying, If a of the first...: Heb. a son of
his year
pigeon, or a turtledove, priest, or unto one of his pronounce him clean: it the plague from his
for a sin offering, unto sons the priests: 3And is but a scab: and he head even to his foot,
the door of the the priest shall look on shall wash his clothes, wheresoever the priest
tabernacle of the the plague in the skin of and be clean. 7But if the looketh; 13
Then the
congregation, unto the the flesh: and when the scab spread much priest shall consider:
priest: 7Who shall offer it hair in the plague is abroad in the skin, after and, behold, if the
before the LORD, and turned white, and the that he hath been seen leprosy have covered
make an atonement for plague in sight be of the priest for his all his flesh, he shall
her; and she shall be deeper than the skin of cleansing, he shall be pronounce him clean
cleansed from the issue his flesh, it is a plague of seen of the priest again: that hath the plague: it
of her blood. This is the leprosy: and the priest 8
And if the priest see is all turned white: he is
law for her that hath shall look on him, and that, behold, the scab clean. 14But when raw
born a male or a female. pronounce him unclean. spreadeth in the skin, flesh appeareth in him,
8
And if she be not able to 4
If the bright spot be then the priest shall he shall be unclean.
bring a lamb, then she white in the skin of his pronounce him unclean: 15
And the priest shall
shall bring two turtles, or flesh, and in sight be not it is a leprosy. 9When the see the raw flesh, and
two young pigeons; the deeper than the skin, plague of leprosy is in a pronounce him to be
one for the burnt and the hair thereof be man, then he shall be unclean: for the raw
offering, and the other not turned white; then brought unto the priest; flesh is unclean: it is a
for a sin offering: and the priest shall shut up 10
And the priest shall see leprosy. 16Or if the raw
the priest shall make an him that hath the plague him: and, behold, if the flesh turn again, and be
atonement for her, and seven days: 5And the rising be white in the changed unto white, he
she shall be clean. priest shall look on him skin, and it have turned shall come unto the
the seventh day: and, the hair white, and there priest; 17And the priest
Chapter 13 behold, if the plague in be quickb raw flesh in the shall see him: and,
his sight be at a stay, rising; 11
It is an old behold, if the plague be
And the LORD spake
1
and the plague spread leprosy in the skin of his turned into white; then
unto Moses and Aaron, not in the skin; then the flesh, and the priest shall the priest shall
saying, 2When a man priest shall shut him up pronounce him unclean, pronounce him clean
shall have in the skin of seven days more: 6And and shall not shut him that hath the plague:
his flesh a risinga, a scab, the priest shall look on up: for he is unclean. he is clean.
or bright spot, and it be him again the seventh 12
And if a leprosy break 18
The flesh also, in
in the skin of his flesh day: and, behold, if the out abroad in the skin, which, even in the skin
like the plague of plague be somewhat and the leprosy cover all thereof, was a boil, and
leprosy; then he shall be dark, and the plague the skin of him that hath is healed, 19And in the
brought unto Aaron the spread not in the skin, place of the boil there
b
the priest shall quick...: Heb. the quickening be a white rising, or a
a
rising: or, swelling of living flesh
bright spot, white, and shall look upon it: and, upon the head or the skin, nor be in sight
somewhat reddish, and it behold, if the hair in the beard; 30Then the priest deeper than the skin;
be shewed to the priest; bright spot be turned shall see the plague: then the priest shall
20
And if, when the priest white, and it be in sight and, behold, if it be in pronounce him clean:
seeth it, behold, it be in deeper than the skin; it sight deeper than the and he shall wash his
sight lower than the skin, is a leprosy broken out skin; and there be in it a clothes, and be clean.
and the hair thereof be of the burning: yellow thin hair; then the 35
But if the scall spread
turned white; the priest wherefore the priest priest shall pronounce much in the skin after
shall pronounce him shall pronounce him him unclean: it is a dry his cleansing; 36Then
unclean: it is a plague of unclean: it is the plague scall, even a leprosy the priest shall look on
leprosy broken out of the of leprosy. 26But if the upon the head or beard. him: and, behold, if the
boil. 21But if the priest priest look on it, and, 31
And if the priest look on scall be spread in the
look on it, and, behold, behold, there be no the plague of the scall, skin, the priest shall not
there be no white hairs white hair in the bright and, behold, it be not in seek for yellow hair; he
therein, and if it be not spot, and it be no lower sight deeper than the is unclean. 37But if the
lower than the skin, but than the other skin, but skin, and that there is no scall be in his sight at a
be somewhat dark; then be somewhat dark; then black hair in it; then the stay, and that there is
the priest shall shut him the priest shall shut him priest shall shut up him black hair grown up
up seven days: 22And if it up seven days: 27And the that hath the plague of therein; the scall is
spread much abroad in priest shall look upon the scall seven days: healed, he is clean: and
the skin, then the priest him the seventh day: 32
And in the seventh day the priest shall
shall pronounce him and if it be spread much the priest shall look on pronounce him clean.
unclean: it is a plague. abroad in the skin, then the plague: and, behold, 38
If a man also or a
23
But if the bright spot the priest shall if the scall spread not, woman have in the skin
stay in his place, and pronounce him unclean: and there be in it no of their flesh bright
spread not, it is a it is the plague of yellow hair, and the scall spots, even white bright
burning boil; and the leprosy. 28And if the be not in sight deeper spots; 39Then the priest
priest shall pronounce bright spot stay in his than the skin; 33He shall shall look: and, behold,
him clean. 24Or if there place, and spread not in be shaven, but the scall if the bright spots in the
be any flesh, in the skin the skin, but it be shall he not shave; and skin of their flesh be
whereof there is a hotc somewhat dark; it is a the priest shall shut up darkish white; it is a
burning, and the quick rising of the burning, and him that hath the scall freckled spot that
flesh that burneth have a the priest shall seven days more: 34And groweth in the skin; he
white bright spot, pronounce him clean: for in the seventh day the is clean. 40And the man
somewhat reddish, or it is an inflammation of priest shall look on the whose hair is fallen off
white; 25Then the priest the burning. 29If a man or scall: and, behold, if the his head, he is bald; yet
c
woman have a plague scall be not spread in the is he clean. 41And he
a hot...: Heb. a burning of fire
that hath his hair fallen that the plague of of skin, wherein the the woof, or in any
off from the part of his leprosy is in, whether it plague is: for it is a thing of skin; it is a
head toward his face, he be a woollen garment, or fretting leprosy; it shall spreading plague: thou
is forehead bald: yet is a linen garment; be burnt in the fire. shalt burn that wherein
he clean. 42And if there 48
Whether it be in the 53
And if the priest shall the plague is with fire.
be in the bald head, or warp, or woof; of linen, look, and, behold, the 58
And the garment,
bald forehead, a white or of woollen; whether in plague be not spread in either warp, or woof, or
reddish sore; it is a a skin, or in any thing the garment, either in whatsoever thing of
leprosy sprung up in his made of skin; 49And if the warp, or in the woof, skin it be, which thou
bald head, or his bald the plague be greenish or in any thing of skin; shalt wash, if the
forehead. 43
Then the or reddish in the 54
Then the priest shall plague be departed
priest shall look upon it: garment, or in the skin, command that they from them, then it shall
and, behold, if the rising either in the warp, or in wash the thing wherein be washed the second
of the sore be white the woof, or in any thingd the plague is, and he time, and shall be
reddish in his bald head, of skin; it is a plague of shall shut it up seven clean. 59This is the law
or in his bald forehead, leprosy, and shall be days more: 55And the of the plague of leprosy
as the leprosy appeareth shewed unto the priest: priest shall look on the in a garment of woollen
in the skin of the flesh; 50
And the priest shall plague, after that it is or linen, either in the
44
He is a leprous man, he look upon the plague, washed: and, behold, if warp, or woof, or any
is unclean: the priest and shut up it that hath the plague have not thing of skins, to
shall pronounce him the plague seven days: changed his colour, and pronounce it clean, or
utterly unclean; his 51
And he shall look on the plague be not to pronounce it
plague is in his head. the plague on the spread; it is unclean; unclean.
45
And the leper in whom seventh day: if the thou shalt burn it in the
the plague is, his clothes plague be spread in the fire; it is fret inward, Chapter 14
shall be rent, and his garment, either in the whether it be bare within
head bare, and he shall warp, or in the woof, or or without. 56And if the
1
And the LORD spake
put a covering upon his in a skin, or in any work priest look, and, behold, unto Moses, saying,
upper lip, and shall cry, that is made of skin; the the plague be somewhat
2
This shall be the law of
Unclean, unclean. 46All plague is a fretting dark after the washing of the leper in the day of
the days wherein the leprosy; it is unclean. it; then he shall rend it his cleansing: He shall
plague shall be in him he 52
He shall therefore burn out of the garment, or be brought unto the
shall be defiled; he is that garment, whether out of the skin, or out of priest: 3And the priest
unclean: he shall dwell warp or woof, in woollen the warp, or out of the shall go forth out of the
alone; without the camp or in linen, or any thing woof: 57And if it appear camp; and the priest
shall his habitation be. still in the garment, shall look, and, behold,
d
47
The garment also thing: Heb. vessel, or, either in the warp, or in if the plague of leprosy
instrument
be healed in the leper; his tent seven days. 9But the burnt offering, in the in the priest’s hand he
4
Then shall the priest it shall be on the seventh holy place: for as the sin shall pour upon the
command to take for him day, that he shall shave offering is the priest’s, head of him that is to
that is to be cleansed all his hair off his head so is the trespass be cleansed: and the
two birdsa alive and and his beard and his offering: it is most holy: priest shall make an
clean, and cedar wood, eyebrows, even all his 14
And the priest shall atonement for him
and scarlet, and hyssop: hair he shall shave off: take some of the blood before the LORD. 19And
5
And the priest shall and he shall wash his of the trespass offering, the priest shall offer the
command that one of clothes, also he shall and the priest shall put it sin offering, and make
the birds be killed in an wash his flesh in water, upon the tip of the right an atonement for him
earthen vessel over and he shall be clean. ear of him that is to be that is to be cleansed
running water: As for
6 10
And on the eighth cleansed, and upon the from his uncleanness;
the living bird, he shall day he shall take two he thumb of his right hand, and afterward he shall
take it, and the cedar lambs without blemish, and upon the great toe kill the burnt offering:
wood, and the scarlet, and one ewe lamb of the of his right foot: 15And 20
And the priest shall
and the hyssop, and first year without the priest shall take offer the burnt offering
shall dip them and the blemish, and three tenth some of the log of oil, and the meat offering
living bird in the blood of deals of fine flour for a and pour it into the palm upon the altar: and the
the bird that was killed meat offering, mingled of his own left hand: priest shall make an
over the running water: with oil, and one log of 16
And the priest shall dip atonement for him, and
7
And he shall sprinkle oil. 11And the priest that his right finger in the oil he shall be clean.
upon him that is to be maketh him clean shall that is in his left hand, 21
And if he be poor,
cleansed from the present the man that is and shall sprinkle of the and cannot get so
leprosy seven times, and to be made clean, and oil with his finger seven much; then he shall
shall pronounce him those things, before the times before the LORD: take one lamb for a
clean, and shall let the LORD, at the door of the 17
And of the rest of the trespass offering to be
living bird loose into the tabernacle of the oil that is in his hand waved, to make an
open field. 8And he that congregation: And the
12
shall the priest put upon atonement for him, and
is to be cleansed shall priest shall take one he the tip of the right ear of one tenth deal of fine
wash his clothes, and lamb, and offer him for a him that is to be flour mingled with oil
shave off all his hair, and trespass offering, and cleansed, and upon the for a meat offering, and
wash himself in water, the log of oil, and wave thumb of his right hand, a log of oil; 22And two
that he may be clean: them for a wave offering and upon the great toe turtledoves, or two
and after that he shall before the LORD: 13And of his right foot, upon young pigeons, such as
come into the camp, and he shall slay the lamb in the blood of the trespass he is able to get; and
shall tarry abroad out of the place where he shall offering: 18
And the the one shall be a sin
a
kill the sin offering and remnant of the oil that is offering, and the other
birds: or, sparrows
a burnt offering. 23And he and upon the thumb of and I put the plague of away the stones in
shall bring them on the his right hand, and upon leprosy in a house of the which the plague is,
eighth day for his the great toe of his right land of your possession; and they shall cast
cleansing unto the foot, upon the place of 35
And he that owneth the them into an unclean
priest, unto the door of the blood of the trespass house shall come and place without the city:
the tabernacle of the offering: 29And the rest of tell the priest, saying, It 41
And he shall cause the
congregation, before the the oil that is in the seemeth to me there is house to be scraped
LORD. 24And the priest priest’s hand he shall put as it were a plague in the within round about, and
shall take the lamb of upon the head of him house: 36Then the priest they shall pour out the
the trespass offering, that is to be cleansed, to shall command that they dust that they scrape
and the log of oil, and make an atonement for emptyb the house, before off without the city into
the priest shall wave him before the LORD. the priest go into it to an unclean place: 42And
them for a wave offering 30
And he shall offer the see the plague, that all they shall take other
before the LORD: 25And one of the turtledoves, that is in the house be stones, and put them in
he shall kill the lamb of or of the young pigeons, not made unclean: and the place of those
the trespass offering, such as he can get; afterward the priest shall stones; and he shall
and the priest shall take 31
Even such as he is able go in to see the house: take other morter, and
some of the blood of the to get, the one for a sin 37
And he shall look on shall plaister the house.
trespass offering, and offering, and the other the plague, and, behold, 43
And if the plague
put it upon the tip of the for a burnt offering, with if the plague be in the come again, and break
right ear of him that is to the meat offering: and walls of the house with out in the house, after
be cleansed, and upon the priest shall make an hollow strakes, greenish that he hath taken
the thumb of his right atonement for him that or reddish, which in sight away the stones, and
hand, and upon the is to be cleansed before are lower than the wall; after he hath scraped
great toe of his right the LORD. 32This is the 38
Then the priest shall go the house, and after it
foot: 26And the priest law of him in whom is out of the house to the is plaistered; 44Then the
shall pour of the oil into the plague of leprosy, door of the house, and priest shall come and
the palm of his own left whose hand is not able shut up the house seven look, and, behold, if the
hand: 27And the priest to get that which days: 39And the priest plague be spread in the
shall sprinkle with his pertaineth to his shall come again the house, it is a fretting
right finger some of the cleansing. seventh day, and shall leprosy in the house: it
oil that is in his left hand 33
And the LORD spake look: and, behold, if the is unclean. 45And he
seven times before the unto Moses and unto plague be spread in the shall break down the
LORD: 28And the priest Aaron, saying, 34When ye walls of the house; house, the stones of it,
shall put of the oil that is be come into the land of 40
Then the priest shall and the timber thereof,
in his hand upon the tip Canaan, which I give to command that they take and all the morter of
of the right ear of him you for a possession, b
the house; and he shall
that is to be cleansed, empty: or, prepare
carry them forth out of with the blood of the uncleanness in his issue: soever he rideth upon
the city into an unclean bird, and with the whether his flesh run that hath the issue shall
place. 46Moreover he that running water, and with with his issue, or his be unclean. 10
And
goeth into the house all the living bird, and with flesh be stopped from his whosoever toucheth
the while that it is shut the cedar wood, and with issue, it is his any thing that was
up shall be unclean until the hyssop, and with the uncleanness. Every bed,
4
under him shall be
the even. 47And he that scarlet: 53But he shall let whereon he lieth that unclean until the even:
lieth in the house shall go the living bird out of hath the issue, is and he that beareth
wash his clothes; and he the city into the open unclean: and every any of those things
that eateth in the house fields, and make an thinga, whereon he shall wash his clothes,
shall wash his clothes. atonement for the sitteth, shall be unclean. and bathe himself in
48
And if the priest shall house: and it shall be 5
And whosoever water, and be unclean
come in, and look upon clean. toucheth his bed shall until the even. 11And
it, and, behold, the 54
This is the law for all wash his clothes, and whomsoever he
plague hath not spread manner of plague of bathe himself in water, toucheth that hath the
in the house, after the leprosy, and scall, 55And and be unclean until the issue, and hath not
house was plaistered: for the leprosy of a even. 6And he that rinsed his hands in
then the priest shall garment, and of a house, sitteth on any thing water, he shall wash his
pronounce the house 56
And for a rising, and for whereon he sat that hath clothes, and bathe
clean, because the a scab, and for a bright the issue shall wash his himself in water, and be
plague is healed. 49And spot: 57To teach when it clothes, and bathe unclean until the even.
he shall take to cleanse is unclean, and when it himself in water, and be 12
And the vessel of
the house two birds, and is clean: this is the law of unclean until the even. earth, that he toucheth
cedar wood, and scarlet, leprosy. 7
And he that toucheth which hath the issue,
and hyssop: 50And he the flesh of him that shall be broken: and
shall kill the one of the Chapter 15 hath the issue shall wash every vessel of wood
birds in an earthen his clothes, and bathe shall be rinsed in water.
vessel over running
1
And the LORD spake himself in water, and be 13
And when he that
water: 51And he shall unto Moses and to unclean until the even. hath an issue is
take the cedar wood, Aaron, saying, 2Speak 8
And if he that hath the cleansed of his issue;
and the hyssop, and the unto the children of issue spit upon him that then he shall number to
scarlet, and the living Israel, and say unto is clean; then he shall himself seven days for
bird, and dip them in the them, When any man wash his clothes, and his cleansing, and wash
blood of the slain bird, hath a running issue out bathe himself in water, his clothes, and bathe
and in the running water, of his flesh, because of and be unclean until the his flesh in running
and sprinkle the house his issue he is unclean. even. 9And what saddle water, and shall be
seven times: 52And he
3
And this shall be his clean. 14And on the
a
shall cleanse the house thing: Heb. vessel
eighth day he shall take blood, she shall be put beyond the time of her shall make an
to him two turtledoves, apart seven days: and separation; all the days atonement for her
or two young pigeons, whosoever toucheth her of the issue of her before the LORD for the
and come before the shall be unclean until the uncleanness shall be as issue of her
LORD unto the door of even. 20And every thing the days of her uncleanness. 31
Thus
the tabernacle of the that she lieth upon in her separation: she shall be shall ye separate the
congregation, and give separation shall be unclean. 26
Every bed children of Israel from
them unto the priest: unclean: every thing also whereon she lieth all the their uncleanness; that
15
And the priest shall that she sitteth upon days of her issue shall be they die not in their
offer them, the one for a shall be unclean. 21And unto her as the bed of uncleanness, when they
sin offering, and the whosoever toucheth her her separation: and defile my tabernacle
other for a burnt bed shall wash his whatsoever she sitteth that is among them.
offering; and the priest clothes, and bathe upon shall be unclean, 32
This is the law of him
shall make an himself in water, and be as the uncleanness of that hath an issue, and
atonement for him unclean until the even. her separation. 27And of him whose seed
before the LORD for his 22
And whosoever whosoever toucheth goeth from him, and is
issue. 16And if any man’s toucheth any thing that those things shall be defiled therewith; 33And
seed of copulation go out she sat upon shall wash unclean, and shall wash of her that is sick of her
from him, then he shall his clothes, and bathe his clothes, and bathe flowers, and of him that
wash all his flesh in himself in water, and be himself in water, and be hath an issue, of the
water, and be unclean unclean until the even. unclean until the even. man, and of the
until the even. 17And 23
And if it be on her bed, 28
But if she be cleansed woman, and of him that
every garment, and or on any thing whereon of her issue, then she lieth with her that is
every skin, whereon is she sitteth, when he shall number to herself unclean.
the seed of copulation, toucheth it, he shall be seven days, and after
shall be washed with unclean until the even. that she shall be clean. Chapter 16
water, and be unclean 24
And if any man lie with 29
And on the eighth day
until the even. 18The her at all, and her she shall take unto her
1
And the LORD spake
woman also with whom flowers be upon him, he two turtles, or two young unto Moses after the
man shall lie with seed shall be unclean seven pigeons, and bring them death of the two sons of
of copulation, they shall days; and all the bed unto the priest, to the Aaron, when they
both bathe themselves whereon he lieth shall be door of the tabernacle of offered before the
in water, and be unclean unclean. 25
And if a the congregation. 30And LORD, and died; 2And
until the even. woman have an issue of the priest shall offer the the LORD said unto
19
And if a woman her blood many days out one for a sin offering, Moses, Speak unto
have an issue, and her of the time of her and the other for a burnt Aaron thy brother, that
issue in her flesh be separation, or if it run offering; and the priest he come not at all times
into the holy place within door of the tabernacle of put the incense upon the in the midst of their
the vail before the mercy the congregation. 8And fire before the LORD, uncleanness. 17
And
seat, which is upon the Aaron shall cast lots that the cloud of the there shall be no man
ark; that he die not: for I upon the two goats; one incense may cover the in the tabernacle of the
will appear in the cloud lot for the LORD, and the mercy seat that is upon congregation when he
upon the mercy seat. other lot for the the testimony, that he goeth in to make an
3
Thus shall Aaron come scapegoata. 9And Aaron die not: 14And he shall atonement in the holy
into the holy place: with shall bring the goat upon take of the blood of the place, until he come
a young bullock for a sin which the LORD’S lot bullock, and sprinkle it out, and have made an
offering, and a ram for a fellb, and offer him for a with his finger upon the atonement for himself,
burnt offering. 4He shall sin offering. 10
But the mercy seat eastward; and for his household,
put on the holy linen goat, on which the lot and before the mercy and for all the
coat, and he shall have fell to be the scapegoat, seat shall he sprinkle of congregation of Israel.
the linen breeches upon shall be presented alive the blood with his finger 18
And he shall go out
his flesh, and shall be before the LORD, to seven times. unto the altar that is
girded with a linen make an atonement with 15
Then shall he kill the before the LORD, and
girdle, and with the linen him, and to let him go goat of the sin offering, make an atonement for
mitre shall he be attired: for a scapegoat into the that is for the people, it; and shall take of the
these are holy garments; wilderness. 11And Aaron and bring his blood blood of the bullock,
therefore shall he wash shall bring the bullock of within the vail, and do and of the blood of the
his flesh in water, and so the sin offering, which is with that blood as he did goat, and put it upon
put them on. for himself, and shall with the blood of the the horns of the altar
5
And he shall take of make an atonement for bullock, and sprinkle it round about. 19And he
the congregation of the himself, and for his upon the mercy seat, shall sprinkle of the
children of Israel two house, and shall kill the and before the mercy blood upon it with his
kids of the goats for a sin bullock of the sin seat: 16And he shall finger seven times, and
offering, and one ram for offering which is for make an atonement for cleanse it, and hallow it
a burnt offering. 6And himself: 12And he shall the holy place, because from the uncleanness of
Aaron shall offer his take a censer full of of the uncleanness of the the children of Israel.
bullock of the sin burning coals of fire from children of Israel, and 20
And when he hath
offering, which is for off the altar before the because of their made an end of
himself, and make an LORD, and his hands full transgressions in all their reconciling the holy
atonement for himself, of sweet incense beaten sins: and so shall he do place, and the
and for his house. 7And small, and bring it within for the tabernacle of the tabernacle of the
he shall take the two the vail: 13And he shall congregation, that congregation, and the
goats, and present them a
remaineth among them
c
altar, he shall bring the
before the LORD at the scapegoat: Heb. Azazel live goat: 21And Aaron
b c
fell: Heb. went up remaineth: Heb. dwelleth
shall lay both his hands people. 25And the fat of shall the priest make an Chapter 17
upon the head of the live the sin offering shall he atonement for you, to
goat, and confess over burn upon the altar. cleanse you, that ye may 1
And the LORD spake
him all the iniquities of 26
And he that let go the be clean from all your unto Moses, saying,
the children of Israel, goat for the scapegoat sins before the LORD. 31It 2
Speak unto Aaron, and
and all their shall wash his clothes, shall be a sabbath of rest unto his sons, and unto
transgressions in all their and bathe his flesh in unto you, and ye shall all the children of Israel,
sins, putting them upon water, and afterward afflict your souls, by a and say unto them; This
the head of the goat, come into the camp. statute for ever. 32And is the thing which the
and shall send him away 27
And the bullock for the the priest, whom he shall LORD hath
by the hand of a fitd man sin offering, and the goat anoint, and whom he commanded, saying,
into the wilderness: for the sin offering, shall consecratee to 3
What man soever
22
And the goat shall bear whose blood was minister in the priest’s there be of the house of
upon him all their brought in to make office in his father’s Israel, that killeth an ox,
iniquities unto a land not atonement in the holy stead, shall make the or lamb, or goat, in the
inhabited: and he shall place, shall one carry atonement, and shall put camp, or that killeth it
let go the goat in the forth without the camp; on the linen clothes, out of the camp, 4And
wilderness. 23And Aaron and they shall burn in even the holy garments: bringeth it not unto the
shall come into the the fire their skins, and 33
And he shall make an door of the tabernacle
tabernacle of the their flesh, and their atonement for the holy of the congregation, to
congregation, and shall dung. 28And he that sanctuary, and he shall offer an offering unto
put off the linen burneth them shall wash make an atonement for the LORD before the
garments, which he put his clothes, and bathe the tabernacle of the tabernacle of the LORD;
on when he went into his flesh in water, and congregation, and for blood shall be imputed
the holy place, and shall afterward he shall come the altar, and he shall unto that man; he hath
leave them there: 24And into the camp. make an atonement for shed blood; and that
he shall wash his flesh 29
And this shall be a the priests, and for all man shall be cut off
with water in the holy statute for ever unto the people of the from among his people:
place, and put on his you: that in the seventh congregation. 34And this 5
To the end that the
garments, and come month, on the tenth day shall be an everlasting children of Israel may
forth, and offer his burnt of the month, ye shall statute unto you, to bring their sacrifices,
offering, and the burnt afflict your souls, and do make an atonement for which they offer in the
offering of the people, no work at all, whether it the children of Israel for open field, even that
and make an atonement be one of your own all their sins once a year. they may bring them
for himself, and for the country, or a stranger And he did as the LORD unto the LORD, unto
d
that sojourneth among commanded Moses. the door of the
a fit...: Heb. a man of you: 30For on that day e tabernacle of the
opportunity consecrate: Heb. fill his hand
congregation, unto the among you, that eateth life of all flesh is the shall do my judgments,
priest, and offer them any manner of blood; I blood thereof: and keep mine
for peace offerings unto will even set my face whosoever eateth it shall ordinances, to walk
the LORD. 6And the against that soul that be cut off. 15And every therein: I am the LORD
priest shall sprinkle the eateth blood, and will cut soul that eateth that your God. 5Ye shall
blood upon the altar of him off from among his which dieda of itself, or therefore keep my
the LORD at the door of people. 11For the life of that which was torn with statutes, and my
the tabernacle of the the flesh is in the blood: beasts, whether it be judgments: which if a
congregation, and burn and I have given it to one of your own country, man do, he shall live in
the fat for a sweet you upon the altar to or a stranger, he shall them: I am the LORD.
savour unto the LORD. make an atonement for both wash his clothes, 6
None of you shall
7
And they shall no more your souls: for it is the and bathe himself in approach to any that is
offer their sacrifices unto blood that maketh an water, and be unclean neara of kin to him, to
devils, after whom they atonement for the soul. until the even: then shall uncover their
have gone a whoring. 12
Therefore I said unto he be clean. 16But if he nakedness: I am the
This shall be a statute the children of Israel, No wash them not, nor LORD. 7The nakedness
for ever unto them soul of you shall eat bathe his flesh; then he of thy father, or the
throughout their blood, neither shall any shall bear his iniquity. nakedness of thy
generations. 8And thou stranger that sojourneth mother, shalt thou not
shalt say unto them, among you eat blood. Chapter 18 uncover: she is thy
Whatsoever man there 13
And whatsoever man mother; thou shalt not
be of the house of Israel, there be of the children And the LORD spake
1
uncover her nakedness.
or of the strangers which of Israel, or of the unto Moses, saying, 8
The nakedness of thy
sojourn among you, that strangers that sojourn
2
Speak unto the children father’s wife shalt thou
offereth a burnt offering among you, which of Israel, and say unto not uncover: it is thy
or sacrifice, 9
And hunteth and catcheth them, I am the LORD father’s nakedness.
bringeth it not unto the any beast or fowl that your God. 3After the 9
The nakedness of thy
door of the tabernacle of may be eaten; he shall doings of the land of sister, the daughter of
the congregation, to even pour out the blood Egypt, wherein ye dwelt, thy father, or daughter
offer it unto the LORD; thereof, and cover it with shall ye not do: and after of thy mother, whether
even that man shall be dust. 14For it is the life of the doings of the land of she be born at home, or
cut off from among his all flesh; the blood of it Canaan, whither I bring born abroad, even their
people. is for the life thereof: you, shall ye not do: nakedness thou shalt
10
And whatsoever therefore I said unto the neither shall ye walk in not uncover. 10
The
man there be of the children of Israel, Ye their ordinances. 4
Ye nakedness of thy son’s
house of Israel, or of the shall eat the blood of no a a
strangers that sojourn manner of flesh: for the that which died...: Heb. a near...: Heb. remainder of his
carcase flesh
daughter, or of thy woman and her shalt thou lie with any abominations, even the
daughter’s daughter, daughter, neither shalt beast to defile thyself souls that commit them
even their nakedness thou take her son’s therewith: neither shall shall be cut off from
thou shalt not uncover: daughter, or her any woman stand before among their people.
for theirs is thine own daughter’s daughter, to a beast to lie down 30
Therefore shall ye
nakedness. 11
The uncover her nakedness; thereto: it is confusion. keep mine ordinance,
nakedness of thy for they are her near 24
Defile not ye that ye commit not any
father’s wife’s daughter, kinswomen: it is yourselves in any of one of these
begotten of thy father, wickedness. 18
Neither these things: for in all abominable customs,
she is thy sister, thou shalt thou take a wifeb to these the nations are which were committed
shalt not uncover her her sister, to vex her, to defiled which I cast out before you, and that ye
nakedness. 12Thou shalt uncover her nakedness, before you: 25And the defile not yourselves
not uncover the beside the other in her land is defiled: therefore therein: I am the LORD
nakedness of thy life time. I do visit the iniquity your God.
father’s sister: she is thy 19
Also thou shalt not thereof upon it, and the
father’s near kinswoman. approach unto a woman land itself vomiteth out Chapter 19
13
Thou shalt not uncover to uncover her her inhabitants. 26
Ye
the nakedness of thy nakedness, as long as shall therefore keep my
1
And the LORD spake
mother’s sister: for she she is put apart for her statutes and my unto Moses, saying,
is thy mother’s near uncleanness. 20Moreover judgments, and shall not
2
Speak unto all the
kinswoman. 14Thou shalt thou shalt not lie commit any of these congregation of the
not uncover the carnally with thy abominations; neither children of Israel, and
nakedness of thy neighbour’s wife, to any of your own nation, say unto them, Ye shall
father’s brother, thou defile thyself with her. nor any stranger that be holy: for I the LORD
shalt not approach to his 21
And thou shalt not let sojourneth among you: your God am holy. 3Ye
wife: she is thine aunt. any of thy seed pass 27
(For all these shall fear every man his
15
Thou shalt not uncover through the fire to abominations have the mother, and his father,
the nakedness of thy Molech , neither shalt
c
men of the land done, and keep my sabbaths:
daughter in law: she is thou profane the name which were before you, I am the LORD your
thy son’s wife; thou shalt of thy God: I am the and the land is defiled;) God. 4Turn ye not unto
not uncover her LORD. 22Thou shalt not 28
That the land spue not idols, nor make to
nakedness. Thou shalt
16
lie with mankind, as with you out also, when ye yourselves molten
not uncover the womankind: it is defile it, as it spued out gods: I am the LORD
nakedness of thy abomination. 23
Neither the nations that were your God. 5And if ye
brother’s wife: it is thy before you. 29
For offer a sacrifice of
b
brother’s nakedness. a wife...: or, one wife to whosoever shall commit peace offerings unto
17
Thou shalt not uncover another any of these the LORD, ye shall offer
c
the nakedness of a Molech: Gr. Moloch
it at your own will. 6It falsely, neither shalt children of thy people, for his sin which he
shall be eaten the same thou profane the name but thou shalt love thy hath done: and the sin
day ye offer it, and on of thy God: I am the neighbour as thyself: I which he hath done
the morrow: and if ought LORD. 13Thou shalt not am the LORD. shall be forgiven him.
remain until the third defraud thy neighbour, 19
Ye shall keep my 23
And when ye shall
day, it shall be burnt in neither rob him: the statutes. Thou shalt not come into the land, and
the fire. 7And if it be wages of him that is let thy cattle gender with shall have planted all
eaten at all on the third hired shall not abide with a diverse kind: thou shalt manner of trees for
day, it is abominable; it thee all night until the not sow thy field with food, then ye shall
shall not be accepted. morning. 14Thou shalt mingled seed: neither count the fruit thereof
8
Therefore every one not curse the deaf, nor shall a garment mingled as uncircumcised: three
that eateth it shall bear put a stumblingblock of linen and woollen years shall it be as
his iniquity, because he before the blind, but come upon thee. 20And uncircumcised unto
hath profaned the shalt fear thy God: I am whosoever lieth carnally you: it shall not be
hallowed thing of the the LORD. 15Ye shall do with a woman, that is a eaten of. 24But in the
LORD: and that soul shall no unrighteousness in bondmaid, betrotheda to fourth year all the fruit
be cut off from among judgment: thou shalt not an husband, and not at thereof shall be holyb to
his people. 9And when ye respect the person of the all redeemed, nor praise the LORD withal.
reap the harvest of your poor, nor honour the freedom given her; she 25
And in the fifth year
land, thou shalt not person of the mighty: shall be scourged; they shall ye eat of the fruit
wholly reap the corners but in righteousness shall not be put to death, thereof, that it may
of thy field, neither shalt shalt thou judge thy because she was not yield unto you the
thou gather the neighbour. 16Thou shalt free. 21
And he shall increase thereof: I am
gleanings of thy harvest. not go up and down as a bring his trespass the LORD your God.
10
And thou shalt not talebearer among thy offering unto the LORD, 26
Ye shall not eat any
glean thy vineyard, people: neither shalt unto the door of the thing with the blood:
neither shalt thou gather thou stand against the tabernacle of the neither shall ye use
every grape of thy blood of thy neighbour: I congregation, even a enchantment, nor
vineyard; thou shalt am the LORD. 17Thou ram for a trespass observe times. 27
Ye
leave them for the poor shalt not hate thy offering. And the priest
22
shall not round the
and stranger: I am the brother in thine heart: shall make an corners of your heads,
LORD your God. thou shalt in any wise atonement for him with neither shalt thou mar
11
Ye shall not steal, rebuke thy neighbour, the ram of the trespass the corners of thy
neither deal falsely, and not suffer sin upon offering before the LORD beard. 28Ye shall not
neither lie one to him. 18
Thou shalt not a
make any cuttings in
another. 12
And ye shall avenge, nor bear any betrothed...: or, abused by
b
not swear by my name grudge against the any: Heb. reproached by (or, holy...: Heb. holiness of
for) man praises to the LORD
your flesh for the dead, judgment, in meteyard, to profane my holy 10
And the man that
nor print any marks upon in weight, or in measure. name. 4And if the people committeth adultery
you: I am the LORD. 29Do 36
Just balances, just of the land do any ways with another man’s
not prostitutec thy weights , a just ephah,
e
hide their eyes from the wife, even he that
daughter, to cause her and a just hin, shall ye man, when he giveth of committeth adultery
to be a whore; lest the have: I am the LORD his seed unto Molech, with his neighbour’s
land fall to whoredom, your God, which brought and kill him not: 5Then I wife, the adulterer and
and the land become full you out of the land of will set my face against the adulteress shall
of wickedness. Egypt. 37Therefore shall that man, and against surely be put to death.
30
Ye shall keep my ye observe all my his family, and will cut 11
And the man that lieth
sabbaths, and reverence statutes, and all my him off, and all that go a with his father’s wife
my sanctuary: I am the judgments, and do them: whoring after him, to hath uncovered his
LORD. 31Regard not them I am the LORD. commit whoredom with father’s nakedness:
that have familiar spirits, Molech, from among both of them shall
neither seek after Chapter 20 their people. 6And the surely be put to death;
wizards, to be defiled by soul that turneth after their blood shall be
them: I am the LORD And the LORD spake
1
such as have familiar upon them. 12And if a
your God. 32Thou shalt unto Moses, saying, spirits, and after wizards, man lie with his
rise up before the hoary
2
Again, thou shalt say to to go a whoring after daughter in law, both of
head, and honour the the children of Israel, them, I will even set my them shall surely be put
face of the old man, and Whosoever he be of the face against that soul, to death: they have
fear thy God: I am the children of Israel, or of and will cut him off from wrought confusion;
LORD. 33And if a stranger the strangers that among his people. their blood shall be
sojourn with thee in your sojourn in Israel, that 7
Sanctify yourselves upon them. 13If a man
land, ye shall not vexd giveth any of his seed therefore, and be ye also lie with mankind,
him. 34But the stranger unto Molech; he shall holy: for I am the LORD as he lieth with a
that dwelleth with you surely be put to death: your God. 8And ye shall woman, both of them
shall be unto you as one the people of the land keep my statutes, and have committed an
born among you, and shall stone him with do them: I am the LORD abomination: they shall
thou shalt love him as stones. 3And I will set my which sanctify you. 9For surely be put to death;
thyself; for ye were face against that man, every one that curseth their blood shall be
strangers in the land of and will cut him off from his father or his mother upon them. 14And if a
Egypt: I am the LORD among his people; shall be surely put to man take a wife and
your God. 35Ye shall do because he hath given of death: he hath cursed her mother, it is
no unrighteousness in his seed unto Molech, to his father or his mother; wickedness: they shall
defile my sanctuary, and his blood shall be upon be burnt with fire, both
c
prostitute: Heb. profane him. he and they; that there
d e
vex: or, oppress weights: Heb. stones
be no wickedness among from among their and I will give it unto you unto Moses, Speak unto
you. 15And if a man lie people. 19
And thou shalt to possess it, a land that the priests the sons of
with a beast, he shall not uncover the floweth with milk and Aaron, and say unto
surely be put to death: nakedness of thy honey: I am the LORD them, There shall none
and ye shall slay the mother’s sister, nor of your God, which have be defiled for the dead
beast. 16And if a woman thy father’s sister: for he separated you from among his people: 2But
approach unto any uncoverethb his near kin: other people. 25Ye shall for his kin, that is near
beast, and lie down they shall bear their therefore put difference unto him, that is, for his
thereto, thou shalt kill iniquity. 20And if a man between clean beasts mother, and for his
the woman, and the shall lie with his uncle’s and unclean, and father, and for his son,
beast: they shall surely wife, he hath uncovered between unclean fowls and for his daughter,
be put to death; their his uncle’s nakedness: and clean: and ye shall and for his brother,
blood shall be upon they shall bear their sin; not make your souls 3
And for his sister a
them. 17And if a man they shall die childless. abominable by beast, or virgin, that is nigh unto
shall take his sister, his 21
And if a man shall take by fowl, or by any him, which hath had no
father’s daughter, or his his brother’s wife, it is an manner of living thing husband; for her may
mother’s daughter, and unclean thing: he hath that creepethc on the he be defiled. 4But he
see her nakedness, and uncovered his brother’s ground, which I have shall not defile himself,
she see his nakedness; it nakedness; they shall be separated from you as being a chief man
is a wicked thing; and childless. unclean. 26And ye shall among his people, to
they shall be cut off in 22
Ye shall therefore be holy unto me: for I profane himself. 5They
the sight of their people: keep all my statutes, and the LORD am holy, and shall not make baldness
he hath uncovered his all my judgments, and have severed you from upon their head, neither
sister’s nakedness; he do them: that the land, other people, that ye shall they shave off the
shall bear his iniquity. whither I bring you to should be mine. 27A man corner of their beard,
18
And if a man shall lie dwell therein, spue you also or woman that hath nor make any cuttings
with a woman having her not out. 23And ye shall a familiar spirit, or that is in their flesh. 6They
sickness, and shall not walk in the manners a wizard, shall surely be shall be holy unto their
uncover her nakedness; of the nation, which I put to death: they shall God, and not profane
he hath discovereda her cast out before you: for stone them with stones: the name of their God:
fountain, and she hath they committed all these their blood shall be upon for the offerings of the
uncovered the fountain things, and therefore I them. LORD made by fire, and
of her blood: and both of abhorred them. 24But I the bread of their God,
them shall be cut off have said unto you, Ye Chapter 21 they do offer: therefore
shall inherit their land, they shall be holy.
1
And the LORD said 7
They shall not take a
b
uncovereth: Heb. hath made wife that is a whore, or
a c
discovered: Heb. made naked naked creepeth: or, moveth
profane; neither shall virginity. 14A widow, or a priest shall come nigh to generations, that goeth
they take a woman put divorced woman, or offer the offerings of the unto the holy things,
away from her husband: profane, or an harlot, LORD made by fire: he which the children of
for he is holy unto his these shall he not take: hath a blemish; he shall Israel hallow unto the
God. 8Thou shalt sanctify but he shall take a virgin not come nigh to offer LORD, having his
him therefore; for he of his own people to the bread of his God. uncleanness upon him,
offereth the bread of thy wife. 15Neither shall he 22
He shall eat the bread that soul shall be cut off
God: he shall be holy profane his seed among of his God, both of the from my presence: I am
unto thee: for I the his people: for I the most holy, and of the the LORD. 4What man
LORD, which sanctify LORD do sanctify him. holy. 23Only he shall not soever of the seed of
you, am holy. 9And the 16
And the LORD spake go in unto the vail, nor Aaron is a leper, or hath
daughter of any priest, if unto Moses, saying, come nigh unto the altar, a running issue; he
she profane herself by 17
Speak unto Aaron, because he hath a shall not eat of the holy
playing the whore, she saying, Whosoever he be blemish; that he profane things, until he be
profaneth her father: she of thy seed in their not my sanctuaries: for I clean. And whoso
shall be burnt with fire. generations that hath the LORD do sanctify toucheth any thing that
10
And he that is the any blemish, let him not them. 24And Moses told it is unclean by the dead,
high priest among his approach to offer the unto Aaron, and to his or a man whose seed
brethren, upon whose breada of his God. 18For sons, and unto all the goeth from him; 5
Or
head the anointing oil whatsoever man he be children of Israel. whosoever toucheth
was poured, and that is that hath a blemish, he any creeping thing,
consecrated to put on shall not approach: a Chapter 22 whereby he may be
the garments, shall not blind man, or a lame, or made unclean, or a
uncover his head, nor he that hath a flat nose,
1
And the LORD spake man of whom he may
rend his clothes; or any thing superfluous, unto Moses, saying, take uncleanness,
11
Neither shall he go in 19
Or a man that is
2
Speak unto Aaron and whatsoever
to any dead body, nor brokenfooted, or to his sons, that they uncleanness he hath;
defile himself for his brokenhanded, 20
Or separate themselves 6
The soul which hath
father, or for his mother; crookbackt, or a dwarfb, from the holy things of touched any such shall
12
Neither shall he go out or that hath a blemish in the children of Israel, be unclean until even,
of the sanctuary, nor his eye, or be scurvy, or and that they profane and shall not eat of the
profane the sanctuary of scabbed, or hath his not my holy name in holy things, unless he
his God; for the crown of stones broken; 21No man those things which they wash his flesh with
the anointing oil of his that hath a blemish of hallow unto me: I am the water. 7And when the
God is upon him: I am the seed of Aaron the LORD. 3Say unto them, sun is down, he shall be
the LORD. 13And he shall Whosoever he be of all clean, and shall
a
take a wife in her bread: or, food your seed among your afterward eat of the
b
a dwarf: or, too slender
holy things; because it is father’s house, as in her without blemish, of the cut; neither shall ye
his food. 8That which youth, she shall eat of beeves, of the sheep, or make any offering
dieth of itself, or is torn her father’s meat: but of the goats. 20
But thereof in your land.
with beasts, he shall not there shall no stranger whatsoever hath a 25
Neither from a
eat to defile himself eat thereof. 14And if a blemish, that shall ye not stranger’s hand shall ye
therewith: I am the man eat of the holy thing offer: for it shall not be offer the bread of your
LORD. 9
They shall unwittingly, then he shall acceptable for you. 21And God of any of these;
therefore keep mine put the fifth part thereof whosoever offereth a because their
ordinance, lest they bear unto it, and shall give it sacrifice of peace corruption is in them,
sin for it, and die unto the priest with the offerings unto the LORD and blemishes be in
therefore, if they profane holy thing. 15And they to accomplish his vow, or them: they shall not be
it: I the LORD do sanctify shall not profane the a freewill offering in accepted for you. 26And
them. holy things of the beeves or sheepc, it shall the LORD spake unto
10
There shall no children of Israel, which be perfect to be Moses, saying, 27When
stranger eat of the holy they offer unto the accepted; there shall be a bullock, or a sheep, or
thing: a sojourner of the LORD; 16Or suffer them no blemish therein. a goat, is brought forth,
priest, or an hired to bear the iniquity of 22
Blind, or broken, or then it shall be seven
servant, shall not eat of trespass, when they eat maimed, or having a days under the dam;
the holy thing. 11But if their holy things: for I wen, or scurvy, or and from the eighth day
the priest buy any soul the LORD do sanctify scabbed, ye shall not and thenceforth it shall
witha his money, he shall them. offer these unto the be accepted for an
eat of it, and he that is 17
And the LORD spake LORD, nor make an offering made by fire
born in his house: they unto Moses, saying, offering by fire of them unto the LORD. 28And
shall eat of his meat. 12If 18
Speak unto Aaron, and upon the altar unto the whether it be cow or
the priest’s daughter to his sons, and unto all LORD. 23Either a bullock ewee, ye shall not kill it
also be married unto a the children of Israel, or a lambd that hath any and her young both in
strangerb, she may not and say unto them, thing superfluous or one day. 29And when ye
eat of an offering of the Whatsoever he be of the lacking in his parts, that will offer a sacrifice of
holy things. 13But if the house of Israel, or of the mayest thou offer for a thanksgiving unto the
priest’s daughter be a strangers in Israel, that freewill offering; but for LORD, offer it at your
widow, or divorced, and will offer his oblation for a vow it shall not be own will. 30On the same
have no child, and is all his vows, and for all accepted. 24Ye shall not day it shall be eaten up;
returned unto her his freewill offerings, offer unto the LORD that ye shall leave none of it
a
which they will offer unto which is bruised, or until the morrow: I am
with...: Heb. with the purchase the LORD for a burnt crushed, or broken, or the LORD. 31Therefore
of his money offering; 19Ye shall offer shall ye keep my
b c
a stranger: Heb. a man a at your own will a male sheep: or, goats
d e
stranger lamb: or, kid ewe: or, she goat
commandments, and do first month at even is the offer that day when ye new meat offering unto
them: I am the LORD. LORD’S passover. 6And wave the sheaf an he the LORD. 17Ye shall
32
Neither shall ye on the fifteenth day of lamb without blemish of bring out of your
profane my holy name; the same month is the the first year for a burnt habitations two wave
but I will be hallowed feast of unleavened offering unto the LORD. loaves of two tenth
among the children of bread unto the LORD: 13
And the meat offering deals: they shall be of
Israel: I am the LORD seven days ye must eat thereof shall be two fine flour; they shall be
which hallow you, 33That unleavened bread. 7In tenth deals of fine flour baken with leaven; they
brought you out of the the first day ye shall mingled with oil, an are the firstfruits unto
land of Egypt, to be your have an holy offering made by fire the LORD. 18And ye
God: I am the LORD. convocation: ye shall do unto the LORD for a shall offer with the
no servile work therein. sweet savour: and the bread seven lambs
Chapter 23 8
But ye shall offer an drink offering thereof without blemish of the
offering made by fire shall be of wine, the first year, and one
1
And the LORD spake unto the LORD seven fourth part of an hin. young bullock, and two
unto Moses, saying, days: in the seventh day 14
And ye shall eat neither rams: they shall be for
2
Speak unto the children is an holy convocation: bread, nor parched corn, a burnt offering unto
of Israel, and say unto ye shall do no servile nor green ears, until the the LORD, with their
them, Concerning the work therein. 9And the selfsame day that ye meat offering, and their
feasts of the LORD, LORD spake unto Moses, have brought an offering drink offerings, even an
which ye shall proclaim saying, 10Speak unto the unto your God: it shall offering made by fire, of
to be holy convocations, children of Israel, and be a statute for ever sweet savour unto the
even these are my say unto them, When ye throughout your LORD. 19Then ye shall
feasts. 3Six days shall be come into the land generations in all your sacrifice one kid of the
work be done: but the which I give unto you, dwellings. goats for a sin offering,
seventh day is the and shall reap the 15
And ye shall count and two lambs of the
sabbath of rest, an holy harvest thereof, then ye unto you from the first year for a sacrifice
convocation; ye shall do shall bring a sheafa of morrow after the of peace offerings.
no work therein: it is the the firstfruits of your sabbath, from the day 20
And the priest shall
sabbath of the LORD in harvest unto the priest: that ye brought the wave them with the
all your dwellings. 11
And he shall wave the sheaf of the wave bread of the firstfruits
4
These are the feasts sheaf before the LORD, offering; seven sabbaths for a wave offering
of the LORD, even holy to be accepted for you: shall be complete: 16Even before the LORD, with
convocations, which ye on the morrow after the unto the morrow after the two lambs: they
shall proclaim in their sabbath the priest shall the seventh sabbath shall be holy to the
seasons. 5
In the wave it. 12And ye shall shall ye number fifty LORD for the priest.
fourteenth day of the days; and ye shall offer a 21
And ye shall proclaim
a
sheaf: or, handful: Heb. omer
on the selfsame day, 23
And the LORD spake in that same day, the is a solemn assembly;
that it may be an holy unto Moses, saying, same soul will I destroy and ye shall do no
convocation unto you: ye 24
Speak unto the children from among his people. servile work therein.
shall do no servile work of Israel, saying, In the 31
Ye shall do no manner 37
These are the feasts
therein: it shall be a seventh month, in the of work: it shall be a of the LORD, which ye
statute for ever in all first day of the month, statute for ever shall proclaim to be
your dwellings shall ye have a sabbath, throughout your holy convocations, to
throughout your a memorial of blowing of generations in all your offer an offering made
generations. 22And when trumpets, an holy dwellings. 32It shall be by fire unto the LORD, a
ye reap the harvest of convocation. 25
Ye shall unto you a sabbath of burnt offering, and a
your land, thou shalt not do no servile work rest, and ye shall afflict meat offering, a
make clean riddance of therein: but ye shall offer your souls: in the ninth sacrifice, and drink
the corners of thy field an offering made by fire day of the month at offerings, every thing
when thou reapest, unto the LORD. 26And the even, from even unto upon his day: 38Beside
neither shalt thou gather LORD spake unto Moses, even, shall ye celebrateb the sabbaths of the
any gleaning of thy saying, 27Also on the your sabbath. LORD, and beside your
harvest: thou shalt leave tenth day of this seventh 33
And the LORD spake gifts, and beside all
them unto the poor, and month there shall be a unto Moses, saying, your vows, and beside
to the stranger: I am the day of atonement: it 34
Speak unto the children all your freewill
LORD your God. shall be an holy of Israel, saying, The offerings, which ye give
convocation unto you; fifteenth day of this unto the LORD. 39Also in
and ye shall afflict your seventh month shall be the fifteenth day of the
souls, and offer an the feast of tabernacles seventh month, when
offering made by fire for seven days unto the ye have gathered in the
unto the LORD. 28And ye LORD. 35On the first day fruit of the land, ye
shall do no work in that shall be an holy shall keep a feast unto
same day: for it is a day convocation: ye shall do the LORD seven days:
of atonement, to make no servile work therein. on the first day shall be
an atonement for you 36
Seven days ye shall a sabbath, and on the
before the LORD your offer an offering made eighth day shall be a
God. 29For whatsoever by fire unto the LORD: sabbath. 40And ye shall
soul it be that shall not on the eighth day shall take you on the first
be afflicted in that same be an holy convocation day the boughs of
day, he shall be cut off unto you; and ye shall goodly trees, branches
from among his people. offer an offering made of palm trees, and the
30
And whatsoever soul it by fire unto the LORD: it boughs of thick trees,
be that doeth any work b
and willows of the
celebrate: Heb. rest
brook; and ye shall congregation, shall made by fire by a blasphemeth the name
rejoice before the LORD Aaron order it from the perpetual statute. of the LORD, he shall
your God seven days. evening unto the 10
And the son of an surely be put to death,
41
And ye shall keep it a morning before the Israelitish woman, whose and all the
feast unto the LORD LORD continually: it shall father was an Egyptian, congregation shall
seven days in the year. be a statute for ever in went out among the certainly stone him: as
It shall be a statute for your generations. 4He children of Israel: and well the stranger, as he
ever in your generations: shall order the lamps this son of the Israelitish that is born in the land,
ye shall celebrate it in upon the pure woman and a man of when he blasphemeth
the seventh month. 42Ye candlestick before the Israel strove together in the name of the LORD,
shall dwell in booths LORD continually. 5And the camp; 11And the shall be put to death.
seven days; all that are thou shalt take fine flour, Israelitish woman’s son 17
And he that killetha
Israelites born shall dwell and bake twelve cakes blasphemed the name of any man shall surely be
in booths: 43That your thereof: two tenth deals the LORD, and cursed. put to death. 18And he
generations may know shall be in one cake. And they brought him that killeth a beast shall
that I made the children 6
And thou shalt set them unto Moses: (and his make it good; beast for
of Israel to dwell in in two rows, six on a row, mother’s name was beast. 19And if a man
booths, when I brought upon the pure table Shelomith, the daughter cause a blemish in his
them out of the land of before the LORD. 7And of Dibri, of the tribe of neighbour; as he hath
Egypt: I am the LORD thou shalt put pure Dan:) 12And they put him done, so shall it be
your God. 44And Moses frankincense upon each in ward, that the mind of done to him; 20Breach
declared unto the row, that it may be on the LORD might be for breach, eye for eye,
children of Israel the the bread for a shewed them. 13And the tooth for tooth: as he
feasts of the LORD. memorial, even an LORD spake unto Moses, hath caused a blemish
offering made by fire saying, 14Bring forth him in a man, so shall it be
Chapter 24 unto the LORD. 8Every that hath cursed without done to him again.
sabbath he shall set it in the camp; and let all that 21
And he that killeth a
1
And the LORD spake order before the LORD heard him lay their beast, he shall restore
unto Moses, saying, continually, being taken hands upon his head, it: and he that killeth a
2
Command the children from the children of and let all the man, he shall be put to
of Israel, that they bring Israel by an everlasting congregation stone him. death. 22Ye shall have
unto thee pure oil olive covenant. 9And it shall 15
And thou shalt speak one manner of law, as
beaten for the light, to be Aaron’s and his sons’; unto the children of well for the stranger, as
cause the lamps to burn and they shall eat it in Israel, saying, for one of your own
continually. 3Without the the holy place: for it is Whosoever curseth his country: for I am the
vail of the testimony, in most holy unto him of God shall bear his sin. a
the tabernacle of the the offerings of the LORD 16
And he that killeth...: Heb. smiteth the
life of a man
LORD your God. 23And thou shalt not reap, proclaim liberty shalt increase the price
Moses spake to the neither gather the throughout all the land thereof, and according
children of Israel, that grapes of thy vine unto all the inhabitants to the fewness of years
they should bring forth undressed: for it is a thereof: it shall be a thou shalt diminish the
him that had cursed out year of rest unto the jubile unto you; and ye price of it: for according
of the camp, and stone land. 6And the sabbath shall return every man to the number of the
him with stones. And the of the land shall be meat unto his possession, and years of the fruits doth
children of Israel did as for you; for thee, and for ye shall return every he sell unto thee. 17Ye
the LORD commanded thy servant, and for thy man unto his family. 11A shall not therefore
Moses. maid, and for thy hired jubile shall that fiftieth oppress one another;
servant, and for thy year be unto you: ye but thou shalt fear thy
Chapter 25 stranger that sojourneth shall not sow, neither God: for I am the LORD
with thee, 7And for thy reap that which groweth your God. 18Wherefore
And the LORD spake
1
cattle, and for the beast of itself in it, nor gather ye shall do my statutes,
unto Moses in mount that are in thy land, shall the grapes in it of thy and keep my
Sinai, saying, 2Speak all the increase thereof vine undressed. 12For it judgments, and do
unto the children of be meat. is the jubile; it shall be them; and ye shall
Israel, and say unto 8
And thou shalt holy unto you: ye shall dwell in the land in
them, When ye come number seven sabbaths eat the increase thereof safety. 19And the land
into the land which I give of years unto thee, out of the field. 13In the shall yield her fruit, and
you, then shall the land seven times seven year of this jubile ye ye shall eat your fill,
keepa a sabbath unto the years; and the space of shall return every man and dwell therein in
LORD. 3Six years thou the seven sabbaths of unto his possession. safety. 20And if ye shall
shalt sow thy field, and years shall be unto thee 14
And if thou sell ought say, What shall we eat
six years thou shalt forty and nine years. unto thy neighbour, or the seventh year?
prune thy vineyard, and 9
Then shalt thou cause buyest ought of thy behold, we shall not
gather in the fruit the trumpet of the jubileb neighbour’s hand, ye sow, nor gather in our
thereof; 4
But in the to sound on the tenth shall not oppress one increase: 21Then I will
seventh year shall be a day of the seventh another: 15According to command my blessing
sabbath of rest unto the month, in the day of the number of years upon you in the sixth
land, a sabbath for the atonement shall ye make after the jubile thou shalt year, and it shall bring
LORD: thou shalt neither the trumpet sound buy of thy neighbour, forth fruit for three
sow thy field, nor prune throughout all your land. and according unto the years. 22And ye shall
thy vineyard. 5
That 10
And ye shall hallow the number of years of the sow the eighth year,
which groweth of its own fiftieth year, and fruits he shall sell unto and eat yet of old fruit
accord of thy harvest thee: 16According to the until the ninth year;
b
of the jubile: Heb. loud of multitude of years thou until her fruits come in
a
keep: Heb. rest sound
ye shall eat of the old of jubile: and in the possession, shall go out a bondservant: 40But as
store. jubile it shall go out, and in the year of jubile: for an hired servant, and as
23
The land shall not be he shall return unto his the houses of the cities a sojourner, he shall be
sold for everc: for the possession. 29And if a of the Levites are their with thee, and shall
land is mine; for ye are man sell a dwelling possession among the serve thee unto the
strangers and sojourners house in a walled city, children of Israel. 34But year of jubile: 41And
with me. 24And in all the then he may redeem it the field of the suburbs then shall he depart
land of your possession within a whole year after of their cities may not be from thee, both he and
ye shall grant a it is sold; within a full sold; for it is their his children with him,
redemption for the land. year may he redeem it. perpetual possession. and shall return unto
25
If thy brother be waxen 30
And if it be not 35
And if thy brother be his own family, and
poor, and hath sold away redeemed within the waxen poor, and fallen in unto the possession of
some of his possession, space of a full year, then decay with thee; then his fathers shall he
and if any of his kin the house that is in the thou shalt relieve him: return. 42For they are
come to redeem it, then walled city shall be yea, though he be a my servants, which I
shall he redeem that established for ever to stranger, or a sojourner; brought forth out of the
which his brother sold. him that bought it that he may live with land of Egypt: they shall
26
And if the man have throughout his thee. 36
Take thou no not be sold asf
none to redeem it, and generations: it shall not usury of him, or bondmen. 43
Thou shalt
himselfd be able to go out in the jubile. 31But increase: but fear thy not rule over him with
redeem it; 27
Then let the houses of the God; that thy brother rigour; but shalt fear
him count the years of villages which have no may live with thee. thy God. 44Both thy
the sale thereof, and wall round about them 37
Thou shalt not give him bondmen, and thy
restore the overplus unto shall be counted as the thy money upon usury, bondmaids, which thou
the man to whom he fields of the country: nor lend him thy victuals shalt have, shall be of
sold it; that he may they may be redeemed, for increase. 38I am the the heathen that are
return unto his and they shall go out in LORD your God, which round about you; of
possession. But if he be
28
the jubile. brought you forth out of them shall ye buy
not able to restore it to 32
Notwithstanding the the land of Egypt, to give bondmen and
him, then that which is cities of the Levites, and you the land of Canaan, bondmaids. 45
Moreover
sold shall remain in the the houses of the cities and to be your God. of the children of the
hand of him that hath of their possession, may 39
And if thy brother strangers that do
bought it until the year the Levites redeem at that dwelleth by thee be sojourn among you, of
c
any time. 33And if a man waxen poor, and be sold them shall ye buy, and
for ever: or, to be quite cut purchase of the Levites, unto thee; thou shalt not
off: Heb. for cutting off then the house that was compele him to serve as with him with the service, etc
d f
himself...: Heb. his hand hath sold, and the city of his as...: Heb. with the sale of a
e
attained and found sufficiency compel...: Heb. serve thyself bondman
of their families that are reckon with him that servants whom I brought shall lie down, and none
with you, which they bought him from the forth out of the land of shall make you afraid:
begat in your land: and year that he was sold to Egypt: I am the LORD and I will rida evil beasts
they shall be your him unto the year of your God. out of the land, neither
possession. 46
And ye jubile: and the price of shall the sword go
shall take them as an his sale shall be Chapter 26 through your land.
inheritance for your according unto the 7
And ye shall chase
children after you, to number of years,
1
Ye shall make you no your enemies, and they
inherit them for a according to the time of idols nor graven image, shall fall before you by
possession; they shall be an hired servant shall it neither rear you up a the sword. 8And five of
your bondmen for ever: be with him. 51If there be standing image, neither you shall chase an
but over your brethren yet many years behind, shall ye set up any hundred, and an
the children of Israel, ye according unto them he image of stone in your hundred of you shall
shall not rule one over shall give again the price land, to bow down unto put ten thousand to
another with rigour. of his redemption out of it: for I am the LORD flight: and your
47
And if a sojourner or the money that he was your God. 2
Ye shall enemies shall fall
stranger wax richg by bought for. 52And if there keep my sabbaths, and before you by the
thee, and thy brother remain but few years reverence my sanctuary: sword. 9For I will have
that dwelleth by him wax unto the year of jubile, I am the LORD. 3If ye respect unto you, and
poor, and sell himself then he shall count with walk in my statutes, and make you fruitful, and
unto the stranger or him, and according unto keep my multiply you, and
sojourner by thee, or to his years shall he give commandments, and do establish my covenant
the stock of the him again the price of them; 4Then I will give with you. 10And ye shall
stranger’s family: After
48
his redemption. 53And as you rain in due season, eat old store, and bring
that he is sold he may be a yearly hired servant and the land shall yield forth the old because of
redeemed again; one of shall he be with him: and her increase, and the the new. 11And I will set
his brethren may the other shall not rule trees of the field shall my tabernacle among
redeem him: Either his
49
with rigour over him in yield their fruit. 5And you: and my soul shall
uncle, or his uncle’s son, thy sight. 54And if he be your threshing shall not abhor you. 12And I
may redeem him, or any not redeemed in these reach unto the vintage, will walk among you,
that is nigh of kin unto years, then he shall go and the vintage shall and will be your God,
him of his family may outh in the year of jubile, reach unto the sowing and ye shall be my
redeem him; or if he be both he, and his children time: and ye shall eat people. 13I am the LORD
able, he may redeem with him. 55For unto me your bread to the full, your God, which
himself. 50And he shall the children of Israel are and dwell in your land brought you forth out of
servants; they are my safely. 6And I will give the land of Egypt, that
g
wax rich...: Heb. his hand peace in the land, and ye
h a
obtain, etc in these...: or, by these means rid: Heb. cause to cease
ye should not be their break the pride of your and when ye are will not smell the
bondmen; and I have power; and I will make gathered together within savour of your sweet
broken the bands of your your heaven as iron, and your cities, I will send odours. 32And I will
yoke, and made you go your earth as brass: the pestilence among bring the land into
upright. 20
And your strength shall you; and ye shall be desolation: and your
14
But if ye will not be spent in vain: for your delivered into the hand enemies which dwell
hearken unto me, and land shall not yield her of the enemy. 26And therein shall be
will not do all these increase, neither shall when I have broken the astonished at it. And I
33

commandments; 15And if the trees of the land staff of your bread, ten will scatter you among
ye shall despise my yield their fruits. 21And if women shall bake your the heathen, and will
statutes, or if your soul ye walk contraryb unto bread in one oven, and draw out a sword after
abhor my judgments, so me, and will not hearken they shall deliver you you: and your land shall
that ye will not do all my unto me; I will bring your bread again by be desolate, and your
commandments, but seven times more weight: and ye shall eat, cities waste. 34
Then
that ye break my plagues upon you and not be satisfied. shall the land enjoy her
covenant: I also will do
16
according to your sins. 27
And if ye will not for all sabbaths, as long as it
this unto you; I will even 22
I will also send wild this hearken unto me, lieth desolate, and ye
appoint over you terror, beasts among you, but walk contrary unto be in your enemies’
consumption, and the which shall rob you of me; 28Then I will walk land; even then shall
burning ague, that shall your children, and contrary unto you also in the land rest, and enjoy
consume the eyes, and destroy your cattle, and fury; and I, even I, will her sabbaths. 35As long
cause sorrow of heart: make you few in chastise you seven times as it lieth desolate it
and ye shall sow your number; and your high for your sins. 29And ye shall rest; because it
seed in vain, for your ways shall be desolate. shall eat the flesh of did not rest in your
enemies shall eat it. 23
And if ye will not be your sons, and the flesh sabbaths, when ye
17
And I will set my face reformed by me by these of your daughters shall dwelt upon it. 36
And
against you, and ye shall things, but will walk ye eat. 30And I will upon them that are left
be slain before your contrary unto me; 24Then destroy your high places, alive of you I will send a
enemies: they that hate will I also walk contrary and cut down your faintness into their
you shall reign over you; unto you, and will punish images, and cast your hearts in the lands of
and ye shall flee when you yet seven times for carcases upon the their enemies; and the
none pursueth you. your sins. 25And I will carcases of your idols, sound of a shakenc leaf
18
And if ye will not yet for bring a sword upon you, and my soul shall abhor shall chase them; and
all this hearken unto me, that shall avenge the you. 31And I will make they shall flee, as
then I will punish you quarrel of my covenant: your cities waste, and fleeing from a sword;
seven times more for b
bring your sanctuaries and they shall fall when
your sins. 19And I will contrary...: or, at all unto desolation, and I c
adventures with me shaken: Heb. driven
none pursueth. 37
And with Jacob, and also my which the LORD made then thy estimation
they shall fall one upon covenant with Isaac, and between him and the shall be of the male five
another, as it were also my covenant with children of Israel in shekels of silver, and
before a sword, when Abraham will I mount Sinai by the hand for the female thy
none pursueth: and ye remember; and I will of Moses. estimation shall be
shall have no power to remember the land. three shekels of silver.
stand before your 43
The land also shall be 7
And if it be from sixty
enemies. And ye shall
38
left of them, and shall years old and above; if
perish among the enjoy her sabbaths, Chapter 27 it be a male, then thy
heathen, and the land of while she lieth desolate estimation shall be
your enemies shall eat without them: and they
1
And the LORD spake fifteen shekels, and for
you up. 39And they that shall accept of the unto Moses, saying, the female ten shekels.
are left of you shall pine punishment of their
2
Speak unto the children 8
But if he be poorer
away in their iniquity in iniquity: because, even of Israel, and say unto than thy estimation,
your enemies’ lands; and because they despised them, When a man shall then he shall present
also in the iniquities of my judgments, and make a singular vow, the himself before the
their fathers shall they because their soul persons shall be for the priest, and the priest
pine away with them. abhorred my statutes. LORD by thy estimation. shall value him;
40
If they shall confess 44
And yet for all that,
3
And thy estimation shall according to his ability
their iniquity, and the when they be in the land be of the male from that vowed shall the
iniquity of their fathers, of their enemies, I will twenty years old even priest value him. 9And if
with their trespass which not cast them away, unto sixty years old, it be a beast, whereof
they trespassed against neither will I abhor them, even thy estimation shall men bring an offering
me, and that also they to destroy them utterly, be fifty shekels of silver, unto the LORD, all that
have walked contrary and to break my after the shekel of the any man giveth of such
unto me; 41And that I covenant with them: for I sanctuary. 4And if it be a unto the LORD shall be
also have walked am the LORD their God. female, then thy holy. 10He shall not alter
contrary unto them, and 45
But I will for their sakes estimation shall be thirty it, nor change it, a good
have brought them into remember the covenant shekels. 5And if it be for a bad, or a bad for a
the land of their of their ancestors, whom from five years old even good: and if he shall at
enemies; if then their I brought forth out of the unto twenty years old, all change beast for
uncircumcised hearts be land of Egypt in the sight then thy estimation shall beast, then it and the
humbled, and they then of the heathen, that I be of the male twenty exchange thereof shall
accept of the might be their God: I am shekels, and for the be holy. 11And if it be
punishment of their the LORD. 46These are female ten shekels. 6And any unclean beast, of
iniquity: 42Then will I the statutes and if it be from a month old which they do not offer
remember my covenant judgments and laws, even unto five years old, a sacrifice unto the
LORD, then he shall jubile, according to thy unto the year of the beast, and of the field
present the beast before estimation it shall stand. jubile: and he shall give of his possession, shall
the priest: 12And the 18
But if he sanctify his thine estimation in that be sold or redeemed:
priest shall value it, field after the jubile, day, as a holy thing unto every devoted thing is
whether it be good or then the priest shall the LORD. 24In the year most holy unto the
bad: as thou valuest it, reckon unto him the of the jubile the field LORD. 29None devoted,
who art the priest, so money according to the shall return unto him of which shall be devoted
shall it be. 13But if he years that remain, even whom it was bought, of men, shall be
will at all redeem it, then unto the year of the even to him to whom the redeemed; but shall
he shall add a fifth part jubile, and it shall be possession of the land surely be put to death.
thereof unto thy abated from thy did belong. 25And all thy 30
And all the tithe of the
estimation. estimation. 19
And if he estimations shall be land, whether of the
14
And when a man that sanctified the field according to the shekel seed of the land, or of
shall sanctify his house will in any wise redeem of the sanctuary: twenty the fruit of the tree, is
to be holy unto the it, then he shall add the gerahs shall be the the LORD’S: it is holy
LORD, then the priest fifth part of the money of shekel. unto the LORD. 31And if
shall estimate it, thy estimation unto it, a man will at all redeem
whether it be good or and it shall be assured to
26
Only the firstling of the ought of his tithes, he
bad: as the priest shall him. 20And if he will not beasts, which should be shall add thereto the
estimate it, so shall it redeem the field, or if he the LORD’S firstling, no fifth part thereof. 32And
stand. 15And if he that have sold the field to man shall sanctify it; concerning the tithe of
sanctified it will redeem another man, it shall not whether it be ox, or the herd, or of the flock,
his house, then he shall be redeemed any more. sheep: it is the LORD’S. even of whatsoever
add the fifth part of the 21
But the field, when it
27
And if it be of an passeth under the rod,
money of thy estimation goeth out in the jubile, unclean beast, then he the tenth shall be holy
unto it, and it shall be shall be holy unto the shall redeem it according unto the LORD. 33He
his. 16And if a man shall LORD, as a field devoted; to thine estimation, and shall not search
sanctify unto the LORD the possession thereof shall add a fifth part of it whether it be good or
some part of a field of shall be the priest’s. thereto: or if it be not bad, neither shall he
his possession, then thy 22
And if a man sanctify redeemed, then it shall change it: and if he
estimation shall be unto the LORD a field be sold according to thy change it at all, then
according to the seed which he hath bought, estimation. both it and the change
thereof: an homer of which is not of the fields
28
Notwithstanding no thereof shall be holy; it
barley seed shall be of his possession; 23Then devoted thing, that a shall not be redeemed.
valued at fifty shekels of the priest shall reckon man shall devote unto 34
These are the
silver. 17If he sanctify his unto him the worth of the LORD of all that he commandments, which
field from the year of thy estimation, even hath, both of man and the LORD commanded
Moses for the children of congregation of the Ahiezer the son of
Israel in mount Sinai. children of Israel, after Ammishaddai. 13
Of
their families, by the Asher; Pagiel the son of
house of their fathers, Ocran. 14
Of Gad;
with the number of their Eliasaph the son of
names, every male by Deuela. 15Of Naphtali;
their polls; 3From twenty Ahira the son of Enan.
years old and upward, all 16
These were the
that are able to go forth renowned of the
to war in Israel: thou and congregation, princes of
Aaron shall number the tribes of their
them by their armies. fathers, heads of
4
And with you there shall thousands in Israel.
be a man of every tribe; 17
And Moses and
every one head of the Aaron took these men
house of his fathers. which are expressed by
5
And these are the their names: 18And they
names of the men that assembled all the
shall stand with you: of congregation together
the tribe of Reuben; on the first day of the
Elizur the son of second month, and they
Shedeur. 6
Of Simeon; declared their
Shelumiel the son of pedigrees after their
Numbers Zurishaddai. 7Of Judah; families, by the house
Nahshon the son of of their fathers,
Chapter 1 Amminadab. 8
Of according to the
Issachar; Nethaneel the number of the names,
1
And the LORD spake
son of Zuar. 9Of Zebulun; from twenty years old
unto Moses in the
Eliab the son of Helon. and upward, by their
wilderness of Sinai, in 10
Of the children of polls. 19As the LORD
the tabernacle of the
Joseph: of Ephraim; commanded Moses, so
congregation, on the first
Elishama the son of he numbered them in
day of the second
Ammihud: of Manasseh; the wilderness of Sinai.
month, in the second
Gamaliel the son of 20
And the children of
year after they were
Pedahzur. 11Of Benjamin; Reuben, Israel’s eldest
come out of the land of
Abidan the son of son, by their
Egypt, saying, 2Take ye
Gideoni. 12
Of Dan;
the sum of all the a
Deuel: also called, Reuel
generations, after their years old and upward, all hundred. 30
Of the of the names, from
families, by the house of that were able to go children of Zebulun, by twenty years old and
their fathers, according forth to war; 25Those that their generations, after upward, all that were
to the number of the were numbered of them, their families, by the able to go forth to war;
names, by their polls, even of the tribe of Gad, house of their fathers, 35
Those that were
every male from twenty were forty and five according to the number numbered of them,
years old and upward, all thousand six hundred of the names, from even of the tribe of
that were able to go and fifty. 26
Of the twenty years old and Manasseh, were thirty
forth to war; 21Those that children of Judah, by upward, all that were and two thousand and
were numbered of them, their generations, after able to go forth to war; two hundred. 36Of the
even of the tribe of their families, by the 31
Those that were children of Benjamin,
Reuben, were forty and house of their fathers, numbered of them, even by their generations,
six thousand and five according to the number of the tribe of Zebulun, after their families, by
hundred. 22
Of the of the names, from were fifty and seven the house of their
children of Simeon, by twenty years old and thousand and four fathers, according to
their generations, after upward, all that were hundred. 32
Of the the number of the
their families, by the able to go forth to war; children of Joseph, names, from twenty
house of their fathers, 27
Those that were namely, of the children years old and upward,
those that were numbered of them, even of Ephraim, by their all that were able to go
numbered of them, of the tribe of Judah, generations, after their forth to war; 37Those
according to the number were threescore and families, by the house of that were numbered of
of the names, by their fourteen thousand and their fathers, according them, even of the tribe
polls, every male from six hundred. 28Of the to the number of the of Benjamin, were thirty
twenty years old and children of Issachar, by names, from twenty and five thousand and
upward, all that were their generations, after years old and upward, all four hundred. 38Of the
able to go forth to war; their families, by the that were able to go children of Dan, by their
23
Those that were house of their fathers, forth to war; 33Those that generations, after their
numbered of them, even according to the number were numbered of them, families, by the house
of the tribe of Simeon, of the names, from even of the tribe of of their fathers,
were fifty and nine twenty years old and Ephraim, were forty according to the
thousand and three upward, all that were thousand and five number of the names,
hundred. 24
Of the able to go forth to war; hundred. 34
Of the from twenty years old
children of Gad, by their 29
Those that were children of Manasseh, by and upward, all that
generations, after their numbered of them, even their generations, after were able to go forth to
families, by the house of of the tribe of Issachar, their families, by the war; 39Those that were
their fathers, according were fifty and four house of their fathers, numbered of them,
to the number of the thousand and four according to the number even of the tribe of
names, from twenty
Dan, were threescore princes of Israel, being unto it, and shall Aaron, saying, 2Every
and two thousand and twelve men: each one encamp round about the man of the children of
seven hundred. 40Of the was for the house of his tabernacle. 51And when Israel shall pitch by his
children of Asher, by fathers. 45So were all the tabernacle setteth own standard, with the
their generations, after those that were forward, the Levites shall ensign of their father’s
their families, by the numbered of the children take it down: and when house: far off about the
house of their fathers, of Israel, by the house of the tabernacle is to be tabernacle of the
according to the number their fathers, from pitched, the Levites shall congregation shall they
of the names, from twenty years old and set it up: and the pitch.
twenty years old and upward, all that were stranger that cometh 3
And on the east side
upward, all that were able to go forth to war in nigh shall be put to toward the rising of the
able to go forth to war; Israel; 46Even all they death. 52And the children sun shall they of the
41
Those that were that were numbered of Israel shall pitch their standard of the camp of
numbered of them, even were six hundred tents, every man by his Judah pitch throughout
of the tribe of Asher, thousand and three own camp, and every their armies: and
were forty and one thousand and five man by his own Nahshon the son of
thousand and five hundred and fifty. standard, throughout Amminadab shall be
hundred. 42
Of the 47
But the Levites after their hosts. 53But the captain of the children
children of Naphtali, the tribe of their fathers Levites shall pitch round of Judah. 4And his host,
throughout their were not numbered about the tabernacle of and those that were
generations, after their among them. 48For the testimony, that there be numbered of them,
families, by the house of LORD had spoken unto no wrath upon the were threescore and
their fathers, according Moses, saying, 49Only congregation of the fourteen thousand and
to the number of the thou shalt not number children of Israel: and six hundred. 5And those
names, from twenty the tribe of Levi, neither the Levites shall keep that do pitch next unto
years old and upward, all take the sum of them the charge of the him shall be the tribe of
that were able to go among the children of tabernacle of testimony. Issachar: and Nethaneel
forth to war; 43Those that Israel: 50But thou shalt 54
And the children of the son of Zuar shall be
were numbered of them, appoint the Levites over Israel did according to all captain of the children
even of the tribe of the tabernacle of that the LORD of Issachar. 6And his
Naphtali, were fifty and testimony, and over all commanded Moses, so host, and those that
three thousand and four the vessels thereof, and did they. were numbered thereof,
hundred. over all things that were fifty and four
44
These are those that belong to it: they shall Chapter 2 thousand and four
were numbered, which bear the tabernacle, and hundred. 7
Then the
Moses and Aaron all the vessels thereof; And the LORD spake
1
tribe of Zebulun: and
numbered, and the and they shall minister unto Moses and unto Eliab the son of Helon
shall be captain of the of Gad: and the captain forty thousand and five his host, and those that
children of Zebulun. 8And of the sons of Gad shall hundred. 20And by him were numbered of
his host, and those that be Eliasaph the son of shall be the tribe of them, were threescore
were numbered thereof, Reuela. 15And his host, Manasseh: and the and two thousand and
were fifty and seven and those that were captain of the children of seven hundred. 27And
thousand and four numbered of them, were Manasseh shall be those that encamp by
hundred. 9All that were forty and five thousand Gamaliel the son of him shall be the tribe of
numbered in the camp of and six hundred and Pedahzur. 21And his host, Asher: and the captain
Judah were an hundred fifty. 16All that were and those that were of the children of Asher
thousand and fourscore numbered in the camp of numbered of them, were shall be Pagiel the son
thousand and six Reuben were an hundred thirty and two thousand of Ocran. 28And his host,
thousand and four thousand and fifty and and two hundred. 22Then and those that were
hundred, throughout one thousand and four the tribe of Benjamin: numbered of them,
their armies. These shall hundred and fifty, and the captain of the were forty and one
first set forth. 10On the throughout their armies. sons of Benjamin shall thousand and five
south side shall be the And they shall set forth be Abidan the son of hundred. 29
Then the
standard of the camp of in the second rank. Gideoni. 23And his host, tribe of Naphtali: and
Reuben according to 17
Then the tabernacle of and those that were the captain of the
their armies: and the the congregation shall numbered of them, were children of Naphtali
captain of the children of set forward with the thirty and five thousand shall be Ahira the son of
Reuben shall be Elizur camp of the Levites in and four hundred. 24All Enan. 30And his host,
the son of Shedeur. the midst of the camp: that were numbered of and those that were
11
And his host, and those as they encamp, so shall the camp of Ephraim numbered of them,
that were numbered they set forward, every were an hundred were fifty and three
thereof, were forty and man in his place by their thousand and eight thousand and four
six thousand and five standards. 18On the west thousand and an hundred. All they that
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hundred. 12And those side shall be the hundred, throughout were numbered in the
which pitch by him shall standard of the camp of their armies. And they camp of Dan were an
be the tribe of Simeon: Ephraim according to shall go forward in the hundred thousand and
and the captain of the their armies: and the third rank. 25
The fifty and seven
children of Simeon shall captain of the sons of standard of the camp of thousand and six
be Shelumiel the son of Ephraim shall be Dan shall be on the hundred. They shall go
Zurishaddai. 13And his Elishama the son of north side by their hindmost with their
host, and those that Ammihud. 19And his host, armies: and the captain standards. 32
These are
were numbered of them, and those that were of the children of Dan those which were
were fifty and nine numbered of them, were shall be Ahiezer the son numbered of the
thousand and three a
of Ammishaddai. 26And children of Israel by the
hundred. Then the tribe
14 Reuel: also called, Deuel
house of their fathers: all priests which were Levites unto Aaron and male from a month old
those that were anointed, whom he to his sons: they are and upward shalt thou
numbered of the camps consecrated to minister wholly given unto him number them. 16And
throughout their hosts in the priest’s office. out of the children of Moses numbered them
were six hundred 4
And Nadab and Abihu Israel. 10And thou shalt according to the worda
thousand and three died before the LORD, appoint Aaron and his of the LORD, as he was
thousand and five when they offered sons, and they shall wait commanded. 17
And
hundred and fifty. But33
strange fire before the on their priest’s office: these were the sons of
the Levites were not LORD, in the wilderness and the stranger that Levi by their names;
numbered among the of Sinai, and they had no cometh nigh shall be put Gershon, and Kohath,
children of Israel; as the children: and Eleazar to death. 11And the LORD and Merari. 18And these
LORD commanded and Ithamar ministered spake unto Moses, are the names of the
Moses. 34
And the in the priest’s office in saying, 12And I, behold, I sons of Gershon by
children of Israel did the sight of Aaron their have taken the Levites their families; Libni, and
according to all that the father. 5And the LORD from among the children Shimei. 19And the sons
LORD commanded spake unto Moses, of Israel instead of all the of Kohath by their
Moses: so they pitched saying, 6Bring the tribe firstborn that openeth families; Amram, and
by their standards, and of Levi near, and present the matrix among the Izehar, Hebron, and
so they set forward, them before Aaron the children of Israel: Uzziel. 20And the sons of
every one after their priest, that they may therefore the Levites Merari by their families;
families, according to the minister unto him. 7And shall be mine; 13Because Mahli, and Mushi. These
house of their fathers. they shall keep his all the firstborn are are the families of the
charge, and the charge mine; for on the day that Levites according to the
Chapter 3 of the whole I smote all the firstborn house of their fathers.
congregation before the in the land of Egypt I 21
Of Gershon was the
1
These also are the tabernacle of the hallowed unto me all the family of the Libnites,
generations of Aaron and congregation, to do the firstborn in Israel, both and the family of the
Moses in the day that service of the man and beast: mine Shimites: these are the
the LORD spake with tabernacle. 8And they shall they be: I am the families of the
Moses in mount Sinai. shall keep all the LORD. Gershonites. 22
Those
2
And these are the instruments of the 14
And the LORD spake that were numbered of
names of the sons of tabernacle of the unto Moses in the them, according to the
Aaron; Nadab the congregation, and the wilderness of Sinai, number of all the
firstborn, and Abihu, charge of the children of saying, 15Number the males, from a month
Eleazar, and Ithamar. Israel, to do the service children of Levi after the old and upward, even
3
These are the names of of the tabernacle. 9And house of their fathers, by those that were
the sons of Aaron, the thou shalt give the their families: every a
word: Heb. mouth
numbered of them were from a month old and of all the males, from a death. 39All that were
seven thousand and five upward, were eight month old and upward, numbered of the
hundred. 23The families thousand and six were six thousand and Levites, which Moses
of the Gershonites shall hundred, keeping the two hundred. 35And the and Aaron numbered at
pitch behind the charge of the sanctuary. chief of the house of the the commandment of
tabernacle westward. 29
The families of the sons father of the families of the LORD, throughout
24
And the chief of the of Kohath shall pitch on Merari was Zuriel the son their families, all the
house of the father of the side of the of Abihail: these shall males from a month old
the Gershonites shall be tabernacle southward. pitch on the side of the and upward, were
Eliasaph the son of Lael. 30
And the chief of the tabernacle northward. twenty and two
25
And the charge of the house of the father of 36
And under the custody thousand.
sons of Gershon in the the families of the and charge of the sons 40
And the LORD said
tabernacle of the Kohathites shall be of Merari shall be the unto Moses, Number all
congregation shall be Elizaphan the son of boards of the tabernacle, the firstborn of the
the tabernacle, and the Uzziel. 31And their charge and the bars thereof, males of the children of
tent, the covering shall be the ark, and the and the pillars thereof, Israel from a month old
thereof, and the hanging table, and the and the sockets thereof, and upward, and take
for the door of the candlestick, and the and all the vessels the number of their
tabernacle of the altars, and the vessels of thereof, and all that names. 41And thou shalt
congregation, And the
26
the sanctuary wherewith serveth thereto, 37
And take the Levites for me
hangings of the court, they minister, and the the pillars of the court (I am the LORD) instead
and the curtain for the hanging, and all the round about, and their of all the firstborn
door of the court, which service thereof. 32And sockets, and their pins, among the children of
is by the tabernacle, and Eleazar the son of Aaron and their cords. 38But Israel; and the cattle of
by the altar round about, the priest shall be chief those that encamp the Levites instead of
and the cords of it for all over the chief of the before the tabernacle all the firstlings among
the service thereof. Levites, and have the toward the east, even the cattle of the
27
And of Kohath was the oversight of them that before the tabernacle of children of Israel. And
42

family of the Amramites, keep the charge of the the congregation Moses numbered, as
and the family of the sanctuary. 33Of Merari eastward, shall be the LORD commanded
Izeharites, and the was the family of the Moses, and Aaron and him, all the firstborn
family of the Hebronites, Mahlites, and the family his sons, keeping the among the children of
and the family of the of the Mushites: these charge of the sanctuary Israel. 43And all the
Uzzielites: these are the are the families of for the charge of the firstborn males by the
families of the Merari. 34And those that children of Israel; and number of names, from
Kohathites. 28
In the were numbered of them, the stranger that cometh a month old and
number of all the males, according to the number nigh shall be put to upward, of those that
were numbered of them, Levites: 50Of the firstborn forward, Aaron shall thereof within a
were twenty and two of the children of Israel come, and his sons, and covering of badgers’
thousand two hundred took he the money; a they shall take down the skins, and shall put it
and threescore and thousand three hundred covering vail, and cover upon a bar. 11And upon
thirteen. 44And the LORD and threescore and five the ark of testimony with the golden altar they
spake unto Moses, shekels, after the shekel it: 6And shall put thereon shall spread a cloth of
saying, 45
Take the of the sanctuary: 51And the covering of badgers’ blue, and cover it with a
Levites instead of all the Moses gave the money skins, and shall spread covering of badgers’
firstborn among the of them that were over it a cloth wholly of skins, and shall put to
children of Israel, and redeemed unto Aaron blue, and shall put in the the staves thereof:
the cattle of the Levites and to his sons, staves thereof. 7
And 12
And they shall take all
instead of their cattle; according to the word of upon the table of the instruments of
and the Levites shall be the LORD, as the LORD shewbread they shall ministry, wherewith
mine: I am the LORD. commanded Moses. spread a cloth of blue, they minister in the
46
And for those that are and put thereon the sanctuary, and put
to be redeemed of the Chapter 4 dishes, and the spoons, them in a cloth of blue,
two hundred and and the bowls, and and cover them with a
threescore and thirteen
1
And the LORD spake coversa to cover withal: covering of badgers’
of the firstborn of the unto Moses and unto and the continual bread skins, and shall put
children of Israel, which Aaron, saying, 2Take the shall be thereon: 8And them on a bar: 13And
are more than the sum of the sons of they shall spread upon they shall take away
Levites; 47
Thou shalt Kohath from among the them a cloth of scarlet, the ashes from the
even take five shekels sons of Levi, after their and cover the same with altar, and spread a
apiece by the poll, after families, by the house of a covering of badgers’ purple cloth thereon:
the shekel of the their fathers, 3
From skins, and shall put in 14
And they shall put
sanctuary shalt thou thirty years old and the staves thereof. 9And upon it all the vessels
take them: (the shekel is upward even until fifty they shall take a cloth of thereof, wherewith they
twenty gerahs:) 48And years old, all that enter blue, and cover the minister about it, even
thou shalt give the into the host, to do the candlestick of the light, the censers, the
money, wherewith the work in the tabernacle of and his lamps, and his fleshhooks, and the
odd number of them is the congregation. 4This tongs, and his shovels, and the
to be redeemed, unto shall be the service of snuffdishes, and all the basons , all the vessels
b

Aaron and to his sons. the sons of Kohath in the oil vessels thereof, of the altar; and they
49
And Moses took the tabernacle of the wherewith they minister shall spread upon it a
redemption money of congregation, about the unto it: 10And they shall covering of badgers’
them that were over and most holy things: 5And put it and all the vessels skins, and put to the
above them that were when the camp setteth
a b
redeemed by the cover...: or, pour out withal basons: or, bowls
staves of it. 15And when sons shall go in, and the door of the upward even unto fifty
Aaron and his sons have appoint them every one tabernacle of the years old shalt thou
made an end of covering to his service and to his congregation, 26And the number them, every
the sanctuary, and all burden: 20But they shall hangings of the court, one that entereth into
the vessels of the not go in to see when and the hanging for the the servicef, to do the
sanctuary, as the camp the holy things are door of the gate of the work of the tabernacle
is to set forward; after covered, lest they die. court, which is by the of the congregation.
that, the sons of Kohath 21
And the LORD spake tabernacle and by the 31
And this is the charge
shall come to bear it: but unto Moses, saying, altar round about, and of their burden,
they shall not touch any 22
Take also the sum of their cords, and all the according to all their
holy thing, lest they die. the sons of Gershon, instruments of their service in the
These things are the throughout the houses of service, and all that is tabernacle of the
burden of the sons of their fathers, by their made for them: so shall congregation; the
Kohath in the tabernacle families; 23From thirty they serve. 27At the boards of the
of the congregation. years old and upward appointmente of Aaron tabernacle, and the
16
And to the office of until fifty years old shalt and his sons shall be all bars thereof, and the
Eleazar the son of Aaron thou number them; all the service of the sons of pillars thereof, and
the priest pertaineth the that enter in to performc the Gershonites, in all sockets thereof, 32
And
oil for the light, and the the service, to do the their burdens, and in all the pillars of the court
sweet incense, and the work in the tabernacle of their service: and ye round about, and their
daily meat offering, and the congregation. 24This shall appoint unto them sockets, and their pins,
the anointing oil, and the is the service of the in charge all their and their cords, with all
oversight of all the families of the burdens. 28
This is the their instruments, and
tabernacle, and of all Gershonites, to serve, service of the families of with all their service:
that therein is, in the and for burdensd: 25And the sons of Gershon in and by name ye shall
sanctuary, and in the they shall bear the the tabernacle of the reckon the instruments
vessels thereof. 17And curtains of the congregation: and their of the charge of their
the LORD spake unto tabernacle, and the charge shall be under burden. 33This is the
Moses and unto Aaron, tabernacle of the the hand of Ithamar the service of the families
saying, 18Cut ye not off congregation, his son of Aaron the priest. of the sons of Merari,
the tribe of the families covering, and the 29
As for the sons of according to all their
of the Kohathites from covering of the badgers’ Merari, thou shalt service, in the
among the Levites: 19But skins that is above upon number them after their tabernacle of the
thus do unto them, that it, and the hanging for families, by the house of congregation, under the
they may live, and not c
their fathers; 30
From hand of Ithamar the son
die, when they approach to perform...: Heb. to war the thirty years old and of Aaron the priest.
unto the most holy warfare
d e f
things: Aaron and his burdens: or, carriage appointment: Heb. mouth service: Heb. warfare
34
And Moses and fifty years old, every one their families, were three numbered of him, as
Aaron and the chief of that entereth into the thousand and two the LORD commanded
the congregation service, for the work in hundred. 45
These be Moses.
numbered the sons of the tabernacle of the those that were
the Kohathites after their congregation, 40
Even numbered of the families Chapter 5
families, and after the those that were of the sons of Merari,
house of their fathers, numbered of them, whom Moses and Aaron
1
And the LORD spake
35
From thirty years old throughout their numbered according to unto Moses, saying,
and upward even unto families, by the house of the word of the LORD by
2
Command the children
fifty years old, every one their fathers, were two the hand of Moses. 46All of Israel, that they put
that entereth into the thousand and six those that were out of the camp every
service, for the work in hundred and thirty. numbered of the Levites, leper, and every one
the tabernacle of the 41
These are they that whom Moses and Aaron that hath an issue, and
congregation: 36
And were numbered of the and the chief of Israel whosoever is defiled by
those that were families of the sons of numbered, after their the dead: 3Both male
numbered of them by Gershon, of all that families, and after the and female shall ye put
their families were two might do service in the house of their fathers, out, without the camp
thousand seven hundred tabernacle of the 47
From thirty years old shall ye put them; that
and fifty. 37These were congregation, whom and upward even unto they defile not their
they that were Moses and Aaron did fifty years old, every one camps, in the midst
numbered of the families number according to the that came to do the whereof I dwell. 4And
of the Kohathites, all that commandment of the service of the ministry, the children of Israel did
might do service in the LORD. 42And those that and the service of the so, and put them out
tabernacle of the were numbered of the burden in the tabernacle without the camp: as
congregation, which families of the sons of of the congregation, the LORD spake unto
Moses and Aaron did Merari, throughout their 48
Even those that were Moses, so did the
number according to the families, by the house of numbered of them, were children of Israel. 5And
commandment of the their fathers, 43
From eight thousand and five the LORD spake unto
LORD by the hand of thirty years old and hundred and fourscore. Moses, saying, 6Speak
Moses. 38And those that upward even unto fifty 49
According to the unto the children of
were numbered of the years old, every one that commandment of the Israel, When a man or
sons of Gershon, entereth into the service, LORD they were woman shall commit
throughout their for the work in the numbered by the hand any sin that men
families, and by the tabernacle of the of Moses, every one commit, to do a
house of their fathers, congregation, 44
Even according to his service, trespass against the
39
From thirty years old those that were and according to his LORD, and that person
and upward even unto numbered of them after burden: thus were they be guilty; 7Then they
shall confess their sin 13
And a man lie with her tabernacle the priest among thy people,
which they have done: carnally, and it be hid shall take, and put it into when the LORD doth
and he shall recompense from the eyes of her the water: 18And the make thy thigh to rotb,
his trespass with the husband, and be kept priest shall set the and thy belly to swell;
principal thereof, and close, and she be woman before the LORD, 22
And this water that
add unto it the fifth part defiled, and there be no and uncover the causeth the curse shall
thereof, and give it unto witness against her, woman’s head, and put go into thy bowels, to
him against whom he neither she be taken the offering of memorial make thy belly to swell,
hath trespassed. 8But if with the manner; 14And in her hands, which is and thy thigh to rot:
the man have no the spirit of jealousy the jealousy offering: And the woman shall
kinsman to recompense come upon him, and he and the priest shall have say, Amen, amen. 23And
the trespass unto, let the be jealous of his wife, in his hand the bitter the priest shall write
trespass be and she be defiled: or if water that causeth the these curses in a book,
recompensed unto the the spirit of jealousy curse: 19And the priest and he shall blot them
LORD, even to the priest; come upon him, and he shall charge her by an out with the bitter
beside the ram of the be jealous of his wife, oath, and say unto the water: 24And he shall
atonement, whereby an and she be not defiled: woman, If no man have cause the woman to
atonement shall be 15
Then shall the man lain with thee, and if drink the bitter water
made for him. 9And bring his wife unto the thou hast not gone aside that causeth the curse:
every offeringa of all the priest, and he shall bring to uncleanness with and the water that
holy things of the her offering for her, the another instead of thy causeth the curse shall
children of Israel, which tenth part of an ephah of husband, be thou free enter into her, and
they bring unto the barley meal; he shall from this bitter water become bitter. 25Then
priest, shall be his. pour no oil upon it, nor that causeth the curse: the priest shall take the
10
And every man’s put frankincense 20
But if thou hast gone jealousy offering out of
hallowed things shall be thereon; for it is an aside to another instead the woman’s hand, and
his: whatsoever any man offering of jealousy, an of thy husband, and if shall wave the offering
giveth the priest, it shall offering of memorial, thou be defiled, and before the LORD, and
be his. bringing iniquity to some man have lain with offer it upon the altar:
11
And the LORD spake remembrance. And the
16
thee beside thine 26
And the priest shall
unto Moses, saying, priest shall bring her husband: 21
Then the take an handful of the
12
Speak unto the children near, and set her before priest shall charge the offering, even the
of Israel, and say unto the LORD: 17And the woman with an oath of memorial thereof, and
them, If any man’s wife priest shall take holy cursing, and the priest burn it upon the altar,
go aside, and commit a water in an earthen shall say unto the and afterward shall
trespass against him, vessel; and of the dust woman, The LORD make cause the woman to
a
that is in the floor of the thee a curse and an oath b
offering: or, heave offering rot: Heb. fall
drink the water. 27And 1
And the LORD spake himself unto the LORD of his separation, and
when he hath made her unto Moses, saying, he shall come at no dead shall bring a lamb of
to drink the water, then 2
Speak unto the children body. 7He shall not make the first year for a
it shall come to pass, of Israel, and say unto himself unclean for his trespass offering: but
that, if she be defiled, them, When either man father, or for his mother, the days that were
and have done trespass or woman shall separate for his brother, or for his before shall be lostd,
against her husband, themselves to vow a vow sister, when they die: because his separation
that the water that of a Nazarite, to because the was defiled. 13And this
causeth the curse shall separatea themselves consecrationc of his God is the law of the
enter into her, and unto the LORD: 3He shall is upon his head. 8All the Nazarite, when the days
become bitter, and her separate himself from days of his separation he of his separation are
belly shall swell, and her wine and strong drink, is holy unto the LORD. fulfilled: he shall be
thigh shall rot: and the and shall drink no 9
And if any man die very brought unto the door
woman shall be a curse vinegar of wine, or suddenly by him, and he of the tabernacle of the
among her people. 28And vinegar of strong drink, hath defiled the head of congregation: 14And he
if the woman be not neither shall he drink his consecration; then he shall offer his offering
defiled, but be clean; any liquor of grapes, nor shall shave his head in unto the LORD, one he
then she shall be free, eat moist grapes, or the day of his cleansing, lamb of the first year
and shall conceive seed. dried. 4All the days of his on the seventh day shall without blemish for a
29
This is the law of separationb shall he eat he shave it. 10And on the burnt offering, and one
jealousies, when a wife nothing that is made of eighth day he shall bring ewe lamb of the first
goeth aside to another the vine tree, from the two turtles, or two young year without blemish
instead of her husband, kernels even to the husk. pigeons, to the priest, to for a sin offering, and
and is defiled; 30Or when 5
All the days of the vow the door of the one ram without
the spirit of jealousy of his separation there tabernacle of the blemish for peace
cometh upon him, and shall no razor come upon congregation: And the
11
offerings, 15
And a
he be jealous over his his head: until the days priest shall offer the one basket of unleavened
wife, and shall set the be fulfilled, in the which for a sin offering, and the bread, cakes of fine
woman before the LORD, he separateth himself other for a burnt flour mingled with oil,
and the priest shall unto the LORD, he shall offering, and make an and wafers of
execute upon her all this be holy, and shall let the atonement for him, for unleavened bread
law. 31Then shall the man locks of the hair of his that he sinned by the anointed with oil, and
be guiltless from iniquity, head grow. 6All the days dead, and shall hallow their meat offering, and
and this woman shall that he separateth his head that same day. their drink offerings.
bear her iniquity. a
12
And he shall consecrate 16
And the priest shall
to separate...: or, to make unto the LORD the days bring them before the
Chapter 6 themselves Nazarites
b c d
separation: or, Nazariteship consecration: Heb. separation be lost: Heb. fall
LORD, and shall offer his the Nazarite may drink anointed it, and Gershon, according to
sin offering, and his wine. 21This is the law of sanctified it, and all the their service: 8And four
burnt offering: 17And he the Nazarite who hath instruments thereof, wagons and eight oxen
shall offer the ram for a vowed, and of his both the altar and all the he gave unto the sons
sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD vessels thereof, and had of Merari, according
offerings unto the LORD, for his separation, beside anointed them, and unto their service,
with the basket of that that his hand shall sanctified them; 2That under the hand of
unleavened bread: the get: according to the the princes of Israel, Ithamar the son of
priest shall offer also his vow which he vowed, so heads of the house of Aaron the priest. 9But
meat offering, and his he must do after the law their fathers, who were unto the sons of Kohath
drink offering. 18And the of his separation. the princes of the tribes, he gave none: because
Nazarite shall shave the 22
And the LORD spake and were over them that the service of the
head of his separation at unto Moses, saying, were numbered, offered: sanctuary belonging
the door of the 23
Speak unto Aaron and 3
And they brought their unto them was that
tabernacle of the unto his sons, saying, On offering before the they should bear upon
congregation, and shall this wise ye shall bless LORD, six covered their shoulders.
take the hair of the head the children of Israel, wagons, and twelve 10
And the princes
of his separation, and saying unto them, 24The oxen; a wagon for two of offered for dedicating of
put it in the fire which is LORD bless thee, and the princes, and for each the altar in the day that
under the sacrifice of the keep thee: 25The LORD one an ox: and they it was anointed, even
peace offerings. 19And make his face shine brought them before the the princes offered their
the priest shall take the upon thee, and be tabernacle. 4
And the offering before the
sodden shoulder of the gracious unto thee: 26The LORD spake unto Moses, altar. 11And the LORD
ram, and one LORD lift up his saying, 5Take it of them, said unto Moses, They
unleavened cake out of countenance upon thee, that they may be to do shall offer their offering,
the basket, and one and give thee peace. the service of the each prince on his day,
unleavened wafer, and 27
And they shall put my tabernacle of the for the dedicating of the
shall put them upon the name upon the children congregation; and thou altar. 12And he that
hands of the Nazarite, of Israel; and I will bless shalt give them unto the offered his offering the
after the hair of his them. Levites, to every man first day was Nahshon
separation is shaven: according to his service. the son of Amminadab,
20
And the priest shall Chapter 7 6
And Moses took the of the tribe of Judah:
wave them for a wave wagons and the oxen, 13
And his offering was
offering before the And it came to pass
1
and gave them unto the one silver charger, the
LORD: this is holy for the on the day that Moses Levites. 7Two wagons weight thereof was an
priest, with the wave had fully set up the and four oxen he gave hundred and thirty
breast and heave tabernacle, and had unto the sons of shekels, one silver bowl
shoulder: and after that
of seventy shekels, after first year, for a burnt 30
On the fourth day Elizur the shekel of the
the shekel of the offering: 22One kid of the the son of Shedeur, sanctuary; both of them
sanctuary; both of them goats for a sin offering: prince of the children of full of fine flour mingled
were full of fine flour 23
And for a sacrifice of Reuben, did offer: 31His with oil for a meat
mingled with oil for a peace offerings, two offering was one silver offering: 38One golden
meat offering: 14
One oxen, five rams, five he charger of the weight of spoon of ten shekels,
spoon of ten shekels of goats, five lambs of the an hundred and thirty full of incense: 39One
gold, full of incense: first year: this was the shekels, one silver bowl young bullock, one ram,
15
One young bullock, one offering of Nethaneel the of seventy shekels, after one lamb of the first
ram, one lamb of the son of Zuar. 24On the the shekel of the year, for a burnt
first year, for a burnt third day Eliab the son of sanctuary; both of them offering: 40One kid of
offering: 16One kid of the Helon, prince of the full of fine flour mingled the goats for a sin
goats for a sin offering: children of Zebulun, did with oil for a meat offering: 41And for a
17
And for a sacrifice of offer: 25His offering was offering: 32One golden sacrifice of peace
peace offerings, two one silver charger, the spoon of ten shekels, full offerings, two oxen, five
oxen, five rams, five he weight whereof was an of incense: 33One young rams, five he goats, five
goats, five lambs of the hundred and thirty bullock, one ram, one lambs of the first year:
first year: this was the shekels, one silver bowl lamb of the first year, for this was the offering of
offering of Nahshon the of seventy shekels, after a burnt offering: 34One Shelumiel the son of
son of Amminadab. 18On the shekel of the kid of the goats for a sin Zurishaddai. 42On the
the second day sanctuary; both of them offering: 35And for a sixth day Eliasaph the
Nethaneel the son of full of fine flour mingled sacrifice of peace son of Deuel, prince of
Zuar, prince of Issachar, with oil for a meat offerings, two oxen, five the children of Gad,
did offer: 19He offered for offering: 26One golden rams, five he goats, five offered: 43His offering
his offering one silver spoon of ten shekels, full lambs of the first year: was one silver charger
charger, the weight of incense: 27One young this was the offering of of the weight of an
whereof was an hundred bullock, one ram, one Elizur the son of hundred and thirty
and thirty shekels, one lamb of the first year, for Shedeur. 36
On the fifth shekels, a silver bowl of
silver bowl of seventy a burnt offering: 28One day Shelumiel the son of seventy shekels, after
shekels, after the shekel kid of the goats for a sin Zurishaddai, prince of the shekel of the
of the sanctuary; both of offering: 29And for a the children of Simeon, sanctuary; both of them
them full of fine flour sacrifice of peace did offer: 37His offering full of fine flour mingled
mingled with oil for a offerings, two oxen, five was one silver charger, with oil for a meat
meat offering: 20
One rams, five he goats, five the weight whereof was offering: 44One golden
spoon of gold of ten lambs of the first year: an hundred and thirty spoon of ten shekels,
shekels, full of incense: this was the offering of shekels, one silver bowl full of incense: 45One
21
One young bullock, one Eliab the son of Helon. of seventy shekels, after young bullock, one ram,
ram, one lamb of the
one lamb of the first Elishama the son of shekels, one silver bowl bullock, one ram, one
year, for a burnt offering: Ammihud. 54
On the of seventy shekels, after lamb of the first year,
46
One kid of the goats for eighth day offered the shekel of the for a burnt offering:
a sin offering: 47And for a Gamaliel the son of sanctuary; both of them 70
One kid of the goats
sacrifice of peace Pedahzur, prince of the full of fine flour mingled for a sin offering: 71And
offerings, two oxen, five children of Manasseh: with oil for a meat for a sacrifice of peace
rams, five he goats, five 55
His offering was one offering: 62One golden offerings, two oxen, five
lambs of the first year: silver charger of the spoon of ten shekels, full rams, five he goats, five
this was the offering of weight of an hundred of incense: 63One young lambs of the first year:
Eliasaph the son of and thirty shekels, one bullock, one ram, one this was the offering of
Deuel. 48On the seventh silver bowl of seventy lamb of the first year, for Ahiezer the son of
day Elishama the son of shekels, after the shekel a burnt offering: 64One Ammishaddai. 72On the
Ammihud, prince of the of the sanctuary; both of kid of the goats for a sin eleventh day Pagiel the
children of Ephraim, them full of fine flour offering: 65And for a son of Ocran, prince of
offered: 49His offering mingled with oil for a sacrifice of peace the children of Asher,
was one silver charger, meat offering: 56
One offerings, two oxen, five offered: 73His offering
the weight whereof was golden spoon of ten rams, five he goats, five was one silver charger,
an hundred and thirty shekels, full of incense: lambs of the first year: the weight whereof was
shekels, one silver bowl 57
One young bullock, one this was the offering of an hundred and thirty
of seventy shekels, after ram, one lamb of the Abidan the son of shekels, one silver bowl
the shekel of the first year, for a burnt Gideoni. 66On the tenth of seventy shekels,
sanctuary; both of them offering: 58One kid of the day Ahiezer the son of after the shekel of the
full of fine flour mingled goats for a sin offering: Ammishaddai, prince of sanctuary; both of them
with oil for a meat 59
And for a sacrifice of the children of Dan, full of fine flour mingled
offering: 50One golden peace offerings, two offered: 67His offering with oil for a meat
spoon of ten shekels, full oxen, five rams, five he was one silver charger, offering: 74One golden
of incense: 51One young goats, five lambs of the the weight whereof was spoon of ten shekels,
bullock, one ram, one first year: this was the an hundred and thirty full of incense: 75One
lamb of the first year, for offering of Gamaliel the shekels, one silver bowl young bullock, one ram,
a burnt offering: 52One son of Pedahzur. 60On of seventy shekels, after one lamb of the first
kid of the goats for a sin the ninth day Abidan the the shekel of the year, for a burnt
offering: 53And for a son of Gideoni, prince of sanctuary; both of them offering: 76
One kid of
sacrifice of peace the children of Benjamin, full of fine flour mingled the goats for a sin
offerings, two oxen, five offered: 61His offering with oil for a meat offering: 77And for a
rams, five he goats, five was one silver charger, offering: 68One golden sacrifice of peace
lambs of the first year: the weight whereof was spoon of ten shekels, full offerings, two oxen, five
this was the offering of an hundred and thirty of incense: 69One young rams, five he goats, five
lambs of the first year: gold: 85Each charger of congregation to speak unto Moses, saying,
this was the offering of silver weighing an with him, then he hearda 6
Take the Levites from
Pagiel the son of Ocran. hundred and thirty the voice of one among the children of
78
On the twelfth day shekels, each bowl speaking unto him from Israel, and cleanse
Ahira the son of Enan, seventy: all the silver off the mercy seat that them. 7And thus shalt
prince of the children of vessels weighed two was upon the ark of thou do unto them, to
Naphtali, offered: 79His thousand and four testimony, from between cleanse them: Sprinkle
offering was one silver hundred shekels, after the two cherubims: and water of purifying upon
charger, the weight the shekel of the he spake unto him. them, and let them
whereof was an hundred sanctuary: The golden
86
shavea all their flesh,
and thirty shekels, one spoons were twelve, full Chapter 8 and let them wash their
silver bowl of seventy of incense, weighing ten clothes, and so make
shekels, after the shekel shekels apiece, after the And the LORD spake
1
themselves clean.
of the sanctuary; both of shekel of the sanctuary: unto Moses, saying, 8
Then let them take a
them full of fine flour all the gold of the spoons
2
Speak unto Aaron, and young bullock with his
mingled with oil for a was an hundred and say unto him, When thou meat offering, even fine
meat offering: 80
One twenty shekels. 87All the lightest the lamps, the flour mingled with oil,
golden spoon of ten oxen for the burnt seven lamps shall give and another young
shekels, full of incense: offering were twelve light over against the bullock shalt thou take
81
One young bullock, one bullocks, the rams candlestick. 3And Aaron for a sin offering. 9And
ram, one lamb of the twelve, the lambs of the did so; he lighted the thou shalt bring the
first year, for a burnt first year twelve, with lamps thereof over Levites before the
offering: 82One kid of the their meat offering: and against the candlestick, tabernacle of the
goats for a sin offering: the kids of the goats for as the LORD congregation: and thou
83
And for a sacrifice of sin offering twelve. 88And commanded Moses. 4And shalt gather the whole
peace offerings, two all the oxen for the this work of the assembly of the
oxen, five rams, five he sacrifice of the peace candlestick was of children of Israel
goats, five lambs of the offerings were twenty beaten gold, unto the together: 10And thou
first year: this was the and four bullocks, the shaft thereof, unto the shalt bring the Levites
offering of Ahira the son rams sixty, the he goats flowers thereof, was before the LORD: and
of Enan. 84This was the sixty, the lambs of the beaten work: according the children of Israel
dedication of the altar, in first year sixty. This was unto the pattern which shall put their hands
the day when it was the dedication of the the LORD had shewed upon the Levites: 11And
anointed, by the princes altar, after that it was Moses, so he made the
of Israel: twelve chargers anointed. 89And when candlestick.
a
of silver, twelve silver Moses was gone into the
5
And the LORD spake let them shave...: Heb. let
bowls, twelve spoons of tabernacle of the them cause a razor to pass
a
with him: that is, with God over, etc
Aaron shall offerb the firstborn of all the so did the children of tabernacle of the
Levites before the LORD children of Israel, have I Israel unto them. 21And congregation, to keep
for an offering of the taken them unto me. the Levites were the charge, and shall do
children of Israel, that 17
For all the firstborn of purified, and they no service. Thus shalt
they may execute the the children of Israel are washed their clothes; thou do unto the
service of the LORD. mine, both man and and Aaron offered them Levites touching their
12
And the Levites shall beast: on the day that I as an offering before the charge.
lay their hands upon the smote every firstborn in LORD; and Aaron made
heads of the bullocks: the land of Egypt I an atonement for them Chapter 9
and thou shalt offer the sanctified them for to cleanse them. 22And
one for a sin offering, myself. 18And I have after that went the
1
And the LORD spake
and the other for a burnt taken the Levites for all Levites in to do their unto Moses in the
offering, unto the LORD, the firstborn of the service in the tabernacle wilderness of Sinai, in
to make an atonement children of Israel. 19And I of the congregation the first month of the
for the Levites. 13And have given the Levites before Aaron, and before second year after they
thou shalt set the Levites as a giftc to Aaron and to his sons: as the LORD were come out of the
before Aaron, and before his sons from among the had commanded Moses land of Egypt, saying,
his sons, and offer them children of Israel, to do concerning the Levites,
2
Let the children of
for an offering unto the the service of the so did they unto them. Israel also keep the
LORD. 14Thus shalt thou children of Israel in the 23
And the LORD spake passover at his
separate the Levites tabernacle of the unto Moses, saying, appointed season. 3In
from among the children congregation, and to 24
This is it that belongeth the fourteenth day of
of Israel: and the Levites make an atonement for unto the Levites: from this month, at evena, ye
shall be mine. 15And after the children of Israel: twenty and five years old shall keep it in his
that shall the Levites go that there be no plague and upward they shall go appointed season:
in to do the service of among the children of in to wait upon the according to all the
the tabernacle of the Israel, when the children service of the tabernacle rites of it, and
congregation: and thou of Israel come nigh unto of the congregation: according to all the
shalt cleanse them, and the sanctuary. 20
And 25
And from the age of ceremonies thereof,
offer them for an Moses, and Aaron, and fifty years they shall shall ye keep it. 4And
offering. 16For they are all the congregation of ceased waiting upon the Moses spake unto the
wholly given unto me the children of Israel, did service thereof, and shall children of Israel, that
from among the children to the Levites according serve no more: 26
But they should keep the
of Israel; instead of such unto all that the LORD shall minister with their passover. 5And they
as open every womb, commanded Moses brethren in the kept the passover on
even instead of the concerning the Levites, d a
cease...: Heb. return from the at even: Heb. between the
b c
offer: Heb. wave a gift: Heb. given warfare of the service two evenings
the fourteenth day of the unto the LORD. 11The the tabernacle was cloud was a few days
first month at even in fourteenth day of the reared up the cloud upon the tabernacle;
the wilderness of Sinai: second month at even covered the tabernacle, according to the
according to all that the they shall keep it, and namely, the tent of the commandment of the
LORD commanded eat it with unleavened testimony: and at even LORD they abode in
Moses, so did the bread and bitter herbs. there was upon the their tents, and
children of Israel. 6And 12
They shall leave none tabernacle as it were the according to the
there were certain men, of it unto the morning, appearance of fire, until commandment of the
who were defiled by the nor break any bone of it: the morning. 16So it was LORD they journeyed.
dead body of a man, that according to all the alway: the cloud covered 21
And so it was, when
they could not keep the ordinances of the it by day, and the the cloud abode from
passover on that day: passover they shall keep appearance of fire by even unto the morning,
and they came before it. 13But the man that is night. 17And when the and that the cloud was
Moses and before Aaron clean, and is not in a cloud was taken up from taken up in the
on that day: 7And those journey, and forbeareth the tabernacle, then morning, then they
men said unto him, We to keep the passover, after that the children of journeyed: whether it
are defiled by the dead even the same soul shall Israel journeyed: and in was by day or by night
body of a man: be cut off from among the place where the that the cloud was
wherefore are we kept his people: because he cloud abode, there the taken up, they
back, that we may not brought not the offering children of Israel pitched journeyed. 22
Or
offer an offering of the of the LORD in his their tents. 18At the whether it were two
LORD in his appointed appointed season, that commandment of the days, or a month, or a
season among the man shall bear his sin. LORD the children of year, that the cloud
children of Israel? And 8 14
And if a stranger shall Israel journeyed, and at tarried upon the
Moses said unto them, sojourn among you, and the commandment of tabernacle, remaining
Stand still, and I will hear will keep the passover the LORD they pitched: thereon, the children of
what the LORD will unto the LORD; as long as the cloud Israel abode in their
command concerning according to the abode upon the tents, and journeyed
you. 9And the LORD ordinance of the tabernacle they rested in not: but when it was
spake unto Moses, passover, and according their tents. 19And when taken up, they
saying, 10Speak unto the to the manner thereof, the cloud tarried long journeyed. 23
At the
children of Israel, saying, so shall he do: ye shall upon the tabernacle commandment of the
If any man of you or of have one ordinance, many days, then the LORD they rested in the
your posterity shall be both for the stranger, children of Israel kept tents, and at the
unclean by reason of a and for him that was the charge of the LORD, commandment of the
dead body, or be in a born in the land. and journeyed not. LORD they journeyed:
journey afar off, yet he 15
And on the day that 20
And so it was, when the they kept the charge of
shall keep the passover
the LORD, at the their journey: they shall on the twentieth day of Reuben set forward
commandment of the blow an alarm for their the second month, in the according to their
LORD by the hand of journeys. 7But when the second year, that the armies: and over his
Moses. congregation is to be cloud was taken up from host was Elizur the son
gathered together, ye off the tabernacle of the of Shedeur. 19And over
Chapter 10 shall blow, but ye shall testimony. 12
And the the host of the tribe of
not sound an alarm. 8And children of Israel took the children of Simeon
1
And the LORD spake the sons of Aaron, the their journeys out of the was Shelumiel the son
unto Moses, saying, priests, shall blow with wilderness of Sinai; and of Zurishaddai. 20And
2
Make thee two trumpets the trumpets; and they the cloud rested in the over the host of the
of silver; of a whole shall be to you for an wilderness of Paran. tribe of the children of
piece shalt thou make ordinance for ever 13
And they first took their Gad was Eliasaph the
them: that thou mayest throughout your journey according to the son of Deuel. 21And the
use them for the calling generations. 9And if ye commandment of the Kohathites set forward,
of the assembly, and for go to war in your land LORD by the hand of bearing the sanctuary:
the journeying of the against the enemy that Moses. 14In the first and the other did set up
camps. 3And when they oppresseth you, then ye place went the standard the tabernacle against
shall blow with them, all shall blow an alarm with of the camp of the they came. 22And the
the assembly shall the trumpets; and ye children of Judah standard of the camp of
assemble themselves to shall be remembered according to their the children of Ephraim
thee at the door of the before the LORD your armies: and over his host set forward according
tabernacle of the God, and ye shall be was Nahshon the son of to their armies: and
congregation. 4And if saved from your Amminadab. 15And over over his host was
they blow but with one enemies. 10
Also in the the host of the tribe of Elishama the son of
trumpet, then the day of your gladness, the children of Issachar Ammihud. 23And over
princes, which are heads and in your solemn days, was Nethaneel the son of the host of the tribe of
of the thousands of and in the beginnings of Zuar. 16And over the host the children of
Israel, shall gather your months, ye shall of the tribe of the Manasseh was Gamaliel
themselves unto thee. blow with the trumpets children of Zebulun was the son of Pedahzur.
5
When ye blow an alarm, over your burnt Eliab the son of Helon. 24
And over the host of
then the camps that lie offerings, and over the 17
And the tabernacle was the tribe of the children
on the east parts shall sacrifices of your peace taken down; and the of Benjamin was Abidan
go forward. 6When ye offerings; that they may sons of Gershon and the the son of Gideoni.
blow an alarm the be to you for a memorial sons of Merari set 25
And the standard of
second time, then the before your God: I am forward, bearing the the camp of the
camps that lie on the the LORD your God. tabernacle. 18And the children of Dan set
south side shall take 11
And it came to pass standard of the camp of forward, which was the
rereward of all the are to encamp in the 1
And when the people is nothing at all, beside
camps throughout their wilderness, and thou complaineda, it this manna, before our
hosts: and over his host mayest be to us instead displeased the LORD: eyes. 7And the manna
was Ahiezer the son of of eyes. 32And it shall be, and the LORD heard it; was as coriander seed,
Ammishaddai. 26And over if thou go with us, yea, it and his anger was and the colour thereof
the host of the tribe of shall be, that what kindled; and the fire of as the colour of
the children of Asher goodness the LORD shall the LORD burnt among bdellium. 8
And the
was Pagiel the son of do unto us, the same will them, and consumed people went about, and
Ocran. 27And over the we do unto thee. 33And them that were in the gathered it, and ground
host of the tribe of the they departed from the uttermost parts of the it in mills, or beat it in a
children of Naphtali was mount of the LORD three camp. 2And the people mortar, and baked it in
Ahira the son of Enan. days’ journey: and the cried unto Moses; and pans, and made cakes
28
Thus were a
the ark of the covenant of when Moses prayed unto of it: and the taste of it
journeyings of the the LORD went before the LORD, the fire was was as the taste of
children of Israel them in the three days’ quenched. 3
And he fresh oil. 9And when the
according to their journey, to search out a called the name of the dew fell upon the camp
armies, when they set resting place for them. place Taberahb: because in the night, the manna
forward. 34
And the cloud of the the fire of the LORD fell upon it. 10Then
29
And Moses said unto LORD was upon them by burnt among them. Moses heard the people
Hobab, the son of Raguel day, when they went out 4
And the mixt weep throughout their
the Midianite, Moses’ of the camp. 35And it multitude that was families, every man in
father in law, We are came to pass, when the among them fell a the door of his tent: and
journeying unto the ark set forward, that lusting: and the children the anger of the LORD
place of which the LORD Moses said, Rise up, of Israel also wept again, was kindled greatly;
said, I will give it you: LORD, and let thine and said, Who shall give Moses also was
come thou with us, and enemies be scattered; us flesh to eat? 5
We displeased. And Moses
11

we will do thee good: for and let them that hate remember the fish, said unto the LORD,
the LORD hath spoken thee flee before thee. which we did eat in Wherefore hast thou
good concerning Israel. 36
And when it rested, he Egypt freely; the afflicted thy servant?
30
And he said unto him, I said, Return, O LORD, cucumbers, and the and wherefore have I
will not go; but I will unto the many melons, and the leeks, not found favour in thy
depart to mine own land, thousands of Israel.
b
and the onions, and the sight, that thou layest
and to my kindred. 31And garlick: 6But now our the burden of all this
he said, Leave us not, I Chapter 11 soul is dried away: there people upon me?
pray thee; forasmuch as a
12
Have I conceived all
thou knowest how we complained: or, were as it this people? have I
b
many thousands: Heb. ten were complainers begotten them, that
a b
Thus: Heb. These thousand thousands Taberah: that is, A burning
thou shouldest say unto them; and they shall the flocks and the herds them that were written,
me, Carry them in thy bear the burden of the be slain for them, to but went not out unto
bosom, as a nursing people with thee, that suffice them? or shall all the tabernacle: and
father beareth the thou bear it not thyself the fish of the sea be they prophesied in the
sucking child, unto the alone. 18And say thou gathered together for camp. 27And there ran a
land which thou swarest unto the people, Sanctify them, to suffice them? young man, and told
unto their fathers? yourselves against to 23
And the LORD said unto Moses, and said, Eldad
13
Whence should I have morrow, and ye shall eat Moses, Is the LORD’S and Medad do prophesy
flesh to give unto all this flesh: for ye have wept in hand waxed short? thou in the camp. 28And
people? for they weep the ears of the LORD, shalt see now whether Joshua the son of Nun,
unto me, saying, Give us saying, Who shall give us my word shall come to the servant of Moses,
flesh, that we may eat. flesh to eat? for it was pass unto thee or not. one of his young men,
14
I am not able to bear well with us in Egypt: 24
And Moses went out, answered and said, My
all this people alone, therefore the LORD will and told the people the lord Moses, forbid them.
because it is too heavy give you flesh, and ye words of the LORD, and 29
And Moses said unto
for me. 15And if thou deal shall eat. 19Ye shall not gathered the seventy him, Enviest thou for
thus with me, kill me, I eat one day, nor two men of the elders of the my sake? would God
pray thee, out of hand, if days, nor five days, people, and set them that all the LORD’S
I have found favour in neither ten days, nor round about the people were prophets,
thy sight; and let me not twenty days; 20But even tabernacle. 25
And the and that the LORD
see my wretchedness. a whole month, until it LORD came down in a would put his spirit
16
And the LORD said come out at your cloud, and spake unto upon them! 30
And
unto Moses, Gather unto nostrils, and it be him, and took of the Moses gat him into the
me seventy men of the loathsome unto you: spirit that was upon him, camp, he and the
elders of Israel, whom because that ye have and gave it unto the elders of Israel.
thou knowest to be the despised the LORD seventy elders: and it 31
And there went
elders of the people, and which is among you, and came to pass, that, when forth a wind from the
officers over them; and have wept before him, the spirit rested upon LORD, and brought
bring them unto the saying, Why came we them, they prophesied, quails from the sea, and
tabernacle of the forth out of Egypt? 21And and did not cease. 26But let them fall by the
congregation, that they Moses said, The people, there remained two of camp, as it were a
may stand there with among whom I am, are the men in the camp, the day’sc journey on this
thee. 17And I will come six hundred thousand name of the one was side, and as it were a
down and talk with thee footmen; and thou hast Eldad, and the name of day’s journey on the
there: and I will take of said, I will give them the other Medad: and other side, round about
the spirit which is upon flesh, that they may eat the spirit rested upon c
thee, and will put it upon a whole month. 22Shall them; and they were of as it were a day’s...: Heb. as
it were the way of a day
the camp, and as it were Moses because of the Moses is not so, who is thee. 14And the LORD
two cubits high upon the Ethiopiana woman whom faithful in all mine house. said unto Moses, If her
face of the earth. 32And he had married: for he 8
With him will I speak father had but spit in
the people stood up all had married an Ethiopian mouth to mouth, even her face, should she not
that day, and all that woman. 2And they said, apparently, and not in be ashamed seven
night, and all the next Hath the LORD indeed dark speeches; and the days? let her be shut
day, and they gathered spoken only by Moses? similitude of the LORD out from the camp
the quails: he that hath he not spoken also shall he behold: seven days, and after
gathered least gathered by us? And the LORD wherefore then were ye that let her be received
ten homers: and they heard it. 3(Now the man not afraid to speak in again. 15And Miriam
spread them all abroad Moses was very meek, against my servant was shut out from the
for themselves round above all the men which Moses? And the anger
9
camp seven days: and
about the camp. 33And were upon the face of of the LORD was kindled the people journeyed
while the flesh was yet the earth.) against them; and he not till Miriam was
between their teeth, ere 4
And the LORD spake departed. brought in again. 16And
it was chewed, the wrath suddenly unto Moses, 10
And the cloud afterward the people
of the LORD was kindled and unto Aaron, and departed from off the removed from
against the people, and unto Miriam, Come out tabernacle; and, behold, Hazeroth, and pitched
the LORD smote the ye three unto the Miriam became leprous, in the wilderness of
people with a very great tabernacle of the white as snow: and Paran.
plague. 34And he called congregation. And they Aaron looked upon
the name of that place three came out. 5And the Miriam, and, behold, she Chapter 13
Kibrothhattaavahd: LORD came down in the was leprous. 11And Aaron
because there they pillar of the cloud, and said unto Moses, Alas,
1
And the LORD spake
buried the people that stood in the door of the my lord, I beseech thee, unto Moses, saying,
lusted. 35And the people tabernacle, and called lay not the sin upon us,
2
Send thou men, that
journeyed from Aaron and Miriam: and wherein we have done they may search the
Kibrothhattaavah unto they both came forth. foolishly, and wherein we land of Canaan, which I
Hazeroth; and abode at 6
And he said, Hear now have sinned. 12Let her give unto the children
Hazeroth. my words: If there be a not be as one dead, of of Israel: of every tribe
prophet among you, I whom the flesh is half of their fathers shall ye
Chapter 12 the LORD will make consumed when he send a man, every one
myself known unto him cometh out of his a ruler among them.
And
1
Miriam and in a vision, and will mother’s womb. 13And
3
And Moses by the
Aaron spake against speak unto him in a Moses cried unto the commandment of the
dream. 7
My servant LORD, saying, Heal her LORD sent them from
d
Kibrothhattaavah: that is, The now, O God, I beseech the wilderness of Paran:
a
graves of lust Ethiopian: or, Cushite
all those men were them, Get you up this came unto the brooka of is the fruit of it.
heads of the children of way southward, and go Eshcol, and cut down 28
Nevertheless the
Israel. 4And these were up into the mountain: from thence a branch people be strong that
their names: of the tribe 18
And see the land, what with one cluster of dwell in the land, and
of Reuben, Shammua it is; and the people that grapes, and they bare it the cities are walled,
the son of Zaccur. 5Of dwelleth therein, between two upon a and very great: and
the tribe of Simeon, whether they be strong staff; and they brought moreover we saw the
Shaphat the son of Hori. or weak, few or many; of the pomegranates, children of Anak there.
6
Of the tribe of Judah, 19
And what the land is and of the figs. 24The 29
The Amalekites dwell
Caleb the son of that they dwell in, place was called the in the land of the south:
Jephunneh. 7Of the tribe whether it be good or brookb Eshcol, because and the Hittites, and
of Issachar, Igal the son bad; and what cities of the cluster of grapes the Jebusites, and the
of Joseph. 8Of the tribe of they be that they dwell which the children of Amorites, dwell in the
Ephraim, Oshea the son in, whether in tents, or in Israel cut down from mountains: and the
of Nun. 9Of the tribe of strong holds; 20And what thence. 25
And they Canaanites dwell by the
Benjamin, Palti the son the land is, whether it be returned from searching sea, and by the coast of
of Raphu. 10Of the tribe fat or lean, whether of the land after forty Jordan. 30
And Caleb
of Zebulun, Gaddiel the there be wood therein, days. stilled the people
son of Sodi. 11Of the tribe or not. And be ye of 26
And they went and before Moses, and said,
of Joseph, namely, of the good courage, and bring came to Moses, and to Let us go up at once,
tribe of Manasseh, Gaddi of the fruit of the land. Aaron, and to all the and possess it; for we
the son of Susi. 12Of the Now the time was the congregation of the are well able to
tribe of Dan, Ammiel the time of the firstripe children of Israel, unto overcome it. 31But the
son of Gemalli. 13Of the grapes. the wilderness of Paran, men that went up with
tribe of Asher, Sethur the 21
So they went up, to Kadesh; and brought him said, We be not
son of Michael. 14Of the and searched the land back word unto them, able to go up against
tribe of Naphtali, Nahbi from the wilderness of and unto all the the people; for they are
the son of Vophsi. 15Of Zin unto Rehob, as men congregation, and stronger than we. 32And
the tribe of Gad, Geuel come to Hamath. 22And shewed them the fruit of they brought up an evil
the son of Machi. 16These they ascended by the the land. 27And they told report of the land which
are the names of the south, and came unto him, and said, We came they had searched unto
men which Moses sent to Hebron; where Ahiman, unto the land whither the children of Israel,
spy out the land. And Sheshai, and Talmai, the thou sentest us, and saying, The land,
Moses called Oshea the children of Anak, were. surely it floweth with through which we have
son of Nun Jehoshua. (Now Hebron was built milk and honey; and this gone to search it, is a
17
And Moses sent them seven years before Zoan a
land that eateth up the
to spy out the land of in Egypt.) 23And they brook: or, valley inhabitants thereof; and
b
Canaan, and said unto brook: or, valley
all the people that we let us return into Egypt. tabernacle of the heard the fame of thee
saw in it are menc of a 5
Then Moses and congregation before all will speak, saying,
great stature. 33
And Aaron fell on their faces the children of Israel. 16
Because the LORD
there we saw the giants, before all the assembly 11
And the LORD said was not able to bring
the sons of Anak, which of the congregation of unto Moses, How long this people into the land
come of the giants: and the children of Israel. will this people provoke which he sware unto
we were in our own sight 6
And Joshua the son of me? and how long will it them, therefore he hath
as grasshoppers, and so Nun, and Caleb the son be ere they believe me, slain them in the
we were in their sight. of Jephunneh, which for all the signs which I wilderness. 17And now, I
were of them that have shewed among beseech thee, let the
Chapter 14 searched the land, rent them? 12I will smite them power of my Lord be
their clothes: 7And they with the pestilence, and great, according as
And
1
all the spake unto all the disinherit them, and will thou hast spoken,
congregation lifted up company of the children make of thee a greater saying, 18The LORD is
their voice, and cried; of Israel, saying, The nation and mightier than longsuffering, and of
and the people wept that land, which we passed they. 13And Moses said great mercy, forgiving
night. 2
And all the through to search it, is unto the LORD, Then the iniquity and
children of Israel an exceeding good land. Egyptians shall hear it, transgression, and by
murmured against Moses 8
If the LORD delight in (for thou broughtest up no means clearing the
and against Aaron: and us, then he will bring us this people in thy might guilty, visiting the
the whole congregation into this land, and give it from among them;) iniquity of the fathers
said unto them, Would us; a land which floweth 14
And they will tell it to upon the children unto
God that we had died in with milk and honey. the inhabitants of this the third and fourth
the land of Egypt! or 9
Only rebel not ye land: for they have heard generation. 19Pardon, I
would God we had died against the LORD, that thou LORD art beseech thee, the
in this wilderness! 3And neither fear ye the among this people, that iniquity of this people
wherefore hath the people of the land; for thou LORD art seen face according unto the
LORD brought us unto they are bread for us: to face, and that thy greatness of thy mercy,
this land, to fall by the their defencea is cloud standeth over and as thou hast
sword, that our wives departed from them, and them, and that thou forgiven this people,
and our children should the LORD is with us: fear goest before them, by from Egypt even until
be a prey? were it not them not. 10But all the day time in a pillar of a now.
better for us to return congregation bade stone cloud, and in a pillar of 20
And the LORD said,
into Egypt? 4And they them with stones. And fire by night. 15Now if I have pardoned
said one to another, Let the glory of the LORD thou shalt kill all this according to thy word:
us make a captain, and appeared in the people as one man, then 21
But as truly as I live,
c a
the nations which have all the earth shall be
men...: Heb. men of statures defence: Heb. shadow
filled with the glory of they murmur against the wilderness. 34
After and the people
the LORD. 22Because all me. 28Say unto them, As the number of the days mourned greatly. 40And
those men which have truly as I live, saith the in which ye searched the they rose up early in
seen my glory, and my LORD, as ye have land, even forty days, the morning, and gat
miracles, which I did in spoken in mine ears, so each day for a year, shall them up into the top of
Egypt and in the will I do to you: 29Your ye bear your iniquities, the mountain, saying,
wilderness, and have carcases shall fall in this even forty years, and ye Lo, we be here, and will
tempted me now these wilderness; and all that shall know my breach of go up unto the place
ten times, and have not were numbered of you, promise. 35I the LORD which the LORD hath
hearkened to my voice; according to your whole have said, I will surely do promised: for we have
23
Surely they shall not number, from twenty it unto all this evil sinned. 41And Moses
see the land which I years old and upward, congregation, that are said, Wherefore now do
sware unto their fathers, which have murmured gathered together ye transgress the
neither shall any of them against me, 30Doubtless against me: in this commandment of the
that provoked me see it: ye shall not come into wilderness they shall be LORD? but it shall not
24
But my servant Caleb, the land, concerning consumed, and there prosper. 42Go not up, for
because he had another which I swareb to make they shall die. the LORD is not among
spirit with him, and hath you dwell therein, save 36
And the men, which you; that ye be not
followed me fully, him Caleb the son of Moses sent to search the smitten before your
will I bring into the land Jephunneh, and Joshua land, who returned, and enemies. 43
For the
whereinto he went; and the son of Nun. 31But made all the Amalekites and the
his seed shall possess it. your little ones, which ye congregation to murmur Canaanites are there
25
(Now the Amalekites said should be a prey, against him, by bringing before you, and ye shall
and the Canaanites them will I bring in, and up a slander upon the fall by the sword:
dwelt in the valley.) To they shall know the land land, 37Even those men because ye are turned
morrow turn you, and which ye have despised. that did bring up the evil away from the LORD,
get you into the 32
But as for you, your report upon the land, therefore the LORD will
wilderness by the way of carcases, they shall fall died by the plague not be with you. 44But
the Red sea. 26And the in this wilderness. 33And before the LORD. 38But they presumed to go up
LORD spake unto Moses your children shall Joshua the son of Nun, unto the hill top:
and unto Aaron, saying, wanderc in the and Caleb the son of nevertheless the ark of
27
How long shall I bear wilderness forty years, Jephunneh, which were the covenant of the
with this evil and bear your of the men that went to LORD, and Moses,
congregation, which whoredoms, until your search the land, lived departed not out of the
murmur against me? I carcases be wasted in still. 39And Moses told camp. 45
Then the
have heard the b
these sayings unto all Amalekites came down,
murmurings of the sware: Heb. lifted up my hand the children of Israel: and the Canaanites
c
children of Israel, which wander: or, feed
which dwelt in that hill, thou shalt prepare for a made by fire, of a sweet ye do the heave
and smote them, and meat offering two tenth savour unto the LORD. offering of the
discomfited them, even deals of flour mingled 14
And if a stranger threshingfloor, so shall
unto Hormah. with the third part of an sojourn with you, or ye heave it. 21Of the
hin of oil. 7And for a whosoever be among first of your dough ye
Chapter 15 drink offering thou shalt you in your generations, shall give unto the
offer the third part of an and will offer an offering LORD an heave offering
And the LORD spake
1
hin of wine, for a sweet made by fire, of a sweet in your generations.
unto Moses, saying, savour unto the LORD. savour unto the LORD; 22
And if ye have
2
Speak unto the children 8
And when thou as ye do, so he shall do. erred, and not observed
of Israel, and say unto preparest a bullock for a 15
One ordinance shall be all these
them, When ye be come burnt offering, or for a both for you of the commandments, which
into the land of your sacrifice in performing a congregation, and also the LORD hath spoken
habitations, which I give vow, or peace offerings for the stranger that unto Moses, 23Even all
unto you, 3And will make unto the LORD: 9Then sojourneth with you, an that the LORD hath
an offering by fire unto shall he bring with a ordinance for ever in commanded you by the
the LORD, a burnt bullock a meat offering your generations: as ye hand of Moses, from the
offering, or a sacrifice in of three tenth deals of are, so shall the stranger day that the LORD
performinga a vow, or in flour mingled with half be before the LORD. commanded Moses,
a freewill offering, or in an hin of oil. 10And thou 16
One law and one and henceforward
your solemn feasts, to shalt bring for a drink manner shall be for you, among your
make a sweet savour offering half an hin of and for the stranger that generations; 24
Then it
unto the LORD, of the wine, for an offering sojourneth with you. shall be, if ought be
herd, or of the flock: made by fire, of a sweet 17
And the LORD spake committed by
4
Then shall he that savour unto the LORD. unto Moses, saying, ignorance without the
offereth his offering unto 11
Thus shall it be done 18
Speak unto the children knowledge of the
the LORD bring a meat for one bullock, or for of Israel, and say unto congregation, that all
offering of a tenth deal one ram, or for a lamb, them, When ye come the congregation shall
of flour mingled with the or a kid. 12According to into the land whither I offer one young bullock
fourth part of an hin of the number that ye shall bring you, 19Then it shall for a burnt offering, for
oil. 5And the fourth part prepare, so shall ye do be, that, when ye eat of a sweet savour unto the
of an hin of wine for a to every one according the bread of the land, ye LORD, with his meat
drink offering shalt thou to their number. 13All shall offer up an heave offering, and his drink
prepare with the burnt that are born of the offering unto the LORD. offering, according to
offering or sacrifice, for country shall do these 20
Ye shall offer up a cake the manner, and one
one lamb. 6Or for a ram, things after this manner, of the first of your dough kid of the goats for a sin
a
in offering an offering for an heave offering: as offering. 25
And the
performing: Heb. separating
priest shall make an for him that is born Moses, The man shall be which brought you out
atonement for all the among the children of surely put to death: all of the land of Egypt, to
congregation of the Israel, and for the the congregation shall be your God: I am the
children of Israel, and it stranger that sojourneth stone him with stones LORD your God.
shall be forgiven them; among them. without the camp. 36And
for it is ignorance: and 30
But the soul that all the congregation Chapter 16
they shall bring their doeth ought brought him without the
offering, a sacrifice presumptuously , c
camp, and stoned him
1
Now Korah, the son
made by fire unto the whether he be born in with stones, and he died; of Izhar, the son of
LORD, and their sin the land, or a stranger, as the LORD Kohath, the son of Levi,
offering before the the same reproacheth commanded Moses. and Dathan and
LORD, for their the LORD; and that soul 37
And the LORD spake Abiram, the sons of
ignorance: 26And it shall shall be cut off from unto Moses, saying, Eliab, and On, the son
be forgiven all the among his people. 38
Speak unto the children of Peleth, sons of
congregation of the 31
Because he hath of Israel, and bid them Reuben, took men: 2And
children of Israel, and despised the word of the that they make them they rose up before
the stranger that LORD, and hath broken fringes in the borders of Moses, with certain of
sojourneth among them; his commandment, that their garments the children of Israel,
seeing all the people soul shall utterly be cut throughout their two hundred and fifty
were in ignorance. 27And off; his iniquity shall be generations, and that princes of the
if any soul sin through upon him. 32And while they put upon the fringe assembly, famous in
ignorance, then he shall the children of Israel of the borders a ribband the congregation, men
bring a she goat of the were in the wilderness, of blue: 39And it shall be of renown: 3And they
first year for a sin they found a man that unto you for a fringe, gathered themselves
offering. 28And the priest gathered sticks upon the that ye may look upon it, together against Moses
shall make an sabbath day. 33And they and remember all the and against Aaron, and
atonement for the soul that found him gathering commandments of the said unto them, Ye take
that sinneth ignorantly, sticks brought him unto LORD, and do them; and too much upon you,
when he sinneth by Moses and Aaron, and that ye seek not after seeing all the
ignorance before the unto all the your own heart and your congregation are holy,
LORD, to make an congregation. 34And they own eyes, after which ye every one of them, and
atonement for him; and put him in ward, because use to go a whoring: the LORD is among
it shall be forgiven him. it was not declared what 40
That ye may them: wherefore then
29
Ye shall have one law should be done to him. remember, and do all my lift ye up yourselves
for him that sinnethb 35
And the LORD said unto commandments, and be above the congregation
through ignorance, both holy unto your God. 41I of the LORD? 4
And
c
presumptuously: Heb. with an am the LORD your God, when Moses heard it,
b
sinneth: Heb. doth high hand
he fell upon his face: brethren the sons of Levi Moses said unto Korah, said, O God, the God of
5
And he spake unto with thee: and seek ye Be thou and all thy the spirits of all flesh,
Korah and unto all his the priesthood also? company before the shall one man sin, and
company, saying, Even 11
For which cause both LORD, thou, and they, wilt thou be wroth with
to morrow the LORD will thou and all thy and Aaron, to morrow: all the congregation?
shew who are his, and company are gathered 17
And take every man his 23
And the LORD
who is holy; and will together against the censer, and put incense spake unto Moses,
cause him to come near LORD: and what is in them, and bring ye saying, 24Speak unto
unto him: even him Aaron, that ye murmur before the LORD every the congregation,
whom he hath chosen against him? man his censer, two saying, Get you up from
will he cause to come 12
And Moses sent to hundred and fifty about the tabernacle of
near unto him. 6This do; call Dathan and Abiram, censers; thou also, and Korah, Dathan, and
Take you censers, Korah, the sons of Eliab: which Aaron, each of you his Abiram. 25And Moses
and all his company; said, We will not come censer. 18And they took rose up and went unto
7
And put fire therein, and up: 13Is it a small thing every man his censer, Dathan and Abiram;
put incense in them that thou hast brought and put fire in them, and and the elders of Israel
before the LORD to us up out of a land that laid incense thereon, and followed him. 26And he
morrow: and it shall be floweth with milk and stood in the door of the spake unto the
that the man whom the honey, to kill us in the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,
LORD doth choose, he wilderness, except thou congregation with Moses Depart, I pray you, from
shall be holy: ye take too make thyself altogether and Aaron. 19And Korah the tents of these
much upon you, ye sons a prince over us? gathered all the wicked men, and touch
of Levi. 8And Moses said 14
Moreover thou hast not congregation against nothing of theirs, lest
unto Korah, Hear, I pray brought us into a land them unto the door of ye be consumed in all
you, ye sons of Levi: that floweth with milk the tabernacle of the their sins. 27So they gat
9
Seemeth it but a small and honey, or given us congregation: and the up from the tabernacle
thing unto you, that the inheritance of fields and glory of the LORD of Korah, Dathan, and
God of Israel hath vineyards: wilt thou put appeared unto all the Abiram, on every side:
separated you from the out the eyes of these congregation. 20And the and Dathan and Abiram
congregation of Israel, to men? we will not come LORD spake unto Moses came out, and stood in
bring you near to himself up. 15
And Moses was and unto Aaron, saying, the door of their tents,
to do the service of the very wroth, and said 21
Separate yourselves and their wives, and
tabernacle of the LORD, unto the LORD, Respect from among this their sons, and their
and to stand before the not thou their offering: I congregation, that I may little children. 28And
congregation to minister have not taken one ass consume them in a Moses said, Hereby ye
unto them? 10And he from them, neither have moment. 22And they fell shall know that the
hath brought thee near I hurt one of them. 16And upon their faces, and LORD hath sent me to
to him, and all thy
do all these works; for I among the congregation. 40
To be a memorial unto moment. And they fell
have not done them of 34
And all Israel that were the children of Israel, upon their faces. 46And
mine own mind. 29If round about them fled at that no stranger, which Moses said unto Aaron,
these men die the the cry of them: for they is not of the seed of Take a censer, and put
common death of all said, Lest the earth Aaron, come near to fire therein from off the
men, or if they be visited swallow us up also. offer incense before the altar, and put on
after the visitation of all 35
And there came out LORD; that he be not as incense, and go quickly
men; then the LORD a fire from the LORD, Korah, and as his unto the congregation,
hath not sent me. 30But and consumed the two company: as the LORD and make an
if the LORD makea a new hundred and fifty men said to him by the hand atonement for them: for
thing, and the earth that offered incense. of Moses. there is wrath gone out
open her mouth, and 36
And the LORD spake 41
But on the morrow from the LORD; the
swallow them up, with all unto Moses, saying, all the congregation of plague is begun. 47And
that appertain unto 37
Speak unto Eleazar the the children of Israel Aaron took as Moses
them, and they go down son of Aaron the priest, murmured against Moses commanded, and ran
quick into the pit; then that he take up the and against Aaron, into the midst of the
ye shall understand that censers out of the saying, Ye have killed congregation; and,
these men have burning, and scatter the people of the LORD. behold, the plague was
provoked the LORD. thou the fire yonder; for 42
And it came to pass, begun among the
31
And it came to pass, as they are hallowed. 38The when the congregation people: and he put on
he had made an end of censers of these sinners was gathered against incense, and made an
speaking all these words, against their own souls, Moses and against atonement for the
that the ground clave let them make them Aaron, that they looked people. 48And he stood
asunder that was under broad plates for a toward the tabernacle of between the dead and
them: 32And the earth covering of the altar: for the congregation: and, the living; and the
opened her mouth, and they offered them before behold, the cloud plague was stayed.
swallowed them up, and the LORD, therefore they covered it, and the glory 49
Now they that died in
their houses, and all the are hallowed: and they of the LORD appeared. the plague were
men that appertained shall be a sign unto the 43
And Moses and Aaron fourteen thousand and
unto Korah, and all their children of Israel. 39And came before the seven hundred, beside
goods. 33They, and all Eleazar the priest took tabernacle of the them that died about
that appertained to the brasen censers, congregation. And the
44
the matter of Korah.
them, went down alive wherewith they that LORD spake unto Moses, 50
And Aaron returned
into the pit, and the were burnt had offered; saying, 45Get you up unto Moses unto the
earth closed upon them: and they were made from among this door of the tabernacle
and they perished from broad plates for a congregation, that I may of the congregation:
a
covering of the altar: consume them as in a and the plague was
make...: Heb. create a creature
stayed. of their princes gave him murmurings from me, charge of all the
a roda apiece, for each that they die not. 11And tabernacle: only they
Chapter 17 prince one, according to Moses did so: as the shall not come nigh the
their fathers’ houses, LORD commanded him, vessels of the sanctuary
1
And the LORD spake even twelve rods: and so did he. 12And the and the altar, that
unto Moses, saying, the rod of Aaron was children of Israel spake neither they, nor ye
2
Speak unto the children among their rods. 7And unto Moses, saying, also, die. 4And they
of Israel, and take of Moses laid up the rods Behold, we die, we shall be joined unto
every one of them a rod before the LORD in the perish, we all perish. thee, and keep the
according to the house tabernacle of witness. 13
Whosoever cometh any charge of the
of their fathers, of all 8
And it came to pass, thing near unto the tabernacle of the
their princes according that on the morrow tabernacle of the LORD congregation, for all the
to the house of their Moses went into the shall die: shall we be service of the
fathers twelve rods: tabernacle of witness; consumed with dying? tabernacle: and a
write thou every man’s and, behold, the rod of stranger shall not come
name upon his rod. 3And Aaron for the house of Chapter 18 nigh unto you. 5And ye
thou shalt write Aaron’s Levi was budded, and shall keep the charge of
name upon the rod of brought forth buds, and
1
And the LORD said the sanctuary, and the
Levi: for one rod shall be bloomed blossoms, and unto Aaron, Thou and charge of the altar: that
for the head of the house yielded almonds. 9And thy sons and thy father’s there be no wrath any
of their fathers. 4And Moses brought out all house with thee shall more upon the children
thou shalt lay them up in the rods from before the bear the iniquity of the of Israel. 6And I, behold,
the tabernacle of the LORD unto all the sanctuary: and thou and I have taken your
congregation before the children of Israel: and thy sons with thee shall brethren the Levites
testimony, where I will they looked, and took bear the iniquity of your from among the
meet with you. 5And it every man his rod. 10And priesthood. 2
And thy children of Israel: to you
shall come to pass, that the LORD said unto brethren also of the tribe they are given as a gift
the man’s rod, whom I Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod of Levi, the tribe of thy for the LORD, to do the
shall choose, shall again before the father, bring thou with service of the
blossom: and I will make testimony, to be kept for thee, that they may be tabernacle of the
to cease from me the a token against the joined unto thee, and congregation.
murmurings of the rebelsb; and thou shalt minister unto thee: but 7
Therefore thou and thy
children of Israel, quite take away their thou and thy sons with sons with thee shall
whereby they murmur thee shall minister keep your priest’s office
a
against you. 6And Moses a rod...: Heb. a rod for one before the tabernacle of for every thing of the
spake unto the children prince, a rod for one prince witness. 3And they shall altar, and within the
b
of Israel, and every one rebels: Heb. children of keep thy charge, and the vail; and ye shall serve:
rebellion
I have given your priest’s 8
And the LORD spake shall eat of it. 12All the firstling of a sheep, or
office unto you as a unto Aaron, Behold, I besta of the oil, and all the firstling of a goat,
service of gift: and the also have given thee the the best of the wine, and thou shalt not redeem;
stranger that cometh charge of mine heave of the wheat, the they are holy: thou
nigh shall be put to offerings of all the firstfruits of them which shalt sprinkle their
death. hallowed things of the they shall offer unto the blood upon the altar,
children of Israel; unto LORD, them have I given and shalt burn their fat
thee have I given them thee. 13And whatsoever for an offering made by
by reason of the is first ripe in the land, fire, for a sweet savour
anointing, and to thy which they shall bring unto the LORD. 18And
sons, by an ordinance for unto the LORD, shall be the flesh of them shall
ever. 9This shall be thine thine; every one that is be thine, as the wave
of the most holy things, clean in thine house breast and as the right
reserved from the fire: shall eat of it. 14Every shoulder are thine. 19All
every oblation of theirs, thing devoted in Israel the heave offerings of
every meat offering of shall be thine. 15Every the holy things, which
theirs, and every sin thing that openeth the the children of Israel
offering of theirs, and matrix in all flesh, which offer unto the LORD,
every trespass offering they bring unto the have I given thee, and
of theirs, which they LORD, whether it be of thy sons and thy
shall render unto me, men or beasts, shall be daughters with thee, by
shall be most holy for thine: nevertheless the a statute for ever: it is a
thee and for thy sons. firstborn of man shalt covenant of salt for
10
In the most holy place thou surely redeem, and ever before the LORD
shalt thou eat it; every the firstling of unclean unto thee and to thy
male shall eat it: it shall beasts shalt thou seed with thee.
be holy unto thee. 11And redeem. 16And those that 20
And the LORD
this is thine; the heave are to be redeemed from spake unto Aaron, Thou
offering of their gift, with a month old shalt thou shalt have no
all the wave offerings of redeem, according to inheritance in their
the children of Israel: I thine estimation, for the land, neither shalt thou
have given them unto money of five shekels, have any part among
thee, and to thy sons after the shekel of the them: I am thy part and
and to thy daughters sanctuary, which is thine inheritance
with thee, by a statute twenty gerahs. 17But the among the children of
for ever: every one that firstling of a cow, or the Israel. 21And, behold, I
is clean in thy house a
have given the children
best: Heb. fat
of Levi all the tenth in unto them, When ye the Levites as the one shall slay her
Israel for an inheritance, take of the children of increase of the before his face: 4And
for their service which Israel the tithes which I threshingfloor, and as Eleazar the priest shall
they serve, even the have given you from the increase of the take of her blood with
service of the tabernacle them for your winepress. 31
And ye his finger, and sprinkle
of the congregation. inheritance, then ye shall shall eat it in every of her blood directly
22
Neither must the offer up an heave place, ye and your before the tabernacle of
children of Israel offering of it for the households: for it is your the congregation seven
henceforth come nigh LORD, even a tenth part reward for your service times: 5And one shall
the tabernacle of the of the tithe. 27And this in the tabernacle of the burn the heifer in his
congregation, lest they your heave offering shall congregation. 32And ye sight; her skin, and her
bear sin, and dieb. 23But be reckoned unto you, as shall bear no sin by flesh, and her blood,
the Levites shall do the though it were the corn reason of it, when ye with her dung, shall he
service of the tabernacle of the threshingfloor, have heaved from it the burn: 6And the priest
of the congregation, and and as the fulness of the best of it: neither shall shall take cedar wood,
they shall bear their winepress. 28Thus ye also ye pollute the holy and hyssop, and
iniquity: it shall be a shall offer an heave things of the children of scarlet, and cast it into
statute for ever offering unto the LORD Israel, lest ye die. the midst of the burning
throughout your of all your tithes, which of the heifer. 7Then the
generations, that among ye receive of the Chapter 19 priest shall wash his
the children of Israel children of Israel; and ye clothes, and he shall
they have no shall give thereof the
1
And the LORD spake bathe his flesh in water,
inheritance. 24But the LORD’S heave offering to unto Moses and unto and afterward he shall
tithes of the children of Aaron the priest. 29Out of Aaron, saying, 2This is come into the camp,
Israel, which they offer all your gifts ye shall the ordinance of the law and the priest shall be
as an heave offering offer every heave which the LORD hath unclean until the even.
unto the LORD, I have offering of the LORD, of commanded, saying, 8
And he that burneth
given to the Levites to all the bestc thereof, Speak unto the children her shall wash his
inherit: therefore I have even the hallowed part of Israel, that they bring clothes in water, and
said unto them, Among thereof out of it. thee a red heifer without bathe his flesh in water,
the children of Israel 30
Therefore thou shalt spot, wherein is no and shall be unclean
they shall have no say unto them, When ye blemish, and upon which until the even. 9And a
inheritance. 25And the have heaved the bestd never came yoke: 3And man that is clean shall
LORD spake unto Moses, thereof from it, then it ye shall give her unto gather up the ashes of
saying, 26
Thus speak shall be counted unto Eleazar the priest, that the heifer, and lay
unto the Levites, and say he may bring her forth them up without the
c
best: Heb. fat without the camp, and camp in a clean place,
b d
and die: Heb. to die best: Heb. fat
and it shall be kept for shall be unclean; his upon the unclean on the the whole congregation,
the congregation of the uncleanness is yet upon third day, and on the into the desert of Zin in
children of Israel for a him. 14This is the law, seventh day: and on the the first month: and the
water of separation: it is when a man dieth in a seventh day he shall people abode in
a purification for sin. tent: all that come into purify himself, and wash Kadesh; and Miriam
10
And he that gathereth the tent, and all that is in his clothes, and bathe died there, and was
the ashes of the heifer the tent, shall be himself in water, and buried there. 2And there
shall wash his clothes, unclean seven days. shall be clean at even. was no water for the
and be unclean until the 15
And every open vessel, 20
But the man that shall congregation: and they
even: and it shall be which hath no covering be unclean, and shall not gathered themselves
unto the children of bound upon it, is purify himself, that soul together against Moses
Israel, and unto the unclean. 16
And shall be cut off from and against Aaron. 3And
stranger that sojourneth whosoever toucheth one among the congregation, the people chode with
among them, for a that is slain with a sword because he hath defiled Moses, and spake,
statute for ever. in the open fields, or a the sanctuary of the saying, Would God that
11
He that toucheth the dead body, or a bone of LORD: the water of we had died when our
dead body of any mana a man, or a grave, shall separation hath not been brethren died before
shall be unclean seven be unclean seven days. sprinkled upon him; he is the LORD! 4And why
days. 12He shall purify 17
And for an unclean unclean. 21And it shall be have ye brought up the
himself with it on the person they shall take of a perpetual statute unto congregation of the
third day, and on the the ashesb of the burnt them, that he that LORD into this
seventh day he shall be heifer of purification for sprinkleth the water of wilderness, that we and
clean: but if he purify not sin, and running water separation shall wash his our cattle should die
himself the third day, shall be put thereto in a clothes; and he that there? 5And wherefore
then the seventh day he vessel: 18
And a clean toucheth the water of have ye made us to
shall not be clean. person shall take hyssop, separation shall be come up out of Egypt,
13
Whosoever toucheth and dip it in the water, unclean until even. 22And to bring us in unto this
the dead body of any and sprinkle it upon the whatsoever the unclean evil place? it is no place
man that is dead, and tent, and upon all the person toucheth shall be of seed, or of figs, or of
purifieth not himself, vessels, and upon the unclean; and the soul vines, or of
defileth the tabernacle of persons that were there, that toucheth it shall be pomegranates; neither
the LORD; and that soul and upon him that unclean until even. is there any water to
shall be cut off from touched a bone, or one drink. 6And Moses and
Israel: because the water slain, or one dead, or a Chapter 20 Aaron went from the
of separation was not grave: 19And the clean presence of the
sprinkled upon him, he person shall sprinkle
1
Then came the assembly unto the door
children of Israel, even of the tabernacle of the
a b
man: Heb. soul of man ashes: Heb. dust
congregation, and they the LORD spake unto pray thee, through thy from Kadesh, and came
fell upon their faces: and Moses and Aaron, country: we will not pass unto mount Hor. 23And
the glory of the LORD Because ye believed me through the fields, or the LORD spake unto
appeared unto them. not, to sanctify me in the through the vineyards, Moses and Aaron in
7
And the LORD spake eyes of the children of neither will we drink of mount Hor, by the coast
unto Moses, saying, Israel, therefore ye shall the water of the wells: of the land of Edom,
8
Take the rod, and not bring this we will go by the king’s saying, 24Aaron shall be
gather thou the congregation into the high way, we will not gathered unto his
assembly together, thou, land which I have given turn to the right hand people: for he shall not
and Aaron thy brother, them. 13This is the water nor to the left, until we enter into the land
and speak ye unto the of Meribaha; because the have passed thy borders. which I have given unto
rock before their eyes; children of Israel strove 18
And Edom said unto the children of Israel,
and it shall give forth his with the LORD, and he him, Thou shalt not pass because ye rebelled
water, and thou shalt was sanctified in them. by me, lest I come out against my wordc at the
bring forth to them water 14
And Moses sent against thee with the water of Meribah.
out of the rock: so thou messengers from Kadesh sword. 19And the children 25
Take Aaron and
shalt give the unto the king of Edom, of Israel said unto him, Eleazar his son, and
congregation and their Thus saith thy brother We will go by the high bring them up unto
beasts drink. 9And Moses Israel, Thou knowest all way: and if I and my mount Hor: 26And strip
took the rod from before the travail that hath cattle drink of thy water, Aaron of his garments,
the LORD, as he befallenb us: 15How our then I will pay for it: I will and put them upon
commanded him. 10
And fathers went down into only, without doing any Eleazar his son: and
Moses and Aaron Egypt, and we have thing else, go through on Aaron shall be gathered
gathered the dwelt in Egypt a long my feet. 20And he said, unto his people, and
congregation together time; and the Egyptians Thou shalt not go shall die there. 27And
before the rock, and he vexed us, and our through. And Edom Moses did as the LORD
said unto them, Hear fathers: 16And when we came out against him commanded: and they
now, ye rebels; must we cried unto the LORD, he with much people, and went up into mount Hor
fetch you water out of heard our voice, and with a strong hand. in the sight of all the
this rock? 11And Moses sent an angel, and hath 21
Thus Edom refused to congregation. 28
And
lifted up his hand, and brought us forth out of give Israel passage Moses stripped Aaron of
with his rod he smote Egypt: and, behold, we through his border: his garments, and put
the rock twice: and the are in Kadesh, a city in wherefore Israel turned them upon Eleazar his
water came out the uttermost of thy away from him. son; and Aaron died
abundantly, and the border: 17Let us pass, I 22
And the children of there in the top of the
congregation drank, and a
Israel, even the whole mount: and Moses and
their beasts also. 12And Meribah: that is, Strife congregation, journeyed
b c
befallen...: Heb. found us word: Heb. mouth
Eleazar came down from compass the land of when he looketh upon it, stream of the brooks
the mount. 29And when Edom: and the soul of shall live. 9And Moses that goeth down to the
all the congregation saw the people was much made a serpent of brass, dwelling of Ar, and
that Aaron was dead, discouragedb because of and put it upon a pole, liethd upon the border
they mourned for Aaron the way. 5
And the and it came to pass, that of Moab. 16
And from
thirty days, even all the people spake against if a serpent had bitten thence they went to
house of Israel. God, and against Moses, any man, when he Beer: that is the well
Wherefore have ye beheld the serpent of whereof the LORD
Chapter 21 brought us up out of brass, he lived. spake unto Moses,
Egypt to die in the 10
And the children of Gather the people
1
And when king Arad wilderness? for there is Israel set forward, and together, and I will give
the Canaanite, which no bread, neither is pitched in Oboth. 11And them water. 17
Then
dwelt in the south, heard there any water; and our they journeyed from Israel sang this song,
tell that Israel came by soul loatheth this light Oboth, and pitched at Spring up, O well; sing
the way of the spies; bread. 6And the LORD Ijeabarimc, in the ye unto it: 18
The
then he fought against sent fiery serpents wilderness which is princes digged the well,
Israel, and took some of among the people, and before Moab, toward the the nobles of the people
them prisoners. 2And they bit the people; and sunrising. 12From thence digged it, by the
Israel vowed a vow unto much people of Israel they removed, and direction of the
the LORD, and said, If died. 7
Therefore the pitched in the valley of lawgiver, with their
thou wilt indeed deliver people came to Moses, Zared. 13From thence staves. And from the
this people into my and said, We have they removed, and wilderness they went to
hand, then I will utterly sinned, for we have pitched on the other side Mattanah: 19And from
destroy their cities. 3And spoken against the of Arnon, which is in the Mattanah to Nahaliel:
the LORD hearkened to LORD, and against thee; wilderness that cometh and from Nahaliel to
the voice of Israel, and pray unto the LORD, that out of the coasts of the Bamoth: 20And from
delivered up the he take away the Amorites: for Arnon is Bamoth in the valley,
Canaanites; and they serpents from us. And the border of Moab, that is in the countrye of
utterly destroyed them Moses prayed for the between Moab and the Moab, to the top of
and their cities: and he people. 8And the LORD Amorites. 14Wherefore it Pisgah, which looketh
called the name of the said unto Moses, Make is said in the book of the toward Jeshimon.
place Hormaha. thee a fiery serpent, and wars of the LORD, What 21
And Israel sent
4
And they journeyed set it upon a pole: and it he did in the Red sea, messengers unto Sihon
from mount Hor by the shall come to pass, that and in the brooks of king of the Amorites,
way of the Red sea, to every one that is bitten, Arnon, 15
And at the saying, 22Let me pass
a b c d
Hormah: that is, Utter discouraged: or, grieved: Heb. Ijeabarim: or, heaps of lieth: Heb. leaneth
e
destruction shortened Abarim country: Heb. field
through thy land: we will taken all his land out of Bashan went out against up all that are round
not turn into the fields, his hand, even unto them, he, and all his about us, as the ox
or into the vineyards; we Arnon. 27Wherefore they people, to the battle at licketh up the grass of
will not drink of the that speak in proverbs Edrei. 34And the LORD the field. And Balak the
waters of the well: but say, Come into Heshbon, said unto Moses, Fear son of Zippor was king
we will go along by the let the city of Sihon be him not: for I have of the Moabites at that
king’s high way, until we built and prepared: 28For delivered him into thy time. 5
He sent
be past thy borders. there is a fire gone out of hand, and all his people, messengers therefore
23
And Sihon would not Heshbon, a flame from and his land; and thou unto Balaam the son of
suffer Israel to pass the city of Sihon: it hath shalt do to him as thou Beor to Pethor, which is
through his border: but consumed Ar of Moab, didst unto Sihon king of by the river of the land
Sihon gathered all his and the lords of the high the Amorites, which of the children of his
people together, and places of Arnon. 29Woe to dwelt at Heshbon. 35So people, to call him,
went out against Israel thee, Moab! thou art they smote him, and his saying, Behold, there is
into the wilderness: and undone, O people of sons, and all his people, a people come out from
he came to Jahaz, and Chemosh: he hath given until there was none left Egypt: behold, they
fought against Israel. his sons that escaped, him alive: and they cover the facea of the
24
And Israel smote him and his daughters, into possessed his land. earth, and they abide
with the edge of the captivity unto Sihon king over against me:
sword, and possessed of the Amorites. 30We Chapter 22 6
Come now therefore, I
his land from Arnon unto have shot at them; pray thee, curse me
Jabbok, even unto the Heshbon is perished
1
And the children of this people; for they are
children of Ammon: for even unto Dibon, and we Israel set forward, and too mighty for me:
the border of the have laid them waste pitched in the plains of peradventure I shall
children of Ammon was even unto Nophah, Moab on this side Jordan prevail, that we may
strong. 25And Israel took which reacheth unto by Jericho. 2And Balak smite them, and that I
all these cities: and Medeba. 31Thus Israel the son of Zippor saw all may drive them out of
Israel dwelt in all the dwelt in the land of the that Israel had done to the land: for I wot that
cities of the Amorites, in Amorites. 32And Moses the Amorites. 3And Moab he whom thou blessest
Heshbon, and in all the sent to spy out Jaazer, was sore afraid of the is blessed, and he
villagesf thereof. 26
For and they took the people, because they whom thou cursest is
Heshbon was the city of villages thereof, and were many: and Moab cursed. 7And the elders
Sihon the king of the drove out the Amorites was distressed because of Moab and the elders
Amorites, who had that were there. 33And of the children of Israel. of Midian departed with
fought against the they turned and went up
4
And Moab said unto the the rewards of
former king of Moab, and by the way of Bashan: elders of Midian, Now divination in their hand;
and Og the king of shall this company lick
f a
villages: Heb. daughters face: Heb. eye
and they came unto you. 14And the princes of with them; but yet the her again. 26And the
Balaam, and spake unto Moab rose up, and they word which I shall say angel of the LORD went
him the words of Balak. went unto Balak, and unto thee, that shalt further, and stood in a
8
And he said unto them, said, Balaam refuseth to thou do. 21And Balaam narrow place, where
Lodge here this night, come with us. rose up in the morning, was no way to turn
and I will bring you word 15
And Balak sent yet and saddled his ass, and either to the right hand
again, as the LORD shall again princes, more, and went with the princes of or to the left. 27And
speak unto me: and the more honourable than Moab. when the ass saw the
princes of Moab abode they. 16And they came to 22
And God’s anger angel of the LORD, she
with Balaam. 9And God Balaam, and said to him, was kindled because he fell down under
came unto Balaam, and Thus saith Balak the son went: and the angel of Balaam: and Balaam’s
said, What men are of Zippor, Let nothing, I the LORD stood in the anger was kindled, and
these with thee? 10And pray thee, hinder thee way for an adversary he smote the ass with a
Balaam said unto God, from coming unto me: against him. Now he was staff. 28And the LORD
Balak the son of Zippor, 17
For I will promote thee riding upon his ass, and opened the mouth of
king of Moab, hath sent unto very great honour, his two servants were the ass, and she said
unto me, saying, and I will do whatsoever with him. 23And the ass unto Balaam, What
11
Behold, there is a thou sayest unto me: saw the angel of the have I done unto thee,
people come out of come therefore, I pray LORD standing in the that thou hast smitten
Egypt, which covereth thee, curse me this way, and his sword me these three times?
the face of the earth: people. 18And Balaam drawn in his hand: and 29
And Balaam said unto
come now, curse me answered and said unto the ass turned aside out the ass, Because thou
them; peradventure I the servants of Balak, If of the way, and went hast mocked me: I
shall be able to Balak would give me his into the field: and would there were a
overcome them, and house full of silver and Balaam smote the ass, sword in mine hand, for
drive them out. 12And gold, I cannot go beyond to turn her into the way. now would I kill thee.
God said unto Balaam, the word of the LORD my 24
But the angel of the 30
And the ass said unto
Thou shalt not go with God, to do less or more. LORD stood in a path of Balaam, Am not I thine
them; thou shalt not 19
Now therefore, I pray the vineyards, a wall ass, upon which thou
curse the people: for you, tarry ye also here being on this side, and a hast ridden ever since I
they are blessed. 13And this night, that I may wall on that side. 25And was thine unto this
Balaam rose up in the know what the LORD will when the ass saw the day? was I ever wont to
morning, and said unto say unto me more. 20And angel of the LORD, she do so unto thee? And
the princes of Balak, Get God came unto Balaam thrust herself unto the he said, Nay. 31
Then
you into your land: for at night, and said unto wall, and crushed the LORD opened the
the LORD refuseth to him, If the men come to Balaam’s foot against eyes of Balaam, and he
give me leave to go with call thee, rise up, and go the wall: and he smote saw the angel of the
LORD standing in the And
36
when Balak utmost part of the all the princes of Moab.
way, and his sword heard that Balaam was people. 7
And he took up his
drawn in his hand: and come, he went out to parable, and said, Balak
he bowed down his meet him unto a city of Chapter 23 the king of Moab hath
head, and fell flat on his Moab, which is in the brought me from Aram,
face. 32And the angel of border of Arnon, which is
1
And Balaam said out of the mountains of
the LORD said unto him, in the utmost coast. unto Balak, Build me the east, saying, Come,
Wherefore hast thou 37
And Balak said unto here seven altars, and curse me Jacob, and
smitten thine ass these Balaam, Did I not prepare me here seven come, defy Israel. 8How
three times? behold, I earnestly send unto thee oxen and seven rams. shall I curse, whom God
went out to withstand to call thee? wherefore
2
And Balak did as hath not cursed? or how
thee, because thy way is camest thou not unto Balaam had spoken; and shall I defy, whom the
perverse before me: me? am I not able Balak and Balaam LORD hath not defied?
33
And the ass saw me, indeed to promote thee offered on every altar a 9
For from the top of the
and turned from me to honour? 38And Balaam bullock and a ram. 3And rocks I see him, and
these three times: unless said unto Balak, Lo, I am Balaam said unto Balak, from the hills I behold
she had turned from me, come unto thee: have I Stand by thy burnt him: lo, the people shall
surely now also I had now any power at all to offering, and I will go: dwell alone, and shall
slain thee, and saved her say any thing? the word peradventure the LORD not be reckoned among
alive. 34And Balaam said that God putteth in my will come to meet me: the nations. 10Who can
unto the angel of the mouth, that shall I and whatsoever he count the dust of Jacob,
LORD, I have sinned; for speak. 39
And Balaam sheweth me I will tell and the number of the
I knew not that thou went with Balak, and thee. And he went to an fourth part of Israel? Let
stoodest in the way they came unto high place. 4
And God me die the death of the
against me: now Kirjathhuzothb. 40
And met Balaam: and he said righteous, and let my
therefore, if it displease Balak offered oxen and unto him, I have last end be like his!
thee, I will get me back sheep, and sent to prepared seven altars, 11
And Balak said unto
again. 35And the angel of Balaam, and to the and I have offered upon Balaam, What hast thou
the LORD said unto princes that were with every altar a bullock and done unto me? I took
Balaam, Go with the him. 41And it came to a ram. 5And the LORD thee to curse mine
men: but only the word pass on the morrow, that put a word in Balaam’s enemies, and, behold,
that I shall speak unto Balak took Balaam, and mouth, and said, Return thou hast blessed them
thee, that thou shalt brought him up into the unto Balak, and thus altogether. 12And he
speak. So Balaam went high places of Baal, that thou shalt speak. 6And answered and said,
with the princes of Balak. thence he might see the he returned unto him, Must I not take heed to
and, lo, he stood by his speak that which the
b
Kirjathhuzoth: or, a city of burnt sacrifice, he, and LORD hath put in my
streets
mouth? is not a man, that he them at all, nor bless set his face toward the
13
And Balak said unto should lie; neither the them at all. 26But Balaam wilderness. 2
And
him, Come, I pray thee, son of man, that he answered and said unto Balaam lifted up his
with me unto another should repent: hath he Balak, Told not I thee, eyes, and he saw Israel
place, from whence thou said, and shall he not do saying, All that the LORD abiding in his tents
mayest see them: thou it? or hath he spoken, speaketh, that I must according to their
shalt see but the utmost and shall he not make it do? 27And Balak said tribes; and the spirit of
part of them, and shalt good? 20Behold, I have unto Balaam, Come, I God came upon him.
not see them all: and received commandment pray thee, I will bring 3
And he took up his
curse me them from to bless: and he hath thee unto another place; parable, and said,
thence. 14And he brought blessed; and I cannot peradventure it will Balaam the son of Beor
him into the field of reverse it. 21He hath not please God that thou hath said, and the man
Zophim, to the top of beheld iniquity in Jacob, mayest curse me them whose eyes are open
Pisgaha, and built seven neither hath he seen from thence. 28And Balak hath said: 4
He hath
altars, and offered a perverseness in Israel: brought Balaam unto the said, which heard the
bullock and a ram on the LORD his God is with top of Peor, that looketh words of God, which
every altar. 15
And he him, and the shout of a toward Jeshimon. 29And saw the vision of the
said unto Balak, Stand king is among them. Balaam said unto Balak, Almighty, falling into a
here by thy burnt 22
God brought them out Build me here seven trance, but having his
offering, while I meet the of Egypt; he hath as it altars, and prepare me eyes open: 5How goodly
LORD yonder. 16And the were the strength of an here seven bullocks and are thy tents, O Jacob,
LORD met Balaam, and unicorn. 23Surely there is seven rams. 30And Balak and thy tabernacles, O
put a word in his mouth, no enchantment against did as Balaam had said, Israel! 6As the valleys
and said, Go again unto Jacob, neither is there and offered a bullock are they spread forth,
Balak, and say thus. any divination against and a ram on every as gardens by the
17
And when he came to Israel: according to this altar. river’s side, as the trees
him, behold, he stood by time it shall be said of of lign aloes which the
his burnt offering, and Jacob and of Israel, What Chapter 24 LORD hath planted, and
the princes of Moab with hath God wrought! as cedar trees beside
him. And Balak said unto 24
Behold, the people And when Balaam
1
the waters. 7He shall
him, What hath the shall rise up as a great saw that it pleased the pour the water out of
LORD spoken? 18And he lion, and lift up himself LORD to bless Israel, he his buckets, and his
took up his parable, and as a young lion: he shall went not, as at other seed shall be in many
said, Rise up, Balak, and not lie down until he eat times, to seeka for waters, and his king
hear; hearken unto me, of the prey, and drink enchantments, but he shall be higher than
thou son of Zippor: 19God the blood of the slain. a
Agag, and his kingdom
25
And Balak said unto to seek...: Heb. to the meeting shall be exalted. 8God
a
Pisgah: or, the hill Balaam, Neither curse of
brought him forth out of and gold, I cannot go 18
And Edom shall be a 25
And Balaam rose up,
Egypt; he hath as it were beyond the possession, Seir also and went and returned
the strength of an commandment of the shall be a possession for to his place: and Balak
unicorn: he shall eat up LORD, to do either good his enemies; and Israel also went his way.
the nations his enemies, or bad of mine own shall do valiantly. 19Out
and shall break their mind; but what the LORD of Jacob shall come he Chapter 25
bones, and pierce them saith, that will I speak? that shall have dominion,
through with his arrows. 14
And now, behold, I go and shall destroy him
1
And Israel abode in
9
He couched, he lay unto my people: come that remaineth of the Shittim, and the people
down as a lion, and as a therefore, and I will city. 20And when he began to commit
great lion: who shall stir advertise thee what this looked on Amalek, he whoredom with the
him up? Blessed is he people shall do to thy took up his parable, and daughters of Moab.
that blesseth thee, and people in the latter days. said, Amalek was the
2
And they called the
cursed is he that curseth 15
And he took up his first of the nationsc; but people unto the
thee. parable, and said, his latter end shall be sacrifices of their gods:
10
And Balak’s anger Balaam the son of Beor that he perish for ever. and the people did eat,
was kindled against hath said, and the man 21
And he looked on the and bowed down to
Balaam, and he smote whose eyes are open Kenites, and took up his their gods. 3And Israel
his hands together: and hath said: 16He hath said, parable, and said, Strong joined himself unto
Balak said unto Balaam, I which heard the words of is thy dwellingplace, and Baalpeor: and the anger
called thee to curse mine God, and knew the thou puttest thy nest in a of the LORD was
enemies, and, behold, knowledge of the most rock. 22Nevertheless the kindled against Israel.
thou hast altogether High, which saw the Kenited shall be wasted,
4
And the LORD said
blessed them these vision of the Almighty, until Asshur shall carry unto Moses, Take all
three times. 11Therefore falling into a trance, but thee away captive. the heads of the
now flee thou to thy having his eyes open: 17I 23
And he took up his people, and hang them
place: I thought to shall see him, but not parable, and said, Alas, up before the LORD
promote thee unto great now: I shall behold him, who shall live when God against the sun, that
honour; but, lo, the but not nigh: there shall doeth this! 24And ships the fierce anger of the
LORD hath kept thee come a Star out of Jacob, shall come from the LORD may be turned
back from honour. 12And and a Sceptre shall rise coast of Chittim, and away from Israel. 5And
Balaam said unto Balak, out of Israel, and shall shall afflict Asshur, and Moses said unto the
Spake I not also to thy smiteb the corners of shall afflict Eber, and he judges of Israel, Slay ye
messengers which thou Moab, and destroy all also shall perish for ever. every one his men that
sentest unto me, saying, the children of Sheth. were joined unto
c
13
If Balak would give me the nations: the nations that Baalpeor.
b
his house full of silver smite...: or, smite through the warred against Israel 6
And, behold, one of
d
princes of the Kenite: Heb. Kain
the children of Israel children of Israel in my daughter of a prince of of the Hanochites: of
came and brought unto jealousy. 12
Wherefore Midian, their sister, Pallu, the family of the
his brethren a Midianitish say, Behold, I give unto which was slain in the Palluites: 6Of Hezron,
woman in the sight of him my covenant of day of the plague for the family of the
Moses, and in the sight peace: 13And he shall Peor’s sake. Hezronites: of Carmi,
of all the congregation of have it, and his seed the family of the
the children of Israel, after him, even the Chapter 26 Carmites. 7These are
who were weeping covenant of an the families of the
before the door of the everlasting priesthood;
1
And it came to pass Reubenites: and they
tabernacle of the because he was zealous after the plague, that the that were numbered of
congregation. 7And when for his God, and made an LORD spake unto Moses them were forty and
Phinehas, the son of atonement for the and unto Eleazar the son three thousand and
Eleazar, the son of Aaron children of Israel. 14Now of Aaron the priest, seven hundred and
the priest, saw it, he the name of the Israelite saying, 2Take the sum of thirty. And the sons of
8

rose up from among the that was slain, even that all the congregation of Pallu; Eliab. 9And the
congregation, and took a was slain with the the children of Israel, sons of Eliab; Nemuel,
javelin in his hand; 8And Midianitish woman, was from twenty years old and Dathan, and
he went after the man of Zimri, the son of Salu, a and upward, throughout Abiram. This is that
Israel into the tent, and prince of a chiefa house their fathers’ house, all Dathan and Abiram,
thrust both of them among the Simeonites. that are able to go to which were famous in
through, the man of 15
And the name of the war in Israel. 3And Moses the congregation, who
Israel, and the woman Midianitish woman that and Eleazar the priest strove against Moses
through her belly. So the was slain was Cozbi, the spake with them in the and against Aaron in
plague was stayed from daughter of Zur; he was plains of Moab by Jordan the company of Korah,
the children of Israel. head over a people, and near Jericho, saying, when they strove
9
And those that died in of a chief house in
4
Take the sum of the against the LORD: 10And
the plague were twenty Midian. people, from twenty the earth opened her
and four thousand. 10And 16
And the LORD spake years old and upward; as mouth, and swallowed
the LORD spake unto unto Moses, saying, the LORD commanded them up together with
Moses, saying, 17
Vex the Midianites, and Moses and the children Korah, when that
11
Phinehas, the son of smite them: 18For they of Israel, which went company died, what
Eleazar, the son of Aaron vex you with their wiles, forth out of the land of time the fire devoured
the priest, hath turned wherewith they have Egypt. two hundred and fifty
my wrath away from the beguiled you in the
5
Reuben, the eldest men: and they became
children of Israel, while matter of Peor, and in son of Israel: the children a sign.
he was zealous for my the matter of Cozbi, the of Reuben; Hanoch, of 11
Notwithstanding the
sake among them, that I whom cometh the family children of Korah died
a
consumed not the chief...: Heb. house of a father
not. 12
The sons of numbered of them, forty were numbered of them, Hepher, the family of
Simeon after their thousand and five threescore and four the Hepherites. 33And
families: of Nemuela, the hundred. 19The sons of thousand and three Zelophehad the son of
family of the Nemuelites: Judah were Er and Onan: hundred. 26Of the sons of Hepher had no sons,
of Jamin, the family of and Er and Onan died in Zebulun after their but daughters: and the
the Jaminites: of Jachin, the land of Canaan. families: of Sered, the names of the daughters
the family of the 20
And the sons of Judah family of the Sardites: of of Zelophehad were
Jachinites: 13
Of Zerahb, after their families were; Elon, the family of the Mahlah, and Noah,
the family of the of Shelah, the family of Elonites: of Jahleel, the Hoglah, Milcah, and
Zarhites: of Shaul, the the Shelanites: of family of the Jahleelites. Tirzah. 34These are the
family of the Shaulites. Pharez, the family of the 27
These are the families families of Manasseh,
14
These are the families Pharzites: of Zerah, the of the Zebulunites and those that were
of the Simeonites, family of the Zarhites. according to those that numbered of them, fifty
twenty and two 21
And the sons of Pharez were numbered of them, and two thousand and
thousand and two were; of Hezron, the threescore thousand and seven hundred. 35These
hundred. 15The children family of the Hezronites: five hundred. 28The sons are the sons of Ephraim
of Gad after their of Hamul, the family of of Joseph after their after their families: of
families: of Zephon , the
c
the Hamulites. 22These families were Manasseh Shuthelah, the family of
family of the Zephonites: are the families of Judah and Ephraim. 29Of the the Shuthalhites: of
of Haggi, the family of according to those that sons of Manasseh: of Becher , the family of
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the Haggites: of Shuni, were numbered of them, Machir, the family of the the Bachrites: of Tahan,
the family of the threescore and sixteen Machirites: and Machir the family of the
Shunites: 16Of Oznid, the thousand and five begat Gilead: of Gilead Tahanites. 36And these
family of the Oznites: of hundred. Of the sons of
23
come the family of the are the sons of
Eri, the family of the Issachar after their Gileadites. 30These are Shuthelah: of Eran, the
Erites: 17
Of Arode, the families: of Tola, the the sons of Gilead: of family of the Eranites.
family of the Arodites: of family of the Tolaites: of Jeezerh, the family of the 37
These are the families
Areli, the family of the Puaf, the family of the Jeezerites: of Helek, the of the sons of Ephraim
Arelites. 18These are the Punites: 24
Of Jashubg, family of the Helekites: according to those that
families of the children the family of the 31
And of Asriel, the were numbered of
of Gad according to Jashubites: of Shimron, family of the Asrielites: them, thirty and two
those that were the family of the and of Shechem, the thousand and five
a
Shimronites. 25These are family of the hundred. These are the
Nemuel: also called, Jemuel the families of Issachar Shechemites: 32
And of sons of Joseph after
b
Zerah: also called, Zohar according to those that Shemida, the family of their families. 38
The
c
Zephon: also called, Ziphion the Shemidaites: and of sons of Benjamin after
d f
Ozni: or, Ezbon Pua: or, Phuvah
e g h i
Arod: also called, Arodi Jashub: or, Job Jeezer: also called Abiezer Becher: also called, Bered
their families: of Bela, numbered of them, were them were forty and five families: of Gershon,
the family of the threescore and four thousand and four the family of the
Belaites: of Ashbel, the thousand and four hundred. 51These were Gershonites: of Kohath,
family of the Ashbelites: hundred. 44
Of the the numbered of the the family of the
of Ahiramj, the family of children of Asher after children of Israel, six Kohathites: of Merari,
the Ahiramites: 39
Of their families: of Jimna, hundred thousand and a the family of the
Shupham , the family of
k
the family of the thousand seven hundred Merarites. 58These are
the Shuphamites: of Jimnites: of Jesui, the and thirty. the families of the
Hupham, the family of family of the Jesuites: of 52
And the LORD spake Levites: the family of
the Huphamites. 40And Beriah, the family of the unto Moses, saying, the Libnites, the family
the sons of Bela were Beriites. 45Of the sons of 53
Unto these the land of the Hebronites, the
Ardl and Naaman: of Ard, Beriah: of Heber, the shall be divided for an family of the Mahlites,
the family of the Ardites: family of the Heberites: inheritance according to the family of the
and of Naaman, the of Malchiel, the family of the number of names. Mushites, the family of
family of the Naamites. the Malchielites. 46And 54
To many thou shalt the Korathites. And
41
These are the sons of the name of the give the moreo Kohath begat Amram.
Benjamin after their daughter of Asher was inheritance, and to few 59
And the name of
families: and they that Sarah. 47These are the thou shalt give the less Amram’s wife was
were numbered of them families of the sons of inheritance: to every one Jochebed, the daughter
were forty and five Asher according to those shall his inheritance be of Levi, whom her
thousand and six that were numbered of given according to those mother bare to Levi in
hundred. These are the
42
them; who were fifty and that were numbered of Egypt: and she bare
sons of Dan after their three thousand and four him. 55
Notwithstanding unto Amram Aaron and
families: of Shuhamm, hundred. 48Of the sons of the land shall be divided Moses, and Miriam their
the family of the Naphtali after their by lot: according to the sister. 60And unto Aaron
Shuhamites. These are families: of Jahzeel, the names of the tribes of was born Nadab, and
the families of Dan after family of the Jahzeelites: their fathers they shall Abihu, Eleazar, and
their families. 43All the of Guni, the family of the inherit. 56According to Ithamar. 61
And Nadab
families of the Gunites: 49Of Jezer, the the lot shall the and Abihu died, when
Shuhamites, according family of the Jezerites: of possession thereof be they offered strange
to those that were Shillemn, the family of divided between many fire before the LORD.
j
the Shillemites. 50These and few. 62
And those that were
Ahiram: also called, Ehi, or, are the families of 57
And these are they numbered of them were
Aharah Naphtali according to that were numbered of twenty and three
k
Shupham...Hupham: also their families: and they the Levites after their thousand, all males
called, Muppim and Huppim that were numbered of from a month old and
l o
Ard: also called, Addar give the more...: Heb. upward: for they were
m n
Shuham: or, Hushim Shillem: also called, Shallum multiply his inheritance
not numbered among Manasseh, of the possession of an children of Israel. 13And
the children of Israel, families of Manasseh the inheritance among their when thou hast seen it,
because there was no son of Joseph: and these father’s brethren; and thou also shalt be
inheritance given them are the names of his thou shalt cause the gathered unto thy
among the children of daughters; Mahlah, inheritance of their people, as Aaron thy
Israel. Noah, and Hoglah, and father to pass unto brother was gathered.
63
These are they that Milcah, and Tirzah. 2And them. 8And thou shalt 14
For ye rebelled
were numbered by they stood before Moses, speak unto the children against my
Moses and Eleazar the and before Eleazar the of Israel, saying, If a man commandment in the
priest, who numbered priest, and before the die, and have no son, desert of Zin, in the
the children of Israel in princes and all the then ye shall cause his strife of the
the plains of Moab by congregation, by the inheritance to pass unto congregation, to
Jordan near Jericho. 64But door of the tabernacle of his daughter. 9And if he sanctify me at the
among these there was the congregation, have no daughter, then water before their eyes:
not a man of them whom saying, 3Our father died ye shall give his that is the water of
Moses and Aaron the in the wilderness, and he inheritance unto his Meribah in Kadesh in
priest numbered, when was not in the company brethren. 10And if he the wilderness of Zin.
they numbered the of them that gathered have no brethren, then 15
And Moses spake
children of Israel in the themselves together ye shall give his unto the LORD, saying,
wilderness of Sinai. 65For against the LORD in the inheritance unto his 16
Let the LORD, the God
the LORD had said of company of Korah; but father’s brethren. 11And of the spirits of all flesh,
them, They shall surely died in his own sin, and if his father have no set a man over the
die in the wilderness. had no sons. 4Why brethren, then ye shall congregation, 17Which
And there was not left a should the name of our give his inheritance unto may go out before
man of them, save Caleb father be done away his kinsman that is next them, and which may
the son of Jephunneh, from among his family, to him of his family, and go in before them, and
and Joshua the son of because he hath no son? he shall possess it: and it which may lead them
Nun. Give unto us therefore a shall be unto the out, and which may
possession among the children of Israel a bring them in; that the
Chapter 27 brethren of our father. statute of judgment, as congregation of the
5
And Moses brought their the LORD commanded LORD be not as sheep
1
Then came the cause before the LORD. Moses. which have no
daughters of 6
And the LORD spake 12
And the LORD said shepherd. 18And the
Zelophehad, the son of unto Moses, saying, 7The unto Moses, Get thee up LORD said unto Moses,
Hepher, the son of daughters of Zelophehad into this mount Abarim, Take thee Joshua the
Gilead, the son of speak right: thou shalt and see the land which I son of Nun, a man in
Machir, the son of surely give them a have given unto the whom is the spirit, and
lay thine hand upon him; And the LORD spake
1
unto the LORD. 7And the 12
And three tenth deals
19
And set him before unto Moses, saying, drink offering thereof of flour for a meat
Eleazar the priest, and 2
Command the children shall be the fourth part offering, mingled with
before all the of Israel, and say unto of an hin for the one oil, for one bullock; and
congregation; and give them, My offering, and lamb: in the holy place two tenth deals of flour
him a charge in their my bread for my shalt thou cause the for a meat offering,
sight. 20And thou shalt sacrifices made by fire, strong wine to be poured mingled with oil, for one
put some of thine honour for a sweeta savour unto unto the LORD for a ram; 13And a several
upon him, that all the me, shall ye observe to drink offering. 8And the tenth deal of flour
congregation of the offer unto me in their other lamb shalt thou mingled with oil for a
children of Israel may be due season. 3And thou offer at even: as the meat offering unto one
obedient. 21And he shall shalt say unto them, This meat offering of the lamb; for a burnt
stand before Eleazar the is the offering made by morning, and as the offering of a sweet
priest, who shall ask fire which ye shall offer drink offering thereof, savour, a sacrifice
counsel for him after the unto the LORD; two thou shalt offer it, a made by fire unto the
judgment of Urim before lambs of the first year sacrifice made by fire, of LORD. 14And their drink
the LORD: at his word without spot day by a sweet savour unto the offerings shall be half
shall they go out, and at dayb, for a continual LORD. an hin of wine unto a
his word they shall come burnt offering. 4The one 9
And on the sabbath bullock, and the third
in, both he, and all the lamb shalt thou offer in day two lambs of the part of an hin unto a
children of Israel with the morning, and the first year without spot, ram, and a fourth part
him, even all the other lamb shalt thou and two tenth deals of of an hin unto a lamb:
congregation. 22
And offer at evenc; 5And a flour for a meat offering, this is the burnt offering
Moses did as the LORD tenth part of an ephah of mingled with oil, and the of every month
commanded him: and he flour for a meat offering, drink offering thereof: throughout the months
took Joshua, and set him mingled with the fourth 10
This is the burnt of the year. 15And one
before Eleazar the priest, part of an hin of beaten offering of every kid of the goats for a sin
and before all the oil. 6It is a continual sabbath, beside the offering unto the LORD
congregation: 23And he burnt offering, which was continual burnt offering, shall be offered, beside
laid his hands upon him, ordained in mount Sinai and his drink offering. the continual burnt
and gave him a charge, for a sweet savour, a 11
And in the beginnings offering, and his drink
as the LORD sacrifice made by fire of your months ye shall offering.
commanded by the hand a
offer a burnt offering 16
And in the
of Moses. a sweet...: Heb. a savour of unto the LORD; two fourteenth day of the
my rest young bullocks, and one first month is the
b
Chapter 28 day by day: Heb. in a day ram, seven lambs of the passover of the LORD.
c
at even: Heb. between the two first year without spot; 17
And in the fifteenth
evenings
day of this month is the savour unto the LORD: it without blemish) and their manner, for a
feast: seven days shall shall be offered beside their drink offerings. sweet savour, a
unleavened bread be the continual burnt sacrifice made by fire
eaten. 18In the first day offering, and his drink Chapter 29 unto the LORD. 7And ye
shall be an holy offering. 25And on the shall have on the tenth
convocation; ye shall do seventh day ye shall
1
And in the seventh day of this seventh
no manner of servile have an holy month, on the first day month an holy
work therein: 19But ye convocation; ye shall do of the month, ye shall convocation; and ye
shall offer a sacrifice no servile work. 26Also in have an holy shall afflict your souls:
made by fire for a burnt the day of the firstfruits, convocation; ye shall do ye shall not do any
offering unto the LORD; when ye bring a new no servile work: it is a work therein: 8But ye
two young bullocks, and meat offering unto the day of blowing the shall offer a burnt
one ram, and seven LORD, after your weeks trumpets unto you. 2And offering unto the LORD
lambs of the first year: be out, ye shall have an ye shall offer a burnt for a sweet savour; one
they shall be unto you holy convocation; ye offering for a sweet young bullock, one ram,
without blemish: 20And shall do no servile work: savour unto the LORD; and seven lambs of the
their meat offering shall 27
But ye shall offer the one young bullock, one first year; they shall be
be of flour mingled with burnt offering for a ram, and seven lambs of unto you without
oil: three tenth deals sweet savour unto the the first year without blemish: 9
And their
shall ye offer for a LORD; two young blemish: 3And their meat meat offering shall be
bullock, and two tenth bullocks, one ram, seven offering shall be of flour of flour mingled with oil,
deals for a ram; 21A lambs of the first year; mingled with oil, three three tenth deals to a
several tenth deal shalt 28
And their meat offering tenth deals for a bullock, bullock, and two tenth
thou offer for every of flour mingled with oil, and two tenth deals for a deals to one ram, 10A
lamb, throughout the three tenth deals unto ram, 4And one tenth deal several tenth deal for
seven lambs: 22And one one bullock, two tenth for one lamb, throughout one lamb, throughout
goat for a sin offering, to deals unto one ram, 29A the seven lambs: 5And the seven lambs: 11One
make an atonement for several tenth deal unto one kid of the goats for a kid of the goats for a sin
you. 23Ye shall offer one lamb, throughout sin offering, to make an offering; beside the sin
these beside the burnt the seven lambs; 30And atonement for you: offering of atonement,
offering in the morning, one kid of the goats, to
6
Beside the burnt and the continual burnt
which is for a continual make an atonement for offering of the month, offering, and the meat
burnt offering. 24After you. 31Ye shall offer and his meat offering, offering of it, and their
this manner ye shall them beside the and the daily burnt drink offerings.
offer daily, throughout continual burnt offering, offering, and his meat 12
And on the
the seven days, the and his meat offering, offering, and their drink fifteenth day of the
meat of the sacrifice (they shall be unto you offerings, according unto seventh month ye shall
made by fire, of a sweet
have an holy shall be according to the goats for a sin seventh day seven
convocation; ye shall do their number, after the offering; beside the bullocks, two rams, and
no servile work, and ye manner: 19And one kid of continual burnt offering, fourteen lambs of the
shall keep a feast unto the goats for a sin his meat offering, and first year without
the LORD seven days: offering; beside the his drink offering. 26And blemish: 33And their
13
And ye shall offer a continual burnt offering, on the fifth day nine meat offering and their
burnt offering, a sacrifice and the meat offering bullocks, two rams, and drink offerings for the
made by fire, of a sweet thereof, and their drink fourteen lambs of the bullocks, for the rams,
savour unto the LORD; offerings. 20And on the first year without spot: and for the lambs, shall
thirteen young bullocks, third day eleven 27
And their meat offering be according to their
two rams, and fourteen bullocks, two rams, and their drink offerings number, after the
lambs of the first year; fourteen lambs of the for the bullocks, for the manner: And one goat
34

they shall be without first year without rams, and for the lambs, for a sin offering;
blemish: 14
And their blemish; 21
And their shall be according to beside the continual
meat offering shall be of meat offering and their their number, after the burnt offering, his meat
flour mingled with oil, drink offerings for the manner: 28And one goat offering, and his drink
three tenth deals unto bullocks, for the rams, for a sin offering; beside offering. 35On the eighth
every bullock of the and for the lambs, shall the continual burnt day ye shall have a
thirteen bullocks, two be according to their offering, and his meat solemn assembly: ye
tenth deals to each ram number, after the offering, and his drink shall do no servile work
of the two rams, 15And a manner: 22And one goat offering. 29And on the therein: 36But ye shall
several tenth deal to for a sin offering; beside sixth day eight bullocks, offer a burnt offering, a
each lamb of the the continual burnt two rams, and fourteen sacrifice made by fire,
fourteen lambs: 16
And offering, and his meat lambs of the first year of a sweet savour unto
one kid of the goats for a offering, and his drink without blemish: 30And the LORD: one bullock,
sin offering; beside the offering. 23And on the their meat offering and one ram, seven lambs
continual burnt offering, fourth day ten bullocks, their drink offerings for of the first year without
his meat offering, and two rams, and fourteen the bullocks, for the blemish: 37Their meat
his drink offering. 17And lambs of the first year rams, and for the lambs, offering and their drink
on the second day ye without blemish: 24Their shall be according to offerings for the
shall offer twelve young meat offering and their their number, after the bullock, for the ram,
bullocks, two rams, drink offerings for the manner: 31And one goat and for the lambs, shall
fourteen lambs of the bullocks, for the rams, for a sin offering; beside be according to their
first year without spot: and for the lambs, shall the continual burnt number, after the
18
And their meat offering be according to their offering, his meat manner: 38And one goat
and their drink offerings number, after the offering, and his drink for a sin offering;
for the bullocks, for the manner: 25And one kid of offering. 32And on the beside the continual
rams, and for the lambs,
burnt offering, and his proceedeth out of his then her vows shall concerning her vows, or
meat offering, and his mouth. stand, and her bonds concerning the bond of
drink offering. 39These 3
If a woman also vow wherewith she bound her soul, shall not
things ye shall doa unto a vow unto the LORD, her soul shall stand. 8But stand: her husband
the LORD in your set and bind herself by a if her husband hath made them void;
feasts, beside your vows, bond, being in her disallowed her on the and the LORD shall
and your freewill father’s house in her day that he heard it; forgive her. 13
Every
offerings, for your burnt youth; 4And her father then he shall make her vow, and every binding
offerings, and for your hear her vow, and her vow which she vowed, oath to afflict the soul,
meat offerings, and for bond wherewith she hath and that which she her husband may
your drink offerings, and bound her soul, and her uttered with her lips, establish it, or her
for your peace offerings. father shall hold his wherewith she bound husband may make it
40
And Moses told the peace at her: then all her her soul, of none effect: void. 14
But if her
children of Israel vows shall stand, and and the LORD shall husband altogether
according to all that the every bond wherewith forgive her. 9But every hold his peace at her
LORD commanded she hath bound her soul vow of a widow, and of from day to day; then
Moses. shall stand. 5But if her her that is divorced, he establisheth all her
father disallow her in the wherewith they have vows, or all her bonds,
day that he heareth; not bound their souls, shall which are upon her: he
any of her vows, or of stand against her. 10And confirmeth them,
Chapter 30 her bonds wherewith she if she vowed in her because he held his
hath bound her soul, husband’s house, or peace at her in the day
And Moses spake
1
shall stand: and the bound her soul by a that he heard them.
unto the heads of the LORD shall forgive her, bond with an oath; 11And 15
But if he shall any
tribes concerning the because her father her husband heard it, ways make them void
children of Israel, saying, disallowed her. And if
6
and held his peace at after that he hath heard
This is the thing which she had at all an her, and disallowed her them; then he shall
the LORD hath husband, when she not: then all her vows bear her iniquity.
commanded. If a man
2
vowedb, or uttered ought shall stand, and every 16
These are the
vow a vow unto the out of her lips, bond wherewith she statutes, which the
LORD, or swear an oath wherewith she bound bound her soul shall LORD commanded
to bind his soul with a her soul; 7
And her stand. 12
But if her Moses, between a man
bond; he shall not breaka husband heard it, and husband hath utterly and his wife, between
his word, he shall do held his peace at her in made them void on the the father and his
according to all that the day that he heard it: day he heard them; then daughter, being yet in
a b
whatsoever proceeded her youth in her
do: or, offer she vowed: Heb. her vows out of her lips father’s house.
a
break: Heb. profane were upon her
Chapter 31 they slew all the males. congregation, went forth whosoever hath
8
And they slew the kings to meet them without touched any slain,
1
And the LORD spake of Midian, beside the rest the camp. 14And Moses purify both yourselves
unto Moses, saying, of them that were slain; was wroth with the and your captives on
2
Avenge the children of namely, Evi, and Rekem, officers of the host, with the third day, and on
Israel of the Midianites: and Zur, and Hur, and the captains over the seventh day. 20And
afterward shalt thou be Reba, five kings of thousands, and captains purify all your raiment,
gathered unto thy Midian: Balaam also the over hundreds, which and all that is made of
people. 3
And Moses son of Beor they slew came from the battlea. skins, and all work of
spake unto the people, with the sword. 9And the 15
And Moses said unto goats’ hair, and all
saying, Arm some of children of Israel took all them, Have ye saved all things made of wood.
yourselves unto the war, the women of Midian the women alive? 21
And Eleazar the priest
and let them go against captives, and their little 16
Behold, these caused said unto the men of
the Midianites, and ones, and took the spoil the children of Israel, war which went to the
avenge the LORD of of all their cattle, and all through the counsel of battle, This is the
Midian. 4Of every tribe a their flocks, and all their Balaam, to commit ordinance of the law
thousand, throughout all goods. 10And they burnt trespass against the which the LORD
the tribes of Israel, shall all their cities wherein LORD in the matter of commanded Moses;
ye send to the war. 5So they dwelt, and all their Peor, and there was a 22
Only the gold, and the
there were delivered out goodly castles, with fire. plague among the silver, the brass, the
of the thousands of 11
And they took all the congregation of the iron, the tin, and the
Israel, a thousand of spoil, and all the prey, LORD. 17
Now therefore lead, 23Every thing that
every tribe, twelve both of men and of kill every male among may abide the fire, ye
thousand armed for war. beasts. 12
And they the little ones, and kill shall make it go
6
And Moses sent them to brought the captives, every woman that hath through the fire, and it
the war, a thousand of and the prey, and the known man by lying with shall be clean:
every tribe, them and spoil, unto Moses, and himb. 18
But all the nevertheless it shall be
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and women children, that purified with the water
Eleazar the priest, to the unto the congregation of have not known a man of separation: and all
war, with the holy the children of Israel, by lying with him, keep that abideth not the fire
instruments, and the unto the camp at the alive for yourselves. ye shall make go
trumpets to blow in his plains of Moab, which 19
And do ye abide through the water.
hand. are by Jordan near without the camp seven 24
And ye shall wash
7
And they warred Jericho. days: whosoever hath your clothes on the
against the Midianites, 13
And Moses, and killed any person, and seventh day, and ye
as the LORD Eleazar the priest, and a
shall be clean, and
all the princes of the battle: Heb. host of war afterward ye shall come
commanded Moses; and b
him: Heb. a male
into the camp. charge of the tabernacle thirty thousand and five of the LORD; as the
25
And the LORD spake of the LORD. 31
And hundred; of which the LORD commanded
unto Moses, saying, Moses and Eleazar the LORD’S tribute was Moses.
26
Take the sum of the priest did as the LORD threescore and one. 48
And the officers
prey that was taken, commanded Moses. 40
And the persons were which were over
both of man and of 32
And the booty, being sixteen thousand; of thousands of the host,
beast, thou, and Eleazar the rest of the prey which the LORD’S tribute the captains of
the priest, and the chief which the men of war was thirty and two thousands, and
fathers of the had caught, was six persons. 41And Moses captains of hundreds,
congregation: 27
And hundred thousand and gave the tribute, which came near unto Moses:
divide the prey into two seventy thousand and was the LORD’S heave 49
And they said unto
parts; between them five thousand sheep, offering, unto Eleazar Moses, Thy servants
that took the war upon 33
And threescore and the priest, as the LORD have taken the sum of
them, who went out to twelve thousand beeves, commanded Moses. the men of war which
battle, and between all 34
And threescore and 42
And of the children of are under our charged,
the congregation: 28And one thousand asses, Israel’s half, which and there lacketh not
levy a tribute unto the 35
And thirty and two Moses divided from the one man of us. 50We
LORD of the men of war thousand persons in all, men that warred, 43(Now have therefore brought
which went out to battle: of women that had not the half that pertained an oblation for the
one soul of five hundred, known man by lying with unto the congregation LORD, what every man
both of the persons, and him. 36And the half, was three hundred hath gottene, of jewels
of the beeves, and of the which was the portion of thousand and thirty of gold, chains, and
asses, and of the sheep: them that went out to thousand and seven bracelets, rings,
29
Take it of their half, war, was in number thousand and five earrings, and tablets, to
and give it unto Eleazar three hundred thousand hundred sheep, 44And make an atonement for
the priest, for an heave and seven and thirty thirty and six thousand our souls before the
offering of the LORD. thousand and five beeves, 45
And thirty LORD. 51And Moses and
30
And of the children of hundred sheep: 37
And thousand asses and five Eleazar the priest took
Israel’s half, thou shalt the LORD’S tribute of the hundred, 46And sixteen the gold of them, even
take one portion of fifty, sheep was six hundred thousand persons;) all wrought jewels.
of the persons, of the and threescore and 47
Even of the children of 52
And all the gold of the
beeves, of the asses, fifteen. And the beeves
38
Israel’s half, Moses took offeringf that they
and of the flocksc, of all were thirty and six one portion of fifty, both offered up to the LORD,
manner of beasts, and thousand; of which the of man and of beast, and of the captains of
give them unto the LORD’S tribute was gave them unto the d
Levites, which keep the threescore and twelve. Levites, which kept the charge: Heb. hand
e
39
And the asses were charge of the tabernacle gotten: Heb. found
c f
flocks: or, goats offering: Heb. heave offering
thousands, and of the Jazer, and Nimraha, and should not go into the anger of the LORD
captains of hundreds, Heshbon, and Elealeh, land which the LORD had toward Israel. 15For if ye
was sixteen thousand and Shebam, and Nebo, given them. 10And the turn away from after
seven hundred and fifty and Beon, 4
Even the LORD’S anger was him, he will yet again
shekels. 53(For the men country which the LORD kindled the same time, leave them in the
of war had taken spoil, smote before the and he sware, saying, wilderness; and ye shall
every man for himself.) congregation of Israel, is 11
Surely none of the men destroy all this people.
54
And Moses and Eleazar a land for cattle, and thy that came up out of 16
And they came
the priest took the gold servants have cattle: Egypt, from twenty years near unto him, and
of the captains of 5
Wherefore, said they, if old and upward, shall said, We will build
thousands and of we have found grace in see the land which I sheepfolds here for our
hundreds, and brought it thy sight, let this land be sware unto Abraham, cattle, and cities for our
into the tabernacle of given unto thy servants unto Isaac, and unto little ones: 17But we
the congregation, for a for a possession, and Jacob; because they ourselves will go ready
memorial for the bring us not over Jordan. have not whollyb armed before the
children of Israel before 6
And Moses said unto the followed me: 12
Save children of Israel, until
the LORD. children of Gad and to Caleb the son of we have brought them
the children of Reuben, Jephunneh the Kenezite, unto their place: and
Chapter 32 Shall your brethren go to and Joshua the son of our little ones shall
war, and shall ye sit Nun: for they have dwell in the fenced
1
Now the children of here? 7And wherefore wholly followed the cities because of the
Reuben and the children discourage ye the heart LORD. And the LORD’S
13
inhabitants of the land.
of Gad had a very great of the children of Israel anger was kindled 18
We will not return
multitude of cattle: and from going over into the against Israel, and he unto our houses, until
when they saw the land land which the LORD made them wander in the children of Israel
of Jazer, and the land of hath given them? 8Thus the wilderness forty have inherited every
Gilead, that, behold, the did your fathers, when I years, until all the man his inheritance.
place was a place for sent them from generation, that had 19
For we will not inherit
cattle; 2The children of Kadeshbarnea to see the done evil in the sight of with them on yonder
Gad and the children of land. 9For when they the LORD, was side Jordan, or forward;
Reuben came and spake went up unto the valley consumed. 14
And, because our inheritance
unto Moses, and to of Eshcol, and saw the behold, ye are risen up is fallen to us on this
Eleazar the priest, and land, they discouraged in your fathers’ stead, an side Jordan eastward.
unto the princes of the the heart of the children increase of sinful men, to 20
And Moses said unto
congregation, saying, of Israel, that they augment yet the fierce them, If ye will do this
3
Ataroth, and Dibon, and thing, if ye will go
a b
Nimrah: also called, wholly...: Heb. fulfilled after armed before the LORD
Bethnimrah me
to war, 21And will go all 28
So concerning them the children of Reuben, dispossessed the
of you armed over Moses commanded and unto half the tribe of Amorite which was in it.
Jordan before the LORD, Eleazar the priest, and Manasseh the son of 40
And Moses gave
until he hath driven out Joshua the son of Nun, Joseph, the kingdom of Gilead unto Machir the
his enemies from before and the chief fathers of Sihon king of the son of Manasseh; and
him, 22And the land be the tribes of the children Amorites, and the he dwelt therein. 41And
subdued before the of Israel: 29And Moses kingdom of Og king of Jair the son of
LORD: then afterward ye said unto them, If the Bashan, the land, with Manasseh went and
shall return, and be children of Gad and the the cities thereof in the took the small towns
guiltless before the children of Reuben will coasts, even the cities of thereof, and called
LORD, and before Israel; pass with you over the country round about. them Havothjair. 42And
and this land shall be Jordan, every man 34
And the children of Gad Nobah went and took
your possession before armed to battle, before built Dibon, and Ataroth, Kenath, and the villages
the LORD. 23But if ye will the LORD, and the land and Aroer, 35And Atroth, thereof, and called it
not do so, behold, ye shall be subdued before Shophan, and Jaazerc, Nobah, after his own
have sinned against the you; then ye shall give and Jogbehah, 36
And name.
LORD: and be sure your them the land of Gilead Bethnimrah ,d
and
sin will find you out. for a possession: 30But if Bethharan, fenced cities: Chapter 33
24
Build you cities for your they will not pass over and folds for sheep.
little ones, and folds for with you armed, they 37
And the children of
1
These are the
your sheep; and do that shall have possessions Reuben built Heshbon, journeys of the children
which hath proceeded among you in the land of and Elealeh, and of Israel, which went
out of your mouth. 25And Canaan. 31
And the Kirjathaim, 38And Nebo, forth out of the land of
the children of Gad and children of Gad and the and Baalmeon, (their Egypt with their armies
the children of Reuben children of Reuben names being changed,) under the hand of
spake unto Moses, answered, saying, As the and Shibmah: and gavee Moses and Aaron. 2And
saying, Thy servants will LORD hath said unto thy other names unto the Moses wrote their
do as my lord servants, so will we do. cities which they goings out according to
commandeth. 26Our little 32
We will pass over builded. 39
And the their journeys by the
ones, our wives, our armed before the LORD children of Machir the commandment of the
flocks, and all our cattle, into the land of Canaan, son of Manasseh went to LORD: and these are
shall be there in the that the possession of Gilead, and took it, and their journeys according
cities of Gilead: 27But thy our inheritance on this to their goings out. 3And
c
servants will pass over, side Jordan may be ours. Jaazer: also called, Jazer they departed from
d
every man armed for 33
And Moses gave unto Bethnimrah: also called, Rameses in the first
war, before the LORD to them, even to the Nimrah month, on the fifteenth
e
battle, as my lord saith. children of Gad, and to gave...: Heb. they called by day of the first month;
names the names of the cities
on the morrow after the trees; and they pitched 20
And they departed encamped at
passover the children of there. 10
And they from Rimmonparez, and Horhagidgad. 33
And
Israel went out with an removed from Elim, and pitched in Libnah. 21And they went from
high hand in the sight of encamped by the Red they removed from Horhagidgad, and
all the Egyptians. 4For sea. 11And they removed Libnah, and pitched at pitched in Jotbathah.
the Egyptians buried all from the Red sea, and Rissah. 22
And they 34
And they removed
their firstborn, which the encamped in the journeyed from Rissah, from Jotbathah, and
LORD had smitten wilderness of Sin. And 12
and pitched in encamped at Ebronah.
among them: upon their they took their journey Kehelathah. 23And they 35
And they departed
gods also the LORD out of the wilderness of went from Kehelathah, from Ebronah, and
executed judgments. Sin, and encamped in and pitched in mount encamped at
5
And the children of Dophkah. 13
And they Shapher. 24
And they Eziongaber. And they
36

Israel removed from departed from Dophkah, removed from mount removed from
Rameses, and pitched in and encamped in Alush. Shapher, and encamped Eziongaber, and pitched
Succoth. 6
And they 14
And they removed from in Haradah. 25And they in the wilderness of Zin,
departed from Succoth, Alush, and encamped at removed from Haradah, which is Kadesh. 37And
and pitched in Etham, Rephidim, where was no and pitched in they removed from
which is in the edge of water for the people to Makheloth. 26
And they Kadesh, and pitched in
the wilderness. 7
And drink. 15
And they removed from mount Hor, in the edge
they removed from departed from Rephidim, Makheloth, and of the land of Edom.
Etham, and turned again and pitched in the encamped at Tahath. 38
And Aaron the priest
unto Pihahiroth, which is wilderness of Sinai. And
16 27
And they departed went up into mount Hor
before Baalzephon: and they removed from the from Tahath, and pitched at the commandment of
they pitched before desert of Sinai, and at Tarah. 28And they the LORD, and died
Migdol. 8
And they pitched at removed from Tarah, there, in the fortieth
departed from before Kibrothhattaavah . And
a 17
and pitched in Mithcah. year after the children
Pihahiroth, and passed they departed from 29
And they went from of Israel were come out
through the midst of the Kibrothhattaavah, and Mithcah, and pitched in of the land of Egypt, in
sea into the wilderness, encamped at Hazeroth. Hashmonah. 30And they the first day of the fifth
and went three days’ 18
And they departed departed from month. 39And Aaron was
journey in the wilderness from Hazeroth, and Hashmonah, and an hundred and twenty
of Etham, and pitched in pitched in Rithmah. encamped at Moseroth. and three years old
Marah. 9
And they 19
And they departed 31
And they departed when he died in mount
removed from Marah, from Rithmah, and from Moseroth, and Hor. 40And king Arad the
and came unto Elim: and pitched at Rimmonparez. pitched in Benejaakan. Canaanite, which dwelt
in Elim were twelve a
32
And they removed from in the south in the land
fountains of water, and Kibrothhattaavah: that is, the Benejaakan, and of Canaan, heard of the
threescore and ten palm graves of lust
coming of the children of of Moab. ye shall inherit. 55But if the south to the ascent
Israel. 41
And they 50
And the LORD spake ye will not drive out the of Akrabbim, and pass
departed from mount unto Moses in the plains inhabitants of the land on to Zin: and the going
Hor, and pitched in of Moab by Jordan near from before you; then it forth thereof shall be
Zalmonah. 42And they Jericho, saying, 51Speak shall come to pass, that from the south to
departed from unto the children of those which ye let Kadeshbarnea, and
Zalmonah, and pitched Israel, and say unto remain of them shall be shall go on to
in Punon. 43And they them, When ye are pricks in your eyes, and Hazaraddar, and pass
departed from Punon, passed over Jordan into thorns in your sides, and on to Azmon: 5And the
and pitched in Oboth. the land of Canaan; shall vex you in the land border shall fetch a
44
And they departed 52
Then ye shall drive out wherein ye dwell. compass from Azmon
from Oboth, and pitched all the inhabitants of the 56
Moreover it shall come unto the river of Egypt,
in Ijeabarimb, in the land from before you, to pass, that I shall do and the goings out of it
border of Moab. 45And and destroy all their unto you, as I thought to shall be at the sea. 6And
they departed from Iim, pictures, and destroy all do unto them. as for the western
and pitched in Dibongad. their molten images, and border, ye shall even
46
And they removed from quite pluck down all their Chapter 34 have the great sea for a
Dibongad, and high places: 53And ye border: this shall be
encamped in shall dispossess the
1
And the LORD spake your west border. 7And
Almondiblathaim. 47
And inhabitants of the land, unto Moses, saying, this shall be your north
they removed from and dwell therein: for I
2
Command the children border: from the great
Almondiblathaim, and have given you the land of Israel, and say unto sea ye shall point out
pitched in the mountains to possess it. 54And ye them, When ye come for you mount Hor:
of Abarim, before Nebo. shall divide the land by into the land of Canaan; 8
From mount Hor ye
48
And they departed lot for an inheritance (this is the land that shall point out your
from the mountains of among your families: shall fall unto you for an border unto the
Abarim, and pitched in and to the more ye shall inheritance, even the entrance of Hamath;
the plains of Moab by give the mored land of Canaan with the and the goings forth of
Jordan near Jericho. inheritance, and to the coasts thereof:) 3Then the border shall be to
49
And they pitched by fewer ye shall give the your south quarter shall Zedad: 9And the border
Jordan, from less inheritance: every be from the wilderness shall go on to Ziphron,
Bethjesimoth even unto man’s inheritance shall of Zin along by the coast and the goings out of it
Abelshittimc in the plains be in the place where his of Edom, and your south shall be at Hazarenan:
lot falleth; according to border shall be the this shall be your north
b
Ijeabarim: or, heaps of the tribes of your fathers outmost coast of the salt border. 10And ye shall
Abarim sea eastward: 4And your point out your east
c d
Abelshittim: or, the plains of give the more...: Heb. border shall turn from border from Hazarenan
Shittim multiply his inheritance
to Shepham: 11And the have received their prince of the tribe of the in; and the suburbs of
coast shall go down from inheritance on this side children of Zebulun, them shall be for their
Shepham to Riblah, on Jordan near Jericho Elizaphan the son of cattle, and for their
the east side of Ain; and eastward, toward the Parnach. 26
And the goods, and for all their
the border shall sunrising. prince of the tribe of the beasts. 4
And the
descend, and shall reach 16
And the LORD spake children of Issachar, suburbs of the cities,
unto the side of the seaa unto Moses, saying, Paltiel the son of Azzan. which ye shall give unto
of Chinnereth eastward: 17
These are the names of 27
And the prince of the the Levites, shall reach
12
And the border shall go the men which shall tribe of the children of from the wall of the city
down to Jordan, and the divide the land unto you: Asher, Ahihud the son of and outward a
goings out of it shall be Eleazar the priest, and Shelomi. 28
And the thousand cubits round
at the salt sea: this shall Joshua the son of Nun. prince of the tribe of the about. 5And ye shall
be your land with the 18
And ye shall take one children of Naphtali, measure from without
coasts thereof round prince of every tribe, to Pedahel the son of the city on the east side
about. 13
And Moses divide the land by Ammihud. 29These are two thousand cubits,
commanded the children inheritance. 19
And the they whom the LORD and on the south side
of Israel, saying, This is names of the men are commanded to divide two thousand cubits,
the land which ye shall these: Of the tribe of the inheritance unto the and on the west side
inherit by lot, which the Judah, Caleb the son of children of Israel in the two thousand cubits,
LORD commanded to Jephunneh. 20And of the land of Canaan. and on the north side
give unto the nine tribes, tribe of the children of two thousand cubits;
and to the half tribe: Simeon, Shemuel the Chapter 35 and the city shall be in
14
For the tribe of the son of Ammihud. 21Of the the midst: this shall be
children of Reuben tribe of Benjamin, Elidad
1
And the LORD spake to them the suburbs of
according to the house the son of Chislon. 22And unto Moses in the plains the cities. 6And among
of their fathers, and the the prince of the tribe of of Moab by Jordan near the cities which ye shall
tribe of the children of the children of Dan, Jericho, saying, give unto the Levites
Gad according to the Bukki the son of Jogli.
2
Command the children there shall be six cities
house of their fathers, 23
The prince of the of Israel, that they give for refuge, which ye
have received their children of Joseph, for unto the Levites of the shall appoint for the
inheritance; and half the the tribe of the children inheritance of their manslayer, that he may
tribe of Manasseh have of Manasseh, Hanniel the possession cities to dwell flee thither: and to
received their son of Ephod. 24And the in; and ye shall give also them ye shall add forty
inheritance: 15
The two prince of the tribe of the unto the Levites suburbs and two cities. 7So all
tribes and the half tribe children of Ephraim, for the cities round about the cities which ye shall
Kemuel the son of them. 3And the cities give to the Levites shall
a
side of the sea: Heb. shoulder Shiphtan. 25
And the shall they have to dwell be forty and eight
of the sea
cities: them shall ye give three cities on this side hurl at him by laying of the holy oil. 26But if the
with their suburbs. 8And Jordan, and three cities wait, that he die; 21Or in slayer shall at any time
the cities which ye shall shall ye give in the land enmity smite him with come without the
give shall be of the of Canaan, which shall his hand, that he die: he border of the city of his
possession of the be cities of refuge. that smote him shall refuge, whither he was
children of Israel: from 15
These six cities shall be surely be put to death; fled; 27And the revenger
them that have many ye a refuge, both for the for he is a murderer: the of blood find him
shall give many; but children of Israel, and for revenger of blood shall without the borders of
from them that have few the stranger, and for the slay the murderer, when the city of his refuge,
ye shall give few: every sojourner among them: he meeteth him. 22But if and the revenger of
one shall give of his that every one that he thrust him suddenly blood kill the slayer; he
cities unto the Levites killeth any person without enmity, or have shall not be guilty of
according to his unawares may flee cast upon him any thing blood: 28
Because he
inheritance which he thither. And if he smite
16
without laying of wait, should have remained
inheriteth. him with an instrument 23
Or with any stone, in the city of his refuge
9
And the LORD spake of iron, so that he die, he wherewith a man may until the death of the
unto Moses, saying, is a murderer: the die, seeing him not, and high priest: but after
10
Speak unto the children murderer shall surely be cast it upon him, that he the death of the high
of Israel, and say unto put to death. 17And if he die, and was not his priest the slayer shall
them, When ye be come smite him with throwing enemy, neither sought return into the land of
over Jordan into the land a stone, wherewith he his harm: 24Then the his possession. 29
So
of Canaan; 11Then ye may die, and he die, he congregation shall judge these things shall be for
shall appoint you cities is a murderer: the between the slayer and a statute of judgment
to be cities of refuge for murderer shall surely be the revenger of blood unto you throughout
you; that the slayer may put to death. 18Or if he according to these your generations in all
flee thither, which killeth smite him with an hand judgments: 25
And the your dwellings. 30Whoso
any person at unawares. weapon of wood, congregation shall killeth any person, the
12
And they shall be unto wherewith he may die, deliver the slayer out of murderer shall be put
you cities for refuge from and he die, he is a the hand of the revenger to death by the mouth
the avenger; that the murderer: the murderer of blood, and the of witnesses: but one
manslayer die not, until shall surely be put to congregation shall witness shall not testify
he stand before the death. 19The revenger of restore him to the city of against any person to
congregation in blood himself shall slay his refuge, whither he cause him to die.
judgment. And of these
13
the murderer: when he was fled: and he shall 31
Moreover ye shall take
cities which ye shall give meeteth him, he shall abide in it unto the no satisfaction for the
six cities shall ye have slay him. 20But if he death of the high priest, life of a murderer,
for refuge. 14Ye shall give thrust him of hatred, or which was anointed with
which is guiltya of death: children of Israel: 2And according to the word of tribe; but every one of
but he shall be surely they said, The LORD the LORD, saying, The the tribes of the
put to death. 32And ye commanded my lord to tribe of the sons of children of Israel shall
shall take no satisfaction give the land for an Joseph hath said well. keep himself to his own
for him that is fled to the inheritance by lot to the 6
This is the thing which inheritance. 10Even as
city of his refuge, that he children of Israel: and the LORD doth command the LORD commanded
should come again to my lord was commanded concerning the Moses, so did the
dwell in the land, until by the LORD to give the daughters of daughters of
the death of the priest. inheritance of Zelophehad, saying, Let Zelophehad: 11For
33
So ye shall not pollute Zelophehad our brother them marrya to whom Mahlah, Tirzah, and
the land wherein ye are: unto his daughters. 3And they think best; only to Hoglah, and Milcah, and
for blood it defileth the if they be married to any the family of the tribe of Noah, the daughters of
land: and the land of the sons of the other their father shall they Zelophehad, were
cannot be cleansed of tribes of the children of marry. 7So shall not the married unto their
the blood that is shed Israel, then shall their inheritance of the father’s brothers’ sons:
therein, but by the blood inheritance be taken children of Israel remove 12
And they were
of him that shed it. from the inheritance of from tribe to tribe: for married into the
34
Defile not therefore the our fathers, and shall be every one of the children families of the sons of
land which ye shall put to the inheritance of of Israel shall keepb Manasseh the son of
inhabit, wherein I dwell: the tribe whereunto they himself to the Joseph, and their
for I the LORD dwell are received: so shall it inheritance of the tribe inheritance remained in
among the children of be taken from the lot of of his fathers. 8And the tribe of the family
Israel. our inheritance. 4
And every daughter, that of their father. 13These
when the jubile of the possesseth an are the commandments
Chapter 36 children of Israel shall inheritance in any tribe and the judgments,
be, then shall their of the children of Israel, which the LORD
And the chief fathers
1
inheritance be put unto shall be wife unto one of commanded by the
of the families of the the inheritance of the the family of the tribe of hand of Moses unto the
children of Gilead, the tribe whereunto they are her father, that the children of Israel in the
son of Machir, the son of received: so shall their children of Israel may plains of Moab by
Manasseh, of the inheritance be taken enjoy every man the Jordan near Jericho.
families of the sons of away from the inheritance of his
Joseph, came near, and inheritance of the tribe fathers. 9Neither shall
spake before Moses, and of our fathers. the inheritance remove
before the princes, the from one tribe to another
chief fathers of the 5
And Moses commanded
a
the children of Israel marry: Heb. be wives
a b
guilty...: Heb. faulty to die keep...: Heb. cleave to the, etc
Deuteronomy
Chapter 1
These be the words
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which Moses spake


unto all Israel on this
side Jordan in the
wilderness, in the plain
over against the Reda
sea, between Paran,
and Tophel, and Laban,
and Hazeroth, and
Dizahab. 2
(There are
eleven days’ journey
from Horeb by the way
of mount Seir unto
Kadeshbarnea.) 3And it
came to pass in the
fortieth year, in the
eleventh month, on the
first day of the month,
that Moses spake unto
the children of Israel,
according unto all that
the LORD had given
him in commandment
unto them; 4After he
had slain Sihon the king
a
the Red...: or, Zuph
of the Amorites, which at that time, saying, I am tribes. 16And I charged of the Amorites, which
dwelt in Heshbon, and not able to bear you your judges at that time, the LORD our God doth
Og the king of Bashan, myself alone: 10
The saying, Hear the causes give unto us. 21Behold,
which dwelt at Astaroth LORD your God hath between your brethren, the LORD thy God hath
in Edrei: 5On this side multiplied you, and, and judge righteously set the land before
Jordan, in the land of behold, ye are this day between every man and thee: go up and
Moab, began Moses to as the stars of heaven his brother, and the possess it, as the LORD
declare this law, saying, for multitude. 11
(The stranger that is with him. God of thy fathers hath
6
The LORD our God LORD God of your 17
Ye shall not respectf said unto thee; fear not,
spake unto us in Horeb, fathers make you a persons in judgment; but neither be discouraged.
saying, Ye have dwelt thousand times so many ye shall hear the small 22
And ye came near
long enough in this more as ye are, and as well as the great; ye unto me every one of
mount: 7Turn you, and bless you, as he hath shall not be afraid of the you, and said, We will
take your journey, and promised you!) 12How face of man; for the send men before us,
go to the mount of the can I myself alone bear judgment is God’s: and and they shall search
Amorites, and unto all your cumbrance, and the cause that is too us out the land, and
the places nighb your burden, and your hard for you, bring it bring us word again by
thereunto, in the plain, strife? 13Taked you wise unto me, and I will hear what way we must go
in the hills, and in the men, and understanding, it. 18And I commanded up, and into what cities
vale, and in the south, and known among your you at that time all the we shall come. 23And
and by the sea side, to tribes, and I will make things which ye should the saying pleased me
the land of the them rulers over you. do. well: and I took twelve
Canaanites, and unto 14
And ye answered me, 19
And when we men of you, one of a
Lebanon, unto the great and said, The thing departed from Horeb, we tribe: 24And they turned
river, the river which thou hast spoken went through all that and went up into the
Euphrates. 8
Behold, I is good for us to do. 15So great and terrible mountain, and came
have setc the land before I took the chief of your wilderness, which ye saw unto the valley of
you: go in and possess tribes, wise men, and by the way of the Eshcol, and searched it
the land which the LORD known, and madee them mountain of the out. 25And they took of
sware unto your fathers, heads over you, captains Amorites, as the LORD the fruit of the land in
Abraham, Isaac, and over thousands, and our God commanded us; their hands, and
Jacob, to give unto them captains over hundreds, and we came to brought it down unto
and to their seed after and captains over fifties, Kadeshbarnea. 20And I us, and brought us
them. and captains over tens, said unto you, Ye are word again, and said, It
9
And I spake unto you and officers among your come unto the mountain is a good land which
b d f
the LORD our God doth
all...: Heb. all his neighbours Take: Heb. Give respect...: Heb. acknowledge give us.
c e
set: Heb. given made: Heb. gave faces
26
Notwithstanding ye that ye went, until ye encourage him: for he commandment of the
would not go up, but came into this place. shall cause Israel to LORD, and wenti
rebelled against the 32
Yet in this thing ye did inherit it. 39
Moreover presumptuously up into
commandment of the not believe the LORD your little ones, which ye the hill. 44
And the
LORD your God: 27And ye your God, 33Who went in said should be a prey, Amorites, which dwelt
murmured in your tents, the way before you, to and your children, which in that mountain, came
and said, Because the search you out a place to in that day had no out against you, and
LORD hated us, he hath pitch your tents in, in fire knowledge between chased you, as bees do,
brought us forth out of by night, to shew you by good and evil, they shall and destroyed you in
the land of Egypt, to what way ye should go, go in thither, and unto Seir, even unto
deliver us into the hand and in a cloud by day. them will I give it, and Hormah. 45
And ye
of the Amorites, to 34
And the LORD heard they shall possess it. returned and wept
destroy us. 28Whither the voice of your words, 40
But as for you, turn before the LORD; but
shall we go up? our and was wroth, and you, and take your the LORD would not
brethren have sware, saying, 35Surely journey into the hearken to your voice,
discouraged our heart,
g
there shall not one of wilderness by the way of nor give ear unto you.
saying, The people is these men of this evil the Red sea. 41Then ye 46
So ye abode in Kadesh
greater and taller than generation see that good answered and said unto many days, according
we; the cities are great land, which I sware to me, We have sinned unto the days that ye
and walled up to heaven; give unto your fathers, against the LORD, we abode there.
and moreover we have 36
Save Caleb the son of will go up and fight,
seen the sons of the Jephunneh; he shall see according to all that the Chapter 2
Anakims there. 29Then I it, and to him will I give LORD our God
said unto you, Dread not, the land that he hath commanded us. And Then we turned,
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neither be afraid of trodden upon, and to his when ye had girded on and took our journey
them. 30The LORD your children, because he every man his weapons into the wilderness by
God which goeth before hath whollyh followed the of war, ye were ready to the way of the Red sea,
you, he shall fight for LORD. 37Also the LORD go up into the hill. 42And as the LORD spake unto
you, according to all that was angry with me for the LORD said unto me, me: and we compassed
he did for you in Egypt your sakes, saying, Thou Say unto them, Go not mount Seir many days.
before your eyes; 31And also shalt not go in up, neither fight; for I am
2
And the LORD spake
in the wilderness, where thither. 38But Joshua the not among you; lest ye unto me, saying, 3Ye
thou hast seen how that son of Nun, which be smitten before your have compassed this
the LORD thy God bare standeth before thee, he enemies. 43So I spake mountain long enough:
thee, as a man doth bear shall go in thither: unto you; and ye would turn you northward.
his son, in all the way h
not hear, but rebelled i
wholly...: Heb. fulfilled to go against the went...: Heb. ye were
g
discouraged: Heb. melted after presumptuous, and went up
4
And command thou the the way of the plain from said I, and get you over possession; because I
people, saying, Ye are to Elath, and from the brookd Zered. And have given it unto the
pass through the coast Eziongaber, we turned we went over the brook children of Lot for a
of your brethren the and passed by the way Zered. 14And the space possession. 20(That also
children of Esau, which of the wilderness of in which we came from was accounted a land of
dwell in Seir; and they Moab. 9And the LORD Kadeshbarnea, until we giants: giants dwelt
shall be afraid of you: said unto me, Distressb were come over the therein in old time; and
take ye good heed unto not the Moabites, neither brooke Zered, was thirty the Ammonites call
yourselves therefore: contend with them in and eight years; until all them Zamzummimsf;
5
Meddle not with them; battle: for I will not give the generation of the 21
A people great, and
for I will not givea you of thee of their land for a men of war were wasted many, and tall, as the
their land, no, not so possession; because I out from among the Anakims; but the LORD
much as a foot breadth; have given Ar unto the host, as the LORD sware destroyed them before
because I have given children of Lot for a unto them. 15For indeed them; and they
mount Seir unto Esau for possession. 10The Emims the hand of the LORD succeeded them, and
a possession. 6Ye shall dwelt therein in times was against them, to dwelt in their stead:
buy meat of them for past, a people great, and destroy them from 22
As he did to the
money, that ye may eat; many, and tall, as the among the host, until children of Esau, which
and ye shall also buy Anakims; 11Which also they were consumed. dwelt in Seir, when he
water of them for were accounted giants, 16
So it came to pass, destroyed the Horims
money, that ye may as the Anakims; but the when all the men of war from before them; and
drink. 7For the LORD thy Moabites call them were consumed and they succeeded them,
God hath blessed thee in Emims. 12The Horims dead from among the and dwelt in their stead
all the works of thy also dwelt in Seir people, 17That the LORD even unto this day:
hand: he knoweth thy beforetime; but the spake unto me, saying, 23
And the Avims which
walking through this children of Esau 18
Thou art to pass over dwelt in Hazerim, even
great wilderness: these succeededc them, when through Ar, the coast of unto Azzah, the
forty years the LORD thy they had destroyed them Moab, this day: 19And Caphtorims, which
God hath been with from before them, and when thou comest nigh came forth out of
thee; thou hast lacked dwelt in their stead; as over against the children Caphtor, destroyed
nothing. Israel did unto the land of Ammon, distress them them, and dwelt in their
8
And when we passed of his possession, which not, nor meddle with stead.)
by from our brethren the the LORD gave unto them: for I will not give 24
Rise ye up, take
children of Esau, which them. 13
Now rise up, thee of the land of the your journey, and pass
dwelt in Seir, through b
children of Ammon any over the river Arnon:
Distress...: or, Use no hostility
a d f
no...: Heb. even to the against Moab brook: or, valley Zamzummims: also called,
c e
treading of the sole of the foot succeeded: Heb. inherited brook: or, valley Zuzims
behold, I have given into into the land which the of the cities which we our God delivered into
thine hand Sihon the LORD our God giveth us. took. 36From Aroer, which our hands Og also, the
Amorite, king of 30
But Sihon king of is by the brink of the king of Bashan, and all
Heshbon, and his land: Heshbon would not let us river of Arnon, and from his people: and we
beging to possess it, and pass by him: for the the city that is by the smote him until none
contend with him in LORD thy God hardened river, even unto Gilead, was left to him
battle. 25This day will I his spirit, and made his there was not one city remaining. 4
And we
begin to put the dread of heart obstinate, that he too strong for us: the took all his cities at that
thee and the fear of thee might deliver him into LORD our God delivered time, there was not a
upon the nations that thy hand, as appeareth all unto us: 37Only unto city which we took not
are under the whole this day. 31And the LORD the land of the children from them, threescore
heaven, who shall hear said unto me, Behold, I of Ammon thou camest cities, all the region of
report of thee, and shall have begun to give not, nor unto any place Argob, the kingdom of
tremble, and be in Sihon and his land of the river Jabbok, nor Og in Bashan. 5All these
anguish because of thee. before thee: begin to unto the cities in the cities were fenced with
26
And I sent messengers possess, that thou mountains, nor unto high walls, gates, and
out of the wilderness of mayest inherit his land. whatsoever the LORD bars; beside unwalled
Kedemoth unto Sihon 32
Then Sihon came out our God forbad us. towns a great many.
king of Heshbon with against us, he and all his 6
And we utterly
words of peace, saying, people, to fight at Jahaz. Chapter 3 destroyed them, as we
27
Let me pass through 33
And the LORD our God did unto Sihon king of
thy land: I will go along delivered him before us;
1
Then we turned, and Heshbon, utterly
by the high way, I will and we smote him, and went up the way to destroying the men,
neither turn unto the his sons, and all his Bashan: and Og the king women, and children, of
right hand nor to the left. people. 34And we took all of Bashan came out every city. 7But all the
28
Thou shalt sell me his cities at that time, against us, he and all his cattle, and the spoil of
meat for money, that I and utterly destroyed people, to battle at the cities, we took for a
may eat; and give me the menh, and the Edrei. 2And the LORD prey to ourselves. 8And
water for money, that I women, and the little said unto me, Fear him we took at that time out
may drink: only I will ones, of every city, we not: for I will deliver him, of the hand of the two
pass through on my feet; left none to remain: and all his people, and kings of the Amorites
29
(As the children of Esau 35
Only the cattle we took his land, into thy hand; the land that was on
which dwell in Seir, and for a prey unto and thou shalt do unto this side Jordan, from
the Moabites which dwell ourselves, and the spoil him as thou didst unto the river of Arnon unto
in Ar, did unto me;) until Sihon king of the mount Hermon; 9(Which
h
I shall pass over Jordan the men...: Heb. every city of Amorites, which dwelt at Hermon the Sidonians
men, and women, and little Heshbon. 3So the LORD call Sirion; and the
g
begin...: Heb. begin, possess ones
Amorites call it Shenir;) 12
And this land, which Chinnereth even unto your God hath done
10
All the cities of the we possessed at that the sea of the plain, unto these two kings:
plain, and all Gilead, and time, from Aroer, which even the salt sea, under so shall the LORD do
all Bashan, unto Salchah is by the river Arnon, and Ashdothpisgaha unto all the kingdoms
and Edrei, cities of the half mount Gilead, and eastward. 18
And I whither thou passest.
kingdom of Og in the cities thereof, gave I commanded you at that 22
Ye shall not fear them:
Bashan. 11For only Og unto the Reubenites and time, saying, The LORD for the LORD your God
king of Bashan remained to the Gadites. 13And the your God hath given you he shall fight for you.
of the remnant of giants; rest of Gilead, and all this land to possess it: ye 23
And I besought the
behold, his bedstead Bashan, being the shall pass over armed LORD at that time,
was a bedstead of iron; kingdom of Og, gave I before your brethren the saying, 24O Lord GOD,
is it not in Rabbath of unto the half tribe of children of Israel, all that thou hast begun to
the children of Ammon? Manasseh; all the region are meetb for the war. shew thy servant thy
nine cubits was the of Argob, with all 19
But your wives, and greatness, and thy
length thereof, and four Bashan, which was your little ones, and your mighty hand: for what
cubits the breadth of it, called the land of giants. cattle, (for I know that ye God is there in heaven
after the cubit of a man. 14
Jair the son of have much cattle,) shall or in earth, that can do
Manasseh took all the abide in your cities according to thy works,
country of Argob unto which I have given you; and according to thy
the coasts of Geshuri 20
Until the LORD have might? 25I pray thee, let
and Maachathi; and given rest unto your me go over, and see
called them after his own brethren, as well as unto the good land that is
name, Bashanhavothjair, you, and until they also beyond Jordan, that
unto this day. 15And I possess the land which goodly mountain, and
gave Gilead unto Machir. the LORD your God hath Lebanon. 26
But the
16
And unto the given them beyond LORD was wroth with
Reubenites and unto the Jordan: and then shall ye me for your sakes, and
Gadites I gave from return every man unto would not hear me: and
Gilead even unto the his possession, which I the LORD said unto me,
river Arnon half the have given you. Let it suffice thee;
valley, and the border 21
And I commanded speak no more unto me
even unto the river Joshua at that time, of this matter. 27Get
Jabbok, which is the saying, Thine eyes have thee up into the top of
border of the children of seen all that the LORD Pisgahc, and lift up thine
Ammon; 17The plain also, a
eyes westward, and
and Jordan, and the Ashdothpisgah; or, the springs northward, and
coast thereof, from of Pisgah, or, the hill
b c
meet...: Heb. sons of power Pisgah: or, the hill
southward, and Baalpeor: for all the men keep thy soul diligently, covenant, which he
eastward, and behold it that followed Baalpeor, lest thou forget the commanded you to
with thine eyes: for thou the LORD thy God hath things which thine eyes perform, even ten
shalt not go over this destroyed them from have seen, and lest they commandments; and
Jordan. 28
But charge among you. 4But ye that depart from thy heart all he wrote them upon
Joshua, and encourage did cleave unto the the days of thy life: but two tables of stone.
him, and strengthen him: LORD your God are alive teach them thy sons, 14
And the LORD
for he shall go over every one of you this and thy sons’ sons; commanded me at that
before this people, and day. 5Behold, I have 10
Specially the day that time to teach you
he shall cause them to taught you statutes and thou stoodest before the statutes and
inherit the land which judgments, even as the LORD thy God in Horeb, judgments, that ye
thou shalt see. 29So we LORD my God when the LORD said unto might do them in the
abode in the valley over commanded me, that ye me, Gather me the land whither ye go over
against Bethpeor. should do so in the land people together, and I to possess it. 15Take ye
whither ye go to possess will make them hear my therefore good heed
Chapter 4 it. 6Keep therefore and words, that they may unto yourselves; for ye
do them; for this is your learn to fear me all the saw no manner of
1
Now therefore wisdom and your days that they shall live similitude on the day
hearken, O Israel, unto understanding in the upon the earth, and that that the LORD spake
the statutes and unto sight of the nations, they may teach their unto you in Horeb out
the judgments, which I which shall hear all these children. 11And ye came of the midst of the fire:
teach you, for to do statutes, and say, Surely near and stood under 16
Lest ye corrupt
them, that ye may live, this great nation is a the mountain; and the yourselves, and make
and go in and possess wise and understanding mountain burned with you a graven image,
the land which the LORD people. 7For what nation fire unto the midsta of the similitude of any
God of your fathers is there so great, who heaven, with darkness, figure, the likeness of
giveth you. 2Ye shall not hath God so nigh unto clouds, and thick male or female, 17The
add unto the word which them, as the LORD our darkness. 12
And the likeness of any beast
I command you, neither God is in all things that LORD spake unto you that is on the earth, the
shall ye diminish ought we call upon him for? out of the midst of the likeness of any winged
from it, that ye may 8
And what nation is fire: ye heard the voice fowl that flieth in the
keep the there so great, that hath of the words, but saw no air, 18The likeness of
commandments of the statutes and judgments similitude; onlyb ye any thing that creepeth
LORD your God which I so righteous as all this heard a voice. 13
And he on the ground, the
command you. 3Your law, which I set before declared unto you his likeness of any fish that
eyes have seen what the you this day? 9Only take is in the waters beneath
a
LORD did because of heed to thyself, and midst: Heb. heart the earth: 19And lest
b
only...: Heb. save a voice
thou lift up thine eyes make you a graven men’s hands, wood and midst of the fire, as
unto heaven, and when image, or the likeness of stone, which neither see, thou hast heard, and
thou seest the sun, and any thing, which the nor hear, nor eat, nor live? 34Or hath God
the moon, and the stars, LORD thy God hath smell. 29But if from assayed to go and take
even all the host of forbidden thee. 24For the thence thou shalt seek him a nation from the
heaven, shouldest be LORD thy God is a the LORD thy God, thou midst of another nation,
driven to worship them, consuming fire, even a shalt find him, if thou by temptations, by
and serve them, which jealous God. 25When thou seek him with all thy signs, and by wonders,
the LORD thy God hath shalt beget children, and heart and with all thy and by war, and by a
dividedc unto all nations children’s children, and soul. 30When thou art in mighty hand, and by a
under the whole heaven. ye shall have remained tribulation, and all these stretched out arm, and
20
But the LORD hath long in the land, and things are come upon by great terrors,
taken you, and brought shall corrupt yourselves, thee, even in the latter according to all that the
you forth out of the iron and make a graven days, if thou turn to the LORD your God did for
furnace, even out of image, or the likeness of LORD thy God, and shalt you in Egypt before
Egypt, to be unto him a any thing, and shall do be obedient unto his your eyes? 35Unto thee
people of inheritance, as evil in the sight of the voice; 31(For the LORD it was shewed, that
ye are this day. LORD thy God, to thy God is a merciful thou mightest know
21
Furthermore the LORD provoke him to anger: 26I God;) he will not forsake that the LORD he is
was angry with me for call heaven and earth to thee, neither destroy God; there is none else
your sakes, and sware witness against you this thee, nor forget the beside him. 36Out of
that I should not go over day, that ye shall soon covenant of thy fathers heaven he made thee
Jordan, and that I should utterly perish from off which he sware unto to hear his voice, that
not go in unto that good the land whereunto ye them. 32For ask now of he might instruct thee:
land, which the LORD thy go over Jordan to the days that are past, and upon earth he
God giveth thee for an possess it; ye shall not which were before thee, shewed thee his great
inheritance: 22But I must prolong your days upon since the day that God fire; and thou heardest
die in this land, I must it, but shall utterly be created man upon the his words out of the
not go over Jordan: but destroyed. 27
And the earth, and ask from the midst of the fire. 37And
ye shall go over, and LORD shall scatter you one side of heaven unto because he loved thy
possess that good land. among the nations, and the other, whether there fathers, therefore he
23
Take heed unto ye shall be left few in hath been any such chose their seed after
yourselves, lest ye forget number among the thing as this great thing them, and brought thee
the covenant of the heathen, whither the is, or hath been heard out in his sight with his
LORD your God, which LORD shall lead you. like it? 33Did ever people mighty power out of
he made with you, and 28
And there ye shall hear the voice of God Egypt; 38To drive out
c
serve gods, the work of speaking out of the nations from before
divided: or, imparted
thee greater and country, of the sea of the plain, under bondageb. 7Thou shalt
mightier than thou art, Reubenites; and Ramoth the springs of Pisgah. have none other gods
to bring thee in, to give in Gilead, of the Gadites; before me. 8Thou shalt
thee their land for an and Golan in Bashan, of Chapter 5 not make thee any
inheritance, as it is this the Manassites. 44And graven image, or any
day. 39Know therefore this is the law which And Moses called all
1
likeness of any thing
this day, and consider it Moses set before the Israel, and said unto that is in heaven above,
in thine heart, that the children of Israel: them, Hear, O Israel, the or that is in the earth
LORD he is God in 45
These are the statutes and judgments beneath, or that is in
heaven above, and upon testimonies, and the which I speak in your the waters beneath the
the earth beneath: there statutes, and the ears this day, that ye earth: 9Thou shalt not
is none else. 40Thou shalt judgments, which Moses may learn them, and bow down thyself unto
keep therefore his spake unto the children keepa, and do them. them, nor serve them:
statutes, and his of Israel, after they came
2
The LORD our God for I the LORD thy God
commandments, which I forth out of Egypt, 46On made a covenant with us am a jealous God,
command thee this day, this side Jordan, in the in Horeb. 3The LORD visiting the iniquity of
that it may go well with valley over against made not this covenant the fathers upon the
thee, and with thy Bethpeor, in the land of with our fathers, but with children unto the third
children after thee, and Sihon king of the us, even us, who are all and fourth generation
that thou mayest Amorites, who dwelt at of us here alive this day. of them that hate me,
prolong thy days upon Heshbon, whom Moses
4
The LORD talked with 10
And shewing mercy
the earth, which the and the children of Israel you face to face in the unto thousands of them
LORD thy God giveth smote, after they were mount out of the midst that love me and keep
thee, for ever. come forth out of Egypt: of the fire, 5(I stood my commandments.
41
Then Moses severed 47
And they possessed his between the LORD and 11
Thou shalt not take
three cities on this side land, and the land of Og you at that time, to shew the name of the LORD
Jordan toward the king of Bashan, two you the word of the thy God in vain: for the
sunrising; 42
That the kings of the Amorites, LORD: for ye were afraid LORD will not hold him
slayer might flee thither, which were on this side by reason of the fire, and guiltless that taketh his
which should kill his Jordan toward the went not up into the name in vain. 12Keep
neighbour unawares, sunrising; 48From Aroer, mount;) saying, the sabbath day to
and hated him not in which is by the bank of
6
I am the LORD thy sanctify it, as the LORD
times past; and that the river Arnon, even God, which brought thee thy God hath
fleeing unto one of these unto mount Sion, which out of the land of Egypt, commanded thee. 13Six
cities he might live: is Hermon, 49And all the from the house of days thou shalt labour,
43
Namely, Bezer in the plain on this side Jordan and do all thy work:
wilderness, in the plain eastward, even unto the a b
keep...: Heb. keep to do them bondage: Heb. servants
14
But the seventh day is 19
Neither shalt thou heard his voice out of would fear me, and
the sabbath of the LORD steal. 20
Neither shalt the midst of the fire: we keep all my
thy God: in it thou shalt thou bear false witness have seen this day that commandments always,
not do any work, thou, against thy neighbour. God doth talk with man, that it might be well
nor thy son, nor thy 21
Neither shalt thou and he liveth. 25Now with them, and with
daughter, nor thy desire thy neighbour’s therefore why should we their children for ever!
manservant, nor thy wife, neither shalt thou die? for this great fire 30
Go say to them, Get
maidservant, nor thine covet thy neighbour’s will consume us: if we you into your tents
ox, nor thine ass, nor house, his field, or his hearc the voice of the again. 31But as for thee,
any of thy cattle, nor thy manservant, or his LORD our God any more, stand thou here by me,
stranger that is within maidservant, his ox, or then we shall die. 26For and I will speak unto
thy gates; that thy his ass, or any thing that who is there of all flesh, thee all the
manservant and thy is thy neighbour’s. that hath heard the commandments, and
maidservant may rest as 22
These words the LORD voice of the living God the statutes, and the
well as thou. 15And spake unto all your speaking out of the judgments, which thou
remember that thou assembly in the mount midst of the fire, as we shalt teach them, that
wast a servant in the out of the midst of the have, and lived? 27Go they may do them in
land of Egypt, and that fire, of the cloud, and of thou near, and hear all the land which I give
the LORD thy God the thick darkness, with that the LORD our God them to possess it. 32Ye
brought thee out thence a great voice: and he shall say: and speak shall observe to do
through a mighty hand added no more. And he thou unto us all that the therefore as the LORD
and by a stretched out wrote them in two tables LORD our God shall your God hath
arm: therefore the LORD of stone, and delivered speak unto thee; and we commanded you: ye
thy God commanded them unto me. will hear it, and do it. shall not turn aside to
thee to keep the sabbath 23
And it came to pass, 28
And the LORD heard the right hand or to the
day. 16Honour thy father when ye heard the voice the voice of your words, left. 33Ye shall walk in all
and thy mother, as the out of the midst of the when ye spake unto me; the ways which the
LORD thy God hath darkness, (for the and the LORD said unto LORD your God hath
commanded thee; that mountain did burn with me, I have heard the commanded you, that
thy days may be fire,) that ye came near voice of the words of this ye may live, and that it
prolonged, and that it unto me, even all the people, which they have may be well with you,
may go well with thee, in heads of your tribes, and spoken unto thee: they and that ye may
the land which the LORD your elders; 24And ye have well said all that prolong your days in
thy God giveth thee. said, Behold, the LORD they have spoken. 29O the land which ye shall
17
Thou shalt not kill. our God hath shewed us that there were such an possess.
18
Neither shalt thou his glory and his heart in them, that they
commit adultery. greatness, and we have c
Chapter 6
hear: Heb. add to hear
Now these are the
1
command thee this day, and be full; 12
Then in and possess the good
commandments, the shall be in thine heart: beware lest thou forget land which the LORD
statutes, and the 7
And thou shalt teach the LORD, which brought sware unto thy fathers,
judgments, which the them diligently unto thy thee forth out of the land 19
To cast out all thine
LORD your God children, and shalt talk of Egypt, from the house enemies from before
commanded to teach of them when thou of bondageb. 13
Thou thee, as the LORD hath
you, that ye might do sittest in thine house, shalt fear the LORD thy spoken. 20And when thy
them in the land whither and when thou walkest God, and serve him, and son asketh thee in time
ye goa to possess it: by the way, and when shalt swear by his name. to come, saying, What
2
That thou mightest fear thou liest down, and 14
Ye shall not go after mean the testimonies,
the LORD thy God, to when thou risest up. other gods, of the gods and the statutes, and
keep all his statutes and 8
And thou shalt bind of the people which are the judgments, which
his commandments, them for a sign upon round about you; 15(For the LORD our God hath
which I command thee, thine hand, and they the LORD thy God is a commanded you?
thou, and thy son, and shall be as frontlets jealous God among you) 21
Then thou shalt say
thy son’s son, all the between thine eyes. lest the anger of the unto thy son, We were
days of thy life; and that 9
And thou shalt write LORD thy God be kindled Pharaoh’s bondmen in
thy days may be them upon the posts of against thee, and Egypt; and the LORD
prolonged. 3
Hear thy house, and on thy destroy thee from off the brought us out of Egypt
therefore, O Israel, and gates. 10And it shall be, face of the earth. 16Ye with a mighty hand:
observe to do it; that it when the LORD thy God shall not tempt the LORD 22
And the LORD shewed
may be well with thee, shall have brought thee your God, as ye tempted signs and wonders,
and that ye may into the land which he him in Massah. great and sorec, upon
increase mightily, as the sware unto thy fathers, 17
Ye shall diligently Egypt, upon Pharaoh,
LORD God of thy fathers to Abraham, to Isaac, keep the and upon all his
hath promised thee, in and to Jacob, to give commandments of the household, before our
the land that floweth thee great and goodly LORD your God, and his eyes: 23And he brought
with milk and honey. cities, which thou testimonies, and his us out from thence, that
4
Hear, O Israel: The buildedst not, 11
And statutes, which he hath he might bring us in, to
LORD our God is one houses full of all good commanded thee. 18And give us the land which
LORD: 5And thou shalt things, which thou thou shalt do that which he sware unto our
love the LORD thy God filledst not, and wells is right and good in the fathers. 24And the LORD
with all thine heart, and digged, which thou sight of the LORD: that it commanded us to do all
with all thy soul, and diggedst not, vineyards may be well with thee, these statutes, to fear
with all thy might. 6And and olive trees, which and that thou mayest go the LORD our God, for
these words, which I thou plantedst not; when b
our good always, that
thou shalt have eaten bondage: Heb. bondmen or,
a c
go: Heb. pass over servants sore: Heb. evil
he might preserve us his son, nor his daughter hath the LORD brought 13
And he will love thee,
alive, as it is at this day. shalt thou take unto thy you out with a mighty and bless thee, and
25
And it shall be our son. 4For they will turn hand, and redeemed you multiply thee: he will
righteousness, if we away thy son from out of the house of also bless the fruit of
observe to do all these following me, that they bondmen, from the hand thy womb, and the fruit
commandments before may serve other gods: so of Pharaoh king of Egypt. of thy land, thy corn,
the LORD our God, as he will the anger of the 9
Know therefore that the and thy wine, and thine
hath commanded us. LORD be kindled against LORD thy God, he is God, oil, the increase of thy
you, and destroy thee the faithful God, which kine, and the flocks of
Chapter 7 suddenly. 5But thus shall keepeth covenant and thy sheep, in the land
ye deal with them; ye mercy with them that which he sware unto
1
When the LORD thy shall destroy their altars, love him and keep his thy fathers to give thee.
God shall bring thee into and break down their commandments to a 14
Thou shalt be blessed
the land whither thou imagesa, and cut down thousand generations; above all people: there
goest to possess it, and their groves, and burn 10
And repayeth them shall not be male or
hath cast out many their graven images with that hate him to their female barren among
nations before thee, the fire. 6
For thou art an face, to destroy them: he you, or among your
Hittites, and the holy people unto the will not be slack to him cattle. 15And the LORD
Girgashites, and the LORD thy God: the LORD that hateth him, he will will take away from
Amorites, and the thy God hath chosen repay him to his face. thee all sickness, and
Canaanites, and the thee to be a special 11
Thou shalt therefore will put none of the evil
Perizzites, and the people unto himself, keep the diseases of Egypt,
Hivites, and the above all people that are commandments, and the which thou knowest,
Jebusites, seven nations upon the face of the statutes, and the upon thee; but will lay
greater and mightier earth. 7The LORD did not judgments, which I them upon all them
than thou; 2And when set his love upon you, command thee this day, that hate thee. 16And
the LORD thy God shall nor choose you, because to do them. thou shalt consume all
deliver them before ye were more in number 12
Wherefore it shall the people which the
thee; thou shalt smite than any people; for ye come to pass, ifb ye LORD thy God shall
them, and utterly were the fewest of all hearken to these deliver thee; thine eye
destroy them; thou shalt people: 8But because the judgments, and keep, shall have no pity upon
make no covenant with LORD loved you, and and do them, that the them: neither shalt thou
them, nor shew mercy because he would keep LORD thy God shall keep serve their gods; for
unto them: 3Neither shalt the oath which he had unto thee the covenant that will be a snare unto
thou make marriages sworn unto your fathers, and the mercy which he thee. 17If thou shalt say
with them; thy daughter sware unto thy fathers: in thine heart, These
a
thou shalt not give unto their images: Heb. their nations are more than I;
b
statues, or, pillars if: Heb. because
how can I dispossess thee, and shall destroy multiply, and go in and commandments of the
them? 18Thou shalt not them with a mighty possess the land which LORD thy God, to walk
be afraid of them: but destruction, until they be the LORD sware unto in his ways, and to fear
shalt well remember destroyed. 24
And he your fathers. 2And thou him. 7For the LORD thy
what the LORD thy God shall deliver their kings shalt remember all the God bringeth thee into
did unto Pharaoh, and into thine hand, and thou way which the LORD thy a good land, a land of
unto all Egypt; 19The shalt destroy their name God led thee these forty brooks of water, of
great temptations which from under heaven: years in the wilderness, fountains and depths
thine eyes saw, and the there shall no man be to humble thee, and to that spring out of
signs, and the wonders, able to stand before prove thee, to know valleys and hills; 8A land
and the mighty hand, thee, until thou have what was in thine heart, of wheat, and barley,
and the stretched out destroyed them. 25The whether thou wouldest and vines, and fig trees,
arm, whereby the LORD graven images of their keep his and pomegranates; a
thy God brought thee gods shall ye burn with commandments, or no. land of oila olive, and
out: so shall the LORD fire: thou shalt not desire 3
And he humbled thee, honey; 9A land wherein
thy God do unto all the the silver or gold that is and suffered thee to thou shalt eat bread
people of whom thou art on them, nor take it unto hunger, and fed thee without scarceness,
afraid. 20Moreover the thee, lest thou be snared with manna, which thou thou shalt not lack any
LORD thy God will send therein: for it is an knewest not, neither did thing in it; a land whose
the hornet among them, abomination to the LORD thy fathers know; that he stones are iron, and out
until they that are left, thy God. 26Neither shalt might make thee know of whose hills thou
and hide themselves thou bring an that man doth not live by mayest dig brass.
from thee, be destroyed. abomination into thine bread only, but by every 10
When thou hast
21
Thou shalt not be house, lest thou be a word that proceedeth eaten and art full, then
affrighted at them: for cursed thing like it: but out of the mouth of the thou shalt bless the
the LORD thy God is thou shalt utterly detest LORD doth man live. LORD thy God for the
among you, a mighty it, and thou shalt utterly 4
Thy raiment waxed not good land which he
God and terrible. 22And abhor it; for it is a cursed old upon thee, neither hath given thee.
the LORD thy God will thing. did thy foot swell, these 11
Beware that thou
put out those nations forty years. 5Thou shalt forget not the LORD thy
before thee by little and Chapter 8 also consider in thine God, in not keeping his
little: thou mayest not heart, that, as a man commandments, and
consume them at once,
1
All the chasteneth his son, so his judgments, and his
lest the beasts of the commandments which I the LORD thy God statutes, which I
field increase upon thee. command thee this day chasteneth thee. command thee this day:
23
But the LORD thy God shall ye observe to do, 6
Therefore thou shalt a
shall deliver them unto that ye may live, and keep the of oil...: Heb. of olive tree of
oil
12
Lest when thou hast giveth thee power to get the LORD thy God is he this good land to
eaten and art full, and wealth, that he may which goeth over before possess it for thy
hast built goodly houses, establish his covenant thee; as a consuming fire righteousness; for thou
and dwelt therein; 13And which he sware unto thy he shall destroy them, art a stiffnecked
when thy herds and thy fathers, as it is this day. and he shall bring them people.
flocks multiply, and thy 19
And it shall be, if thou down before thy face: so 7
Remember, and
silver and thy gold is do at all forget the LORD shalt thou drive them forget not, how thou
multiplied, and all that thy God, and walk after out, and destroy them provokedst the LORD
thou hast is multiplied; other gods, and serve quickly, as the LORD thy God to wrath in the
14
Then thine heart be them, and worship them, hath said unto thee. wilderness: from the
lifted up, and thou forget I testify against you this 4
Speak not thou in thine day that thou didst
the LORD thy God, which day that ye shall surely heart, after that the depart out of the land
brought thee forth out of perish. 20As the nations LORD thy God hath cast of Egypt, until ye came
the land of Egypt, from which the LORD them out from before unto this place, ye have
the house of bondage; destroyeth before your thee, saying, For my been rebellious against
15
Who led thee through face, so shall ye perish; righteousness the LORD the LORD. 8Also in
that great and terrible because ye would not be hath brought me in to Horeb ye provoked the
wilderness, wherein obedient unto the voice possess this land: but for LORD to wrath, so that
were fiery serpents, and of the LORD your God. the wickedness of these the LORD was angry
scorpions, and drought, nations the LORD doth with you to have
where there was no Chapter 9 drive them out from destroyed you. 9When I
water; who brought thee before thee. 5Not for thy was gone up into the
forth water out of the
1
Hear, O Israel: Thou righteousness, or for the mount to receive the
rock of flint; 16Who fed art to pass over Jordan uprightness of thine tables of stone, even
thee in the wilderness this day, to go in to heart, dost thou go to the tables of the
with manna, which thy possess nations greater possess their land: but covenant which the
fathers knew not, that he and mightier than for the wickedness of LORD made with you,
might humble thee, and thyself, cities great and these nations the LORD then I abode in the
that he might prove fenced up to heaven, 2A thy God doth drive them mount forty days and
thee, to do thee good at people great and tall, the out from before thee, forty nights, I neither
thy latter end; 17And children of the Anakims, and that he may perform did eat bread nor drink
thou say in thine heart, whom thou knowest, and the word which the water: 10And the LORD
My power and the might of whom thou hast heard LORD sware unto thy delivered unto me two
of mine hand hath say, Who can stand fathers, Abraham, Isaac, tables of stone written
gotten me this wealth. before the children of and Jacob. 6Understand with the finger of God;
18
But thou shalt Anak! 3
Understand therefore, that the LORD and on them was
remember the LORD thy therefore this day, that thy God giveth thee not written according to all
God: for it is he that
the words, which the two tables of the took your sin, the calf inheritance, which thou
LORD spake with you in covenant were in my two which ye had made, and hast redeemed through
the mount out of the hands. 16And I looked, burnt it with fire, and thy greatness, which
midst of the fire in the and, behold, ye had stamped it, and ground thou hast brought forth
day of the assembly. sinned against the LORD it very small, even until out of Egypt with a
11
And it came to pass at your God, and had made it was as small as dust: mighty hand.
the end of forty days and you a molten calf: ye and I cast the dust 27
Remember thy
forty nights, that the had turned aside quickly thereof into the brook servants, Abraham,
LORD gave me the two out of the way which the that descended out of Isaac, and Jacob; look
tables of stone, even the LORD had commanded the mount. 22And at not unto the
tables of the covenant. you. 17And I took the two Taberah, and at Massah, stubbornness of this
12
And the LORD said unto tables, and cast them and at Kibrothhattaavah, people, nor to their
me, Arise, get thee down out of my two hands, ye provoked the LORD to wickedness, nor to their
quickly from hence; for and brake them before wrath. 23Likewise when sin: 28Lest the land
thy people which thou your eyes. 18And I fell the LORD sent you from whence thou
hast brought forth out of down before the LORD, Kadeshbarnea, saying, broughtest us out say,
Egypt have corrupted as at the first, forty days Go up and possess the Because the LORD was
themselves; they are and forty nights: I did land which I have given not able to bring them
quickly turned aside out neither eat bread, nor you; then ye rebelled into the land which he
of the way which I drink water, because of against the promised them, and
commanded them; they all your sins which ye commandment of the because he hated
have made them a sinned, in doing wickedly LORD your God, and ye them, he hath brought
molten image. in the sight of the LORD, believed him not, nor them out to slay them
13
Furthermore the LORD to provoke him to anger. hearkened to his voice. in the wilderness. 29Yet
spake unto me, saying, I 19
For I was afraid of the 24
Ye have been rebellious they are thy people and
have seen this people, anger and hot against the LORD from thine inheritance, which
and, behold, it is a displeasure, wherewith the day that I knew you. thou broughtest out by
stiffnecked people: 14Let the LORD was wroth 25
Thus I fell down before thy mighty power and
me alone, that I may against you to destroy the LORD forty days and by thy stretched out
destroy them, and blot you. But the LORD forty nights, as I fell arm.
out their name from hearkened unto me at down at the first;
under heaven: and I will that time also. 20And the because the LORD had Chapter 10
make of thee a nation LORD was very angry said he would destroy
mightier and greater with Aaron to have you. 26I prayed therefore
1
At that time the
than they. 15So I turned destroyed him: and I unto the LORD, and said, LORD said unto me,
and came down from the prayed for Aaron also O Lord GOD, destroy not Hew thee two tables of
mount, and the mount the same time. 21And I thy people and thine stone like unto the first,
burned with fire: and the
and come up unto me died, and there he was possess the land, which I reward: 18
He doth
into the mount, and buried; and Eleazar his sware unto their fathers execute the judgment
make thee an ark of son ministered in the to give unto them. of the fatherless and
wood. 2And I will write on priest’s office in his 12
And now, Israel, widow, and loveth the
the tables the words that stead. 7From thence they what doth the LORD thy stranger, in giving him
were in the first tables journeyed unto God require of thee, but food and raiment.
which thou brakest, and Gudgodah; and from to fear the LORD thy 19
Love ye therefore the
thou shalt put them in Gudgodah to Jotbath, a God, to walk in all his stranger: for ye were
the ark. 3And I made an land of rivers of waters. ways, and to love him, strangers in the land of
ark of shittim wood, and 8
At that time the LORD and to serve the LORD Egypt. 20Thou shalt fear
hewed two tables of separated the tribe of thy God with all thy the LORD thy God; him
stone like unto the first, Levi, to bear the ark of heart and with all thy shalt thou serve, and to
and went up into the the covenant of the soul, 13To keep the him shalt thou cleave,
mount, having the two LORD, to stand before commandments of the and swear by his name.
tables in mine hand. the LORD to minister LORD, and his statutes, 21
He is thy praise, and
4
And he wrote on the unto him, and to bless in which I command thee he is thy God, that hath
tables, according to the his name, unto this day. this day for thy good? done for thee these
first writing, the ten 9
Wherefore Levi hath no 14
Behold, the heaven and great and terrible
commandmentsa, which part nor inheritance with the heaven of heavens is things, which thine eyes
the LORD spake unto his brethren; the LORD is the LORD’S thy God, the have seen. 22
Thy
you in the mount out of his inheritance, earth also, with all that fathers went down into
the midst of the fire in according as the LORD therein is. 15Only the Egypt with threescore
the day of the assembly: thy God promised him. LORD had a delight in and ten persons; and
and the LORD gave them 10
And I stayed in the thy fathers to love them, now the LORD thy God
unto me. 5And I turned mount, according to the and he chose their seed hath made thee as the
myself and came down firstb time, forty days after them, even you stars of heaven for
from the mount, and put and forty nights; and the above all people, as it is multitude.
the tables in the ark LORD hearkened unto this day. 16Circumcise
which I had made; and me at that time also, therefore the foreskin of Chapter 11
there they be, as the and the LORD would not your heart, and be no
LORD commanded me. destroy thee. 11And the more stiffnecked. 17For
1
Therefore thou shalt
6
And the children of LORD said unto me, the LORD your God is love the LORD thy God,
Israel took their journey Arise, takec thy journey God of gods, and Lord of and keep his charge,
from Beeroth of the before the people, that lords, a great God, a and his statutes, and
children of Jaakan to they may go in and mighty, and a terrible, his judgments, and his
Mosera: there Aaron which regardeth not commandments, alway.
b
first...: or, former days persons, nor taketh
2
And know ye this day:
a c
commandments: Heb. words take...: Heb. go in journey
for I speak not with your substancea that was in careth for: the eyes of lest ye perish quickly
children which have not their possession, in the the LORD thy God are from off the good land
known, and which have midst of all Israel: 7But always upon it, from the which the LORD giveth
not seen the your eyes have seen all beginning of the year you.
chastisement of the the great acts of the even unto the end of the 18
Therefore shall ye
LORD your God, his LORD which he did. year. 13And it shall come lay up these my words
greatness, his mighty 8
Therefore shall ye to pass, if ye shall in your heart and in
hand, and his stretched keep all the hearken diligently unto your soul, and bind
out arm, 3
And his commandments which I my commandments them for a sign upon
miracles, and his acts, command you this day, which I command you your hand, that they
which he did in the midst that ye may be strong, this day, to love the may be as frontlets
of Egypt unto Pharaoh and go in and possess LORD your God, and to between your eyes.
the king of Egypt, and the land, whither ye go serve him with all your 19
And ye shall teach
unto all his land; 4And to possess it; 9And that heart and with all your them your children,
what he did unto the ye may prolong your soul, 14That I will give speaking of them when
army of Egypt, unto their days in the land, which you the rain of your land thou sittest in thine
horses, and to their the LORD sware unto in his due season, the house, and when thou
chariots; how he made your fathers to give unto first rain and the latter walkest by the way,
the water of the Red sea them and to their seed, a rain, that thou mayest when thou liest down,
to overflow them as they land that floweth with gather in thy corn, and and when thou risest
pursued after you, and milk and honey. 10For the thy wine, and thine oil. up. 20And thou shalt
how the LORD hath land, whither thou goest 15
And I will sendb grass in write them upon the
destroyed them unto this in to possess it, is not as thy fields for thy cattle, door posts of thine
day; 5And what he did the land of Egypt, from that thou mayest eat house, and upon thy
unto you in the whence ye came out, and be full. 16Take heed gates: 21That your days
wilderness, until ye where thou sowedst thy to yourselves, that your may be multiplied, and
came into this place; seed, and wateredst it heart be not deceived, the days of your
6
And what he did unto with thy foot, as a and ye turn aside, and children, in the land
Dathan and Abiram, the garden of herbs: 11But serve other gods, and which the LORD sware
sons of Eliab, the son of the land, whither ye go worship them; 17
And unto your fathers to
Reuben: how the earth to possess it, is a land of then the LORD’S wrath give them, as the days
opened her mouth, and hills and valleys, and be kindled against you, of heaven upon the
swallowed them up, and drinketh water of the and he shut up the earth. 22For if ye shall
their households, and rain of heaven: 12A land heaven, that there be no diligently keep all these
their tents, and all the which the LORD thy God rain, and that the land commandments which I
a
yield not her fruit; and command you, to do
substance...: or, living them, to love the LORD
b
substance which followed them send: Heb. give
your God, to walk in all which I command you which ye shall observe to sacrifices, and your
his ways, and to cleave this day, to go after do in the land, which the tithes, and heave
unto him; 23Then will the other gods, which ye LORD God of thy fathers offerings of your hand,
LORD drive out all these have not known. 29And it giveth thee to possess it, and your vows, and
nations from before you, shall come to pass, when all the days that ye live your freewill offerings,
and ye shall possess the LORD thy God hath upon the earth. 2Ye shall and the firstlings of
greater nations and brought thee in unto the utterly destroy all the your herds and of your
mightier than land whither thou goest places, wherein the flocks: 7And there ye
yourselves. 24Every place to possess it, that thou nations which ye shall shall eat before the
whereon the soles of shalt put the blessing possessa served their LORD your God, and ye
your feet shall tread upon mount Gerizim, gods, upon the high shall rejoice in all that
shall be yours: from the and the curse upon mountains, and upon the ye put your hand unto,
wilderness and Lebanon, mount Ebal. 30Are they hills, and under every ye and your
from the river, the river not on the other side green tree: 3And ye shall households, wherein
Euphrates, even unto the Jordan, by the way overthrowb their altars, the LORD thy God hath
uttermost sea shall your where the sun goeth and break their pillars, blessed thee. 8Ye shall
coast be. 25There shall no down, in the land of the and burn their groves not do after all the
man be able to stand Canaanites, which dwell with fire; and ye shall things that we do here
before you: for the LORD in the champaign over hew down the graven this day, every man
your God shall lay the against Gilgal, beside images of their gods, whatsoever is right in
fear of you and the the plains of Moreh? and destroy the names his own eyes. 9For ye
dread of you upon all the 31
For ye shall pass over of them out of that are not as yet come to
land that ye shall tread Jordan to go in to place. 4Ye shall not do the rest and to the
upon, as he hath said possess the land which so unto the LORD your inheritance, which the
unto you. the LORD your God God. LORD your God giveth
26
Behold, I set before giveth you, and ye shall 5
But unto the place you. 10But when ye go
you this day a blessing possess it, and dwell which the LORD your over Jordan, and dwell
and a curse; 27A blessing, therein. 32And ye shall God shall choose out of in the land which the
if ye obey the observe to do all the all your tribes to put his LORD your God giveth
commandments of the statutes and judgments name there, even unto you to inherit, and
LORD your God, which I which I set before you his habitation shall ye when he giveth you rest
command you this day: this day. seek, and thither thou from all your enemies
28
And a curse, if ye will shalt come: 6And thither round about, so that ye
not obey the Chapter 12 ye shall bring your burnt dwell in safety; 11Then
commandments of the offerings, and your there shall be a place
LORD your God, but turn
1
These are the which the LORD your
a
aside out of the way statutes and judgments, possess: or, inherit God shall choose to
b
overthrow: Heb. break down
cause his name to dwell lusteth after, according livest upon the earth. thee, and with thy
there; thither shall ye to the blessing of the 20
When the LORD thy children after thee,
bring all that I command LORD thy God which he God shall enlarge thy when thou shalt do that
you; your burnt hath given thee: the border, as he hath which is right in the
offerings, and your unclean and the clean promised thee, and thou sight of the LORD.
sacrifices, your tithes, may eat thereof, as of shalt say, I will eat flesh, 26
Only thy holy things
and the heave offering of the roebuck, and as of because thy soul longeth which thou hast, and
your hand, and all your the hart. 16Only ye shall to eat flesh; thou mayest thy vows, thou shalt
choicec vows which ye not eat the blood; ye eat flesh, whatsoever thy take, and go unto the
vow unto the LORD: shall pour it upon the soul lusteth after. 21If the place which the LORD
12
And ye shall rejoice earth as water. 17Thou place which the LORD shall choose: 27And thou
before the LORD your mayest not eat within thy God hath chosen to shalt offer thy burnt
God, ye, and your sons, thy gates the tithe of thy put his name there be offerings, the flesh and
and your daughters, and corn, or of thy wine, or of too far from thee, then the blood, upon the
your menservants, and thy oil, or the firstlings of thou shalt kill of thy herd altar of the LORD thy
your maidservants, and thy herds or of thy flock, and of thy flock, which God: and the blood of
the Levite that is within nor any of thy vows the LORD hath given thy sacrifices shall be
your gates; forasmuch as which thou vowest, nor thee, as I have poured out upon the
he hath no part nor thy freewill offerings, or commanded thee, and altar of the LORD thy
inheritance with you. heave offering of thine thou shalt eat in thy God, and thou shalt eat
13
Take heed to thyself hand: 18But thou must gates whatsoever thy the flesh. 28Observe and
that thou offer not thy eat them before the soul lusteth after. 22Even hear all these words
burnt offerings in every LORD thy God in the as the roebuck and the which I command thee,
place that thou seest: place which the LORD hart is eaten, so thou that it may go well with
14
But in the place which thy God shall choose, shalt eat them: the thee, and with thy
the LORD shall choose in thou, and thy son, and unclean and the clean children after thee for
one of thy tribes, there thy daughter, and thy shall eat of them alike. ever, when thou doest
thou shalt offer thy burnt manservant, and thy 23
Only be sure that thou that which is good and
offerings, and there thou maidservant, and the eat not the blood: for the right in the sight of the
shalt do all that I Levite that is within thy blood is the life; and LORD thy God. 29When
command thee. gates: and thou shalt thou mayest not eat the the LORD thy God shall
15
Notwithstanding thou rejoice before the LORD life with the flesh. cut off the nations from
mayest kill and eat flesh thy God in all that thou 24
Thou shalt not eat it; before thee, whither
in all thy gates, puttest thine hands unto. thou shalt pour it upon thou goest to possess
whatsoever thy soul 19
Take heed to thyself the earth as water. them, and thou
c
that thou forsake not the 25
Thou shalt not eat it; succeedest them, and
d
your choice...: Heb. the choice Levite as long as thou that it may go well with d
of your vows succeedest...: Heb. inheritest,
dwellest in their land; go after other gods, 6
If thy brother, the house of bondageb.
30
Take heed to thyself which thou hast not son of thy mother, or thy 11
And all Israel shall
that thou be not snared known, and let us serve son, or thy daughter, or hear, and fear, and
by following them, after them; 3Thou shalt not the wife of thy bosom, or shall do no more any
that they be destroyed hearken unto the words thy friend, which is as such wickedness as this
from before thee; and of that prophet, or that thine own soul, entice is among you.
that thou enquire not dreamer of dreams: for thee secretly, saying, Let 12
If thou shalt hear
after their gods, saying, the LORD your God us go and serve other say in one of thy cities,
How did these nations proveth you, to know gods, which thou hast which the LORD thy
serve their gods? even whether ye love the not known, thou, nor thy God hath given thee to
so will I do likewise. LORD your God with all fathers; 7Namely, of the dwell there, saying,
31
Thou shalt not do so your heart and with all gods of the people which 13
Certain men, the
unto the LORD thy God: your soul. 4Ye shall walk are round about you, childrenc of Belial, are
for every abomination to after the LORD your God, nigh unto thee, or far off gone out from among
the LORD, which he and fear him, and keep from thee, from the one you, and have
hateth, have they done his commandments, and end of the earth even withdrawn the
unto their gods; for even obey his voice, and ye unto the other end of the inhabitants of their city,
their sons and their shall serve him, and earth; 8Thou shalt not saying, Let us go and
daughters they have cleave unto him. 5And consent unto him, nor serve other gods, which
burnt in the fire to their that prophet, or that hearken unto him; ye have not known;
gods. 32
What thing dreamer of dreams, shall neither shall thine eye 14
Then shalt thou
soever I command you, be put to death; because pity him, neither shalt enquire, and make
observe to do it: thou he hath spoken to turna thou spare, neither shalt search, and ask
shalt not add thereto, you away from the LORD thou conceal him: 9But diligently; and, behold,
nor diminish from it. your God, which brought thou shalt surely kill him; if it be truth, and the
you out of the land of thine hand shall be first thing certain, that such
Chapter 13 Egypt, and redeemed upon him to put him to abomination is wrought
you out of the house of death, and afterwards among you; 15
Thou
1
If there arise among bondage, to thrust thee the hand of all the shalt surely smite the
you a prophet, or a out of the way which the people. 10And thou shalt inhabitants of that city
dreamer of dreams, and LORD thy God stone him with stones, with the edge of the
giveth thee a sign or a commanded thee to walk that he die; because he sword, destroying it
wonder, 2And the sign or in. So shalt thou put the hath sought to thrust utterly, and all that is
the wonder come to evil away from the midst thee away from the therein, and the cattle
pass, whereof he spake of thee. LORD thy God, which b
unto thee, saying, Let us brought thee out of the bondage: Heb. bondmen
a c
to turn...: Heb. revolt against land of Egypt, from the the children...: or, naughty
or, possessest them the LORD men
thereof, with the edge of the dead. 2For thou art is unclean unto you: ye eat. 21Ye shall not eat of
the sword. 16And thou an holy people unto the shall not eat of their any thing that dieth of
shalt gather all the spoil LORD thy God, and the flesh, nor touch their itself: thou shalt give it
of it into the midst of the LORD hath chosen thee dead carcase. 9These ye unto the stranger that
street thereof, and shalt to be a peculiar people shall eat of all that are in is in thy gates, that he
burn with fire the city, unto himself, above all the waters: all that have may eat it; or thou
and all the spoil thereof the nations that are fins and scales shall ye mayest sell it unto an
every whit, for the LORD upon the earth. 3Thou eat: 10And whatsoever alien: for thou art an
thy God: and it shall be shalt not eat any hath not fins and scales holy people unto the
an heap for ever; it shall abominable thing. ye may not eat; it is LORD thy God. Thou
not be built again. 17And 4
These are the beasts unclean unto you. 11Of all shalt not seethe a kid in
there shall cleave nought which ye shall eat: the clean birds ye shall eat. his mother’s milk.
of the cursed thing to ox, the sheep, and the 12
But these are they of 22
Thou shalt truly
thine hand: that the goat, 5The hart, and the which ye shall not eat: tithe all the increase of
LORD may turn from the roebuck, and the fallow the eagle, and the thy seed, that the field
fierceness of his anger, deer, and the wild goat, ossifrage, and the bringeth forth year by
and shew thee mercy, and the pygarg, and the ospray, 13And the glede, year. 23And thou shalt
and have compassion wild ox, and the and the kite, and the eat before the LORD thy
upon thee, and multiply chamois. 6
And every vulture after his kind, God, in the place which
thee, as he hath sworn beast that parteth the 14
And every raven after he shall choose to place
unto thy fathers; 18When hoof, and cleaveth the his kind, 15And the owl, his name there, the
thou shalt hearken to the cleft into two claws, and and the night hawk, and tithe of thy corn, of thy
voice of the LORD thy cheweth the cud among the cuckow, and the wine, and of thine oil,
God, to keep all his the beasts, that ye shall hawk after his kind, and the firstlings of thy
commandments which I eat. 7Nevertheless these 16
The little owl, and the herds and of thy flocks;
command thee this day, ye shall not eat of them great owl, and the swan, that thou mayest learn
to do that which is right that chew the cud, or of 17
And the pelican, and to fear the LORD thy
in the eyes of the LORD them that divide the the gier eagle, and the God always. 24And if the
thy God. cloven hoof; as the cormorant, 18And the way be too long for
camel, and the hare, and stork, and the heron thee, so that thou art
Chapter 14 the coney: for they chew after her kind, and the not able to carry it; or if
the cud, but divide not lapwing, and the bat. the place be too far
Ye are the children of
1
the hoof; therefore they 19
And every creeping from thee, which the
the LORD your God: ye are unclean unto you. thing that flieth is LORD thy God shall
shall not cut yourselves, 8
And the swine, because unclean unto you: they choose to set his name
nor make any baldness it divideth the hoof, yet shall not be eaten. 20But there, when the LORD
between your eyes for cheweth not the cud, it of all clean fowls ye may thy God hath blessed
thee: 25Then shalt thou satisfied; that the LORD LORD thy God, to unto the LORD against
turn it into money, and thy God may bless thee observe to do all these thee, and it be sin unto
bind up the money in in all the work of thine commandments which I thee. 10
Thou shalt
thine hand, and shalt go hand which thou doest. command thee this day. surely give him, and
unto the place which the 6
For the LORD thy God thine heart shall not be
LORD thy God shall Chapter 15 blesseth thee, as he grieved when thou
choose: 26And thou shalt promised thee: and thou givest unto him:
bestow that money for At the end of every
1
shalt lend unto many because that for this
whatsoever thy soul seven years thou shalt nations, but thou shalt thing the LORD thy God
lusteth after, for oxen, or make a release. 2And not borrow; and thou shall bless thee in all
for sheep, or for wine, or this is the manner of the shalt reign over many thy works, and in all
for strong drink, or for release: Every creditora nations, but they shall that thou puttest thine
whatsoever thy soul that lendeth ought unto not reign over thee. 7If hand unto. 11For the
desireth : and thou shalt
a his neighbour shall there be among you a poor shall never cease
eat there before the release it; he shall not poor man of one of thy out of the land:
LORD thy God, and thou exact it of his neighbour, brethren within any of therefore I command
shalt rejoice, thou, and or of his brother; thy gates in thy land thee, saying, Thou shalt
thine household, 27And because it is called the which the LORD thy God open thine hand wide
the Levite that is within LORD’S release. 3Of a giveth thee, thou shalt unto thy brother, to thy
thy gates; thou shalt not foreigner thou mayest not harden thine heart, poor, and to thy needy,
forsake him; for he hath exact it again: but that nor shut thine hand from in thy land.
no part nor inheritance which is thine with thy thy poor brother: 8But 12
And if thy brother,
with thee. 28At the end of brother thine hand shall thou shalt open thine an Hebrew man, or an
three years thou shalt release; 4Saveb when hand wide unto him, and Hebrew woman, be sold
bring forth all the tithe of there shall be no poor shalt surely lend him unto thee, and serve
thine increase the same among you; for the LORD sufficient for his need, in thee six years; then in
year, and shalt lay it up shall greatly bless thee that which he wanteth. the seventh year thou
within thy gates: 29And in the land which the 9
Beware that there be shalt let him go free
the Levite, (because he LORD thy God giveth not a thoughtc in thy from thee. 13And when
hath no part nor thee for an inheritance wicked heart, saying, thou sendest him out
inheritance with thee,) to possess it: 5Only if The seventh year, the free from thee, thou
and the stranger, and thou carefully hearken year of release, is at shalt not let him go
the fatherless, and the unto the voice of the hand; and thine eye be away empty: 14Thou
widow, which are within a
evil against thy poor shalt furnish him
thy gates, shall come, creditor: Heb. master of the brother, and thou givest liberally out of thy flock,
and shall eat and be lending of his hand him nought; and he cry and out of thy floor, and
b
Save...: or, To the end that out of thy winepress: of
a c
desireth: Heb. asketh of thee there be no poor among you thought: Heb. word
that wherewith the LORD the LORD thy God: thou unto the LORD thy God, even, at the going down
thy God hath blessed shalt do no work with the of the flock and the herd, of the sun, at the
thee thou shalt give unto firstling of thy bullock, in the place which the season that thou
him. 15And thou shalt nor shear the firstling of LORD shall choose to camest forth out of
remember that thou thy sheep. 20Thou shalt place his name there. Egypt. 7And thou shalt
wast a bondman in the eat it before the LORD 3
Thou shalt eat no roast and eat it in the
land of Egypt, and the thy God year by year in leavened bread with it; place which the LORD
LORD thy God redeemed the place which the seven days shalt thou thy God shall choose:
thee: therefore I LORD shall choose, thou eat unleavened bread and thou shalt turn in
command thee this thing and thy household. 21And therewith, even the the morning, and go
to day. 16And it shall be, if there be any blemish bread of affliction; for unto thy tents. 8Six
if he say unto thee, I will therein, as if it be lame, thou camest forth out of days thou shalt eat
not go away from thee; or blind, or have any ill the land of Egypt in unleavened bread: and
because he loveth thee blemish, thou shalt not haste: that thou mayest on the seventh day
and thine house, sacrifice it unto the remember the day when shall be a solemn
because he is well with LORD thy God. 22Thou thou camest forth out of assembly to the LORD
thee; 17Then thou shalt shalt eat it within thy the land of Egypt all the thy God: thou shalt do
take an aul, and thrust it gates: the unclean and days of thy life. 4And no work therein.
through his ear unto the the clean person shall there shall be no 9
Seven weeks shalt
door, and he shall be thy eat it alike, as the leavened bread seen thou number unto thee:
servant for ever. And roebuck, and as the hart. with thee in all thy coast begin to number the
also unto thy 23
Only thou shalt not eat seven days; neither shall seven weeks from such
maidservant thou shalt the blood thereof; thou there any thing of the time as thou beginnest
do likewise. 18It shall not shalt pour it upon the flesh, which thou to put the sickle to the
seem hard unto thee, ground as water. sacrificedst the first day corn. 10And thou shalt
when thou sendest him at even, remain all night keep the feast of weeks
away free from thee; for Chapter 16 until the morning. 5Thou unto the LORD thy God
he hath been worth a mayest not sacrificea the with a tributeb of a
double hired servant to
1
Observe the month passover within any of freewill offering of thine
thee, in serving thee six of Abib, and keep the thy gates, which the hand, which thou shalt
years: and the LORD thy passover unto the LORD LORD thy God giveth give unto the LORD thy
God shall bless thee in thy God: for in the month thee: 6But at the place God, according as the
all that thou doest. of Abib the LORD thy which the LORD thy God LORD thy God hath
19
All the firstling God brought thee forth shall choose to place his blessed thee: 11
And
males that come of thy out of Egypt by night. name in, there thou shalt thou shalt rejoice
herd and of thy flock
2
Thou shalt therefore sacrifice the passover at before the LORD thy
thou shalt sanctify unto sacrifice the passover
a b
sacrifice: or, kill a tribute: or, sufficiency
God, thou, and thy son, because the LORD thy wordsd of the righteous. transgressing his
and thy daughter, and God shall bless thee in 20
That which is covenant, 3
And hath
thy manservant, and thy all thine increase, and in altogether just shalt thou gone and served other
maidservant, and the all the works of thine follow, that thou mayest gods, and worshipped
Levite that is within thy hands, therefore thou live, and inherit the land them, either the sun, or
gates, and the stranger, shalt surely rejoice. which the LORD thy God moon, or any of the
and the fatherless, and 16
Three times in a year giveth thee. 21Thou shalt host of heaven, which I
the widow, that are shall all thy males not plant thee a grove of have not commanded;
among you, in the place appear before the LORD any trees near unto the 4
And it be told thee, and
which the LORD thy God thy God in the place altar of the LORD thy thou hast heard of it,
hath chosen to place his which he shall choose; in God, which thou shalt and enquired diligently,
name there. 12And thou the feast of unleavened make thee. 22Neither and, behold, it be true,
shalt remember that bread, and in the feast of shalt thou set thee up and the thing certain,
thou wast a bondman in weeks, and in the feast any imagee; which the that such abomination
Egypt: and thou shalt of tabernacles: and they LORD thy God hateth. is wrought in Israel:
observe and do these shall not appear before 5
Then shalt thou bring
statutes. 13Thou shalt the LORD empty: 17Every Chapter 17 forth that man or that
observe the feast of man shall give as he is woman, which have
tabernacles seven days, able, according to the
1
Thou shalt not committed that wicked
after that thou hast blessing of the LORD thy sacrifice unto the LORD thing, unto thy gates,
gathered in thy cornc God which he hath given thy God any bullock, or even that man or that
and thy wine: 14And thou thee. sheepa, wherein is woman, and shalt stone
shalt rejoice in thy feast, 18
Judges and officers blemish, or any them with stones, till
thou, and thy son, and shalt thou make thee in evilfavouredness: for they die. 6At the mouth
thy daughter, and thy all thy gates, which the that is an abomination of two witnesses, or
manservant, and thy LORD thy God giveth unto the LORD thy God. three witnesses, shall
maidservant, and the thee, throughout thy
2
If there be found among he that is worthy of
Levite, the stranger, and tribes: and they shall you, within any of thy death be put to death;
the fatherless, and the judge the people with gates which the LORD but at the mouth of one
widow, that are within just judgment. 19Thou thy God giveth thee, witness he shall not be
thy gates. 15Seven days shalt not wrest man or woman, that put to death. 7The
shalt thou keep a solemn judgment; thou shalt not hath wrought hands of the witnesses
feast unto the LORD thy respect persons, neither wickedness in the sight shall be first upon him
God in the place which take a gift: for a gift doth of the LORD thy God, in to put him to death,
the LORD shall choose: blind the eyes of the d
and afterward the
wise, and pervert the words: or, matters hands of all the people.
c e
corn...: Heb. floor, and thy image: or, statue, or, pillar So thou shalt put the
a
winepress sheep: or, goat
evil away from among decline from the multiply horses to prolong his days in his
you. sentence which they himself, nor cause the kingdom, he, and his
8
If there arise a shall shew thee, to the people to return to children, in the midst of
matter too hard for thee right hand, nor to the Egypt, to the end that he Israel.
in judgment, between left. 12And the man that should multiply horses:
blood and blood, will do presumptuously, forasmuch as the LORD Chapter 18
between plea and plea, and will not hearken hath said unto you, Ye
and between stroke and unto the priest that shall henceforth return
1
The priests the
stroke, being matters of standeth to minister no more that way. Levites, and all the tribe
controversy within thy there before the LORD 17
Neither shall he of Levi, shall have no
gates: then shalt thou thy God, or unto the multiply wives to part nor inheritance
arise, and get thee up judge, even that man himself, that his heart with Israel: they shall
into the place which the shall die: and thou shalt turn not away: neither eat the offerings of the
LORD thy God shall put away the evil from shall he greatly multiply LORD made by fire, and
choose; 9And thou shalt Israel. 13
And all the to himself silver and his inheritance.
come unto the priests people shall hear, and gold. 18And it shall be,
2
Therefore shall they
the Levites, and unto the fear, and do no more when he sitteth upon the have no inheritance
judge that shall be in presumptuously. throne of his kingdom, among their brethren:
those days, and enquire; 14
When thou art come that he shall write him a the LORD is their
and they shall shew thee unto the land which the copy of this law in a inheritance, as he hath
the sentence of LORD thy God giveth book out of that which is said unto them. 3And
judgment: 10
And thou thee, and shalt possess before the priests the this shall be the priest’s
shalt do according to the it, and shalt dwell Levites: 19And it shall be due from the people,
sentence, which they of therein, and shalt say, I with him, and he shall from them that offer a
that place which the will set a king over me, read therein all the days sacrifice, whether it be
LORD shall choose shall like as all the nations of his life: that he may ox or sheep; and they
shew thee; and thou that are about me; learn to fear the LORD shall give unto the
shalt observe to do 15
Thou shalt in any wise his God, to keep all the priest the shoulder, and
according to all that they set him king over thee, words of this law and the two cheeks, and the
inform thee: 11According whom the LORD thy God these statutes, to do maw. 4The firstfruit also
to the sentence of the shall choose: one from them: 20That his heart be of thy corn, of thy wine,
law which they shall among thy brethren not lifted up above his and of thine oil, and the
teach thee, and shalt thou set king over brethren, and that he first of the fleece of thy
according to the thee: thou mayest not turn not aside from the sheep, shalt thou give
judgment which they set a stranger over thee, commandment, to the him. 5For the LORD thy
shall tell thee, thou shalt which is not thy brother. right hand, or to the left: God hath chosen him
do: thou shalt not 16
But he shall not to the end that he may out of all thy tribes, to
stand to minister in the necromancer. 12For all that which they have Chapter 19
name of the LORD, him that do these things are spoken. 18I will raise
and his sons for ever. an abomination unto the them up a Prophet from 1
When the LORD thy
6
And if a Levite come LORD: and because of among their brethren, God hath cut off the
from any of thy gates these abominations the like unto thee, and will nations, whose land the
out of all Israel, where LORD thy God doth drive put my words in his LORD thy God giveth
he sojourned, and come them out from before mouth; and he shall thee, and thou
with all the desire of his thee. 13Thou shalt be speak unto them all that succeedest them, and
a

mind unto the place perfecta with the LORD I shall command him. dwellest in their cities,
which the LORD shall thy God. 14
For these 19
And it shall come to and in their houses;
choose; 7Then he shall nations, which thou shalt pass, that whosoever will 2
Thou shalt separate
minister in the name of possessb, hearkened not hearken unto my three cities for thee in
the LORD his God, as all unto observers of times, words which he shall the midst of thy land,
his brethren the Levites and unto diviners: but as speak in my name, I will which the LORD thy
do, which stand there for thee, the LORD thy require it of him. 20But God giveth thee to
before the LORD. 8They God hath not suffered the prophet, which shall possess it. 3Thou shalt
shall have like portions thee so to do. presume to speak a word prepare thee a way,
to eat, beside that which 15
The LORD thy God in my name, which I and divide the coasts of
cometh of the sale of his will raise up unto thee a have not commanded thy land, which the
patrimony. Prophet from the midst him to speak, or that LORD thy God giveth
9
When thou art come of thee, of thy brethren, shall speak in the name thee to inherit, into
into the land which the like unto me; unto him of other gods, even that three parts, that every
LORD thy God giveth ye shall hearken; prophet shall die. 21And if slayer may flee thither.
thee, thou shalt not learn 16
According to all that thou say in thine heart, 4
And this is the case of
to do after the thou desiredst of the How shall we know the the slayer, which shall
abominations of those LORD thy God in Horeb word which the LORD flee thither, that he
nations. 10There shall not in the day of the hath not spoken? 22When may live: Whoso killeth
be found among you any assembly, saying, Let a prophet speaketh in his neighbour
one that maketh his son me not hear again the the name of the LORD, if ignorantly, whom he
or his daughter to pass voice of the LORD my the thing follow not, nor hated not in time past;
through the fire, or that God, neither let me see come to pass, that is the 5
As when a man goeth
useth divination, or an this great fire any more, thing which the LORD into the wood with his
observer of times, or an that I die not. 17And the hath not spoken, but the neighbour to hew wood,
enchanter, or a witch, LORD said unto me, prophet hath spoken it and his hand fetcheth a
11
Or a charmer, or a They have well spoken presumptuously: thou stroke with the axe to
consulter with familiar a
shalt not be afraid of a
spirits, or a wizard, or a perfect: or, upright, or, sincere him. succeedest: Heb. inheritest,
b
possess: or, inherit or, possessest
cut down the tree, and 10
That innocent blood be that he sinneth: at the foot.
the headb slippeth from not shed in thy land, mouth of two witnesses,
the helve, and lighteth which the LORD thy God or at the mouth of three Chapter 20
upon his neighbour, that giveth thee for an witnesses, shall the
he die; he shall flee unto inheritance, and so blood matter be established. When thou goest
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one of those cities, and be upon thee. 11But if 16


If a false witness rise out to battle against
live: 6
Lest the avenger any man hate his up against any man to thine enemies, and
of the blood pursue the neighbour, and lie in wait testify against him that seest horses, and
slayer, while his heart is for him, and rise up which is wrong; 17Then chariots, and a people
hot, and overtake him, against him, and smite both the men, between more than thou, be not
because the way is long, him mortallyd that he whom the controversy is, afraid of them: for the
and slayc him; whereas die, and fleeth into one shall stand before the LORD thy God is with
he was not worthy of of these cities: 12Then LORD, before the priests thee, which brought
death, inasmuch as he the elders of his city and the judges, which thee up out of the land
hated him not in time shall send and fetch him shall be in those days; of Egypt. 2And it shall
past. 7
Wherefore I thence, and deliver him 18
And the judges shall be, when ye are come
command thee, saying, into the hand of the make diligent inquisition: nigh unto the battle,
Thou shalt separate avenger of blood, that he and, behold, if the that the priest shall
three cities for thee. may die. 13Thine eye witness be a false approach and speak
8
And if the LORD thy God shall not pity him, but witness, and hath unto the people, 3And
enlarge thy coast, as he thou shalt put away the testified falsely against shall say unto them,
hath sworn unto thy guilt of innocent blood his brother; 19Then shall Hear, O Israel, ye
fathers, and give thee all from Israel, that it may ye do unto him, as he approach this day unto
the land which he go well with thee. had thought to have battle against your
promised to give unto 14
Thou shalt not done unto his brother: so enemies: let not your
thy fathers; 9If thou shalt remove thy neighbour’s shalt thou put the evil hearts fainta, fear not,
keep all these landmark, which they of away from among you. and do not tremble,
commandments to do old time have set in 20
And those which neither be ye terrified
them, which I command thine inheritance, which remain shall hear, and because of them; 4For
thee this day, to love the thou shalt inherit in the fear, and shall the LORD your God is
LORD thy God, and to land that the LORD thy henceforth commit no he that goeth with you,
walk ever in his ways; God giveth thee to more any such evil to fight for you against
then shalt thou add possess it. 15One witness among you. 21And thine your enemies, to save
three cities more for shall not rise up against eye shall not pity; but you. 5And the officers
thee, beside these three: a man for any iniquity, or life shall go for life, eye shall speak unto the
for any sin, in any sin for eye, tooth for tooth, people, saying, What
b
head: Heb. iron hand for hand, foot for
c d a
slay...: Heb. smite him in life mortally: Heb. in life faint: Heb. be tender
man is there that hath make captains of the given thee. 15Thus shalt tree of the field is
built a new house, and armies to leadd the thou do unto all the man’s life) to employ
hath not dedicated it? let people. cities which are very far them in the siege:
him go and return to his 10
When thou comest off from thee, which are 20
Only the trees which
house, lest he die in the nigh unto a city to fight not of the cities of these thou knowest that they
battle, and another man against it, then proclaim nations. 16But of the be not trees for meat,
dedicate it. 6And what peace unto it. 11And it cities of these people, thou shalt destroy and
man is he that hath shall be, if it make thee which the LORD thy God cut them down; and
planted a vineyard, and answer of peace, and doth give thee for an thou shalt build
hath not yet eatenb of it? open unto thee, then it inheritance, thou shalt bulwarks against the
let him also go and shall be, that all the save alive nothing that city that maketh war
return unto his house, people that is found breatheth: 17But thou with thee, until it be
lest he die in the battle, therein shall be shalt utterly destroy subdued.
and another man eat of tributaries unto thee, them; namely, the
it. 7
And what man is and they shall serve Hittites, and the Chapter 21
there that hath thee. 12And if it will make Amorites, the
betrothed a wife, and no peace with thee, but Canaanites, and the
1
If one be found slain
hath not taken her? let will make war against Perizzites, the Hivites, in the land which the
him go and return unto thee, then thou shalt and the Jebusites; as the LORD thy God giveth
his house, lest he die in besiege it: 13And when LORD thy God hath thee to possess it, lying
the battle, and another the LORD thy God hath commanded thee: 18That in the field, and it be
man take her. 8And the delivered it into thine they teach you not to do not known who hath
officers shall speak hands, thou shalt smite after all their slain him: 2Then thy
further unto the people, every male thereof with abominations, which elders and thy judges
and they shall say, What the edge of the sword: they have done unto shall come forth, and
man is there that is 14
But the women, and their gods; so should ye they shall measure unto
fearful and fainthearted? the little ones, and the sin against the LORD the cities which are
let him go and return cattle, and all that is in your God. 19When thou round about him that is
unto his house, lest his the city, even all the shalt besiege a city a slain: 3And it shall be,
brethren’s heart faintc as spoil thereof, shalt thou long time, in making war that the city which is
well as his heart. 9And it takee unto thyself; and against it to take it, thou next unto the slain
shall be, when the thou shalt eat the spoil shalt not destroy the man, even the elders of
officers have made an of thine enemies, which trees thereof by forcing that city shall take an
end of speaking unto the the LORD thy God hath an axe against them: for heifer, which hath not
people, that they shall thou mayest eat of been wrought with, and
d
to lead...: Heb. to be in the them, and thou shalt not which hath not drawn in
b
eaten...: Heb. made it common head of the people cut them down (for the the yoke; 4And the
c e
faint: Heb. melt take: Heb. spoil
elders of that city shall among you, when thou thou shalt not sell her at 19
Then shall his father
bring down the heifer shalt do that which is all for money, thou shalt and his mother lay hold
unto a rough valley, right in the sight of the not make merchandise on him, and bring him
which is neither eared LORD. of her, because thou out unto the elders of
nor sown, and shall 10
When thou goest hast humbled her. his city, and unto the
strike off the heifer’s forth to war against 15
If a man have two gate of his place; 20And
neck there in the valley: thine enemies, and the wives, one beloved, and they shall say unto the
5
And the priests the sons LORD thy God hath another hated, and they elders of his city, This
of Levi shall come near; delivered them into thine have born him children, our son is stubborn and
for them the LORD thy hands, and thou hast both the beloved and the rebellious, he will not
God hath chosen to taken them captive, hated; and if the obey our voice; he is a
minister unto him, and to 11
And seest among the firstborn son be hers that glutton, and a
bless in the name of the captives a beautiful was hated: 16Then it shall drunkard. 21And all the
LORD; and by their worda woman, and hast a be, when he maketh his men of his city shall
shall every controversy desire unto her, that sons to inherit that stone him with stones,
and every stroke be thou wouldest have her which he hath, that he that he die: so shalt
tried: 6And all the elders to thy wife; 12Then thou may not make the son of thou put evil away from
of that city, that are next shalt bring her home to the beloved firstborn among you; and all
unto the slain man, shall thine house; and she before the son of the Israel shall hear, and
wash their hands over shall shave her head, hated, which is indeed fear. 22And if a man
the heifer that is and pareb her nails; the firstborn: 17But he have committed a sin
beheaded in the valley: 13
And she shall put the shall acknowledge the worthy of death, and he
7
And they shall answer raiment of her captivity son of the hated for the be to be put to death,
and say, Our hands have from off her, and shall firstborn, by giving him a and thou hang him on a
not shed this blood, remain in thine house, double portion of all that tree: 23His body shall
neither have our eyes and bewail her father he hath: for he is the not remain all night
seen it. 8Be merciful, O and her mother a full beginning of his upon the tree, but thou
LORD, unto thy people month: and after that strength; the right of the shalt in any wise bury
Israel, whom thou hast thou shalt go in unto her, firstborn is his. him that day; (for he
redeemed, and lay not and be her husband, and 18
If a man have a that is hanged is
innocent blood unto thy she shall be thy wife. stubborn and rebellious accursedc of God;) that
people of Israel’s charge. 14
And it shall be, if thou son, which will not obey thy land be not defiled,
And the blood shall be have no delight in her, the voice of his father, or which the LORD thy
forgiven them. 9So shalt then thou shalt let her the voice of his mother, God giveth thee for an
thou put away the guilt go whither she will; but and that, when they inheritance.
of innocent blood from b
have chastened him, will c
pare: or, suffer to grow: Heb. not hearken unto them: accursed...: Heb. the curse of
a
word: Heb. mouth make, or, dress God
Chapter 22 neither shall a man put ass together. Thou of my daughter’s
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on a woman’s garment: shalt not wear a garment virginity. And they shall
1
Thou shalt not see for all that do so are of divers sorts, as of spread the cloth before
thy brother’s ox or his abomination unto the woollen and linen the elders of the city.
sheep go astray, and LORD thy God. 6If a together. 12Thou shalt 18
And the elders of that
hide thyself from them: bird’s nest chance to be make thee fringes upon city shall take that man
thou shalt in any case before thee in the way in the four quartersb of thy and chastise him; 19And
bring them again unto any tree, or on the vesture, wherewith thou they shall amerce him
thy brother. 2And if thy ground, whether they be coverest thyself. in an hundred shekels
brother be not nigh unto young ones, or eggs, and 13
If any man take a of silver, and give them
thee, or if thou know him the dam sitting upon the wife, and go in unto her, unto the father of the
not, then thou shalt young, or upon the eggs, and hate her, 14And give damsel, because he
bring it unto thine own thou shalt not take the occasions of speech hath brought up an evil
house, and it shall be dam with the young: against her, and bring up name upon a virgin of
with thee until thy 7
But thou shalt in any an evil name upon her, Israel: and she shall be
brother seek after it, and wise let the dam go, and and say, I took this his wife; he may not put
thou shalt restore it to take the young to thee; woman, and when I her away all his days.
him again. 3
In like that it may be well with came to her, I found her 20
But if this thing be
manner shalt thou do thee, and that thou not a maid: 15Then shall true, and the tokens of
with his ass; and so shalt mayest prolong thy the father of the damsel, virginity be not found
thou do with his raiment; days. 8
When thou and her mother, take for the damsel: 21Then
and with all lost thing of buildest a new house, and bring forth the they shall bring out the
thy brother’s, which he then thou shalt make a tokens of the damsel’s damsel to the door of
hath lost, and thou hast battlement for thy roof, virginity unto the elders her father’s house, and
found, shalt thou do that thou bring not blood of the city in the gate: the men of her city
likewise: thou mayest upon thine house, if any 16
And the damsel’s shall stone her with
not hide thyself. 4Thou man fall from thence. father shall say unto the stones that she die:
shalt not see thy 9
Thou shalt not sow thy elders, I gave my because she hath
brother’s ass or his ox vineyard with divers daughter unto this man wrought folly in Israel,
fall down by the way, seeds: lest the fruit of to wife, and he hateth to play the whore in her
and hide thyself from thy seeda which thou her; 17And, lo, he hath father’s house: so shalt
them: thou shalt surely hast sown, and the fruit given occasions of thou put evil away from
help him to lift them up of thy vineyard, be speech against her, among you. 22If a man
again. defiled. 10Thou shalt not saying, I found not thy be found lying with a
5
The woman shall not plow with an ox and an daughter a maid; and woman married to an
wear that which a
yet these are the tokens husband, then they
fruit of thy seed: Heb. fulness shall both of them die,
pertaineth unto a man, b
of the seed quarters: Heb. wings
both the man that lay damsel cried, and there the LORD; even to their 9
When the host
with the woman, and the was none to save her. 28If tenth generation shall goeth forth against
woman: so shalt thou a man find a damsel that they not enter into the thine enemies, then
put away evil from Israel. is a virgin, which is not congregation of the keep thee from every
23
If a damsel that is a betrothed, and lay hold LORD for ever: 4Because wicked thing. 10If there
virgin be betrothed unto on her, and lie with her, they met you not with be among you any man,
an husband, and a man and they be found; bread and with water in that is not clean by
find her in the city, and 29
Then the man that lay the way, when ye came reason of uncleanness
lie with her; 24Then ye with her shall give unto forth out of Egypt; and that chanceth him by
shall bring them both out the damsel’s father fifty because they hired night, then shall he go
unto the gate of that shekels of silver, and she against thee Balaam the abroad out of the camp,
city, and ye shall stone shall be his wife; son of Beor of Pethor of he shall not come
them with stones that because he hath Mesopotamia, to curse within the camp: 11But it
they die; the damsel, humbled her, he may not thee. 5Nevertheless the shall be, when evening
because she cried not, put her away all his LORD thy God would not cometh on, he shall
being in the city; and the days. 30A man shall not hearken unto Balaam; wash himself with
man, because he hath take his father’s wife, but the LORD thy God water: and when the
humbled his neighbour’s nor discover his father’s turned the curse into a sun is down, he shall
wife: so thou shalt put skirt. blessing unto thee, come into the camp
away evil from among because the LORD thy again. 12
Thou shalt
you. 25But if a man find a Chapter 23 God loved thee. 6Thou have a place also
betrothed damsel in the shalt not seek their without the camp,
field, and the man forcec
1
He that is wounded peace nor their whither thou shalt go
her, and lie with her: in the stones, or hath his prosperity all thy days
a
forth abroad: 13And thou
then the man only that privy member cut off, for ever. 7Thou shalt not shalt have a paddle
lay with her shall die: shall not enter into the abhor an Edomite; for he upon thy weapon; and
26
But unto the damsel congregation of the is thy brother: thou shalt it shall be, when thou
thou shalt do nothing; LORD. A bastard shall
2
not abhor an Egyptian; wilt ease thyself
there is in the damsel no not enter into the because thou wast a abroad, thou shalt dig
sin worthy of death: for congregation of the stranger in his land. 8The therewith, and shalt
as when a man riseth LORD; even to his tenth children that are turn back and cover
against his neighbour, generation shall he not begotten of them shall that which cometh from
and slayeth him, even so enter into the enter into the thee: 14For the LORD
is this matter: 27For he congregation of the congregation of the thy God walketh in the
found her in the field, LORD. 3An Ammonite or LORD in their third midst of thy camp, to
and the betrothed Moabite shall not enter generation. deliver thee, and to
into the congregation of give up thine enemies
c a
force: or, take strong hold of prosperity: Heb. good
before thee; therefore thou mayest lend upon the ears with thine hand; wife, after that she is
shall thy camp be holy: usury; but unto thy but thou shalt not move defiled; for that is
that he see no uncleanb brother thou shalt not a sickle unto thy abomination before the
thing in thee, and turn lend upon usury: that neighbour’s standing LORD: and thou shalt
away from thee. the LORD thy God may corn. not cause the land to
15
Thou shalt not bless thee in all that sin, which the LORD thy
deliver unto his master thou settest thine hand Chapter 24 God giveth thee for an
the servant which is to in the land whither inheritance.
escaped from his master thou goest to possess it. When a man hath
1 5
When a man hath
unto thee: 16He shall 21
When thou shalt vow a taken a wife, and taken a new wife, he
dwell with thee, even vow unto the LORD thy married her, and it come shall not go out to war,
among you, in that place God, thou shalt not slack to pass that she find no neither shall he be
which he shall choose in to pay it: for the LORD favour in his eyes, charged with any
one of thy gates, where thy God will surely because he hath found business: but he shall
it liketh him best: thou require it of thee; and it somea uncleanness in be free at home one
shalt not oppress him. would be sin in thee. her: then let him write year, and shall cheer up
17
There shall be no 22
But if thou shalt forbear her a bill of divorcement, his wife which he hath
whorec of the daughters to vow, it shall be no sin and give it in her hand, taken. 6No man shall
of Israel, nor a sodomite in thee. 23That which is and send her out of his take the nether or the
of the sons of Israel. gone out of thy lips thou house. 2
And when she upper millstone to
18
Thou shalt not bring shalt keep and perform; is departed out of his pledge: for he taketh a
the hire of a whore, or even a freewill offering, house, she may go and man’s life to pledge. 7If
the price of a dog, into according as thou hast be another man’s wife. a man be found stealing
the house of the LORD vowed unto the LORD
3
And if the latter any of his brethren of
thy God for any vow: for thy God, which thou hast husband hate her, and the children of Israel,
even both these are promised with thy write her a bill of and maketh
abomination unto the mouth. 24
When thou divorcement, and giveth merchandise of him, or
LORD thy God. 19Thou comest into thy it in her hand, and selleth him; then that
shalt not lend upon neighbour’s vineyard, sendeth her out of his thief shall die; and thou
usury to thy brother; then thou mayest eat house; or if the latter shalt put evil away from
usury of money, usury of grapes thy fill at thine husband die, which took among you. 8Take heed
victuals, usury of any own pleasure; but thou her to be his wife; 4Her in the plague of leprosy,
thing that is lent upon shalt not put any in thy former husband, which that thou observe
usury: 20Unto a stranger vessel. 25
When thou sent her away, may not diligently, and do
comest into the standing take her again to be his according to all that the
b
unclean...: Heb. nakedness of corn of thy neighbour, priests the Levites shall
a
any thing then thou mayest pluck some...: Heb. matter of teach you: as I
c
whore: or, sodomitess nakedness
commanded them, so ye 15
At his day thou shalt the widow: that the judge shall cause him
shall observe to do. give him his hire, neither LORD thy God may bless to lie down, and to be
9
Remember what the shall the sun go down thee in all the work of beaten before his face,
LORD thy God did unto upon it; for he is poor, thine hands. 20When thou according to his fault,
Miriam by the way, after and settethc his heart beatest thine olive tree, by a certain number.
that ye were come forth upon it: lest he cry thou shalt not go over 3
Forty stripes he may
out of Egypt. 10When against thee unto the the boughs again: it shall give him, and not
thou dost lendb thy LORD, and it be sin unto be for the stranger, for exceed: lest, if he
brother any thing, thou thee. 16The fathers shall the fatherless, and for should exceed, and
shalt not go into his not be put to death for the widow. 21When thou beat him above these
house to fetch his the children, neither gatherest the grapes of with many stripes, then
pledge. 11
Thou shalt shall the children be put thy vineyard, thou shalt thy brother should
stand abroad, and the to death for the fathers: not glean it afterwardd: it seem vile unto thee.
man to whom thou dost every man shall be put shall be for the stranger, 4
Thou shalt not muzzle
lend shall bring out the to death for his own sin. for the fatherless, and the ox when he
pledge abroad unto thee. 17
Thou shalt not pervert for the widow. 22
And treadeth out the corn.
12
And if the man be poor, the judgment of the thou shalt remember 5
If brethren dwell
thou shalt not sleep with stranger, nor of the that thou wast a together, and one of
his pledge: 13In any case fatherless; nor take a bondman in the land of them die, and have no
thou shalt deliver him widow’s raiment to Egypt: therefore I child, the wife of the
the pledge again when pledge: 18But thou shalt command thee to do this dead shall not marry
the sun goeth down, that remember that thou thing. without unto a stranger:
he may sleep in his own wast a bondman in her husband’s brother
raiment, and bless thee: Egypt, and the LORD thy Chapter 25 shall go in unto her, and
and it shall be God redeemed thee take her to him to wife,
righteousness unto thee thence: therefore I If1
there be a and perform the duty of
before the LORD thy command thee to do this controversy between an husband’s brother
God. thing. 19
When thou men, and they come unto her. 6And it shall
14
Thou shalt not cuttest down thine unto judgment, that the be, that the firstborn
oppress an hired servant harvest in thy field, and judges may judge them; which she beareth shall
that is poor and needy, hast forgot a sheaf in the then they shall justify succeed in the name of
whether he be of thy field, thou shalt not go the righteous, and his brother which is
brethren, or of thy again to fetch it: it shall condemn the wicked. dead, that his name be
strangers that are in thy be for the stranger, for
2
And it shall be, if the not put out of Israel.
land within thy gates: the fatherless, and for wicked man be worthy to 7
And if the man like not
be beaten, that the to take his brother’s
b c
lend...: Heb. lend the loan of setteth...: Heb. lifteth his soul wife, then let his
d
any thing to, etc unto it afterward: Heb. after thee
brother’s wife go up to her. giveth thee for an shall take the basket
the gate unto the elders, 13
Thou shalt not have inheritance to possess it, out of thine hand, and
and say, My husband’s in thy bag divers that thou shalt blot out set it down before the
brother refuseth to raise weights, a great and a the remembrance of altar of the LORD thy
up unto his brother a small. 14Thou shalt not Amalek from under God. 5And thou shalt
name in Israel, he will have in thine house heaven; thou shalt not speak and say before
not perform the duty of divers measures, a great forget it. the LORD thy God, A
my husband’s brother. and a small. 15But thou Syrian ready to perish
8
Then the elders of his shalt have a perfect and Chapter 26 was my father, and he
city shall call him, and just weight, a perfect went down into Egypt,
speak unto him: and if and just measure shalt
1
And it shall be, when and sojourned there
he stand to it, and say, I thou have: that thy days thou art come in unto with a few, and became
like not to take her; may be lengthened in the land which the LORD there a nation, great,
9
Then shall his brother’s the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for mighty, and populous:
wife come unto him in thy God giveth thee. an inheritance, and 6
And the Egyptians evil
the presence of the 16
For all that do such possessest it, and entreated us, and
elders, and loose his things, and all that do dwellest therein; 2That afflicted us, and laid
shoe from off his foot, unrighteously, are an thou shalt take of the upon us hard bondage:
and spit in his face, and abomination unto the first of all the fruit of the 7
And when we cried
shall answer and say, So LORD thy God. earth, which thou shalt unto the LORD God of
shall it be done unto that 17
Remember what bring of thy land that the our fathers, the LORD
man that will not build Amalek did unto thee by LORD thy God giveth heard our voice, and
up his brother’s house. the way, when ye were thee, and shalt put it in a looked on our affliction,
10
And his name shall be come forth out of Egypt; basket, and shalt go and our labour, and our
called in Israel, The 18
How he met thee by unto the place which the oppression: 8And the
house of him that hath the way, and smote the LORD thy God shall LORD brought us forth
his shoe loosed. 11When hindmost of thee, even choose to place his out of Egypt with a
men strive together one all that were feeble name there. 3And thou mighty hand, and with
with another, and the behind thee, when thou shalt go unto the priest an outstretched arm,
wife of the one draweth wast faint and weary; that shall be in those and with great
near for to deliver her and he feared not God. days, and say unto him, I terribleness, and with
husband out of the hand 19
Therefore it shall be, profess this day unto the signs, and with
of him that smiteth him, when the LORD thy God LORD thy God, that I am wonders: 9And he hath
and putteth forth her hath given thee rest come unto the country brought us into this
hand, and taketh him by from all thine enemies which the LORD sware place, and hath given
the secrets: 12Then thou round about, in the land unto our fathers for to us this land, even a
shalt cut off her hand, which the LORD thy God give us. 4And the priest land that floweth with
thine eye shall not pity
milk and honey. 10And fatherless, and to the the LORD this day to be great stones, and
now, behold, I have widow, according to all thy God, and to walk in plaister them with
brought the firstfruits of thy commandments his ways, and to keep his plaister: 3And thou shalt
the land, which thou, O which thou hast statutes, and his write upon them all the
LORD, hast given me. commanded me: I have commandments, and his words of this law, when
And thou shalt set it not transgressed thy judgments, and to thou art passed over,
before the LORD thy commandments, neither hearken unto his voice: that thou mayest go in
God, and worship before have I forgotten them: 14I 18
And the LORD hath unto the land which the
the LORD thy God: 11And have not eaten thereof avouched thee this day LORD thy God giveth
thou shalt rejoice in in my mourning, neither to be his peculiar people, thee, a land that
every good thing which have I taken away ought as he hath promised floweth with milk and
the LORD thy God hath thereof for any unclean thee, and that thou honey; as the LORD
given unto thee, and use, nor given ought shouldest keep all his God of thy fathers hath
unto thine house, thou, thereof for the dead: but commandments; 19
And promised thee.
and the Levite, and the I have hearkened to the to make thee high above 4
Therefore it shall be
stranger that is among voice of the LORD my all nations which he hath when ye be gone over
you. God, and have done made, in praise, and in Jordan, that ye shall set
12
When thou hast according to all that thou name, and in honour; up these stones, which I
made an end of tithing hast commanded me. and that thou mayest be command you this day,
all the tithes of thine 15
Look down from thy an holy people unto the in mount Ebal, and thou
increase the third year, holy habitation, from LORD thy God, as he shalt plaister them with
which is the year of heaven, and bless thy hath spoken. plaister. 5
And there
tithing, and hast given it people Israel, and the shalt thou build an altar
unto the Levite, the land which thou hast Chapter 27 unto the LORD thy God,
stranger, the fatherless, given us, as thou an altar of stones: thou
and the widow, that they swarest unto our fathers,
1
And Moses with the shalt not lift up any iron
may eat within thy a land that floweth with elders of Israel tool upon them. 6Thou
gates, and be filled; milk and honey. commanded the people, shalt build the altar of
13
Then thou shalt say 16
This day the LORD saying, Keep all the the LORD thy God of
before the LORD thy thy God hath commandments which I whole stones: and thou
God, I have brought commanded thee to do command you this day. shalt offer burnt
away the hallowed these statutes and
2
And it shall be on the offerings thereon unto
things out of mine judgments: thou shalt day when ye shall pass the LORD thy God: 7And
house, and also have therefore keep and do over Jordan unto the thou shalt offer peace
given them unto the them with all thine heart, land which the LORD thy offerings, and shalt eat
Levite, and unto the and with all thy soul. God giveth thee, that there, and rejoice
stranger, to the 17
Thou hast avouched thou shalt set thee up before the LORD thy
God. 8And thou shalt man that maketh any daughter of his father, or if thou shalt hearken
write upon the stones all graven or molten image, the daughter of his unto the voice of the
the words of this law an abomination unto the mother. And all the LORD thy God. 3Blessed
very plainly. 9And Moses LORD, the work of the people shall say, Amen. shalt thou be in the
and the priests the hands of the craftsman, 23
Cursed be he that lieth city, and blessed shalt
Levites spake unto all and putteth it in a secret with his mother in law. thou be in the field.
Israel, saying, Take place. And all the people And all the people shall 4
Blessed shall be the
heed, and hearken, O shall answer and say, say, Amen. 24Cursed be fruit of thy body, and
Israel; this day thou art Amen. 16Cursed be he he that smiteth his the fruit of thy ground,
become the people of that setteth light by his neighbour secretly. And and the fruit of thy
the LORD thy God. father or his mother. And all the people shall say, cattle, the increase of
10
Thou shalt therefore all the people shall say, Amen. 25Cursed be he thy kine, and the flocks
obey the voice of the Amen. 17Cursed be he that taketh reward to of thy sheep. 5Blessed
LORD thy God, and do that removeth his slay an innocent person. shall be thy basket and
his commandments and neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall thy storea. 6
Blessed
his statutes, which I And all the people shall say, Amen. 26Cursed be shalt thou be when thou
command thee this day. say, Amen. 18Cursed be he that confirmeth not comest in, and blessed
11
And Moses charged he that maketh the blind all the words of this law shalt thou be when thou
the people the same to wander out of the to do them. And all the goest out. 7The LORD
day, saying, 12
These way. And all the people people shall say, Amen. shall cause thine
shall stand upon mount shall say, Amen. enemies that rise up
Gerizim to bless the 19
Cursed be he that Chapter 28 against thee to be
people, when ye are perverteth the judgment smitten before thy face:
come over Jordan; of the stranger,
1
And it shall come to they shall come out
Simeon, and Levi, and fatherless, and widow. pass, if thou shalt against thee one way,
Judah, and Issachar, and And all the people shall hearken diligently unto and flee before thee
Joseph, and Benjamin: say, Amen. 20Cursed be the voice of the LORD seven ways. 8The LORD
13
And these shall stand he that lieth with his thy God, to observe and shall command the
upon mount Ebal to father’s wife; because he to do all his blessing upon thee in
cursea; Reuben, Gad, and uncovereth his father’s commandments which I thy storehousesb, and in
Asher, and Zebulun, skirt. And all the people command thee this day, all that thou settest
Dan, and Naphtali. 14And shall say, Amen. that the LORD thy God thine hand unto; and he
the Levites shall speak, 21
Cursed be he that lieth will set thee on high shall bless thee in the
and say unto all the men with any manner of above all nations of the land which the LORD
of Israel with a loud beast. And all the people earth: 2And all these
a
voice, 15Cursed be the shall say, Amen. blessings shall come on store: or, dough, or,
22
Cursed be he that lieth thee, and overtake thee, kneadingtroughs
a b
to curse: Heb. for a cursing with his sister, the storehouses: or, barns
thy God giveth thee. shalt not be beneath; if when thou goest out. until thou be destroyed.
9
The LORD shall that thou hearken unto 20
The LORD shall send 25
The LORD shall cause
establish thee an holy the commandments of upon thee cursing, thee to be smitten
people unto himself, as the LORD thy God, which vexation, and rebuke, in before thine enemies:
he hath sworn unto thee, I command thee this all that thou settest thine thou shalt go out one
if thou shalt keep the day, to observe and to hand unto for to do, until way against them, and
commandments of the do them: 14And thou thou be destroyed, and flee seven ways before
LORD thy God, and walk shalt not go aside from until thou perish quickly; them: and shalt be
in his ways. 10And all any of the words which I because of the removede into all the
people of the earth shall command thee this day, wickedness of thy kingdoms of the earth.
see that thou art called to the right hand, or to doings, whereby thou 26
And thy carcase shall
by the name of the the left, to go after other hast forsaken me. 21The be meat unto all fowls
LORD; and they shall be gods to serve them. LORD shall make the of the air, and unto the
afraid of thee. 11And the 15
But it shall come to pestilence cleave unto beasts of the earth, and
LORD shall make thee pass, if thou wilt not thee, until he have no man shall fray them
plenteous in goodsc, in hearken unto the voice consumed thee from off away. 27The LORD will
the fruit of thy body, and of the LORD thy God, to the land, whither thou smite thee with the
in the fruit of thy cattle, observe to do all his goest to possess it. 22The botch of Egypt, and
and in the fruit of thy commandments and his LORD shall smite thee with the emerods, and
ground, in the land statutes which I with a consumption, and with the scab, and with
which the LORD sware command thee this day; with a fever, and with an the itch, whereof thou
unto thy fathers to give that all these curses inflammation, and with canst not be healed.
thee. 12The LORD shall shall come upon thee, an extreme burning, and 28
The LORD shall smite
open unto thee his good and overtake thee: with the swordd, and with thee with madness, and
treasure, the heaven to 16
Cursed shalt thou be in blasting, and with blindness, and
give the rain unto thy the city, and cursed mildew; and they shall astonishment of heart:
land in his season, and shalt thou be in the field. pursue thee until thou 29
And thou shalt grope
to bless all the work of 17
Cursed shall be thy perish. 23And thy heaven at noonday, as the blind
thine hand: and thou basket and thy store. that is over thy head gropeth in darkness,
shalt lend unto many 18
Cursed shall be the shall be brass, and the and thou shalt not
nations, and thou shalt fruit of thy body, and the earth that is under thee prosper in thy ways:
not borrow. 13And the fruit of thy land, the shall be iron. 24The LORD and thou shalt be only
LORD shall make thee increase of thy kine, and shall make the rain of oppressed and spoiled
the head, and not the the flocks of thy sheep. thy land powder and evermore, and no man
tail; and thou shalt be 19
Cursed shalt thou be dust: from heaven shall shall save thee. 30Thou
above only, and thou when thou comest in, it come down upon thee, e
and cursed shalt thou be removed: Heb. for a
c d
in goods: or, for good sword: or, drought removing
shalt betroth a wife, and the knees, and in the daughters, but thou shalt 48
Therefore shalt thou
another man shall lie legs, with a sore botch not enjoy them; for they serve thine enemies
with her: thou shalt build that cannot be healed, shall go into captivity. which the LORD shall
an house, and thou shalt from the sole of thy foot 42
All thy trees and fruit of send against thee, in
not dwell therein: thou unto the top of thy head. thy land shall the locust hunger, and in thirst,
shalt plant a vineyard, 36
The LORD shall bring consumef. 43
The and in nakedness, and
and shalt not gather the thee, and thy king which stranger that is within in want of all things:
grapes thereof. 31Thine thou shalt set over thee, thee shall get up above and he shall put a yoke
ox shall be slain before unto a nation which thee very high; and thou of iron upon thy neck,
thine eyes, and thou neither thou nor thy shalt come down very until he have destroyed
shalt not eat thereof: fathers have known; and low. 44He shall lend to thee. 49The LORD shall
thine ass shall be there shalt thou serve thee, and thou shalt not bring a nation against
violently taken away other gods, wood and lend to him: he shall be thee from far, from the
from before thy face, stone. 37And thou shalt the head, and thou shalt end of the earth, as
and shall not be restored become an be the tail. swift as the eagle flieth;
to thee: thy sheep shall astonishment, a proverb, 45
Moreover all these a nation whose tongue
be given unto thine and a byword, among all curses shall come upon thou shalt not
enemies, and thou shalt nations whither the thee, and shall pursue understand ;g 50
A nation
have none to rescue LORD shall lead thee. thee, and overtake thee, of fierceh countenance,
them. 32
Thy sons and 38
Thou shalt carry much till thou be destroyed; which shall not regard
thy daughters shall be seed out into the field, because thou the person of the old,
given unto another and shalt gather but hearkenedst not unto nor shew favour to the
people, and thine eyes little in; for the locust the voice of the LORD young: 51And he shall
shall look, and fail with shall consume it. 39Thou thy God, to keep his eat the fruit of thy
longing for them all the shalt plant vineyards, commandments and his cattle, and the fruit of
day long: and there shall and dress them, but statutes which he thy land, until thou be
be no might in thine shalt neither drink of the commanded thee: 46And destroyed: which also
hand. 33The fruit of thy wine, nor gather the they shall be upon thee shall not leave thee
land, and all thy labours, grapes; for the worms for a sign and for a either corn, wine, or oil,
shall a nation which thou shall eat them. 40Thou wonder, and upon thy or the increase of thy
knowest not eat up; and shalt have olive trees seed for ever. 47Because kine, or flocks of thy
thou shalt be only throughout all thy thou servedst not the sheep, until he have
oppressed and crushed coasts, but thou shalt LORD thy God with destroyed thee. 52And
alway: 34So that thou not anoint thyself with joyfulness, and with he shall besiege thee in
shalt be mad for the the oil; for thine olive gladness of heart, for the g
sight of thine eyes which shall cast his fruit. 41Thou abundance of all things; understand: Heb. hear
h
thou shalt see. 35The shalt beget sons and of fierce...: Heb. strong of
f
LORD shall smite thee in consume: or, possess face
all thy gates, until thy distress thee in all thy sore sicknesses, and of there thou shalt serve
high and fenced walls gates. 56The tender and long continuance. other gods, which
come down, wherein delicate woman among 60
Moreover he will bring neither thou nor thy
thou trustedst, you, which would not upon thee all the fathers have known,
throughout all thy land: adventure to set the sole diseases of Egypt, which even wood and stone.
and he shall besiege of her foot upon the thou wast afraid of; and 65
And among these
thee in all thy gates ground for delicateness they shall cleave unto nations shalt thou find
throughout all thy land, and tenderness, her eye thee. 61
Also every no ease, neither shall
which the LORD thy God shall be evil toward the sickness, and every the sole of thy foot
hath given thee. 53And husband of her bosom, plague, which is not have rest: but the LORD
thou shalt eat the fruit of and toward her son, and written in the book of shall give thee there a
thine own bodyi, the toward her daughter, this law, them will the trembling heart, and
flesh of thy sons and of 57
And toward her young LORD bringk upon thee, failing of eyes, and
thy daughters, which the onej that cometh out until thou be destroyed. sorrow of mind: 66And
LORD thy God hath given from between her feet, 62
And ye shall be left few thy life shall hang in
thee, in the siege, and in and toward her children in number, whereas ye doubt before thee; and
the straitness, wherewith which she shall bear: for were as the stars of thou shalt fear day and
thine enemies shall she shall eat them for heaven for multitude; night, and shalt have
distress thee: 54So that want of all things because thou wouldest none assurance of thy
the man that is tender secretly in the siege and not obey the voice of the life: 67In the morning
among you, and very straitness, wherewith LORD thy God. 63And it thou shalt say, Would
delicate, his eye shall be thine enemy shall shall come to pass, that God it were even! and
evil toward his brother, distress thee in thy as the LORD rejoiced at even thou shalt say,
and toward the wife of gates. 58If thou wilt not over you to do you good, Would God it were
his bosom, and toward observe to do all the and to multiply you; so morning! for the fear of
the remnant of his words of this law that the LORD will rejoice thine heart wherewith
children which he shall are written in this book, over you to destroy you, thou shalt fear, and for
leave: 55So that he will that thou mayest fear and to bring you to the sight of thine eyes
not give to any of them this glorious and fearful nought; and ye shall be which thou shalt see.
of the flesh of his name, THE LORD THY plucked from off the land 68
And the LORD shall
children whom he shall GOD; 59Then the LORD whither thou goest to bring thee into Egypt
eat: because he hath will make thy plagues possess it. 64And the again with ships, by the
nothing left him in the wonderful, and the LORD shall scatter thee way whereof I spake
siege, and in the plagues of thy seed, among all people, from unto thee, Thou shalt
straitness, wherewith even great plagues, and the one end of the earth see it no more again:
thine enemies shall of long continuance, and even unto the other; and and there ye shall be
i j k
sold unto your enemies
body: Heb. belly young one: Heb. afterbirth bring: Heb. cause to ascend
for bondmen and neither have ye drunk LORD thy God maketh lest there should be
bondwomen, and no wine or strong drink: with thee this day: among you a root that
man shall buy you. that ye might know that I 13
That he may establish beareth gallc and
am the LORD your God. thee to day for a people wormwood; 19
And it
Chapter 29 7
And when ye came unto unto himself, and that he come to pass, when he
this place, Sihon the king may be unto thee a God, heareth the words of
1
These are the words of Heshbon, and Og the as he hath said unto this curse, that he bless
of the covenant, which king of Bashan, came thee, and as he hath himself in his heart,
the LORD commanded out against us unto sworn unto thy fathers, saying, I shall have
Moses to make with the battle, and we smote to Abraham, to Isaac, peace, though I walk in
children of Israel in the them: 8And we took their and to Jacob. 14Neither the imaginationd of
land of Moab, beside the land, and gave it for an with you only do I make mine heart, to add
covenant which he made inheritance unto the this covenant and this drunkenness to thirst:
with them in Horeb. 2And Reubenites, and to the oath; 15But with him that 20
The LORD will not
Moses called unto all Gadites, and to the half standeth here with us spare him, but then the
Israel, and said unto tribe of Manasseh. 9Keep this day before the LORD anger of the LORD and
them, Ye have seen all therefore the words of our God, and also with his jealousy shall smoke
that the LORD did before this covenant, and do him that is not here with against that man, and
your eyes in the land of them, that ye may us this day: 16(For ye all the curses that are
Egypt unto Pharaoh, and prosper in all that ye do. know how we have dwelt written in this book
unto all his servants, and 10
Ye stand this day all in the land of Egypt; and shall lie upon him, and
unto all his land; 3The of you before the LORD how we came through the LORD shall blot out
great temptations which your God; your captains the nations which ye his name from under
thine eyes have seen, of your tribes, your passed by; 17And ye have heaven. 21And the LORD
the signs, and those elders, and your officers, seen their abominations, shall separate him unto
great miracles: 4Yet the with all the men of and their idolsb, wood evil out of all the tribes
LORD hath not given you Israel, 11Your little ones, and stone, silver and of Israel, according to
an heart to perceive, and your wives, and thy gold, which were among all the curses of the
eyes to see, and ears to stranger that is in thy them:) 18
Lest there covenant that are
hear, unto this day. 5And camp, from the hewer of should be among you written in this book of
I have led you forty thy wood unto the man, or woman, or the law: 22So that the
years in the wilderness: drawer of thy water: family, or tribe, whose generation to come of
your clothes are not 12
That thou shouldest heart turneth away this your children that shall
waxen old upon you, and entera into covenant with day from the LORD our rise up after you, and
thy shoe is not waxen the LORD thy God, and God, to go and serve the c
old upon thy foot. 6Ye into his oath, which the gods of these nations; gall: or, a poisonous herb
d
have not eaten bread, imagination: or,
a b
enter: Heb. pass idols: Heb. dungy gods stubbornness
the stranger that shall was kindled against this children, with all thine thou shalt return and
come from a far land, land, to bring upon it all heart, and with all thy obey the voice of the
shall say, when they see the curses that are soul; 3That then the LORD, and do all his
the plagues of that land, written in this book: LORD thy God will turn commandments which I
and the sicknesses which 28
And the LORD rooted thy captivity, and have command thee this day.
the LORD hath laid upon them out of their land in compassion upon thee, 9
And the LORD thy God
it; 23And that the whole anger, and in wrath, and and will return and will make thee
land thereof is in great indignation, and gather thee from all the plenteous in every work
brimstone, and salt, and cast them into another nations, whither the of thine hand, in the
burning, that it is not land, as it is this day. LORD thy God hath fruit of thy body, and in
sown, nor beareth, nor 29
The secret things scattered thee. 4If any of the fruit of thy cattle,
any grass groweth belong unto the LORD thine be driven out unto and in the fruit of thy
therein, like the our God: but those the outmost parts of land, for good: for the
overthrow of Sodom, and things which are heaven, from thence will LORD will again rejoice
Gomorrah, Admah, and revealed belong unto us the LORD thy God gather over thee for good, as
Zeboim, which the LORD and to our children for thee, and from thence he rejoiced over thy
overthrew in his anger, ever, that we may do all will he fetch thee: 5And fathers: 10If thou shalt
and in his wrath: 24Even the words of this law. the LORD thy God will hearken unto the voice
all nations shall say, bring thee into the land of the LORD thy God, to
Wherefore hath the Chapter 30 which thy fathers keep his
LORD done thus unto possessed, and thou commandments and his
this land? what meaneth
1
And it shall come to shalt possess it; and he statutes which are
the heat of this great pass, when all these will do thee good, and written in this book of
anger? 25Then men shall things are come upon multiply thee above thy the law, and if thou turn
say, Because they have thee, the blessing and fathers. 6And the LORD unto the LORD thy God
forsaken the covenant of the curse, which I have thy God will circumcise with all thine heart, and
the LORD God of their set before thee, and thine heart, and the with all thy soul.
fathers, which he made thou shalt call them to heart of thy seed, to love 11
For this
with them when he mind among all the the LORD thy God with commandment which I
brought them forth out nations, whither the all thine heart, and with command thee this day,
of the land of Egypt: LORD thy God hath all thy soul, that thou it is not hidden from
26
For they went and driven thee, 2And shalt mayest live. 7And the thee, neither is it far
served other gods, and return unto the LORD thy LORD thy God will put all off. 12It is not in heaven,
worshipped them, gods God, and shalt obey his these curses upon thine that thou shouldest say,
whom they knew not, voice according to all enemies, and on them Who shall go up for us
and whom he had not that I command thee this that hate thee, which to heaven, and bring it
given unto them: 27And day, thou and thy persecuted thee. 8And unto us, that we may
the anger of the LORD
hear it, and do it? to go to possess it. 19I before thee, and he will the LORD, he it is that
13
Neither is it beyond the call heaven and earth to destroy these nations doth go before thee; he
sea, that thou shouldest record this day against from before thee, and will be with thee, he will
say, Who shall go over you, that I have set thou shalt possess them: not fail thee, neither
the sea for us, and bring before you life and and Joshua, he shall go forsake thee: fear not,
it unto us, that we may death, blessing and over before thee, as the neither be dismayed.
hear it, and do it? 14But cursing: therefore LORD hath said. 4And the 9
And Moses wrote
the word is very nigh choose life, that both LORD shall do unto them this law, and delivered
unto thee, in thy mouth, thou and thy seed may as he did to Sihon and to it unto the priests the
and in thy heart, that live: 20That thou mayest Og, kings of the sons of Levi, which bare
thou mayest do it. love the LORD thy God, Amorites, and unto the the ark of the covenant
15
See, I have set and that thou mayest land of them, whom he of the LORD, and unto
before thee this day life obey his voice, and that destroyed. 5
And the all the elders of Israel.
and good, and death and thou mayest cleave unto LORD shall give them up 10
And Moses
evil; 16In that I command him: for he is thy life, before your face, that ye commanded them,
thee this day to love the and the length of thy may do unto them saying, At the end of
LORD thy God, to walk in days: that thou mayest according unto all the every seven years, in
his ways, and to keep his dwell in the land which commandments which I the solemnity of the
commandments and his the LORD sware unto thy have commanded you. year of release, in the
statutes and his fathers, to Abraham, to 6
Be strong and of a good feast of tabernacles,
judgments, that thou Isaac, and to Jacob, to courage, fear not, nor be 11
When all Israel is
mayest live and multiply: give them. afraid of them: for the come to appear before
and the LORD thy God LORD thy God, he it is the LORD thy God in
shall bless thee in the Chapter 31 that doth go with thee; the place which he shall
land whither thou goest he will not fail thee, nor choose, thou shalt read
to possess it. 17But if
1
And Moses went and forsake thee. 7And Moses this law before all Israel
thine heart turn away, so spake these words unto called unto Joshua, and in their hearing.
that thou wilt not hear, all Israel. 2And he said said unto him in the 12
Gather the people
but shalt be drawn away, unto them, I am an sight of all Israel, Be together, men, and
and worship other gods, hundred and twenty strong and of a good women, and children,
and serve them; 18I years old this day; I can courage: for thou must and thy stranger that is
denounce unto you this no more go out and go with this people unto within thy gates, that
day, that ye shall surely come in: also the LORD the land which the LORD they may hear, and that
perish, and that ye shall hath said unto me, Thou hath sworn unto their they may learn, and
not prolong your days shalt not go over this fathers to give them; fear the LORD your
upon the land, whither Jordan. 3The LORD thy and thou shalt cause God, and observe to do
thou passest over Jordan God, he will go over them to inherit it. 8And all the words of this
law: 13And that their my covenant which I fat; then will they turn commanded the
children, which have not have made with them. unto other gods, and Levites, which bare the
known any thing, may 17
Then my anger shall be serve them, and provoke ark of the covenant of
hear, and learn to fear kindled against them in me, and break my the LORD, saying,
the LORD your God, as that day, and I will covenant. 21And it shall 26
Take this book of the
long as ye live in the forsake them, and I will come to pass, when law, and put it in the
land whither ye go over hide my face from them, many evils and troubles side of the ark of the
Jordan to possess it. and they shall be are befallen them, that covenant of the LORD
14
And the LORD said devoured, and many this song shall testify your God, that it may
unto Moses, Behold, thy evils and troubles shall againstc them as a be there for a witness
days approach that thou befallb them; so that witness; for it shall not against thee. 27For I
must die: call Joshua, they will say in that day, be forgotten out of the know thy rebellion, and
and present yourselves Are not these evils come mouths of their seed: for thy stiff neck: behold,
in the tabernacle of the upon us, because our I know their imagination while I am yet alive with
congregation, that I may God is not among us? which they go about, you this day, ye have
give him a charge. And 18
And I will surely hide even now, before I have been rebellious against
Moses and Joshua went, my face in that day for brought them into the the LORD; and how
and presented all the evils which they land which I sware. much more after my
themselves in the shall have wrought, in 22
Moses therefore death? 28Gather unto
tabernacle of the that they are turned wrote this song the same me all the elders of
congregation. 15And the unto other gods. 19Now day, and taught it the your tribes, and your
LORD appeared in the therefore write ye this children of Israel. 23And officers, that I may
tabernacle in a pillar of a song for you, and teach he gave Joshua the son speak these words in
cloud: and the pillar of it the children of Israel: of Nun a charge, and their ears, and call
the cloud stood over the put it in their mouths, said, Be strong and of a heaven and earth to
door of the tabernacle. that this song may be a good courage: for thou record against them.
16
And the LORD said unto witness for me against shalt bring the children 29
For I know that after
Moses, Behold, thou the children of Israel. of Israel into the land my death ye will utterly
shalt sleepa with thy 20
For when I shall have which I sware unto them: corrupt yourselves, and
fathers; and this people brought them into the and I will be with thee. turn aside from the way
will rise up, and go a land which I sware unto 24
And it came to pass, which I have
whoring after the gods of their fathers, that when Moses had made commanded you; and
the strangers of the land, floweth with milk and an end of writing the evil will befall you in the
whither they go to be honey; and they shall words of this law in a latter days; because ye
among them, and will have eaten and filled book, until they were will do evil in the sight
forsake me, and break themselves, and waxen finished, 25That Moses of the LORD, to provoke
a b c
him to anger through
sleep: Heb. lie down befall: Heb. find against: Heb. before
the work of your hands. unwise? is not he thy wings: 12So the LORD your fathers feared not.
30
And Moses spake in the father that hath bought alone did lead him, and 18
Of the Rock that begat
ears of all the thee? hath he not made there was no strange thee thou art
congregation of Israel thee, and established god with him. 13He made unmindful, and hast
the words of this song, thee? him ride on the high forgotten God that
until they were ended. 7
Remember the days places of the earth, that formed thee.
of old, consider the years he might eat the 19
And when the
Chapter 32 of manya generations: increase of the fields; LORD saw it, he
ask thy father, and he and he made him to suck abhorredc them,
1
Give ear, O ye will shew thee; thy honey out of the rock, because of the
heavens, and I will elders, and they will tell and oil out of the flinty provoking of his sons,
speak; and hear, O thee. 8When the most rock; 14Butter of kine, and of his daughters.
earth, the words of my High divided to the and milk of sheep, with 20
And he said, I will hide
mouth. 2
My doctrine nations their inheritance, fat of lambs, and rams of my face from them, I
shall drop as the rain, when he separated the the breed of Bashan, and will see what their end
my speech shall distil as sons of Adam, he set the goats, with the fat of shall be: for they are a
the dew, as the small bounds of the people kidneys of wheat; and very froward
rain upon the tender according to the number thou didst drink the pure generation, children in
herb, and as the showers of the children of Israel. blood of the grape. whom is no faith. 21They
upon the grass: 9
For the LORD’S portion 15
But Jeshurun waxed have moved me to
3
Because I will publish is his people; Jacob is the fat, and kicked: thou art jealousy with that
the name of the LORD: lotb of his inheritance. waxen fat, thou art which is not God; they
ascribe ye greatness 10
He found him in a grown thick, thou art have provoked me to
unto our God. 4He is the desert land, and in the covered with fatness; anger with their
Rock, his work is perfect: waste howling then he forsook God vanities: and I will move
for all his ways are wilderness; he led him which made him, and them to jealousy with
judgment: a God of truth about, he instructed him, lightly esteemed the those which are not a
and without iniquity, just he kept him as the apple Rock of his salvation. people; I will provoke
and right is he. 5They of his eye. 11As an eagle 16
They provoked him to them to anger with a
have corrupted stirreth up her nest, jealousy with strange foolish nation. 22For a
themselves, their spot is fluttereth over her gods, with abominations fire is kindled in mine
not the spot of his young, spreadeth abroad provoked they him to anger, and shall burnd
children: they are a her wings, taketh them, anger. 17They sacrificed unto the lowest hell,
perverse and crooked beareth them on her unto devils, not to God; and shall consume the
generation. 6Do ye thus to gods whom they knew earth with her increase,
a
requite the LORD, O many...: Heb. generation and not, to new gods that c
foolish people and generation came newly up, whom abhorred: or, despised
b d
lot: Heb. cord shall burn: or, hath burned
and set on fire the they are a nation void of the things that shall devour flesh; and that
foundations of the counsel, neither is there come upon them make with the blood of the
mountains. 23I will heap any understanding in haste. 36For the LORD slain and of the
mischiefs upon them; I them. 29O that they were shall judge his people, captives, from the
will spend mine arrows wise, that they and repent himself for beginning of revenges
upon them. 24They shall understood this, that his servants, when he upon the enemy.
be burnt with hunger, they would consider seeth that their powerh is 43
Rejoicei, O ye nations,
and devoured with their latter end! 30How gone, and there is none with his people: for he
burning heate, and with should one chase a shut up, or left. 37And he will avenge the blood of
bitter destruction: I will thousand, and two put shall say, Where are his servants, and will
also send the teeth of ten thousand to flight, their gods, their rock in render vengeance to
beasts upon them, with except their Rock had whom they trusted, his adversaries, and will
the poison of serpents of sold them, and the LORD 38
Which did eat the fat of be merciful unto his
the dust. 25
The sword had shut them up? 31For their sacrifices, and land, and to his people.
without, and terror their rock is not as our drank the wine of their 44
And Moses came
within ,f
shall destroy Rock, even our enemies drink offerings? let them and spake all the words
both the young man and themselves being rise up and help you, of this song in the ears
the virgin, the suckling judges. For their vine is
32
and be your protection. of the people, he, and
also with the man of of the vineg of Sodom, 39
See now that I, even Hosheaj the son of Nun.
gray hairs. and of the fields of I, am he, and there is no 45
And Moses made an
26
I said, I would Gomorrah: their grapes god with me: I kill, and I end of speaking all
scatter them into are grapes of gall, their make alive; I wound, and these words to all
corners, I would make clusters are bitter: I heal: neither is there Israel: 46And he said
the remembrance of 33
Their wine is the poison any that can deliver out unto them, Set your
them to cease from of dragons, and the cruel of my hand. 40For I lift up hearts unto all the
among men: 27Were it venom of asps. 34Is not my hand to heaven, and words which I testify
not that I feared the this laid up in store with say, I live for ever. 41If I among you this day,
wrath of the enemy, lest me, and sealed up whet my glittering which ye shall
their adversaries should among my treasures? sword, and mine hand command your children
behave themselves 35
To me belongeth take hold on judgment; I to observe to do, all the
strangely, and lest they vengeance, and will render vengeance to words of this law. 47For
should say, Our hand is recompence; their foot mine enemies, and will it is not a vain thing for
high, and the LORD hath shall slide in due time: reward them that hate you; because it is your
not done all this. 28For for the day of their me. 42I will make mine life: and through this
e
calamity is at hand, and arrows drunk with blood, i
heat: Heb. coals and my sword shall Rejoice...: or, Praise his
f g
within: Heb. from the of the vine: or, worse than the people, ye nations: or, Sing ye
h j
chambers vine power: Heb. hand Hoshea: or, Joshua
thing ye shall prolong Israel. and he said, Hear, LORD, hate him, that they rise
your days in the land, the voice of Judah, and not again.
whither ye go over Chapter 33 bring him unto his 12
And of Benjamin he
Jordan to possess it. people: let his hands be said, The beloved of the
48
And the LORD spake And
1
this is the sufficient for him; and be LORD shall dwell in
unto Moses that blessing, wherewith thou an help to him from safety by him; and the
selfsame day, saying, Moses the man of God his enemies. LORD shall cover him
49
Get thee up into this blessed the children of 8
And of Levi he said, all the day long, and he
mountain Abarim, unto Israel before his death. Let thy Thummim and shall dwell between his
mount Nebo, which is in
2
And he said, The LORD thy Urim be with thy holy shoulders. 13
And of
the land of Moab, that is came from Sinai, and one, whom thou didst Joseph he said, Blessed
over against Jericho; and rose up from Seir unto prove at Massah, and of the LORD be his land,
behold the land of them; he shined forth with whom thou didst for the precious things
Canaan, which I give from mount Paran, and strive at the waters of of heaven, for the dew,
unto the children of he came with ten Meribah; 9Who said unto and for the deep that
Israel for a possession: thousands of saints: his father and to his coucheth beneath,
50
And die in the mount from his right hand went mother, I have not seen 14
And for the precious
whither thou goest up, a fierya law for them. him; neither did he fruits brought forth by
and be gathered unto
3
Yea, he loved the acknowledge his the sun, and for the
thy people; as Aaron thy people; all his saints are brethren, nor knew his precious things put
brother died in mount in thy hand: and they sat own children: for they forth by the moon,
Hor, and was gathered down at thy feet; every have observed thy word, 15
And for the chief
unto his people: one shall receive of thy and kept thy covenant. things of the ancient
51
Because ye trespassed words. 4
Moses 10
They shall teachb Jacob mountains, and for the
against me among the commanded us a law, thy judgments, and precious things of the
children of Israel at the even the inheritance of Israel thy law: they shall lasting hills, 16And for
waters of Meribah- the congregation of put incense before thee, the precious things of
Kadesh, in the Jacob. And he was king
5
and whole burnt sacrifice the earth and fulness
wilderness of Zin; in Jeshurun, when the upon thine altar. thereof, and for the
because ye sanctified heads of the people and 11
Bless, LORD, his good will of him that
me not in the midst of the tribes of Israel were substance, and accept dwelt in the bush: let
the children of Israel. gathered together. the work of his hands: the blessing come upon
52
Yet thou shalt see the
6
Let Reuben live, and smite through the loins the head of Joseph, and
land before thee; but not die; and let not his of them that rise against upon the top of the
thou shalt not go thither men be few. 7And this is him, and of them that head of him that was
unto the land which I the blessing of Judah: separated from his
b
give the children of They shall teach: or, Let them brethren. 17His glory is
a
a fiery...: Heb. a fire of law teach
like the firstling of his people, he executed the alone: the fountain of which I sware unto
bullock, and his horns justice of the LORD, and Jacob shall be upon a Abraham, unto Isaac,
are like the horns of his judgments with land of corn and wine; and unto Jacob, saying,
unicornsc: with them he Israel. also his heavens shall I will give it unto thy
shall push the people 22
And of Dan he said, drop down dew. 29Happy seed: I have caused
together to the ends of Dan is a lion’s whelp: he art thou, O Israel: who is thee to see it with thine
the earth: and they are shall leap from Bashan. like unto thee, O people eyes, but thou shalt not
the ten thousands of 23
And of Naphtali he said, saved by the LORD, the go over thither.
Ephraim, and they are O Naphtali, satisfied with shield of thy help, and 5
So Moses the
the thousands of favour, and full with the who is the sword of thy servant of the LORD
Manasseh. blessing of the LORD: excellency! and thine died there in the land of
18
And of Zebulun he possess thou the west enemies shall be found Moab, according to the
said, Rejoice, Zebulun, in and the south. 24And of liars unto thee; and thou word of the LORD. 6And
thy going out; and, Asher he said, Let Asher shalt tread upon their he buried him in a
Issachar, in thy tents. be blessed with children; high places. valley in the land of
19
They shall call the let him be acceptable to Moab, over against
people unto the his brethren, and let him Chapter 34 Bethpeor: but no man
mountain; there they dip his foot in oil. 25Thy knoweth of his
shall offer sacrifices of shoese shall be iron and And Moses went up
1
sepulchre unto this day.
righteousness: for they brass; and as thy days, from the plains of Moab 7
And Moses was an
shall suck of the so shall thy strength be. unto the mountain of hundred and twenty
abundance of the seas, 26
There is none like Nebo, to the top of years old when he died:
and of treasures hid in unto the God of Pisgaha, that is over his eye was not dim,
the sand. 20And of Gad Jeshurun, who rideth against Jericho. And the nor his natural force
he said, Blessed be he upon the heaven in thy LORD shewed him all the abated. 8
And the
that enlargeth Gad: he help, and in his land of Gilead, unto Dan, children of Israel wept
dwelleth as a lion, and excellency on the sky.
2
And all Naphtali, and for Moses in the plains
teareth the arm with the 27
The eternal God is thy the land of Ephraim, and of Moab thirty days: so
crown of the head. 21And refuge, and underneath Manasseh, and all the the days of weeping
he provided the first part are the everlasting arms: land of Judah, unto the and mourning for Moses
for himself, because and he shall thrust out utmost sea, 3And the were ended.
there, in a portion of the the enemy from before south, and the plain of
lawgiver, was he thee; and shall say, the valley of Jericho, the 9
And Joshua the son of
seated ; and he came
d
Destroy them. 28Israel city of palm trees, unto Nun was full of the
with the heads of the then shall dwell in safety Zoar. 4And the LORD said spirit of wisdom; for
unto him, This is the land Moses had laid his
c e
unicorns: Heb. an unicorn Thy shoes: or, Under thy hands upon him: and
d a
seated: Heb. cieled shoes Pisgah: or, the hill
the children of Israel upon, that have I given
hearkened unto him, and unto you, as I said unto
did as the LORD Moses. 4
From the
commanded Moses. wilderness and this
10
And there arose not a Lebanon even unto the
prophet since in Israel great river, the river
like unto Moses, whom Euphrates, all the land
the LORD knew face to of the Hittites, and unto
face, 11In all the signs the great sea toward
and the wonders, which the going down of the
the LORD sent him to do sun, shall be your coast.
in the land of Egypt to 5
There shall not any
Pharaoh, and to all his man be able to stand
servants, and to all his before thee all the days
land, 12And in all that of thy life: as I was with
mighty hand, and in all Moses, so I will be with
the great terror which thee: I will not fail thee,
Moses shewed in the nor forsake thee. 6Be
sight of all Israel.
Joshua strong and of a good
courage: for unto this
Chapter 1 people shalt thou divide
1
Now after the death for an inheritance the
of Moses the servant of land, which I sware
the LORD it came to unto their fathers to
pass, that the LORD give them. 7
Only be
spake unto Joshua the thou strong and very
son of Nun, Moses’ courageous, that thou
minister, saying, 2Moses mayest observe to do
my servant is dead; now according to all the law,
therefore arise, go over which Moses my
this Jordan, thou, and all servant commanded
this people, unto the thee: turn not from it to
land which I do give to the right hand or to the
them, even to the left, that thou mayest
children of Israel. Every
3 prospera whithersoever
place that the sole of thou goest. 8This book
your foot shall tread a
prosper: or, do wisely
of the law shall not 13
Remember the word 17
According as we Bring forth the men
depart out of thy mouth; which Moses the servant hearkened unto Moses in that are come to thee,
but thou shalt meditate of the LORD commanded all things, so will we which are entered into
therein day and night, you, saying, The LORD hearken unto thee: only thine house: for they be
that thou mayest your God hath given you the LORD thy God be come to search out all
observe to do according rest, and hath given you with thee, as he was with the country. 4And the
to all that is written this land. 14Your wives, Moses. 18Whosoever he woman took the two
therein: for then thou your little ones, and your be that doth rebel men, and hid them, and
shalt make thy way cattle, shall remain in against thy said thus, There came
prosperous, and then the land which Moses commandment, and will men unto me, but I wist
thou shalt have good gave you on this side not hearken unto thy not whence they were:
success. 9
Have not I Jordan; but ye shall pass words in all that thou 5
And it came to pass
commanded thee? Be before your brethren commandest him, he about the time of
strong and of a good armedb, all the mighty shall be put to death: shutting of the gate,
courage; be not afraid, men of valour, and help only be strong and of a when it was dark, that
neither be thou them; 15Until the LORD good courage. the men went out:
dismayed: for the LORD have given your whither the men went I
thy God is with thee brethren rest, as he hath Chapter 2 wot not: pursue after
whithersoever thou given you, and they also them quickly; for ye
goest. have possessed the land And Joshua the son
1
shall overtake them.
10
Then Joshua which the LORD your of Nun senta out of 6
But she had brought
commanded the officers God giveth them: then Shittim two men to spy them up to the roof of
of the people, saying, ye shall return unto the secretly, saying, Go view the house, and hid
11
Pass through the host, land of your possession, the land, even Jericho. them with the stalks of
and command the and enjoy it, which And they went, and flax, which she had laid
people, saying, Prepare Moses the LORD’S came into an harlot’s in order upon the roof.
you victuals; for within servant gave you on this house, named Rahab, 7
And the men pursued
three days ye shall pass side Jordan toward the and lodged there. 2And after them the way to
over this Jordan, to go in sunrising. it was told the king of Jordan unto the fords:
to possess the land, 16
And they answered Jericho, saying, Behold, and as soon as they
which the LORD your Joshua, saying, All that there came men in which pursued after
God giveth you to thou commandest us we hither to night of the them were gone out,
possess it. 12And to the will do, and children of Israel to they shut the gate.
Reubenites, and to the whithersoever thou search out the country. 8
And before they
Gadites, and to half the sendest us, we will go.
3
And the king of Jericho were laid down, she
tribe of Manasseh, spake sent unto Rahab, saying, came up unto them
b
Joshua, saying, armed: Heb. marshalled by upon the roof; 9And she
a
five sent: or, had sent
said unto the men, I mother, and my bringc thy father, and thy and descended from
know that the LORD hath brethren, and my sisters, mother, and thy the mountain, and
given you the land, and and all that they have, brethren, and all thy passed over, and came
that your terror is fallen and deliver our lives father’s household, to Joshua the son of
upon us, and that all the from death. 14And the home unto thee. 19And it Nun, and told him all
inhabitants of the land men answered her, Our shall be, that whosoever things that befell them:
faintb because of you. life for yours, if ye utter shall go out of the doors 24
And they said unto
10
For we have heard how not this our business. of thy house into the Joshua, Truly the LORD
the LORD dried up the And it shall be, when the street, his blood shall be hath delivered into our
water of the Red sea for LORD hath given us the upon his head, and we hands all the land; for
you, when ye came out land, that we will deal will be guiltless: and even all the inhabitants
of Egypt; and what ye kindly and truly with whosoever shall be with of the country do faintd
did unto the two kings of thee. 15
Then she let thee in the house, his because of us.
the Amorites, that were them down by a cord blood shall be on our
on the other side Jordan, through the window: for head, if any hand be Chapter 3
Sihon and Og, whom ye her house was upon the upon him. 20And if thou
utterly destroyed. 11And town wall, and she dwelt utter this our business, And Joshua rose
1

as soon as we had heard upon the wall. 16And she then we will be quit of early in the morning;
these things, our hearts said unto them, Get you thine oath which thou and they removed from
did melt, neither did to the mountain, lest the hast made us to swear. Shittim, and came to
there remain any more pursuers meet you; and 21
And she said, Jordan, he and all the
courage in any man, hide yourselves there According unto your children of Israel, and
because of you: for the three days, until the words, so be it. And she lodged there before
LORD your God, he is pursuers be returned: sent them away, and they passed over. 2And
God in heaven above, and afterward may ye go they departed: and she it came to pass after
and in earth beneath. your way. 17And the men bound the scarlet line in three days, that the
12
Now therefore, I pray said unto her, We will be the window. officers went through
you, swear unto me by blameless of this thine 22
And they went, and the host; 3And they
the LORD, since I have oath which thou hast came unto the mountain, commanded the
shewed you kindness, made us swear. and abode there three people, saying, When
that ye will also shew 18
Behold, when we come days, until the pursuers ye see the ark of the
kindness unto my into the land, thou shalt were returned: and the covenant of the LORD
father’s house, and give bind this line of scarlet pursuers sought them your God, and the
me a true token: 13And thread in the window throughout all the way, priests the Levites
that ye will save alive which thou didst let us but found them not. 23So bearing it, then ye shall
my father, and my down by: and thou shalt the two men returned, remove from your
b c d
faint: Heb. melt bring: Heb. gather faint: Heb. melt
place, and go after it. still in Jordan. 9And heap. people were passed
4
Yet there shall be a Joshua said unto the 14
And it came to pass, clean over Jordan.
space between you and children of Israel, Come when the people
it, about two thousand hither, and hear the removed from their Chapter 4
cubits by measure: come words of the LORD your tents, to pass over
not near unto it, that ye God. 10And Joshua said, Jordan, and the priests
1
And it came to pass,
may know the way by Hereby ye shall know bearing the ark of the when all the people
which ye must go: for ye that the living God is covenant before the were clean passed over
have not passed this way among you, and that he people; 15And as they Jordan, that the LORD
heretoforea. 5And Joshua will without fail drive out that bare the ark were spake unto Joshua,
said unto the people, from before you the come unto Jordan, and saying, 2
Take you
Sanctify yourselves: for Canaanites, and the the feet of the priests twelve men out of the
to morrow the LORD will Hittites, and the Hivites, that bare the ark were people, out of every
do wonders among you. and the Perizzites, and dipped in the brim of the tribe a man, 3And
6
And Joshua spake unto the Girgashites, and the water, (for Jordan command ye them,
the priests, saying, Take Amorites, and the overfloweth all his banks saying, Take you hence
up the ark of the Jebusites. 11Behold, the all the time of harvest,) out of the midst of
covenant, and pass over ark of the covenant of 16
That the waters which Jordan, out of the place
before the people. And the Lord of all the earth came down from above where the priests’ feet
they took up the ark of passeth over before you stood and rose up upon stood firm, twelve
the covenant, and went into Jordan. 12
Now an heap very far from stones, and ye shall
before the people. therefore take you the city Adam, that is carry them over with
7
And the LORD said twelve men out of the beside Zaretan: and you, and leave them in
unto Joshua, This day will tribes of Israel, out of those that came down the lodging place,
I begin to magnify thee every tribe a man. 13And toward the sea of the where ye shall lodge
in the sight of all Israel, it shall come to pass, as plain, even the salt sea, this night. 4Then Joshua
that they may know that, soon as the soles of the failed, and were cut off: called the twelve men,
as I was with Moses, so I feet of the priests that and the people passed whom he had prepared
will be with thee. 8And bear the ark of the over right against of the children of Israel,
thou shalt command the LORD, the Lord of all the Jericho. And the priests
17 out of every tribe a
priests that bear the ark earth, shall rest in the that bare the ark of the man: 5And Joshua said
of the covenant, saying, waters of Jordan, that covenant of the LORD unto them, Pass over
When ye are come to the the waters of Jordan stood firm on dry ground before the ark of the
brink of the water of shall be cut off from the in the midst of Jordan, LORD your God into the
Jordan, ye shall stand waters that come down and all the Israelites midst of Jordan, and
from above; and they passed over on dry take ye up every man
a
heretofore: Heb. since shall stand upon an ground, until all the of you a stone upon his
yesterday, and the third day
shoulder, according unto the ark of the covenant him, as they feared your children shall ask
the number of the tribes stood: and they are Moses, all the days of his their fathers in time to
of the children of Israel: there unto this day. life. 15And the LORD come, saying, What
6
That this may be a sign 10
For the priests which spake unto Joshua, mean these stones?
among you, that when bare the ark stood in the saying, 16Command the 22
Then ye shall let your
your children ask their midst of Jordan, until priests that bear the ark children know, saying,
fathers in time to come, every thing was finished of the testimony, that Israel came over this
saying, What mean ye that the LORD they come up out of Jordan on dry land. 23For
by these stones? 7Then commanded Joshua to Jordan. 17
Joshua the LORD your God
ye shall answer them, speak unto the people, therefore commanded dried up the waters of
That the waters of Jordan according to all that the priests, saying, Jordan from before you,
were cut off before the Moses commanded Come ye up out of until ye were passed
ark of the covenant of Joshua: and the people Jordan. 18And it came to over, as the LORD your
the LORD; when it hasted and passed over. pass, when the priests God did to the Red sea,
passed over Jordan, the 11
And it came to pass, that bare the ark of the which he dried up from
waters of Jordan were when all the people were covenant of the LORD before us, until we were
cut off: and these stones clean passed over, that were come up out of the gone over: 24That all the
shall be for a memorial the ark of the LORD midst of Jordan, and the people of the earth
unto the children of passed over, and the soles of the priests’ feet might know the hand of
Israel for ever. 8And the priests, in the presence were lifted up unto the the LORD, that it is
children of Israel did so of the people. 12And the dry land, that the waters mighty: that ye might
as Joshua commanded, children of Reuben, and of Jordan returned unto fear the LORD your God
and took up twelve the children of Gad, and their place, and flowed for everb.
stones out of the midst half the tribe of over all his banks, as
of Jordan, as the LORD Manasseh, passed over they did before. 19
And Chapter 5
spake unto Joshua, armed before the the people came up out
according to the number children of Israel, as of Jordan on the tenth And it came to pass,
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of the tribes of the Moses spake unto them: day of the first month, when all the kings of
children of Israel, and 13
About forty thousand and encamped in Gilgal, the Amorites, which
carried them over with prepareda for war passed in the east border of were on the side of
them unto the place over before the LORD Jericho. Jordan westward, and
where they lodged, and unto battle, to the plains 20
And those twelve all the kings of the
laid them down there. of Jericho. 14On that day stones, which they took Canaanites, which were
9
And Joshua set up the LORD magnified out of Jordan, did Joshua by the sea, heard that
twelve stones in the Joshua in the sight of all pitch in Gilgal. 21And he the LORD had dried up
midst of Jordan, in the Israel; and they feared spake unto the children the waters of Jordan
place where the feet of a
of Israel, saying, When b
the priests which bare prepared: or, ready armed for ever: Heb. all days
from before the children forty years in the Israel encamped in his face to the earth,
of Israel, until we were wilderness, till all the Gilgal, and kept the and did worship, and
passed over, that their people that were men of passover on the said unto him, What
heart melted, neither war, which came out of fourteenth day of the saith my lord unto his
was there spirit in them Egypt, were consumed, month at even in the servant? 15
And the
any more, because of because they obeyed not plains of Jericho. 11And captain of the LORD’S
the children of Israel. 2At the voice of the LORD: they did eat of the old host said unto Joshua,
that time the LORD said unto whom the LORD corn of the land on the Loose thy shoe from off
unto Joshua, Make thee sware that he would not morrow after the thy foot; for the place
sharpa knives, and shew them the land, passover, unleavened whereon thou standest
circumcise again the which the LORD sware cakes, and parched corn is holy. And Joshua did
children of Israel the unto their fathers that he in the selfsame day. so.
second time. 3
And would give us, a land 12
And the manna ceased
Joshua made him sharpb that floweth with milk on the morrow after they Chapter 6
knives, and circumcised and honey. 7And their had eaten of the old corn
the children of Israel at children, whom he raised of the land; neither had
1
Now Jericho was
the hill of the foreskins. up in their stead, them the children of Israel straitly shut up because
4
And this is the cause Joshua circumcised: for manna any more; but of the children of Israel:
why Joshua did they were they did eat of the fruit none went out, and
circumcise: All the uncircumcised, because of the land of Canaan none came in. 2And the
people that came out of they had not circumcised that year. LORD said unto Joshua,
Egypt, that were males, them by the way. 8And it 13
And it came to pass, See, I have given into
even all the men of war, came to pass, when they when Joshua was by thine hand Jericho, and
died in the wilderness by had done circumcising Jericho, that he lifted up the king thereof, and
the way, after they came all the people, that they his eyes and looked, the mighty men of
out of Egypt. 5Now all abode in their places in and, behold, there stood valour. 3And ye shall
the people that came out the camp, till they were a man over against him compass the city, all ye
were circumcised: but all whole. 9And the LORD with his sword drawn in men of war, and go
the people that were said unto Joshua, This his hand: and Joshua round about the city
born in the wilderness by day have I rolled away went unto him, and said once. Thus shalt thou
the way as they came the reproach of Egypt unto him, Art thou for us, do six days. 4And seven
forth out of Egypt, them from off you. Wherefore or for our adversaries? priests shall bear before
they had not the name of the place is 14
And he said, Nay; but the ark seven trumpets
circumcised. 6
For the called Gilgalc unto this as captaind of the host of of rams’ horns: and the
children of Israel walked day. the LORD am I now seventh day ye shall
10
And the children of come. And Joshua fell on compass the city seven
a
sharp...: or, knives of flints times, and the priests
b c d
sharp...: or, knives of flints Gilgal: that is Rolling captain: or, prince
shall blow with the LORD followed them. rereward came after the yourselves from the
trumpets. 5And it shall 9
And the armed men ark of the LORD, the accursed thing, lest ye
come to pass, that when went before the priests priests going on, and make yourselves
they make a long blast that blew with the blowing with the accursed ,e
when ye
with the ram’s horn, and trumpets, and the trumpets. 14
And the take of the accursed
when ye hear the sound rereward came after the
b
second day they thing, and make the
of the trumpet, all the ark, the priests going on, compassed the city camp of Israel a curse,
people shall shout with a and blowing with the once, and returned into and trouble it. 19But all
great shout; and the wall trumpets. 10And Joshua the camp: so they did six the silver, and gold, and
of the city shall fall down had commanded the days. 15And it came to vessels of brass and
flata, and the people people, saying, Ye shall pass on the seventh day, iron, are consecratedf
shall ascend up every not shout, nor make any that they rose early unto the LORD: they
man straight before him. noisec with your voice, about the dawning of the shall come into the
6
And Joshua the son neither shall any word day, and compassed the treasury of the LORD.
of Nun called the priests, proceed out of your city after the same 20
So the people shouted
and said unto them, mouth, until the day I bid manner seven times: when the priests blew
Take up the ark of the you shout; then shall ye only on that day they with the trumpets: and
covenant, and let seven shout. 11So the ark of compassed the city it came to pass, when
priests bear seven the LORD compassed the seven times. 16And it the people heard the
trumpets of rams’ horns city, going about it once: came to pass at the sound of the trumpet,
before the ark of the and they came into the seventh time, when the and the people shouted
LORD. 7And he said unto camp, and lodged in the priests blew with the with a great shout, that
the people, Pass on, and camp. 12And Joshua rose trumpets, Joshua said the wall fell down flatg,
compass the city, and let early in the morning, and unto the people, Shout; so that the people went
him that is armed pass the priests took up the for the LORD hath given up into the city, every
on before the ark of the ark of the LORD. 13And you the city. man straight before
LORD. 8And it came to seven priests bearing 17
And the city shall be him, and they took the
pass, when Joshua had seven trumpets of rams’ accursedd, even it, and city. 21And they utterly
spoken unto the people, horns before the ark of all that are therein, to destroyed all that was
that the seven priests the LORD went on the LORD: only Rahab in the city, both man
bearing the seven continually, and blew the harlot shall live, she and woman, young and
trumpets of rams’ horns with the trumpets: and and all that are with her old, and ox, and sheep,
passed on before the the armed men went in the house, because and ass, with the edge
LORD, and blew with the before them; but the she hid the messengers of the sword. 22But
trumpets: and the ark of b
that we sent. 18And ye, e
the covenant of the rereward: Heb. gathering host in any wise keep accursed: or, devoted
c f
any noise...: Heb. your voice consecrated: Heb. holiness
a d g
flat: Heb. under it to be heard accursed: or, devoted flat: Heb. under it
Joshua had said unto the the man before the said unto him, Let not all would to God we had
two men that had spied LORD, that riseth up and the people go up; but let been content, and
out the country, Go into buildeth this city Jericho: about two or three dwelt on the other side
the harlot’s house, and he shall lay the thousand men go up and Jordan! 8O Lord, what
bring out thence the foundation thereof in his smite Ai; and make not shall I say, when Israel
woman, and all that she firstborn, and in his all the people to labour turneth their backsb
hath, as ye sware unto youngest son shall he thither; for they are but before their enemies!
her. 23And the young set up the gates of it. few. 4So there went up 9
For the Canaanites and
men that were spies 27
So the LORD was with thither of the people all the inhabitants of
went in, and brought out Joshua; and his fame was about three thousand the land shall hear of it,
Rahab, and her father, noised throughout all the men: and they fled and shall environ us
and her mother, and her country. before the men of Ai. round, and cut off our
brethren, and all that 5
And the men of Ai name from the earth:
she had; and they Chapter 7 smote of them about and what wilt thou do
brought out all her thirty and six men: for unto thy great name?
kindredh, and left them But the children of
1
they chased them from 10
And the LORD said
without the camp of Israel committed a before the gate even unto Joshua, Get thee
Israel. 24And they burnt trespass in the accursed unto Shebarim, and up; wherefore liestc
the city with fire, and all thing: for Achana, the smote them in the going thou thus upon thy
that was therein: only son of Carmi, the son of down: wherefore the face? 11
Israel hath
the silver, and the gold, Zabdi, the son of Zerah, hearts of the people sinned, and they have
and the vessels of brass of the tribe of Judah, melted, and became as also transgressed my
and of iron, they put into took of the accursed water. covenant which I
the treasury of the house thing: and the anger of 6
And Joshua rent his commanded them: for
of the LORD. 25And the LORD was kindled clothes, and fell to the they have even taken
Joshua saved Rahab the against the children of earth upon his face of the accursed thing,
harlot alive, and her Israel. 2And Joshua sent before the ark of the and have also stolen,
father’s household, and men from Jericho to Ai, LORD until the eventide, and dissembled also,
all that she had; and she which is beside he and the elders of and they have put it
dwelleth in Israel even Bethaven, on the east Israel, and put dust upon even among their own
unto this day; because side of Bethel, and spake their heads. 7And Joshua stuff. 12Therefore the
she hid the messengers, unto them, saying, Go up said, Alas, O Lord GOD, children of Israel could
which Joshua sent to spy and view the country. wherefore hast thou at not stand before their
out Jericho. 26And Joshua And the men went up all brought this people enemies, but turned
adjured them at that and viewed Ai. 3And they over Jordan, to deliver us their backs before their
time, saying, Cursed be returned to Joshua, and into the hand of the b
Amorites, to destroy us? backs: Heb. necks
h a c
kindred: Heb. families Achan: also called, Achar liest: Heb. fallest
enemies, because they covenant of the LORD, Babylonish garment, and this day. And all Israel
were accursed: neither and because he hath two hundred shekels of stoned him with stones,
will I be with you any wrought follyd in Israel. silver, and a wedgee of and burned them with
more, except ye destroy 16
So Joshua rose up gold of fifty shekels fire, after they had
the accursed from early in the morning, and weight, then I coveted stoned them with
among you. 13
Up, brought Israel by their them, and took them; stones. 26
And they
sanctify the people, and tribes; and the tribe of and, behold, they are hid raised over him a great
say, Sanctify yourselves Judah was taken: 17And in the earth in the midst heap of stones unto this
against to morrow: for he brought the family of of my tent, and the silver day. So the LORD
thus saith the LORD God Judah; and he took the under it. 22
So Joshua turned from the
of Israel, There is an family of the Zarhites: sent messengers, and fierceness of his anger.
accursed thing in the and he brought the they ran unto the tent; Wherefore the name of
midst of thee, O Israel: family of the Zarhites and, behold, it was hid in that place was called,
thou canst not stand man by man; and Zabdi his tent, and the silver The valley of Achorf,
before thine enemies, was taken: 18And he under it. 23And they took unto this day.
until ye take away the brought his household them out of the midst of
accursed thing from man by man; and Achan, the tent, and brought Chapter 8
among you. 14
In the the son of Carmi, the son them unto Joshua, and
morning therefore ye of Zabdi, the son of unto all the children of And the LORD said
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shall be brought Zerah, of the tribe of Israel, and laid them out unto Joshua, Fear not,
according to your tribes: Judah, was taken. 19And before the LORD. 24And neither be thou
and it shall be, that the Joshua said unto Achan, Joshua, and all Israel dismayed: take all the
tribe which the LORD My son, give, I pray thee, with him, took Achan the people of war with thee,
taketh shall come glory to the LORD God of son of Zerah, and the and arise, go up to Ai:
according to the families Israel, and make silver, and the garment, see, I have given into
thereof; and the family confession unto him; and and the wedge of gold, thy hand the king of Ai,
which the LORD shall tell me now what thou and his sons, and his and his people, and his
take shall come by hast done; hide it not daughters, and his oxen, city, and his land: 2And
households; and the from me. 20And Achan and his asses, and his thou shalt do to Ai and
household which the answered Joshua, and sheep, and his tent, and her king as thou didst
LORD shall take shall said, Indeed I have all that he had: and they unto Jericho and her
come man by man. 15And sinned against the LORD brought them unto the king: only the spoil
it shall be, that he that is God of Israel, and thus valley of Achor. 25And thereof, and the cattle
taken with the accursed and thus have I done: Joshua said, Why hast thereof, shall ye take
thing shall be burnt with 21
When I saw among the thou troubled us? the for a prey unto
fire, he and all that he spoils a goodly LORD shall trouble thee yourselves: lay thee an
hath: because he hath d e f
transgressed the folly: or, wickedness wedge: Heb. tongue Achor: that is, Trouble
ambush for the city taken the city, that ye city, and their liers in it into thine hand. And
behind it. shall set the city on fire: wait on the west of the Joshua stretched out
3
So Joshua arose, and according to the city, Joshua went that the spear that he had in
all the people of war, to commandment of the night into the midst of his hand toward the
go up against Ai: and LORD shall ye do. See, I the valley. 14And it came city. 19And the ambush
Joshua chose out thirty have commanded you. to pass, when the king of arose quickly out of
thousand mighty men of 9
Joshua therefore sent Ai saw it, that they their place, and they
valour, and sent them them forth: and they hasted and rose up ran as soon as he had
away by night. 4And he went to lie in ambush, early, and the men of stretched out his hand:
commanded them, and abode between the city went out against and they entered into
saying, Behold, ye shall Bethel and Ai, on the Israel to battle, he and the city, and took it,
lie in wait against the west side of Ai: but all his people, at a time and hasted and set the
city, even behind the Joshua lodged that night appointed, before the city on fire. 20And when
city: go not very far from among the people. 10And plain; but he wist not the men of Ai looked
the city, but be ye all Joshua rose up early in that there were liers in behind them, they saw,
ready: 5And I, and all the the morning, and ambush against him and, behold, the smoke
people that are with me, numbered the people, behind the city. 15And of the city ascended up
will approach unto the and went up, he and the Joshua and all Israel to heaven, and they
city: and it shall come to elders of Israel, before made as if they were had no powerb to flee
pass, when they come the people to Ai. 11And beaten before them, and this way or that way:
out against us, as at the all the people, even the fled by the way of the and the people that fled
first, that we will flee people of war that were wilderness. 16And all the to the wilderness
before them, 6(For they with him, went up, and people that were in Ai turned back upon the
will come out after us) drew nigh, and came were called together to pursuers. 21And when
till we have drawna them before the city, and pursue after them: and Joshua and all Israel
from the city; for they pitched on the north side they pursued after saw that the ambush
will say, They flee before of Ai: now there was a Joshua, and were drawn had taken the city, and
us, as at the first: valley between them and away from the city. 17And that the smoke of the
therefore we will flee Ai. 12And he took about there was not a man left city ascended, then
before them. 7Then ye five thousand men, and in Ai or Bethel, that went they turned again, and
shall rise up from the set them to lie in not out after Israel: and slew the men of Ai.
ambush, and seize upon ambush between Bethel they left the city open, 22
And the other issued
the city: for the LORD and Ai, on the west side and pursued after Israel. out of the city against
your God will deliver it of the city. 13And when 18
And the LORD said unto them; so they were in
into your hand. 8And it they had set the people, Joshua, Stretch out the the midst of Israel,
shall be, when ye have even all the host that spear that is in thy hand some on this side, and
a
was on the north of the toward Ai; for I will give b
drawn: Heb. pulled power: Heb. hand
some on that side: and commanded Joshua. and their elders, and when all the kings
they smote them, so that 28
And Joshua burnt Ai, officers, and their which were on this side
they let none of them and made it an heap for judges, stood on this Jordan, in the hills, and
remain or escape. ever, even a desolation side the ark and on that in the valleys, and in all
23
And the king of Ai unto this day. 29And the side before the priests the coasts of the great
they took alive, and king of Ai he hanged on the Levites, which bare sea over against
brought him to Joshua. a tree until eventide: and the ark of the covenant Lebanon, the Hittite,
24
And it came to pass, as soon as the sun was of the LORD, as well the and the Amorite, the
when Israel had made an down, Joshua stranger, as he that was Canaanite, the
end of slaying all the commanded that they born among them; half Perizzite, the Hivite,
inhabitants of Ai in the should take his carcase of them over against and the Jebusite, heard
field, in the wilderness down from the tree, and mount Gerizim, and half thereof; 2
That they
wherein they chased cast it at the entering of of them over against gathered themselves
them, and when they the gate of the city, and mount Ebal; as Moses together, to fight with
were all fallen on the raise thereon a great the servant of the LORD Joshua and with Israel,
edge of the sword, until heap of stones, that had commanded before, with one accorda.
they were consumed, remaineth unto this day. that they should bless 3
And when the
that all the Israelites 30
Then Joshua built an the people of Israel. inhabitants of Gibeon
returned unto Ai, and altar unto the LORD God 34
And afterward he read heard what Joshua had
smote it with the edge of of Israel in mount Ebal, all the words of the law, done unto Jericho and
the sword. 25And so it 31
As Moses the servant of the blessings and to Ai, 4They did work
was, that all that fell that the LORD commanded cursings, according to all wilily, and went and
day, both of men and the children of Israel, as that is written in the made as if they had
women, were twelve it is written in the book book of the law. 35There been ambassadors, and
thousand, even all the of the law of Moses, an was not a word of all that took old sacks upon
men of Ai. 26For Joshua altar of whole stones, Moses commanded, their asses, and wine
drew not his hand back, over which no man hath which Joshua read not bottles, old, and rent,
wherewith he stretched lift up any iron: and they before all the and bound up; 5And old
out the spear, until he offered thereon burnt congregation of Israel, shoes and clouted upon
had utterly destroyed all offerings unto the LORD, with the women, and the their feet, and old
the inhabitants of Ai. and sacrificed peace little ones, and the garments upon them;
27
Only the cattle and the offerings. And he wrote
32
strangers that were and all the bread of
spoil of that city Israel there upon the stones a conversant among them. their provision was dry
took for a prey unto copy of the law of Moses, and mouldy. 6And they
themselves, according which he wrote in the Chapter 9 went to Joshua unto the
unto the word of the presence of the children camp at Gilgal, and said
LORD which he of Israel. 33And all Israel,
1
And it came to pass,
a
accord: Heb. mouth
unto him, and to the and say unto them, We they dwelt among them. for them, and he spake
men of Israel, We be are your servants: 17
And the children of unto them, saying,
come from a far country: therefore now make ye a Israel journeyed, and Wherefore have ye
now therefore make ye a league with us. 12
This came unto their cities on beguiled us, saying, We
league with us. 7And the our bread we took hot the third day. Now their are very far from you;
men of Israel said unto for our provision out of cities were Gibeon, and when ye dwell among
the Hivites, our houses on the day Chephirah, and Beeroth, us? 23Now therefore ye
Peradventure ye dwell we came forth to go unto and Kirjathjearim. 18And are cursed, and there
among us; and how shall you; but now, behold, it the children of Israel shall none of you be
we make a league with is dry, and it is mouldy: smote them not, freed from being
you? 8And they said unto 13
And these bottles of because the princes of bondmen, and hewers
Joshua, We are thy wine, which we filled, the congregation had of wood and drawers of
servants. And Joshua were new; and, behold, sworn unto them by the water for the house of
said unto them, Who are they be rent: and these LORD God of Israel. And my God. 24
And they
ye? and from whence our garments and our all the congregation answered Joshua, and
come ye? 9And they said shoes are become old by murmured against the said, Because it was
unto him, From a very reason of the very long princes. 19But all the certainly told thy
far country thy servants journey. 14And the menc princes said unto all the servants, how that the
are come because of the took of their victuals, congregation, We have LORD thy God
name of the LORD thy and asked not counsel at sworn unto them by the commanded his servant
God: for we have heard the mouth of the LORD. LORD God of Israel: now Moses to give you all
the fame of him, and all 15
And Joshua made therefore we may not the land, and to destroy
that he did in Egypt, peace with them, and touch them. 20This we all the inhabitants of
10
And all that he did to made a league with will do to them; we will the land from before
the two kings of the them, to let them live: even let them live, lest you, therefore we were
Amorites, that were and the princes of the wrath be upon us, sore afraid of our lives
beyond Jordan, to Sihon congregation sware unto because of the oath because of you, and
king of Heshbon, and to them. 16And it came to which we sware unto have done this thing.
Og king of Bashan, which pass at the end of three them. 21And the princes 25
And now, behold, we
was at Ashtaroth. days after they had said unto them, Let them are in thine hand: as it
11
Wherefore our elders made a league with live; but let them be seemeth good and right
and all the inhabitants of them, that they heard hewers of wood and unto thee to do unto us,
our country spake to us, that they were their drawers of water unto all do. 26And so did he unto
saying, Take victuals neighbours, and that the congregation; as the them, and delivered
with youb for the journey, c
princes had promised them out of the hand of
and go to meet them, the men...: or, they received them. the children of Israel,
the men by reason of their 22
And Joshua called that they slew them
b
with you: Heb. in your hand victuals
not. 27And Joshua maded unto Hoham king of the people of war with delivered up the
them that day hewers of Hebron, and unto Piram him, and all the mighty Amorites before the
wood and drawers of king of Jarmuth, and men of valour. 8And the children of Israel, and
water for the unto Japhia king of LORD said unto Joshua, he said in the sight of
congregation, and for Lachish, and unto Debir Fear them not: for I have Israel, Sun, stand thou
the altar of the LORD, king of Eglon, saying, delivered them into thine still upon Gibeon; and
even unto this day, in 4
Come up unto me, and hand; there shall not a thou, Moon, in the
the place which he help me, that we may man of them stand valley of Ajalon. 13And
should choose. smite Gibeon: for it hath before thee. 9
Joshua the sun stood still, and
made peace with Joshua therefore came unto the moon stayed, until
Chapter 10 and with the children of them suddenly, and the people had avenged
Israel. 5Therefore the five went up from Gilgal all themselves upon their
Now it came to pass,
1
kings of the Amorites, night. 10And the LORD enemies. Is not this
when Adonizedek king of the king of Jerusalem, discomfited them before written in the book of
Jerusalem had heard the king of Hebron, the Israel, and slew them Jasherb? So the sun
how Joshua had taken Ai, king of Jarmuth, the king with a great slaughter at stood still in the midst
and had utterly of Lachish, the king of Gibeon, and chased of heaven, and hasted
destroyed it; as he had Eglon, gathered them along the way that not to go down about a
done to Jericho and her themselves together, goeth up to Bethhoron, whole day. 14And there
king, so he had done to and went up, they and and smote them to was no day like that
Ai and her king; and how all their hosts, and Azekah, and unto before it or after it, that
the inhabitants of Gibeon encamped before Makkedah. And it came
11
the LORD hearkened
had made peace with Gibeon, and made war to pass, as they fled unto the voice of a
Israel, and were among against it. 6And the men from before Israel, and man: for the LORD
them; 2That they feared of Gibeon sent unto were in the going down fought for Israel.
greatly, because Gibeon Joshua to the camp to to Bethhoron, that the 15
And Joshua
was a great city, as one Gilgal, saying, Slack not LORD cast down great returned, and all Israel
of the royala cities, and thy hand from thy stones from heaven with him, unto the
because it was greater servants; come up to us upon them unto Azekah, camp to Gilgal. 16But
than Ai, and all the men quickly, and save us, and and they died: they were these five kings fled,
thereof were mighty. help us: for all the kings more which died with and hid themselves in a
3
Wherefore Adonizedek of the Amorites that hailstones than they cave at Makkedah.
king of Jerusalem sent dwell in the mountains whom the children of 17
And it was told Joshua,
d
are gathered together Israel slew with the saying, The five kings
made: Heb. gave, or, delivered against us. sword. 12
Then spake are found hid in a cave
to be 7
So Joshua ascended Joshua to the LORD in at Makkedah. 18
And
a
royal...: Heb. cities of the from Gilgal, he, and all the day when the LORD b
kingdom Jasher: or, the upright?
Joshua said, Roll great Jarmuth, the king of cave’s mouth, which which took it on the
stones upon the mouth Lachish, and the king of remain until this very second day, and smote
of the cave, and set men Eglon. 24And it came to day. it with the edge of the
by it for to keep them: pass, when they brought 28
And that day Joshua sword, and all the souls
19
And stay ye not, but out those kings unto took Makkedah, and that were therein,
pursue after your Joshua, that Joshua smote it with the edge of according to all that he
enemies, and smite the called for all the men of the sword, and the king had done to Libnah.
hindmost of them; suffer Israel, and said unto the thereof he utterly 33
Then Horam king of
them not to enter into captains of the men of destroyed, them, and all Gezer came up to help
their cities: for the LORD war which went with the souls that were Lachish; and Joshua
your God hath delivered him, Come near, put therein; he let none smote him and his
them into your hand. your feet upon the necks remain: and he did to people, until he had left
20
And it came to pass, of these kings. And they the king of Makkedah as him none remaining.
when Joshua and the came near, and put their he did unto the king of 34
And from Lachish
children of Israel had feet upon the necks of Jericho. 29Then Joshua Joshua passed unto
made an end of slaying them. 25And Joshua said passed from Makkedah, Eglon, and all Israel
them with a very great unto them, Fear not, nor and all Israel with him, with him; and they
slaughter, till they were be dismayed, be strong unto Libnah, and fought encamped against it,
consumed, that the rest and of good courage: for against Libnah: 30And the and fought against it:
which remained of them thus shall the LORD do LORD delivered it also, 35
And they took it on
entered into fenced to all your enemies and the king thereof, that day, and smote it
cities. 21
And all the against whom ye fight. into the hand of Israel; with the edge of the
people returned to the 26
And afterward Joshua and he smote it with the sword, and all the souls
camp to Joshua at smote them, and slew edge of the sword, and that were therein he
Makkedah in peace: them, and hanged them all the souls that were utterly destroyed that
none moved his tongue on five trees: and they therein; he let none day, according to all
against any of the were hanging upon the remain in it; but did unto that he had done to
children of Israel. Then
22
trees until the evening. the king thereof as he Lachish. 36And Joshua
said Joshua, Open the 27
And it came to pass at did unto the king of went up from Eglon,
mouth of the cave, and the time of the going Jericho. 31
And Joshua and all Israel with him,
bring out those five down of the sun, that passed from Libnah, and unto Hebron; and they
kings unto me out of the Joshua commanded, and all Israel with him, unto fought against it: 37And
cave. 23And they did so, they took them down off Lachish, and encamped they took it, and smote
and brought forth those the trees, and cast them against it, and fought it with the edge of the
five kings unto him out into the cave wherein against it: 32And the sword, and the king
of the cave, the king of they had been hid, and LORD delivered Lachish thereof, and all the
Jerusalem, the king of laid great stones in the into the hand of Israel, cities thereof, and all
Hebron, the king of
the souls that were of Goshen, even unto much people, even as LORD bade him: he
therein; he left none Gibeon. 42And all these the sand that is upon the houghed their horses,
remaining, according to kings and their land did sea shore in multitude, and burnt their chariots
all that he had done to Joshua take at one time, with horses and chariots with fire.
Eglon; but destroyed it because the LORD God very many. 5And when 10
And Joshua at that
utterly, and all the souls of Israel fought for Israel. all these kings were met time turned back, and
that were therein. 38And 43
And Joshua returned, together, they came and took Hazor, and smote
Joshua returned, and all and all Israel with him, pitched together at the the king thereof with
Israel with him, to Debir; unto the camp to Gilgal. waters of Merom, to fight the sword: for Hazor
and fought against it: against Israel. 6And the beforetime was the
39
And he took it, and the Chapter 11 LORD said unto Joshua, head of all those
king thereof, and all the Be not afraid because of kingdoms. 11And they
cities thereof; and they
1
And it came to pass, them: for to morrow smote all the souls that
smote them with the when Jabin king of Hazor about this time will I were therein with the
edge of the sword, and had heard those things, deliver them up all slain edge of the sword,
utterly destroyed all the that he sent to Jobab before Israel: thou shalt utterly destroying
souls that were therein; king of Madon, and to hough their horses, and them: there was not
he left none remaining: the king of Shimron, and burn their chariots with any left to breathe: and
as he had done to to the king of Achshaph, fire. 7So Joshua came, he burnt Hazor with
Hebron, so he did to
2
And to the kings that and all the people of war fire. 12And all the cities
Debir, and to the king were on the north of the with him, against them of those kings, and all
thereof; as he had done mountains, and of the by the waters of Merom the kings of them, did
also to Libnah, and to plains south of suddenly; and they fell Joshua take, and smote
her king. 40So Joshua Chinneroth, and in the upon them. 8And the them with the edge of
smote all the country of valley, and in the LORD delivered them the sword, and he
the hills, and of the borders of Dor on the into the hand of Israel, utterly destroyed them,
south, and of the vale, west, 3
And to the who smote them, and as Moses the servant of
and of the springs, and Canaanite on the east chased them unto great the LORD commanded.
all their kings: he left and on the west, and to Zidona, and unto 13
But as for the cities
none remaining, but the Amorite, and the Misrephothmaim, and that stood still in their
utterly destroyed all that Hittite, and the Perizzite, unto the valley of Mizpeh strength, Israel burned
breathed, as the LORD and the Jebusite in the eastward; and they none of them, save
God of Israel mountains, and to the smote them, until they Hazor only; that did
commanded. 41
And Hivite under Hermon in left them none Joshua burn. 14And all
Joshua smote them from the land of Mizpeh. 4And remaining. 9And Joshua the spoil of these cities,
Kadeshbarnea even unto they went out, they and did unto them as the and the cattle, the
Gaza, and all the country all their hosts with them, children of Israel took
a
great Zidon: or, Zidonrabbah
for a prey unto peace with the children divisions by their tribes. Bashan, which was of
themselves; but every of Israel, save the Hivites And the land rested from the remnant of the
man they smote with the the inhabitants of war. giants, that dwelt at
edge of the sword, until Gibeon: all other they Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
they had destroyed took in battle. 20For it Chapter 12 5
And reigned in mount
them, neither left they was of the LORD to Hermon, and in Salcah,
any to breathe. harden their hearts, that Now these are the
1
and in all Bashan, unto
15
As the LORD they should come kings of the land, which the border of the
commanded Moses his against Israel in battle, the children of Israel Geshurites and the
servant, so did Moses that he might destroy smote, and possessed Maachathites, and half
command Joshua, and so them utterly, and that their land on the other Gilead, the border of
did Joshua; he leftb they might have no side Jordan toward the Sihon king of Heshbon.
nothing undone of all favour, but that he might rising of the sun, from 6
Them did Moses the
that the LORD destroy them, as the the river Arnon unto servant of the LORD
commanded Moses. 16So LORD commanded mount Hermon, and all and the children of
Joshua took all that land, Moses. And at that time
21 the plain on the east: Israel smite: and Moses
the hills, and all the came Joshua, and cut off
2
Sihon king of the the servant of the LORD
south country, and all the Anakims from the Amorites, who dwelt in gave it for a possession
the land of Goshen, and mountains, from Hebron, Heshbon, and ruled from unto the Reubenites,
the valley, and the plain, from Debir, from Anab, Aroer, which is upon the and the Gadites, and
and the mountain of and from all the bank of the river Arnon, the half tribe of
Israel, and the valley of mountains of Judah, and and from the middle of Manasseh.
the same; 17Even from from all the mountains of the river, and from half 7
And these are the
the mountc Halak, that Israel: Joshua destroyed Gilead, even unto the kings of the country
goeth up to Seir, even them utterly with their river Jabbok, which is the which Joshua and the
unto Baalgad in the cities. 22There was none border of the children of children of Israel smote
valley of Lebanon under of the Anakims left in the Ammon; 3And from the on this side Jordan on
mount Hermon: and all land of the children of plain to the sea of the west, from Baalgad
their kings he took, and Israel: only in Gaza, in Chinneroth on the east, in the valley of Lebanon
smote them, and slew Gath, and in Ashdod, and unto the sea of the even unto the mount
them. 18
Joshua made there remained. 23
So plain, even the salt sea Halak, that goeth up to
war a long time with all Joshua took the whole on the east, the way to Seir; which Joshua gave
those kings. 19There was land, according to all Bethjeshimoth; and from unto the tribes of Israel
not a city that made that the LORD said unto the southa, under for a possession
Moses; and Joshua gave Ashdothpisgah: 4
And according to their
b
left...: Heb. removed nothing it for an inheritance unto the coast of Og king of divisions; 8
In the
c
the mount...: or, the smooth Israel according to their mountains, and in the
a
mountain the south: or, Teman
valleys, and in the 21
The king of Taanach, Avites: 4From the south, Aroer, that is upon the
plains, and in the one; the king of all the land of the bank of the river Arnon,
springs, and in the Megiddo, one; 22The king Canaanites, and Mearaha and the city that is in
wilderness, and in the of Kedesh, one; the king that is beside the the midst of the river,
south country; the of Jokneam of Carmel, Sidonians, unto Aphek, and all the plain of
Hittites, the Amorites, one; 23The king of Dor in to the borders of the Medeba unto Dibon;
and the Canaanites, the the coast of Dor, one; Amorites: 5And the land 10
And all the cities of
Perizzites, the Hivites, the king of the nations of of the Giblites, and all Sihon king of the
and the Jebusites: 9The Gilgal, one; 24The king of Lebanon, toward the Amorites, which reigned
king of Jericho, one; the Tirzah, one: all the kings sunrising, from Baalgad in Heshbon, unto the
king of Ai, which is thirty and one. under mount Hermon border of the children of
beside Bethel, one; 10The unto the entering into Ammon; 11And Gilead,
king of Jerusalem, one; Chapter 13 Hamath. 6
All the and the border of the
the king of Hebron, one; inhabitants of the hill Geshurites and
11
The king of Jarmuth, Now Joshua was old
1
country from Lebanon Maachathites, and all
one; the king of Lachish, and stricken in years; unto Misrephothmaim, mount Hermon, and all
one; 12The king of Eglon, and the LORD said unto and all the Sidonians, Bashan unto Salcah;
one; the king of Gezer, him, Thou art old and them will I drive out from 12
All the kingdom of Og
one; 13The king of Debir, stricken in years, and before the children of in Bashan, which
one; the king of Geder, there remaineth yet very Israel: only divide thou it reigned in Ashtaroth
one; 14
The king of much land to be by lot unto the Israelites and in Edrei, who
Hormah, one; the king of possessed. 2
This is the for an inheritance, as I remained of the
Arad, one; 15The king of land that yet remaineth: have commanded thee. remnant of the giants:
Libnah, one; the king of all the borders of the 7
Now therefore divide for these did Moses
Adullam, one; 16The king Philistines, and all this land for an smite, and cast them
of Makkedah, one; the Geshuri, 3
From Sihor, inheritance unto the nine out. 13Nevertheless the
king of Bethel, one; 17The which is before Egypt, tribes, and the half tribe children of Israel
king of Tappuah, one; even unto the borders of of Manasseh, 8
With expelled not the
the king of Hepher, one; Ekron northward, which whom the Reubenites Geshurites, nor the
18
The king of Aphek, one; is counted to the and the Gadites have Maachathites: but the
the king of Lasharonb, Canaanite: five lords of received their Geshurites and the
one; 19
The king of the Philistines; the inheritance, which Moses Maachathites dwell
Madon, one; the king of Gazathites, and the gave them, beyond among the Israelites
Hazor, one; 20The king of Ashdothites, the Jordan eastward, even as until this day. 14Only
Shimronmeron, one; the Eshkalonites, the Moses the servant of the unto the tribe of Levi he
king of Achshaph, one; Gittites, and the LORD gave them; 9From gave none inheritance;
Ekronites; also the the sacrifices of the
b a
Lasharon: or, Sharon Mearah: or, the cave
LORD God of Israel made princes of Midian, Evi, the valley, Betharam, their families. 32These
by fire are their and Rekem, and Zur, and Bethnimrah, and are the countries which
inheritance, as he said and Hur, and Reba, Succoth, and Zaphon, Moses did distribute for
unto them. 15And Moses which were dukes of the rest of the kingdom inheritance in the plains
gave unto the tribe of Sihon, dwelling in the of Sihon king of of Moab, on the other
the children of Reuben country. 22Balaam also Heshbon, Jordan and his side Jordan, by Jericho,
inheritance according to the son of Beor, the border, even unto the eastward. 33But unto
their families. 16And their soothsayerd, did the edge of the sea of the tribe of Levi Moses
coast was from Aroer, children of Israel slay Chinnereth on the other gave not any
that is on the bank of the with the sword among side Jordan eastward. inheritance: the LORD
river Arnon, and the city them that were slain by 28
This is the inheritance God of Israel was their
that is in the midst of the them. 23And the border of the children of Gad inheritance, as he said
river, and all the plain by of the children of Reuben after their families, the unto them.
Medeba; 17Heshbon, and was Jordan, and the cities, and their villages.
all her cities that are in border thereof. This was 29
And Moses gave Chapter 14
the plain; Dibon, and the inheritance of the inheritance unto the half
Bamothbaalb, and children of Reuben after tribe of Manasseh: and
1
And these are the
Bethbaalmeon, 18
And their families, the cities this was the possession countries which the
Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and the villages thereof. of the half tribe of the children of Israel
and Mephaath, 19And 24
And Moses gave children of Manasseh by inherited in the land of
Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, inheritance unto the their families. 30And their Canaan, which Eleazar
and Zarethshahar in the tribe of Gad, even unto coast was from the priest, and Joshua
mount of the valley, the children of Gad Mahanaim, all Bashan, the son of Nun, and the
20
And Bethpeor, and according to their all the kingdom of Og heads of the fathers of
Ashdothpisgahc, and families. 25
And their king of Bashan, and all the tribes of the
Bethjeshimoth, 21
And all coast was Jazer, and all the towns of Jair, which children of Israel,
the cities of the plain, the cities of Gilead, and are in Bashan, distributed for
and all the kingdom of half the land of the threescore cities: 31And inheritance to them. By 2

Sihon king of the children of Ammon, unto half Gilead, and lot was their
Amorites, which reigned Aroer that is before Ashtaroth, and Edrei, inheritance, as the
in Heshbon, whom Rabbah; 26
And from cities of the kingdom of LORD commanded by
Moses smote with the Heshbon unto Og in Bashan, were the hand of Moses, for
Ramathmizpeh, and pertaining unto the the nine tribes, and for
b
Bamothbaal...: or, the high Betonim; and from children of Machir the the half tribe. 3For
places of Baal, and house of Mahanaim unto the son of Manasseh, even Moses had given the
Baalmeon border of Debir; And in
27
to the one half of the inheritance of two
c
Ashdothpisgah: or, springs of children of Machir by tribes and an half tribe
d
Pisgah, or, the hill soothsayer: or, diviner
on the other side Jordan: of the people melt: but I that the cities were great from the baya that
but unto the Levites he wholly followed the and fenced: if so be the looketh southward:
gave none inheritance LORD my God. 9And LORD will be with me, 3
And it went out to the
among them. 4For the Moses sware on that then I shall be able to south side to
children of Joseph were day, saying, Surely the drive them out, as the Maalehacrabbim, and
two tribes, Manasseh land whereon thy feet LORD said. 13And Joshua passed along to Zin,
and Ephraim: therefore have trodden shall be blessed him, and gave and ascended up on the
they gave no part unto thine inheritance, and unto Caleb the son of south side unto
the Levites in the land, thy children’s for ever, Jephunneh Hebron for an Kadeshbarnea, and
save cities to dwell in, because thou hast inheritance. 14
Hebron passed along to Hezron,
with their suburbs for wholly followed the therefore became the and went up to Adar,
their cattle and for their LORD my God. 10
And inheritance of Caleb the and fetched a compass
substance. 5As the LORD now, behold, the LORD son of Jephunneh the to Karkaa: 4
From
commanded Moses, so hath kept me alive, as Kenezite unto this day, thence it passed toward
the children of Israel did, he said, these forty and because that he wholly Azmon, and went out
and they divided the five years, even since followed the LORD God unto the river of Egypt;
land. the LORD spake this of Israel. 15And the name and the goings out of
6
Then the children of word unto Moses, while of Hebron before was that coast were at the
Judah came unto Joshua the children of Israel Kirjatharba; which Arba sea: this shall be your
in Gilgal: and Caleb the wandereda in the was a great man among south coast. 5And the
son of Jephunneh the wilderness: and now, lo, I the Anakims. And the east border was the salt
Kenezite said unto him, am this day fourscore land had rest from war. sea, even unto the end
Thou knowest the thing and five years old. 11As of Jordan. And their
that the LORD said unto yet I am as strong this Chapter 15 border in the north
Moses the man of God day as I was in the day quarter was from the
concerning me and thee that Moses sent me: as
1
This then was the lot bay of the sea at the
in Kadeshbarnea. 7Forty my strength was then, of the tribe of the uttermost part of
years old was I when even so is my strength children of Judah by their Jordan: And the border
6

Moses the servant of the now, for war, both to go families; even to the went up to Bethhogla,
LORD sent me from out, and to come in. border of Edom the and passed along by
Kadeshbarnea to espy 12
Now therefore give me wilderness of Zin the north of
out the land; and I this mountain, whereof southward was the Betharabah; and the
brought him word again the LORD spake in that uttermost part of the border went up to the
as it was in mine heart. day; for thou heardest in south coast. 2And their stone of Bohan the son
8
Nevertheless my that day how the south border was from of Reuben: 7And the
brethren that went up Anakims were there, and the shore of the salt sea, border went up toward
with me made the heart a a
wandered: Heb. walked bay: Heb. tongue
Debir from the valley of Jearim, which is up thence to the Kabzeel, and Eder, and
Achor, and so northward, Chesalon, on the north inhabitants of Debir: and Jagur, 22And Kinah, and
looking toward Gilgal, side, and went down to the name of Debir before Dimonah, and Adadah,
that is before the going Bethshemesh, and was Kirjathsepher. 16And 23
And Kedesh, and
up to Adummim, which passed on to Timnah: Caleb said, He that Hazor, and Ithnan,
is on the south side of 11
And the border went smiteth Kirjathsepher, 24
Ziph, and Telem, and
the river: and the border out unto the side of and taketh it, to him will Bealoth, 25And Hazor,
passed toward the Ekron northward: and I give Achsah my Hadattah, and Kerioth,
waters of Enshemesh, the border was drawn to daughter to wife. 17And and Hezron, which is
and the goings out Shicron, and passed Othniel the son of Kenaz, Hazor, 26Amam, and
thereof were at Enrogel: along to mount Baalah, the brother of Caleb, Shema, and Moladah,
8
And the border went up and went out unto took it: and he gave him 27
And Hazargaddah, and
by the valley of the son Jabneel; and the goings Achsah his daughter to Heshmon, and
of Hinnom unto the out of the border were at wife. 18And it came to Bethpalet, 28
And
south side of the the sea. 12And the west pass, as she came unto Hazarshual, and
Jebusite; the same is border was to the great him, that she moved him Beersheba, and
Jerusalem: and the sea, and the coast to ask of her father a Bizjothjah, 29
Baalah,
border went up to the thereof. This is the coast field: and she lighted off and Iim, and Azem,
top of the mountain that of the children of Judah her ass; and Caleb said 30
And Eltolad, and
lieth before the valley of round about according to unto her, What wouldest Chesil, and Hormah,
Hinnom westward, which their families. thou? 19Who answered, 31
And Ziklag, and
is at the end of the 13
And unto Caleb the Give me a blessing; for Madmannah, and
valley of the giants son of Jephunneh he thou hast given me a Sansannah, 32
And
northward: 9
And the gave a part among the south land; give me also Lebaoth, and Shilhim,
border was drawn from children of Judah, springs of water. And he and Ain, and Rimmon:
the top of the hill unto according to the gave her the upper all the cities are twenty
the fountain of the water commandment of the springs, and the nether and nine, with their
of Nephtoah, and went LORD to Joshua, even springs. villages: 33And in the
out to the cities of mount the cityb of Arba the 20
This is the valley, Eshtaol, and
Ephron; and the border father of Anak, which inheritance of the tribe Zoreah, and Ashnah,
was drawn to Baalah, city is Hebron. 14
And of the children of Judah 34
And Zanoah, and
which is Kirjathjearim: Caleb drove thence the according to their Engannim, Tappuah,
10
And the border three sons of Anak, families. 21
And the and Enam, 35Jarmuth,
compassed from Baalah Sheshai, and Ahiman, uttermost cities of the and Adullam, Socoh,
westward unto mount and Talmai, the children tribe of the children of and Azekah, 36
And
Seir, and passed along of Anak. 15And he went Judah toward the coast Sharaim, and Adithaim,
unto the side of mount b
of Edom southward were and Gederah, and
the city...: or, Kirjatharba
Gederothaimc; fourteen and Kirjathsannah, which children of Judah could side was Atarothaddar,
cities with their villages: is Debir, 50And Anab, and not drive them out: but unto Bethhoron the
37
Zenan, and Hadashah, Eshtemoh, and Anim, the Jebusites dwell with upper; 6And the border
and Migdalgad, 38And 51
And Goshen, and the children of Judah at went out toward the
Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven Jerusalem unto this day. sea to Michmethah on
Joktheel, 39Lachish, and cities with their villages: the north side; and the
Bozkath, and Eglon, 52
Arab, and Dumah, and Chapter 16 border went about
40
And Cabbon, and Eshean, 53And Janume, eastward unto
Lahmam, and Kithlish, and Bethtappuah, and And the lot of the
1
Taanathshiloh, and
41
And Gederoth, Aphekah, 54And Humtah, children of Joseph fella passed by it on the east
Bethdagon, and and Kirjatharba, which is from Jordan by Jericho, to Janohah; 7And it went
Naamah, and Makkedah; Hebron, and Zior; nine unto the water of Jericho down from Janohah to
sixteen cities with their cities with their villages: on the east, to the Ataroth, and to
villages: 42Libnah, and 55
Maon, Carmel, and wilderness that goeth up Naarath, and came to
Ether, and Ashan, 43And Ziph, and Juttah, 56And from Jericho throughout Jericho, and went out at
Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, mount Bethel, 2
And Jordan. 8
The border
Nezib, 44And Keilah, and and Zanoah, 57
Cain, goeth out from Bethel to went out from Tappuah
Achzib, and Mareshah; Gibeah, and Timnah; ten Luz, and passeth along westward unto the river
nine cities with their cities with their villages: unto the borders of Archi Kanah; and the goings
villages: 45Ekron, with 58
Halhul, Bethzur, and to Ataroth, 3And goeth out thereof were at the
her towns and her Gedor, 59And Maarath, down westward to the sea. This is the
villages: 46
From Ekron and Bethanoth, and coast of Japhleti, unto inheritance of the tribe
even unto the sea, all Eltekon; six cities with the coast of Bethhoron of the children of
that lay neard Ashdod, their villages: the nether, and to Gezer: Ephraim by their
with their villages: 60
Kirjathbaal, which is and the goings out families. 9
And the
47
Ashdod with her towns Kirjathjearim, and thereof are at the sea. separate cities for the
and her villages, Gaza Rabbah; two cities with
4
So the children of children of Ephraim
with her towns and her their villages: 61In the Joseph, Manasseh and were among the
villages, unto the river of wilderness, Betharabah, Ephraim, took their inheritance of the
Egypt, and the great sea, Middin, and Secacah, inheritance. children of Manasseh,
and the border thereof: 62
And Nibshan, and the
5
And the border of the all the cities with their
48
And in the mountains, city of Salt, and Engedi; children of Ephraim villages. 10
And they
Shamir, and Jattir, and six cities with their according to their drave not out the
Socoh, 49And Dannah, villages. 63As for the families was thus: even Canaanites that dwelt
Jebusites the inhabitants the border of their in Gezer: but the
c
and Gederothaim: or, or of Jerusalem, the inheritance on the east Canaanites dwell
Gederothaim among the Ephraimites
d e a
near: Heb. by the place of Janum: or, Janus fell: Heb. went forth
unto this day, and serve are the names of his Entappuah. 8
Now inhabitants of Megiddo
under tribute. daughters, Mahlah, and Manasseh had the land and her towns, even
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, of Tappuah: but Tappuah three countries. 12Yet
Chapter 17 and Tirzah. 4And they on the border of the children of
came near before Manasseh belonged to Manasseh could not
There was also a lot
1
Eleazar the priest, and the children of Ephraim; drive out the
for the tribe of before Joshua the son of 9
And the coast inhabitants of those
Manasseh; for he was Nun, and before the descended unto the river cities; but the
the firstborn of Joseph; princes, saying, The Kanahb, southward of the Canaanites would dwell
to wit, for Machir the LORD commanded river: these cities of in that land. 13Yet it
firstborn of Manasseh, Moses to give us an Ephraim are among the came to pass, when the
the father of Gilead: inheritance among our cities of Manasseh: the children of Israel were
because he was a man brethren. Therefore coast of Manasseh also waxen strong, that they
of war, therefore he had according to the was on the north side of put the Canaanites to
Gilead and Bashan. commandment of the the river, and the tribute; but did not
2
There was also a lot for LORD he gave them an outgoings of it were at utterly drive them out.
the rest of the children inheritance among the the sea: 10Southward it 14
And the children of
of Manasseh by their brethren of their father. was Ephraim’s, and Joseph spake unto
families; for the children 5
And there fell ten northward it was Joshua, saying, Why
of Abiezera, and for the portions to Manasseh, Manasseh’s, and the sea hast thou given me but
children of Helek, and for beside the land of Gilead is his border; and they one lot and one portion
the children of Asriel, and Bashan, which were met together in Asher on to inherit, seeing I am a
and for the children of on the other side Jordan; the north, and in great people,
Shechem, and for the 6
Because the daughters Issachar on the east. forasmuch as the LORD
children of Hepher, and of Manasseh had an 11
And Manasseh had in hath blessed me
for the children of inheritance among his Issachar and in Asher hitherto? 15
And Joshua
Shemida: these were the sons: and the rest of Bethshean and her answered them, If thou
male children of Manasseh’s sons had the towns, and Ibleam and be a great people, then
Manasseh the son of land of Gilead. her towns, and the get thee up to the wood
Joseph by their families. 7
And the coast of inhabitants of Dor and country, and cut down
3
But Zelophehad, the son Manasseh was from her towns, and the for thyself there in the
of Hepher, the son of Asher to Michmethah, inhabitants of Endor and land of the Perizzites
Gilead, the son of that lieth before her towns, and the and of the giantsc, if
Machir, the son of Shechem; and the inhabitants of Taanach mount Ephraim be too
Manasseh, had no sons, border went along on the and her towns, and the narrow for thee. 16And
but daughters: and these right hand unto the the children of Joseph
b
inhabitants of river Kanah: or, brook of
a c
Abiezer: also called, Jeezer reeds giants: or, Rephaims
said, The hill is not before them. priesthood of the LORD families: and the coast
enough for us: and all 2
And there remained is their inheritance: and of their lot came forth
the Canaanites that among the children of Gad, and Reuben, and between the children of
dwell in the land of the Israel seven tribes, which half the tribe of Judah and the children
valley have chariots of had not yet received Manasseh, have received of Joseph. 12And their
iron, both they who are their inheritance. 3And their inheritance beyond border on the north
of Bethshean and her Joshua said unto the Jordan on the east, which side was from Jordan;
towns, and they who are children of Israel, How Moses the servant of the and the border went up
of the valley of Jezreel. long are ye slack to go to LORD gave them. 8And to the side of Jericho on
17
And Joshua spake unto possess the land, which the men arose, and went the north side, and
the house of Joseph, the LORD God of your away: and Joshua went up through the
even to Ephraim and to fathers hath given you? charged them that went mountains westward;
Manasseh, saying, Thou 4
Give out from among to describe the land, and the goings out
art a great people, and you three men for each saying, Go and walk thereof were at the
hast great power: thou tribe: and I will send through the land, and wilderness of Bethaven.
shalt not have one lot them, and they shall describe it, and come 13
And the border went
only: 18But the mountain rise, and go through the again to me, that I may over from thence
shall be thine; for it is a land, and describe it here cast lots for you toward Luz, to the side
wood, and thou shalt cut according to the before the LORD in of Luz, which is Bethel,
it down: and the inheritance of them; and Shiloh. 9And the men southward; and the
outgoings of it shall be they shall come again to went and passed border descended to
thine: for thou shalt me. 5And they shall through the land, and Atarothadar, near the
drive out the Canaanites, divide it into seven described it by cities into hill that lieth on the
though they have iron parts: Judah shall abide seven parts in a book, south side of the nether
chariots, and though in their coast on the and came again to Bethhoron. 14And the
they be strong. south, and the house of Joshua to the host at border was drawn
Joseph shall abide in Shiloh. 10And Joshua cast thence, and compassed
Chapter 18 their coasts on the north. lots for them in Shiloh the corner of the sea
6
Ye shall therefore before the LORD: and southward, from the hill
1
And the whole describe the land into there Joshua divided the that lieth before
congregation of the seven parts, and bring land unto the children of Bethhoron southward;
children of Israel the description hither to Israel according to their and the goings out
assembled together at me, that I may cast lots divisions. thereof were at
Shiloh, and set up the for you here before the 11
And the lot of the Kirjathbaal, which is
tabernacle of the LORD our God. 7But the tribe of the children of Kirjathjearim, a city of
congregation there. And Levites have no part Benjamin came up the children of Judah:
the land was subdued among you; for the according to their this was the west
quarter. 15And the south bayb of the salt sea at according to their portion of the children
quarter was from the the south end of Jordan: families. of Judah was the
end of Kirjathjearim, and this was the south coast. inheritance of the
the border went out on 20
And Jordan was the Chapter 19 children of Simeon: for
the west, and went out border of it on the east the part of the children
to the well of waters of side. This was the
1
And the second lot of Judah was too much
Nephtoah: 16
And the inheritance of the came forth to Simeon, for them: therefore the
border came down to the children of Benjamin, by even for the tribe of the children of Simeon had
end of the mountain that the coasts thereof round children of Simeon their inheritance within
lieth before the valley of about, according to their according to their the inheritance of them.
the son of Hinnom, and families. 21Now the cities families: and their 10
And the third lot
which is in the valley of of the tribe of the inheritance was within came up for the
the giants on the north, children of Benjamin the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
and descended to the according to their children of Judah. 2And according to their
valley of Hinnom, to the families were Jericho, they had in their families: and the border
side of Jebusi on the and Bethhoglah, and the inheritance Beersheba, of their inheritance was
south, and descended to valley of Keziz, 22And or Sheba, and Moladah, unto Sarid: 11And their
Enrogel, 17
And was Betharabah, and
3
And Hazarshual, and border went up toward
drawn from the north, Zemaraim, and Bethel, Balah, and Azem, 4And the sea, and Maralah,
and went forth to 23
And Avim, and Parah, Eltolad, and Bethul, and and reached to
Enshemesh, and went and Ophrah, 24
And Hormah, 5And Ziklag, Dabbasheth, and
forth toward Geliloth, Chepharhaammonai, and and Bethmarcaboth, and reached to the river
which is over against the Ophni, and Gaba; twelve Hazarsusah, 6
And that is before Jokneam;
going up of Adummim, cities with their villages: Bethlebaoth, and 12
And turned from Sarid
and descended to the 25
Gibeon, and Ramah, Sharuhen; thirteen cities eastward toward the
stone of Bohan the son and Beeroth, 26
And and their villages: 7Ain, sunrising unto the
of Reuben, 18And passed Mizpeh, and Chephirah, Remmon, and Ether, and border of Chislothtabor,
along toward the side and Mozah, 27
And Ashan; four cities and and then goeth out to
over against Arabaha Rekem, and Irpeel, and their villages: 8And all Daberath, and goeth up
northward, and went Taralah, 28And Zelah, the villages that were to Japhia, 13And from
down unto Arabah: Eleph, and Jebusi, which round about these cities thence passeth on
19
And the border passed is Jerusalem, Gibeath, to Baalathbeer, Ramath along on the east to
along to the side of and Kirjath; fourteen of the south. This is the Gittahhepher, to
Bethhoglah northward: cities with their villages. inheritance of the tribe Ittahkazin, and goeth
and the outgoings of the This is the inheritance of of the children of Simeon out to Remmonmethoar
border were at the north the children of Benjamin according to their to Neah; 14
And the
families. 9Out of the border compasseth it
a b
Arabah: or, the plain bay: Heb. tongue
on the north side to children of Issachar 30
Ummah also, and Kedesh, and Edrei, and
Hannathon: and the according to their Aphek, and Rehob: Enhazor, 38And Iron, and
outgoings thereof are in families, the cities and twenty and two cities Migdalel, Horem, and
the valley of Jiphthahel: their villages. with their villages. 31This Bethanath, and
15
And Kattath, and 24
And the fifth lot is the inheritance of the Bethshemesh; nineteen
Nahallal, and Shimron, came out for the tribe of tribe of the children of cities with their villages.
and Idalah, and the children of Asher Asher according to their 39
This is the inheritance
Bethlehem: twelve cities according to their families, these cities with of the tribe of the
with their villages. 16This families. 25
And their their villages. children of Naphtali
is the inheritance of the border was Helkath, and 32
The sixth lot came according to their
children of Zebulun Hali, and Beten, and out to the children of families, the cities and
according to their Achshaph, 26
And Naphtali, even for the their villages.
families, these cities with Alammelech, and Amad, children of Naphtali 40
And the seventh lot
their villages. and Misheal; and according to their came out for the tribe
17
And the fourth lot reacheth to Carmel families. 33
And their of the children of Dan
came out to Issachar, for westward, and to coast was from Heleph, according to their
the children of Issachar Shihorlibnath; 27
And from Allon to families. 41And the coast
according to their turneth toward the Zaanannim, and Adami, of their inheritance was
families. 18
And their sunrising to Bethdagon, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
border was toward and reacheth to Zebulun, Lakum; and the Irshemesh, 42
And
Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and to the valley of outgoings thereof were Shaalabbin, and Ajalon,
and Shunem, 19
And Jiphthahel toward the at Jordan: 34And then the and Jethlah, 43And Elon,
Hapharaim, and Shion, north side of Bethemek, coast turneth westward and Thimnathah, and
and Anaharath, 20And and Neiel, and goeth out to Aznothtabor, and Ekron, 44And Eltekeh,
Rabbith, and Kishion, to Cabul on the left goeth out from thence to and Gibbethon, and
and Abez, 21And Remeth, hand, 28And Hebron, and Hukkok, and reacheth to Baalath, 45And Jehud,
and Engannim, and Rehob, and Hammon, Zebulun on the south and Beneberak, and
Enhaddah, and and Kanah, even unto side, and reacheth to Gathrimmon, 46
And
Bethpazzez; 22And the great Zidon; 29And then Asher on the west side, Mejarkon, and Rakkon,
coast reacheth to Tabor, the coast turneth to and to Judah upon Jordan with the border beforeb
and Shahazimah, and Ramah, and to the toward the sunrising. Japho. 47And the coast
Bethshemesh; and the strong city Tyrea; and the 35
And the fenced cities of the children of Dan
outgoings of their border coast turneth to Hosah; are Ziddim, Zer, and went out too little for
were at Jordan: sixteen and the outgoings Hammath, Rakkath, and them: therefore the
cities with their villages. thereof are at the sea Chinnereth, 36
And children of Dan went up
23
This is the inheritance from the coast to Achzib: Adamah, and Ramah, to fight against Leshem,
of the tribe of the a
and Hazor, 37
And b
Tyre: Heb. Tzor before: or, over against
and took it, and smote it tabernacle of the he smote his neighbour stranger that
with the edge of the congregation. So they unwittingly, and hated sojourneth among
sword, and possessed it, made an end of dividing him not beforetime. 6And them, that whosoever
and dwelt therein, and the country. he shall dwell in that killeth any person at
called Leshem, Dan, city, until he stand unawares might flee
after the name of Dan Chapter 20 before the congregation thither, and not die by
their father. 48This is the for judgment, and until the hand of the avenger
inheritance of the tribe
1
The LORD also spake the death of the high of blood, until he stood
of the children of Dan unto Joshua, saying, priest that shall be in before the
according to their
2
Speak to the children of those days: then shall congregation.
families, these cities with Israel, saying, Appoint the slayer return, and
their villages. out for you cities of come unto his own city, Chapter 21
49
When they had refuge, whereof I spake and unto his own house,
made an end of dividing unto you by the hand of unto the city from
1
Then came near the
the land for inheritance Moses: 3That the slayer whence he fled. heads of the fathers of
by their coasts, the that killeth any person 7
And they appointeda the Levites unto Eleazar
children of Israel gave an unawares and Kedesh in Galilee in the priest, and unto
inheritance to Joshua the unwittingly may flee mount Naphtali, and Joshua the son of Nun,
son of Nun among them: thither: and they shall be Shechem in mount and unto the heads of
50
According to the word your refuge from the Ephraim, and the fathers of the tribes
of the LORD they gave avenger of blood. 4And Kirjatharba, which is of the children of Israel;
him the city which he when he that doth flee Hebron, in the mountain
2
And they spake unto
asked, even unto one of those cities of Judah. 8And on the them at Shiloh in the
Timnathserah in mount shall stand at the other side Jordan by land of Canaan, saying,
Ephraim: and he built entering of the gate of Jericho eastward, they The LORD commanded
the city, and dwelt the city, and shall assigned Bezer in the by the hand of Moses to
therein. 51These are the declare his cause in the wilderness upon the give us cities to dwell
inheritances, which ears of the elders of that plain out of the tribe of in, with the suburbs
Eleazar the priest, and city, they shall take him Reuben, and Ramoth in thereof for our cattle.
Joshua the son of Nun, into the city unto them, Gilead out of the tribe of
3
And the children of
and the heads of the and give him a place, Gad, and Golan in Israel gave unto the
fathers of the tribes of that he may dwell Bashan out of the tribe Levites out of their
the children of Israel, among them. 5And if the of Manasseh. 9
These inheritance, at the
divided for an avenger of blood pursue were the cities appointed commandment of the
inheritance by lot in after him, then they shall for all the children of LORD, these cities and
Shiloh before the LORD, not deliver the slayer up Israel, and for the their suburbs. 4And the
at the door of the into his hand; because lot came out for the
a
appointed: Heb. sanctified
families of the by the hand of Moses. suburbs, 15And Holonc Kibzaim with her
Kohathites: and the 9
And they gave out of with her suburbs, and suburbs, and Bethhoron
children of Aaron the the tribe of the children Debir with her suburbs, with her suburbs; four
priest, which were of the of Judah, and out of the 16
And Aind with her cities. 23And out of the
Levites, had by lot out of tribe of the children of suburbs, and Juttah with tribe of Dan, Eltekeh
the tribe of Judah, and Simeon, these cities her suburbs, and with her suburbs,
out of the tribe of which are here Bethshemesh with her Gibbethon with her
Simeon, and out of the mentioned a
by name, suburbs; nine cities out suburbs, 24
Aijalon with
tribe of Benjamin, 10
Which the children of of those two tribes. her suburbs,
thirteen cities. 5And the Aaron, being of the 17
And out of the tribe of Gathrimmon with her
rest of the children of families of the Benjamin, Gibeon with suburbs; four cities.
Kohath had by lot out of Kohathites, who were of her suburbs, Gebae with 25
And out of the half
the families of the tribe the children of Levi, had: her suburbs, 18Anathoth tribe of Manasseh,
of Ephraim, and out of for theirs was the first with her suburbs, and Tanach with her
the tribe of Dan, and out lot. 11And they gave Almonf with her suburbs; suburbs, and
of the half tribe of them the cityb of Arba four cities. 19
All the Gathrimmon with her
Manasseh, ten cities. the father of Anak, which cities of the children of suburbs; two cities. 26All
6
And the children of city is Hebron, in the hill Aaron, the priests, were the cities were ten with
Gershon had by lot out country of Judah, with thirteen cities with their their suburbs for the
of the families of the the suburbs thereof suburbs. 20
And the families of the children
tribe of Issachar, and out round about it. 12But the families of the children of Kohath that
of the tribe of Asher, and fields of the city, and the of Kohath, the Levites remained. 27
And unto
out of the tribe of villages thereof, gave which remained of the the children of Gershon,
Naphtali, and out of the they to Caleb the son of children of Kohath, even of the families of the
half tribe of Manasseh in Jephunneh for his they had the cities of Levites, out of the other
Bashan, thirteen cities. possession. 13
Thus they their lot out of the tribe half tribe of Manasseh
7
The children of Merari gave to the children of of Ephraim. 21For they they gave Golan in
by their families had out Aaron the priest Hebron gave them Shechem Bashan with her
of the tribe of Reuben, with her suburbs, to be a with her suburbs in suburbs, to be a city of
and out of the tribe of city of refuge for the mount Ephraim, to be a refuge for the slayer;
Gad, and out of the tribe slayer; and Libnah with city of refuge for the and Beeshterah with
of Zebulun, twelve cities. her suburbs, 14And Jattir slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs; two cities.
8
And the children of with her suburbs, and her suburbs, 22
And 28
And out of the tribe of
Israel gave by lot unto Eshtemoa with her c
Issachar, Kishon with
the Levites these cities Holon: also called, Hilen her suburbs, Dabareh
d
with their suburbs, as Ain: also called, Ashan with her suburbs,
a e
the LORD commanded mentioned: Heb. called Geba: also called, Gaba 29
Jarmuth with her
b f
the city...: or, Kirjatharba Almon: also called, Alemeth
suburbs, Engannim with with her suburbs; four their enemies before of the LORD gave you
her suburbs; four cities. cities. 38And out of the them; the LORD on the other side
30
And out of the tribe of tribe of Gad, Ramoth in delivered all their Jordan. 5
But take
Asher, Mishal with her Gilead with her suburbs, enemies into their hand. diligent heed to do the
suburbs, Abdon with her to be a city of refuge for 45
There failed not ought commandment and the
suburbs, 31Helkath with the slayer; and of any good thing which law, which Moses the
her suburbs, and Rehob Mahanaim with her the LORD had spoken servant of the LORD
with her suburbs; four suburbs, Heshbon with
39
unto the house of Israel; charged you, to love
cities. 32And out of the her suburbs, Jazer with all came to pass. the LORD your God, and
tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh her suburbs; four cities to walk in all his ways,
in Galilee with her in all. 40So all the cities Chapter 22 and to keep his
suburbs, to be a city of for the children of Merari commandments, and to
refuge for the slayer; by their families, which
1
Then Joshua called cleave unto him, and to
and Hammothdor with were remaining of the the Reubenites, and the serve him with all your
her suburbs, and Kartan families of the Levites, Gadites, and the half heart and with all your
with her suburbs; three were by their lot twelve tribe of Manasseh, 2And soul. 6So Joshua blessed
cities. 33All the cities of cities. 41All the cities of said unto them, Ye have them, and sent them
the Gershonites the Levites within the kept all that Moses the away: and they went
according to their possession of the servant of the LORD unto their tents. 7Now
families were thirteen children of Israel were commanded you, and to the one half of the
cities with their suburbs. forty and eight cities have obeyed my voice in tribe of Manasseh
34
And unto the families of with their suburbs. all that I commanded Moses had given
the children of Merari, 42
These cities were every you: 3Ye have not left possession in Bashan:
the rest of the Levites, one with their suburbs your brethren these but unto the other half
out of the tribe of round about them: thus many days unto this day, thereof gave Joshua
Zebulun, Jokneam with were all these cities. but have kept the charge among their brethren
her suburbs, and Kartah 43
And the LORD gave of the commandment of on this side Jordan
with her suburbs, unto Israel all the land the LORD your God. 4And westward. And when
35
Dimnah with her which he sware to give now the LORD your God Joshua sent them away
suburbs, Nahalal with unto their fathers; and hath given rest unto also unto their tents,
her suburbs; four cities. they possessed it, and your brethren, as he then he blessed them,
36
And out of the tribe of dwelt therein. 44And the promised them: 8
And he spake unto
Reuben, Bezer with her LORD gave them rest therefore now return ye, them, saying, Return
suburbs, and Jahazah round about, according and get you unto your with much riches unto
with her suburbs, to all that he sware unto tents, and unto the land your tents, and with
37
Kedemoth with her their fathers: and there of your possession, very much cattle, with
suburbs, and Mephaath stood not a man of all which Moses the servant silver, and with gold,
and with brass, and with 10
And when they princes, of each chiefa following the LORD?
iron, and with very much came unto the borders of house a prince and it will be, seeing ye
raiment: divide the spoil Jordan, that are in the throughout all the tribes rebel to day against the
of your enemies with land of Canaan, the of Israel; and each one LORD, that to morrow
your brethren. 9And the children of Reuben and was an head of the he will be wroth with
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and house of their fathers the whole congregation
the children of Gad and the half tribe of among the thousands of of Israel.
the half tribe of Manasseh built there an Israel. 15And they came 19
Notwithstanding, if the
Manasseh returned, and altar by Jordan, a great unto the children of land of your possession
departed from the altar to see to. 11And the Reuben, and to the be unclean, then pass
children of Israel out of children of Israel heard children of Gad, and to ye over unto the land of
Shiloh, which is in the say, Behold, the children the half tribe of the possession of the
land of Canaan, to go of Reuben and the Manasseh, unto the land LORD, wherein the
unto the country of children of Gad and the of Gilead, and they LORD’S tabernacle
Gilead, to the land of half tribe of Manasseh spake with them, saying, dwelleth, and take
their possession, have built an altar over 16
Thus saith the whole possession among us:
whereof they were against the land of congregation of the but rebel not against
possessed, according to Canaan, in the borders LORD, What trespass is the LORD, nor rebel
the word of the LORD by of Jordan, at the passage this that ye have against us, in building
the hand of Moses. of the children of Israel. committed against the you an altar beside the
12
And when the children God of Israel, to turn altar of the LORD our
of Israel heard of it, the away this day from God. 20Did not Achan
whole congregation of following the LORD, in the son of Zerah
the children of Israel that ye have builded you commit a trespass in
gathered themselves an altar, that ye might the accursed thing, and
together at Shiloh, to go rebel this day against wrath fell on all the
up to war against them. the LORD? 17
Is the congregation of Israel?
13
And the children of iniquity of Peor too little and that man perished
Israel sent unto the for us, from which we not alone in his iniquity.
children of Reuben, and are not cleansed until 21
Then the children
to the children of Gad, this day, although there of Reuben and the
and to the half tribe of was a plague in the children of Gad and the
Manasseh, into the land congregation of the half tribe of Manasseh
of Gilead, Phinehas the LORD, But that ye must
18
answered, and said
son of Eleazar the priest, turn away this day from unto the heads of the
14
And with him ten a
thousands of Israel,
chief...: Heb. house of the 22
The LORD God of
father
gods, the LORD God of you, and our generations congregation and heads again. 33And the thing
gods, he knoweth, and after us, that we might of the thousands of pleased the children of
Israel he shall know; if it do the service of the Israel which were with Israel; and the children
be in rebellion, or if in LORD before him with him, heard the words of Israel blessed God,
transgression against our burnt offerings, and that the children of and did not intend to go
the LORD, (save us not with our sacrifices, and Reuben and the children up against them in
this day,) 23That we have with our peace offerings; of Gad and the children battle, to destroy the
built us an altar to turn that your children may of Manasseh spake, it land wherein the
from following the LORD, not say to our children in pleasedb them. 31
And children of Reuben and
or if to offer thereon time to come, Ye have Phinehas the son of Gad dwelt. 34And the
burnt offering or meat no part in the LORD. Eleazar the priest said children of Reuben and
offering, or if to offer 28
Therefore said we, that unto the children of the children of Gad
peace offerings thereon, it shall be, when they Reuben, and to the called the altar Ed: for it
let the LORD himself should so say to us or to children of Gad, and to shall be a witness
require it; 24And if we our generations in time the children of between us that the
have not rather done it to come, that we may Manasseh, This day we LORD is God.
for fear of this thing, say again, Behold the perceive that the LORD
saying, In time to come pattern of the altar of is among us, because ye Chapter 23
your children might the LORD, which our have not committed this
speak unto our children, fathers made, not for trespass against the
1
And it came to pass
saying, What have ye to burnt offerings, nor for LORD: nowc ye have a long time after that
do with the LORD God of sacrifices; but it is a delivered the children of the LORD had given
Israel? 25For the LORD witness between us and Israel out of the hand of rest unto Israel from all
hath made Jordan a you. 29God forbid that we the LORD. 32
And their enemies round
border between us and should rebel against the Phinehas the son of about, that Joshua
you, ye children of LORD, and turn this day Eleazar the priest, and waxed old and strickena
Reuben and children of from following the LORD, the princes, returned in age. 2
And Joshua
Gad; ye have no part in to build an altar for burnt from the children of called for all Israel, and
the LORD: so shall your offerings, for meat Reuben, and from the for their elders, and for
children make our offerings, or for children of Gad, out of their heads, and for
children cease from sacrifices, beside the the land of Gilead, unto their judges, and for
fearing the LORD. altar of the LORD our the land of Canaan, to their officers, and said
26
Therefore we said, Let God that is before his the children of Israel, unto them, I am old and
us now prepare to build tabernacle. and brought them word stricken in age: 3And ye
us an altar, not for burnt 30
And when Phinehas have seen all that the
b
offering, nor for sacrifice: the priest, and the pleased...: Heb. was good in
a
27
But that it may be a princes of the their eyes stricken...: Heb. come into
c
witness between us, and now: Heb. then days
LORD your God hath neither serve them, nor will no more drive out your God, which he
done unto all these bow yourselves unto any of these nations commanded you, and
nations because of you; them: 8But cleavec unto from before you; but have gone and served
for the LORD your God is the LORD your God, as they shall be snares and other gods, and bowed
he that hath fought for ye have done unto this traps unto you, and yourselves to them;
you. 4Behold, I have day. 9
For the LORDd scourges in your sides, then shall the anger of
divided unto you by lot hath driven out from and thorns in your eyes, the LORD be kindled
these nations that before you great nations until ye perish from off against you, and ye
remain, to be an and strong: but as for this good land which the shall perish quickly
inheritance for your you, no man hath been LORD your God hath from off the good land
tribes, from Jordan, with able to stand before you given you. 14And, behold, which he hath given
all the nations that I unto this day. 10
One this day I am going the unto you.
have cut off, even unto man of you shall chase a way of all the earth: and
the great sea westwardb. thousand: for the LORD ye know in all your Chapter 24
5
And the LORD your God, your God, he it is that hearts and in all your
he shall expel them from fighteth for you, as he souls, that not one thing
1
And Joshua
before you, and drive hath promised you. hath failed of all the gathered all the tribes
them from out of your 11
Take good heed good things which the of Israel to Shechem,
sight; and ye shall therefore unto LORD your God spake and called for the
possess their land, as yourselves , that ye love
e
concerning you; all are elders of Israel, and for
the LORD your God hath the LORD your God. come to pass unto you, their heads, and for
promised unto you. 6Be 12
Else if ye do in any and not one thing hath their judges, and for
ye therefore very wise go back, and cleave failed thereof. their officers; and they
courageous to keep and unto the remnant of 15
Therefore it shall come presented themselves
to do all that is written in these nations, even to pass, that as all good before God. 2And Joshua
the book of the law of these that remain things are come upon said unto all the people,
Moses, that ye turn not among you, and shall you, which the LORD Thus saith the LORD
aside therefrom to the make marriages with your God promised you; God of Israel, Your
right hand or to the left; them, and go in unto so shall the LORD bring fathers dwelt on the
7
That ye come not them, and they to you: upon you all evil things, other side of the flood
among these nations, 13
Know for a certainty until he have destroyed in old time, even Terah,
these that remain that the LORD your God you from off this good the father of Abraham,
among you; neither land which the LORD and the father of
c
make mention of the But cleave...: or, For if ye will your God hath given you. Nachor: and they
name of their gods, nor cleave, etc 16
When ye have served other gods. 3And
d
cause to swear by them, For the LORD...: or, Then the transgressed the I took your father
LORD will drive covenant of the LORD Abraham from the other
b e
westward: Heb. at the sunset yourselves: Heb. your souls
side of the flood, and led fought with you: and I in them; of the vineyards way wherein we went,
him throughout all the gave them into your and oliveyards which ye and among all the
land of Canaan, and hand, that ye might planted not do ye eat. people through whom
multiplied his seed, and possess their land; and I 14
Now therefore fear the we passed: 18And the
gave him Isaac. 4And I destroyed them from LORD, and serve him in LORD drave out from
gave unto Isaac Jacob before you. 9Then Balak sincerity and in truth: before us all the people,
and Esau: and I gave the son of Zippor, king of and put away the gods even the Amorites
unto Esau mount Seir, to Moab, arose and warred which your fathers which dwelt in the land:
possess it; but Jacob and against Israel, and sent served on the other side therefore will we also
his children went down and called Balaam the of the flood, and in serve the LORD; for he
into Egypt. 5I sent Moses son of Beor to curse you: Egypt; and serve ye the is our God. 19And Joshua
also and Aaron, and I 10
But I would not hearken LORD. said unto the people, Ye
plagued Egypt, unto Balaam; therefore 15
And if it seem evil cannot serve the LORD:
according to that which I he blessed you still: so I unto you to serve the for he is an holy God;
did among them: and delivered you out of his LORD, choose you this he is a jealous God; he
afterward I brought you hand. 11And ye went over day whom ye will serve; will not forgive your
out. 6And I brought your Jordan, and came unto whether the gods which transgressions nor your
fathers out of Egypt: and Jericho: and the men of your fathers served that sins. 20If ye forsake the
ye came unto the sea; Jericho fought against were on the other side of LORD, and serve
and the Egyptians you, the Amorites, and the flood, or the gods of strange gods, then he
pursued after your the Perizzites, and the the Amorites, in whose will turn and do you
fathers with chariots and Canaanites, and the land ye dwell: but as for hurt, and consume you,
horsemen unto the Red Hittites, and the me and my house, we after that he hath done
sea. 7And when they Girgashites, the Hivites, will serve the LORD. you good. 21And the
cried unto the LORD, he and the Jebusites; and I 16
And the people people said unto
put darkness between delivered them into your answered and said, God Joshua, Nay; but we will
you and the Egyptians, hand. 12And I sent the forbid that we should serve the LORD. 22And
and brought the sea hornet before you, which forsake the LORD, to Joshua said unto the
upon them, and covered drave them out from serve other gods; 17For people, Ye are
them; and your eyes before you, even the two the LORD our God, he it witnesses against
have seen what I have kings of the Amorites; is that brought us up and yourselves that ye have
done in Egypt: and ye but not with thy sword, our fathers out of the chosen you the LORD,
dwelt in the wilderness a nor with thy bow. 13And I land of Egypt, from the to serve him. And they
long season. 8And I have given you a land house of bondage, and said, We are witnesses.
brought you into the for which ye did not which did those great 23
Now therefore put
land of the Amorites, labour, and cities which signs in our sight, and away, said he, the
which dwelt on the other ye built not, and ye dwell preserved us in all the strange gods which are
side Jordan; and they
among you, and incline 29
And it came to pass his son, which was given
your heart unto the after these things, that him in mount Ephraim.
LORD God of Israel. Joshua the son of Nun,
24
And the people said the servant of the LORD,
unto Joshua, The LORD died, being an hundred
our God will we serve, and ten years old. 30And
and his voice will we they buried him in the
obey. 25So Joshua made border of his inheritance
a covenant with the in Timnathserah, which
people that day, and set is in mount Ephraim, on
them a statute and an the north side of the hill
ordinance in Shechem. of Gaash. 31And Israel
And Joshua wrote these served the LORD all the Judges
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words in the book of the days of Joshua, and all


law of God, and took a the days of the elders
great stone, and set it up that overliveda Joshua,
Chapter 1
there under an oak, that and which had known all 1
Now after the death
was by the sanctuary of the works of the LORD, of Joshua it came to
the LORD. 27And Joshua that he had done for pass, that the children
said unto all the people, Israel. 32And the bones of Israel asked the
Behold, this stone shall of Joseph, which the LORD, saying, Who
be a witness unto us; for children of Israel brought shall go up for us
it hath heard all the up out of Egypt, buried against the Canaanites
words of the LORD which they in Shechem, in a first, to fight against
he spake unto us: it shall parcel of ground which them? 2And the LORD
be therefore a witness Jacob bought of the sons said, Judah shall go up:
unto you, lest ye deny of Hamor the father of behold, I have delivered
your God. 28So Joshua let Shechem for an hundred the land into his hand.
the people depart, every pieces of silver: and it 3
And Judah said unto
man unto his became the inheritance Simeon his brother,
inheritance. of the children of Joseph. Come up with me into
33
And Eleazar the son of my lot, that we may
Aaron died; and they fight against the
buried him in a hill that Canaanites; and I
pertained to Phinehas likewise will go with
a
overlived...: Heb. prolonged thee into thy lot. So
their days after Joshua Simeon went with him.
4
And Judah went up; and And afterward the
9
me a blessing: for thou unto Caleb, as Moses
the LORD delivered the children of Judah went hast given me a south said: and he expelled
Canaanites and the down to fight against the land; give me also thence the three sons
Perizzites into their Canaanites, that dwelt in springs of water. And of Anak.
hand: and they slew of the mountain, and in the Caleb gave her the 21
And the children of
them in Bezek ten south, and in the valleyb. upper springs and the Benjamin did not drive
thousand men. 5And they 10
And Judah went against nether springs. 16And the out the Jebusites that
found Adonibezek in the Canaanites that children of the Kenite, inhabited Jerusalem;
Bezek: and they fought dwelt in Hebron: (now Moses’ father in law, but the Jebusites dwell
against him, and they the name of Hebron went up out of the city of with the children of
slew the Canaanites and before was Kirjatharba:) palm trees with the Benjamin in Jerusalem
the Perizzites. 6
But and they slew Sheshai, children of Judah into the unto this day. 22And the
Adonibezek fled; and and Ahiman, and Talmai. wilderness of Judah, house of Joseph, they
they pursued after him, 11
And from thence he which lieth in the south also went up against
and caught him, and cut went against the of Arad; and they went Bethel: and the LORD
off his thumbs and his inhabitants of Debir: and and dwelt among the was with them. 23And
great toes. 7
And the name of Debir before people. 17And Judah went the house of Joseph
Adonibezek said, was Kirjathsepher: 12And with Simeon his brother, sent to descry Bethel.
Threescore and ten Caleb said, He that and they slew the (Now the name of the
kings, having their smiteth Kirjathsepher, Canaanites that city before was Luz.)
thumbsa and their great and taketh it, to him will inhabited Zephath, and 24
And the spies saw a
toes cut off, gathered I give Achsah my utterly destroyed it. And man come forth out of
their meat under my daughter to wife. 13And the name of the city was the city, and they said
table: as I have done, so Othniel the son of Kenaz, called Hormah. 18Also unto him, Shew us, we
God hath requited me. Caleb’s younger brother, Judah took Gaza with the pray thee, the entrance
And they brought him to took it: and he gave him coast thereof, and into the city, and we
Jerusalem, and there he Achsah his daughter to Askelon with the coast will shew thee mercy.
died. 8Now the children wife. 14And it came to thereof, and Ekron with 25
And when he shewed
of Judah had fought pass, when she came to the coast thereof. 19And them the entrance into
against Jerusalem, and him, that she moved him the LORD was with the city, they smote the
had taken it, and smitten to ask of her father a Judah; and he drave out city with the edge of
it with the edge of the field: and she lighted the inhabitants of the the sword; but they let
sword, and set the city from off her ass; and mountain; but could not go the man and all his
on fire. Caleb said unto her, drive out the inhabitants family. 26And the man
a
What wilt thou? 15And of the valley, because went into the land of
their thumbs...: Heb. the she said unto him, Give they had chariots of iron. the Hittites, and built a
thumbs of their hands and of 20
And they gave Hebron city, and called the
b
their feet valley: or, low country
name thereof Luz: which Aphik, nor of Rehob: Chapter 2 unto the LORD.
is the name thereof unto 32
But the Asherites dwelt 6
And when Joshua
this day. 27Neither did among the Canaanites, And an angela of the
1
had let the people go,
Manasseh drive out the the inhabitants of the LORD came up from the children of Israel
inhabitants of Bethshean land: for they did not Gilgal to Bochim, and went every man unto
and her towns, nor drive them out. 33Neither said, I made you to go his inheritance to
Taanach and her towns, did Naphtali drive out up out of Egypt, and possess the land. 7And
nor the inhabitants of the inhabitants of have brought you unto the people served the
Dor and her towns, nor Bethshemesh, nor the the land which I sware LORD all the days of
the inhabitants of Ibleam inhabitants of unto your fathers; and I Joshua, and all the days
and her towns, nor the Bethanath; but he dwelt said, I will never break of the elders that
inhabitants of Megiddo among the Canaanites, my covenant with you. outlived Joshua, who
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and her towns: but the the inhabitants of the 2


And ye shall make no had seen all the great
Canaanites would dwell land: nevertheless the league with the works of the LORD, that
in that land. 28And it inhabitants of inhabitants of this land; he did for Israel. 8And
came to pass, when Bethshemesh and of ye shall throw down their Joshua the son of Nun,
Israel was strong, that Bethanath became altars: but ye have not the servant of the
they put the Canaanites tributaries unto them. obeyed my voice: why LORD, died, being an
to tribute, and did not 34
And the Amorites have ye done this? hundred and ten years
utterly drive them out. forced the children of 3
Wherefore I also said, I old. 9And they buried
29
Neither did Ephraim Dan into the mountain: will not drive them out him in the border of his
drive out the Canaanites for they would not suffer from before you; but inheritance in
that dwelt in Gezer; but them to come down to they shall be as thorns in Timnathheres, in the
the Canaanites dwelt in the valley: 35But the your sides, and their mount of Ephraim, on
Gezer among them. Amorites would dwell in gods shall be a snare the north side of the hill
30
Neither did Zebulun mount Heres in Aijalon, unto you. 4And it came Gaash. 10And also all
drive out the inhabitants and in Shaalbim: yet the to pass, when the angel that generation were
of Kitron, nor the hand of the house of of the LORD spake these gathered unto their
inhabitants of Nahalol; Joseph prevailedc, so that words unto all the fathers: and there arose
but the Canaanites dwelt they became tributaries. children of Israel, that another generation
among them, and 36
And the coast of the the people lifted up their after them, which knew
became tributaries. Amorites was from the voice, and wept. 5And not the LORD, nor yet
31
Neither did Asher drive going up to Akrabbim, they called the name of the works which he had
out the inhabitants of from the rock, and that place Bochimb: and done for Israel. 11And
Accho, nor the upward. they sacrificed there the children of Israel did
inhabitants of Zidon, nor a c
of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, angel: or, messenger outlived: Heb. prolonged
c b
nor of Helbah, nor of prevailed: Heb. was heavy Bochim: that is, Weepers days after
evil in the sight of the raised up judges, which unto them; they ceased them, even as many of
LORD, and served deliveredd them out of not from their own Israel as had not known
Baalim: 12
And they the hand of those that doings, nor from their all the wars of Canaan;
forsook the LORD God of spoiled them. 17And yet stubborn way. 20And the 2
Only that the
their fathers, which they would not hearken anger of the LORD was generations of the
brought them out of the unto their judges, but hot against Israel; and children of Israel might
land of Egypt, and they went a whoring he said, Because that know, to teach them
followed other gods, of after other gods, and this people hath war, at the least such
the gods of the people bowed themselves unto transgressed my as before knew nothing
that were round about them: they turned covenant which I thereof; 3Namely, five
them, and bowed quickly out of the way commanded their lords of the Philistines,
themselves unto them, which their fathers fathers, and have not and all the Canaanites,
and provoked the LORD walked in, obeying the hearkened unto my and the Sidonians, and
to anger. 13And they commandments of the voice; 21
I also will not the Hivites that dwelt in
forsook the LORD, and LORD; but they did not henceforth drive out any mount Lebanon, from
served Baal and so. 18And when the LORD from before them of the mount Baalhermon
Ashtaroth. 14
And the raised them up judges, nations which Joshua left unto the entering in of
anger of the LORD was then the LORD was with when he died: 22That Hamath. 4
And they
hot against Israel, and the judge, and delivered through them I may were to prove Israel by
he delivered them into them out of the hand of prove Israel, whether them, to know whether
the hands of spoilers their enemies all the they will keep the way of they would hearken
that spoiled them, and days of the judge: for it the LORD to walk unto the
he sold them into the repented the LORD therein, as their fathers commandments of the
hands of their enemies because of their did keep it, or not. LORD, which he
round about, so that groanings by reason of 23
Therefore the LORD commanded their
they could not any them that oppressed leftf those nations, fathers by the hand of
longer stand before their them and vexed them. without driving them out Moses. 5
And the
enemies. 19
And it came to pass, hastily; neither delivered children of Israel dwelt
15
Whithersoever they when the judge was he them into the hand of among the Canaanites,
went out, the hand of dead, that they returned, Joshua. Hittites, and Amorites,
the LORD was against and corruptede and Perizzites, and
them for evil, as the themselves more than Chapter 3 Hivites, and Jebusites:
LORD had said, and as their fathers, in following 6
And they took their
the LORD had sworn other gods to serve Now these are the
1
daughters to be their
unto them: and they them, and to bow down nations which the LORD wives, and gave their
were greatly distressed. left, to prove Israel by daughters to their sons,
d
16
Nevertheless the LORD delivered: Heb. saved and served their gods.
e f
corrupted...: or, were corrupt left: or, suffered
7
And the children of 11
And the land had rest his raiment upon his dagger out of his belly;
Israel did evil in the sight forty years. And Othniel right thigh. 17And he and the dirtf came out.
of the LORD, and forgat the son of Kenaz died. brought the present unto 23
Then Ehud went forth
the LORD their God, and 12
And the children of Eglon king of Moab: and through the porch, and
served Baalim and the Israel did evil again in Eglon was a very fat shut the doors of the
groves. the sight of the LORD: man. 18And when he had parlour upon him, and
8
Therefore the anger and the LORD made an end to offer the locked them. 24When he
of the LORD was hot strengthened Eglon the present, he sent away was gone out, his
against Israel, and he king of Moab against the people that bare the servants came; and
sold them into the hand Israel, because they had present. 19But he himself when they saw that,
of Chushanrishathaim done evil in the sight of turned again from the behold, the doors of the
king of Mesopotamiaa: the LORD. 13And he quarriesd that were by parlour were locked,
and the children of Israel gathered unto him the Gilgal, and said, I have a they said, Surely he
served children of Ammon and secret errand unto thee, coverethg his feet in his
Chushanrishathaim eight Amalek, and went and O king: who said, Keep summer chamber.
years. 9
And when the smote Israel, and silence. And all that 25
And they tarried till
children of Israel cried possessed the city of stood by him went out they were ashamed:
unto the LORD, the palm trees. 14So the from him. 20And Ehud and, behold, he opened
LORD raised up a children of Israel served came unto him; and he not the doors of the
deliverer to the children
b
Eglon the king of Moab was sitting in a summere parlour; therefore they
of Israel, who delivered eighteen years. 15But parlour, which he had for took a key, and opened
them, even Othniel the when the children of himself alone. And Ehud them: and, behold, their
son of Kenaz, Caleb’s Israel cried unto the said, I have a message lord was fallen down
younger brother. 10And LORD, the LORD raised from God unto thee. And dead on the earth.
the Spirit of the LORD them up a deliverer, he arose out of his seat. 26
And Ehud escaped
came upon him, and he Ehud the son of Gera, a 21
And Ehud put forth his while they tarried, and
judged Israel, and went Benjamitec, a man left hand, and took the passed beyond the
out to war: and the LORD lefthanded: and by him dagger from his right quarries, and escaped
delivered the children of Israel thigh, and thrust it into unto Seirath. 27And it
Chushanrishathaim king sent a present unto his belly: 22And the haft came to pass, when he
of Mesopotamia into his Eglon the king of Moab. also went in after the was come, that he blew
hand; and his hand 16
But Ehud made him a blade; and the fat closed a trumpet in the
prevailed against dagger which had two upon the blade, so that mountain of Ephraim,
Chushanrishathaim. edges, of a cubit length; he could not draw the f
and he did gird it under the dirt...: or, it came out at
a d
Mesopotamia: Heb. quarries: or, graven images the buttocks
c e g
Aramnaharaim a Benjamite: or, the son of a summer...: Heb. a parlour of covereth...: or, doeth his
b
deliverer: Heb. saviour Jemini cooling easement
and the children of Israel when Ehud was dead. of the children of the plain of Zaanaim,
went down with him 2
And the LORD sold them Naphtali and of the which is by Kedesh.
from the mount, and he into the hand of Jabin children of Zebulun? 12
And they shewed
before them. 28And he king of Canaan, that 7
And I will draw unto Sisera that Barak the
said unto them, Follow reigned in Hazor; the thee to the river Kishon son of Abinoam was
after me: for the LORD captain of whose host Sisera, the captain of gone up to mount
hath delivered your was Sisera, which dwelt Jabin’s army, with his Tabor. 13
And Sisera
enemies the Moabites in Harosheth of the chariots and his gathered togethera all
into your hand. And they Gentiles. 3
And the multitude; and I will his chariots, even nine
went down after him, children of Israel cried deliver him into thine hundred chariots of
and took the fords of unto the LORD: for he hand. 8And Barak said iron, and all the people
Jordan toward Moab, and had nine hundred unto her, If thou wilt go that were with him,
suffered not a man to chariots of iron; and with me, then I will go: from Harosheth of the
pass over. 29And they twenty years he mightily but if thou wilt not go Gentiles unto the river
slew of Moab at that oppressed the children with me, then I will not of Kishon. 14
And
time about ten thousand of Israel. go. 9And she said, I will Deborah said unto
men, all lustyh, and all 4
And Deborah, a surely go with thee: Barak, Up; for this is the
men of valour; and there prophetess, the wife of notwithstanding the day in which the LORD
escaped not a man. 30So Lapidoth, she judged journey that thou takest hath delivered Sisera
Moab was subdued that Israel at that time. 5And shall not be for thine into thine hand: is not
day under the hand of she dwelt under the honour; for the LORD the LORD gone out
Israel. And the land had palm tree of Deborah shall sell Sisera into the before thee? So Barak
rest fourscore years. between Ramah and hand of a woman. And went down from mount
31
And after him was Bethel in mount Deborah arose, and went Tabor, and ten
Shamgar the son of Ephraim: and the with Barak to Kedesh. thousand men after
Anath, which slew of the children of Israel came 10
And Barak called him. 15And the LORD
Philistines six hundred up to her for judgment. Zebulun and Naphtali to discomfited Sisera, and
men with an ox goad: 6
And she sent and called Kedesh; and he went up all his chariots, and all
and he also delivered Barak the son of with ten thousand men his host, with the edge
Israel. Abinoam out of at his feet: and Deborah of the sword before
Kedeshnaphtali, and said went up with him. 11Now Barak; so that Sisera
Chapter 4 unto him, Hath not the Heber the Kenite, which lighted down off his
LORD God of Israel was of the children of chariot, and fled away
And the children of
1
commanded, saying, Go Hobab the father in law on his feet. 16But Barak
Israel again did evil in and draw toward mount of Moses, had severed pursued after the
the sight of the LORD, Tabor, and take with himself from the Kenites, a
thee ten thousand men and pitched his tent unto together: Heb. by cry, or,
h
lusty: Heb. fat proclamation
chariots, and after the Is there any man here? Chapter 5 inhabitants of the
host, unto Harosheth of that thou shalt say, No. villages ceased, they
the Gentiles: and all the 21
Then Jael Heber’s wife 1
Then sang Deborah ceased in Israel, until
host of Sisera fell upon took a nail of the tent, and Barak the son of that I Deborah arose,
the edge of the sword; and tookd an hammer in Abinoam on that day, that I arose a mother in
and there was not a her hand, and went saying, 2Praise ye the Israel. 8They chose new
manb left. softly unto him, and LORD for the avenging of gods; then was war in
17
Howbeit Sisera fled smote the nail into his Israel, when the people the gates: was there a
away on his feet to the temples, and fastened it willingly offered shield or spear seen
tent of Jael the wife of into the ground: for he themselves. Hear, O ye
3
among forty thousand
Heber the Kenite: for was fast asleep and kings; give ear, O ye in Israel? 9My heart is
there was peace weary. So he died. princes; I, even I, will toward the governors of
between Jabin the king 22
And, behold, as Barak sing unto the LORD; I will Israel, that offered
of Hazor and the house pursued Sisera, Jael sing praise to the LORD themselves willingly
of Heber the Kenite. came out to meet him, God of Israel. 4LORD, among the people.
18
And Jael went out to and said unto him, when thou wentest out Bless ye the LORD.
meet Sisera, and said Come, and I will shew of Seir, when thou 10
Speakc, ye that ride on
unto him, Turn in, my thee the man whom thou marchedst out of the white asses, ye that sit
lord, turn in to me; fear seekest. And when he field of Edom, the earth in judgment, and walk
not. And when he had came into her tent, trembled, and the by the way. 11They that
turned in unto her into behold, Sisera lay dead, heavens dropped, the are delivered from the
the tent, she covered and the nail was in his clouds also dropped noise of archers in the
him with a mantlec. temples. 23
So God water. 5The mountains places of drawing
19
And he said unto her, subdued on that day melteda from before the water, there shall they
Give me, I pray thee, a Jabin the king of Canaan LORD, even that Sinai rehearse the righteous
little water to drink; for I before the children of from before the LORD acts of the LORD, even
am thirsty. And she Israel. 24And the hand of God of Israel. the righteous acts
opened a bottle of milk, the children of Israel 6
In the days of toward the inhabitants
and gave him drink, and prosperede, and Shamgar the son of of his villages in Israel:
covered him. 20Again he prevailed against Jabin Anath, in the days of then shall the people of
said unto her, Stand in the king of Canaan, until Jael, the highways were the LORD go down to
the door of the tent, and they had destroyed Jabin unoccupied, and the the gates.
it shall be, when any king of Canaan. travellersb walked 12
Awake, awake,
man doth come and through byways. 7
The Deborah: awake,
enquire of thee, and say, d a
awake, utter a song:
and took: Heb. and put melted: Heb. flowed arise, Barak, and lead
b e b
a man: Heb. unto one prospered...: Heb. going went travellers: Heb. walkers of
c c
mantle: or, rug, or, blanket and was hard paths Speak: or, Meditate
thy captivity captive, continued on the sea to the help of the LORD, have they not divided
thou son of Abinoam. shoref, and abode in his to the help of the LORD the prey; to everyk man
13
Then he made him that breaches. 18
Zebulun against the mighty. a damsel or two; to
remaineth have and Naphtali were a 24
Blessed above Sisera a prey of divers
dominion over the people that jeopardedg women shall Jael the colours, a prey of divers
nobles among the their lives unto the death wife of Heber the Kenite colours of needlework,
people: the LORD made in the high places of the be, blessed shall she be of divers colours of
me have dominion over field. 19The kings came above women in the needlework on both
the mighty. 14Out of and fought, then fought tent. 25He asked water, sides, meet for the
Ephraim was there a root the kings of Canaan in and she gave him milk; necks of them that take
of them against Amalek; Taanach by the waters of she brought forth butter the spoil? 31So let all
after thee, Benjamin, Megiddo; they took no in a lordly dish. 26She put thine enemies perish, O
among thy people; out of gain of money. 20They her hand to the nail, and LORD: but let them that
Machir came down fought from heaven; the her right hand to the love him be as the sun
governors, and out of stars in their coursesh workmen’s hammer; and when he goeth forth in
Zebulun they that fought against Sisera. with the hammer she his might. And the land
handled the pen of the 21
The river of Kishon smote Sisera, she smote had rest forty years.
writer. 15And the princes swept them away, that off his head, when she
of Issachar were with ancient river, the river had pierced and stricken Chapter 6
Deborah; even Issachar, Kishon. O my soul, thou through his temples.
and also Barak: he was hast trodden down 27
At her feet he bowed, And the children of
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sent on foote into the strength. 22


Then were he fell, he lay down: at Israel did evil in the
valley. For the divisions the horsehoofs broken her feet he bowed, he sight of the LORD: and
of Reuben there were by the means of the fell: where he bowed, the LORD delivered
great thoughts of heart. pransingsi, the pransings there he fell down dead. them into the hand of
16
Why abodest thou of their mighty ones. 28
The mother of Sisera Midian seven years.
among the sheepfolds, 23
Curse ye Meroz, said looked out at a window,
2
And the hand of Midian
to hear the bleatings of the angel of the LORD, and cried through the prevaileda against
the flocks? For the curse ye bitterly the lattice, Why is his chariot Israel: and because of
divisions of Reuben inhabitants thereof; so long in coming? why the Midianites the
there were great because they came not tarry the wheels of his children of Israel made
searchings of heart. chariots? 29
Her wise them the dens which
f
17
Gilead abode beyond shore: or, port ladies answered her, are in the mountains,
g
Jordan: and why did Dan jeoparded: Heb. exposed to yea, she returned and caves, and strong
remain in ships? Asher reproach answerj to herself,
h k
courses: Heb. paths 30
Have they not sped? every...: Heb. the head of a
d i
handle: Heb. draw with pransings: or, tramplings, or, man
e j a
foot: Heb. his feet plungings answer: Heb. her words prevailed: Heb. was strong
holds. 3And so it was, them, Thus saith the why then is all this and bring forth my
when Israel had sown, LORD God of Israel, I befallen us? and where presente, and set it
that the Midianites came brought you up from be all his miracles which before thee. And he
up, and the Amalekites, Egypt, and brought you our fathers told us of, said, I will tarry until
and the children of the forth out of the house of saying, Did not the LORD thou come again. 19And
east, even they came up bondage; 9
And I bring us up from Egypt? Gideon went in, and
against them; 4And they delivered you out of the but now the LORD hath made ready a kidf, and
encamped against them, hand of the Egyptians, forsaken us, and unleavened cakes of an
and destroyed the and out of the hand of all delivered us into the ephah of flour: the flesh
increase of the earth, till that oppressed you, and hands of the Midianites. he put in a basket, and
thou come unto Gaza, drave them out from 14
And the LORD looked he put the broth in a
and left no sustenance before you, and gave upon him, and said, Go pot, and brought it out
for Israel, neither sheep, you their land; 10And I in this thy might, and unto him under the oak,
nor ox, nor ass. 5For they said unto you, I am the thou shalt save Israel and presented it. 20And
came up with their cattle LORD your God; fear not from the hand of the the angel of God said
and their tents, and they the gods of the Amorites, Midianites: have not I unto him, Take the
came as grasshoppers in whose land ye dwell: sent thee? 15And he said flesh and the
for multitude; for both but ye have not obeyed unto him, Oh my Lord, unleavened cakes, and
they and their camels my voice. wherewith shall I save lay them upon this rock,
were without number: 11
And there came an Israel? behold, my and pour out the broth.
and they entered into angel of the LORD, and familyd is poor in And he did so. 21Then
the land to destroy it. sat under an oak which Manasseh, and I am the the angel of the LORD
6
And Israel was greatly was in Ophrah, that least in my father’s put forth the end of the
impoverished because of pertained unto Joash the house. 16And the LORD staff that was in his
the Midianites; and the Abiezrite: and his son said unto him, Surely I hand, and touched the
children of Israel cried Gideonc threshed wheat will be with thee, and flesh and the
unto the LORD. by the winepress, to hide thou shalt smite the unleavened cakes; and
7
And it came to pass, it from the Midianites. Midianites as one man. there rose up fire out of
when the children of 12
And the angel of the 17
And he said unto him, If the rock, and consumed
Israel cried unto the LORD appeared unto now I have found grace the flesh and the
LORD because of the him, and said unto him, in thy sight, then shew unleavened cakes. Then
Midianites, 8
That the The LORD is with thee, me a sign that thou the angel of the LORD
LORD sent a prophetb thou mighty man of talkest with me. 18Depart departed out of his
unto the children of valour. 13And Gideon said not hence, I pray thee, sight. 22
And when
Israel, which said unto unto him, Oh my Lord, if until I come unto thee, Gideon perceived that
b
the LORD be with us, d e
a prophet: Heb. a man a my family...: Heb. my present: or, meat offering
c f
prophet Gideon: Gr. Gedeon thousand is the meanest a kid: Heb. a kid of the goats
he was an angel of the men of his servants, and put to death whilst it is thou wilt save Israel by
LORD, Gideon said, Alas, did as the LORD had said yet morning: if he be a mine hand, as thou hast
O Lord GOD! for because unto him: and so it was, god, let him plead for said, 37Behold, I will put
I have seen an angel of because he feared his himself, because one a fleece of wool in the
the LORD face to face. father’s household, and hath cast down his altar. floor; and if the dew be
23
And the LORD said unto the men of the city, that 32
Therefore on that day on the fleece only, and
him, Peace be unto thee; he could not do it by he called him Jerubbaali, it be dry upon all the
fear not: thou shalt not day, that he did it by saying, Let Baal plead earth beside, then shall
die. 24Then Gideon built night. 28And when the against him, because he I know that thou wilt
an altar there unto the men of the city arose hath thrown down his save Israel by mine
LORD, and called it early in the morning, altar. hand, as thou hast said.
Jehovahshalomg: unto behold, the altar of Baal 33
Then all the 38
And it was so: for he
this day it is yet in was cast down, and the Midianites and the rose up early on the
Ophrah of the Abiezrites. grove was cut down that Amalekites and the morrow, and thrust the
25
And it came to pass was by it, and the children of the east were fleece together, and
the same night, that the second bullock was gathered together, and wringed the dew out of
LORD said unto him, offered upon the altar went over, and pitched the fleece, a bowl full of
Take thy father’s young that was built. 29And they in the valley of Jezreel. water. 39And Gideon
bullock, even the second said one to another, Who 34
But the Spirit of the said unto God, Let not
bullock of seven years hath done this thing? LORD camej upon thine anger be hot
old, and throw down the And when they enquired Gideon, and he blew a against me, and I will
altar of Baal that thy and asked, they said, trumpet; and Abiezer speak but this once: let
father hath, and cut Gideon the son of Joash was gathered after him. me prove, I pray thee,
down the grove that is hath done this thing. 35
And he sent but this once with the
by it: 26
And build an 30
Then the men of the messengers throughout fleece; let it now be dry
altar unto the LORD thy city said unto Joash, all Manasseh; who also only upon the fleece,
God upon the top of this Bring out thy son, that was gatheredk after him: and upon all the ground
rockh, in the ordered he may die: because he and he sent messengers let there be dew. 40And
place, and take the hath cast down the altar unto Asher, and unto God did so that night:
second bullock, and offer of Baal, and because he Zebulun, and unto for it was dry upon the
a burnt sacrifice with the hath cut down the grove Naphtali; and they came fleece only, and there
wood of the grove which that was by it. 31And up to meet them. 36And was dew on all the
thou shalt cut down. Joash said unto all that Gideon said unto God, If ground.
27
Then Gideon took ten stood against him, Will i
ye plead for Baal? will ye Jerubbaal: that is, Let Baal Chapter 7
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Jehovahshalom: that is, The save him? he that will plead
j
LORD send peace plead for him, let him be came...: Heb. clothed 1
Then Jerubbaal, who
h k
rock: Heb. strong place gathered: Heb. called
is Gideon, and all the whomsoever I say unto host of Midian was Behold, I dreamed a
people that were with thee, This shall not go beneath him in the dream, and, lo, a cake
him, rose up early, and with thee, the same shall valley. of barley bread tumbled
pitched beside the well not go. 5So he brought 9
And it came to pass into the host of Midian,
of Harod: so that the down the people unto the same night, that the and came unto a tent,
host of the Midianites the water: and the LORD LORD said unto him, and smote it that it fell,
were on the north side of said unto Gideon, Every Arise, get thee down and overturned it, that
them, by the hill of one that lappeth of the unto the host; for I have the tent lay along.
Moreh, in the valley. water with his tongue, as delivered it into thine 14
And his fellow
2
And the LORD said unto a dog lappeth, him shalt hand. 10But if thou fear answered and said, This
Gideon, The people that thou set by himself; to go down, go thou with is nothing else save the
are with thee are too likewise every one that Phurah thy servant down sword of Gideon the son
many for me to give the boweth down upon his to the host: 11And thou of Joash, a man of
Midianites into their knees to drink. 6And the shalt hear what they say; Israel: for into his hand
hands, lest Israel vaunt number of them that and afterward shall thine hath God delivered
themselves against me, lapped, putting their hands be strengthened Midian, and all the host.
saying, Mine own hand hand to their mouth, to go down unto the 15
And it was so, when
hath saved me. 3Now were three hundred host. Then went he down Gideon heard the telling
therefore go to, proclaim men: but all the rest of with Phurah his servant of the dream, and the
in the ears of the people, the people bowed down unto the outside of the interpretationb thereof,
saying, Whosoever is upon their knees to drink armed mena that were in that he worshipped,
fearful and afraid, let water. 7And the LORD the host. 12
And the and returned into the
him return and depart said unto Gideon, By the Midianites and the host of Israel, and said,
early from mount Gilead. three hundred men that Amalekites and all the Arise; for the LORD
And there returned of lapped will I save you, children of the east lay hath delivered into your
the people twenty and and deliver the along in the valley like hand the host of Midian.
two thousand; and there Midianites into thine grasshoppers for 16
And he divided the
remained ten thousand. hand: and let all the multitude; and their three hundred men into
4
And the LORD said unto other people go every camels were without three companies, and
Gideon, The people are man unto his place. 8So number, as the sand by he put a trumpetc in
yet too many; bring the people took victuals the sea side for every man’s hand, with
them down unto the in their hand, and their multitude. 13
And when empty pitchers, and
water, and I will try them trumpets: and he sent all Gideon was come, lamps within the
for thee there: and it the rest of Israel every behold, there was a man pitchers. 17
And he said
shall be, that of whom I man unto his tent, and that told a dream unto b
say unto thee, This shall retained those three his fellow, and said, interpretation: Heb. breaking
c
go with thee, the same hundred men: and the a trumpet...: Heb. trumpets in
a
shall go with thee; and of armed men: or, ranks by five the hand of all of them
unto them, Look on me, hundred blew the Midian, and brought the said unto the men of
and do likewise: and, trumpets, and the LORD heads of Oreb and Zeeb Succoth, Give, I pray
behold, when I come to set every man’s sword to Gideon on the other you, loaves of bread
the outside of the camp, against his fellow, even side Jordan. unto the people that
it shall be that, as I do, throughout all the host: follow me; for they be
so shall ye do. 18When I and the host fled to Chapter 8 faint, and I am pursuing
blow with a trumpet, I Bethshittah in Zererath, after Zebah and
and all that are with me, and to the border of And the men of
1
Zalmunna, kings of
then blow ye the Abelmeholah, unto Ephraim said unto him, Midian. 6And the princes
trumpets also on every Tabbath. Why hast thou served us of Succoth said, Are the
side of all the camp, and 23
And the men of thus, that thou calledst hands of Zebah and
say, The sword of the Israel gathered us not, when thou Zalmunna now in thine
LORD, and of Gideon. themselves together out wentest to fight with the hand, that we should
19
So Gideon, and the of Naphtali, and out of Midianites? And they did give bread unto thine
hundred men that were Asher, and out of all chide with him sharply. army? 7
And Gideon
with him, came unto the Manasseh, and pursued
2
And he said unto them, said, Therefore when
outside of the camp in after the Midianites. What have I done now in the LORD hath
the beginning of the 24
And Gideon sent comparison of you? Is delivered Zebah and
middle watch; and they messengers throughout not the gleaning of the Zalmunna into mine
had but newly set the all mount Ephraim, grapes of Ephraim better hand, then I will tearb
watch: and they blew the saying, Come down than the vintage of your flesh with the
trumpets, and brake the against the Midianites, Abiezer? 3
God hath thorns of the wilderness
pitchers that were in and take before them delivered into your and with briers. 8And
their hands. 20And the the waters unto hands the princes of he went up thence to
three companies blew Bethbarah and Jordan. Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: Penuel, and spake unto
the trumpets, and brake Then all the men of and what was I able to them likewise: and the
the pitchers, and held Ephraim gathered do in comparison of you? men of Penuel
the lamps in their left themselves together, Then their angera was answered him as the
hands, and the trumpets and took the waters unto abated toward him, men of Succoth had
in their right hands to Bethbarah and Jordan. when he had said that. answered him. 9And he
blow withal: and they 25
And they took two
4
And Gideon came to spake also unto the
cried, The sword of the princes of the Midianites, Jordan, and passed over, men of Penuel, saying,
LORD, and of Gideon. Oreb and Zeeb; and they he, and the three When I come again in
21
And they stood every slew Oreb upon the rock hundred men that were peace, I will break down
man in his place round Oreb, and Zeeb they with him, faint, yet this tower. 10Now Zebah
about the camp: and all slew at the winepress of pursuing them. 5And he and Zalmunna were in
the host ran, and cried, Zeeb, and pursued a b
and fled. 22And the three anger: Heb. spirit tear: Heb. thresh
Karkor, and their hosts Zalmunna, with whom ye sword: for he feared, and did cast therein
with them, about fifteen did upbraid me, saying, because he was yet a every man the earrings
thousand men, all that Are the hands of Zebah youth. 21Then Zebah and of his prey. 26And the
were left of all the hosts and Zalmunna now in Zalmunna said, Rise weight of the golden
of the children of the thine hand, that we thou, and fall upon us: earrings that he
east: for there fell an should give bread unto for as the man is, so is requested was a
hundred and twenty thy men that are weary? his strength. And Gideon thousand and seven
thousand men that drew 16
And he took the elders arose, and slew Zebah hundred shekels of
sword. 11
And Gideon of the city, and thorns of and Zalmunna, and took gold; beside ornaments,
went up by the way of the wilderness and away the ornamentsg and collarsh, and purple
them that dwelt in tents briers, and with them he that were on their raiment that was on the
on the east of Nobah and taughte the men of camels’ necks. kings of Midian, and
Jogbehah, and smote the Succoth. 17And he beat 22
Then the men of beside the chains that
host: for the host was down the tower of Israel said unto Gideon, were about their
secure. 12
And when Penuel, and slew the Rule thou over us, both camels’ necks. 27
And
Zebah and Zalmunna men of the city. thou, and thy son, and Gideon made an ephod
fled, he pursued after 18
Then said he unto thy son’s son also: for thereof, and put it in his
them, and took the two Zebah and Zalmunna, thou hast delivered us city, even in Ophrah:
kings of Midian, Zebah What manner of men from the hand of Midian. and all Israel went
and Zalmunna, and were they whom ye slew 23
And Gideon said unto thither a whoring after
discomfitedc all the host. at Tabor? And they them, I will not rule over it: which thing became
13
And Gideon the son of answered, As thou art, you, neither shall my son a snare unto Gideon,
Joash returned from so were they; each one rule over you: the LORD and to his house. 28Thus
battle before the sun resembledf the children shall rule over you. 24And was Midian subdued
was up, 14And caught a of a king. 19And he said, Gideon said unto them, I before the children of
young man of the men of They were my brethren, would desire a request of Israel, so that they
Succoth, and enquired of even the sons of my you, that ye would give lifted up their heads no
him: and he describedd mother: as the LORD me every man the more. And the country
unto him the princes of liveth, if ye had saved earrings of his prey. (For was in quietness forty
Succoth, and the elders them alive, I would not they had golden years in the days of
thereof, even threescore slay you. 20And he said earrings, because they Gideon.
and seventeen men. unto Jether his firstborn, were Ishmaelites.) 25And 29
And Jerubbaal the
15
And he came unto the Up, and slay them. But they answered, We will son of Joash went and
men of Succoth, and the youth drew not his willingly give them. And dwelt in his own house.
said, Behold Zebah and e
they spread a garment, 30
And Gideon had
taught: Heb. made to know threescore and ten sons
c f g
discomfited: Heb. terrified resembled...: Heb. according ornaments: or, ornaments like
d h
described: Heb. writ to the form, etc the moon collars: or, sweet jewels
of his body begotten: for son of Jerubbaal went to his father’s house at and god to be promoted
he had many wives. Shechem unto his Ophrah, and slew his over the trees? 10And
31
And his concubine that mother’s brethren, and brethren the sons of the trees said to the fig
was in Shechem, she communed with them, Jerubbaal, being tree, Come thou, and
also bare him a son, and with all the family of threescore and ten reign over us. 11But the
whose name he calledi the house of his persons, upon one stone: fig tree said unto them,
Abimelech. 32
And mother’s father, saying, notwithstanding yet Should I forsake my
Gideon the son of Joash 2
Speak, I pray you, in the Jotham the youngest son sweetness, and my
died in a good old age, ears of all the men of of Jerubbaal was left; for good fruit, and go to be
and was buried in the Shechem, Whether is he hid himself. 6And all promoted over the
sepulchre of Joash his bettera for you, either the men of Shechem trees? 12Then said the
father, in Ophrah of the that all the sons of gathered together, and trees unto the vine,
Abiezrites. 33And it came Jerubbaal, which are all the house of Millo, Come thou, and reign
to pass, as soon as threescore and ten and went, and made over us. 13And the vine
Gideon was dead, that persons, reign over you, Abimelech king, by the said unto them, Should
the children of Israel or that one reign over plainc of the pillar that I leave my wine, which
turned again, and went a you? remember also that was in Shechem. cheereth God and man,
whoring after Baalim, I am your bone and your 7
And when they told it and go to be promoted
and made Baalberith flesh. 3And his mother’s to Jotham, he went and over the trees? 14Then
their god. 34And the brethren spake of him in stood in the top of said all the trees unto
children of Israel the ears of all the men of mount Gerizim, and the bramblee, Come
remembered not the Shechem all these lifted up his voice, and thou, and reign over us.
LORD their God, who had words: and their hearts cried, and said unto 15
And the bramble said
delivered them out of inclined to followb them, Hearken unto me, unto the trees, If in
the hands of all their Abimelech; for they said, ye men of Shechem, that truth ye anoint me king
enemies on every side: He is our brother. 4And God may hearken unto over you, then come
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Neither shewed they they gave him you. 8The trees went and put your trust in
kindness to the house of threescore and ten forth on a time to anoint my shadow: and if not,
Jerubbaal, namely, pieces of silver out of the a king over them; and let fire come out of the
Gideon, according to all house of Baalberith, they said unto the olive bramble, and devour
the goodness which he wherewith Abimelech tree, Reign thou over us. the cedars of Lebanon.
had shewed unto Israel. hired vain and light 9
But the olive tree said 16
Now therefore, if ye
persons, which followed unto them, Should I have done truly and
Chapter 9 him. 5And he went unto leave my fatness, sincerely, in that ye
a
wherewith by me they d
1
And Abimelech the Whether...: Heb. What is honour God and man, go...: or, go up and down for
good? whether, etc other trees
i b c e
called: Heb. set to follow: Heb. after plain: or, oak bramble: or, thistle
have made Abimelech the house of Millo, and went over to Shechem: Abimelech privilyj,
king, and if ye have dealt devour Abimelech. 21And and the men of Shechem saying, Behold, Gaal
well with Jerubbaal and Jotham ran away, and put their confidence in the son of Ebed and his
his house, and have fled, and went to Beer, him. 27And they went out brethren be come to
done unto him according and dwelt there, for fear into the fields, and Shechem; and, behold,
to the deserving of his of Abimelech his brother. gathered their vineyards, they fortify the city
hands; 17(For my father 22
When Abimelech and trode the grapes, against thee. 32
Now
fought for you, and had reigned three years and made merryh, and therefore up by night,
adventuredf his life far, over Israel, 23Then God went into the house of thou and the people
and delivered you out of sent an evil spirit their god, and did eat that is with thee, and lie
the hand of Midian: between Abimelech and and drink, and cursed in wait in the field:
18
And ye are risen up the men of Shechem; Abimelech. 28And Gaal 33
And it shall be, that in
against my father’s and the men of Shechem the son of Ebed said, the morning, as soon as
house this day, and have dealt treacherously with Who is Abimelech, and the sun is up, thou shalt
slain his sons, threescore Abimelech: 24That the who is Shechem, that we rise early, and set upon
and ten persons, upon cruelty done to the should serve him? is not the city: and, behold,
one stone, and have threescore and ten sons he the son of Jerubbaal? when he and the people
made Abimelech, the of Jerubbaal might come, and Zebul his officer? that is with him come
son of his maidservant, and their blood be laid serve the men of Hamor out against thee, then
king over the men of upon Abimelech their the father of Shechem: mayest thou do to them
Shechem, because he is brother, which slew for why should we serve as thou shalt find
your brother;) 19If ye them; and upon the men him? 29And would to God occasion. 34
And
then have dealt truly and of Shechem, which this people were under Abimelech rose up, and
sincerely with Jerubbaal aided him in the killing
g
my hand! then would I all the people that were
and with his house this of his brethren. 25
And remove Abimelech. And with him, by night, and
day, then rejoice ye in the men of Shechem set he said to Abimelech, they laid wait against
Abimelech, and let him liers in wait for him in Increase thine army, and Shechem in four
also rejoice in you: 20But the top of the come out. 30And when companies. And Gaal
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if not, let fire come out mountains, and they Zebul the ruler of the the son of Ebed went
from Abimelech, and robbed all that came city heard the words of out, and stood in the
devour the men of along that way by them: Gaal the son of Ebed, his entering of the gate of
Shechem, and the house and it was told anger was kindledi. the city: and Abimelech
of Millo; and let fire Abimelech. 26And Gaal 31
And he sent rose up, and the people
come out from the men the son of Ebed came messengers unto that were with him,
of Shechem, and from with his brethren, and from lying in wait. 36And
f g h j
adventured...: Heb. cast his aided...: Heb. strengthened his merry: or, songs privily: Heb. craftily or, to
i
life hands to kill kindled: or, hot Tormah
when Gaal saw the thrust out Gaal and his the god Berith. 47And it and women, and all
people, he said to Zebul, brethren, that they was told Abimelech, that they of the city, and
Behold, there come should not dwell in all the men of the tower shut it to them, and gat
people down from the Shechem. 42And it came of Shechem were them up to the top of
top of the mountains. to pass on the morrow, gathered together. 48And the tower. 52
And
And Zebul said unto him, that the people went out Abimelech gat him up to Abimelech came unto
Thou seest the shadow into the field; and they mount Zalmon, he and the tower, and fought
of the mountains as if told Abimelech. 43And he all the people that were against it, and went
they were men. 37And took the people, and with him; and Abimelech hard unto the door of
Gaal spake again and divided them into three took an axe in his hand, the tower to burn it with
said, See there come companies, and laid wait and cut down a bough fire. 53And a certain
people down by the in the field, and looked, from the trees, and took woman cast a piece of a
middlek of the land, and and, behold, the people it, and laid it on his millstone upon
another company come were come forth out of shoulder, and said unto Abimelech’s head, and
along by the plain of the city; and he rose up the people that were all to brake his skull.
Meonenim. 38Then said against them, and smote with him, What ye have 54
Then he called hastily
Zebul unto him, Where them. 44And Abimelech, seen me dol, make unto the young man his
is now thy mouth, and the company that haste, and do as I have armourbearer, and said
wherewith thou saidst, was with him, rushed done. 49
And all the unto him, Draw thy
Who is Abimelech, that forward, and stood in the people likewise cut down sword, and slay me,
we should serve him? is entering of the gate of every man his bough, that men say not of me,
not this the people that the city: and the two and followed Abimelech, A woman slew him. And
thou hast despised? go other companies ran and put them to the his young man thrust
out, I pray now, and fight upon all the people that hold, and set the hold on him through, and he
with them. 39And Gaal were in the fields, and fire upon them; so that died. 55And when the
went out before the men slew them. 45
And all the men of the tower men of Israel saw that
of Shechem, and fought Abimelech fought of Shechem died also, Abimelech was dead,
with Abimelech. 40And against the city all that about a thousand men they departed every
Abimelech chased him, day; and he took the and women. man unto his place.
and he fled before him, city, and slew the people 50
Then went 56
Thus God rendered
and many were that was therein, and Abimelech to Thebez, the wickedness of
overthrown and beat down the city, and and encamped against Abimelech, which he
wounded, even unto the sowed it with salt. 46And Thebez, and took it. 51But did unto his father, in
entering of the gate. when all the men of the there was a strong tower slaying his seventy
41
And Abimelech dwelt at tower of Shechem heard within the city, and brethren: 57And all the
Arumah: and Zebul that, they entered into thither fled all the men evil of the men of
k
an hold of the house of l
Shechem did God
middle: Heb. navel me do: Heb. I have done
render upon their heads: Ashtaroth, and the gods also served Baalim. the misery of Israel.
and upon them came the of Syria, and the gods of 11
And the LORD said unto 17
Then the children of
curse of Jotham the son Zidon, and the gods of the children of Israel, Did Ammon were gathered
of Jerubbaal. Moab, and the gods of not I deliver you from together, and
the children of Ammon, the Egyptians, and from encamped in Gilead.
Chapter 10 and the gods of the the Amorites, from the And the children of
Philistines, and forsook children of Ammon, and Israel assembled
1
And after Abimelech the LORD, and served from the Philistines? themselves together,
there arose to defenda not him. 7And the anger 12
The Zidonians also, and and encamped in
Israel Tola the son of of the LORD was hot the Amalekites, and the Mizpeh. 18
And the
Puah, the son of Dodo, a against Israel, and he Maonites, did oppress people and princes of
man of Issachar; and he sold them into the hands you; and ye cried to me, Gilead said one to
dwelt in Shamir in mount of the Philistines, and and I delivered you out another, What man is
Ephraim. 2
And he into the hands of the of their hand. 13Yet ye he that will begin to
judged Israel twenty and children of Ammon. 8And have forsaken me, and fight against the
three years, and died, that year they vexed and served other gods: children of Ammon? he
and was buried in oppressedc the children wherefore I will deliver shall be head over all
Shamir. And after him
3
of Israel: eighteen years, you no more. 14Go and the inhabitants of
arose Jair, a Gileadite, all the children of Israel cry unto the gods which Gilead.
and judged Israel twenty that were on the other ye have chosen; let them
and two years. 4And he side Jordan in the land of deliver you in the time of Chapter 11
had thirty sons that rode the Amorites, which is in your tribulation. 15And
on thirty ass colts, and Gilead. 9
Moreover the the children of Israel said Now Jephthaha the
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they had thirty cities, children of Ammon unto the LORD, We have Gileadite was a mighty
which are called passed over Jordan to sinned: do thou unto us man of valour, and he
Havothjair b
unto this fight also against Judah, whatsoever seemethd was the son of an
day, which are in the and against Benjamin, good unto thee; deliver harlot: and Gilead begat
land of Gilead. 5And Jair and against the house of us only, we pray thee, Jephthah. 2
And
died, and was buried in Ephraim; so that Israel this day. 16And they put Gilead’s wife bare him
Camon. was sore distressed. away the strangee gods sons; and his wife’s
6
And the children of 10
And the children of from among them, and sons grew up, and they
Israel did evil again in Israel cried unto the served the LORD: and thrust out Jephthah,
the sight of the LORD, LORD, saying, We have his soul was grieved for and said unto him, Thou
and served Baalim, and sinned against thee, shalt not inherit in our
d
both because we have seemeth...: Heb. is good in father’s house; for thou
a
defend: or, deliver: Heb. save forsaken our God, and thine eyes art the son of a strange
b e
Havothjair: or, the villages of strange...: Heb. gods of
c a
Jair oppressed: Heb. crushed strangers Jephthah: called Jephthae
woman. 3Then Jephthah inhabitants of Gilead. Egypt, from Arnon even the other side of Arnon,
fled fromb his brethren, 9
And Jephthah said unto unto Jabbok, and unto but came not within the
and dwelt in the land of the elders of Gilead, If ye Jordan: now therefore border of Moab: for
Tob: and there were bring me home again to restore those lands Arnon was the border of
gathered vain men to fight against the children again peaceably. 14And Moab. 19And Israel sent
Jephthah, and went out of Ammon, and the Jephthah sent messengers unto Sihon
with him. LORD deliver them messengers again unto king of the Amorites,
4
And it came to pass before me, shall I be the king of the children the king of Heshbon;
in process of time, that your head? 10And the of Ammon: 15And said and Israel said unto
the children of Ammon elders of Gilead said unto him, Thus saith him, Let us pass, we
made war against Israel. unto Jephthah, The LORD Jephthah, Israel took not pray thee, through thy
5
And it was so, that when be witnessc between us, away the land of Moab, land into my place.
the children of Ammon if we do not so according nor the land of the 20
But Sihon trusted not
made war against Israel, to thy words. 11
Then children of Ammon: 16But Israel to pass through
the elders of Gilead went Jephthah went with the when Israel came up his coast: but Sihon
to fetch Jephthah out of elders of Gilead, and the from Egypt, and walked gathered all his people
the land of Tob: 6And people made him head through the wilderness together, and pitched in
they said unto Jephthah, and captain over them: unto the Red sea, and Jahaz, and fought
Come, and be our and Jephthah uttered all came to Kadesh; 17Then against Israel. 21And the
captain, that we may his words before the Israel sent messengers LORD God of Israel
fight with the children of LORD in Mizpeh. unto the king of Edom, delivered Sihon and all
Ammon. 7And Jephthah 12
And Jephthah sent saying, Let me, I pray his people into the hand
said unto the elders of messengers unto the thee, pass through thy of Israel, and they
Gilead, Did not ye hate king of the children of land: but the king of smote them: so Israel
me, and expel me out of Ammon, saying, What Edom would not hearken possessed all the land
my father’s house? and hast thou to do with me, thereto. And in like of the Amorites, the
why are ye come unto that thou art come manner they sent unto inhabitants of that
me now when ye are in against me to fight in my the king of Moab: but he country. 22
And they
distress? 8And the elders land? 13And the king of would not consent: and possessed all the coasts
of Gilead said unto the children of Ammon Israel abode in Kadesh. of the Amorites, from
Jephthah, Therefore we answered unto the 18
Then they went along Arnon even unto
turn again to thee now, messengers of Jephthah, through the wilderness, Jabbok, and from the
that thou mayest go with Because Israel took and compassed the land wilderness even unto
us, and fight against the away my land, when of Edom, and the land of Jordan. 23So now the
children of Ammon, and they came up out of Moab, and came by the LORD God of Israel hath
be our head over all the c
east side of the land of dispossessed the
witness...: Heb. the hearer Moab, and pitched on Amorites from before
b
from: Heb. from the face between us
his people Israel, and he sent him. unto the plaine of the 37
And she said unto her
shouldest thou possess 29
Then the Spirit of vineyards, with a very father, Let this thing be
it? 24
Wilt not thou the LORD came upon great slaughter. Thus the done for me: let me
possess that which Jephthah, and he passed children of Ammon were alone two months, that
Chemosh thy god giveth over Gilead, and subdued before the I may go upf and down
thee to possess? So Manasseh, and passed children of Israel. 34
And upon the mountains,
whomsoever the LORD over Mizpeh of Gilead, Jephthah came to Mizpeh and bewail my virginity,
our God shall drive out and from Mizpeh of unto his house, and, I and my fellows. 38And
from before us, them will Gilead he passed over behold, his daughter he said, Go. And he
we possess. 25And now unto the children of came out to meet him sent her away for two
art thou any thing better Ammon. 30And Jephthah with timbrels and with months: and she went
than Balak the son of vowed a vow unto the dances: and she was his with her companions,
Zippor, king of Moab? did LORD, and said, If thou only child; beside her he and bewailed her
he ever strive against shalt without fail deliver had neither son nor virginity upon the
Israel, or did he ever the children of Ammon daughter. 35And it came mountains. 39
And it
fight against them, into mine hands, 31Then to pass, when he saw came to pass at the end
26
While Israel dwelt in it shall be, that her, that he rent his of two months, that she
Heshbon and her towns, whatsoever d
cometh clothes, and said, Alas, returned unto her
and in Aroer and her forth of the doors of my my daughter! thou hast father, who did with her
towns, and in all the house to meet me, when brought me very low, according to his vow
cities that be along by I return in peace from and thou art one of them which he had vowed:
the coasts of Arnon, the children of Ammon, that trouble me: for I and she knew no man.
three hundred years? shall surely be the have opened my mouth And it was a customg in
why therefore did ye not LORD’S, and I will offer it unto the LORD, and I Israel, 40
That the
recover them within that up for a burnt offering. cannot go back. 36And daughters of Israel went
time? 27Wherefore I have 32
So Jephthah passed she said unto him, My yearlyh to lament the
not sinned against thee, over unto the children of father, if thou hast daughter of Jephthah
but thou doest me wrong Ammon to fight against opened thy mouth unto the Gileadite four days
to war against me: the them; and the LORD the LORD, do to me in a year.
LORD the Judge be judge delivered them into his according to that which
this day between the hands. 33And he smote hath proceeded out of Chapter 12
children of Israel and the them from Aroer, even thy mouth; forasmuch as
children of Ammon. till thou come to Minnith, the LORD hath taken f
28
Howbeit the king of the even twenty cities, and vengeance for thee of go up...: Heb. go and go
children of Ammon thine enemies, even of down
d g
hearkened not unto the whatsoever...: Heb. that which the children of Ammon. custom: or, ordinance
h
words of Jephthah which cometh forth, which shall come yearly: Heb. from year to
e
forth the plain: or, Abel year
1
And the men of and among the years. 10Then died Ibzan, years. 2And there was
Ephraim gathered Manassites. 5
And the and was buried at a certain man of Zorah,
themselves together, Gileadites took the Bethlehem. 11And after of the family of the
and went northward, and passages of Jordan him Elon, a Zebulonite, Danites, whose name
said unto Jephthah, before the Ephraimites: judged Israel; and he was Manoah; and his
Wherefore passedst thou and it was so, that when judged Israel ten years. wife was barren, and
over to fight against the those Ephraimites which 12
And Elon the bare not. 3And the
children of Ammon, and were escaped said, Let Zebulonite died, and was angel of the LORD
didst not call us to go me go over; that the buried in Aijalon in the appeared unto the
with thee? we will burn men of Gilead said unto country of Zebulun. woman, and said unto
thine house upon thee him, Art thou an 13
And after him Abdon her, Behold now, thou
with fire. 2And Jephthah Ephraimite? If he said, the son of Hillel, a art barren, and bearest
said unto them, I and my Nay; 6Then said they Pirathonite, judged not: but thou shalt
people were at great unto him, Say now Israel. And he had forty
14
conceive, and bear a
strife with the children of Shibboleth: and he said sons and thirty son. 4Now therefore
Ammon; and when I Sibboleth: for he could nephews , that rode on
a
beware, I pray thee,
called you, ye delivered not frame to pronounce threescore and ten ass and drink not wine nor
me not out of their it right. Then they took colts: and he judged strong drink, and eat
hands. 3And when I saw him, and slew him at the Israel eight years. 15And not any unclean thing:
that ye delivered me not, passages of Jordan: and Abdon the son of Hillel 5
For, lo, thou shalt
I put my life in my there fell at that time of the Pirathonite died, and conceive, and bear a
hands, and passed over the Ephraimites forty was buried in Pirathon in son; and no razor shall
against the children of and two thousand. 7And the land of Ephraim, in come on his head: for
Ammon, and the LORD Jephthah judged Israel the mount of the the child shall be a
delivered them into my six years. Then died Amalekites. Nazarite unto God from
hand: wherefore then Jephthah the Gileadite, the womb: and he shall
are ye come up unto me and was buried in one of Chapter 13 begin to deliver Israel
this day, to fight against the cities of Gilead. out of the hand of the
me? 4
Then Jephthah 8
And after him Ibzan And the children of
1
Philistines. 6Then the
gathered together all the of Bethlehem judged Israel did evila again in woman came and told
men of Gilead, and Israel. 9And he had thirty the sight of the LORD; her husband, saying, A
fought with Ephraim: and sons, and thirty and the LORD delivered man of God came unto
the men of Gilead smote daughters, whom he them into the hand of me, and his
Ephraim, because they sent abroad, and took in the Philistines forty countenance was like
said, Ye Gileadites are thirty daughters from a
the countenance of an
fugitives of Ephraim abroad for his sons. And nephews: Heb. sons’ sons angel of God, very
a
among the Ephraimites, he judged Israel seven did evil...: Heb. added to terrible: but I asked him
commit, etc
not whence he was, man, and said unto him, it unto the LORD. For wife, We shall surely
neither told he me his Art thou the man that Manoah knew not that die, because we have
name: 7But he said unto spakest unto the he was an angel of the seen God. 23But his wife
me, Behold, thou shalt woman? And he said, I LORD. 17And Manoah said unto him, If the
conceive, and bear a am. 12And Manoah said, said unto the angel of LORD were pleased to
son; and now drink no Now let thy words come the LORD, What is thy kill us, he would not
wine nor strong drink, to pass. How shall we name, that when thy have received a burnt
neither eat any unclean orderb the child, and how sayings come to pass we offering and a meat
thing: for the child shall shall we do unto him? may do thee honour? offering at our hands,
be a Nazarite to God 13
And the angel of the 18
And the angel of the neither would he have
from the womb to the LORD said unto Manoah, LORD said unto him, shewed us all these
day of his death. Of all that I said unto the Why askest thou thus things, nor would as at
8
Then Manoah woman let her beware. after my name, seeing it this time have told us
intreated the LORD, and 14
She may not eat of any is secretd? 19So Manoah such things as these.
said, O my Lord, let the thing that cometh of the took a kid with a meat 24
And the woman
man of God which thou vine, neither let her offering, and offered it bare a son, and called
didst send come again drink wine or strong upon a rock unto the his name Samson: and
unto us, and teach us drink, nor eat any LORD: and the angel did the child grew, and the
what we shall do unto unclean thing: all that I wondrously; and Manoah LORD blessed him.
the child that shall be commanded her let her and his wife looked on. 25
And the Spirit of the
born. 9
And God observe. 20
For it came to pass, LORD began to move
hearkened to the voice 15
And Manoah said when the flame went up him at times in the
of Manoah; and the unto the angel of the toward heaven from off campe of Dan between
angel of God came again LORD, I pray thee, let us the altar, that the angel Zorah and Eshtaol.
unto the woman as she detain thee, until we of the LORD ascended in
sat in the field: but shall have made ready a the flame of the altar. Chapter 14
Manoah her husband kid for thee. c 16And the And Manoah and his wife
was not with her. 10And angel of the LORD said looked on it, and fell on And Samson went
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the woman made haste, unto Manoah, Though their faces to the down to Timnath, and
and ran, and shewed her thou detain me, I will not ground. But the angel
21 saw a woman in
husband, and said unto eat of thy bread: and if of the LORD did no more Timnath of the
him, Behold, the man thou wilt offer a burnt appear to Manoah and to daughters of the
hath appeared unto me, offering, thou must offer his wife. Then Manoah Philistines. 2
And he
that came unto me the knew that he was an came up, and told his
b
other day. 11And Manoah How shall we order...: Heb. angel of the LORD. 22And father and his mother,
arose, and went after his What shall be the manner of Manoah said unto his e
wife, and came to the the, etc the camp...: Heb.
c d
for thee: Heb. before thee secret: or, wonderful Mahanehdan
and said, I have seen a nothing in his hand: but it me within the seven riddle unto the children
woman in Timnath of the he told not his father or days of the feast, and of my people, and hast
daughters of the his mother what he had find it out, then I will not told it me. And he
Philistines: now therefore done. 7And he went give you thirty sheetsb said unto her, Behold, I
get her for me to wife. down, and talked with and thirty change of have not told it my
3
Then his father and his the woman; and she garments: 13
But if ye father nor my mother,
mother said unto him, Is pleased Samson well. cannot declare it me, and shall I tell it thee?
there never a woman 8
And after a time he then shall ye give me 17
And she wept before
among the daughters of returned to take her, and thirty sheetsc and thirty him the sevend days,
thy brethren, or among he turned aside to see change of garments. And while their feast lasted:
all my people, that thou the carcase of the lion: they said unto him, Put and it came to pass on
goest to take a wife of and, behold, there was a forth thy riddle, that we the seventh day, that
the uncircumcised swarm of bees and may hear it. 14And he he told her, because
Philistines? And Samson honey in the carcase of said unto them, Out of she lay sore upon him:
said unto his father, Get the lion. 9And he took the eater came forth and she told the riddle
her for me; for she thereof in his hands, and meat, and out of the to the children of her
pleaseth me well. 4But went on eating, and strong came forth people. 18And the men
his father and his mother came to his father and sweetness. And they of the city said unto
knew not that it was of mother, and he gave could not in three days him on the seventh day
the LORD, that he sought them, and they did eat: expound the riddle. before the sun went
an occasion against the but he told not them that 15
And it came to pass on down, What is sweeter
Philistines: for at that he had taken the honey the seventh day, that than honey? and what
time the Philistines had out of the carcase of the they said unto Samson’s is stronger than a lion?
dominion over Israel. lion. wife, Entice thy husband, And he said unto them,
5
Then went Samson 10
So his father went that he may declare unto If ye had not plowed
down, and his father and down unto the woman: us the riddle, lest we with my heifer, ye had
his mother, to Timnath, and Samson made there burn thee and thy not found out my riddle.
and came to the a feast; for so used the father’s house with fire: 19
And the Spirit of the
vineyards of Timnath: young men to do. 11And have ye called us to take LORD came upon him,
and, behold, a young lion it came to pass, when that we have? is it not and he went down to
roared againsta him. they saw him, that they so? 16And Samson’s wife Ashkelon, and slew
6
And the Spirit of the brought thirty wept before him, and thirty men of them, and
LORD came mightily companions to be with said, Thou dost but hate took their spoile, and
upon him, and he rent him. 12And Samson said me, and lovest me not: gave change of
him as he would have unto them, I will now put thou hast put forth a d
rent a kid, and he had forth a riddle unto you: if the seven...: or, the rest of
b
ye can certainly declare sheets: or, shirts the seven days
a c e
against...: Heb. in meeting him sheets: or, shirts spoil: or, apparel
garments unto them foxes, and took Judah, and spread cords, and brought him
which expounded the firebrands , and turned
a
themselves in Lehi. 10And up from the rock. 14And
riddle. And his anger was tail to tail, and put a the men of Judah said, when he came unto
kindled, and he went up firebrand in the midst Why are ye come up Lehi, the Philistines
to his father’s house. between two tails. 5And against us? And they shouted against him:
20
But Samson’s wife was when he had set the answered, To bind and the Spirit of the
given to his companion, brands on fire, he let Samson are we come up, LORD came mightily
whom he had used as his them go into the to do to him as he hath upon him, and the
friend. standing corn of the done to us. 11Then three cords that were upon
Philistines, and burnt up thousand men of Judah his arms became as flax
Chapter 15 both the shocks, and wentb to the top of the that was burnt with fire,
also the standing corn, rock Etam, and said to and his bands loosedc
1
But it came to pass with the vineyards and Samson, Knowest thou from off his hands.
within a while after, in olives. 6
Then the not that the Philistines 15
And he found a newd
the time of wheat Philistines said, Who are rulers over us? what jawbone of an ass, and
harvest, that Samson hath done this? And they is this that thou hast put forth his hand, and
visited his wife with a answered, Samson, the done unto us? And he took it, and slew a
kid; and he said, I will go son in law of the Timnite, said unto them, As they thousand men
in to my wife into the because he had taken did unto me, so have I therewith. 16
And
chamber. But her father his wife, and given her to done unto them. 12And Samson said, With the
would not suffer him to his companion. And the they said unto him, We jawbone of an ass,
go in. 2And her father Philistines came up, and are come down to bind heaps upon heaps, with
said, I verily thought that burnt her and her father thee, that we may the jaw of an ass have I
thou hadst utterly hated with fire. 7And Samson deliver thee into the slain a thousand men.
her; therefore I gave her said unto them, Though hand of the Philistines. 17
And it came to pass,
to thy companion: is not ye have done this, yet And Samson said unto when he had made an
her younger sister fairer will I be avenged of you, them, Swear unto me, end of speaking, that
than she? take her, I and after that I will that ye will not fall upon he cast away the
pray thee, instead of her. cease. 8And he smote me yourselves. 13And jawbone out of his
3
And Samson said them hip and thigh with they spake unto him, hand, and called that
concerning them, Now a great slaughter: and saying, No; but we will place Ramathlehie.
shall I be more he went down and dwelt bind thee fast, and 18
And he was sore
blameless than the in the top of the rock deliver thee into their c
Philistines, though I do Etam. hand: but surely we will loosed: Heb. were melted
d
them a displeasure. 9
Then the Philistines not kill thee. And they new: Heb. moist
e
4
And Samson went and went up, and pitched in bound him with two new Ramathlehi: that is, the
caught three hundred lifting up of the jawbone, or,
a b
firebrands: or, torches went: Heb. went down casting away of the jawbone
athirst, and called on the of the city, and were wherein thy great 11
And he said unto her,
LORD, and said, Thou quiet all the night, strength lieth, and If they bind me fast
hast given this great saying, In the morning, wherewith thou mightest with new ropes that
deliverance into the when it is day, we shall be bound to afflict thee. never were occupied,
hand of thy servant: and kill him. 3And Samson lay 7
And Samson said unto then shall I be weak,
now shall I die for thirst, till midnight, and arose her, If they bind me with and be as another man.
and fall into the hand of at midnight, and took seven greend withs that 12
Delilah therefore took
the uncircumcised? 19But the doors of the gate of were never dried, then new ropes, and bound
God clave an hollow the city, and the two shall I be weak, and be him therewith, and said
place that was in the posts, and went away as another man. 8Then unto him, The
jaw, and there came with them, barb and all, the lords of the Philistines be upon
water thereout; and and put them upon his Philistines brought up to thee, Samson. And
when he had drunk, his shoulders, and carried her seven greene withs there were liers in wait
spirit came again, and them up to the top of an which had not been abiding in the chamber.
he revived: wherefore he hill that is before dried, and she bound And he brake them
called the name thereof Hebron. him with them. 9
Now from off his arms like a
Enhakkoref, which is in 4
And it came to pass there were men lying in thread. 13And Delilah
Lehi unto this day. afterward, that he loved wait, abiding with her in said unto Samson,
20
And he judged Israel in a woman in the valley of the chamber. And she Hitherto thou hast
the days of the Sorek, whose name was said unto him, The mocked me, and told
Philistines twenty years. Delilah. 5And the lords Philistines be upon thee, me lies: tell me
of the Philistines came Samson. And he brake wherewith thou
Chapter 16 up unto her, and said the withs, as a thread of mightest be bound. And
unto her, Entice him, and tow is broken when it he said unto her, If thou
Then went Samson
1
see wherein his great touchethf the fire. So his weavest the seven
to Gaza, and saw there strength lieth, and by strength was not known. locks of my head with
an harlota, and went in what means we may 10
And Delilah said unto the web. 14And she
unto her. 2And it was prevail against him, that Samson, Behold, thou fastened it with the pin,
told the Gazites, saying, we may bind him to hast mocked me, and and said unto him, The
Samson is come hither. afflictc him: and we will told me lies: now tell me, Philistines be upon
And they compassed give thee every one of I pray thee, wherewith thee, Samson. And he
him in, and laid wait for us eleven hundred thou mightest be bound. awaked out of his sleep,
him all night in the gate pieces of silver. 6
And and went away with the
d
Delilah said to Samson, green...: or, new cords: Heb. pin of the beam, and
f
Enhakkore: that is, the well of Tell me, I pray thee, moist with the web. 15And she
e
him that called or, cried green...: or, new cords: Heb. said unto him, How
a b
harlot: Heb. a woman an bar...: Heb. with the bar moist canst thou say, I love
c f
harlot afflict: or, humble toucheth: Heb. smelleth
thee, when thine heart is and she called for a man, hand. 24And when the GOD, remember me, I
not with me? thou hast and she caused him to people saw him, they pray thee, and
mocked me these three shave off the seven locks praised their god: for strengthen me, I pray
times, and hast not told of his head; and she they said, Our god hath thee, only this once, O
me wherein thy great began to afflict him, and delivered into our hands God, that I may be at
strength lieth. 16And it his strength went from our enemy, and the once avenged of the
came to pass, when she him. 20And she said, The destroyer of our country, Philistines for my two
pressed him daily with Philistines be upon thee, which slew many of us. eyes. 29And Samson
her words, and urged Samson. And he awoke 25
And it came to pass, took hold of the two
him, so that his soul was out of his sleep, and when their hearts were middle pillars upon
vexedg unto death; said, I will go out as at merry, that they said, which the house stood,
17
That he told her all his other times before, and Call for Samson, that he and on which it was
heart, and said unto her, shake myself. And he may make us sport. And borne up, of the one
There hath not come a wist not that the LORD they called for Samson with his right hand, and
razor upon mine head; was departed from him. out of the prison house; of the other with his
for I have been a 21
But the Philistines took and he made themj left. 30
And Samson
Nazarite unto God from him, and put outh his sport: and they set him said, Let me die with
my mother’s womb: if I eyes, and brought him between the pillars. the Philistines. And he
be shaven, then my down to Gaza, and 26
And Samson said unto bowed himself with all
strength will go from me, bound him with fetters of the lad that held him by his might; and the
and I shall become weak, brass; and he did grind the hand, Suffer me that house fell upon the
and be like any other in the prison house. I may feel the pillars lords, and upon all the
man. 22
Howbeit the hair of whereupon the house people that were
18
And when Delilah his head began to grow standeth, that I may lean therein. So the dead
saw that he had told her again afteri he was upon them. 27Now the which he slew at his
all his heart, she sent shaven. 23Then the lords house was full of men death were more than
and called for the lords of the Philistines and women; and all the they which he slew in
of the Philistines, saying, gathered them together lords of the Philistines his life. 31
Then his
Come up this once, for for to offer a great were there; and there brethren and all the
he hath shewed me all sacrifice unto Dagon were upon the roof house of his father
his heart. Then the lords their god, and to rejoice: about three thousand came down, and took
of the Philistines came for they said, Our god men and women, that him, and brought him
up unto her, and brought hath delivered Samson beheld while Samson up, and buried him
money in their hand. our enemy into our made sport. 28
And between Zorah and
19
And she made him h
Samson called unto the Eshtaol in the
sleep upon her knees; put out: Heb. bored out LORD, and said, O Lord buryingplace of Manoah
i
after...: or, as when he was his father. And he
g j
vexed: Heb. shortened shaven them: Heb. before them
judged Israel twenty silver, and gave them to go to sojourn where I fallen unto them among
years. the founder, who made may find a place. 10And the tribes of Israel. 2And
thereof a graven image Micah said unto him, the children of Dan sent
and a molten image: and Dwell with me, and be of their family five men
they were in the house unto me a father and a from their coasts, men
Chapter 17 of Micah. 5And the man priest, and I will give of valour, from Zorah,
Micah had an house of thee ten shekels of silver and from Eshtaol, to
1
And there was a man gods, and made an by the year, and a suitb spy out the land, and to
of mount Ephraim, ephod, and teraphim, of apparel, and thy search it; and they said
whose name was Micah. and consecrateda one of victuals. So the Levite unto them, Go, search
2
And he said unto his his sons, who became went in. 11And the Levite the land: who when
mother, The eleven his priest. 6In those days was content to dwell they came to mount
hundred shekels of silver there was no king in with the man; and the Ephraim, to the house
that were taken from Israel, but every man did young man was unto him of Micah, they lodged
thee, about which thou that which was right in as one of his sons. 12And there. 3
When they
cursedst, and spakest of his own eyes. Micah consecrated the were by the house of
also in mine ears, 7
And there was a Levite; and the young Micah, they knew the
behold, the silver is with young man out of man became his priest, voice of the young man
me; I took it. And his Bethlehemjudah of the and was in the house of the Levite: and they
mother said, Blessed be family of Judah, who was Micah. 13Then said Micah, turned in thither, and
thou of the LORD, my a Levite, and he Now know I that the said unto him, Who
son. 3And when he had sojourned there. 8
And LORD will do me good, brought thee hither?
restored the eleven the man departed out of seeing I have a Levite to and what makest thou
hundred shekels of silver the city from my priest. in this place? and what
to his mother, his mother Bethlehemjudah to hast thou here? 4And he
said, I had wholly sojourn where he could Chapter 18 said unto them, Thus
dedicated the silver unto find a place: and he and thus dealeth Micah
the LORD from my hand came to mount Ephraim In those days there
1
with me, and hath hired
for my son, to make a to the house of Micah, as was no king in Israel: me, and I am his priest.
graven image and a he journeyed. 9
And and in those days the 5
And they said unto
molten image: now Micah said unto him, tribe of the Danites him, Ask counsel, we
therefore I will restore it Whence comest thou? sought them an pray thee, of God, that
unto thee. 4
Yet he And he said unto him, I inheritance to dwell in; we may know whether
restored the money unto am a Levite of for unto that day all their our way which we go
his mother; and his Bethlehemjudah, and I inheritance had not shall be prosperous.
mother took two 6
And the priest said
a b
hundred shekels of consecrated: Heb. filled the a suit...: or, a double suit, etc: unto them, Go in peace:
hand Heb. an order of garments
before the LORD is your in the earth. 11And there the six hundred men a family in Israel? 20And
way wherein ye go. went from thence of the appointed with their the priest’s heart was
7
Then the five men family of the Danites, out weapons of war, which glad, and he took the
departed, and came to of Zorah and out of were of the children of ephod, and the
Laisha, and saw the Eshtaol, six hundred Dan, stood by the teraphim, and the
people that were therein, men appointedb with entering of the gate. graven image, and
how they dwelt careless, weapons of war. 12And 17
And the five men that went in the midst of the
after the manner of the they went up, and went to spy out the land people. 21So they turned
Zidonians, quiet and pitched in Kirjathjearim, went up, and came in and departed, and put
secure; and there was no in Judah: wherefore they thither, and took the the little ones and the
magistrate in the land, called that place graven image, and the cattle and the carriage
that might put them to Mahanehdan unto this ephod, and the before them. 22
And
shame in any thing; and day: behold, it is behind teraphim, and the when they were a good
they were far from the Kirjathjearim. 13And they molten image: and the way from the house of
Zidonians, and had no passed thence unto priest stood in the Micah, the men that
business with any man. mount Ephraim, and entering of the gate with were in the houses near
8
And they came unto came unto the house of the six hundred men to Micah’s house were
their brethren to Zorah Micah. that were appointed with gathered together, and
and Eshtaol: and their 14
Then answered the weapons of war. 18And overtook the children of
brethren said unto them, five men that went to these went into Micah’s Dan. 23And they cried
What say ye? 9And they spy out the country of house, and fetched the unto the children of
said, Arise, that we may Laish, and said unto their carved image, the Dan. And they turned
go up against them: for brethren, Do ye know ephod, and the their faces, and said
we have seen the land, that there is in these teraphim, and the unto Micah, What aileth
and, behold, it is very houses an ephod, and molten image. Then said thee, that thou comest
good: and are ye still? be teraphim, and a graven the priest unto them, with such a company?
not slothful to go, and to image, and a molten What do ye? 19And they 24
And he said, Ye have
enter to possess the image? now therefore said unto him, Hold thy taken away my gods
land. 10When ye go, ye consider what ye have to peace, lay thine hand which I made, and the
shall come unto a people do. 15And they turned upon thy mouth, and go priest, and ye are gone
secure, and to a large thitherward, and came to with us, and be to us a away: and what have I
land: for God hath given the house of the young father and a priest: is it more? and what is this
it into your hands; a man the Levite, even better for thee to be a that ye say unto me,
place where there is no unto the house of Micah, priest unto the house of What aileth thee? 25And
want of any thing that is and salutedc him. 16And one man, or that thou be the children of Dan said
a b
a priest unto a tribe and unto him, Let not thy
Laish: called elsewhere, called appointed: Heb. girded voice be heard among
c
Leshem saluted...: Heb. asked him of peace
us, lest angryd fellows image: and Jonathan, the after her, to speak up to depart, his father
run upon thee, and thou son of Gershom, the son friendlyb unto her, and to in law urged him:
lose thy life, with the of Manasseh, he and his bring her again, having therefore he lodged
lives of thy household. sons were priests to the his servant with him, and there again. 8And he
26
And the children of Dan tribe of Dan until the day a couple of asses: and arose early in the
went their way: and of the captivity of the she brought him into her morning on the fifth day
when Micah saw that land. 31And they set father’s house: and when to depart: and the
they were too strong for them up Micah’s graven the father of the damsel damsel’s father said,
him, he turned and went image, which he made, saw him, he rejoiced to Comfort thine heart, I
back unto his house. all the time that the meet him. 4
And his pray thee. And they
27
And they took the house of God was in father in law, the tarried until afternoond,
things which Micah had Shiloh. damsel’s father, retained and they did eat both of
made, and the priest him; and he abode with them. 9And when the
which he had, and came him three days: so they man rose up to depart,
unto Laish, unto a people did eat and drink, and he, and his concubine,
that were at quiet and Chapter 19 lodged there. 5And it and his servant, his
secure: and they smote came to pass on the father in law, the
them with the edge of And it came to pass
1
fourth day, when they damsel’s father, said
the sword, and burnt the in those days, when arose early in the unto him, Behold, now
city with fire. 28And there there was no king in morning, that he rose up the day drawethe
was no deliverer, Israel, that there was a to depart: and the toward evening, I pray
because it was far from certain Levite sojourning damsel’s father said you tarry all night:
Zidon, and they had no on the side of mount unto his son in law, behold, the day
business with any man; Ephraim, who took to Comfortc thine heart with groweth to an end,
and it was in the valley him a concubinea out of a morsel of bread, and lodge here, that thine
that lieth by Bethrehob. Bethlehemjudah. 2
And afterward go your way. heart may be merry;
And they built a city, and his concubine played the 6
And they sat down, and and to morrow get you
dwelt therein. 29And they whore against him, and did eat and drink both of early on your way, that
called the name of the went away from him them together: for the thou mayest go home.
city Dan, after the name unto her father’s house damsel’s father had said 10
But the man would not
of Dan their father, who to Bethlehemjudah, and unto the man, Be tarry that night, but he
was born unto Israel: was there four whole content, I pray thee, and rose up and departed,
howbeit the name of the months. 3
And her tarry all night, and let and came over againstf
city was Laish at the husband arose, and went thine heart be merry. d
first. 30And the children 7
And when the man rose until afternoon: Heb. till the
a
of Dan set up the graven a concubine: Heb. a woman a day declined
b e
concubine, or, a wife a friendly...: Heb. to her heart draweth: Heb. is weak
d c f
angry: Heb. bitter of soul concubine Comfort: Heb. Strengthen over against: Heb. to over
Jebus, which is there was no man that servants: there is no humble ye them, and
Jerusalem; and there took them into his house want of any thing. 20And do with them what
were with him two asses to lodging. the old man said, Peace seemeth good unto
saddled, his concubine 16
And, behold, there be with thee; howsoever you: but unto this man
also was with him. 11And came an old man from let all thy wants lie upon do not so vileh a thing.
when they were by his work out of the field me; only lodge not in the 25
But the men would not
Jebus, the day was far at even, which was also street. 21So he brought hearken to him: so the
spent; and the servant of mount Ephraim; and him into his house, and man took his
said unto his master, he sojourned in Gibeah: gave provender unto the concubine, and brought
Come, I pray thee, and but the men of the place asses: and they washed her forth unto them;
let us turn in into this were Benjamites. 17And their feet, and did eat and they knew her, and
city of the Jebusites, and when he had lifted up his and drink. abused her all the night
lodge in it. 12And his eyes, he saw a wayfaring 22
Now as they were until the morning: and
master said unto him, man in the street of the making their hearts when the day began to
We will not turn aside city: and the old man merry, behold, the men spring, they let her go.
hither into the city of a said, Whither goest of the city, certain sons 26
Then came the
stranger, that is not of thou? and whence of Belial, beset the house woman in the dawning
the children of Israel; we comest thou? 18And he round about, and beat at of the day, and fell
will pass over to Gibeah. said unto him, We are the door, and spake to down at the door of the
13
And he said unto his passing from the master of the house, man’s house where her
servant, Come, and let Bethlehemjudah toward the old man, saying, lord was, till it was light.
us draw near to one of the side of mount Bring forth the man that 27
And her lord rose up
these places to lodge all Ephraim; from thence came into thine house, in the morning, and
night, in Gibeah, or in am I: and I went to that we may know him. opened the doors of the
Ramah. 14
And they Bethlehemjudah, but I 23
And the man, the house, and went out to
passed on and went their am now going to the master of the house, go his way: and,
way; and the sun went house of the LORD; and went out unto them, and behold, the woman his
down upon them when there is no man that said unto them, Nay, my concubine was fallen
they were by Gibeah, receivethg me to house. brethren, nay, I pray down at the door of the
which belongeth to 19
Yet there is both straw you, do not so wickedly; house, and her hands
Benjamin. 15And they and provender for our seeing that this man is were upon the
turned aside thither, to asses; and there is bread come into mine house, threshold. And he said
28

go in and to lodge in and wine also for me, do not this folly. unto her, Up, and let us
Gibeah: and when he and for thy handmaid, 24
Behold, here is my be going. But none
went in, he sat him down and for the young man daughter a maiden, and answered. Then the
in a street of the city: for which is with thy his concubine; them I will h
bring out now, and so vile...: Heb. the matter of
g
against receiveth: Heb. gathereth this folly
man took her up upon an the assembly of the Israel. 7Behold, ye are all men, the children of
ass, and the man rose people of God, four children of Israel; give Belial, which are in
up, and gat him unto his hundred thousand here your advice and Gibeah, that we may
place. 29And when he footmen that drew counsel. 8And all the put them to death, and
was come into his house, sword. 3
(Now the people arose as one put away evil from
he took a knife, and laid children of Benjamin man, saying, We will not Israel. But the children
hold on his concubine, heard that the children any of us go to his tent, of Benjamin would not
and divided her, of Israel were gone up to neither will we any of us hearken to the voice of
together with her bones, Mizpeh.) Then said the turn into his house. 9But their brethren the
into twelve pieces, and children of Israel, Tell us, now this shall be the children of Israel: But
14

sent her into all the how was this thing which we will do to the children of
coasts of Israel. 30And it wickedness? 4
And the Gibeah; we will go up by Benjamin gathered
was so, that all that saw Levitea, the husband of lot against it; 10And we themselves together
it said, There was no the woman that was will take ten men of an out of the cities unto
such deed done nor seen slain, answered and said, hundred throughout all Gibeah, to go out to
from the day that the I came into Gibeah that the tribes of Israel, and battle against the
children of Israel came belongeth to Benjamin, I an hundred of a children of Israel. 15And
up out of the land of and my concubine, to thousand, and a the children of
Egypt unto this day: lodge. 5And the men of thousand out of ten Benjamin were
consider of it, take Gibeah rose against me, thousand, to fetch numbered at that time
advice, and speak your and beset the house victual for the people, out of the cities twenty
minds. round about upon me by that they may do, when and six thousand men
night, and thought to they come to Gibeah of that drew sword, beside
Chapter 20 have slain me: and my Benjamin, according to the inhabitants of
concubine have they all the folly that they Gibeah, which were
1
Then all the children forcedb, that she is dead. have wrought in Israel. numbered seven
of Israel went out, and 6
And I took my 11
So all the men of Israel hundred chosen men.
the congregation was concubine, and cut her were gathered against 16
Among all this people
gathered together as in pieces, and sent her the city, knit together as there were seven
one man, from Dan even throughout all the one man. hundred chosen men
to Beersheba, with the country of the 12
And the tribes of lefthanded; every one
land of Gilead, unto the inheritance of Israel: for Israel sent men through could sling stones at an
LORD in Mizpeh. 2And they have committed all the tribe of Benjamin, hair breadth, and not
the chief of all the lewdness and folly in saying, What wickedness miss. 17And the men of
people, even of all the is this that is done Israel, beside Benjamin,
a
tribes of Israel, the Levite: Heb. the man the among you? 13
Now were numbered four
presented themselves in Levite therefore deliver us the hundred thousand men
b
forced: Heb. humbled
that drew sword: all and wept before the of Eleazar, the son of children of Israel said,
these were men of war. LORD until even, and Aaron, stood before it in Let us flee, and draw
18
And the children of asked counsel of the those days,) saying, them from the city unto
Israel arose, and went up LORD, saying, Shall I go Shall I yet again go out the highways. 33And all
to the house of God, and up again to battle to battle against the the men of Israel rose
asked counsel of God, against the children of children of Benjamin my up out of their place,
and said, Which of us Benjamin my brother? brother, or shall I cease? and put themselves in
shall go up first to the And the LORD said, Go And the LORD said, Go array at Baaltamar: and
battle against the up against him.) 24And up; for to morrow I will the liers in wait of Israel
children of Benjamin? the children of Israel deliver them into thine came forth out of their
And the LORD said, came near against the hand. 29And Israel set places, even out of the
Judah shall go up first. children of Benjamin the liers in wait round about meadows of Gibeah.
19
And the children of second day. 25
And Gibeah. 30
And the 34
And there came
Israel rose up in the Benjamin went forth children of Israel went up against Gibeah ten
morning, and encamped against them out of against the children of thousand chosen men
against Gibeah. 20And Gibeah the second day, Benjamin on the third out of all Israel, and the
the men of Israel went and destroyed down to day, and put themselves battle was sore: but
out to battle against the ground of the in array against Gibeah, they knew not that evil
Benjamin; and the men children of Israel again as at other times. 31And was near them. 35And
of Israel put themselves eighteen thousand men; the children of Benjamin the LORD smote
in array to fight against all these drew the sword. went out against the Benjamin before Israel:
them at Gibeah. 21And 26
Then all the children people, and were drawn and the children of
the children of Benjamin of Israel, and all the away from the city; and Israel destroyed of the
came forth out of people, went up, and they began to smitec of Benjamites that day
Gibeah, and destroyed came unto the house of the people, and kill, as at twenty and five
down to the ground of God, and wept, and sat other times, in the thousand and an
the Israelites that day there before the LORD, highways, of which one hundred men: all these
twenty and two and fasted that day until goeth up to the house of drew the sword. 36So
thousand men. 22And the even, and offered burnt God, and the other to the children of
people the men of Israel offerings and peace Gibeah in the field, about Benjamin saw that they
encouraged themselves, offerings before the thirty men of Israel. were smitten: for the
and set their battle again LORD. And the children
27 32
And the children of men of Israel gave
in array in the place of Israel enquired of the Benjamin said, They are place to the
where they put LORD, (for the ark of the smitten down before us, Benjamites, because
themselves in array the covenant of God was as at the first. But the they trusted unto the
first day. 23(And the there in those days, c
liers in wait which they
children of Israel went up 28
And Phinehas, the son to smite...: Heb. to smite of had set beside Gibeah.
the people wounded as at, etc
37
And the liers in wait Benjamin were amazed: Benjamin were twenty come to pass in Israel,
hasted, and rushed upon for they saw that evil and five thousand men that there should be to
Gibeah; and the liers in was comeg upon them. that drew the sword; all day one tribe lacking in
wait drew themselves 42
Therefore they turned these were men of Israel? 4And it came to
alongd, and smote all the their backs before the valour. 47But six hundred pass on the morrow,
city with the edge of the men of Israel unto the men turned and fled to that the people rose
sword. 38Now there was way of the wilderness; the wilderness unto the early, and built there an
an appointed signe but the battle overtook rock Rimmon, and abode altar, and offered burnt
between the men of them; and them which in the rock Rimmon four offerings and peace
Israel and the liers in came out of the cities months. 48And the men offerings. 5
And the
wait, that they should they destroyed in the of Israel turned again children of Israel said,
make a great flame with midst of them. 43Thus upon the children of Who is there among all
smoke rise up out of the they inclosed the Benjamin, and smote the tribes of Israel that
city. 39
And when the Benjamites round about, them with the edge of came not up with the
men of Israel retired in and chased them, and the sword, as well the congregation unto the
the battle, Benjamin trode them down with men of every city, as the LORD? For they had
began to smitef and kill easeh over against beast, and all that came made a great oath
of the men of Israel Gibeah toward the to handi: also they set on concerning him that
about thirty persons: for sunrising. 44
And there fire all the cities that came not up to the
they said, Surely they fell of Benjamin eighteen they came to. LORD to Mizpeh,
are smitten down before thousand men; all these saying, He shall surely
us, as in the first battle. were men of valour. Chapter 21 be put to death. 6And
40
But when the flame 45
And they turned and the children of Israel
began to arise up out of fled toward the Now the men of
1
repented them for
the city with a pillar of wilderness unto the rock Israel had sworn in Benjamin their brother,
smoke, the Benjamites of Rimmon: and they Mizpeh, saying, There and said, There is one
looked behind them, gleaned of them in the shall not any of us give tribe cut off from Israel
and, behold, the flame of highways five thousand his daughter unto this day. 7How shall we
the city ascended up to men; and pursued hard Benjamin to wife. 2And do for wives for them
heaven. 41And when the after them unto Gidom, the people came to the that remain, seeing we
men of Israel turned and slew two thousand house of God, and abode have sworn by the
again, the men of men of them. 46So that there till even before LORD that we will not
all which fell that day of God, and lifted up their give them of our
d
drew...: or, made a long sound voices, and wept sore; daughters to wives?
g
with the trumpet was come...: Heb. touched 3
And said, O LORD God 8
And they said, What
e
sign: or, time them of Israel, why is this one is there of the
f h
to smite...: Heb. to smite the with ease...: or, from tribes of Israel that
i
wounded Menuchah, etc came to hand: Heb. was found
came not up to Mizpeh which is in the land of daughters: for the for our sakes: because
to the LORD? And, Canaan. 13And the whole children of Israel have we reserved not to each
behold, there came none congregation sent some sworn, saying, Cursed be man his wife in the war:
to the camp from to speakc to the children he that giveth a wife to for ye did not give unto
Jabeshgilead to the of Benjamin that were in Benjamin. 19Then they them at this time, that
assembly. 9
For the the rock Rimmon, and to said, Behold, there is a ye should be guilty.
people were numbered, call peaceably unto feast of the LORD in 23
And the children of
and, behold, there were them. 14
And Benjamin Shiloh yearlyd in a place Benjamin did so, and
none of the inhabitants came again at that time; which is on the north took them wives,
of Jabeshgilead there. and they gave them side of Bethel, on the according to their
10
And the congregation wives which they had east side of the highway number, of them that
sent thither twelve saved alive of the that goeth up from danced, whom they
thousand men of the women of Jabeshgilead: Bethel to Shechem, and caught: and they went
valiantest, and and yet so they sufficed on the south of Lebonah. and returned unto their
commanded them, them not. 15And the 20
Therefore they inheritance, and
saying, Go and smite the people repented them commanded the children repaired the cities, and
inhabitants of for Benjamin, because of Benjamin, saying, Go dwelt in them. 24And the
Jabeshgilead with the that the LORD had made and lie in wait in the children of Israel
edge of the sword, with a breach in the tribes of vineyards; 21And see, departed thence at that
the women and the Israel. and, behold, if the time, every man to his
children. 11And this is the daughters of Shiloh tribe and to his family,
thing that ye shall do, Ye
16
Then the elders of the come out to dance in and they went out from
shall utterly destroy congregation said, How dances, then come ye thence every man to his
every male, and every shall we do for wives for out of the vineyards, and inheritance. 25In those
woman that hath laina by them that remain, seeing catch you every man his days there was no king
man. 12And they found the women are wife of the daughters of in Israel: every man did
among the inhabitants of destroyed out of Shiloh, and go to the that which was right in
Jabeshgilead four Benjamin? 17And they land of Benjamin. 22And his own eyes.
hundred youngb virgins, said, There must be an it shall be, when their
that had known no man inheritance for them that fathers or their brethren
by lying with any male: be escaped of Benjamin, come unto us to
and they brought them that a tribe be not complain, that we will
unto the camp to Shiloh, destroyed out of Israel. say unto them, Be
18
Howbeit we may not favourablee unto them
a
hath lain...: Heb. knoweth the give them wives of our
d
lying with man yearly: Heb. from year to year
b c e
young...: Heb. young women to speak...: Heb. and spake Be favourable...: or, Gratify us
virgins and called in them
Ruth
Chapter 1
Now it came to pass
1

in the days when the


judges ruleda, that
there was a famine in
the land. And a certain
man of Bethlehemjudah
went to sojourn in the
country of Moab, he,
and his wife, and his
two sons. 2
And the
name of the man was
Elimelech, and the
name of his wife Naomi,
and the name of his two
sons Mahlon and
Chilion, Ephrathites of
Bethlehemjudah. And
they came into the
country of Moab, and
continued there. 3And
Elimelech Naomi’s
husband died; and she
was left, and her two
sons. 4And they took
them wives of the
women of Moab; the
name of the one was
Orpah, and the name of
the other Ruth: and
they dwelled there
about ten years. 5And

a
ruled: Heb. judged
Mahlon and Chilion died thy people. 11And Naomi leave thee, or to return against me, and the
also both of them; and said, Turn again, my from following after Almighty hath afflicted
the woman was left of daughters: why will ye thee: for whither thou me? 22
So Naomi
her two sons and her go with me? are there goest, I will go; and returned, and Ruth the
husband. yet any more sons in my where thou lodgest, I will Moabitess, her
6
Then she arose with womb, that they may be lodge: thy people shall daughter in law, with
her daughters in law, your husbands? 12Turn be my people, and thy her, which returned out
that she might return again, my daughters, go God my God: 17Where of the country of Moab:
from the country of your way; for I am too thou diest, will I die, and and they came to
Moab: for she had heard old to have an husband. there will I be buried: the Bethlehem in the
in the country of Moab If I should say, I have LORD do so to me, and beginning of barley
how that the LORD had hope, if I should have an more also, if ought but harvest.
visited his people in husband also to night, death part thee and me.
giving them bread. and should also bear 18
When she saw that she Chapter 2
7
Wherefore she went sons; 13Would ye tarryb was stedfastly minded to
forth out of the place for them till they were go with her, then she left And Naomi had a
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where she was, and her grown? would ye stay for speaking unto her. kinsman of her
two daughters in law them from having 19
So they two went husband’s, a mighty
with her; and they went husbands? nay, my until they came to man of wealth, of the
on the way to return daughters; for it grieveth Bethlehem. And it came family of Elimelech; and
unto the land of Judah. me much for your sakes to pass, when they were his name was Boaza.
8
And Naomi said unto that the hand of the come to Bethlehem, that
2
And Ruth the
her two daughters in LORD is gone out against all the city was moved Moabitess said unto
law, Go, return each to me. 14And they lifted up about them, and they Naomi, Let me now go
her mother’s house: the their voice, and wept said, Is this Naomi? 20And to the field, and glean
LORD deal kindly with again: and Orpah kissed she said unto them, Call ears of corn after him in
you, as ye have dealt her mother in law; but me not Naomid, call me whose sight I shall find
with the dead, and with Ruth clave unto her. Mara: for the Almighty grace. And she said
me. 9The LORD grant you 15
And she said, Behold, hath dealt very bitterly unto her, Go, my
that ye may find rest, thy sister in law is gone with me. 21
I went out daughter. 3
And she
each of you in the house back unto her people, full, and the LORD hath went, and came, and
of her husband. Then and unto her gods: brought me home again gleaned in the field
she kissed them; and return thou after thy empty: why then call ye after the reapers: and
they lifted up their voice, sister in law. 16And Ruth me Naomi, seeing the her hapb was to light on
and wept. 10And they said, Intreatc me not to LORD hath testified a part of the field
said unto her, Surely we b a
will return with thee unto tarry: Heb. hope me Boaz: Gr. Booz
c d b
Intreat...: or, Be not against Naomi: that is, Pleasant hap...: Heb. hap happened
belonging unto Boaz, and go thou after them: in thy sight, my lord; for barley. 18And she took it
who was of the kindred have I not charged the that thou hast comforted up, and went into the
of Elimelech. young men that they me, and for that thou city: and her mother in
4
And, behold, Boaz shall not touch thee? and hast spoken friendly law saw what she had
came from Bethlehem, when thou art athirst, go unto thine handmaid, gleaned: and she
and said unto the unto the vessels, and though I be not like unto brought forth, and gave
reapers, The LORD be drink of that which the one of thine to her that she had
with you. And they young men have drawn. handmaidens. 14
And reserved after she was
answered him, The LORD 10
Then she fell on her Boaz said unto her, At sufficed. 19
And her
bless thee. 5Then said face, and bowed herself mealtime come thou mother in law said unto
Boaz unto his servant to the ground, and said hither, and eat of the her, Where hast thou
that was set over the unto him, Why have I bread, and dip thy gleaned to day? and
reapers, Whose damsel found grace in thine morsel in the vinegar. where wroughtest thou?
is this? 6And the servant eyes, that thou And she sat beside the blessed be he that did
that was set over the shouldest take reapers: and he reached take knowledge of thee.
reapers answered and knowledge of me, seeing her parched corn, and And she shewed her
said, It is the Moabitish I am a stranger? 11And she did eat, and was mother in law with
damsel that came back Boaz answered and said sufficed, and left. 15And whom she had wrought,
with Naomi out of the unto her, It hath fully when she was risen up to and said, The man’s
country of Moab: 7And been shewed me, all that glean, Boaz commanded name with whom I
she said, I pray you, let thou hast done unto thy his young men, saying, wrought to day is Boaz.
me glean and gather mother in law since the Let her glean even 20
And Naomi said unto
after the reapers among death of thine husband: among the sheaves, and her daughter in law,
the sheaves: so she and how thou hast left reproachc her not: 16And Blessed be he of the
came, and hath thy father and thy let fall also some of the LORD, who hath not left
continued even from the mother, and the land of handfuls of purpose for off his kindness to the
morning until now, that thy nativity, and art her, and leave them, living and to the dead.
she tarried a little in the come unto a people that she may glean And Naomi said unto
house. 8Then said Boaz which thou knewest not them, and rebuke her her, The man is near of
unto Ruth, Hearest thou heretofore. 12The LORD not. kin unto us, one of our
not, my daughter? Go recompense thy work, 17
So she gleaned in next kinsmen. 21
And
not to glean in another and a full reward be the field until even, and Ruth the Moabitess
field, neither go from given thee of the LORD beat out that she had said, He said unto me
hence, but abide here God of Israel, under gleaned: and it was also, Thou shalt keep
fast by my maidens: 9Let whose wings thou art about an ephah of fast by my young men,
thine eyes be on the come to trust. 13Then she c
until they have ended
field that they do reap, said, Let me find favour reproach...: Heb. shame her all my harvest. 22And
not
Naomi said unto Ruth man, until he shall have therefore thy skirt over and she rose up before
her daughter in law, It is done eating and thine handmaid; for thou one could know
good, my daughter, that drinking. 4And it shall be, art a near kinsman. another. And he said,
thou go out with his when he lieth down, that 10
And he said, Blessed Let it not be known that
maidens, that they thou shalt mark the be thou of the LORD, my a woman came into the
meet thee not in any
d
place where he shall lie, daughter: for thou hast floor. 15Also he said,
other field. 23So she kept and thou shalt go in, and shewed more kindness in Bring the vaild that thou
fast by the maidens of uncovera his feet, and the latter end than at the hast upon thee, and
Boaz to glean unto the lay thee down; and he beginning, inasmuch as hold it. And when she
end of barley harvest will tell thee what thou thou followedst not held it, he measured six
and of wheat harvest; shalt do. 5And she said young men, whether measures of barley, and
and dwelt with her unto her, All that thou poor or rich. 11And now, laid it on her: and she
mother in law. sayest unto me I will do. my daughter, fear not; I went into the city.
6
And she went down will do to thee all that 16
And when she came to
unto the floor, and did thou requirest: for all the her mother in law, she
according to all that her cityc of my people doth said, Who art thou, my
Chapter 3 mother in law bade her. know that thou art a daughter? And she told
7
And when Boaz had virtuous woman. 12And her all that the man had
Then
1
Naomi her eaten and drunk, and his now it is true that I am done to her. 17And she
mother in law said unto heart was merry, he thy near kinsman: said, These six
her, My daughter, shall I went to lie down at the howbeit there is a measures of barley
not seek rest for thee, end of the heap of corn: kinsman nearer than I. gave he me; for he said
that it may be well with and she came softly, and 13
Tarry this night, and it to me, Go not empty
thee? 2And now is not uncovered his feet, and shall be in the morning, unto thy mother in law.
Boaz of our kindred, with laid her down. 8And it that if he will perform 18
Then said she, Sit still,
whose maidens thou came to pass at unto thee the part of a my daughter, until thou
wast? Behold, he midnight, that the man kinsman, well; let him do know how the matter
winnoweth barley to was afraid, and turnedb the kinsman’s part: but if will fall: for the man will
night in the himself: and, behold, a he will not do the part of not be in rest, until he
threshingfloor. 3
Wash woman lay at his feet. a kinsman to thee, then have finished the thing
thyself therefore, and 9
And he said, Who art will I do the part of a this day.
anoint thee, and put thy thou? And she answered, kinsman to thee, as the
raiment upon thee, and I am Ruth thine LORD liveth: lie down Chapter 4
get thee down to the handmaid: spread until the morning.
floor: but make not 14
And she lay at his Then went Boaz up
1
a
thyself known unto the uncover: or, lift up the clothes feet until the morning: to the gate, and sat him
that are on
d b c d
meet...: or, fall upon thee turned: or, took hold on city: Heb. gate vail: or, sheet, or, apron
down there: and, behold, the Moabitess, the wife the dead upon his without a kinsman, that
the kinsman of whom of the dead, to raise up inheritance, that the his name may be
Boaz spake came by; the name of the dead name of the dead be not famous in Israel. 15And
unto whom he said, Ho, upon his inheritance. cut off from among his he shall be unto thee a
such a one! turn aside, 6
And the kinsman said, I brethren, and from the restorer of thy life, and
sit down here. And he cannot redeem it for gate of his place: ye are a nourisher of thine old
turned aside, and sat myself, lest I mar mine witnesses this day. 11And age: for thy daughter in
down. 2And he took ten own inheritance: redeem all the people that were law, which loveth thee,
men of the elders of the thou my right to thyself; in the gate, and the which is better to thee
city, and said, Sit ye for I cannot redeem it. elders, said, We are than seven sons, hath
down here. And they sat 7
Now this was the witnesses. The LORD born him. 16And Naomi
down. 3And he said unto manner in former time in make the woman that is took the child, and laid
the kinsman, Naomi, that Israel concerning come into thine house it in her bosom, and
is come again out of the redeeming and like Rachel and like became nurse unto it.
country of Moab, selleth concerning changing, for Leah, which two did 17
And the women her
a parcel of land, which to confirm all things; a build the house of Israel: neighbours gave it a
was our brother man plucked off his and do thou worthily in name, saying, There is
Elimelech’s: 4
And I shoe, and gave it to his Ephratah, and be famous a son born to Naomi;
thoughta to advertise neighbour: and this was in Bethlehem: 12And let and they called his
thee, saying, Buy it a testimony in Israel. thy house be like the name Obed: he is the
before the inhabitants, 8
Therefore the kinsman house of Pharez, whom father of Jesse, the
and before the elders of said unto Boaz, Buy it for Tamar bare unto Judah, father of David. 18Now
my people. If thou wilt thee. So he drew off his of the seed which the these are the
redeem it, redeem it: but shoe. LORD shall give thee of generations of Pharez:
if thou wilt not redeem 9
And Boaz said unto this young woman. Pharez begat Hezron,
it, then tell me, that I the elders, and unto all 19
And Hezron begat
may know: for there is the people, Ye are So Boaz took Ruth, and
13
Ram, and Ram begat
none to redeem it beside witnesses this day, that I she was his wife: and Amminadab, 20And
thee; and I am after have bought all that was when he went in unto Amminadab begat
thee. And he said, I will Elimelech’s, and all that her, the LORD gave her Nahshon, and Nahshon
redeem it. 5Then said was Chilion’s and conception, and she bare begat Salmonc, 21And
Boaz, What day thou Mahlon’s, of the hand of a son. 14And the women Salmon begat Boaz,
buyest the field of the Naomi. 10Moreover Ruth said unto Naomi, Blessed and Boaz begat Obed,
hand of Naomi, thou the Moabitess, the wife be the LORD, which hath 22
And Obed begat Jesse,
must buy it also of Ruth of Mahlon, have I not leftb thee this day and Jesse begat David.
a
purchased to be my wife, b
I thought...: Heb. I said, I will to raise up the name of left...: Heb. caused to cease
c
reveal in thine ear unto thee Salmon: or, Salmah
First Samuel
Chapter 1
Now there was a
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certain man of
Ramathaimzophim, of
mount Ephraim, and his
name was Elkanah, the
son of Jeroham, the son
of Elihu, the son of
Tohu, the son of Zuph,
an Ephrathite: 2And he
had two wives; the
name of the one was
Hannah, and the name
of the other Peninnah:
and Peninnah had
children, but Hannah
had no children. 3And
this man went up out of
his city yearlya to
a
yearly: Heb. from year to
worship and to sacrifice and why is thy heart was not heard: therefore worshipped before the
unto the LORD of hosts grieved? am not I better Eli thought she had been LORD, and returned,
in Shiloh. And the two to thee than ten sons? drunken. 14And Eli said and came to their
sons of Eli, Hophni and 9
So Hannah rose up unto her, How long wilt house to Ramah: and
Phinehas, the priests of after they had eaten in thou be drunken? put Elkanah knew Hannah
the LORD, were there. Shiloh, and after they away thy wine from his wife; and the LORD
4
And when the time was had drunk. Now Eli the thee. 15
And Hannah remembered her.
that Elkanah offered, he priest sat upon a seat by answered and said, No, 20
Wherefore it came to
gave to Peninnah his a post of the temple of my lord, I am a woman pass, when the time
wife, and to all her sons the LORD. 10And she was of a sorrowfulg spirit: I was come about after
and her daughters, in bitterness of soul, and have drunk neither wine Hannah had conceived,
portions: 5
But unto prayed unto the LORD, nor strong drink, but that she bare a son,
Hannah he gave a and wept sore. 11
And have poured out my soul and called his name
worthy portion; for he
b
she vowed a vow, and before the LORD. Samuel, saying,
loved Hannah: but the said, O LORD of hosts, if 16
Count not thine Because I have asked
LORD had shut up her thou wilt indeed look on handmaid for a daughter him of the LORD.
womb. 6
And her the affliction of thine of Belial: for out of the 21
And the man Elkanah,
adversary also provokedc handmaid, and abundance of my and all his house, went
her sore, for to make her remember me, and not complainth and grief up to offer unto the
fret, because the LORD forget thine handmaid, have I spoken hitherto. LORD the yearly
had shut up her womb. but wilt give unto thine 17
Then Eli answered and sacrifice, and his vow.
7
And as he did so year handmaid a mane child, said, Go in peace: and 22
But Hannah went not
by year, whend she went then I will give him unto the God of Israel grant up; for she said unto
up to the house of the the LORD all the days of thee thy petition that her husband, I will not
LORD, so she provoked his life, and there shall thou hast asked of him. go up until the child be
her; therefore she wept, no razor come upon his 18
And she said, Let thine weaned, and then I will
and did not eat. 8Then head. 12And it came to handmaid find grace in bring him, that he may
said Elkanah her pass, as she continuedf thy sight. So the woman appear before the
husband to her, Hannah, praying before the went her way, and did LORD, and there abide
why weepest thou? and LORD, that Eli marked eat, and her for ever. 23And Elkanah
why eatest thou not? her mouth. 13
Now countenance was no her husband said unto
Hannah, she spake in more sad. her, Do what seemeth
year her heart; only her lips 19
And they rose up in thee good; tarry until
b
worthy: or, double moved, but her voice the morning early, and thou have weaned him;
c
provoked: Heb. angered only the LORD establish
d e g
when...: or, from the time that a man...: Heb. seed of men of a sorrowful...: Heb. hard of his word. So the woman
f
she, etc: Heb. from her going continued...: Heb. multiplied spirit abode, and gave her
h
up to pray complaint: or, meditation
son suck until she enemies; because I them among princes, in his hand; 14And he
weaned him. And when
24
rejoice in thy salvation. and to make them struck it into the pan, or
she had weaned him, 2
There is none holy as inherit the throne of kettle, or caldron, or
she took him up with the LORD: for there is glory: for the pillars of pot; all that the
her, with three bullocks, none beside thee: the earth are the fleshhook brought up
and one ephah of flour, neither is there any rock LORD’S, and he hath set the priest took for
and a bottle of wine, and like our God. 3Talk no the world upon them. himself. So they did in
brought him unto the more so exceeding 9
He will keep the feet of Shiloh unto all the
house of the LORD in proudly; let not his saints, and the Israelites that came
Shiloh: and the child was arrogancy come out of
a
wicked shall be silent in thither. 15Also before
young. 25And they slew a your mouth: for the darkness; for by strength they burnt the fat, the
bullock, and brought the LORD is a God of shall no man prevail. priest’s servant came,
child to Eli. 26And she knowledge, and by him 10
The adversaries of the and said to the man
said, Oh my lord, as thy actions are weighed. LORD shall be broken to that sacrificed, Give
soul liveth, my lord, I am 4
The bows of the mighty pieces; out of heaven flesh to roast for the
the woman that stood by men are broken, and shall he thunder upon priest; for he will not
thee here, praying unto they that stumbled are them: the LORD shall have sodden flesh of
the LORD. 27For this child girded with strength. judge the ends of the thee, but raw. 16And if
I prayed; and the LORD 5
They that were full have earth; and he shall give any man said unto him,
hath given me my hired out themselves for strength unto his king, Let them not fail to
petition which I asked of bread; and they that and exalt the horn of his burn the fat presentlyb,
him: 28Therefore also I were hungry ceased: so anointed. and then take as much
have lent him to the that the barren hath 11
And Elkanah went to as thy soul desireth;
LORD; as long as he born seven; and she that Ramah to his house. And then he would answer
liveth he shall be lent to hath many children is the child did minister him, Nay; but thou shalt
the LORD. And he waxed feeble. 6The LORD unto the LORD before Eli give it me now: and if
worshipped the LORD killeth, and maketh alive: the priest. 12Now the not, I will take it by
there. he bringeth down to the sons of Eli were sons of force. 17Wherefore the
grave, and bringeth up. Belial; they knew not the sin of the young men
Chapter 2 7
The LORD maketh poor, LORD. 13And the priests’ was very great before
and maketh rich: he custom with the people the LORD: for men
1
And Hannah prayed, bringeth low, and lifteth was, that, when any man abhorred the offering of
and said, My heart up. 8He raiseth up the offered sacrifice, the the LORD. 18But Samuel
rejoiceth in the LORD, poor out of the dust, and priest’s servant came, ministered before the
mine horn is exalted in lifteth up the beggar while the flesh was in LORD, being a child,
the LORD: my mouth is from the dunghill, to set seething, with a girded with a linen
enlarged over mine fleshhook of three teeth
a b
arrogancy: Heb. hard presently: Heb. as on the day
ephod. 19Moreover his report that I hear: ye my sacrifice and at mine ever. 33And the man of
mother made him a little make the LORD’S people offering, which I have thine, whom I shall not
coat, and brought it to to transgresse. 25If one commanded in my cut off from mine altar,
him from year to year, man sin against another, habitation; and shall be to consume
when she came up with the judge shall judge honourest thy sons thine eyes, and to
her husband to offer the him: but if a man sin above me, to make grieve thine heart: and
yearly sacrifice. 20And Eli against the LORD, who yourselves fat with the all the increase of thine
blessed Elkanah and his shall intreat for him? chiefest of all the house shall die in the
wife, and said, The LORD Notwithstanding they offerings of Israel my flower of their age.
give thee seed of this hearkened not unto the people? 30Wherefore the 34
And this shall be a
woman for the loanc voice of their father, LORD God of Israel saith, sign unto thee, that
which is lent to the because the LORD would I said indeed that thy shall come upon thy
LORD. And they went slay them. 26And the house, and the house of two sons, on Hophni
unto their own home. child Samuel grew on, thy father, should walk and Phinehas; in one
21
And the LORD visited and was in favour both before me for ever: but day they shall die both
Hannah, so that she with the LORD, and also now the LORD saith, Be of them. 35And I will
conceived, and bare with men. it far from me; for them raise me up a faithful
three sons and two 27
And there came a that honour me I will priest, that shall do
daughters. And the child man of God unto Eli, and honour, and they that according to that which
Samuel grew before the said unto him, Thus saith despise me shall be is in mine heart and in
LORD. 22Now Eli was very the LORD, Did I plainly lightly esteemed. my mind: and I will
old, and heard all that appear unto the house of 31
Behold, the days come, build him a sure house;
his sons did unto all thy father, when they that I will cut off thine and he shall walk
Israel; and how they lay were in Egypt in arm, and the arm of thy before mine anointed
with the women that Pharaoh’s house? 28And father’s house, that for ever. 36And it shall
assembledd at the door did I choose him out of there shall not be an old come to pass, that
of the tabernacle of the all the tribes of Israel to man in thine house. every one that is left in
congregation. 23And he be my priest, to offer 32
And thou shalt see an thine house shall come
said unto them, Why do upon mine altar, to burn enemyf in my habitation, and crouch to him for a
ye such things? for I hear incense, to wear an in all the wealth which piece of silver and a
of your evil dealings by ephod before me? and God shall give Israel: and morsel of bread, and
all this people. 24
Nay, did I give unto the house there shall not be an old shall say, Putg me, I
my sons; for it is no good of thy father all the man in thine house for pray thee, into one of
c
offerings made by fire of f
the priests’ offices, that
loan...: or, petition which she the children of Israel? an enemy...: or, the affliction I may eat a piece of
asked, etc 29
Wherefore kick ye at of the tabernacle, for all the bread.
d
assembled: Heb. assembled by wealth which God would have
e g
troops transgress: or, cry out given Israel Put: Heb. Join
Chapter 3 was the word of the ever for the iniquity him, and did let none of
LORD yet revealed unto which he knoweth; his words fall to the
1
And the child Samuel him. 8
And the LORD because his sons made ground. 20And all Israel
ministered unto the called Samuel again the themselves vile, and he from Dan even to
LORD before Eli. And the third time. And he arose restrained them not. Beersheba knew that
word of the LORD was and went to Eli, and said, 14
And therefore I have Samuel was
precious in those days; Here am I; for thou didst sworn unto the house of establishedb to be a
there was no open call me. And Eli Eli, that the iniquity of prophet of the LORD.
vision. 2And it came to perceived that the LORD Eli’s house shall not be 21
And the LORD
pass at that time, when had called the child. purged with sacrifice nor appeared again in
Eli was laid down in his 9
Therefore Eli said unto offering for ever. 15And Shiloh: for the LORD
place, and his eyes Samuel, Go, lie down: Samuel lay until the revealed himself to
began to wax dim, that and it shall be, if he call morning, and opened the Samuel in Shiloh by the
he could not see; 3And thee, that thou shalt say, doors of the house of the word of the LORD.
ere the lamp of God Speak, LORD; for thy LORD. And Samuel
went out in the temple of servant heareth. So feared to shew Eli the Chapter 4
the LORD, where the ark Samuel went and lay vision. 16Then Eli called
of God was, and Samuel down in his place. 10And Samuel, and said, And the word of
1

was laid down to sleep; the LORD came, and Samuel, my son. And he Samuel came to all
4
That the LORD called stood, and called as at answered, Here am I. Israel. Now Israel went
Samuel: and he other times, Samuel, 17
And he said, What is out against the
answered, Here am I. Samuel. Then Samuel the thing that the LORD Philistines to battle, and
5
And he ran unto Eli, and answered, Speak; for thy hath said unto thee? I pitched beside
said, Here am I; for thou servant heareth. pray thee hide it not Ebenezer: and the
calledst me. And he said, 11
And the LORD said from me: God do so to Philistines pitched in
I called not; lie down to Samuel, Behold, I will thee, and more alsoa, if Aphek. 2
And the
again. And he went and do a thing in Israel, at thou hide any thing from Philistines put
lay down. 6And the LORD which both the ears of me of all the things that themselves in array
called yet again, Samuel. every one that heareth it he said unto thee. 18And against Israel: and
And Samuel arose and shall tingle. 12In that day Samuel told him every when they joineda
went to Eli, and said, I will perform against Eli whit, and hid nothing battle, Israel was
Here am I; for thou didst all things which I have from him. And he said, It smitten before the
call me. And he spoken concerning his is the LORD: let him do Philistines: and they
answered, I called not, house: when I begin, I what seemeth him good. slew of the army in the
my son; lie down again. will also make an end. 19
And Samuel grew, b
7
Now Samuel did not yet 13
For I have told him that and the LORD was with established: or, faithful
a
I will judge his house for they joined...: Heb. the battle
know the LORD, neither a
more also: so add was spread
field about four thousand camp of the Hebrews? taken; and the two sons before the Philistines,
men. 3
And when the And they understood of Eli, Hophni and and there hath been
people were come into that the ark of the LORD Phinehas, were slaine. also a great slaughter
the camp, the elders of was come into the camp. 12
And there ran a man among the people, and
Israel said, Wherefore 7
And the Philistines were of Benjamin out of the thy two sons also,
hath the LORD smitten afraid, for they said, God army, and came to Hophni and Phinehas,
us to day before the is come into the camp. Shiloh the same day with are dead, and the ark of
Philistines? Let us fetchb And they said, Woe unto his clothes rent, and with God is taken. 18And it
the ark of the covenant us! for there hath not earth upon his head. came to pass, when he
of the LORD out of Shiloh been such a thing 13
And when he came, lo, made mention of the
unto us, that, when it heretoforec. 8Woe unto Eli sat upon a seat by ark of God, that he fell
cometh among us, it us! who shall deliver us the wayside watching: from off the seat
may save us out of the out of the hand of these for his heart trembled for backward by the side of
hand of our enemies. mighty Gods? these are the ark of God. And the gate, and his neck
4
So the people sent to the Gods that smote the when the man came into brake, and he died: for
Shiloh, that they might Egyptians with all the the city, and told it, all he was an old man, and
bring from thence the plagues in the the city cried out. 14And heavy. And he had
ark of the covenant of wilderness. Be strong,
9
when Eli heard the noise judged Israel forty
the LORD of hosts, which and quitd yourselves like of the crying, he said, years.
dwelleth between the men, O ye Philistines, What meaneth the noise 19
And his daughter in
cherubims: and the two that ye be not servants of this tumult? And the law, Phinehas’ wife, was
sons of Eli, Hophni and unto the Hebrews, as man came in hastily, and with child, near to be
Phinehas, were there they have been to you: told Eli. 15Now Eli was deliveredg: and when
with the ark of the quit yourselves like men, ninety and eight years she heard the tidings
covenant of God. 5And and fight. old; and his eyes were that the ark of God was
when the ark of the 10
And the Philistines dimf, that he could not taken, and that her
covenant of the LORD fought, and Israel was see. 16And the man said father in law and her
came into the camp, all smitten, and they fled unto Eli, I am he that husband were dead,
Israel shouted with a every man into his tent: came out of the army, she bowed herself and
great shout, so that the and there was a very and I fled to day out of travailed; for her pains
earth rang again. 6And great slaughter; for there the army. And he said, came upon her. 20And
when the Philistines fell of Israel thirty What is there done, my about the time of her
heard the noise of the thousand footmen. 11And son? 17
And the death the women that
shout, they said, What the ark of God was messenger answered stood by her said unto
meaneth the noise of c
and said, Israel is fled her, Fear not; for thou
this great shout in the heretofore: Heb. yesterday, or, hast born a son. But
e
the third day were slain: Heb. died
b d f g
fetch: Heb. take unto us quit...: Heb. be men were dim: Heb. stood be delivered: or, cry out
she answered not, was fallen upon his face the God of Israel be there. 12And the men
neither did she regard it. to the ground before the carried about unto Gath. that died not were
21
And she named the ark of the LORD; and the And they carried the ark smitten with the
child Ichabodh, saying, head of Dagon and both of the God of Israel emerods: and the cry of
The glory is departed the palms of his hands about thither. 9And it the city went up to
from Israel: because the were cut off upon the was so, that, after they heaven.
ark of God was taken, threshold; only the had carried it about, the
and because of her stump of Dagon was left hand of the LORD was Chapter 6
father in law and her to him. 5
Therefore against the city with a
husband. 22And she said, neither the priests of very great destruction:
1
And the ark of the
The glory is departed Dagon, nor any that and he smote the men of LORD was in the
from Israel: for the ark of come into Dagon’s the city, both small and country of the
God is taken. house, tread on the great, and they had Philistines seven
threshold of Dagon in emerods in their secret months. 2
And the
Chapter 5 Ashdod unto this day. parts. 10Therefore they Philistines called for the
6
But the hand of the sent the ark of God to priests and the diviners,
And the Philistines
1
LORD was heavy upon Ekron. And it came to saying, What shall we
took the ark of God, and them of Ashdod, and he pass, as the ark of God do to the ark of the
brought it from Ebenezer destroyed them, and came to Ekron, that the LORD? tell us
unto Ashdod. 2When the smote them with Ekronites cried out, wherewith we shall
Philistines took the ark of emerods, even Ashdod saying, They have send it to his place.
God, they brought it into and the coasts thereof. brought about the ark of
3
And they said, If ye
the house of Dagon, and 7
And when the men of the God of Israel to us, to send away the ark of
set it by Dagon. 3And Ashdod saw that it was slay us and our people. the God of Israel, send
when they of Ashdod so, they said, The ark of 11
So they sent and it not empty; but in any
arose early on the the God of Israel shall gathered together all the wise return him a
morrow, behold, Dagon not abide with us: for his lords of the Philistines, trespass offering: then
was fallen upon his face hand is sore upon us, and said, Send away the ye shall be healed, and
to the earth before the and upon Dagon our ark of the God of Israel, it shall be known to you
ark of the LORD. And god. 8
They sent and let it go again to his why his hand is not
they took Dagon, and set therefore and gathered own place, that it slay us removed from you.
him in his place again. all the lords of the not, and our peoplea: for
4
Then said they, What
4
And when they arose Philistines unto them, there was a deadly shall be the trespass
early on the morrow and said, What shall we destruction throughout offering which we shall
morning, behold, Dagon do with the ark of the all the city; the hand of return to him? They
God of Israel? And they God was very heavy answered, Five golden
h
Ichabod: that is, Where is the answered, Let the ark of emerods, and five
a
glory? or, There is no glory us not...: Heb. me not, and my
golden mice, according jewels of gold, which ye were reaping their wheat the golden mice,
to the number of the return him for a trespass harvest in the valley: according to the
lords of the Philistines: offering, in a coffer by and they lifted up their number of all the cities
for one plague was on the side thereof; and eyes, and saw the ark, of the Philistines
you all, and on your send it away, that it may and rejoiced to see it. belonging to the five
lordsa. 5
Wherefore ye go. 9And see, if it goeth 14
And the cart came into lords, both of fenced
shall make images of up by the way of his own the field of Joshua, a cities, and of country
your emerods, and coast to Bethshemesh, Bethshemite, and stood villages, even unto the
images of your mice that then he hath done us there, where there was a greatc stone of Abel,
mar the land; and ye this great evil: but if not, great stone: and they whereon they set down
shall give glory unto the then we shall know that clave the wood of the the ark of the LORD:
God of Israel: it is not his hand that cart, and offered the which stone remaineth
peradventure he will smote us: it was a kine a burnt offering unto this day in the
lighten his hand from off chance that happened to unto the LORD. 15And the field of Joshua, the
you, and from off your us. Levites took down the Bethshemite.
gods, and from off your 10
And the men did so; ark of the LORD, and the 19
And he smote the
land. 6Wherefore then do and took two milch kine, coffer that was with it, men of Bethshemesh,
ye harden your hearts, and tied them to the wherein the jewels of because they had
as the Egyptians and cart, and shut up their gold were, and put them looked into the ark of
Pharaoh hardened their calves at home: 11And on the great stone: and the LORD, even he
hearts? when he had they laid the ark of the the men of Bethshemesh smote of the people
wrought wonderfullyb LORD upon the cart, and offered burnt offerings fifty thousand and
among them, did they the coffer with the mice and sacrificed sacrifices threescore and ten
not let the people go, of gold and the images the same day unto the men: and the people
and they departed? of their emerods. 12And LORD. 16And when the lamented, because the
7
Now therefore make a the kine took the straight five lords of the LORD had smitten
new cart, and take two way to the way of Philistines had seen it, many of the people with
milch kine, on which Bethshemesh, and went they returned to Ekron a great slaughter. 20And
there hath come no along the highway, the same day. 17And the men of
yoke, and tie the kine to lowing as they went, and these are the golden Bethshemesh said, Who
the cart, and bring their turned not aside to the emerods which the is able to stand before
calves home from them: right hand or to the left; Philistines returned for a this holy LORD God?
8
And take the ark of the and the lords of the trespass offering unto and to whom shall he
LORD, and lay it upon Philistines went after the LORD; for Ashdod go up from us? 21And
the cart; and put the them unto the border of one, for Gaza one, for they sent messengers
a
Bethshemesh. 13
And Askelon one, for Gath to the inhabitants of
you: Heb. them they of Bethshemesh one, for Ekron one; 18And
b c
wonderfully: or, reproachfully great...: or, great stone
Kirjathjearim, saying, the Philistines. 4Then the took a sucking lamb, and against the Philistines
The Philistines have children of Israel did put offered it for a burnt all the days of Samuel.
brought again the ark of away Baalim and offering wholly unto the 14
And the cities which
the LORD; come ye Ashtaroth, and served LORD: and Samuel cried the Philistines had
down, and fetch it up to the LORD only. 5And unto the LORD for Israel; taken from Israel were
you. Samuel said, Gather all and the LORD heardb restored to Israel, from
Israel to Mizpeh, and I him. 10And as Samuel Ekron even unto Gath;
Chapter 7 will pray for you unto the was offering up the burnt and the coasts thereof
LORD. 6
And they offering, the Philistines did Israel deliver out of
1
And the men of gathered together to drew near to battle the hands of the
Kirjathjearim came, and Mizpeh, and drew water, against Israel: but the Philistines. And there
fetched up the ark of the and poured it out before LORD thundered with a was peace between
LORD, and brought it the LORD, and fasted on great thunder on that Israel and the Amorites.
into the house of that day, and said there, day upon the Philistines, 15
And Samuel judged
Abinadab in the hill, and We have sinned against and discomfited them; Israel all the days of his
sanctified Eleazar his son the LORD. And Samuel and they were smitten life. 16And he went from
to keep the ark of the judged the children of before Israel. 11And the year to year in circuitd
LORD. 2And it came to Israel in Mizpeh. men of Israel went out of to Bethel, and Gilgal,
pass, while the ark 7
And when the Mizpeh, and pursued the and Mizpeh, and judged
abode in Kirjathjearim, Philistines heard that the Philistines, and smote Israel in all those
that the time was long; children of Israel were them, until they came places. 17And his return
for it was twenty years: gathered together to under Bethcar. 12Then was to Ramah; for there
and all the house of Mizpeh, the lords of the Samuel took a stone, was his house; and
Israel lamented after the Philistines went up and set it between there he judged Israel;
LORD. against Israel. And when Mizpeh and Shen, and and there he built an
3
And Samuel spake the children of Israel called the name of it altar unto the LORD.
unto all the house of heard it, they were Ebenezerc, saying,
Israel, saying, If ye do afraid of the Philistines. Hitherto hath the LORD Chapter 8
return unto the LORD 8
And the children of helped us.
with all your hearts, then Israel said to Samuel, 13
So the Philistines
1
And it came to pass,
put away the strange Ceasea not to cry unto were subdued, and they when Samuel was old,
gods and Ashtaroth from the LORD our God for us, came no more into the that he made his sons
among you, and prepare that he will save us out coast of Israel: and the judges over Israel. 2Now
your hearts unto the of the hand of the hand of the LORD was the name of his
LORD, and serve him Philistines. 9And Samuel firstborn was Joel; and
b
only: and he will deliver heard: or, answered
a c d
you out of the hand of Cease...: Heb. Be not silent Ebenezer: that is, The stone of in circuit: Heb. and he
from us from crying help circuited
the name of his second, that I brought them up be confectionaries, and go out before us, and
Abiah: they were judges out of Egypt even unto to be cooks, and to be fight our battles. 21And
in Beersheba. 3And his this day, wherewith they bakers. 14And he will Samuel heard all the
sons walked not in his have forsaken me, and take your fields, and words of the people,
ways, but turned aside served other gods, so do your vineyards, and your and he rehearsed them
after lucre, and took they also unto thee. oliveyards, even the best in the ears of the LORD.
bribes, and perverted 9
Now therefore hearkenb of them, and give them 22
And the LORD said to
judgment. unto their voice: howbeit to his servants. 15And he Samuel, Hearken unto
4
Then all the elders of yet protest solemnly will take the tenth of their voice, and make
Israel gathered unto them, and shew your seed, and of your them a king. And
themselves together, them the manner of the vineyards, and give to Samuel said unto the
and came to Samuel king that shall reign over his officersc, and to his men of Israel, Go ye
unto Ramah, 5And said them. 10
And Samuel servants. 16And he will every man unto his city.
unto him, Behold, thou told all the words of the take your menservants,
art old, and thy sons LORD unto the people and your maidservants, Chapter 9
walk not in thy ways: that asked of him a king. and your goodliest
now make us a king to 11
And he said, This will young men, and your Now there was a
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judge us like all the be the manner of the asses, and put them to man of Benjamin,
nations. 6But the thing king that shall reign over his work. 17He will take whose name was Kish,
displeaseda Samuel, you: He will take your the tenth of your sheep: the son of Abiel, the son
when they said, Give us sons, and appoint them and ye shall be his of Zeror, the son of
a king to judge us. And for himself, for his servants. 18And ye shall Bechorath, the son of
Samuel prayed unto the chariots, and to be his cry out in that day Aphiah, a Benjamitea, a
LORD. 7And the LORD horsemen; and some because of your king mighty man of power.
said unto Samuel, shall run before his which ye shall have
2
And he had a son,
Hearken unto the voice chariots. 12And he will chosen you; and the whose name was Saul,
of the people in all that appoint him captains LORD will not hear you in a choice young man,
they say unto thee: for over thousands, and that day. 19Nevertheless and a goodly: and there
they have not rejected captains over fifties; and the people refused to was not among the
thee, but they have will set them to ear his obey the voice of children of Israel a
rejected me, that I ground, and to reap his Samuel; and they said, goodlier person than
should not reign over harvest, and to make his Nay; but we will have a he: from his shoulders
them. 8According to all instruments of war, and king over us; 20That we and upward he was
the works which they instruments of his also may be like all the higher than any of the
have done since the day chariots. 13And he will nations; and that our people.
a
take your daughters to king may judge us, and a
displeased: Heb. as evil in the a Benjamite: or, the son of a
b c
eyes of hearken...: or, obey officers: Heb. eunuchs man of Jemini
3
And the asses of Kish what shall we bring the going out to draw water, about this time I will
Saul’s father were lost. man? for the bread is and said unto them, Is send thee a man out of
And Kish said to Saul his spentb in our vessels, the seer here? 12
And the land of Benjamin,
son, Take now one of the and there is not a they answered them, and thou shalt anoint
servants with thee, and present to bring to the and said, He is; behold, him to be captain over
arise, go seek the asses. man of God: what have he is before you: make my people Israel, that
4
And he passed through we? 8
And the servant haste now, for he came he may save my people
mount Ephraim, and answered Saul again, to day to the city; for out of the hand of the
passed through the land and said, Behold, I havec there is a sacrificef of the Philistines: for I have
of Shalisha, but they here at hand the fourth people to day in the high looked upon my people,
found them not: then part of a shekel of silver: place: 13As soon as ye because their cry is
they passed through the that will I give to the be come into the city, ye come unto me. 17And
land of Shalim, and man of God, to tell us shall straightway find when Samuel saw Saul,
there they were not: and our way. 9(Beforetime in him, before he go up to the LORD said unto
he passed through the Israel, when a man went the high place to eat: for him, Behold the man
land of the Benjamites, to enquire of God, thus the people will not eat whom I spake to thee
but they found them not. he spake, Come, and let until he come, because of! this same shall reign
5
And when they were us go to the seer: for he he doth bless the over my people.
come to the land of that is now called a sacrifice; and afterwards 18
Then Saul drew
Zuph, Saul said to his Prophet was beforetime they eat that be bidden. near to Samuel in the
servant that was with called a Seer.) 10Then Now therefore get you gate, and said, Tell me,
him, Come, and let us said Saul to his servant, up; for about this timeg I pray thee, where the
return; lest my father Well saidd; come, let us ye shall find him. 14And seer’s house is. 19And
leave caring for the go. So they went unto they went up into the Samuel answered Saul,
asses, and take thought the city where the man city: and when they were and said, I am the seer:
for us. 6And he said unto of God was. come into the city, go up before me unto
him, Behold now, there 11
And as they went up behold, Samuel came the high place; for ye
is in this city a man of the hille to the city, they out against them, for to shall eat with me to
God, and he is an found young maidens go up to the high place. day, and to morrow I
honourable man; all that b
15
Now the LORD had will let thee go, and will
he saith cometh surely is spent...: Heb. is gone out of, toldh Samuel in his ear a tell thee all that is in
to pass: now let us go etc day before Saul came, thine heart. 20And as for
c
thither; peradventure he I have...: Heb. there is found saying, 16
To morrow thine asses that were
can shew us our way in my hand lost threei days ago, set
d f
that we should go. 7Then Well said: Heb. Thy word is sacrifice: or, feast not thy mind on them;
g
said Saul to his servant, good this time: Heb. to day
e h i
But, behold, if we go, the hill...: Heb. in the ascent of told...: Heb. revealed the ear three...: Heb. to day three
the city of Samuel days
for they are found. And been kept for thee since hath anointed thee to be garrison of the
on whom is all the desire I said, I have invited the captain over his Philistines: and it shall
of Israel? Is it not on people. So Saul did eat inheritance? 2When thou come to pass, when
thee, and on all thy with Samuel that day. art departed from me to thou art come thither to
father’s house? 21
And 25
And when they were day, then thou shalt find the city, that thou shalt
Saul answered and said, come down from the two men by Rachel’s meet a company of
Am not I a Benjamite, of high place into the city, sepulchre in the border prophets coming down
the smallest of the tribes Samuel communed with of Benjamin at Zelzah; from the high place
of Israel? and my family Saul upon the top of the and they will say unto with a psaltery, and a
the least of all the house. 26And they arose thee, The asses which tabret, and a pipe, and
families of the tribe of early: and it came to thou wentest to seek are a harp, before them;
Benjamin? wherefore pass about the spring of found: and, lo, thy father and they shall
then speakest thou soj to the day, that Samuel hath left the carea of the prophesy: 6
And the
me? 22And Samuel took called Saul to the top of asses, and sorroweth for Spirit of the LORD will
Saul and his servant, and the house, saying, Up, you, saying, What shall I come upon thee, and
brought them into the that I may send thee do for my son? 3Then thou shalt prophesy
parlour, and made them away. And Saul arose, shalt thou go on forward with them, and shalt be
sit in the chiefest place and they went out both from thence, and thou turned into another
among them that were of them, he and Samuel, shalt come to the plain man. 7And let it be,
bidden, which were abroad. 27And as they of Tabor, and there shall when these signs are
about thirty persons. were going down to the meet thee three men come unto thee, that
23
And Samuel said unto end of the city, Samuel going up to God to thou do as occasion
the cook, Bring the said to Saul, Bid the Bethel, one carrying serve thee; for God is
portion which I gave servant pass on before three kids, and another with thee. 8
And thou
thee, of which I said unto us, (and he passed on,) carrying three loaves of shalt go down before
thee, Set it by thee. but stand thou still a bread, and another me to Gilgal; and,
24
And the cook took up whilel, that I may shew carrying a bottle of wine: behold, I will come
the shoulder, and that thee the word of God. 4
And they will saluteb down unto thee, to offer
which was upon it, and thee, and give thee two burnt offerings, and to
set it before Saul. And Chapter 10 loaves of bread; which sacrifice sacrifices of
Samuel said, Behold that thou shalt receive of peace offerings: seven
which is leftk! set it Then Samuel took a
1
their hands. 5After that days shalt thou tarry,
before thee, and eat: for vial of oil, and poured it thou shalt come to the till I come to thee, and
unto this time hath it upon his head, and hill of God, where is the shew thee what thou
kissed him, and said, Is shalt do.
j a
so...: Heb. according to this it not because the LORD care: Heb. business 9
And it was so, that
b
word salute...: Heb. ask thee of when he had turned his
k l
left: or, reserved a while: Heb. to day peace
backc to go from Samuel, ye? And he said, To seek LORD by your tribes, and 25
Then Samuel told the
God gave him another the asses: and when we by your thousands. 20And people the manner of
heart: and all those signs saw that they were no when Samuel had the kingdom, and wrote
came to pass that day. where, we came to caused all the tribes of it in a book, and laid it
10
And when they came Samuel. 15And Saul’s Israel to come near, the up before the LORD.
thither to the hill, uncle said, Tell me, I tribe of Benjamin was And Samuel sent all the
behold, a company of pray thee, what Samuel taken. 21When he had people away, every
prophets met him; and said unto you. 16And Saul caused the tribe of man to his house. 26And
the Spirit of God came said unto his uncle, He Benjamin to come near Saul also went home to
upon him, and he told us plainly that the by their families, the Gibeah; and there went
prophesied among them. asses were found. But of family of Matri was with him a band of
11
And it came to pass, the matter of the taken, and Saul the son men, whose hearts God
when all that knew him kingdom, whereof of Kish was taken: and had touched. 27But the
beforetime saw that, Samuel spake, he told when they sought him, children of Belial said,
behold, he prophesied him not. he could not be found. How shall this man save
among the prophets, 17
And Samuel called 22
Therefore they us? And they despised
then the people said the people together unto enquired of the LORD him, and brought him
oned to another, What is the LORD to Mizpeh; further, if the man no presents. But he
this that is come unto 18
And said unto the should yet come thither. held his peace.
the son of Kish? Is Saul children of Israel, Thus And the LORD answered,
also among the saith the LORD God of Behold, he hath hid Chapter 11
prophets? 12
And one of Israel, I brought up Israel himself among the stuff.
the same place out of Egypt, and 23
And they ran and Then Nahash the
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answered and said, But delivered you out of the fetched him thence: and Ammonite came up,
who is their father? hand of the Egyptians, when he stood among and encamped against
Therefore it became a and out of the hand of all the people, he was Jabeshgilead: and all
proverb, Is Saul also kingdoms, and of them higher than any of the the men of Jabesh said
among the prophets? that oppressed you: people from his unto Nahash, Make a
13
And when he had made 19
And ye have this day shoulders and upward. covenant with us, and
an end of prophesying, rejected your God, who 24
And Samuel said to all we will serve thee. 2And
he came to the high himself saved you out of the people, See ye him Nahash the Ammonite
place. 14And Saul’s uncle all your adversities and whom the LORD hath answered them, On this
said unto him and to his your tribulations; and ye chosen, that there is condition will I make a
servant, Whither went have said unto him, Nay, none like him among all covenant with you, that
but set a king over us. the people? And all the I may thrust out all your
c
back: Heb. shoulder Now therefore present people shouted, and right eyes, and lay it for
d
one...: Heb. a man to his yourselves before the said, God save the king. a reproach upon all
neighbour
Israel. 3And the elders of the fear of the LORD fell scattered, so that two of 2
And now, behold, the
Jabesh said unto him, on the people, and they them were not left king walketh before
Give us seven days’ came out with one together. you: and I am old and
respite, that we may consent. 8And when he 12
And the people said grayheaded; and,
send messengers unto numbered them in unto Samuel, Who is he behold, my sons are
all the coasts of Israel: Bezek, the children of that said, Shall Saul with you: and I have
and then, if there be no Israel were three reign over us? bring the walked before you from
man to save us, we will hundred thousand, and men, that we may put my childhood unto this
come out to thee. 4Then the men of Judah thirty them to death. 13And day. 3Behold, here I am:
came the messengers to thousand. 9And they said Saul said, There shall not witness against me
Gibeah of Saul, and told unto the messengers a man be put to death before the LORD, and
the tidings in the ears of that came, Thus shall ye this day: for to day the before his anointed:
the people: and all the say unto the men of LORD hath wrought whose ox have I taken?
people lifted up their Jabeshgilead, To morrow, salvation in Israel. 14Then or whose ass have I
voices, and wept. by that time the sun be said Samuel to the taken? or whom have I
5
And, behold, Saul hot, ye shall have helpa. people, Come, and let us defrauded? whom have
came after the herd out And the messengers go to Gilgal, and renew I oppressed? or of
of the field; and Saul came and shewed it to the kingdom there. 15And whose hand have I
said, What aileth the the men of Jabesh; and all the people went to received any bribea to
people that they weep? they were glad. Gilgal; and there they blind mine eyes
And they told him the 10
Therefore the men of made Saul king before therewith? and I will
tidings of the men of Jabesh said, To morrow the LORD in Gilgal; and restore it you. 4
And
Jabesh. 6And the Spirit of we will come out unto there they sacrificed they said, Thou hast not
God came upon Saul you, and ye shall do with sacrifices of peace defrauded us, nor
when he heard those us all that seemeth good offerings before the oppressed us, neither
tidings, and his anger unto you. 11And it was so LORD; and there Saul hast thou taken ought
was kindled greatly. 7And on the morrow, that Saul and all the men of Israel of any man’s hand.
he took a yoke of oxen, put the people in three rejoiced greatly. 5
And he said unto them,
and hewed them in companies; and they The LORD is witness
pieces, and sent them came into the midst of Chapter 12 against you, and his
throughout all the coasts the host in the morning anointed is witness this
of Israel by the hands of watch, and slew the
1
And Samuel said day, that ye have not
messengers, saying, Ammonites until the unto all Israel, Behold, I found ought in my
Whosoever cometh not heat of the day: and it have hearkened unto hand. And they
forth after Saul and after came to pass, that they your voice in all that ye answered, He is
Samuel, so shall it be which remained were said unto me, and have witness.
done unto his oxen. And made a king over you.
a a
help: or, deliverance bribe: Heb. ransom
And
6
Samuel said Ashtaroth: but now voice of the LORD, but aside from following the
unto the people, It is the deliver us out of the rebel against the LORD, but serve the
LORD that advancedb hand of our enemies, commandment of the LORD with all your
Moses and Aaron, and and we will serve thee. LORD, then shall the heart; 21And turn ye not
that brought your fathers 11
And the LORD sent hand of the LORD be aside: for then should
up out of the land of Jerubbaal, and Bedan, against you, as it was ye go after vain things,
Egypt. 7
Now therefore and Jephthah, and against your fathers. which cannot profit nor
stand still, that I may Samuel, and delivered 16
Now therefore stand deliver; for they are
reason with you before you out of the hand of and see this great thing, vain. 22For the LORD will
the LORD of all the your enemies on every which the LORD will do not forsake his people
righteous acts of the side, and ye dwelled before your eyes. 17Is it for his great name’s
LORD, which he did to safe. 12And when ye saw not wheat harvest to sake: because it hath
you and to your fathers. that Nahash the king of day? I will call unto the pleased the LORD to
8
When Jacob was come the children of Ammon LORD, and he shall send make you his people.
into Egypt, and your came against you, ye thunder and rain; that ye 23
Moreover as for me,
fathers cried unto the said unto me, Nay; but a may perceive and see God forbid that I should
LORD, then the LORD king shall reign over us: that your wickedness is sin against the LORD in
sent Moses and Aaron, when the LORD your God great, which ye have ceasing to pray for you:
which brought forth your was your king. 13Now done in the sight of the but I will teach you the
fathers out of Egypt, and therefore behold the LORD, in asking you a good and the right way:
made them dwell in this king whom ye have king. 18So Samuel called 24
Only fear the LORD,
place. 9And when they chosen, and whom ye unto the LORD; and the and serve him in truth
forgat the LORD their have desired! and, LORD sent thunder and with all your heart: for
God, he sold them into behold, the LORD hath rain that day: and all the consider how great
the hand of Sisera, set a king over you. 14If people greatly feared things he hath done for
captain of the host of ye will fear the LORD, the LORD and Samuel. you. 25But if ye shall
Hazor, and into the hand and serve him, and obey 19
And all the people said still do wickedly, ye
of the Philistines, and his voice, and not rebel unto Samuel, Pray for shall be consumed,
into the hand of the king against the thy servants unto the both ye and your king.
of Moab, and they fought commandment of the
c
LORD thy God, that we
against them. 10And they LORD, then shall both ye die not: for we have Chapter 13
cried unto the LORD, and and also the king that added unto all our sins
said, We have sinned, reigneth over you this evil, to ask us a king.
1
Saul reigned one
because we have continue following the 20
And Samuel said unto year; and when he had
forsaken the LORD, and LORD your God: 15But if the people, Fear not: ye reigned two years over
have served Baalim and ye will not obey the have done all this Israel, 2Saul chose him
wickedness: yet turn not three thousand men of
b c
advanced: or, made commandment: Heb. mouth
Israel; whereof two Michmash, eastward might salutec him. 11And hast not kept that
thousand were with Saul from Bethaven. 6When Samuel said, What hast which the LORD
in Michmash and in the men of Israel saw thou done? And Saul commanded thee.
mount Bethel, and a that they were in a said, Because I saw that 15
And Samuel arose,
thousand were with strait, (for the people the people were and gat him up from
Jonathan in Gibeah of were distressed,) then scattered from me, and Gilgal unto Gibeah of
Benjamin: and the rest of the people did hide that thou camest not Benjamin. And Saul
the people he sent every themselves in caves, and within the days numbered the people
man to his tent. 3And in thickets, and in rocks, appointed, and that the that were presentd with
Jonathan smote the and in high places, and Philistines gathered him, about six hundred
garrison of the Philistines in pits. 7And some of the themselves together at men. 16And Saul, and
that was in Gebaa, and Hebrews went over Michmash; 12
Therefore Jonathan his son, and
the Philistines heard of Jordan to the land of Gad said I, The Philistines will the people that were
it. And Saul blew the and Gilead. As for Saul, come down now upon presente with them,
trumpet throughout all he was yet in Gilgal, and me to Gilgal, and I have abode in Gibeah of
the land, saying, Let the all the people followedb not made supplication Benjamin: but the
Hebrews hear. 4And all him trembling. unto the LORD: I forced Philistines encamped in
Israel heard say that 8
And he tarried seven myself therefore, and Michmash. 17
And the
Saul had smitten a days, according to the offered a burnt offering. spoilers came out of the
garrison of the set time that Samuel 13
And Samuel said to camp of the Philistines
Philistines, and that had appointed: but Saul, Thou hast done in three companies: one
Israel also was had in Samuel came not to foolishly: thou hast not company turned unto
abomination with the Gilgal; and the people kept the commandment the way that leadeth to
Philistines. And the were scattered from him. of the LORD thy God, Ophrah, unto the land
people were called 9
And Saul said, Bring which he commanded of Shual: 18And another
together after Saul to hither a burnt offering to thee: for now would the company turned the
Gilgal. 5
And the me, and peace offerings. LORD have established way to Bethhoron: and
Philistines gathered And he offered the burnt thy kingdom upon Israel another company
themselves together to offering. 10And it came to for ever. 14But now thy turned to the way of the
fight with Israel, thirty pass, that as soon as he kingdom shall not border that looketh to
thousand chariots, and had made an end of continue: the LORD hath the valley of Zeboim
six thousand horsemen, offering the burnt sought him a man after toward the wilderness.
and people as the sand offering, behold, Samuel his own heart, and the 19
Now there was no
which is on the sea shore came; and Saul went out LORD hath commanded smith found throughout
in multitude: and they to meet him, that he him to be captain over all the land of Israel: for
came up, and pitched in b
his people, because thou d
followed...: Heb. trembled present: Heb. found
a c e
Geba: or, the hill after him salute: Heb. bless present: Heb. found
the Philistines said, Lest that bare his armour, over against Gibeah. Philistines: and the
the Hebrews make them Come, and let us go over 6
And Jonathan said to the Philistines said, Behold,
swords or spears: 20But to the Philistines’ young man that bare his the Hebrews come forth
all the Israelites went garrison, that is on the armour, Come, and let out of the holes where
down to the Philistines, other side. But he told us go over unto the they had hid
to sharpen every man not his father. 2And Saul garrison of these themselves. 12
And the
his share, and his tarried in the uttermost uncircumcised: it may be men of the garrison
coulter, and his axe, and part of Gibeah under a that the LORD will work answered Jonathan and
his mattock. 21Yet they pomegranate tree which for us: for there is no his armourbearer, and
had a filef for the is in Migron: and the restraint to the LORD to said, Come up to us,
mattocks, and for the people that were with save by many or by few. and we will shew you a
coulters, and for the him were about six 7
And his armourbearer thing. And Jonathan
forks, and for the axes, hundred men; 3
And said unto him, Do all that said unto his
and to sharpen the Ahiah , the son of Ahitub,
a
is in thine heart: turn armourbearer, Come up
goads. 22
So it came to Ichabod’s brother, the thee; behold, I am with after me: for the LORD
pass in the day of battle, son of Phinehas, the son thee according to thy hath delivered them
that there was neither of Eli, the LORD’S priest heart. 8
Then said into the hand of Israel.
sword nor spear found in in Shiloh, wearing an Jonathan, Behold, we will 13
And Jonathan climbed
the hand of any of the ephod. And the people pass over unto these up upon his hands and
people that were with knew not that Jonathan men, and we will upon his feet, and his
Saul and Jonathan: but was gone. 4And between discover ourselves unto armourbearer after him:
with Saul and with the passages, by which them. 9If they say thus and they fell before
Jonathan his son was Jonathan sought to go unto us, Tarryc until we Jonathan; and his
there found. 23And the over unto the Philistines’ come to you; then we armourbearer slew after
garrisong of the garrison, there was a will stand still in our him. 14And that first
Philistines went out to sharp rock on the one place, and will not go up slaughter, which
the passage of side, and a sharp rock on unto them. 10But if they Jonathan and his
Michmash. the other side: and the say thus, Come up unto armourbearer d
made,
name of the one was us; then we will go up: was about twenty men,
Chapter 14 Bozez, and the name of for the LORD hath within as it were an half
the other Seneh. 5The delivered them into our acre of land, which a
Now it came to
1
pass forefrontb of the one was hand: and this shall be a yoke of oxen might
upon a day, that situate northward over sign unto us. 11And both plow. 15And there was
Jonathan the son of Saul against Michmash, and of them discovered trembling in the host, in
said unto the young man the other southward themselves unto the the field, and among all
f a
garrison of the d
a file: Heb. a file with mouths Ahiah: called Ahimelech an...: or, half a furrow of an
g b c
garrison: or, standing camp forefront: Heb. tooth Tarry: Heb. Be still acre of land
the people: the garrison, with him assembledf may be avenged on how mine eyes have
and the spoilers, they themselves, and they mine enemies. So none been enlightened,
also trembled, and the came to the battle: and, of the people tasted any because I tasted a little
earth quaked: so it was a behold, every man’s food. 25And all they of of this honey. 30How
very great trembling. sword was against his the land came to a much more, if haply the
16
And the watchmen fellow, and there was a wood; and there was people had eaten freely
of Saul in Gibeah of very great discomfiture. honey upon the ground. to day of the spoil of
Benjamin looked; and, 21
Moreover the Hebrews 26
And when the people their enemies which
behold, the multitude that were with the were come into the they found? for had
melted away, and they Philistines before that wood, behold, the honey there not been now a
went on beating down time, which went up with dropped; but no man put much greater slaughter
one another. 17Then said them into the camp from his hand to his mouth: among the Philistines?
Saul unto the people the country round about, for the people feared the 31
And they smote the
that were with him, even they also turned to oath. 27
But Jonathan Philistines that day from
Number now, and see be with the Israelites heard not when his Michmash to Aijalon:
who is gone from us. And that were with Saul and father charged the and the people were
when they had Jonathan. 22Likewise all people with the oath: very faint. 32And the
numbered, behold, the men of Israel which wherefore he put forth people flew upon the
Jonathan and his had hid themselves in the end of the rod that spoil, and took sheep,
armourbearer were not mount Ephraim, when was in his hand, and and oxen, and calves,
there. 18And Saul said they heard that the dipped it in an and slew them on the
unto Ahiah, Bring hither Philistines fled, even honeycomb, and put his ground: and the people
the ark of God. For the they also followed hard hand to his mouth; and did eat them with the
ark of God was at that after them in the battle. his eyes were blood. 33Then they told
time with the children of 23
So the LORD saved enlightened. 28
Then Saul, saying, Behold,
Israel. 19And it came to Israel that day: and the answered one of the the people sin against
pass, while Saul talked battle passed over unto people, and said, Thy the LORD, in that they
unto the priest, that the Bethaven. father straitly charged eat with the blood. And
noisee that was in the 24
And the men of the people with an oath, he said, Ye have
host of the Philistines Israel were distressed saying, Cursed be the transgressed : roll a
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went on and increased: that day: for Saul had man that eateth any great stone unto me
and Saul said unto the adjured the people, food this day. And the this day. 34
And Saul
priest, Withdraw thine saying, Cursed be the people were faintg. said, Disperse
hand. 20And Saul and all man that eateth any 29
Then said Jonathan, My yourselves among the
the people that were food until evening, that I father hath troubled the people, and say unto
f
land: see, I pray you, h
assembled...: Heb. were cried transgressed: or, dealt
e g
noise: or, tumult together faint: or, weary treacherously
them, Bring me hither the chiefj of the people: mine hand, and, lo, I Amalekites, and
every man his ox, and and know and see must die. 44And Saul delivered Israel out of
every man his sheep, wherein this sin hath answered, God do so and the hands of them that
and slay them here, and been this day. 39For, as more also: for thou shalt spoiled them. 49
Now
eat; and sin not against the LORD liveth, which surely die, Jonathan. the sons of Saul were
the LORD in eating with saveth Israel, though it 45
And the people said Jonathan, and Ishui, and
the blood. And all the be in Jonathan my son, unto Saul, Shall Jonathan Melchishua: and the
people brought every he shall surely die. But die, who hath wrought names of his two
man his ox with himi that there was not a man this great salvation in daughters were these;
night, and slew them among all the people Israel? God forbid: as the the name of the
there. 35And Saul built that answered him. LORD liveth, there shall firstborn Merab, and the
an altar unto the LORD: 40
Then said he unto all not one hair of his head name of the younger
the same was the first Israel, Be ye on one side, fall to the ground; for he Michal: 50And the name
altar that he built unto and I and Jonathan my hath wrought with God of Saul’s wife was
the LORD. son will be on the other this day. So the people Ahinoam, the daughter
36
And Saul said, Let us side. And the people said rescued Jonathan, that of Ahimaaz: and the
go down after the unto Saul, Do what he died not. 46Then Saul name of the captain of
Philistines by night, and seemeth good unto thee. went up from following his host was Abnerm,
spoil them until the 41
Therefore Saul said the Philistines: and the the son of Ner, Saul’s
morning light, and let us unto the LORD God of Philistines went to their uncle. 51And Kish was
not leave a man of them. Israel, Givek a perfect lot. own place. the father of Saul; and
And they said, Do And Saul and Jonathan 47
So Saul took the Ner the father of Abner
whatsoever seemeth were taken: but the kingdom over Israel, and was the son of Abiel.
good unto thee. Then people escaped. 42
And fought against all his 52
And there was sore
said the priest, Let us Saul said, Cast lots enemies on every side, war against the
draw near hither unto between me and against Moab, and Philistines all the days
God. 37And Saul asked Jonathan my son. And against the children of of Saul: and when Saul
counsel of God, Shall I go Jonathan was taken. Ammon, and against saw any strong man, or
down after the 43
Then Saul said to Edom, and against the any valiant man, he
Philistines? wilt thou Jonathan, Tell me what kings of Zobah, and took him unto him.
deliver them into the thou hast done. And against the Philistines:
hand of Israel? But he Jonathan told him, and and whithersoever he Chapter 15
answered him not that said, I did but taste a turned himself, he vexed
day. 38And Saul said, little honey with the end them. 48And he gatheredl Samuel also said
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Draw ye near hither, all of the rod that was in an host, and smote the unto Saul, The LORD
sent me to anoint thee
j l
chief: Heb. corners gathered...: or, wrought
i k m
with him: Heb. in his hand Give...: or, Shew the innocent mightily Abner: Heb. Abiner
to be king over his the Amalekites. 7And Samuel, saying, Saul over Israel? 18And the
people, over Israel: now Saul smote the came to Carmel, and, LORD sent thee on a
therefore hearken thou Amalekites from Havilah behold, he set him up a journey, and said, Go
unto the voice of the until thou comest to place, and is gone about, and utterly destroy the
words of the LORD. Shur, that is over against and passed on, and gone sinners the Amalekites,
2
Thus saith the LORD of Egypt. 8And he took down to Gilgal. 13And and fight against them
hosts, I remember that Agag the king of the Samuel came to Saul: until they be consumed.
which Amalek did to Amalekites alive, and and Saul said unto him, 19
Wherefore then didst
Israel, how he laid wait utterly destroyed all the Blessed be thou of the thou not obey the voice
for him in the way, when people with the edge of LORD: I have performed of the LORD, but didst
he came up from Egypt. the sword. 9But Saul and the commandment of fly upon the spoil, and
3
Now go and smite the people spared Agag, the LORD. 14And Samuel didst evil in the sight of
Amalek, and utterly and the best of the said, What meaneth then the LORD? 20And Saul
destroy all that they sheep, and of the oxen, this bleating of the said unto Samuel, Yea, I
have, and spare them and of the fatlingsa, and sheep in mine ears, and have obeyed the voice
not; but slay both man the lambs, and all that the lowing of the oxen of the LORD, and have
and woman, infant and was good, and would not which I hear? 15And Saul gone the way which the
suckling, ox and sheep, utterly destroy them: but said, They have brought LORD sent me, and
camel and ass. 4And Saul every thing that was vile them from the have brought Agag the
gathered the people and refuse, that they Amalekites: for the king of Amalek, and
together, and numbered destroyed utterly. people spared the best have utterly destroyed
them in Telaim, two 10
Then came the word of the sheep and of the the Amalekites. 21But
hundred thousand of the LORD unto oxen, to sacrifice unto the people took of the
footmen, and ten Samuel, saying, 11
It the LORD thy God; and spoil, sheep and oxen,
thousand men of Judah. repenteth me that I have the rest we have utterly the chief of the things
5
And Saul came to a city set up Saul to be king: destroyed. 16
Then which should have been
of Amalek, and laid wait for he is turned back Samuel said unto Saul, utterly destroyed, to
in the valley. 6And Saul from following me, and Stay, and I will tell thee sacrifice unto the LORD
said unto the Kenites, hath not performed my what the LORD hath said thy God in Gilgal. 22And
Go, depart, get you commandments. And it to me this night. And he Samuel said, Hath the
down from among the grieved Samuel; and he said unto him, Say on. LORD as great delight
Amalekites, lest I destroy cried unto the LORD all 17
And Samuel said, When in burnt offerings and
you with them: for ye night. 12
And when thou wast little in thine sacrifices, as in obeying
shewed kindness to all Samuel rose early to own sight, wast thou not the voice of the LORD?
the children of Israel, meet Saul in the made the head of the Behold, to obey is
when they came up out morning, it was told tribes of Israel, and the better than sacrifice,
of Egypt. So the Kenites a
LORD anointed thee king and to hearken than the
departed from among fatlings: or, second sort
fat of rams. 23
For thee this day, and hath went to Ramah; and Saul whom I name unto
rebellion is as the sin of given it to a neighbour of went up to his house to thee. 4And Samuel did
witchcraftb, and thine, that is better than Gibeah of Saul. 35And that which the LORD
stubbornness is as thou. 29And also the Samuel came no more to spake, and came to
iniquity and idolatry. Strengthc of Israel will see Saul until the day of Bethlehem. And the
Because thou hast not lie nor repent: for he his death: nevertheless elders of the town
rejected the word of the is not a man, that he Samuel mourned for trembled at his coming,
LORD, he hath also should repent. 30Then he Saul: and the LORD and said, Comest thou
rejected thee from being said, I have sinned: yet repented that he had peaceably? 5
And he
king. honour me now, I pray made Saul king over said, Peaceably: I am
24
And Saul said unto thee, before the elders Israel. come to sacrifice unto
Samuel, I have sinned: of my people, and before the LORD: sanctify
for I have transgressed Israel, and turn again Chapter 16 yourselves, and come
the commandment of with me, that I may with me to the sacrifice.
the LORD, and thy worship the LORD thy And the LORD said
1
And he sanctified Jesse
words: because I feared God. 31So Samuel turned unto Samuel, How long and his sons, and called
the people, and obeyed again after Saul; and wilt thou mourn for Saul, them to the sacrifice.
their voice. 25
Now Saul worshipped the seeing I have rejected 6
And it came to pass,
therefore, I pray thee, LORD. him from reigning over when they were come,
pardon my sin, and turn 32
Then said Samuel, Israel? fill thine horn with that he looked on
again with me, that I Bring ye hither to me oil, and go, I will send Eliabb, and said, Surely
may worship the LORD. Agag the king of the thee to Jesse the the LORD’S anointed is
26
And Samuel said unto Amalekites. And Agag Bethlehemite: for I have before him. 7
But the
Saul, I will not return came unto him provided me a king LORD said unto Samuel,
with thee: for thou hast delicately. And Agag among his sons. 2And Look not on his
rejected the word of the said, Surely the Samuel said, How can I countenance, or on the
LORD, and the LORD bitterness of death is go? if Saul hear it, he will height of his stature;
hath rejected thee from past. 33And Samuel said, kill me. And the LORD because I have refused
being king over Israel. As thy sword hath made said, Take an heifer with him: for the LORD seeth
27
And as Samuel turned women childless, so shall theea, and say, I am not as man seeth; for
about to go away, he laid thy mother be childless come to sacrifice to the man looketh on the
hold upon the skirt of his among women. And LORD. 3And call Jesse to outward appearance,
mantle, and it rent. 28And Samuel hewed Agag in the sacrifice, and I will but the LORD looketh
Samuel said unto him, pieces before the LORD shew thee what thou on the heart. 8
Then
The LORD hath rent the in Gilgal. 34Then Samuel shalt do: and thou shalt Jesse called Abinadab,
kingdom of Israel from anoint unto me him and made him pass
c
Strength: or, Eternity, or,
b a b
witchcraft: Heb. divination Victory with thee: Heb. in thine hand Eliab: called Elihu
before Samuel. And he of the LORD came upon prudent in mattersf, and armies to battle, and
said, Neither hath the David from that day a comely person, and were gathered together
LORD chosen this. 9Then forward. So Samuel rose the LORD is with him. at Shochoh, which
Jesse made Shammahc up, and went to Ramah. 19
Wherefore Saul sent belongeth to Judah, and
to pass by. And he said, 14
But the Spirit of the messengers unto Jesse, pitched between
Neither hath the LORD LORD departed from and said, Send me David Shochoh and Azekah, in
chosen this. 10
Again, Saul, and an evil spirit thy son, which is with Ephesdammima. 2
And
Jesse made seven of his from the LORD troublede the sheep. 20And Jesse Saul and the men of
sons to pass before him. 15
And Saul’s took an ass laden with Israel were gathered
Samuel. And Samuel servants said unto him, bread, and a bottle of together, and pitched
said unto Jesse, The Behold now, an evil spirit wine, and a kid, and sent by the valley of Elah,
LORD hath not chosen from God troubleth thee. them by David his son and set the battle in
these. 11And Samuel said 16
Let our lord now unto Saul. 21And David array against the
unto Jesse, Are here all command thy servants, came to Saul, and stood Philistines. 3
And the
thy children? And he which are before thee, to before him: and he loved Philistines stood on a
said, There remaineth seek out a man, who is a him greatly; and he mountain on the one
yet the youngest, and, cunning player on an became his side, and Israel stood
behold, he keepeth the harp: and it shall come armourbearer. 22
And on a mountain on the
sheep. And Samuel said to pass, when the evil Saul sent to Jesse, other side: and there
unto Jesse, Send and spirit from God is upon saying, Let David, I pray was a valley between
fetch him: for we will not thee, that he shall play thee, stand before me; them. 4And there went
sit downd till he come with his hand, and thou for he hath found favour out a champion out of
hither. 12
And he sent, shalt be well. 17And Saul in my sight. 23And it the camp of the
and brought him in. Now said unto his servants, came to pass, when the Philistines, named
he was ruddy, and withal Provide me now a man evil spirit from God was Goliath, of Gath, whose
of a beautiful that can play well, and upon Saul, that David height was six cubits
countenance, and goodly bring him to me. 18Then took an harp, and played and a span. 5And he
to look to. And the LORD answered one of the with his hand: so Saul had an helmet of brass
said, Arise, anoint him: servants, and said, was refreshed, and was upon his head, and he
for this is he. 13
Then Behold, I have seen a well, and the evil spirit was armedb with a coat
Samuel took the horn of son of Jesse the departed from him. of mail; and the weight
oil, and anointed him in Bethlehemite, that is of the coat was five
the midst of his cunning in playing, and a Chapter 17 thousand shekels of
brethren: and the Spirit mighty valiant man, and a
a man of war, and Now the Philistines
1 Ephesdammim: or, the coast
c
Shammah: Shimeah, also gathered together their of Dammim, called
called, Shimma Pasdammim
d e f b
down: Heb. round troubled: or, terrified matters: or, speech armed: Heb. clothed
brass. 6
And he had Now David was the
12
the captain of their Philistines, and spake
greaves of brass upon son of that Ephrathite of thousand, and look how according to the same
his legs, and a targetc of Bethlehemjudah, whose thy brethren fare, and words: and David heard
brass between his name was Jesse; and he take their pledge. them. 24And all the men
shoulders. 7And the staff had eight sons: and the 19
Now Saul, and they, of Israel, when they saw
of his spear was like a man went among men and all the men of Israel, the man, fled from him,
weaver’s beam; and his for an old man in the were in the valley of and were sore afraid.
spear’s head weighed six days of Saul. 13And the Elah, fighting with the 25
And the men of Israel
hundred shekels of iron: three eldest sons of Philistines. 20And David said, Have ye seen this
and one bearing a shield Jesse went and followed rose up early in the man that is come up?
went before him. 8And he Saul to the battle: and morning, and left the surely to defy Israel is
stood and cried unto the the names of his three sheep with a keeper, and he come up: and it shall
armies of Israel, and said sons that went to the took, and went, as Jesse be, that the man who
unto them, Why are ye battle were Eliab the had commanded him; killeth him, the king will
come out to set your firstborn, and next unto and he came to the enrich him with great
battle in array? am not I him Abinadab, and the trenche, as the host was riches, and will give him
a Philistine, and ye third Shammah. 14And going forth to the fight, his daughter, and make
servants to Saul? choose David was the youngest: and shouted for the his father’s house free
you a man for you, and and the three eldest battle. 21
For Israel and in Israel. 26And David
let him come down to followed Saul. 15
But the Philistines had put spake to the men that
me. 9If he be able to David went and returned the battle in array, army stood by him, saying,
fight with me, and to kill from Saul to feed his against army. 22
And What shall be done to
me, then will we be your father’s sheep at David left his carriagef in the man that killeth this
servants: but if I prevail Bethlehem. 16
And the the hand of the keeper Philistine, and taketh
against him, and kill him, Philistine drew near of the carriage, and ran away the reproach from
then shall ye be our morning and evening, into the army, and came Israel? for who is this
servants, and serve us. and presented himself and saluted his brethren. uncircumcised
10
And the Philistine said, forty days. 17And Jesse 23
And as he talked with Philistine, that he
I defy the armies of said unto David his son, them, behold, there should defy the armies
Israel this day; give me a Take now for thy came up the champion, of the living God? 27And
man, that we may fight brethren an ephah of the Philistine of Gath, the people answered
together. 11When Saul this parched corn, and Goliath by name, out of him after this manner,
and all Israel heard those these ten loaves, and the armies of the saying, So shall it be
words of the Philistine, run to the camp to thy e
done to the man that
they were dismayed, and brethren; 18And carry trench: or, place of the killeth him. 28And Eliab
greatly afraid. these ten cheesesd unto carriage his eldest brother heard
f
his carriage: Heb. the vessels when he spake unto the
c d
target: or, gorget cheeses: Heb. cheeses of milk from upon him
men; and Eliab’s anger but a youth, and he a an helmet of brass upon staves? And the
was kindled against man of war from his his head; also he armed Philistine cursed David
David, and he said, Why youth. 34And David said him with a coat of mail. by his gods. 44And the
camest thou down unto Saul, Thy servant 39
And David girded his Philistine said to David,
hither? and with whom kept his father’s sheep, sword upon his armour, Come to me, and I will
hast thou left those few and there came a lion, and he assayed to go; give thy flesh unto the
sheep in the wilderness? and a bear, and took a for he had not proved it. fowls of the air, and to
I know thy pride, and the lambi out of the flock: And David said unto the beasts of the field.
naughtiness of thine 35
And I went out after Saul, I cannot go with 45
Then said David to the
heart; for thou art come him, and smote him, and these; for I have not Philistine, Thou comest
down that thou mightest delivered it out of his proved them. And David to me with a sword, and
see the battle. 29And mouth: and when he put them off him. with a spear, and with a
David said, What have I arose against me, I 40
And he took his staff shield: but I come to
now done? Is there not a caught him by his beard, in his hand, and chose thee in the name of the
cause? 30And he turned and smote him, and slew him five smooth stones LORD of hosts, the God
from him toward him. 36Thy servant slew out of the brookk, and of the armies of Israel,
another, and spake after both the lion and the put them in a shepherd’s whom thou hast defied.
the same mannerg: and bear: and this bag which he had, even 46
This day will the LORD
the people answered him uncircumcised Philistine in a scrip; and his sling deliverl thee into mine
again after the former shall be as one of them, was in his hand: and he hand; and I will smite
manner. seeing he hath defied drew near to the thee, and take thine
31
And when the words the armies of the living Philistine. 41
And the head from thee; and I
were heard which David God. 37
David said Philistine came on and will give the carcases of
spake, they rehearsed moreover, The LORD drew near unto David; the host of the
them before Saul: and that delivered me out of and the man that bare Philistines this day unto
he senth for him. 32And the paw of the lion, and the shield went before the fowls of the air, and
David said to Saul, Let out of the paw of the him. 42And when the to the wild beasts of the
no man’s heart fail bear, he will deliver me Philistine looked about, earth; that all the earth
because of him; thy out of the hand of this and saw David, he may know that there is
servant will go and fight Philistine. And Saul said disdained him: for he a God in Israel. 47And
with this Philistine. 33And unto David, Go, and the was but a youth, and all this assembly shall
Saul said to David, Thou LORD be with thee. 38And ruddy, and of a fair know that the LORD
art not able to go against Saul armed Davidj with countenance. 43And the saveth not with sword
this Philistine to fight his armour, and he put Philistine said unto and spear: for the
with him: for thou art i
David, Am I a dog, that battle is the LORD’S,
lamb: or, kid thou comest to me with and he will give you
g j
manner: Heb. word armed David...: Heb. clothed
h k l
sent...: Heb. took him David with his clothes brook: or, valley deliver...: Heb. shut thee up
into our hands. come to the valley, and am the son of thy in the sight of Saul’s
48
And it came to pass, to the gates of Ekron. servant Jesse the servants.
when the Philistine And the wounded of the Bethlehemite. 6
And it came to pass
arose, and came and Philistines fell down by as they came, when
drew nigh to meet David, the way to Shaaraim, Chapter 18 David was returned
that David hasted, and even unto Gath, and from the slaughter of
ran toward the army to unto Ekron. 53And the
1
And it came to pass, the Philistinea, that the
meet the Philistine. 49And children of Israel when he had made an women came out of all
David put his hand in his returned from chasing end of speaking unto cities of Israel, singing
bag, and took thence a after the Philistines, and Saul, that the soul of and dancing, to meet
stone, and slang it, and they spoiled their tents. Jonathan was knit with king Saul, with tabrets,
smote the Philistine in 54
And David took the the soul of David, and with joy, and with
his forehead, that the head of the Philistine, Jonathan loved him as instruments of musick.
stone sunk into his and brought it to his own soul. 2And Saul 7
And the women
forehead; and he fell Jerusalem; but he put his took him that day, and answered one another
upon his face to the armour in his tent. 55And would let him go no as they played, and
earth. 50
So David when Saul saw David go more home to his said, Saul hath slain his
prevailed over the forth against the father’s house. 3
Then thousands, and David
Philistine with a sling and Philistine, he said unto Jonathan and David his ten thousands. 8And
with a stone, and smote Abner, the captain of the made a covenant, Saul was very wroth,
the Philistine, and slew host, Abner, whose son because he loved him as and the saying
him; but there was no is this youth? And Abner his own soul. 4
And displeased him; and he
sword in the hand of said, As thy soul liveth, O Jonathan stripped saidb, They have
David. 51Therefore David king, I cannot tell. 56And himself of the robe that ascribed unto David ten
ran, and stood upon the the king said, Enquire was upon him, and gave thousands, and to me
Philistine, and took his thou whose son the it to David, and his they have ascribed but
sword, and drew it out of stripling is. 57And as garments, even to his thousands: and what
the sheath thereof, and David returned from the sword, and to his bow, can he have more but
slew him, and cut off his slaughter of the and to his girdle. 5And the kingdom? 9
And
head therewith. And Philistine, Abner took David went out Saul eyed David from
when the Philistines saw him, and brought him whithersoever Saul sent that day and forward.
their champion was before Saul with the him, and behaved 10
And it came to pass
dead, they fled. 52And head of the Philistine in himself wisely: and Saul on the morrow, that the
the men of Israel and of his hand. 58And Saul said set him over the men of evil spirit from God
Judah arose, and to him, Whose son art war, and he was
a
shouted, and pursued thou, thou young man? accepted in the sight of Philistine: or, Philistines
b
the Philistines, until thou And David answered, I all the people, and also displeased him: Heb. was
evil in his eyes
came upon Saul, and he be thou valiantc for me, servants, saying, David arose and went,
prophesied in the midst and fight the LORD’S Commune with David he and his men, and
of the house: and David battles. For Saul said, Let secretly, and say, slew of the Philistines
played with his hand, as not mine hand be upon Behold, the king hath two hundred men; and
at other times: and there him, but let the hand of delight in thee, and all David brought their
was a javelin in Saul’s the Philistines be upon his servants love thee: foreskins, and they
hand. 11And Saul cast the him. 18And David said now therefore be the gave them in full tale to
javelin; for he said, I will unto Saul, Who am I? king’s son in law. 23And the king, that he might
smite David even to the and what is my life, or Saul’s servants spake be the king’s son in law.
wall with it. And David my father’s family in those words in the ears And Saul gave him
avoided out of his Israel, that I should be of David. And David said, Michal his daughter to
presence twice. son in law to the king? Seemeth it to you a light wife. 28And Saul saw
12
And Saul was afraid 19
But it came to pass at thing to be a king’s son and knew that the
of David, because the the time when Merab in law, seeing that I am a LORD was with David,
LORD was with him, and Saul’s daughter should poor man, and lightly and that Michal Saul’s
was departed from Saul. have been given to esteemed? 24And the daughter loved him.
13
Therefore Saul David, that she was servants of Saul told 29
And Saul was yet the
removed him from him, given unto Adriel the him, saying, On this more afraid of David;
and made him his Meholathite to wife. manner spake David. and Saul became
captain over a thousand; 20
And Michal Saul’s 25
And Saul said, Thus David’s enemy
and he went out and daughter loved David: shall ye say to David, continually. 30Then the
came in before the and they told Saul, and The king desireth not princes of the
people. 14
And David the thing pleased him. d any dowry, but an Philistines went forth:
behaved himself wisely 21
And Saul said, I will hundred foreskins of the and it came to pass,
in all his ways; and the give him her, that she Philistines, to be after they went forth,
LORD was with him. may be a snare to him, avenged of the king’s that David behaved
15
Wherefore when Saul and that the hand of the enemies. But Saul himself more wisely
saw that he behaved Philistines may be thought to make David than all the servants of
himself very wisely, he against him. Wherefore fall by the hand of the Saul; so that his name
was afraid of him. 16But Saul said to David, Thou Philistines. 26And when was much set byf.
all Israel and Judah loved shalt this day be my son his servants told David
David, because he went in law in the one of the these words, it pleased Chapter 19
out and came in before twain. 22
And Saul David well to be the
them. 17And Saul said to commanded his king’s son in law: and And Saul spake to
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David, Behold my elder the days were not Jonathan his son, and to
c
daughter Merab, her will valiant: Heb. a son of valour expired .e 27
Wherefore all his servants, that
d
I give thee to wife: only pleased him: Heb. was right in
e f
his eyes expired: Heb. fulfilled set by: Heb. precious
they should kill David. unto the voice of morning: and Michal 18
So David fled, and
2
But Jonathan Saul’s son Jonathan: and Saul David’s wife told him, escaped, and came to
delighted much in David: sware, As the LORD saying, If thou save not Samuel to Ramah, and
and Jonathan told David, liveth, he shall not be thy life to night, to told him all that Saul
saying, Saul my father slain. 7
And Jonathan morrow thou shalt be had done to him. And
seeketh to kill thee: now called David, and slain. 12So Michal let he and Samuel went
therefore, I pray thee, Jonathan shewed him all David down through a and dwelt in Naioth.
take heed to thyself until those things. And window: and he went, 19
And it was told Saul,
the morning, and abide Jonathan brought David and fled, and escaped. saying, Behold, David is
in a secret place, and to Saul, and he was in 13
And Michal took an at Naioth in Ramah.
hide thyself: 3And I will his presence, as in times imageb, and laid it in the 20
And Saul sent
go out and stand beside past. bed, and put a pillow of messengers to take
my father in the field 8
And there was war goats’ hair for his David: and when they
where thou art, and I will again: and David went bolster, and covered it saw the company of the
commune with my father out, and fought with the with a cloth. 14And when prophets prophesying,
of thee; and what I see, Philistines, and slew Saul sent messengers to and Samuel standing as
that I will tell thee. 4And them with a great take David, she said, He appointed over them,
Jonathan spake good of slaughter; and they fled is sick. 15And Saul sent the Spirit of God was
David unto Saul his from him. a 9And the evil the messengers again to upon the messengers of
father, and said unto spirit from the LORD was see David, saying, Bring Saul, and they also
him, Let not the king sin upon Saul, as he sat in him up to me in the bed, prophesied. 21And when
against his servant, his house with his javelin that I may slay him. it was told Saul, he sent
against David; because in his hand: and David 16
And when the other messengers, and
he hath not sinned played with his hand. messengers were come they prophesied
against thee, and 10
And Saul sought to in, behold, there was an likewise. And Saul sent
because his works have smite David even to the image in the bed, with a messengers again the
been to thee-ward very wall with the javelin; but pillow of goats’ hair for third time, and they
good: 5For he did put his he slipped away out of his bolster. 17And Saul prophesied also. 22Then
life in his hand, and slew Saul’s presence, and he said unto Michal, Why went he also to Ramah,
the Philistine, and the smote the javelin into hast thou deceived me and came to a great
LORD wrought a great the wall: and David fled, so, and sent away mine well that is in Sechu:
salvation for all Israel: and escaped that night. enemy, that he is and he asked and said,
thou sawest it, and didst 11
Saul also sent escaped? And Michal Where are Samuel and
rejoice: wherefore then messengers unto David’s answered Saul, He said David? And one said,
wilt thou sin against house, to watch him, and unto me, Let me go; why Behold, they be at
innocent blood, to slay to slay him in the should I kill thee? Naioth in Ramah. 23And
David without a cause? a b
he went thither to
6
And Saul hearkened him: Heb. his face image: Heb. teraphim
Naioth in Ramah: and 3
And David sware by him. 8Therefore thou LORD do so and much
the Spirit of God was moreover, and said, Thy shalt deal kindly with thy more to Jonathan: but if
upon him also, and he father certainly knoweth servant; for thou hast it please my father to
went on, and that I have found grace brought thy servant into do thee evil, then I will
prophesied, until he in thine eyes; and he a covenant of the LORD shewd it thee, and send
came to Naioth in saith, Let not Jonathan with thee: thee away, that thou
Ramah. 24
And he know this, lest he be notwithstanding, if there mayest go in peace:
stripped off his clothes grieved: but truly as the be in me iniquity, slay and the LORD be with
also, and prophesied LORD liveth, and as thy me thyself; for why thee, as he hath been
before Samuel in like soul liveth, there is but a shouldest thou bring me with my father. 14And
manner, and lay down step between me and to thy father? thou shalt not only
naked all that day and death. 4
Then said 9
And Jonathan said, while yet I live shew me
all that night. Wherefore Jonathan unto David, Far be it from thee: for if the kindness of the
they say, Is Saul also Whatsoever thy soul I knew certainly that evil LORD, that I die not:
among the prophets? desireth, I will even do it were determined by my 15
But also thou shalt not
for thee. 5
And David father to come upon cut off thy kindness
Chapter 20 said unto Jonathan, thee, then would not I from my house for ever:
Behold, to morrow is the tell it thee? 10Then said no, not when the LORD
And David fled from
1
new moon, and I should David to Jonathan, Who hath cut off the
Naioth in Ramah, and not fail to sit with the shall tell me? or what if enemies of David every
came and said before king at meat: but let me thy father answer thee one from the face of the
Jonathan, What have I go, that I may hide roughly? 11And Jonathan earth. 16So Jonathan
done? what is mine myself in the field unto said unto David, Come, madee a covenant with
iniquity? and what is my the third day at even. 6If and let us go out into the the house of David,
sin before thy father, thy father at all miss me, field. And they went out saying, Let the LORD
that he seeketh my life? then say, David both of them into the even require it at the
2
And he said unto him, earnestly asked leave of field. 12And Jonathan said hand of David’s
God forbid; thou shalt me that he might run to unto David, O LORD God enemies. 17
And
not die: behold, my Bethlehem his city: for of Israel, when I have Jonathan caused David
father will do nothing there is a yearly soundedc my father to swear again,
either great or small, but sacrificeb there for all the about to morrow any because he loved him:
that he will shewa it me: family. 7If he say thus, It time, or the third day, for he loved him as he
and why should my is well; thy servant shall and, behold, if there be loved his own soul.
father hide this thing have peace: but if he be good toward David, and I 18
Then Jonathan said to
from me? it is not so. very wroth, then be sure then send not unto thee, d
that evil is determined and shew it thee; 13The shew...: Heb. uncover thine
a
shew...: Heb. uncover mine ear
b c e
ear sacrifice: or, feast sounded: Heb. searched made: Heb. cut
David, To morrow is the and I have spoken of, thee; for our family hath knew that it was
new moon: and thou behold, the LORD be a sacrifice in the city; determined of his father
shalt be missed, because between thee and me for and my brother, he hath to slay David. 34So
thy seat will be emptyf. ever. commanded me to be Jonathan arose from the
19
And when thou hast 24
So David hid himself there: and now, if I have table in fierce anger,
stayed three days, then in the field: and when found favour in thine and did eat no meat the
thou shalt go down the new moon was eyes, let me get away, I second day of the
quicklyg, and come to come, the king sat him pray thee, and see my month: for he was
the place where thou down to eat meat. 25And brethren. Therefore he grieved for David,
didst hide thyself when the king sat upon his cometh not unto the because his father had
the business was in seat, as at other times, king’s table. 30
Then done him shame.
hand, and shalt remain even upon a seat by the Saul’s anger was kindled 35
And it came to pass
by the stone Ezel. wall: and Jonathan arose, against Jonathan, and he in the morning, that
20
And I will shoot three and Abner sat by Saul’s said unto him, Thou son Jonathan went out into
arrows on the side side, and David’s place of the perverse the field at the time
thereof, as though I shot was empty. rebellious woman, do not appointed with David,
at a mark. 21And, behold, 26
Nevertheless Saul I know that thou hast and a little lad with him.
I will send a lad, saying, spake not any thing that chosen the son of Jesse 36
And he said unto his
Go, find out the arrows. day: for he thought, to thine own confusion, lad, Run, find out now
If I expressly say unto Something hath befallen and unto the confusion the arrows which I
the lad, Behold, the him, he is not clean; of thy mother’s shoot. And as the lad
arrows are on this side of surely he is not clean. nakedness? 31
For as ran, he shot an arrow
thee, take them; then 27
And it came to pass on long as the son of Jesse beyondi him. 37
And
come thou: for there is the morrow, which was liveth upon the ground, when the lad was come
peace to thee, and no the second day of the thou shalt not be to the place of the
hurth; as the LORD liveth. month, that David’s established, nor thy arrow which Jonathan
22
But if I say thus unto place was empty: and kingdom. Wherefore now had shot, Jonathan
the young man, Behold, Saul said unto Jonathan send and fetch him unto cried after the lad, and
the arrows are beyond his son, Wherefore me, for he shall surely said, Is not the arrow
thee; go thy way: for the cometh not the son of die. 32
And Jonathan beyond thee? 38
And
LORD hath sent thee Jesse to meat, neither answered Saul his father, Jonathan cried after the
away. 23And as touching yesterday, nor to day? and said unto him, lad, Make speed, haste,
the matter which thou 28
And Jonathan answered Wherefore shall he be stay not. And
f
Saul, David earnestly slain? what hath he Jonathan’s lad gathered
empty: Heb. missed asked leave of me to go done? 33And Saul cast a up the arrows, and
g
quickly: or, diligently: Heb. to Bethlehem: 29And he javelin at him to smite i
greatly said, Let me go, I pray him: whereby Jonathan beyond...: Heb. to pass over
h
no hurt: Heb. not any thing him
came to his master. priest: and Ahimelech three days, since I came sword of Goliath the
39
But the lad knew not was afraid at the out, and the vessels of Philistine, whom thou
any thing: only Jonathan meeting of David, and the young men are holy, slewest in the valley of
and David knew the said unto him, Why art and the bread is in a Elah, behold, it is here
matter. 40And Jonathan thou alone, and no man manner common, yea, wrapped in a cloth
gave his artilleryj unto with thee? 2And David though it were behind the ephod: if
his lad, and said unto said unto Ahimelech the sanctifiedc this day in the thou wilt take that, take
him, Go, carry them to priest, The king hath vessel. 6
So the priest it: for there is no other
the city. 41And as soon commanded me a gave him hallowed save that here. And
as the lad was gone, business, and hath said bread: for there was no David said, There is
David arose out of a unto me, Let no man bread there but the none like that; give it
place toward the south, know any thing of the shewbread, that was me.
and fell on his face to business whereabout I taken from before the 10
And David arose,
the ground, and bowed send thee, and what I LORD, to put hot bread and fled that day for
himself three times: and have commanded thee: in the day when it was fear of Saul, and went
they kissed one another, and I have appointed my taken away. 7Now a to Achish the king of
and wept one with servants to such and certain man of the Gath. 11
And the
another, until David such a place. 3Now servants of Saul was servants of Achish said
exceeded. 42
And therefore what is under there that day, detained unto him, Is not this
Jonathan said to David, thine hand? give me five before the LORD; and his David the king of the
Go in peace, forasmuch loaves of bread in mine name was Doeg, an land? did they not sing
as we have sworn both hand, or what there is Edomite, the chiefest of one to another of him in
of us in the name of the presentb. 4And the priest the herdmen that dances, saying, Saul
LORD, saying, The LORD answered David, and belonged to Saul. And 8
hath slain his
be between me and said, There is no David said unto thousands, and David
thee, and between my common bread under Ahimelech, And is there his ten thousands?
seed and thy seed for mine hand, but there is not here under thine 12
And David laid up
ever. And he arose and hallowed bread; if the hand spear or sword? for these words in his
departed: and Jonathan young men have kept I have neither brought heart, and was sore
went into the city. themselves at least from my sword nor my afraid of Achish the king
women. 5
And David weapons with me, of Gath. 13
And he
Chapter 21 answered the priest, and because the king’s changed his behaviour
said unto him, Of a truth business required haste. before them, and
Then came David to
1
women have been kept 9
And the priest said, The feigned himself mad in
Nob to Ahimelecha the from us about these their hands, and
c
yea...: or, especially when this scrabbled on the doors
d
j
artillery: Heb. instruments Ahiah day there is other sanctified in
a b d
Ahimelech: also called, called present: Heb. found the vessel scrabbled: or, made marks
of the gate, and let his David went thence to of you fields and them to the king. 12And
spittle fall down upon his Mizpeh of Moab: and he vineyards, and make you Saul said, Hear now,
beard. 14
Then said said unto the king of all captains of thou son of Ahitub. And
Achish unto his servants, Moab, Let my father and thousands, and captains he answered, Here I
Lo, ye see the man is my mother, I pray thee, of hundreds; 8That all of am, my lord. 13And Saul
made: wherefore then come forth, and be with you have conspired said unto him, Why
have ye brought him to you, till I know what God against me, and there is have ye conspired
me? 15Have I need of will do for me. 4And he none that shewethb me against me, thou and
mad men, that ye have brought them before the that my son hath made a the son of Jesse, in that
brought this fellow to king of Moab: and they league with the son of thou hast given him
play the mad man in my dwelt with him all the Jesse, and there is none bread, and a sword, and
presence? shall this while that David was in of you that is sorry for hast enquired of God
fellow come into my the hold. 5
And the me, or sheweth unto me for him, that he should
house? prophet Gad said unto that my son hath stirred rise against me, to lie in
David, Abide not in the up my servant against wait, as at this day?
Chapter 22 hold; depart, and get me, to lie in wait, as at 14
Then Ahimelech
thee into the land of this day? 9
Then answered the king, and
David
1
therefore Judah. Then David answered Doeg the said, And who is so
departed thence, and departed, and came into Edomite, which was set faithful among all thy
escaped to the cave the forest of Hareth. over the servants of servants as David,
Adullam: and when his 6
When Saul heard Saul, and said, I saw the which is the king’s son
brethren and all his that David was son of Jesse coming to in law, and goeth at thy
father’s house heard it, discovered, and the men Nob, to Ahimelech the bidding, and is
they went down thither that were with him, (now son of Ahitub. 10And he honourable in thine
to him. 2And every one Saul abode in Gibeah enquired of the LORD for house? 15Did I then
that was in distress, and under a treea in Ramah, him, and gave him begin to enquire of God
every one that was in having his spear in his victuals, and gave him for him? be it far from
debt, and every one that hand, and all his the sword of Goliath the me: let not the king
was discontented, servants were standing Philistine. 11
Then the impute any thing unto
gathered themselves about him;) 7Then Saul king sent to call his servant, nor to all
unto him; and he said unto his servants Ahimelech the priest, the the house of my father:
became a captain over that stood about him, son of Ahitub, and all his for thy servant knew
them: and there were Hear now, ye father’s house, the nothing of all this, lessc
with him about four Benjamites; will the son priests that were in Nob: or more. 16And the king
hundred men. 3
And of Jesse give every one and they came all of said, Thou shalt surely
e a b
die, Ahimelech, thou,
is mad: or, playeth the mad tree...: or, grove in a high sheweth...: Heb. uncovereth
c
man place mine ear less...: Heb. little or great
and all thy father’s escaped, and fled after Keilah against the against him; and he
house. 17And the king David. 21And Abiathar armies of the Philistines? said to Abiathar the
said unto the footmend shewed David that Saul 4
Then David enquired of priest, Bring hither the
that stood about him, had slain the LORD’S the LORD yet again. And ephod. 10
Then said
Turn, and slay the priests. 22And David said the LORD answered him David, O LORD God of
priests of the LORD; unto Abiathar, I knew it and said, Arise, go down Israel, thy servant hath
because their hand also that day, when Doeg the to Keilah; for I will deliver certainly heard that
is with David, and Edomite was there, that the Philistines into thine Saul seeketh to come to
because they knew when he would surely tell Saul: hand. 5So David and his Keilah, to destroy the
he fled, and did not shew I have occasioned the men went to Keilah, and city for my sake. 11Will
it to me. But the death of all the persons fought with the the men of Keilah
servants of the king of thy father’s house. Philistines, and brought deliver me up into his
would not put forth their 23
Abide thou with me, away their cattle, and hand? will Saul come
hand to fall upon the fear not: for he that smote them with a great down, as thy servant
priests of the LORD. seeketh my life seeketh slaughter. So David hath heard? O LORD
18
And the king said to thy life: but with me thou saved the inhabitants of God of Israel, I beseech
Doeg, Turn thou, and fall shalt be in safeguard. Keilah. 6And it came to thee, tell thy servant.
upon the priests. And pass, when Abiathar the And the LORD said, He
Doeg the Edomite Chapter 23 son of Ahimelech fled to will come down. 12Then
turned, and he fell upon David to Keilah, that he said David, Will the
the priests, and slew on
1
Then they told David, came down with an men of Keilah delivera
that day fourscore and saying, Behold, the ephod in his hand. me and my men into
five persons that did Philistines fight against 7
And it was told Saul the hand of Saul? And
wear a linen ephod. Keilah, and they rob the that David was come to the LORD said, They will
19
And Nob, the city of the threshingfloors. Keilah. And Saul said, deliver thee up. 13Then
priests, smote he with
2
Therefore David God hath delivered him David and his men,
the edge of the sword, enquired of the LORD, into mine hand; for he is which were about six
both men and women, saying, Shall I go and shut in, by entering into hundred, arose and
children and sucklings, smite these Philistines? a town that hath gates departed out of Keilah,
and oxen, and asses, And the LORD said unto and bars. 8And Saul and went whithersoever
and sheep, with the David, Go, and smite the called all the people they could go. And it
edge of the sword. Philistines, and save together to war, to go was told Saul that
20
And one of the sons Keilah. 3And David’s men down to Keilah, to David was escaped
of Ahimelech the son of said unto him, Behold, besiege David and his from Keilah; and he
Ahitub, named Abiathar, we be afraid here in men. 9And David knew forbare to go forth.
Judah: how much more that Saul secretly 14
And David abode in
d
footmen: or, guard: Heb. then if we come to practised mischief a
runners deliver: Heb. shut up
the wilderness in strong south of Jeshimon? seek him. And they told Chapter 24
holds, and remained in a 20
Now therefore, O king, David: wherefore he
mountain in the come down according to came down into a rock, And it came to pass,
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wilderness of Ziph. And all the desire of thy soul and abode in the when Saul was returned
Saul sought him every to come down; and our wilderness of Maon. And from followinga the
day, but God delivered part shall be to deliver when Saul heard that, he Philistines, that it was
him not into his hand. him into the king’s hand. pursued after David in told him, saying,
15
And David saw that 21
And Saul said, Blessed the wilderness of Maon. Behold, David is in the
Saul was come out to be ye of the LORD; for ye 26
And Saul went on this wilderness of Engedi.
seek his life: and David have compassion on me. side of the mountain, 2
Then Saul took three
was in the wilderness of 22
Go, I pray you, prepare and David and his men thousand chosen men
Ziph in a wood. 16And yet, and know and see on that side of the out of all Israel, and
Jonathan Saul’s son his place where his mountain: and David went to seek David and
arose, and went to David hauntb is, and who hath made haste to get away his men upon the rocks
into the wood, and seen him there: for it is for fear of Saul; for Saul of the wild goats. 3And
strengthened his hand in told me that he dealeth and his men compassed he came to the
God. 17And he said unto very subtilly. 23
See David and his men round sheepcotes by the way,
him, Fear not: for the therefore, and take about to take them. 27But where was a cave; and
hand of Saul my father knowledge of all the there came a messenger Saul went in to cover
shall not find thee; and lurking places where he unto Saul, saying, Haste his feet: and David and
thou shalt be king over hideth himself, and come thee, and come; for the his men remained in
Israel, and I shall be next ye again to me with the Philistines have invadedc the sides of the cave.
unto thee; and that also certainty, and I will go the land. 28
Wherefore 4
And the men of David
Saul my father knoweth. with you: and it shall Saul returned from said unto him, Behold
18
And they two made a come to pass, if he be in pursuing after David, the day of which the
covenant before the the land, that I will and went against the LORD said unto thee,
LORD: and David abode search him out Philistines: therefore Behold, I will deliver
in the wood, and throughout all the they called that place thine enemy into thine
Jonathan went to his thousands of Judah. Selahammahlekothd. hand, that thou mayest
house. 24
And they arose, and 29
And David went up do to him as it shall
19
Then came up the went to Ziph before Saul: from thence, and dwelt seem good unto thee.
Ziphites to Saul to but David and his men in strong holds at Then David arose, and
Gibeah, saying, Doth not were in the wilderness of Engedi. cut off the skirt of
David hide himself with Maon, in the plain on the c
Saul’sb robe privily.
us in strong holds in the south of Jeshimon. 25Saul invaded...: Heb. spread
a
wood, in the hill of also and his men went to themselves upon, etc following: Heb. after
d b
Hachilah, which is on the Selahammahlekoth: that is, Saul’s...: Heb. the robe
b
haunt...: Heb. foot shall be The rock of divisions which was Saul’s
5
And it came to pass thee to day into mine and see, and plead my therefore unto me by
afterward, that David’s hand in the cave: and cause, and deliverd me the LORD, that thou wilt
heart smote him, some bade me kill thee: out of thine hand. not cut off my seed
because he had cut off but mine eye spared 16
And it came to pass, after me, and that thou
Saul’s skirt. 6And he said thee; and I said, I will not when David had made wilt not destroy my
unto his men, The LORD put forth mine hand an end of speaking these name out of my father’s
forbid that I should do against my lord; for he is words unto Saul, that house. 22
And David
this thing unto my the LORD’S anointed. Saul said, Is this thy sware unto Saul. And
master, the LORD’S 11
Moreover, my father, voice, my son David? Saul went home; but
anointed, to stretch forth see, yea, see the skirt of And Saul lifted up his David and his men gat
mine hand against him, thy robe in my hand: for voice, and wept. 17And them up unto the hold.
seeing he is the anointed in that I cut off the skirt he said to David, Thou
of the LORD. 7So David of thy robe, and killed art more righteous than Chapter 25
stayedc his servants with thee not, know thou and I: for thou hast rewarded
these words, and see that there is neither me good, whereas I have And Samuel died;
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suffered them not to rise evil nor transgression in rewarded thee evil. 18And and all the Israelites
against Saul. But Saul mine hand, and I have thou hast shewed this were gathered
rose up out of the cave, not sinned against thee; day how that thou hast together, and lamented
and went on his way. yet thou huntest my soul dealt well with me: him, and buried him in
8
David also arose to take it. 12The LORD forasmuch as when the his house at Ramah.
afterward, and went out judge between me and LORD had deliverede me And David arose, and
of the cave, and cried thee, and the LORD into thine hand, thou went down to the
after Saul, saying, My avenge me of thee: but killedst me not. 19For if a wilderness of Paran.
lord the king. And when mine hand shall not be man find his enemy, will
2
And there was a
Saul looked behind him, upon thee. 13As saith the he let him go well away? man in Maon, whose
David stooped with his proverb of the ancients, wherefore the LORD possessionsa were in
face to the earth, and Wickedness proceedeth reward thee good for Carmel; and the man
bowed himself. from the wicked: but that thou hast done unto was very great, and he
9
And David said to mine hand shall not be me this day. 20And now, had three thousand
Saul, Wherefore hearest upon thee. 14After whom behold, I know well that sheep, and a thousand
thou men’s words, is the king of Israel come thou shalt surely be king, goats: and he was
saying, Behold, David out? after whom dost and that the kingdom of shearing his sheep in
seeketh thy hurt? thou pursue? after a Israel shall be Carmel. 3Now the name
10
Behold, this day thine dead dog, after a flea. established in thine of the man was Nabal;
eyes have seen how that 15
The LORD therefore be hand. 21
Swear now and the name of his
the LORD had delivered judge, and judge wife Abigail: and she
d
between me and thee, deliver: Heb. judge
c e a
stayed: Heb. cut off delivered: Heb. shut up possessions: or, business
was a woman of good eyes: for we come in a his sword: and there bottles of wine, and five
understanding, and of a good day: give, I pray went up after David sheep ready dressed,
beautiful countenance: thee, whatsoever about four hundred men; and five measures of
but the man was churlish cometh to thine hand and two hundred abode parched corn, and an
and evil in his doings; unto thy servants, and to by the stuff. 14But one of hundred clusters of
and he was of the house thy son David. 9And the young men told raisins, and two
of Caleb. 4And David when David’s young men Abigail, Nabal’s wife, hundred cakes of figs,
heard in the wilderness came, they spake to saying, Behold, David and laid them on asses.
that Nabal did shear his Nabal according to all sent messengers out of 19
And she said unto her
sheep. 5And David sent those words in the name the wilderness to salute servants, Go on before
out ten young men, and of David, and ceasedd. our master; and he me; behold, I come
David said unto the 10
And Nabal answered railedf on them. 15
But after you. But she told
young men, Get you up David’s servants, and the men were very good not her husband Nabal.
to Carmel, and go to said, Who is David? and unto us, and we were not 20
And it was so, as she
Nabal, and greetb him in who is the son of Jesse? hurtg, neither missed we rode on the ass, that
my name: 6
And thus there be many servants any thing, as long as we she came down by the
shall ye say to him that now a days that break were conversant with covert of the hill, and,
liveth in prosperity, away every man from his them, when we were in behold, David and his
Peace be both to thee, master. 11Shall I then the fields: 16They were a men came down
and peace be to thine take my bread, and my wall unto us both by against her; and she
house, and peace be water, and my fleshe that night and day, all the met them. 21Now David
unto all that thou hast. I have killed for my while we were with them had said, Surely in vain
7
And now I have heard shearers, and give it keeping the sheep. have I kept all that this
that thou hast shearers: unto men, whom I know 17
Now therefore know fellow hath in the
now thy shepherds not whence they be? and consider what thou wilderness, so that
which were with us, we 12
So David’s young wilt do; for evil is nothing was missed of
hurtc them not, neither men turned their way, determined against our all that pertained unto
was there ought missing and went again, and master, and against all him: and he hath
unto them, all the while came and told him all his household: for he is requited me evil for
they were in Carmel. those sayings. 13
And such a son of Belial, that good. 22So and more
8
Ask thy young men, and David said unto his men, a man cannot speak to also do God unto the
they will shew thee. Gird ye on every man his him. enemies of David, if I
Wherefore let the young sword. And they girded 18
Then Abigail made leave of all that pertain
men find favour in thine on every man his sword; haste, and took two to him by the morning
b
and David also girded on hundred loaves, and two light any that pisseth
greet...: Heb. ask him in my against the wall. 23And
d f
name of peace ceased: Heb. rested railed...: Heb. flew upon them when Abigail saw
c e g
hurt: Heb. shamed flesh: Heb. slaughter hurt: Heb. shamed
David, she hasted, and as Nabal. 27And now this offence of heart unto my unto her, Go up in
lighted off the ass, and blessingk which thine lord, either that thou peace to thine house;
fell before David on her handmaid hath brought hast shed blood see, I have hearkened
face, and bowed herself unto my lord, let it even causeless, or that my to thy voice, and have
to the ground, 24And fell be given unto the young lord hath avenged accepted thy person.
at his feet, and said, men that follow my lord. himself: but when the 36
And Abigail came
Upon me, my lord, upon 28
I pray thee, forgive the LORD shall have dealt to Nabal; and, behold,
me let this iniquity be: trespass of thine well with my lord, then he held a feast in his
and let thine handmaid, I handmaid: for the LORD remember thine house, like the feast of
pray thee, speak in thine will certainly make my handmaid. a king; and Nabal’s
audienceh, and hear the lord a sure house; 32
And David said to heart was merry within
words of thine because my lord fighteth Abigail, Blessed be the him, for he was very
handmaid. 25Let not my the battles of the LORD, LORD God of Israel, drunken: wherefore she
lord, I pray thee, regardi and evil hath not been which sent thee this day told him nothing, less or
this man of Belial, even found in thee all thy to meet me: 33
And more, until the morning
Nabal: for as his name is, days. 29Yet a man is risen blessed be thy advice, light. 37But it came to
so is he; Nabal is his to pursue thee, and to and blessed be thou, pass in the morning,
name, and folly is with seek thy soul: but the which hast kept me this when the wine was
him: but I thine soul of my lord shall be day from coming to shed gone out of Nabal, and
handmaid saw not the bound in the bundle of blood, and from his wife had told him
young men of my lord, life with the LORD thy avenging myself with these things, that his
whom thou didst send. God; and the souls of mine own hand. 34For in heart died within him,
26
Now therefore, my lord, thine enemies, them very deed, as the LORD and he became as a
as the LORD liveth, and shall he sling out, as out God of Israel liveth, stone. 38And it came to
as thy soul liveth, seeing of the middle of a sling. which hath kept me back pass about ten days
the LORD hath 30
And it shall come to from hurting thee, after, that the LORD
withholden thee from pass, when the LORD except thou hadst smote Nabal, that he
coming to shed blood, shall have done to my hasted and come to died. 39And when David
and from avengingj lord according to all the meet me, surely there heard that Nabal was
thyself with thine own good that he hath had not been left unto dead, he said, Blessed
hand, now let thine spoken concerning thee, Nabal by the morning be the LORD, that hath
enemies, and they that and shall have appointed light any that pisseth pleaded the cause of
seek evil to my lord, be thee ruler over Israel; against the wall. 35So my reproach from the
h
31
That this shall be no David received of her hand of Nabal, and hath
audience: Heb. ears griefl unto thee, nor hand that which she had kept his servant from
i
regard: Heb. lay it to his heart brought him, and said evil: for the LORD hath
j k
avenging...: Heb. saving blessing: or, present returned the
l
thyself no grief: Heb. no staggering, or, stumbling
wickedness of Nabal Chapter 26 about him. shall smite him; or his
upon his own head. And 6
Then answered day shall come to die;
David sent and 1
And the Ziphites David and said to or he shall descend into
communed with Abigail, came unto Saul to Ahimelech the Hittite, battle, and perish. 11The
to take her to him to Gibeah, saying, Doth not and to Abishai the son of LORD forbid that I
wife. 40And when the David hide himself in the Zeruiah, brother to Joab, should stretch forth
servants of David were hill of Hachilah, which is saying, Who will go down mine hand against the
come to Abigail to before Jeshimon? 2Then with me to Saul to the LORD’S anointed: but, I
Carmel, they spake unto Saul arose, and went camp? And Abishai said, pray thee, take thou
her, saying, David sent down to the wilderness I will go down with thee. now the spear that is at
us unto thee, to take of Ziph, having three 7
So David and Abishai his bolster, and the
thee to him to wife. thousand chosen men of came to the people by cruse of water, and let
41
And she arose, and Israel with him, to seek night: and, behold, Saul us go. 12So David took
bowed herself on her David in the wilderness lay sleeping within the the spear and the cruse
face to the earth, and of Ziph. 3
And Saul trench, and his spear of water from Saul’s
said, Behold, let thine pitched in the hill of stuck in the ground at bolster; and they gat
handmaid be a servant Hachilah, which is before his bolster: but Abner them away, and no man
to wash the feet of the Jeshimon, by the way. and the people lay round saw it, nor knew it,
servants of my lord. But David abode in the about him. 8Then said neither awaked: for
42
And Abigail hasted, and wilderness, and he saw Abishai to David, God they were all asleep;
arose, and rode upon an that Saul came after him hath deliveredb thine because a deep sleep
ass, with five damsels of into the wilderness. enemy into thine hand from the LORD was
hers that went after her; 4
David therefore sent out this day: now therefore fallen upon them.
and she wentm after the spies, and understood let me smite him, I pray 13
Then David went
messengers of David, that Saul was come in thee, with the spear over to the other side,
and became his wife. very deed. 5And David even to the earth at and stood on the top of
43
David also took arose, and came to the once, and I will not smite an hill afar off; a great
Ahinoam of Jezreel; and place where Saul had him the second time. space being between
they were also both of pitched: and David 9
And David said to them: 14And David cried
them his wives. 44But beheld the place where Abishai, Destroy him not: to the people, and to
Saul had given Michal his Saul lay, and Abner the for who can stretch forth Abner the son of Ner,
daughter, David’s wife, son of Ner, the captain of his hand against the saying, Answerest thou
to Phaltin the son of his host: and Saul lay in LORD’S anointed, and be not, Abner? Then Abner
Laish, which was of the trencha, and the guiltless? 10David said answered and said,
Gallim. people pitched round furthermore, As the Who art thou that criest
m a
LORD liveth, the LORD to the king? 15And David
after her: Heb. at her feet trench: or, midst of his said to Abner, Art not
n b
Phalti: Phaltiel carriages delivered: Heb. shut up
thou a valiant man? and but if they be the LORD’S anointed. 24And, Gath. 3And David dwelt
who is like to thee in children of men, cursed behold, as thy life was with Achish at Gath, he
Israel? wherefore then be they before the much set by this day in and his men, every man
hast thou not kept thy LORD; for they have mine eyes, so let my life with his household,
lord the king? for there driven me out this day be much set by in the even David with his two
came one of the people from abiding in the eyes of the LORD, and wives, Ahinoam the
in to destroy the king thy inheritance of the LORD, let him deliver me out of Jezreelitess, and Abigail
lord. 16This thing is not saying, Go, serve other all tribulation. 25Then the Carmelitess,
good that thou hast gods. 20
Now therefore, Saul said to David, Nabal’s wife. 4And it
done. As the LORD let not my blood fall to Blessed be thou, my son was told Saul that
liveth, ye are worthy to the earth before the face David: thou shalt both do David was fled to Gath:
diec, because ye have of the LORD: for the king great things, and also and he sought no more
not kept your master, of Israel is come out to shalt still prevail. So again for him. 5And
the LORD’S anointed. seek a flea, as when one David went on his way, David said unto Achish,
And now see where the doth hunt a partridge in and Saul returned to his If I have now found
king’s spear is, and the the mountains. place. grace in thine eyes, let
cruse of water that was 21
Then said Saul, I them give me a place in
at his bolster. 17And Saul have sinned: return, my Chapter 27 some town in the
knew David’s voice, and son David: for I will no country, that I may
said, Is this thy voice, my more do thee harm, And David said in his
1
dwell there: for why
son David? And David because my soul was heart, I shall now perisha should thy servant
said, It is my voice, my precious in thine eyes one day by the hand of dwell in the royal city
lord, O king. 18And he this day: behold, I have Saul: there is nothing with thee? 6Then Achish
said, Wherefore doth my played the fool, and better for me than that I gave him Ziklag that
lord thus pursue after his have erred exceedingly. should speedily escape day: wherefore Ziklag
servant? for what have I 22
And David answered into the land of the pertaineth unto the
done? or what evil is in and said, Behold the Philistines; and Saul shall kings of Judah unto this
mine hand? 19
Now king’s spear! and let one despair of me, to seek day. 7And the timeb that
therefore, I pray thee, let of the young men come me any more in any David dwelt in the
my lord the king hear over and fetch it. 23The coast of Israel: so shall I country of the
the words of his servant. LORD render to every escape out of his hand. Philistines was a full
If the LORD have stirred man his righteousness
2
And David arose, and he year and four months.
thee up against me, let and his faithfulness: for passed over with the six 8
And David and his
him acceptd an offering: the LORD delivered thee hundred men that were men went up, and
into my hand to day, but with him unto Achish, invaded the Geshurites,
c
worthy to die: Heb. the sons I would not stretch forth the son of Maoch, king of
b
of death mine hand against the the time: Heb. the number of
d a
accept: Heb. smell perish: Heb. be consumed days
and the Gezritesc, and his people Israel utterlye Saul gathered all Israel off those that have
the Amalekites: for those to abhor him; therefore together, and they familiar spirits, and the
nations were of old the he shall be my servant pitched in Gilboa. 5And wizards, out of the land:
inhabitants of the land, for ever. when Saul saw the host wherefore then layest
as thou goest to Shur, of the Philistines, he was thou a snare for my life,
even unto the land of Chapter 28 afraid, and his heart to cause me to die?
Egypt. 9
And David greatly trembled. 6And 10
And Saul sware to her
smote the land, and left And it came to pass
1
when Saul enquired of by the LORD, saying, As
neither man nor woman in those days, that the the LORD, the LORD the LORD liveth, there
alive, and took away the Philistines gathered their answered him not, shall no punishment
sheep, and the oxen, armies together for neither by dreams, nor happen to thee for this
and the asses, and the warfare, to fight with by Urim, nor by thing. 11Then said the
camels, and the apparel, Israel. And Achish said prophets. woman, Whom shall I
and returned, and came unto David, Know thou 7
Then said Saul unto bring up unto thee? And
to Achish. 10And Achish assuredly, that thou his servants, Seek me a he said, Bring me up
said, Whitherd have ye shalt go out with me to woman that hath a Samuel. 12And when the
made a road to day? And battle, thou and thy familiar spirit, that I may woman saw Samuel,
David said, Against the men. 2And David said to go to her, and enquire of she cried with a loud
south of Judah, and Achish, Surely thou shalt her. And his servants voice: and the woman
against the south of the know what thy servant said to him, Behold, spake to Saul, saying,
Jerahmeelites, and can do. And Achish said there is a woman that Why hast thou deceived
against the south of the to David, Therefore will I hath a familiar spirit at me? for thou art Saul.
Kenites. 11
And David make thee keeper of Endor. 8
And Saul 13
And the king said unto
saved neither man nor mine head for ever. 3Now disguised himself, and her, Be not afraid: for
woman alive, to bring Samuel was dead, and put on other raiment, what sawest thou? And
tidings to Gath, saying, all Israel had lamented and he went, and two the woman said unto
Lest they should tell on him, and buried him in men with him, and they Saul, I saw gods
us, saying, So did David, Ramah, even in his own came to the woman by ascending out of the
and so will be his city. And Saul had put night: and he said, I pray earth. 14And he said
manner all the while he away those that had thee, divine unto me by unto her, What form is
dwelleth in the country familiar spirits, and the the familiar spirit, and he of? And she said, An
of the Philistines. 12And wizards, out of the land. bring me him up, whom I old man cometh up;
Achish believed David,
4
And the Philistines shall name unto thee. and he is covered with
saying, He hath made gathered themselves 9
And the woman said a mantle. And Saul
together, and came and unto him, Behold, thou perceived that it was
c
Gezrites: or, Gerzites pitched in Shunem: and knowest what Saul hath Samuel, and he stooped
d
Whither...: or, Did you not done, how he hath cut with his face to the
e
make a road, etc utterly...: Heb. to stink
ground, and bowed wrath upon Amalek, the voice of thine Philistines passed on by
himself. therefore hath the LORD handmaid, and let me hundreds, and by
15
And Samuel said to done this thing unto thee set a morsel of bread thousands: but David
Saul, Why hast thou this day. 19Moreover the before thee; and eat, and his men passed on
disquieted me, to bring LORD will also deliver that thou mayest have in the rereward with
me up? And Saul Israel with thee into the strength, when thou Achish. 3Then said the
answered, I am sore hand of the Philistines: goest on thy way. 23But princes of the
distressed; for the and to morrow shalt thou he refused, and said, I Philistines, What do
Philistines make war and thy sons be with me: will not eat. But his these Hebrews here?
against me, and God is the LORD also shall servants, together with And Achish said unto
departed from me, and deliver the host of Israel the woman, compelled the princes of the
answereth me no more, into the hand of the him; and he hearkened Philistines, Is not this
neither by prophetsa, nor Philistines. unto their voice. So he David, the servant of
by dreams: therefore I 20
Then Saul fellc arose from the earth, Saul the king of Israel,
have called thee, that straightway all along on and sat upon the bed. which hath been with
thou mayest make the earth, and was sore 24
And the woman had a me these days, or these
known unto me what I afraid, because of the fat calf in the house; and years, and I have found
shall do. 16
Then said words of Samuel: and she hasted, and killed it, no fault in him since he
Samuel, Wherefore then there was no strength in and took flour, and fell unto me unto this
dost thou ask of me, him; for he had eaten no kneaded it, and did bake day? 4And the princes
seeing the LORD is bread all the day, nor all unleavened bread of the Philistines were
departed from thee, and the night. 21
And the thereof: 25
And she wroth with him; and the
is become thine enemy? woman came unto Saul, brought it before Saul, princes of the
17
And the LORD hath and saw that he was and before his servants; Philistines said unto
done to him, as he sore troubled, and said and they did eat. Then him, Make this fellow
spakeb by me: for the unto him, Behold, thine they rose up, and went return, that he may go
LORD hath rent the handmaid hath obeyed away that night. again to his place which
kingdom out of thine thy voice, and I have put thou hast appointed
hand, and given it to thy my life in my hand, and Chapter 29 him, and let him not go
neighbour, even to have hearkened unto thy down with us to battle,
David: 18
Because thou words which thou
1
Now the Philistines lest in the battle he be
obeyedst not the voice spakest unto me. Now 22 gathered together all an adversary to us: for
of the LORD, nor therefore, I pray thee, their armies to Aphek: wherewith should he
executedst his fierce hearken thou also unto and the Israelites reconcile himself unto
pitched by a fountain his master? should it
a c
by prophets: Heb. by the hand fell...: Heb. made haste, and which is in Jezreel. 2And not be with the heads
of prophets fell with the fulness of his the lords of the of these men? 5Is not
b
to him: or, for himself stature
this David, of whom they David, I know that thou small, but carried them ephod to David. 8And
sang one to another in art good in my sight, as away, and went on their David enquired at the
dances, saying, Saul an angel of God: way. 3So David and his LORD, saying, Shall I
slew his thousands, and notwithstanding the men came to the city, pursue after this troop?
David his ten thousands? princes of the Philistines and, behold, it was shall I overtake them?
6
Then Achish called have said, He shall not burned with fire; and And he answered him,
David, and said unto go up with us to the their wives, and their Pursue: for thou shalt
him, Surely, as the LORD battle. 10Wherefore now sons, and their surely overtake them,
liveth, thou hast been rise up early in the daughters, were taken and without fail recover
upright, and thy going morning with thy captives. 4Then David all. 9So David went, he
out and thy coming in master’s servants that and the people that and the six hundred
with me in the host is are come with thee: and were with him lifted up men that were with
good in my sight: for I as soon as ye be up their voice and wept, him, and came to the
have not found evil in early in the morning, and until they had no more brook Besor, where
thee since the day of thy have light, depart. 11So power to weep. 5And those that were left
coming unto me unto David and his men rose David’s two wives were behind stayed. 10But
this day: nevertheless up early to depart in the taken captives, Ahinoam David pursued, he and
the lordsa favour thee morning, to return into the Jezreelitess, and four hundred men: for
not. 7
Wherefore now the land of the Abigail the wife of Nabal two hundred abode
return, and go in peace, Philistines. And the the Carmelite. 6
And behind, which were so
that thou displeaseb not Philistines went up to David was greatly faint that they could not
the lords of the Jezreel. distressed; for the go over the brook
Philistines. 8And David people spake of stoning Besor. 11And they found
said unto Achish, But Chapter 30 him, because the soul of an Egyptian in the field,
what have I done? and all the people was and brought him to
what hast thou found in
1
And it came to pass, grieved , every man for
a
David, and gave him
thy servant so long as I when David and his men his sons and for his bread, and he did eat;
have been with thee were come to Ziklag on daughters: but David and they made him
unto this day, that I may the third day, that the encouraged himself in drink water; 12And they
not go fight against the Amalekites had invaded the LORD his God. gave him a piece of a
enemies of my lord the the south, and Ziklag, 7
And David said to cake of figs, and two
king? 9
And Achish and smitten Ziklag, and Abiathar the priest, clusters of raisins: and
answered and said to burned it with fire; 2And Ahimelech’s son, I pray when he had eaten, his
had taken the women thee, bring me hither the spirit came again to
a
the lords...: Heb. thou art not captives, that were ephod. And Abiathar him: for he had eaten
good in the eyes of the lords therein: they slew not brought thither the no bread, nor drunk
b
displease...: Heb. do not evil any, either great or any water, three days
a
in the eyes of the lords grieved: Heb. bitter
and three nights. 13And land of Judah. 17And came near to the people, this day. 26And when
David said unto him, To David smote them from he salutedb them. 22Then David came to Ziklag,
whom belongest thou? the twilight even unto answered all the wicked he sent of the spoil unto
and whence art thou? the evening of the next men and men of Belial, the elders of Judah,
And he said, I am a day: and there escaped of thosec that went with even to his friends,
young man of Egypt, not a man of them, save David, and said, Because saying, Behold a
servant to an Amalekite; four hundred young they went not with us, presente for you of the
and my master left me, men, which rode upon we will not give them spoil of the enemies of
because three days camels, and fled. 18And ought of the spoil that the LORD; 27To them
agone I fell sick. 14We David recovered all that we have recovered, save which were in Bethel,
made an invasion upon the Amalekites had to every man his wife and to them which
the south of the carried away: and David and his children, that were in south Ramoth,
Cherethites, and upon rescued his two wives. they may lead them and to them which
the coast which 19
And there was nothing away, and depart. were in Jattir, 28And to
belongeth to Judah, and lacking to them, neither 23
Then said David, Ye them which were in
upon the south of Caleb; small nor great, neither shall not do so, my Aroer, and to them
and we burned Ziklag sons nor daughters, brethren, with that which which were in
with fire. 15And David neither spoil, nor any the LORD hath given us, Siphmoth, and to them
said to him, Canst thou thing that they had who hath preserved us, which were in
bring me down to this taken to them: David and delivered the Eshtemoa, 29
And to
company? And he said, recovered all. 20
And company that came them which were in
Swear unto me by God, David took all the flocks against us into our hand. Rachal, and to them
that thou wilt neither kill and the herds, which 24
For who will hearken which were in the cities
me, nor deliver me into they drave before those unto you in this matter? of the Jerahmeelites,
the hands of my master, other cattle, and said, but as his part is that and to them which
and I will bring thee This is David’s spoil. goeth down to the battle, were in the cities of the
down to this company. 21
And David came to so shall his part be that Kenites, 30And to them
16
And when he had the two hundred men, tarrieth by the stuff: they which were in Hormah,
brought him down, which were so faint that shall part alike. 25And it and to them which
behold, they were they could not follow was so from that day were in Chorashan, and
spread abroad upon all David, whom they had forwardd, that he made it to them which were in
the earth, eating and made also to abide at a statute and an Athach, 31And to them
drinking, and dancing, the brook Besor: and ordinance for Israel unto which were in Hebron,
because of all the great they went forth to meet b
and to all the places
spoil that they had taken David, and to meet the saluted...: or, asked them how where David himself
out of the land of the people that were with they did and his men were wont
c
Philistines, and out of the him: and when David those: Heb. men
d e
forward: Heb. and forward present: Heb. blessing
to haunt. his armourbearer saw fastened his body to the from Saul with his
that Saul was dead, he wall of Bethshan. 11And clothes rent, and earth
Chapter 31 fell likewise upon his when the inhabitants of upon his head: and so it
sword, and died with Jabeshgilead heard of was, when he came to
1
Now the Philistines him. 6So Saul died, and that which the Philistines David, that he fell to
fought against Israel: his three sons, and his had done to Saul; 12All the earth, and did
and the men of Israel armourbearer, and all his the valiant men arose, obeisance. 3And David
fled from before the men, that same day and went all night, and said unto him, From
Philistines, and fell down together. 7And when the took the body of Saul whence comest thou?
slaina in mount Gilboa. men of Israel that were and the bodies of his And he said unto him,
2
And the Philistines on the other side of the sons from the wall of Out of the camp of
followed hard upon Saul valley, and they that Bethshan, and came to Israel am I escaped.
and upon his sons; and were on the other side Jabesh, and burnt them 4
And David said unto
the Philistines slew Jordan, saw that the men there. 13And they took him, Howa went the
Jonathan, and Abinadab, of Israel fled, and that their bones, and buried matter? I pray thee, tell
and Malchishua, Saul’s Saul and his sons were them under a tree at me. And he answered,
sons. 3And the battle dead, they forsook the Jabesh, and fasted seven That the people are fled
went sore against Saul, cities, and fled; and the days. from the battle, and
and the archersb hit him; Philistines came and many of the people also
and he was sore dwelt in them. are fallen and dead;
wounded of the archers. and Saul and Jonathan
4
Then said Saul unto his 8
And it came to pass on Second his son are dead also.
armourbearer, Draw thy the morrow, when the
Samuel And David said unto
5

sword, and thrust me Philistines came to strip the young man that told
through therewith; lest the slain, that they found him, How knowest thou
these uncircumcised Saul and his three sons Chapter 1
that Saul and Jonathan
come and thrust me fallen in mount Gilboa. his son be dead? 6And
1
Now it came to pass
through, and abusec me. 9
And they cut off his the young man that told
after the death of Saul,
But his armourbearer head, and stripped off him said, As I happened
when David was
would not; for he was his armour, and sent into by chance upon mount
returned from the
sore afraid. Therefore the land of the Philistines Gilboa, behold, Saul
slaughter of the
Saul took a sword, and round about, to publish leaned upon his spear;
Amalekites, and David
fell upon it. 5And when it in the house of their and, lo, the chariots
had abode two days in
idols, and among the and horsemen followed
a Ziklag; 2It came even to
slain: or, wounded people. 10And they put hard after him. 7And
b pass on the third day,
and the archers: Heb. and the his armour in the house when he looked behind
that, behold, a man
shooters, men with bows of Ashtaroth: and they
c
abuse...: or, mock me came out of the camp a
How...: Heb. What was, etc
him, he saw me, and because they were fallen not in Gath, publish it 25
How are the mighty
called unto me. And I by the sword. 13And not in the streets of fallen in the midst of
answered, Here am I. b David said unto the Askelon; lest the the battle! O Jonathan,
8
And he said unto me, young man that told daughters of the thou wast slain in thine
Who art thou? And I him, Whence art thou? Philistines rejoice, lest high places. 26I am
answered him, I am an And he answered, I am the daughters of the distressed for thee, my
Amalekite. 9He said unto the son of a stranger, an uncircumcised triumph. brother Jonathan: very
me again, Stand, I pray Amalekite. 14And David 21
Ye mountains of Gilboa, pleasant hast thou been
thee, upon me, and slay said unto him, How wast let there be no dew, unto me: thy love to me
me: for anguishc is come thou not afraid to stretch neither let there be rain, was wonderful, passing
upon me, because my forth thine hand to upon you, nor fields of the love of women.
life is yet whole in me. destroy the LORD’S offerings: for there the 27
How are the mighty
10
So I stood upon him, anointed? 15And David shield of the mighty is fallen, and the weapons
and slew him, because I called one of the young vilely cast away, the of war perished!
was sure that he could men, and said, Go near, shield of Saul, as though
not live after that he was and fall upon him. And he had not been Chapter 2
fallen: and I took the he smote him that he anointed with oil. 22From
crown that was upon his died. 16And David said the blood of the slain, And it came to pass
1

head, and the bracelet unto him, Thy blood be from the fat of the after this, that David
that was on his arm, and upon thy head; for thy mighty, the bow of enquired of the LORD,
have brought them mouth hath testified Jonathan turned not saying, Shall I go up
hither unto my lord. against thee, saying, I back, and the sword of into any of the cities of
11
Then David took have slain the LORD’S Saul returned not empty. Judah? And the LORD
hold on his clothes, and anointed. 23
Saul and Jonathan were said unto him, Go up.
rent them; and likewise 17
And David lamented lovely and pleasante in And David said, Whither
all the men that were with this lamentation their lives, and in their shall I go up? And he
with him: 12And they over Saul and over death they were not said, Unto Hebron. 2So
mourned, and wept, and Jonathan his son: 18(Also divided: they were David went up thither,
fasted until even, for he bade them teach the swifter than eagles, they and his two wives also,
Saul, and for Jonathan children of Judah the use were stronger than lions. Ahinoam the
his son, and for the of the bow: behold, it is 24
Ye daughters of Israel, Jezreelitess, and Abigail
people of the LORD, and written in the book of weep over Saul, who Nabal’s wife the
for the house of Israel; Jasherd.) 19The beauty of clothed you in scarlet, Carmelite. 3And his men
Israel is slain upon thy with other delights, who that were with him did
b
Here...: Heb. Behold me high places: how are the put on ornaments of gold David bring up, every
c
anguish...: or, my coat of mail mighty fallen! 20Tell it upon your apparel. man with his
(or, my embroidered coat) household: and they
d e
hindereth me, that my, etc of Jasher: or, of the upright pleasant: or, sweet
dwelt in the cities of brought him over to before us. And Joab said, thou Asahel? And he
Hebron. 4And the men of Mahanaim; 9
And made Let them arise. 15Then answered, I am. 21And
Judah came, and there him king over Gilead, there arose and went Abner said to him, Turn
they anointed David king and over the Ashurites, over by number twelve thee aside to thy right
over the house of Judah. and over Jezreel, and of Benjamin, which hand or to thy left, and
And they told David, over Ephraim, and over pertained to Ishbosheth lay thee hold on one of
saying, That the men of Benjamin, and over all the son of Saul, and the young men, and
Jabeshgilead were they Israel. 10
Ishbosheth twelve of the servants of take thee his armourf.
that buried Saul. 5And Saul’s son was forty David. 16And they caught But Asahel would not
David sent messengers years old when he began every one his fellow by turn aside from
unto the men of to reign over Israel, and the head, and thrust his following of him. 22And
Jabeshgilead, and said reigned two years. But sword in his fellow’s Abner said again to
unto them, Blessed be the house of Judah side; so they fell down Asahel, Turn thee aside
ye of the LORD, that ye followed David. 11And the together: wherefore that from following me:
have shewed this timeb that David was place was called wherefore should I
kindness unto your lord, king in Hebron over the Helkathhazzurim , which
d
smite thee to the
even unto Saul, and house of Judah was is in Gibeon. 17And there ground? how then
have buried him. 6And seven years and six was a very sore battle should I hold up my
now the LORD shew months. 12And Abner the that day; and Abner was face to Joab thy
kindness and truth unto son of Ner, and the beaten, and the men of brother? 23
Howbeit he
you: and I also will servants of Ishbosheth Israel, before the refused to turn aside:
requite you this the son of Saul, went out servants of David. wherefore Abner with
kindness, because ye from Mahanaim to 18
And there were the hinder end of the
have done this thing. Gibeon. 13
And Joab the three sons of Zeruiah spear smote him under
7
Therefore now let your son of Zeruiah, and the there, Joab, and Abishai, the fifth rib, that the
hands be strengthened, servants of David, went and Asahel: and Asahel spear came out behind
and be ye valiant: for out, and met togetherc was as light of foote as a him; and he fell down
your master Saul is by the pool of Gibeon: wild roe. 19
And Asahel there, and died in the
dead, and also the house and they sat down, the pursued after Abner; and same place: and it
of Judah have anointed one on the one side of in going he turned not to came to pass, that as
me king over them. the pool, and the other the right hand nor to the many as came to the
8
But Abner the son of on the other side of the left from following Abner. place where Asahel fell
Ner, captain of Saul’s pool. 14And Abner said 20
Then Abner looked down and died stood
hosta, took Ishbosheth to Joab, Let the young behind him, and said, Art still. 24Joab also and
the son of Saul, and men now arise, and play d
Abishai pursued after
Helkathhazzurim: that is, The Abner: and the sun
a b
Saul’s host: Heb. the host time: Heb. number of days field of strong men
c e f
which was Saul’s together: Heb. them together of foot: Heb. of his feet armour: or, spoil
went down when they went through all Bithron, the Jezreelitess; 3And his father, to his brethren,
were come to the hill of and they came to second, Chileaba, of and to his friends, and
Ammah, that lieth before Mahanaim. 30And Joab Abigail the wife of Nabal have not delivered thee
Giah by the way of the returned from following the Carmelite; and the into the hand of David,
wilderness of Gibeon. Abner: and when he had third, Absalom the son of that thou chargest me
25
And the children of gathered all the people Maacah the daughter of to day with a fault
Benjamin gathered together, there lacked of Talmai king of Geshur; concerning this woman?
themselves together David’s servants 4
And the fourth, Adonijah 9
So do God to Abner,
after Abner, and became nineteen men and the son of Haggith; and and more also, except,
one troop, and stood on Asahel. 31
But the the fifth, Shephatiah the as the LORD hath sworn
the top of an hill. 26Then servants of David had son of Abital; 5And the to David, even so I do
Abner called to Joab, and smitten of Benjamin, and sixth, Ithream, by Eglah to him; 10To translate
said, Shall the sword of Abner’s men, so that David’s wife. These were the kingdom from the
devour for ever? three hundred and born to David in Hebron. house of Saul, and to
knowest thou not that it threescore men died. 6
And it came to pass, set up the throne of
will be bitterness in the 32
And they took up while there was war David over Israel and
latter end? how long Asahel, and buried him between the house of over Judah, from Dan
shall it be then, ere thou in the sepulchre of his Saul and the house of even to Beersheba.
bid the people return father, which was in David, that Abner made 11
And he could not
from following their Bethlehem. And Joab and himself strong for the answer Abner a word
brethren? 27
And Joab his men went all night, house of Saul. again, because he
said, As God liveth, and they came to 7
And Saul had a feared him. And Abner
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unless thou hadst Hebron at break of day. concubine, whose name sent messengers to
spoken, surely then in was Rizpah, the David on his behalf,
the morning the people Chapter 3 daughter of Aiah: and saying, Whose is the
had gone up every one Ishbosheth said to land? saying also, Make
from following his
1
Now there was long Abner, Wherefore hast thy league with me,
brother. 28
So Joab blew war between the house thou gone in unto my and, behold, my hand
a trumpet, and all the of Saul and the house of father’s concubine? shall be with thee, to
people stood still, and David: but David waxed 8
Then was Abner very bring about all Israel
pursued after Israel no stronger and stronger, wroth for the words of unto thee. 13And he
more, neither fought and the house of Saul Ishbosheth, and said, said, Well; I will make a
they any more. 29And waxed weaker and Am I a dog’s head, which league with thee: but
Abner and his men weaker. And unto David
2
against Judah do shew one thing I require of
walked all that night were sons born in kindness this day unto thee, that isb, Thou
through the plain, and Hebron: and his firstborn the house of Saul thy shalt not see my face,
passed over Jordan, and was Amnon, of Ahinoam
a b
Chileab: or, Daniel that is: Heb. saying
except thou first bring enemies. 19And Abner were come, they told are guiltless before the
Michal Saul’s daughter, also spake in the ears of Joab, saying, Abner the LORD for ever from the
when thou comest to see Benjamin: and Abner son of Ner came to the bloodf of Abner the son
my face. 14
And David went also to speak in the king, and he hath sent of Ner: 29Let it rest on
sent messengers to ears of David in Hebron him away, and he is the head of Joab, and
Ishbosheth Saul’s son, all that seemed good to gone in peace. 24Then on all his father’s
saying, Deliver me my Israel, and that seemed Joab came to the king, house; and let there not
wife Michal, which I good to the whole house and said, What hast thou failg from the house of
espoused to me for an of Benjamin. 20So Abner done? behold, Abner Joab one that hath an
hundred foreskins of the came to David to came unto thee; why is it issue, or that is a leper,
Philistines. 15
And Hebron, and twenty men that thou hast sent him or that leaneth on a
Ishbosheth sent, and with him. And David away, and he is quite staff, or that falleth on
took her from her made Abner and the gone? 25Thou knowest the sword, or that
husband, even from men that were with him Abner the son of Ner, lacketh bread. 30
So
Phaltielc the son of Laish. a feast. 21And Abner said that he came to deceive Joab and Abishai his
16
And her husband went unto David, I will arise thee, and to know thy brother slew Abner,
with her along weeping and go, and will gather going out and thy because he had slain
behind her to Bahurim. all Israel unto my lord coming in, and to know their brother Asahel at
Then said Abner unto the king, that they may all that thou doest. 26And Gibeon in the battle.
him, Go, return. And he make a league with when Joab was come out 31
And David said to
returned. 17
And Abner thee, and that thou from David, he sent Joab, and to all the
had communication with mayest reign over all messengers after Abner, people that were with
the elders of Israel, that thine heart desireth. which brought him again him, Rend your clothes,
saying, Ye sought for And David sent Abner from the well of Sirah: and gird you with
David in timesd past to away; and he went in but David knew it not. sackcloth, and mourn
be king over you: 18Now peace. 27
And when Abner was before Abner. And king
then do it: for the LORD 22
And, behold, the returned to Hebron, Joab David himself followed
hath spoken of David, servants of David and took him aside in the the bierh. 32
And they
saying, By the hand of Joab came from pursuing gate to speak with him buried Abner in Hebron:
my servant David I will a troop, and brought in a quietlye, and smote him and the king lifted up
save my people Israel great spoil with them: there under the fifth rib, his voice, and wept at
out of the hand of the but Abner was not with that he died, for the the grave of Abner; and
Philistines, and out of the David in Hebron; for he blood of Asahel his all the people wept.
hand of all their had sent him away, and brother. 28And afterward 33
And the king lamented
c
he was gone in peace. when David heard it, he f
Phaltiel: also called, Phalti 23
When Joab and all the said, I and my kingdom blood: Heb. bloods
d g
in times...: Heb. both host that was with him fail: Heb. be cut off
e h
yesterday and the third day quietly: or, peaceably bier: Heb. bed
over Abner, and said, this day weakk, though Jezreel, and his nurse sought thy life; and the
Died Abner as a fool anointed king; and these took him up, and fled: LORD hath avenged my
dieth? 34Thy hands were men the sons of Zeruiah and it came to pass, as lord the king this day of
not bound, nor thy feet be too hard for me: the she made haste to flee, Saul, and of his seed.
put into fetters: as a LORD shall reward the that he fell, and became 9
And David
man falleth before doer of evil according to lame. And his name was answered Rechab and
wickedi men, so fellest his wickedness. Mephiboshethb. 5And the Baanah his brother, the
thou. And all the people sons of Rimmon the sons of Rimmon the
wept again over him. Chapter 4 Beerothite, Rechab and Beerothite, and said
35
And when all the Baanah, went, and came unto them, As the LORD
people came to cause And when Saul’s son
1
about the heat of the liveth, who hath
David to eat meat while heard that Abner was day to the house of redeemed my soul out
it was yet day, David dead in Hebron, his Ishbosheth, who lay on a of all adversity, 10When
sware, saying, So do God hands were feeble, and bed at noon. 6And they one told me, saying,
to me, and more also, if I all the Israelites were came thither into the Behold, Saul is dead,
taste bread, or ought troubled. 2And Saul’s son midst of the house, as thinking to have
else, till the sun be had two men that were though they would have brought good tidings, I
down. 36And all the captains of bands: the fetched wheat; and they took hold of him, and
people took notice of it, name of the one was smote him under the slew him in Ziklag, who
and it pleased them: as Baanah, and the name of fifth rib: and Rechab and thought that I would
whatsoever the kingj did the othera Rechab, the Baanah his brother have given him a
pleased all the people. sons of Rimmon a escaped. For when they
7
reward for his tidings:
37
For all the people and Beerothite, of the came into the house, he 11
How much more,
all Israel understood that children of Benjamin: lay on his bed in his when wicked men have
day that it was not of the (for Beeroth also was bedchamber, and they slain a righteous person
king to slay Abner the reckoned to Benjamin: smote him, and slew in his own house upon
son of Ner. 38And the
3
And the Beerothites fled him, and beheaded him, his bed? shall I not
king said unto his to Gittaim, and were and took his head, and therefore now require
servants, Know ye not sojourners there until gat them away through his blood of your hand,
that there is a prince and this day.) 4And Jonathan, the plain all night. 8And and take you away from
a great man fallen this Saul’s son, had a son they brought the head of the earth? 12And David
day in Israel? 39And I am that was lame of his feet. Ishbosheth unto David to commanded his young
He was five years old Hebron, and said to the men, and they slew
when the tidings came of king, Behold the head of them, and cut off their
i
wicked...: Heb. children of Saul and Jonathan out of Ishbosheth the son of hands and their feet,
iniquity Saul thine enemy, which and hanged them up
j k
pleased them: Heb. was good weak: Heb. tender over the pool in Hebron.
a b
in their eyes other: Heb. second Mephibosheth: or, Meribbaal
But they took the head over all Israel and Judah. of hosts was with him. seek David; and David
of Ishbosheth, and 6
And the king and his 11
And Hiram king of heard of it, and went
buried it in the sepulchre men went to Jerusalem Tyre sent messengers to down to the hold. 18The
of Abner in Hebron. unto the Jebusites, the David, and cedar trees, Philistines also came
inhabitants of the land: and carpenters, and and spread themselves
Chapter 5 which spake unto David, masons : and they built
c
in the valley of
saying, Except thou take David an house. 12And Rephaim. 19And David
1
Then came all the away the blind and the David perceived that the enquired of the LORD,
tribes of Israel to David lame, thou shalt not LORD had established saying, Shall I go up to
unto Hebron, and spake, come in hither: thinkinga, him king over Israel, and the Philistines? wilt thou
saying, Behold, we are David cannot come in that he had exalted his deliver them into mine
thy bone and thy flesh. hither. 7
Nevertheless kingdom for his people hand? And the LORD
2
Also in time past, when David took the strong Israel’s sake. 13And David said unto David, Go up:
Saul was king over us, hold of Zion: the same is took him more for I will doubtless
thou wast he that the city of David. 8And concubines and wives deliver the Philistines
leddest out and David said on that day, out of Jerusalem, after into thine hand. 20And
broughtest in Israel: and Whosoever getteth up to he was come from David came to
the LORD said to thee, the gutter, and smiteth Hebron: and there were Baalperazim , d
and
Thou shalt feed my the Jebusites, and the yet sons and daughters David smote them
people Israel, and thou lame and the blind, that born to David. 14And there, and said, The
shalt be a captain over are hated of David’s these be the names of LORD hath broken forth
Israel. 3So all the elders soul, he shall be chief those that were born upon mine enemies
of Israel came to the and captain. Wherefore unto him in Jerusalem; before me, as the
king to Hebron; and king they said, The blind and Shammua, and Shobab, breach of waters.
David made a league the lame shall not come and Nathan, and Therefore he called the
with them in Hebron into the house. 9
So Solomon, 15
Ibhar also, name of that place
before the LORD: and David dwelt in the fort, and Elishua, and Baalperazim. 21
And
they anointed David king and called it the city of Nepheg, and Japhia, there they left their
over Israel. 4David was David. And David built 16
And Elishama, and images, and David and
thirty years old when he round about from Millo Eliada, and Eliphalet. his men burnede them.
began to reign, and he and inward. 10And David 17
But when the 22
And the Philistines
reigned forty years. 5In wentb on, and grew Philistines heard that came up yet again, and
Hebron he reigned over great, and the LORD God they had anointed David spread themselves in
Judah seven years and king over Israel, all the the valley of Rephaim.
a
six months: and in thinking...: or, saying David Philistines came up to d
Jerusalem he reigned shall not, etc Baalperazim: that is, the
b c
thirty and three years went...: Heb. went, going and masons: Heb. hewers of the plain of breaches
e
growing stone of the wall burned...: or, took them away
23
And when David dwelleth between the errorc; and there he died of David with gladness.
enquired of the LORD, he cherubims. 3
And they by the ark of God. 8And 13
And it was so, that
said, Thou shalt not go set the ark of God upon
a
David was displeased, when they that bare the
up; but fetch a compass a new cart, and brought because the LORD had ark of the LORD had
behind them, and come it out of the house of maded a breach upon gone six paces, he
upon them over against Abinadab that was in Uzzah: and he called the sacrificed oxen and
the mulberry trees. 24And Gibeah: and Uzzah and name of the place fatlings. 14And David
let it be, when thou Ahio, the sons of Perezuzzah to this day. danced before the
hearest the sound of a Abinadab, drave the new 9
And David was afraid of LORD with all his might;
going in the tops of the cart. 4And they brought the LORD that day, and and David was girded
mulberry trees, that then it out of the house of said, How shall the ark of with a linen ephod. 15So
thou shalt bestir thyself: Abinadab which was at the LORD come to me? David and all the house
for then shall the LORD Gibeah, accompanyingb 10
So David would not of Israel brought up the
go out before thee, to the ark of God: and Ahio remove the ark of the ark of the LORD with
smite the host of the went before the ark. LORD unto him into the shouting, and with the
Philistines. 25And David 5
And David and all the city of David: but David sound of the trumpet.
did so, as the LORD had house of Israel played carried it aside into the 16
And as the ark of the
commanded him; and before the LORD on all house of Obededom the LORD came into the city
smote the Philistines manner of instruments Gittite. 11And the ark of of David, Michal Saul’s
from Gebaf until thou made of fir wood, even the LORD continued in daughter looked
come to Gazer. on harps, and on the house of Obededom through a window, and
psalteries, and on the Gittite three months: saw king David leaping
Chapter 6 timbrels, and on cornets, and the LORD blessed and dancing before the
and on cymbals. Obededom, and all his LORD; and she despised
Again,
1
David 6
And when they came household. him in her heart. 17And
gathered together all the to Nachon’s 12
And it was told king they brought in the ark
chosen men of Israel, threshingfloor, Uzzah put David, saying, The LORD of the LORD, and set it
thirty thousand. 2And forth his hand to the ark hath blessed the house in his place, in the
David arose, and went of God, and took hold of of Obededom, and all midst of the tabernacle
with all the people that it; for the oxen shook it. that pertaineth unto him, that David had pitchede
were with him from 7
And the anger of the because of the ark of for it: and David offered
Baale of Judah, to bring LORD was kindled God. So David went and burnt offerings and
up from thence the ark against Uzzah; and God brought up the ark of peace offerings before
of God, whose name is smote him there for his God from the house of the LORD. 18
And as
called by the name of Obededom into the city soon as David had
the LORD of hosts that made an end of offering
a c
set: Heb. made to ride error: or, rashness
f b d e
Geba: also called, Gibeon accompanying: Heb. with made: Heb. broken pitched: Heb. stretched
burnt offerings and I play before the LORD. tell my servanta David, of thy sight, and have
peace offerings, he 22
And I will yet be more Thus saith the LORD, made thee a great
blessed the people in the vile than thus, and will Shalt thou build me an name, like unto the
name of the LORD of be base in mine own house for me to dwell in? name of the great men
hosts. 19And he dealt sight: and of the 6
Whereas I have not that are in the earth.
among all the people, maidservants which thou dwelt in any house since 10
Moreover I will appoint
even among the whole hast spoken of, of them the time that I brought a place for my people
multitude of Israel, as shall I be had in honourg. up the children of Israel Israel, and will plant
well to the women as 23
Therefore Michal the out of Egypt, even to this them, that they may
men, to every one a daughter of Saul had no day, but have walked in dwell in a place of their
cake of bread, and a child unto the day of her a tent and in a own, and move no
good piece of flesh, and death. tabernacle. In all the
7
more; neither shall the
a flagon of wine. So all places wherein I have children of wickedness
the people departed Chapter 7 walked with all the afflict them any more,
every one to his house. children of Israel spake I as beforetime, 11And as
20
Then David returned
1
And it came to pass, a word with any of the since the time that I
to bless his household. when the king sat in his tribes of Israel, whom I commanded judges to
And Michal the daughter house, and the LORD commanded to feed my be over my people
of Saul came out to meet had given him rest round people Israel, saying, Israel, and have caused
David, and said, How about from all his Why build ye not me an thee to rest from all
glorious was the king of enemies; 2That the king house of cedar? 8Now thine enemies. Also the
Israel to day, who said unto Nathan the therefore so shalt thou LORD telleth thee that
uncovered himself to day prophet, See now, I dwell say unto my servant he will make thee an
in the eyes of the in an house of cedar, but David, Thus saith the house. 12And when thy
handmaids of his the ark of God dwelleth LORD of hosts, I took days be fulfilled, and
servants, as one of the within curtains. 3
And thee from the sheepcote, thou shalt sleep with
vain fellows shamelesslyf Nathan said to the king, from followingb the thy fathers, I will set up
uncovereth himself! Go, do all that is in thine sheep, to be ruler over thy seed after thee,
21
And David said unto heart; for the LORD is my people, over Israel: which shall proceed out
Michal, It was before the with thee. 9
And I was with thee of thy bowels, and I will
LORD, which chose me
4
And it came to pass whithersoever thou establish his kingdom.
before thy father, and that night, that the word wentest, and have cut 13
He shall build an
before all his house, to of the LORD came unto off all thine enemies out house for my name,
appoint me ruler over Nathan, saying, 5Go and and I will stablish the
a
the people of the LORD, my servant...: Heb. to my throne of his kingdom
over Israel: therefore will servant, to David for ever. 14I will be his
g b
of the...: or, of the handmaids from following: Heb. from father, and he shall be
f
shamelessly: or, openly of my servants after
my son. If he commit GOD, knowest thy ever, and do as thou smote the Philistines,
iniquity, I will chasten servant. For thy word’s
21
hast said. 26And let thy and subdued them: and
him with the rod of men, sake, and according to name be magnified for David took
and with the stripes of thine own heart, hast ever, saying, The LORD Methegammah out of
a

the children of men: thou done all these great of hosts is the God over the hand of the
15
But my mercy shall not things, to make thy Israel: and let the house Philistines. 2
And he
depart away from him, servant know them. of thy servant David be smote Moab, and
as I took it from Saul, 22
Wherefore thou art established before thee. measured them with a
whom I put away before great, O LORD God: for 27
For thou, O LORD of line, casting them down
thee. 16And thine house there is none like thee, hosts, God of Israel, hast to the ground; even
and thy kingdom shall be neither is there any God revealedd to thy servant, with two lines
established for ever beside thee, according to saying, I will build thee measured he to put to
before thee: thy throne all that we have heard an house: therefore hath death, and with one full
shall be established for with our ears. 23And what thy servant found in his line to keep alive. And
ever. 17According to all one nation in the earth is heart to pray this prayer so the Moabites
these words, and like thy people, even like unto thee. 28And now, O became David’s
according to all this Israel, whom God went Lord GOD, thou art that servants, and brought
vision, so did Nathan to redeem for a people God, and thy words be gifts. 3David smote also
speak unto David. to himself, and to make true, and thou hast Hadadezerb, the son of
18
Then went king him a name, and to do promised this goodness Rehob, king of Zobah,
David in, and sat before for you great things and unto thy servant: as he went to recover
the LORD, and he said, terrible, for thy land, 29
Therefore now let it his border at the river
Who am I, O Lord GOD? before thy people, which please thee to bless the Euphrates. 4And David
and what is my house, thou redeemedst to thee house of thy servant, took from him a
that thou hast brought from Egypt, from the that it may continue for thousand chariots, and
me hitherto? 19And this nations and their gods? ever before thee: for seven hundred
was yet a small thing in 24
For thou hast thou, O Lord GOD, hast horsemen, and twenty
thy sight, O Lord GOD; confirmed to thyself thy spoken it: and with thy thousand footmen: and
but thou hast spoken people Israel to be a blessing let the house of David houghed all the
also of thy servant’s people unto thee for thy servant be blessed chariot horses, but
house for a great while ever: and thou, LORD, for ever. reserved of them for an
to come. And is this the art become their God. hundred chariots. 5And
mannerc of man, O Lord 25
And now, O LORD God, Chapter 8 when the Syrians of
GOD? 20And what can the word that thou hast Damascus came to
David say more unto spoken concerning thy And after this it came
1
a
thee? for thou, Lord servant, and concerning to pass, that David Methegammah: or, the bridle
his house, establish it for of Ammah
c d b
manner: Heb. law revealed: Heb. opened the ear Hadadezer: or, Hadarezer
succour Hadadezer king gold, and vessels of Ahilud was recordere; Jonathan hath yet a
of Zobah, David slew of brass: 11
Which also 17
And Zadok the son of son, which is lame on
the Syrians two and king David did dedicate Ahitub, and Ahimelech his feet. 4And the king
twenty thousand men. unto the LORD, with the the son of Abiathar, said unto him, Where is
6
Then David put silver and gold that he were the priests; and he? And Ziba said unto
garrisons in Syria of had dedicated of all Seraiah was the scribef; the king, Behold, he is
Damascus: and the nations which he 18
And Benaiah the son of in the house of Machir,
Syrians became servants subdued; Of Syria, and
12
Jehoiada was over both the son of Ammiel, in
to David, and brought of Moab, and of the the Cherethites and the Lodebar. 5Then king
gifts. And the LORD children of Ammon, and Pelethites; and David’s David sent, and fetched
preserved David of the Philistines, and of sons were chief rulersg. him out of the house of
whithersoever he went. Amalek, and of the spoil Machir, the son of
7
And David took the of Hadadezer, son of Chapter 9 Ammiel, from Lodebar.
shields of gold that were Rehob, king of Zobah. 6
Now when
on the servants of 13
And David gat him a And David said, Is
1
Mephiboshetha, the son
Hadadezer, and brought name when he returned there yet any that is left of Jonathan, the son of
them to Jerusalem. 8And from smitingd of the of the house of Saul, that Saul, was come unto
from Betah, and from Syrians in the valley of I may shew him kindness David, he fell on his
Berothai, cities of salt, being eighteen for Jonathan’s sake? face, and did reverence.
Hadadezer, king David thousand men. 14And he
2
And there was of the And David said,
took exceeding much put garrisons in Edom; house of Saul a servant Mephibosheth. And he
brass. throughout all Edom put whose name was Ziba. answered, Behold thy
9
When Toi king of he garrisons, and all And when they had servant! 7
And David
Hamath heard that they of Edom became called him unto David, said unto him, Fear not:
David had smitten all the David’s servants. And the king said unto him, for I will surely shew
host of Hadadezer, the LORD preserved Art thou Ziba? And he thee kindness for
10
Then Toi sent Joramc David whithersoever he said, Thy servant is he. Jonathan thy father’s
his son unto king David, went.
3
And the king said, Is sake, and will restore
to salute him, and to 15
And David reigned there not yet any of the thee all the land of Saul
bless him, because he over all Israel; and David house of Saul, that I may thy father; and thou
had fought against executed judgment and shew the kindness of shalt eat bread at my
Hadadezer, and smitten justice unto all his God unto him? And Ziba table continually. 8And
him: for Hadadezer had people. 16And Joab the said unto the king, he bowed himself, and
wars with Toi. And Joram son of Zeruiah was over e
said, What is thy
brought with him vessels the host; and recorder: or, remembrancer, servant, that thou
of silver, and vessels of Jehoshaphat the son of or, writer of chronicles
f a
scribe: or, secretary Mephibosheth: also called
c d g
Joram: also called, Hadoram smiting: Heb. his smiting chief rulers: or, princes Meribbaal
shouldest look upon such Jerusalem: for he did eat 4
Wherefore Hanun took Rehob, and Ishtob, and
a dead dog as I am? continually at the king’s David’s servants, and Maacah, were by
9
Then the king called table; and was lame on shaved off the one half themselves in the field.
to Ziba, Saul’s servant, both his feet. of their beards, and cut 9
When Joab saw that
and said unto him, I have off their garments in the the front of the battle
given unto thy master’s Chapter 10 middle, even to their was against him before
son all that pertained to buttocks, and sent them and behind, he chose of
Saul and to all his house. And it came to pass
1
away. 5When they told it all the choice men of
10
Thou therefore, and thy after this, that the king unto David, he sent to Israel, and put them in
sons, and thy servants, of the children of meet them, because the array against the
shall till the land for him, Ammon died, and Hanun men were greatly Syrians: 10And the rest
and thou shalt bring in his son reigned in his ashamed: and the king of the people he
the fruits, that thy stead. 2Then said David, said, Tarry at Jericho delivered into the hand
master’s son may have I will shew kindness unto until your beards be of Abishai his brother,
food to eat: but Hanun the son of grown, and then return. that he might put them
Mephibosheth thy Nahash, as his father 6
And when the in array against the
master’s son shall eat shewed kindness unto children of Ammon saw children of Ammon.
bread alway at my table. me. And David sent to that they stank before 11
And he said, If the
Now Ziba had fifteen comfort him by the hand David, the children of Syrians be too strong
sons and twenty of his servants for his Ammon sent and hired for me, then thou shalt
servants. 11Then said father. And David’s the Syrians of help me: but if the
Ziba unto the king, servants came into the Bethrehob, and the children of Ammon be
According to all that my land of the children of Syrians of Zoba, twenty too strong for thee,
lord the king hath Ammon. 3
And the thousand footmen, and then I will come and
commanded his servant, princes of the children of of king Maacah a help thee. 12Be of good
so shall thy servant do. Ammon said unto Hanun thousand men, and of courage, and let us play
As for Mephibosheth, their lord, Thinkesta thou Ishtobb twelve thousand the men for our people,
said the king, he shall that David doth honour men. 7And when David and for the cities of our
eat at my table, as one thy father, that he hath heard of it, he sent Joab, God: and the LORD do
of the king’s sons. 12And sent comforters unto and all the host of the that which seemeth him
Mephibosheth had a thee? hath not David mighty men. 8And the good. 13And Joab drew
young son, whose name rather sent his servants children of Ammon came nigh, and the people
was Micha. And all that unto thee, to search the out, and put the battle in that were with him,
dwelt in the house of city, and to spy it out, array at the entering in unto the battle against
Ziba were servants unto and to overthrow it? of the gate: and the the Syrians: and they
Mephibosheth. 13
So a
Syrians of Zoba, and of fled before him. 14And
Mephibosheth dwelt in Thinkest...: Heb. In thy eyes when the children of
b
doth David Ishtob: or, the men of Tob
Ammon saw that the and smote Shobach the was very beautiful to king’s house, and there
Syrians were fled, then captain of their host, look upon. 3And David followedc him a mess of
fled they also before who died there. 19And sent and enquired after meat from the king.
Abishai, and entered into when all the kings that the woman. And one 9
But Uriah slept at the
the city. So Joab were servants to said, Is not this door of the king’s house
returned from the Hadarezer saw that they Bathsheba , a
the with all the servants of
children of Ammon, and were smitten before daughter of Eliam, the his lord, and went not
came to Jerusalem. Israel, they made peace wife of Uriah the Hittite? down to his house.
15
And when the with Israel, and served 4
And David sent 10
And when they had
Syrians saw that they them. So the Syrians messengers, and took told David, saying,
were smitten before feared to help the her; and she came in Uriah went not down
Israel, they gathered children of Ammon any unto him, and he lay unto his house, David
themselves together. more. with her; for she was said unto Uriah, Camest
16
And Hadarezer sent, purified from her thou not from thy
and brought out the Chapter 11 uncleanness: and she journey? why then didst
Syrians that were returned unto her house. thou not go down unto
beyond the riverc: and
1
And it came to pass, 5
And the woman thine house? 11
And
they came to Helam; and after the year was conceived, and sent and Uriah said unto David,
Shobach the captain of expired, at the time told David, and said, I The ark, and Israel, and
the host of Hadarezer when kings go forth to am with child. Judah, abide in tents;
went before them. battle, that David sent 6
And David sent to and my lord Joab, and
17
And when it was told Joab, and his servants Joab, saying, Send me the servants of my lord,
David, he gathered all with him, and all Israel; Uriah the Hittite. And are encamped in the
Israel together, and and they destroyed the Joab sent Uriah to David. open fields; shall I then
passed over Jordan, and children of Ammon, and 7
And when Uriah was go into mine house, to
came to Helam. And the besieged Rabbah. But come unto him, David eat and to drink, and to
Syrians set themselves David tarried still at demanded of him how lie with my wife? as
in array against David, Jerusalem. 2And it came Joabb did, and how the thou livest, and as thy
and fought with him. to pass in an people did, and how the soul liveth, I will not do
18
And the Syrians fled eveningtide, that David war prospered. 8
And this thing. 12And David
before Israel; and David arose from off his bed, David said to Uriah, Go said to Uriah, Tarry
slew the men of seven and walked upon the down to thy house, and here to day also, and to
hundred chariots of the roof of the king’s house: wash thy feet. And Uriah morrow I will let thee
Syrians, and forty and from the roof he saw departed out of the depart. So Uriah abode
thousand horsemend, a woman washing in Jerusalem that day,
a
herself; and the woman Bathsheba: or, Bathshuah
c b c
the river: that is, Euphrates how Joab...: Heb. of the peace followed...: Heb. went out
d
horsemen: also called, footmen of, etc after him
and the morrow. 13And messenger, saying, from off the wall upon Nathan unto David. And
when David had called When thou hast made an thy servants; and some he came unto him, and
him, he did eat and drink end of telling the of the king’s servants be said unto him, There
before him; and he made matters of the war unto dead, and thy servant were two men in one
him drunk: and at even the king, 20And if so be Uriah the Hittite is dead city; the one rich, and
he went out to lie on his that the king’s wrath also. 25Then David said the other poor. 2The
bed with the servants of arise, and he say unto unto the messenger, rich man had exceeding
his lord, but went not thee, Wherefore Thus shalt thou say unto many flocks and herds:
down to his house. approached ye so nigh Joab, Let not this thing 3
But the poor man had
14
And it came to pass unto the city when ye displeasef thee, for the nothing, save one little
in the morning, that did fight? knew ye not sword devoureth one as ewe lamb, which he had
David wrote a letter to that they would shoot well as another: make bought and nourished
Joab, and sent it by the from the wall? 21Who thy battle more strong up: and it grew up
hand of Uriah. 15And he smote Abimelech the son against the city, and together with him, and
wrote in the letter, of Jerubbeshethe? did not overthrow it: and with his children; it did
saying, Set ye Uriah in a woman cast a piece of encourage thou him. eat of his own meata,
the forefront of the a millstone upon him 26
And when the wife of and drank of his own
hottestd battle, and retire from the wall, that he Uriah heard that Uriah cup, and lay in his
ye from him, that he died in Thebez? why her husband was dead, bosom, and was unto
may be smitten, and die. went ye nigh the wall? she mourned for her him as a daughter.
16
And it came to pass, then say thou, Thy husband. 27And when the 4
And there came a
when Joab observed the servant Uriah the Hittite mourning was past, traveller unto the rich
city, that he assigned is dead also. 22So the David sent and fetched man, and he spared to
Uriah unto a place where messenger went, and her to his house, and she take of his own flock
he knew that valiant came and shewed David became his wife, and and of his own herd, to
men were. 17And the all that Joab had sent bare him a son. But the dress for the wayfaring
men of the city went out, him for. 23
And the thing that David had man that was come
and fought with Joab: messenger said unto done displeasedg the unto him; but took the
and there fell some of David, Surely the men LORD. poor man’s lamb, and
the people of the prevailed against us, and dressed it for the man
servants of David; and came out unto us into Chapter 12 that was come to him.
Uriah the Hittite died the field, and we were 5
And David’s anger was
also. 18Then Joab sent upon them even unto
1
And the LORD sent greatly kindled against
and told David all the the entering of the gate. f
the man; and he said to
things concerning the 24
And the shooters shot displease...: Heb. be evil in Nathan, As the LORD
war; 19And charged the thine eyes liveth, the man that
e g
Jerubbesheth: also called, displeased: Heb. was evil in
d a
hottest: Heb. strong Jerubbaal the eyes of meat: Heb. morsel
hath done this thing hast taken the wife of fastedb, and went in, and the LORD, and
shall surely die: 6And he Uriah the Hittite to be lay all night upon the worshipped: then he
shall restore the lamb thy wife. 11Thus saith the earth. 17And the elders came to his own house;
fourfold, because he did LORD, Behold, I will raise of his house arose, and and when he required,
this thing, and because up evil against thee out went to him, to raise him they set bread before
he had no pity. 7And of thine own house, and I up from the earth: but him, and he did eat.
Nathan said to David, will take thy wives he would not, neither did 21
Then said his servants
Thou art the man. Thus before thine eyes, and he eat bread with them. unto him, What thing is
saith the LORD God of give them unto thy 18
And it came to pass on this that thou hast
Israel, I anointed thee neighbour, and he shall the seventh day, that the done? thou didst fast
king over Israel, and I lie with thy wives in the child died. And the and weep for the child,
delivered thee out of the sight of this sun. 12For servants of David feared while it was alive; but
hand of Saul; 8And I gave thou didst it secretly: but to tell him that the child when the child was
thee thy master’s house, I will do this thing before was dead: for they said, dead, thou didst rise
and thy master’s wives all Israel, and before the Behold, while the child and eat bread. 22And he
into thy bosom, and sun. 13And David said was yet alive, we spake said, While the child
gave thee the house of unto Nathan, I have unto him, and he would was yet alive, I fasted
Israel and of Judah; and sinned against the LORD. not hearken unto our and wept: for I said,
if that had been too And Nathan said unto voice: how will he then Who can tell whether
little, I would moreover David, The LORD also vexc himself, if we tell GOD will be gracious to
have given unto thee hath put away thy sin; him that the child is me, that the child may
such and such things. thou shalt not die. dead? 19But when David live? 23But now he is
9
Wherefore hast thou 14
Howbeit, because by saw that his servants dead, wherefore should
despised the this deed thou hast whispered, David I fast? can I bring him
commandment of the given great occasion to perceived that the child back again? I shall go to
LORD, to do evil in his the enemies of the LORD was dead: therefore him, but he shall not
sight? thou hast killed to blaspheme, the child David said unto his return to me. 24And
Uriah the Hittite with the also that is born unto servants, Is the child David comforted
sword, and hast taken thee shall surely die. dead? And they said, He Bathsheba his wife, and
his wife to be thy wife, 15
And Nathan is dead. 20Then David went in unto her, and
and hast slain him with departed unto his house. arose from the earth, lay with her: and she
the sword of the children And the LORD struck the and washed, and bare a son, and he
of Ammon. 10
Now child that Uriah’s wife anointed himself, and called his name
therefore the sword shall bare unto David, and it changed his apparel, and Solomon: and the LORD
never depart from thine was very sick. 16David came into the house of loved him. 25And he
house; because thou therefore besought God b
sent by the hand of
hast despised me, and for the child; and David fasted: Heb. fasted a fast Nathan the prophet;
c
vex: Heb. do hurt
and he called his name brought forth the people Why art thou, being the And she took flourc, and
Jedidiahd, because of the that were therein, and king’s son, leanb from kneaded it, and made
LORD. put them under saws, day to day? wilt thou not cakes in his sight, and
26
And Joab fought and under harrows of tell me? And Amnon said did bake the cakes.
against Rabbah of the iron, and under axes of unto him, I love Tamar, 9
And she took a pan,
children of Ammon, and iron, and made them my brother Absalom’s and poured them out
took the royal city. 27And pass through the sister. 5
And Jonadab before him; but he
Joab sent messengers to brickkiln: and thus did he said unto him, Lay thee refused to eat. And
David, and said, I have unto all the cities of the down on thy bed, and Amnon said, Have out
fought against Rabbah, children of Ammon. So make thyself sick: and all men from me. And
and have taken the city David and all the people when thy father cometh they went out every
of waters. 28
Now returned unto Jerusalem. to see thee, say unto man from him. 10And
therefore gather the rest him, I pray thee, let my Amnon said unto
of the people together, Chapter 13 sister Tamar come, and Tamar, Bring the meat
and encamp against the give me meat, and dress into the chamber, that I
city, and take it: lest I And it came to pass
1
the meat in my sight, may eat of thine hand.
take the city, and it be after this, that Absalom that I may see it, and eat And Tamar took the
callede after my name. the son of David had a it at her hand. 6So cakes which she had
29
And David gathered all fair sister, whose name Amnon lay down, and made, and brought
the people together, and was Tamar; and Amnon made himself sick: and them into the chamber
went to Rabbah, and the son of David loved when the king was come to Amnon her brother.
fought against it, and her. 2And Amnon was so to see him, Amnon said 11
And when she had
took it. 30And he took vexed, that he fell sick unto the king, I pray brought them unto him
their king’s crown from for his sister Tamar; for thee, let Tamar my sister to eat, he took hold of
off his head, the weight she was a virgin; and come, and make me a her, and said unto her,
whereof was a talent of Amnon thoughta it hard couple of cakes in my Come lie with me, my
gold with the precious for him to do any thing sight, that I may eat at sister. 12
And she
stones: and it was set on to her. 3But Amnon had her hand. 7Then David answered him, Nay, my
David’s head. And he a friend, whose name sent home to Tamar, brother, do not forced
brought forth the spoil of was Jonadab, the son of saying, Go now to thy me; for no such thing
the city in greatf Shimeah David’s brother Amnon’s house, ought to be done in
abundance. 31
And he brother: and Jonadab and dress him meat. 8So Israel: do not thou this
was a very subtil man. Tamar went to her folly. 13
And I, whither
d
Jedidiah: that is, Beloved of 4
And he said unto him, brother Amnon’s house; shall I cause my shame
the LORD and he was laid down. to go? and as for thee,
e a
it be called...: Heb. my name Amnon thought...: Heb. it was
c
be called upon it marvellous, or, hidden in the flour: or, paste
f b d
in great...: Heb. very great eyes of Amnon lean: Heb. thin force...: Heb. humble me
thou shalt be as one of virgins apparelled. Then Absalom came to the all the king’s sons
the fools in Israel. Now his servant brought her king, and said, Behold arose, and every man
therefore, I pray thee, out, and bolted the door now, thy servant hath gat him up upon his
speak unto the king; for after her. 19And Tamar sheepshearers; let the mule, and fled.
he will not withhold me put ashes on her head, king, I beseech thee, and 30
And it came to
from thee. 14Howbeit he and rent her garment of his servants go with thy pass, while they were in
would not hearken unto divers colours that was servant. 25And the king the way, that tidings
her voice: but, being on her, and laid her hand said to Absalom, Nay, came to David, saying,
stronger than she, forced on her head, and went my son, let us not all Absalom hath slain all
her, and lay with her. on crying. 20And Absalom now go, lest we be the king’s sons, and
15
Then Amnon hated her her brother said unto chargeable unto thee. there is not one of them
exceedinglye; so that the her, Hath Amnonf thy And he pressed him: left. 31Then the king
hatred wherewith he brother been with thee? howbeit he would not go, arose, and tare his
hated her was greater but hold now thy peace, but blessed him. 26Then garments, and lay on
than the love wherewith my sister: he is thy said Absalom, If not, I the earth; and all his
he had loved her. And brother; regard not this pray thee, let my brother servants stood by with
Amnon said unto her, thing. So Tamar Amnon go with us. And their clothes rent. 32And
Arise, be gone. 16
And remained desolate in her the king said unto him, Jonadab, the son of
she said unto him, There brother Absalom’s Why should he go with Shimeah David’s
is no cause: this evil in house. thee? 27
But Absalom brother, answered and
sending me away is 21
But when king David pressed him, that he let said, Let not my lord
greater than the other heard of all these things, Amnon and all the king’s suppose that they have
that thou didst unto me. he was very wroth. 22And sons go with him. 28Now slain all the young men
But he would not Absalom spake unto his Absalom had the king’s sons; for
hearken unto her. 17Then brother Amnon neither commanded his Amnon only is dead: for
he called his servant that good nor bad: for servants, saying, Mark by the appointmentg of
ministered unto him, and Absalom hated Amnon, ye now when Amnon’s Absalom this hath been
said, Put now this because he had forced heart is merry with wine, determined from the
woman out from me, and his sister Tamar. 23And it and when I say unto you, day that he forced his
bolt the door after her. came to pass after two Smite Amnon; then kill sister Tamar. 33
Now
18
And she had a garment full years, that Absalom him, fear not: have not I therefore let not my
of divers colours upon had sheepshearers in commanded you? be lord the king take the
her: for with such robes Baalhazor, which is courageous, and be thing to his heart, to
were the king’s beside Ephraim: and valiant. 29
And the think that all the king’s
daughters that were Absalom invited all the servants of Absalom did sons are dead: for
e
king’s sons. 24
And unto Amnon as Absalom Amnon only is dead.
exceedingly: Heb. with great had commanded. Then
f g
hatred greatly Amnon: Heb. Aminon appointment: Heb. mouth
But Absalom fled. And Chapter 14 none to part them, but God, that thou wouldest
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the young man that kept the one smote the other, not suffer the revengers
the watch lifted up his Now Joab the son of
1
and slew him. 7
And, of blood to destroy any
eyes, and looked, and, Zeruiah perceived that behold, the whole family more, lest they destroy
behold, there came the king’s heart was is risen against thine my son. And he said, As
much people by the way toward Absalom. 2And handmaid, and they the LORD liveth, there
of the hill side behind Joab sent to Tekoah, and said, Deliver him that shall not one hair of thy
him. 35And Jonadab said fetched thence a wise smote his brother, that son fall to the earth.
unto the king, Behold, woman, and said unto we may kill him, for the 12
Then the woman said,
the king’s sons come: as her, I pray thee, feign life of his brother whom Let thine handmaid, I
thy servant said, so it is. thyself to be a mourner, he slew; and we will pray thee, speak one
36
And it came to pass, as and put on now destroy the heir also: word unto my lord the
soon as he had made an mourning apparel, and and so they shall quench king. And he said, Say
end of speaking, that, anoint not thyself with my coal which is left, on. 13And the woman
behold, the king’s sons oil, but be as a woman and shall not leave to my said, Wherefore then
came, and lifted up their that had a long time husband neither name hast thou thought such
voice and wept: and the mourned for the dead: nor remainder uponb the a thing against the
king also and all his 3
And come to the king, earth. 8And the king said people of God? for the
servants wept veryh and speak on this unto the woman, Go to king doth speak this
sore. 37But Absalom fled, manner unto him. So thine house, and I will thing as one which is
and went to Talmai, the Joab put the words in her give charge concerning faulty, in that the king
son of Ammihudi, king of mouth. 4And when the thee. 9And the woman of doth not fetch home
Geshur. And David woman of Tekoah spake Tekoah said unto the again his banished.
mourned for his son to the king, she fell on king, My lord, O king, the 14
For we must needs
every day. 38So Absalom her face to the ground, iniquity be on me, and die, and are as water
fled, and went to Geshur, and did obeisance, and on my father’s house: spilt on the ground,
and was there three said, Helpa, O king. 5And and the king and his which cannot be
years. 39And the soul of the king said unto her, throne be guiltless. 10And gathered up again;
king David longedj to go What aileth thee? And the king said, Whosoever neither doth God
forth unto Absalom: for she answered, I am saith ought unto thee, respect any person: yet
he was comforted indeed a widow woman, bring him to me, and he doth he devise means,
concerning Amnon, and mine husband is shall not touch thee any that his banished be not
seeing he was dead. dead. 6And thy handmaid more. 11Then said she, I expelled from him.
h
had two sons, and they pray thee, let the king 15
Now therefore that I
very...: Heb. with a great two strove together in remember the LORD thy am come to speak of
weeping greatly the field, and there was this thing unto my lord
i b
Ammihud: or, Ammihur upon...: Heb. upon the face of the king, it is because
j a
longed: or, was consumed Help: Heb. Save the earth
the people have made the left from ought that house, and let him not would not come.
me afraid: and thy my lord the king hath see my face. So Absalom 30
Therefore he said unto
handmaid said, I will now spoken: for thy servant returned to his own his servants, See, Joab’s
speak unto the king; it Joab, he bade me, and house, and saw not the field is neare mine, and
may be that the king will he put all these words in king’s face. 25But in all he hath barley there; go
perform the request of the mouth of thine Israel there was none to and set it on fire. And
his handmaid. 16For the handmaid: 20To fetch be so much praised as Absalom’s servants set
king will hear, to deliver about this form of Absalom for his beauty: the field on fire. 31Then
his handmaid out of the speech hath thy servant from the sole of his foot Joab arose, and came to
hand of the man that Joab done this thing: and even to the crown of his Absalom unto his
would destroy me and my lord is wise, head there was no house, and said unto
my son together out of according to the wisdom blemish in him. 26
And him, Wherefore have
the inheritance of God. of an angel of God, to when he polled his head, thy servants set my
17
Then thine handmaid know all things that are (for it was at every field on fire? 32And
said, The word of my in the earth. year’s end that he polled Absalom answered
lord the king shall now 21
And the king said it: because the hair was Joab, Behold, I sent
be comfortablec: for as unto Joab, Behold now, I heavy on him, therefore unto thee, saying,
an angel of God, so is my have done this thing: go he polled it:) he weighed Come hither, that I may
lord the king to discern therefore, bring the the hair of his head at send thee to the king,
good and bad: therefore young man Absalom two hundred shekels to say, Wherefore am I
the LORD thy God will be again. 22And Joab fell to after the king’s weight. come from Geshur? it
with thee. 18
Then the the ground on his face, 27
And unto Absalom had been good for me
king answered and said and bowed himself, and there were born three to have been there still:
unto the woman, Hide thankedd the king: and sons, and one daughter, now therefore let me
not from me, I pray thee, Joab said, To day thy whose name was Tamar: see the king’s face; and
the thing that I shall ask servant knoweth that I she was a woman of a if there be any iniquity
thee. And the woman have found grace in thy fair countenance. in me, let him kill me.
said, Let my lord the sight, my lord, O king, in 28
So Absalom dwelt 33
So Joab came to the
king now speak. 19And that the king hath two full years in king, and told him: and
the king said, Is not the fulfilled the request of Jerusalem, and saw not when he had called for
hand of Joab with thee in his servant. 23
So Joab the king’s face. Absalom, he came to
all this? And the woman arose and went to 29
Therefore Absalom sent the king, and bowed
answered and said, As Geshur, and brought for Joab, to have sent himself on his face to
thy soul liveth, my lord Absalom to Jerusalem. him to the king; but he the ground before the
the king, none can turn 24
And the king said, Let would not come to him: king: and the king
to the right hand or to him turn to his own and when he sent again kissed Absalom.
c d
the second time, he e
comfortable: Heb. for rest thanked: Heb. blessed near...: Heb. near my place
Chapter 15 him. And on this And Absalom sent for And the king left ten
6 12

manner did Absalom to Ahithophel the Gilonite, women, which were


And it came to pass
1
all Israel that came to David’s counsellor, from concubines, to keep the
after this, that Absalom the king for judgment: so his city, even from Giloh, house. 17And the king
prepared him chariots Absalom stole the hearts while he offered went forth, and all the
and horses, and fifty of the men of Israel. sacrifices. And the people after him, and
men to run before him. 7
And it came to pass conspiracy was strong; tarried in a place that
2
And Absalom rose up after forty years, that for the people increased was far off. 18And all his
early, and stood beside Absalom said unto the continually with servants passed on
the way of the gate: and king, I pray thee, let me Absalom. beside him; and all the
it was so, that when any go and pay my vow, 13
And there came a Cherethites, and all the
man that had a which I have vowed unto messenger to David, Pelethites, and all the
controversy camea to the the LORD, in Hebron. saying, The hearts of the Gittites, six hundred
king for judgment, then 8
For thy servant vowed a men of Israel are after men which came after
Absalom called unto him, vow while I abode at Absalom. 14And David him from Gath, passed
and said, Of what city Geshur in Syria, saying, said unto all his servants on before the king.
art thou? And he said, If the LORD shall bring that were with him at 19
Then said the king to
Thy servant is of one of me again indeed to Jerusalem, Arise, and let Ittai the Gittite,
the tribes of Israel. 3And Jerusalem, then I will us flee; for we shall not Wherefore goest thou
Absalom said unto him, serve the LORD. 9And else escape from also with us? return to
See, thy matters are the king said unto him, Absalom: make speed to thy place, and abide
good and right; but Go in peace. So he depart, lest he overtake with the king: for thou
there is no man deputed arose, and went to us suddenly, and bringb art a stranger, and also
of the king to hear thee. Hebron. 10But Absalom evil upon us, and smite an exile. 20
Whereas
4
Absalom said moreover, sent spies throughout all the city with the edge of thou camest but
Oh that I were made the tribes of Israel, the sword. 15
And the yesterday, should I this
judge in the land, that saying, As soon as ye king’s servants said unto day make thee go up
every man which hath hear the sound of the the king, Behold, thy and down with us?
any suit or cause might trumpet, then ye shall servants are ready to do seeing I go whither I
come unto me, and I say, Absalom reigneth in whatsoever my lord the may, return thou, and
would do him justice! Hebron. 11
And with king shall appointc. take back thy brethren:
5
And it was so, that when Absalom went two 16
And the king went mercy and truth be with
any man came nigh to hundred men out of forth, and all his thee. 21
And Ittai
him to do him obeisance, Jerusalem, that were household after d
him. answered the king, and
he put forth his hand, called; and they went in b
said, As the LORD
and took him, and kissed their simplicity, and they bring: Heb. thrust liveth, and as my lord
c
knew not any thing. appoint: Heb. choose the king liveth, surely in
a d
came: Heb. to come after...: Heb. at his feet
what place my lord the thus say, I have no with Absalom. And David two sons, Ahimaaz
king shall be, whether in delight in thee; behold, said, O LORD, I pray Zadok’s son, and
death or life, even there here am I, let him do to thee, turn the counsel of Jonathan Abiathar’s
also will thy servant be. me as seemeth good Ahithophel into son; and by them ye
22
And David said to Ittai, unto him. 27The king said foolishness. 32
And it shall send unto me
Go and pass over. And also unto Zadok the came to pass, that when every thing that ye can
Ittai the Gittite passed priest, Art not thou a David was come to the hear. 37
So Hushai
over, and all his men, seer? return into the city top of the mount, where David’s friend came
and all the little ones in peace, and your two he worshipped God, into the city, and
that were with him. sons with you, Ahimaaz behold, Hushai the Absalom came into
23
And all the country thy son, and Jonathan Archite came to meet Jerusalem.
wept with a loud voice, the son of Abiathar. him with his coat rent,
and all the people 28
See, I will tarry in the and earth upon his head: Chapter 16
passed over: the king plain of the wilderness, 33
Unto whom David said,
also himself passed over until there come word If thou passest on with
1
And when David
the brook Kidrone, and all from you to certify me. me, then thou shalt be a was a little past the top
the people passed over, 29
Zadok therefore and burden unto me: 34But if of the hill, behold, Ziba
toward the way of the Abiathar carried the ark thou return to the city, the servant of
wilderness. of God again to and say unto Absalom, I Mephibosheth met him,
24
And lo Zadok also, Jerusalem: and they will be thy servant, O with a couple of asses
and all the Levites were tarried there. 30
And king; as I have been thy saddled, and upon
with him, bearing the ark David went up by the father’s servant hitherto, them two hundred
of the covenant of God: ascent of mount Olivet, so will I now also be thy loaves of bread, and an
and they set down the and weptf as he went up, servant: then mayest hundred bunches of
ark of God; and Abiathar and had his head thou for me defeat the raisins, and an hundred
went up, until all the covered, and he went counsel of Ahithophel. of summer fruits, and a
people had done passing barefoot: and all the 35
And hast thou not there bottle of wine. 2And the
out of the city. 25And the people that was with him with thee Zadok and king said unto Ziba,
king said unto Zadok, covered every man his Abiathar the priests? What meanest thou by
Carry back the ark of head, and they went up, therefore it shall be, that these? And Ziba said,
God into the city: if I weeping as they went what thing soever thou The asses be for the
shall find favour in the up. shalt hear out of the king’s household to ride
eyes of the LORD, he will 31
And one told David, king’s house, thou shalt on; and the bread and
bring me again, and saying, Ahithophel is tell it to Zadok and summer fruit for the
shew me both it, and his among the conspirators Abiathar the priests. young men to eat; and
habitation: 26But if he 36
Behold, they have the wine, that such as
f
and wept...: Heb. going up and there with them their be faint in the
e
Kidron: Gr. Cedron weeping
wilderness may drink. said Shimei when he bowels, seeketh my life: king, God save the king.
3
And the king said, And cursed, Come out, come how much more now 17
And Absalom said to
where is thy master’s out, thou bloodyc man, may this Benjamite do Hushai, Is this thy
son? And Ziba said unto and thou man of Belial: it? let him alone, and let kindness to thy friend?
the king, Behold, he 8
The LORD hath returned him curse; for the LORD why wentest thou not
abideth at Jerusalem: for upon thee all the blood hath bidden him. 12It with thy friend? 18And
he said, To day shall the of the house of Saul, in may be that the LORD Hushai said unto
house of Israel restore whose stead thou hast will look on mine Absalom, Nay; but
me the kingdom of my reigned; and the LORD afflictione, and that the whom the LORD, and
father. 4Then said the hath delivered the LORD will requite me this people, and all the
king to Ziba, Behold, kingdom into the hand of good for his cursing this men of Israel, choose,
thine are all that Absalom thy son: and, day. 13And as David and his will I be, and with
pertained unto behold, thou art taken in his men went by the him will I abide. 19And
Mephibosheth. And Ziba thy mischiefd, because way, Shimei went along again, whom should I
said, I humblya beseech thou art a bloody man. on the hill’s side over serve? should I not
thee that I may find 9
Then said Abishai the against him, and cursed serve in the presence of
grace in thy sight, my son of Zeruiah unto the as he went, and threw his son? as I have
lord, O king. king, Why should this stones at him, and castf served in thy father’s
5
And when king David dead dog curse my lord dust. 14And the king, and presence, so will I be in
came to Bahurim, the king? let me go over, all the people that were thy presence. 20Then
behold, thence came out I pray thee, and take off with him, came weary, said Absalom to
a man of the family of his head. 10And the king and refreshed Ahithophel, Give
the house of Saul, whose said, What have I to do themselves there. counsel among you
name was Shimei, the with you, ye sons of 15
And Absalom, and what we shall do. And
21

son of Gera: he came Zeruiah? so let him all the people the men of Ahithophel said unto
forthb, and cursed still as curse, because the LORD Israel, came to Absalom, Go in unto thy
he came. 6And he cast hath said unto him, Jerusalem, and father’s concubines,
stones at David, and at Curse David. Who shall Ahithophel with him. which he hath left to
all the servants of king then say, Wherefore hast 16
And it came to pass, keep the house; and all
David: and all the people thou done so? 11And when Hushai the Archite, Israel shall hear that
and all the mighty men David said to Abishai, David’s friend, was come thou art abhorred of thy
were on his right hand and to all his servants, unto Absalom, that father: then shall the
and on his left. 7And thus Behold, my son, which Hushai said unto hands of all that are
a
came forth of my Absalom, God save the with thee be strong.
I humbly...: Heb. I do 22
So they spread
c e
obeisance bloody...: Heb. man of blood affliction: or, tears: Heb. eye Absalom a tent upon
b d f
he came forth...: or, he still behold...: Heb. behold thee in cast...: Heb. dusted him with the top of the house;
came forth and cursed thy evil dust
and Absalom went in Absalom well, and all the overthrowne at the first, river, until there be not
unto his father’s elders of Israel. 5Then that whosoever heareth one small stone found
concubines in the sight said Absalom, Call now it will say, There is a there. 14And Absalom
of all Israel. 23And the Hushai the Archite also, slaughter among the and all the men of Israel
counsel of Ahithophel, and let us hear likewise people that follow said, The counsel of
which he counselled in what he saith. 6
And Absalom. 10
And he also Hushai the Archite is
those days, was as if a when Hushai was come that is valiant, whose better than the counsel
man had enquired at the to Absalom, Absalom heart is as the heart of a of Ahithophel. For the
oracleg of God: so was all spake unto him, saying, lion, shall utterly melt: LORD had appointedf to
the counsel of Ahithophel hath spoken for all Israel knoweth defeat the good counsel
Ahithophel both with after this manner: shall that thy father is a of Ahithophel, to the
David and with Absalom. we do after his sayingb? mighty man, and they intent that the LORD
if not; speak thou. 7And which be with him are might bring evil upon
Chapter 17 Hushai said unto valiant men. 11Therefore Absalom.
Absalom, The counsel I counsel that all Israel 15
Then said Hushai
Moreover Ahithophel
1
that Ahithophel hath be generally gathered unto Zadok and to
said unto Absalom, Let givenc is not good at this unto thee, from Dan Abiathar the priests,
me now choose out time. 8For, said Hushai, even to Beersheba, as Thus and thus did
twelve thousand men, thou knowest thy father the sand that is by the Ahithophel counsel
and I will arise and and his men, that they sea for multitude; and Absalom and the elders
pursue after David this be mighty men, and they that thou go to battle in of Israel; and thus and
night: 2And I will come be chafedd in their thine own person. 12So thus have I counselled.
upon him while he is minds, as a bear robbed shall we come upon him 16
Now therefore send
weary and weak handed, of her whelps in the in some place where he quickly, and tell David,
and will make him afraid: field: and thy father is a shall be found, and we saying, Lodge not this
and all the people that man of war, and will not will light upon him as the night in the plains of
are with him shall flee; lodge with the people. dew falleth on the the wilderness, but
and I will smite the king 9
Behold, he is hid now in ground: and of him and speedily pass over; lest
only: 3And I will bring some pit, or in some of all the men that are the king be swallowed
back all the people unto other place: and it will with him there shall not up, and all the people
thee: the man whom come to pass, when be left so much as one. that are with him. 17Now
thou seekest is as if all some of them be 13
Moreover, if he be Jonathan and Ahimaaz
returned: so all the gotten into a city, then stayed by Enrogel; for
people shall be in peace. shall all Israel bring they might not be seen
4
And the saying pleaseda the eyes of, etc ropes to that city, and to come into the city:
b
his saying: Heb. his word? we will draw it into the and a wench went and
g c
oracle: Heb. word given: Heb. counselled
a d e f
pleased...: Heb. was right in chafed...: Heb. bitter of soul overthrown: Heb. fallen appointed: Heb. commanded
told them; and they went Then David arose,
22
David was come to the hand of Abishai the
and told king David. and all the people that Mahanaim, that Shobi son of Zeruiah, Joab’s
18
Nevertheless a lad saw were with him, and they the son of Nahash of brother, and a third part
them, and told Absalom: passed over Jordan: by Rabbah of the children of under the hand of Ittai
but they went both of the morning light there Ammon, and Machir the the Gittite. And the king
them away quickly, and lacked not one of them son of Ammiel of said unto the people, I
came to a man’s house that was not gone over Lodebar, and Barzillai will surely go forth with
in Bahurim, which had a Jordan. 23
And when the Gileadite of Rogelim, you myself also. 3But
well in his court; whither Ahithophel saw that his 28
Brought beds, and the people answered,
they went down. 19And counsel was not basons , and earthen
h
Thou shalt not go forth:
the woman took and followedg, he saddled his vessels, and wheat, and for if we flee away, they
spread a covering over ass, and arose, and gat barley, and flour, and will not carea for us;
the well’s mouth, and him home to his house, parched corn, and neither if half of us die,
spread ground corn to his city, and put his beans, and lentiles, and will they care for us: but
thereon; and the thing household in order, and parched pulse, 29
And now thou art worth ten
was not known. 20And hanged himself, and honey, and butter, and thousand of us:
when Absalom’s died, and was buried in sheep, and cheese of therefore now it is
servants came to the the sepulchre of his kine, for David, and for better that thou
woman to the house, father. 24
Then David the people that were succour us out of the
they said, Where is came to Mahanaim. And with him, to eat: for they city. 4
And the king
Ahimaaz and Jonathan? Absalom passed over said, The people is said unto them, What
And the woman said Jordan, he and all the hungry, and weary, and seemeth you best I will
unto them, They be gone men of Israel with him. thirsty, in the wilderness. do. And the king stood
over the brook of water. 25
And Absalom made by the gate side, and all
And when they had Amasa captain of the Chapter 18 the people came out by
sought and could not host instead of Joab: hundreds and by
find them, they returned which Amasa was a And David numbered
1
thousands. 5And the
to Jerusalem. 21And it man’s son, whose name the people that were king commanded Joab
came to pass, after they was Ithra an Israelite, with him, and set and Abishai and Ittai,
were departed, that they that went in to Abigail captains of thousands saying, Deal gently for
came up out of the well, the daughter of Nahash, and captains of my sake with the young
and went and told king sister to Zeruiah Joab’s hundreds over them. man, even with
David, and said unto mother. 26So Israel and
2
And David sent forth a Absalom. And all the
David, Arise, and pass Absalom pitched in the third part of the people people heard when the
quickly over the water: land of Gilead. 27And it under the hand of Joab, king gave all the
for thus hath Ahithophel came to pass, when and a third part under
a
counselled against you. care...: Heb. set their heart on
g h
followed: Heb. done basons: or, cups us
captains charge Joab said unto the man midst of the oak. 15And Thou shalt not bear
concerning Absalom. 6So that told him, And, ten young men that bare tidings this day, but
the people went out into behold, thou sawest him, Joab’s armour thou shalt bear tidings
the field against Israel: and why didst thou not compassed about and another day: but this
and the battle was in the smite him there to the smote Absalom, and day thou shalt bear no
wood of Ephraim; 7Where ground? and I would slew him. 16
And Joab tidings, because the
the people of Israel were have given thee ten blew the trumpet, and king’s son is dead.
slain before the servants shekels of silver, and a the people returned from 21
Then said Joab to
of David, and there was girdle. 12And the man pursuing after Israel: for Cushi, Go tell the king
there a great slaughter said unto Joab, Though I Joab held back the what thou hast seen.
that day of twenty should receivec a people. 17And they took And Cushi bowed
thousand men. 8For the thousand shekels of Absalom, and cast him himself unto Joab, and
battle was there silver in mine hand, yet into a great pit in the ran. 22
Then said
scattered over the face would I not put forth wood, and laid a very Ahimaaz the son of
of all the country: and mine hand against the great heap of stones Zadok yet again to
the wood devouredb king’s son: for in our upon him: and all Israel Joab, But howsoevere,
more people that day hearing the king charged fled every one to his let me, I pray thee, also
than the sword thee and Abishai and tent. 18Now Absalom in run after Cushi. And
devoured. Ittai, saying, Beware that his lifetime had taken Joab said, Wherefore
9
And Absalom met the none touch the young and reared up for himself wilt thou run, my son,
servants of David. And man Absalom. a pillar, which is in the seeing that thou hast
Absalom rode upon a 13
Otherwise I should king’s dale: for he said, I no tidings ready? 23But
mule, and the mule went have wrought falsehood have no son to keep my howsoever, said he, let
under the thick boughs against mine own life: name in remembrance: me run. And he said
of a great oak, and his for there is no matter hid and he called the pillar unto him, Run. Then
head caught hold of the from the king, and thou after his own name: and Ahimaaz ran by the way
oak, and he was taken thyself wouldest have it is called unto this day, of the plain, and
up between the heaven set thyself against me. Absalom’s place. overran Cushi. 24
And
and the earth; and the 14
Then said Joab, I may 19
Then said Ahimaaz David sat between the
mule that was under him not tarry thus with thee. the son of Zadok, Let me two gates: and the
went away. 10And a And he took three darts now run, and bear the watchman went up to
certain man saw it, and in his hand, and thrust king tidings, how that the roof over the gate
told Joab, and said, them through the heart the LORD hath avengedd unto the wall, and lifted
Behold, I saw Absalom of Absalom, while he him of his enemies. up his eyes, and looked,
hanged in an oak. 11And was yet alive in the 20
And Joab said unto him, and behold a man
b c d e
devoured: Heb. multiplied to receive: Heb. weigh upon avenged...: Heb. judged him howsoever: Heb. be what
devour mine hand from the hand, etc may
running alone. 25And the When Joab sent the Chapter 19 and hatest thy friends.
watchman cried, and king’s servant, and me For thou hast declared
told the king. And the thy servant, I saw a And it was told Joab,
1
this day, that thou
king said, If he be alone, great tumult, but I knew Behold, the king regardest neither
there is tidings in his not what it was. 30And weepeth and mourneth princes nor servants:
mouth. And he came the king said unto him, for Absalom. 2And the for this day I perceive,
apace, and drew near. Turn aside, and stand victorya that day was that if Absalom had
26
And the watchman saw here. And he turned turned into mourning lived, and all we had
another man running: aside, and stood still. unto all the people: for died this day, then it
and the watchman called 31
And, behold, Cushi the people heard say had pleased thee well.
unto the porter, and came; and Cushi said, that day how the king 7
Now therefore arise, go
said, Behold another Tidingsf, my lord the was grieved for his son. forth, and speak
man running alone. And king: for the LORD hath 3
And the people gat comfortablyb unto thy
the king said, He also avenged thee this day of them by stealth that day servants: for I swear by
bringeth tidings. 27And all them that rose up into the city, as people the LORD, if thou go not
the watchman said, Me against thee. 32And the being ashamed steal forth, there will not
thinketh the running of king said unto Cushi, Is away when they flee in tarry one with thee this
the foremost is like the the young man Absalom battle. 4But the king night: and that will be
running of Ahimaaz the safe? And Cushi covered his face, and the worse unto thee than
son of Zadok. And the answered, The enemies king cried with a loud all the evil that befell
king said, He is a good of my lord the king, and voice, O my son thee from thy youth
man, and cometh with all that rise against thee Absalom, O Absalom, my until now. 8
Then the
good tidings. 28
And to do thee hurt, be as son, my son! 5And Joab king arose, and sat in
Ahimaaz called, and said that young man is. 33And came into the house to the gate. And they told
unto the king, All is well. the king was much the king, and said, Thou unto all the people,
And he fell down to the moved, and went up to hast shamed this day the saying, Behold, the king
earth upon his face the chamber over the faces of all thy servants, doth sit in the gate. And
before the king, and gate, and wept: and as which this day have all the people came
said, Blessed be the he went, thus he said, O saved thy life, and the before the king: for
LORD thy God, which my son Absalom, my lives of thy sons and of Israel had fled every
hath delivered up the son, my son Absalom! thy daughters, and the man to his tent.
men that lifted up their would God I had died for lives of thy wives, and 9
And all the people
hand against my lord the thee, O Absalom, my the lives of thy were at strife
king. 29
And the king son, my son! concubines; In that thou
6
throughout all the tribes
said, Is the young man lovest thine enemies, of Israel, saying, The
Absalom safe? And f a b
Ahimaaz answered, Tidings: Heb. Tidings is victory: Heb. salvation, or, comfortably...: Heb. to the
brought deliverance heart of thy servants
king saved us out of the as the heart of one man; which thy servant did beard, nor washed his
hand of our enemies, so that they sent this perversely the day that clothes, from the day
and he delivered us out word unto the king, my lord the king went the king departed until
of the hand of the Return thou, and all thy out of Jerusalem, that the day he came again
Philistines; and now he is servants. 15So the king the king should take it to in peace. 25And it came
fled out of the land for returned, and came to his heart. 20For thy to pass, when he was
Absalom. 10And Absalom, Jordan. And Judah came servant doth know that I come to Jerusalem to
whom we anointed over to Gilgal, to go to meet have sinned: therefore, meet the king, that the
us, is dead in battle. Now the king, to conduct the behold, I am come the king said unto him,
therefore why speakc ye king over Jordan. first this day of all the Wherefore wentest not
not a word of bringing 16
And Shimei the son house of Joseph to go thou with me,
the king back? 11
And of Gera, a Benjamite, down to meet my lord Mephibosheth? And he
26

king David sent to Zadok which was of Bahurim, the king. 21But Abishai answered, My lord, O
and to Abiathar the hasted and came down the son of Zeruiah king, my servant
priests, saying, Speak with the men of Judah to answered and said, Shall deceived me: for thy
unto the elders of Judah, meet king David. 17And not Shimei be put to servant said, I will
saying, Why are ye the there were a thousand death for this, because saddle me an ass, that I
last to bring the king men of Benjamin with he cursed the LORD’S may ride thereon, and
back to his house? him, and Ziba the anointed? 22And David go to the king; because
seeing the speech of all servant of the house of said, What have I to do thy servant is lame.
Israel is come to the Saul, and his fifteen sons with you, ye sons of 27
And he hath slandered
king, even to his house. and his twenty servants Zeruiah, that ye should thy servant unto my
12
Ye are my brethren, ye with him; and they went this day be adversaries lord the king; but my
are my bones and my over Jordan before the unto me? shall there any lord the king is as an
flesh: wherefore then are king. 18And there went man be put to death this angel of God: do
ye the last to bring back over a ferry boat to carry day in Israel? for do not I therefore what is good
the king? 13And say ye to over the king’s know that I am this day in thine eyes. 28For all
Amasa, Art thou not of household, and to do king over Israel? of my father’s house
my bone, and of my what he thought good. 23
Therefore the king said were but deadd men
flesh? God do so to me, And Shimei the son of unto Shimei, Thou shalt before my lord the king:
and more also, if thou be Gera fell down before not die. And the king yet didst thou set thy
not captain of the host the king, as he was sware unto him. servant among them
before me continually in come over Jordan; 19And 24
And Mephibosheth that did eat at thine
the room of Joab. 14And said unto the king, Let the son of Saul came own table. What right
he bowed the heart of all not my lord impute down to meet the king, therefore have I yet to
the men of Judah, even iniquity unto me, neither and had neither dressed cry any more unto the
c
do thou remember that his feet, nor trimmed his d
speak...: Heb. are ye silent? dead...: Heb. men of death
king? 29And the king said and evil? can thy servant come over, the king ye: why then did ye
unto him, Why speakest taste what I eat or what I kissed Barzillai, and despiseg us, that our
thou any more of thy drink? can I hear any blessed him; and he advice should not be
matters? I have said, more the voice of returned unto his own first had in bringing
Thou and Ziba divide the singing men and singing place. back our king? And the
land. 30
And women? wherefore then 40
Then the king went words of the men of
Mephibosheth said unto should thy servant be on to Gilgal, and Judah were fiercer than
the king, Yea, let him yet a burden unto my Chimham went on with
f
the words of the men of
take all, forasmuch as lord the king? 36Thy him: and all the people Israel.
my lord the king is come servant will go a little of Judah conducted the
again in peace unto his way over Jordan with the king, and also half the Chapter 20
own house. king: and why should the people of Israel. 41And,
31
And Barzillai the king recompense it me behold, all the men of And there happened
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Gileadite came down with such a reward? 37Let Israel came to the king, to be there a man of
from Rogelim, and went thy servant, I pray thee, and said unto the king, Belial, whose name was
over Jordan with the turn back again, that I Why have our brethren Sheba, the son of
king, to conduct him may die in mine own the men of Judah stolen Bichri, a Benjamite: and
over Jordan. 32
Now city, and be buried by thee away, and have he blew a trumpet, and
Barzillai was a very aged the grave of my father brought the king, and his said, We have no part
man, even fourscore and of my mother. But household, and all in David, neither have
years old: and he had behold thy servant David’s men with him, we inheritance in the
provided the king of Chimham; let him go over Jordan? 42And all the son of Jesse: every man
sustenance while he lay over with my lord the men of Judah answered to his tents, O Israel.
at Mahanaim; for he was king; and do to him what the men of Israel,
2
So every man of Israel
a very great man. 33And shall seem good unto Because the king is near went up from after
the king said unto thee. 38And the king of kin to us: wherefore David, and followed
Barzillai, Come thou over answered, Chimham then be ye angry for this Sheba the son of Bichri:
with me, and I will feed shall go over with me, matter? have we eaten but the men of Judah
thee with me in and I will do to him that at all of the king’s cost? clave unto their king,
Jerusalem. And Barzillai
34
which shall seem good or hath he given us any from Jordan even to
said unto the king, How unto thee: and gift? 43And the men of Jerusalem. 3And David
long have I to live, that I whatsoever thou shalt Israel answered the men came to his house at
should go up with the requiree of me, that will I of Judah, and said, We Jerusalem; and the king
king unto Jerusalem? 35I do for thee. 39And all the have ten parts in the took the ten women his
am this day fourscore people went over Jordan. king, and we have also concubines, whom he
years old: and can I And when the king was more right in David than had left to keep the
discern between good e f g
require: Heb. choose Chimham: Heb. Chimhan despise...: Heb. set us at light
house, and put them in son of Bichri. 8When they highway. And when the thee. 17And when he
warda, and fed them, but were at the great stone man saw that all the was come near unto
went not in unto them. which is in Gibeon, people stood still, he her, the woman said,
So they were shut up Amasa went before removed Amasa out of Art thou Joab? And he
unto the day of their them. And Joab’s the highway into the answered, I am he.
death, living in garment that he had put field, and cast a cloth Then she said unto him,
widowhood. on was girded unto him, upon him, when he saw Hear the words of thine
4
Then said the king to and upon it a girdle with that every one that handmaid. And he
Amasa, Assembleb me a sword fastened upon came by him stood still. answered, I do hear.
the men of Judah within his loins in the sheath 13
When he was removed 18
Then she spake,
three days, and be thou thereof; and as he went out of the highway, all saying, They were wont
here present. 5So Amasa forth it fell out. 9And Joab the people went on after to speak in old time,
went to assemble the said to Amasa, Art thou Joab, to pursue after saying, They shall
men of Judah: but he in health, my brother? Sheba the son of Bichri. surely ask counsel at
tarried longer than the And Joab took Amasa by 14
And he went Abel: and so they ended
set time which he had the beard with the right through all the tribes of the matter. 19I am one
appointed him. 6
And hand to kiss him. 10But Israel unto Abel, and to of them that are
David said to Abishai, Amasa took no heed to Bethmaachah, and all peaceable and faithful
Now shall Sheba the son the sword that was in the Berites: and they in Israel: thou seekest
of Bichri do us more Joab’s hand: so he smote were gathered together, to destroy a city and a
harm than did Absalom: him therewith in the fifth and went also after him. mother in Israel: why
take thou thy lord’s rib, and shed out his 15
And they came and wilt thou swallow up the
servants, and pursue bowels to the ground, besieged him in Abel of inheritance of the
after him, lest he get and struckd him not Bethmaachah, and they LORD? 20
And Joab
him fenced cities, and again; and he died. So cast up a bank against answered and said, Far
escapec us. 7And there Joab and Abishai his the city, and it stood in be it, far be it from me,
went out after him Joab’s brother pursued after the trenche: and all the that I should swallow up
men, and the Sheba the son of Bichri. people that were with or destroy. 21The matter
Cherethites, and the 11
And one of Joab’s men Joab battered the wall, to is not so: but a man of
Pelethites, and all the stood by him, and said, throw it down. 16
Then mount Ephraim, Sheba
mighty men: and they He that favoureth Joab, cried a wise woman out the son of Bichri by
went out of Jerusalem, to and he that is for David, of the city, Hear, hear; namef, hath lifted up his
pursue after Sheba the let him go after Joab. say, I pray you, unto hand against the king,
a
12
And Amasa wallowed in Joab, Come near hither, even against David:
ward: Heb. an house of ward blood in the midst of the that I may speak with deliver him only, and I
b
Assemble: Heb. Call will depart from the
c d e
escape...: Heb. deliver himself struck...: Heb. doubled not his in the trench: or, against the
f
from our eyes stroke outmost wall by name: Heb. by his name
city. And the woman said after year; and David man that consumed us, the hill before the
unto Joab, Behold, his enquireda of the LORD. and that devisedb LORD: and they fell all
head shall be thrown to And the LORD answered, against us that we seven together, and
thee over the wall. It is for Saul, and for his should be destroyed were put to death in the
22
Then the woman went bloody house, because from remaining in any of days of harvest, in the
unto all the people in her he slew the Gibeonites. the coasts of Israel, 6Let first days, in the
wisdom. And they cut off 2
And the king called the seven men of his sons be beginning of barley
the head of Sheba the Gibeonites, and said delivered unto us, and harvest.
son of Bichri, and cast it unto them; (now the we will hang them up 10
And Rizpah the
out to Joab. And he blew Gibeonites were not of unto the LORD in Gibeah daughter of Aiah took
a trumpet, and they the children of Israel, but of Saul, whom the LORD sackcloth, and spread it
retiredg from the city, of the remnant of the did choose. And the king for her upon the rock,
every man to his tent. Amorites; and the said, I will give them. from the beginning of
And Joab returned to children of Israel had 7
But the king spared harvest until water
Jerusalem unto the king. sworn unto them: and Mephibosheth, the son of dropped upon them out
23
Now Joab was over Saul sought to slay them Jonathan the son of Saul, of heaven, and suffered
all the host of Israel: and in his zeal to the children because of the LORD’S neither the birds of the
Benaiah the son of of Israel and Judah.) oath that was between air to rest on them by
Jehoiada was over the 3
Wherefore David said them, between David day, nor the beasts of
Cherethites and over the unto the Gibeonites, and Jonathan the son of the field by night. 11And
Pelethites: 24And Adoram What shall I do for you? Saul. 8But the king took it was told David what
was over the tribute: and and wherewith shall I the two sons of Rizpah Rizpah the daughter of
Jehoshaphat the son of make the atonement, the daughter of Aiah, Aiah, the concubine of
Ahilud was recorderh: that ye may bless the whom she bare unto Saul, had done. 12And
25
And Sheva was scribe: inheritance of the LORD? Saul, Armoni and David went and took
and Zadok and Abiathar 4
And the Gibeonites said Mephibosheth; and the the bones of Saul and
were the priests: 26And unto him, We will have five sons of Michalc the the bones of Jonathan
Ira also the Jairite was a no silver nor gold of daughter of Saul, whom his son from the men of
chief ruler about David. Saul, nor of his house; she brought up for Adriel Jabeshgilead, which had
neither for us shalt thou the son of Barzillai the stolen them from the
Chapter 21 kill any man in Israel. Meholathite: 9
And he street of Bethshan,
And he said, What ye delivered them into the where the Philistines
Then there was a
1
shall say, that will I do hands of the Gibeonites, had hanged them,
famine in the days of for you. 5
And they and they hanged them in when the Philistines
David three years, year answered the king, The had slain Saul in Gilboa:
b
devised...: or, cut us off 13
And he brought up
g a c
retired: Heb. were scattered enquired...: Heb. sought the Michal: or, the sister of from thence the bones
h
recorder: or, remembrancer face, etc Michal
of Saul and the bones of Thou shalt go no more brother of David slew sorrowsb of hell
Jonathan his son; and out with us to battle, him. 22These four were compassed me about;
they gathered the bones that thou quench not the born to the giant in Gath, the snares of death
of them that were lighte of Israel. 18And it and fell by the hand of prevented me; 7In my
hanged. 14And the bones came to pass after this, David, and by the hand distress I called upon
of Saul and Jonathan his that there was again a of his servants. the LORD, and cried to
son buried they in the battle with the Philistines my God: and he did
country of Benjamin in at Gob: then Sibbechai Chapter 22 hear my voice out of his
Zelah, in the sepulchre the Hushathite slew temple, and my cry did
of Kish his father: and Saph, which was of the And
1
David spake enter into his ears.
they performed all that sons of the giantf. 19And unto the LORD the words 8
Then the earth shook
the king commanded. there was again a battle of this song in the day and trembled; the
And after that God was in Gob with the that the LORD had foundations of heaven
intreated for the land. Philistines, where delivered him out of the moved and shook,
15
Moreover the Elhanan the son of hand of all his enemies, because he was wroth.
Philistines had yet war Jaareoregimg, a and out of the hand of 9
There went up a smoke
again with Israel; and Bethlehemite, slew the Saul: out of his nostrilsc, and
David went down, and brother of Goliath the
2
And he said, The fire out of his mouth
his servants with him, Gittite, the staff of whose LORD is my rock, and my devoured: coals were
and fought against the spear was like a fortress, and my kindled by it. 10
He
Philistines: and David weaver’s beam. 20
And deliverer; 3The God of bowed the heavens
waxed faint. 16
And there was yet a battle in my rock; in him will I also, and came down;
Ishbibenob, which was of Gath, where was a man trust: he is my shield, and darkness was
the sons of the giantd, of great stature, that had and the horn of my under his feet. And he
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the weight of whose on every hand six salvation, my high tower, rode upon a cherub,
spear weighed three fingers, and on every and my refuge, my and did fly: and he was
hundred shekels of brass foot six toes, four and saviour; thou savest me seen upon the wings of
in weight, he being twenty in number; and from violence. 4I will call the wind. 12And he
girded with a new sword, he also was born to the on the LORD, who is made darkness
thought to have slain gianth. 21And when he worthy to be praised: so pavilions round about
David. 17But Abishai the defiedi Israel, Jonathan shall I be saved from him, darkd waters, and
son of Zeruiah succoured the son of Shimea the mine enemies. 5When thick clouds of the
him, and smote the the wavesa of death
e b
Philistine, and killed him. light: Heb. candle, or, lamp compassed me, the sorrows: or, cords
f c
Then the men of David the giant: or, Rapha floods of ungodly men out of his nostrils: Heb. by,
g
sware unto him, saying, Jaareoregim: or, Jair made me afraid; 6
The etc
h d
the giant: or, Rapha dark...: Heb. binding of
d i a
the giant: or, Rapha defied: or, reproached waves: or, pangs waters
skies. 13
Through the cleanness of my hands lampg, O LORD: and the me; so that my feetm
brightness before him hath he recompensed LORD will lighten my did not slip. 38I have
were coals of fire me. 22For I have kept the darkness. 30For by thee I pursued mine enemies,
kindled. 14
The LORD ways of the LORD, and have runh through a and destroyed them;
thundered from heaven, have not wickedly troop: by my God have I and turned not again
and the most High departed from my God. leaped over a wall. 31As until I had consumed
uttered his voice. 15And 23
For all his judgments for God, his way is them. 39And I have
he sent out arrows, and were before me: and as perfect; the word of the consumed them, and
scattered them; for his statutes, I did not LORD is triedi: he is a wounded them, that
lightning, and depart from them. 24I buckler to all them that they could not arise:
discomfited them. 16And was also upright before trust in him. 32For who is yea, they are fallen
the channels of the sea him, and have kept God, save the LORD? under my feet. 40For
appeared, the myself from mine and who is a rock, save thou hast girded me
foundations of the world iniquity. 25
Therefore the our God? 33God is my with strength to battle:
were discovered, at the LORD hath recompensed strength and power: and them that rose up
rebuking of the LORD, at me according to my he makethj my way against me hast thou
the blast of the breath of righteousness; according perfect. 34
He makethk subduedn under me.
his nostrils. 17He sent to my cleanness in his my feet like hinds’ feet: 41
Thou hast also given
from above, he took me; eye sight. 26
With the and setteth me upon my me the necks of mine
he drew me out of manye merciful thou wilt shew high places. 35
He enemies, that I might
waters; 18
He delivered thyself merciful, and teacheth my hands to destroy them that hate
me from my strong with the upright man warl; so that a bow of me. 42They looked, but
enemy, and from them thou wilt shew thyself steel is broken by mine there was none to save;
that hated me: for they upright. 27With the pure arms. 36Thou hast also even unto the LORD,
were too strong for me. thou wilt shew thyself given me the shield of but he answered them
19
They prevented me in pure; and with the thy salvation: and thy not. 43Then did I beat
the day of my calamity: froward thou wilt shew gentleness hath made them as small as the
but the LORD was my thyself unsavouryf. me great. 37Thou hast dust of the earth, I did
stay. 20He brought me 28
And the afflicted people enlarged my steps under stamp them as the mire
forth also into a large thou wilt save: but thine of the street, and did
place: he delivered me, eyes are upon the g
spread them abroad.
because he delighted in haughty, that thou lamp: or, candle 44
Thou also hast
h
me. 21
The LORD mayest bring them run: or, broken delivered me from the
i
rewarded me according down. 29For thou art my tried: or, refined strivings of my people,
j
to my righteousness: maketh: Heb. riddeth, or, thou hast kept me to be
according to the looseth
f k m
shew thyself unsavoury: or, maketh: Heb. equalleth feet: Heb. ankles
e l n
many: or, great wrestle to war: Heb. for the war subdued: Heb. caused to bow
head of the heathen: a his anointed, unto David, desire, although he the Philistines until his
people which I knew not and to his seed for make it not to grow. But
6
hand was weary, and
shall serve me. evermore. the sons of Belial shall his hand clave unto the
45
Strangers shall submit
o
be all of them as thorns sword: and the LORD
themselves unto me: as Chapter 23 thrust away, because wrought a great victory
soon as they hear, they they cannot be taken that day; and the
shall be obedient unto
1
Now these be the with hands: 7But the man people returned after
me. 46
Strangers shall last words of David. that shall touch them him only to spoil. 11And
fade away, and they David the son of Jesse must be fenceda with after him was
shall be afraid out of said, and the man who iron and the staff of a Shammah the son of
their close places. 47The was raised up on high, spear; and they shall be Agee the Hararite. And
LORD liveth; and blessed the anointed of the God utterly burned with fire the Philistines were
be my rock; and exalted of Jacob, and the sweet in the same place. gathered together into
be the God of the rock of psalmist of Israel, said, 8
These be the names a troop, where was a
my salvation. 48It is God
2
The Spirit of the LORD of the mighty men whom piece of ground full of
that avengethp me, and spake by me, and his David had: The lentiles: and the people
that bringeth down the word was in my tongue. Tachmoniteb that sat in fled from the Philistines.
people under me, 49And
3
The God of Israel said, the seat, chief among 12
But he stood in the
that bringeth me forth the Rock of Israel spake the captains; the same midst of the ground,
from mine enemies: thou to me, He that ruleth was Adino the Eznite: he and defended it, and
also hast lifted me up on over men must be just, lift up his spear against slew the Philistines: and
high above them that ruling in the fear of God. eight hundred, whom he the LORD wrought a
rose up against me: thou
4
And he shall be as the slew at one time. 9And great victory. 13
And
hast delivered me from light of the morning, after him was Eleazar three of the thirty chief
c

the violent man. when the sun riseth, the son of Dodo the went down, and came
50
Therefore I will give even a morning without Ahohite, one of the three to David in the harvest
thanks unto thee, O clouds; as the tender mighty men with David, time unto the cave of
LORD, among the grass springing out of when they defied the Adullam: and the troop
heathen, and I will sing the earth by clear Philistines that were of the Philistines
praises unto thy name. shining after rain. there gathered together pitched in the valley of
51
He is the tower of
5
Although my house be to battle, and the men of Rephaim. 14And David
salvation for his king: not so with God; yet he Israel were gone away: was then in an hold,
and sheweth mercy to hath made with me an 10
He arose, and smote and the garrison of the
everlasting covenant, Philistines was then in
o a
Strangers: Heb. Sons of the ordered in all things, and fenced: Heb. filled Bethlehem. 15And David
b
stranger sure: for this is all my The Tachmonite...: or,
p c
avengeth: Heb. giveth salvation, and all my Joshebbassebet the three...: or, the three captains
avengement for Tachmonite, head of the three over the thirty
longed, and said, Oh that first three. 20And Benaiah 26
Helez the Paltite, Ira and seven in all.
one would give me drink the son of Jehoiada, the the son of Ikkesh the
of the water of the well son of a valiant man, of Tekoite, 27Abiezer the Chapter 24
of Bethlehem, which is Kabzeel, who had done Anethothite, Mebunnai
by the gate! 16And the many acts, he slew two the Hushathite, 28Zalmon
1
And again the anger
three mighty men brake lionlike men of Moab: he the Ahohite, Maharai the of the LORD was
through the host of the went down also and slew Netophathite, 29
Heleb kindled against Israel,
Philistines, and drew a lion in the midst of a the son of Baanah, a and he moved David
water out of the well of pit in time of snow: Netophathite, Ittai the against them to say,
Bethlehem, that was by 21
And he slew an son of Ribai out of Go, number Israel and
the gate, and took it, Egyptian, a goodlyd man: Gibeah of the children of Judah. 2For the king said
and brought it to David: and the Egyptian had a Benjamin, 30Benaiah the to Joab the captain of
nevertheless he would spear in his hand; but he Pirathonite, Hiddai of the the host, which was
not drink thereof, but went down to him with a brookse of Gaash, with him, Go now
poured it out unto the staff, and plucked the 31
Abialbon the Arbathite, through all the tribes of
LORD. 17And he said, Be spear out of the Azmaveth the Israel, from Dan even to
it far from me, O LORD, Egyptian’s hand, and Barhumite, 32Eliahba the Beersheba, and number
that I should do this: is slew him with his own Shaalbonite, of the sons ye the people, that I
not this the blood of the spear. 22
These things of Jashen, Jonathan, may know the number
men that went in did Benaiah the son of 33
Shammah the Hararite, of the people. 3
And
jeopardy of their lives? Jehoiada, and had the Ahiam the son of Sharar Joab said unto the king,
therefore he would not name among three the Hararite, 34Eliphelet Now the LORD thy God
drink it. These things did mighty men. 23He was the son of Ahasbai, the add unto the people,
these three mighty men. more honourable than son of the Maachathite, how many soever they
18
And Abishai, the the thirty, but he Eliam the son of be, an hundredfold, and
brother of Joab, the son attained not to the first Ahithophel the Gilonite, that the eyes of my lord
of Zeruiah, was chief three. And David set him 35
Hezrai the Carmelite, the king may see it: but
among three. And he over his guard. 24Asahel Paarai the Arbite, 36Igal why doth my lord the
lifted up his spear the brother of Joab was the son of Nathan of king delight in this
against three hundred, one of the thirty; Zobah, Bani the Gadite, thing? 4Notwithstanding
and slew them, and had Elhanan the son of Dodo 37
Zelek the Ammonite, the king’s word
the name among three. of Bethlehem, Naharai the Beerothite, prevailed against Joab,
19
Was he not most 25
Shammah the Harodite, armourbearer to Joab the and against the
honourable of three? Elika the Harodite, son of Zeruiah, 38Ira an captains of the host.
therefore he was their Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite, And Joab and the
d
captain: howbeit he a goodly...: Heb. a man of 39
Uriah the Hittite: thirty captains of the host
attained not unto the countenance, or, sight: also went out from the
e
called, a man of great stature brooks: or, valleys
presence of the king, to 10
And David’s heart strait: let us fall now into 18
And Gad came that
number the people of smote him after that he the hand of the LORD; day to David, and said
Israel. 5And they passed had numbered the for his mercies are great: unto him, Go up, rear
over Jordan, and pitched people. And David said and let me not fall into an altar unto the LORD
in Aroer, on the right unto the LORD, I have the hand of man. 15So in the threshingfloor of
side of the city that lieth sinned greatly in that I the LORD sent a Araunahd the Jebusite.
in the midst of the rivera have done: and now, I pestilence upon Israel 19
And David, according
of Gad, and toward Jazer: beseech thee, O LORD, from the morning even to the saying of Gad,
6
Then they came to take away the iniquity of to the time appointed: went up as the LORD
Gilead, and to the land thy servant; for I have and there died of the commanded. 20And
of Tahtimhodshib; and done very foolishly. 11For people from Dan even to Araunah looked, and
they came to Danjaan, when David was up in Beersheba seventy saw the king and his
and about to Zidon, the morning, the word of thousand men. 16And servants coming on
7
And came to the strong the LORD came unto the when the angel toward him: and
hold of Tyre, and to all prophet Gad, David’s stretched out his hand Araunah went out, and
the cities of the Hivites, seer, saying, 12Go and upon Jerusalem to bowed himself before
and of the Canaanites: say unto David, Thus destroy it, the LORD the king on his face
and they went out to the saith the LORD, I offer repented him of the evil, upon the ground. 21And
south of Judah, even to thee three things; and said to the angel Araunah said,
Beersheba. 8So when choose thee one of that destroyed the Wherefore is my lord
they had gone through them, that I may do it people, It is enough: stay the king come to his
all the land, they came unto thee. 13So Gad now thine hand. And the servant? And David
to Jerusalem at the end came to David, and told angel of the LORD was said, To buy the
of nine months and him, and said unto him, by the threshingplace of threshingfloor of thee,
twenty days. 9And Joab Shall seven years of Araunahc the Jebusite. to build an altar unto
gave up the sum of the famine come unto thee 17
And David spake unto the LORD, that the
number of the people in thy land? or wilt thou the LORD when he saw plague may be stayed
unto the king: and there flee three months before the angel that smote the from the people. 22And
were in Israel eight thine enemies, while people, and said, Lo, I Araunah said unto
hundred thousand they pursue thee? or have sinned, and I have David, Let my lord the
valiant men that drew that there be three days’ done wickedly: but these king take and offer up
the sword; and the men pestilence in thy land? sheep, what have they what seemeth good
of Judah were five now advise, and see done? let thine hand, I unto him: behold, here
hundred thousand men. what answer I shall pray thee, be against be oxen for burnt
a
return to him that sent me, and against my sacrifice, and threshing
river: or, valley me. 14And David said father’s house. instruments and other
b
land of Tahtimhodshi: or, unto Gad, I am in a great c d
nether land newly inhabited Araunah: also called, Ornan Araunah: Heb. Araniah
instruments of the oxen gat no heat. 2Wherefore Joab the son of Zeruiah, life, and the life of thy
for wood. 23All these his servants said unto and with Abiathar the son Solomon. 13Go and
things did Araunah, as a him, Let there be sought priest: and they get thee in unto king
king, give unto the king. for my lord the king a following Adonijah David, and say unto
And Araunah said unto young virgin: and let her helped him. 8But Zadok him, Didst not thou, my
the king, The LORD thy stand before the king, the priest, and Benaiah lord, O king, swear unto
God accept thee. 24And and let her cherish him, the son of Jehoiada, and thine handmaid, saying,
the king said unto and let her lie in thy Nathan the prophet, and Assuredly Solomon thy
Araunah, Nay; but I will bosom, that my lord the Shimei, and Rei, and the son shall reign after
surely buy it of thee at a king may get heat. 3
So mighty men which me, and he shall sit
price: neither will I offer they sought for a fair belonged to David, were upon my throne? why
burnt offerings unto the damsel throughout all not with Adonijah. 9And then doth Adonijah
LORD my God of that the coasts of Israel, and Adonijah slew sheep and reign? 14Behold, while
which doth cost me found Abishag a oxen and fat cattle by thou yet talkest there
nothing. So David Shunammite, and the stone of Zoheleth, with the king, I also will
bought the brought her to the king. which is by Enrogelc, and come in after thee, and
threshingfloor and the 4
And the damsel was called all his brethren confirmd thy words.
oxen for fifty shekels of very fair, and cherished the king’s sons, and all 15
And Bathsheba went
silver. 25And David built the king, and ministered the men of Judah the in unto the king into the
there an altar unto the to him: but the king king’s servants: 10
But chamber: and the king
LORD, and offered burnt knew her not. Nathan the prophet, and was very old; and
offerings and peace 5
Then Adonijah the Benaiah, and the mighty Abishag the
offerings. So the LORD son of Haggith exalted men, and Solomon his Shunammite ministered
was intreated for the himself, saying, I will be brother, he called not. unto the king. 16And
land, and the plague was kingb: and he prepared 11
Wherefore Nathan Bathsheba bowed, and
stayed from Israel. him chariots and spake unto Bathsheba did obeisance unto the
horsemen, and fifty men the mother of Solomon, king. And the king said,
First Kings to run before him. 6And saying, Hast thou not What wouldest thou?
his father had not heard that Adonijah the 17
And she said unto
Chapter 1 displeased him at any son of Haggith doth him, My lord, thou
time in saying, Why hast reign, and David our lord swarest by the LORD
Now king David was
1
thou done so? and he knoweth it not? 12Now thy God unto thine
old and strickena in also was a very goodly therefore come, let me, I handmaid, saying,
years; and they covered man; and his mother pray thee, give thee Assuredly Solomon thy
him with clothes, but he bare him after Absalom. counsel, that thou son shall reign after
a
7
And he conferred with mayest save thine own me, and he shall sit
stricken...: Heb. entered into
b c d
days be king: Heb. reign Enrogel: or, the well Rogel confirm: Heb. fill up
upon my throne. 18And with his face to the hath redeemed my soul he may come and sit
now, behold, Adonijah ground. 24And Nathan out of all distress, 30Even upon my throne; for he
reigneth; and now, my said, My lord, O king, as I sware unto thee by shall be king in my
lord the king, thou hast thou said, Adonijah the LORD God of Israel, stead: and I have
knowest it not: 19And he shall reign after me, and saying, Assuredly appointed him to be
hath slain oxen and fat he shall sit upon my Solomon thy son shall ruler over Israel and
cattle and sheep in throne? 25For he is gone reign after me, and he over Judah. 36
And
abundance, and hath down this day, and hath shall sit upon my throne Benaiah the son of
called all the sons of the slain oxen and fat cattle in my stead; even so will Jehoiada answered the
king, and Abiathar the and sheep in abundance, I certainly do this day. king, and said, Amen:
priest, and Joab the and hath called all the 31
Then Bathsheba bowed the LORD God of my
captain of the host: but king’s sons, and the with her face to the lord the king say so too.
Solomon thy servant captains of the host, and earth, and did reverence 37
As the LORD hath
hath he not called. 20And Abiathar the priest; and, to the king, and said, Let been with my lord the
thou, my lord, O king, behold, they eat and my lord king David live king, even so be he
the eyes of all Israel are drink before him, and for ever. with Solomon, and
upon thee, that thou say, God save king 32
And king David said, make his throne greater
shouldest tell them who Adonijah. 26
But me, Call me Zadok the priest, than the throne of my
shall sit on the throne of even me thy servant, and Nathan the prophet, lord king David. 38So
my lord the king after and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Zadok the priest, and
him. 21Otherwise it shall and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came Nathan the prophet,
come to pass, when my Jehoiada, and thy before the king. 33The and Benaiah the son of
lord the king shall sleep servant Solomon, hath king also said unto them, Jehoiada, and the
with his fathers, that I he not called. 27Is this Take with you the Cherethites, and the
and my son Solomon thing done by my lord servants of your lord, Pelethites, went down,
shall be counted the king, and thou hast and cause Solomon my and caused Solomon to
offenderse. 22
And, lo, not shewed it unto thy son to ride upon mine ride upon king David’s
while she yet talked with servant, who should sit own mule, and bring him mule, and brought him
the king, Nathan the on the throne of my lord down to Gihon: 34And let to Gihon. 39And Zadok
prophet also came in. the king after him? Zadok the priest and the priest took an horn
23
And they told the king, 28
Then king David Nathan the prophet of oil out of the
saying, Behold Nathan answered and said, Call anoint him there king tabernacle, and
the prophet. And when me Bathsheba. And she over Israel: and blow ye anointed Solomon. And
he was come in before came into the king’s with the trumpet, and they blew the trumpet;
the king, he bowed presence, and stood say, God save king and all the people said,
himself before the king before the king. 29And Solomon. 35Then ye shall God save king Solomon.
e
the king sware, and said, come up after him, that 40
And all the people
offenders: Heb. sinners As the LORD liveth, that
came up after him, and upon the king’s mule: told Solomon, saying, his statutes, and his
the people piped with 45
And Zadok the priest Behold, Adonijah feareth commandments, and
pipesf, and rejoiced with and Nathan the prophet king Solomon: for, lo, he his judgments, and his
great joy, so that the have anointed him king hath caught hold on the testimonies, as it is
earth rent with the in Gihon: and they are horns of the altar, written in the law of
sound of them. come up from thence saying, Let king Solomon Moses, that thou
41
And Adonijah and all rejoicing, so that the city swear unto me to day mayest prospera in all
the guests that were rang again. This is the that he will not slay his that thou doest, and
with him heard it as they noise that ye have servant with the sword. whithersoever thou
had made an end of heard. 46
And also 52
And Solomon said, If he turnest thyself: 4
That
eating. And when Joab Solomon sitteth on the will shew himself a the LORD may continue
heard the sound of the throne of the kingdom. worthy man, there shall his word which he
trumpet, he said, 47
And moreover the not an hair of him fall to spake concerning me,
Wherefore is this noise king’s servants came to the earth: but if saying, If thy children
of the city being in an bless our lord king wickedness shall be take heed to their way,
uproar? 42And while he David, saying, God make found in him, he shall to walk before me in
yet spake, behold, the name of Solomon die. 53So king Solomon truth with all their heart
Jonathan the son of better than thy name, sent, and they brought and with all their soul,
Abiathar the priest and make his throne him down from the altar. there shall not failb thee
came: and Adonijah said greater than thy throne. And he came and bowed (said he) a man on the
unto him, Come in; for And the king bowed himself to king Solomon: throne of Israel.
thou art a valiant man, himself upon the bed. and Solomon said unto 5
Moreover thou knowest
and bringest good 48
And also thus said the him, Go to thine house. also what Joab the son
tidings. 43
And Jonathan king, Blessed be the of Zeruiah did to me,
answered and said to LORD God of Israel, Chapter 2 and what he did to the
Adonijah, Verily our lord which hath given one to two captains of the
king David hath made sit on my throne this
1
Now the days of hosts of Israel, unto
Solomon king. 44And the day, mine eyes even David drew nigh that he Abner the son of Ner,
king hath sent with him seeing it. 49And all the should die; and he and unto Amasa the
Zadok the priest, and guests that were with charged Solomon his son of Jether, whom he
Nathan the prophet, and Adonijah were afraid, son, saying, 2I go the slew, and shedc the
Benaiah the son of and rose up, and went way of all the earth: be blood of war in peace,
Jehoiada, and the every man his way. thou strong therefore, and put the blood of
Cherethites, and the 50
And Adonijah feared and shew thyself a man;
a
Pelethites, and they because of Solomon, and
3
And keep the charge of prosper: or, do wisely
b
have caused him to ride arose, and went, and the LORD thy God, to fail...: Heb. be cut off from
caught hold on the horns walk in his ways, to keep thee from the throne
f c
pipes: or, flutes of the altar. 51And it was shed: Heb. put
war upon his girdle that fathers, and was buried she said unto him, Say the kingdom also; for
was about his loins, and in the city of David. on. 17
And he said, he is mine elder
in his shoes that were on 11
And the days that Speak, I pray thee, unto brother; even for him,
his feet. 6Do therefore David reigned over Israel Solomon the king, (for he and for Abiathar the
according to thy wisdom, were forty years: seven will not say thee nay,) priest, and for Joab the
and let not his hoar head years reigned he in that he give me Abishag son of Zeruiah. 23Then
go down to the grave in Hebron, and thirty and the Shunammite to wife. king Solomon sware by
peace. 7
But shew three years reigned he in 18
And Bathsheba said, the LORD, saying, God
kindness unto the sons Jerusalem. Well; I will speak for thee do so to me, and more
of Barzillai the Gileadite, 12
Then sat Solomon unto the king. also, if Adonijah have
and let them be of those upon the throne of David 19
Bathsheba therefore not spoken this word
that eat at thy table: for his father; and his went unto king Solomon, against his own life.
so they came to me kingdom was established to speak unto him for 24
Now therefore, as the
when I fled because of greatly. 13And Adonijah Adonijah. And the king LORD liveth, which hath
Absalom thy brother. the son of Haggith came rose up to meet her, and established me, and set
8
And, behold, thou hast to Bathsheba the mother bowed himself unto her, me on the throne of
with thee Shimei the son of Solomon. And she and sat down on his David my father, and
of Gera, a Benjamite of said, Comest thou throne, and caused a who hath made me an
Bahurim, which cursed peaceably? And he said, seat to be set for the house, as he promised,
me with a grievousd Peaceably. 14
He said king’s mother; and she Adonijah shall be put to
curse in the day when I moreover, I have sat on his right hand. death this day. 25And
went to Mahanaim: but somewhat to say unto 20
Then she said, I desire king Solomon sent by
he came down to meet thee. And she said, Say one small petition of the hand of Benaiah the
me at Jordan, and I on. 15And he said, Thou thee; I pray thee, say me son of Jehoiada; and he
sware to him by the knowest that the not nay. And the king fell upon him that he
LORD, saying, I will not kingdom was mine, and said unto her, Ask on, died.
put thee to death with that all Israel set their my mother: for I will not 26
And unto Abiathar
the sword. 9
Now faces on me, that I say thee nay. 21And she the priest said the king,
therefore hold him not should reign: howbeit said, Let Abishag the Get thee to Anathoth,
guiltless: for thou art a the kingdom is turned Shunammite be given to unto thine own fields;
wise man, and knowest about, and is become my Adonijah thy brother to for thou art worthyf of
what thou oughtest to do brother’s: for it was his wife. 22And king Solomon death: but I will not at
unto him; but his hoar from the LORD. 16And answered and said unto this time put thee to
head bring thou down to now I ask one petition of his mother, And why death, because thou
the grave with blood. thee, denye me not. And dost thou ask Abishag barest the ark of the
10
So David slept with his e
the Shunammite for f
deny...: Heb. turn not away Adonijah? ask for him worthy...: Heb. a man of
d
grievous: Heb. strong my face death
Lord GOD before David answered me. 31And the 35
And the king put ass, and went to Gath
my father, and because king said unto him, Do Benaiah the son of to Achish to seek his
thou hast been afflicted as he hath said, and fall Jehoiada in his room over servants: and Shimei
in all wherein my father upon him, and bury him; the host: and Zadok the went, and brought his
was afflicted. 27
So that thou mayest take priest did the king put in servants from Gath.
Solomon thrust out away the innocent blood, the room of Abiathar. 41
And it was told
Abiathar from being which Joab shed, from 36
And the king sent and Solomon that Shimei
priest unto the LORD; me, and from the house called for Shimei, and had gone from
that he might fulfil the of my father. 32And the said unto him, Build thee Jerusalem to Gath, and
word of the LORD, which LORD shall return his an house in Jerusalem, was come again. 42And
he spake concerning the blood upon his own and dwell there, and go the king sent and called
house of Eli in Shiloh. head, who fell upon two not forth thence any for Shimei, and said
28
Then tidings came to men more righteous and whither. 37For it shall be, unto him, Did I not
Joab: for Joab had turned better than he, and slew that on the day thou make thee to swear by
after Adonijah, though them with the sword, my goest out, and passest the LORD, and
he turned not after father David not knowing over the brook Kidron, protested unto thee,
Absalom. And Joab fled thereof, to wit, Abner the thou shalt know for saying, Know for a
unto the tabernacle of son of Ner, captain of the certain that thou shalt certain, on the day thou
the LORD, and caught host of Israel, and Amasa surely die: thy blood goest out, and walkest
hold on the horns of the the son of Jether, captain shall be upon thine own abroad any whither,
altar. 29And it was told of the host of Judah. head. 38And Shimei said that thou shalt surely
king Solomon that Joab 33
Their blood shall unto the king, The die? and thou saidst
was fled unto the therefore return upon saying is good: as my unto me, The word that
tabernacle of the LORD; the head of Joab, and lord the king hath said, I have heard is good.
and, behold, he is by the upon the head of his so will thy servant do. 43
Why then hast thou
altar. Then Solomon sent seed for ever: but upon And Shimei dwelt in not kept the oath of the
Benaiah the son of David, and upon his Jerusalem many days. LORD, and the
Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall seed, and upon his 39
And it came to pass at commandment that I
upon him. 30And Benaiah house, and upon his the end of three years, have charged thee
came to the tabernacle throne, shall there be that two of the servants with? 44
The king said
of the LORD, and said peace for ever from the of Shimei ran away unto moreover to Shimei,
unto him, Thus saith the LORD. 34So Benaiah the Achish son of Maachah Thou knowest all the
king, Come forth. And he son of Jehoiada went up, king of Gath. And they wickedness which thine
said, Nay; but I will die and fell upon him, and told Shimei, saying, heart is privy to, that
here. And Benaiah slew him: and he was Behold, thy servants be thou didst to David my
brought the king word buried in his own house in Gath. 40And Shimei father: therefore the
again, saying, Thus said in the wilderness. arose, and saddled his LORD shall return thy
Joab, and thus he
wickedness upon thine and burnt incense in people, that cannot be honour: so that there
own head; 45And king high places. 4And the numbered nor counted shall not be any among
Solomon shall be king went to Gibeon to for multitude. 9
Give the kings like unto thee
blessed, and the throne sacrifice there; for that therefore thy servant an all thy days. 14And if
of David shall be was the great high place: understandingb heart to thou wilt walk in my
established before the a thousand burnt judge thy people, that I ways, to keep my
LORD for ever. 46So the offerings did Solomon may discern between statutes and my
king commanded offer upon that altar. good and bad: for who is commandments, as thy
Benaiah the son of 5
In Gibeon the LORD able to judge this thy so father David did walk,
Jehoiada; which went appeared to Solomon in great a people? 10And then I will lengthen thy
out, and fell upon him, a dream by night: and the speech pleased the days. 15And Solomon
that he died. And the God said, Ask what I Lord, that Solomon had awoke; and, behold, it
kingdom was established shall give thee. 6And asked this thing. 11And was a dream. And he
in the hand of Solomon. Solomon said, Thou hast God said unto him, came to Jerusalem, and
shewed unto thy servant Because thou hast asked stood before the ark of
Chapter 3 David my father great this thing, and hast not the covenant of the
mercya, according as he asked for thyself long LORD, and offered up
1
And Solomon made walked before thee in lifec; neither hast asked burnt offerings, and
affinity with Pharaoh truth, and in riches for thyself, nor offered peace offerings,
king of Egypt, and took righteousness, and in hast asked the life of and made a feast to all
Pharaoh’s daughter, and uprightness of heart with thine enemies; but hast his servants.
brought her into the city thee; and thou hast kept asked for thyself 16
Then came there
of David, until he had for him this great understanding to discern two women, that were
made an end of building kindness, that thou hast judgment; 12
Behold, I harlots, unto the king,
his own house, and the given him a son to sit on have done according to and stood before him.
house of the LORD, and his throne, as it is this thy words: lo, I have 17
And the one woman
the wall of Jerusalem day. 7And now, O LORD given thee a wise and an said, O my lord, I and
round about. 2Only the my God, thou hast made understanding heart; so this woman dwell in one
people sacrificed in high thy servant king instead that there was none like house; and I was
places, because there of David my father: and I thee before thee, neither delivered of a child with
was no house built unto am but a little child: I after thee shall any arise her in the house. 18And
the name of the LORD, know not how to go out like unto thee. 13And I it came to pass the
until those days. 3And or come in. 8And thy have also given thee third day after that I
Solomon loved the servant is in the midst of that which thou hast not was delivered, that this
LORD, walking in the thy people which thou asked, both riches, and woman was delivered
statutes of David his hast chosen, a great also: and we were
b
father: only he sacrificed understanding: Heb. hearing together; there was no
a c
mercy: or, bounty long life: Heb. many days
stranger with us in the said, Divide the living priesta, 3Elihoreph and to him pertained
house, save we two in child in two, and give Ahiah, the sons of Sochoh, and all the land
the house. 19And this half to the one, and half Shisha, scribesb; of Hepher: 11The son of
woman’s child died in to the other. 26Then Jehoshaphat the son of Abinadab, in all the
the night; because she spake the woman whose Ahilud, the recorder. region of Dor; which
overlaid it. 20And she the living child was unto 4
And Benaiah the son of had Taphath the
arose at midnight, and the king, for her bowels Jehoiada was over the daughter of Solomon to
took my son from beside yearnedd upon her son, host: and Zadok and wife: 12Baana the son
me, while thine and she said, O my lord, Abiathar were the of Ahilud; to him
handmaid slept, and laid give her the living child, priests: And Azariah the
5
pertained Taanach and
it in her bosom, and laid and in no wise slay it. son of Nathan was over Megiddo, and all
her dead child in my But the other said, Let it the officers: and Zabud Bethshean, which is by
bosom. 21And when I be neither mine nor the son of Nathan was Zartanah beneath
rose in the morning to thine, but divide it. principal officer, and the Jezreel, from Bethshean
give my child suck, 27
Then the king king’s friend: 6
And to Abelmeholah, even
behold, it was dead: but answered and said, Give Ahishar was over the unto the place that is
when I had considered it her the living child, and household: and beyond Jokneam: 13The
in the morning, behold, it in no wise slay it: she is Adoniram the son of son of Geber, in
was not my son, which I the mother thereof. Abda was over the Ramothgilead; to him
did bear. 22And the other 28
And all Israel heard of tributec. 7And Solomon pertained the towns of
woman said, Nay; but the judgment which the had twelve officers over Jair the son of
the living is my son, and king had judged; and all Israel, which provided Manasseh, which are in
the dead is thy son. And they feared the king: for victuals for the king and Gilead; to him also
this said, No; but the they saw that the his household: each man pertained the region of
dead is thy son, and the wisdom of God was in his month in a year Argob, which is in
living is my son. Thus hime, to do judgment. made provision. 8And Bashan, threescore
they spake before the these are their names: great cities with walls
king. 23Then said the Chapter 4 The son of Hur, in mount and brasen bars:
king, The one saith, This Ephraim: 9
The son of 14
Ahinadab the son of
is my son that liveth, and So king Solomon was
1
Dekar, in Makaz, and in Iddo had Mahanaimd:
thy son is the dead: and king over all Israel. 2And Shaalbim, and 15
Ahimaaz was in
the other saith, Nay; but these were the princes Bethshemesh, and Naphtali; he also took
thy son is the dead, and which he had; Azariah Elonbethhanan: 10
The Basmath the daughter
my son is the living. the son of Zadok the son of Hesed, in Aruboth; of Solomon to wife:
24
And the king said, Bring d a
16
Baanah the son of
me a sword. And they yearned: Heb. were hot priest: or, chief officer Hushai was in Asher
e b
brought a sword before in him: Heb. in the midst of scribes: or, secretaries
c d
the king. 25And the king him tribute: or, levy Mahanaim: or, to Mahanaim
and in Aloth: fallowdeer, and fatted understanding And Hirama king of
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17
Jehoshaphat the son of fowl. 24
For he had exceeding much, and Tyre sent his servants
Paruah, in Issachar: dominion over all the largeness of heart, even unto Solomon; for he
18
Shimei the son of Elah, region on this side the as the sand that is on had heard that they had
in Benjamin: 19Geber the river, from Tiphsah even the sea shore. 30And anointed him king in
son of Uri was in the to Azzah, over all the Solomon’s wisdom the room of his father:
country of Gilead, in the kings on this side the excelled the wisdom of for Hiram was ever a
country of Sihon king of river: and he had peace all the children of the lover of David. 2
And
the Amorites, and of Og on all sides round about east country, and all the Solomon sent to Hiram,
king of Bashan; and he him. 25And Judah and wisdom of Egypt. 31For saying, 3Thou knowest
was the only officer Israel dwelt safelyf, every he was wiser than all how that David my
which was in the land. man under his vine and men; than Ethan the father could not build
20
Judah and Israel under his fig tree, from Ezrahite, and Heman, an house unto the
were many, as the sand Dan even to Beersheba, and Chalcol, and Darda, name of the LORD his
which is by the sea in all the days of Solomon. the sons of Mahol: and God for the wars which
multitude, eating and 26
And Solomon had forty his fame was in all were about him on
drinking, and making thousand stalls of horses nations round about. every side, until the
merry. 21And Solomon for his chariots, and 32
And he spake three LORD put them under
reigned over all twelve thousand thousand proverbs: and the soles of his feet.
kingdoms from the river horsemen. 27
And those his songs were a 4
But now the LORD my
unto the land of the officers provided victual thousand and five. 33And God hath given me rest
Philistines, and unto the for king Solomon, and for he spake of trees, from on every side, so that
border of Egypt: they all that came unto king the cedar tree that is in there is neither
brought presents, and Solomon’s table, every Lebanon even unto the adversary nor evil
served Solomon all the man in his month: they hyssop that springeth occurrent. 5And, behold,
days of his life. 22And lacked nothing. 28Barley out of the wall: he spake I purposeb to build an
Solomon’s provisione for also and straw for the also of beasts, and of house unto the name of
one day was thirty horses and dromedariesg fowl, and of creeping the LORD my God, as
measures of fine flour, brought they unto the things, and of fishes. the LORD spake unto
and threescore place where the officers 34
And there came of all David my father,
measures of meal, were, every man people to hear the saying, Thy son, whom I
23
Ten fat oxen, and according to his charge. wisdom of Solomon, will set upon thy throne
twenty oxen out of the 29
And God gave from all kings of the in thy room, he shall
pastures, and an Solomon wisdom and earth, which had heard build an house unto my
hundred sheep, beside f
of his wisdom. name. 6Now therefore
harts, and roebucks, and safely: Heb. confidently
g a
dromedaries: or, mules, or, Chapter 5 Hiram: also called, Huram
e b
provision: Heb. bread swift beasts purpose: Heb. say
command thou that they place that thou shalt month they were in Egypt, in the fourth
hew me cedar trees out appointe me, and will Lebanon, and two year of Solomon’s reign
of Lebanon; and my cause them to be months at home: and over Israel, in the
servants shall be with discharged there, and Adoniram was over the month Zif, which is the
thy servants: and unto thou shalt receive them: levy. 15And Solomon had second month, that he
thee will I give hire for and thou shalt threescore and ten began to build the
thy servants according accomplish my desire, in thousand that bare house of the LORD.
to all that thou shalt giving food for my burdens, and fourscore 2
And the house which
appointc: for thou household. thousand hewers in the king Solomon built for
knowest that there is not 10
So Hiram gave mountains; 16Beside the the LORD, the length
among us any that can Solomon cedar trees and chief of Solomon’s thereof was threescore
skill to hew timber like fir trees according to all officers which were over cubits, and the breadth
unto the Sidonians. 7And his desire. 11
And the work, three thousand thereof twenty cubits,
it came to pass, when Solomon gave Hiram and three hundred, and the height thereof
Hiram heard the words twenty thousand which ruled over the thirty cubits. 3And the
of Solomon, that he measures of wheat for
f
people that wrought in porch before the temple
rejoiced greatly, and food to his household, the work. 17And the king of the house, twenty
said, Blessed be the and twenty measures of commanded, and they cubits was the length
LORD this day, which pure oil: thus gave brought great stones, thereof, according to
hath given unto David a Solomon to Hiram year costly stones, and hewed the breadth of the
wise son over this great by year. 12And the LORD stones, to lay the house; and ten cubits
people. 8And Hiram sent gave Solomon wisdom, foundation of the house. was the breadth thereof
to Solomon, saying, I as he promised him: and 18
And Solomon’s builders before the house. 4And
have consideredd the there was peace and Hiram’s builders did for the house he made
things which thou between Hiram and hew them, and the windows of narrow
sentest to me for: and I Solomon; and they two stonesquarers: so they lights. And against the
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will do all thy desire made a league together. prepared timber and walla of the house he
concerning timber of 13
And king Solomon stones to build the built chambers round
cedar, and concerning raised a levyg out of all house. about, against the walls
timber of fir. 9
My Israel; and the levy was of the house round
servants shall bring thirty thousand men. Chapter 6 about, both of the
them down from 14
And he sent them to temple and of the
Lebanon unto the sea: Lebanon, ten thousand a
1
And it came to pass oracle: and he made
and I will convey them month by courses: a in the four hundred and chambers round about:
by sea in floats unto the eightieth year after the 6
The nethermost
e
appoint: Heb. send children of Israel were
c f a
appoint: Heb. say measures: Heb. cors come out of the land of against the wall: or, upon, or,
d g
considered: Heb. heard levy: Heb. tribute of men joining to the wall
chamber was five cubits 11
And the word of the 17
And the house, that is, made two cherubims of
broad, and the middle LORD came to Solomon, the temple before it, was olivee tree, each ten
was six cubits broad, and saying, 12Concerning this forty cubits long. 18And cubits high. 24And five
the third was seven house which thou art in the cedar of the house cubits was the one wing
cubits broad: for without building, if thou wilt walk within was carved with of the cherub, and five
in the wall of the house in my statutes, and knopsc and open flowers: cubits the other wing of
he made narrowed rests execute my judgments, all was cedar; there was the cherub: from the
round about, that the and keep all my no stone seen. 19
And uttermost part of the
beams should not be commandments to walk the oracle he prepared in one wing unto the
fastened in the walls of in them; then will I the house within, to set uttermost part of the
the house. 7
And the perform my word with there the ark of the other were ten cubits.
house, when it was in thee, which I spake unto covenant of the LORD. 25
And the other cherub
building, was built of David thy father: 13And I 20
And the oracle in the was ten cubits: both the
stone made ready before will dwell among the forepart was twenty cherubims were of one
it was brought thither: so children of Israel, and cubits in length, and measure and one size.
that there was neither will not forsake my twenty cubits in breadth, 26
The height of the one
hammer nor axe nor any people Israel. 14
So and twenty cubits in the cherub was ten cubits,
tool of iron heard in the Solomon built the house, height thereof: and he and so was it of the
house, while it was in and finished it. overlaid it with pured other cherub. 27And he
building. 8The door for 15
And he built the gold; and so covered the set the cherubims
the middle chamber was walls of the house within altar which was of cedar. within the inner house:
in the right sideb of the with boards of cedar, 21
So Solomon overlaid and they stretched
house: and they went up both the floor of the the house within with forth the wings of the
with winding stairs into house, and the walls of pure gold: and he made cherubims, so that the
the middle chamber, and the cieling: and he a partition by the chains wing of the one touched
out of the middle into covered them on the of gold before the oracle; the one wall, and the
the third. 9So he built inside with wood, and and he overlaid it with wing of the other
the house, and finished covered the floor of the gold. 22And the whole cherub touched the
it; and covered the house with planks of fir. house he overlaid with other wall; and their
house with beams and 16
And he built twenty gold, until he had wings touched one
boards of cedar. 10And cubits on the sides of the finished all the house: another in the midst of
then he built chambers house, both the floor and also the whole altar that the house. 28
And he
against all the house, the walls with boards of was by the oracle he overlaid the cherubims
five cubits high: and cedar: he even built overlaid with gold. 23And with gold. 29And he
they rested on the house them for it within, even within the oracle he carved all the walls of
with timber of cedar. for the oracle, even for c e
the most holy place. knops: or, gourds olive: or, oily: Heb. trees of
b d
side: Heb. shoulder pure: Heb. shut up oil
the house round about cherubims and palm pillars, with cedar beams 8
And his house where
with carved figures of trees and open flowers: upon the pillars. 3And it he dwelt had another
cherubims and palm and covered them with was covered with cedar court within the porch,
trees and open flowersf, gold fitted upon the above upon the beamsa, which was of the like
within and without. carved work. 36And he that lay on forty five work. Solomon made
30
And the floor of the built the inner court with pillars, fifteen in a row. also an house for
house he overlaid with three rows of hewed 4
And there were windows Pharaoh’s daughter,
gold, within and without. stone, and a row of in three rows, and light whom he had taken to
31
And for the entering of cedar beams. 37In the was against light in three wife, like unto this
the oracle he made fourth year was the ranks. 5
And all the porch. 9All these were
doors of olive tree: the foundation of the house doors and posts were
b
of costly stones,
lintel and side posts of the LORD laid, in the square, with the according to the
were a fifth part of the month Zif: 38And in the windows: and light was measures of hewed
wall. 32The twog doors eleventh year, in the against light in three stones, sawed with
also were of olive tree; month Bul, which is the ranks. 6And he made a saws, within and
and he carved upon eighth month, was the porch of pillars; the without, even from the
them carvings of house finished length thereof was fifty foundation unto the
cherubims and palm throughout all the parts cubits, and the breadth coping, and so on the
trees and open flowers, thereof, and according to thereof thirty cubits: and outside toward the
and overlaid them with all the fashion of it. So the porch was before great court. 10
And the
gold, and spread gold was he seven years in them: and the other foundation was of
upon the cherubims, and building it. pillarsc and the thick costly stones, even
upon the palm trees. beam were before them. great stones, stones of
33
So also made he for the Chapter 7 d 7
Then he made a porch ten cubits, and stones
door of the temple posts for the throne where he of eight cubits. 11And
of olive tree, a fourth
1
But Solomon was might judge, even the above were costly
part of the wall. 34And building his own house porch of judgment: and stones, after the
the two doors were of fir thirteen years, and he it was covered with measures of hewed
tree: the two leaves of finished all his house. cedar from one side of stones, and cedars.
the one door were
2
He built also the house the floor to the other. 12
And the great court
folding, and the two of the forest of Lebanon; round about was with
a
leaves of the other door the length thereof was beams: Heb. ribs three rows of hewed
b
were folding. 35And he an hundred cubits, and doors...: or, spaces and pillars stones, and a row of
carved thereon the breadth thereof fifty were square in prospect cedar beams, both for
c
cubits, and the height before them: or, according to the inner court of the
f
open flowers: Heb. openings thereof thirty cubits, them house of the LORD, and
d
of flowers upon four rows of cedar 2before them: or, according to for the porch of the
g
two...: or, leaves of the doors them
house. pillars; seven for the one pillars finished. 23And he the breadth thereof,
13
And king Solomon chapiter, and seven for made a molten sea, ten and three cubits the
sent and fetched Hirame the other chapiter. 18And cubits from the one brim height of it. 28And the
out of Tyre. 14He was a he made the pillars, and to the other: it was work of the bases was
widow’sf son of the tribe two rows round about round all about, and his on this manner: they
of Naphtali, and his upon the one network, to height was five cubits: had borders, and the
father was a man of cover the chapiters that and a line of thirty cubits borders were between
Tyre, a worker in brass: were upon the top, with did compass it round the ledges: 29And on the
and he was filled with pomegranates: and so about. 24And under the borders that were
wisdom, and did he for the other brim of it round about between the ledges
understanding, and chapiter. 19
And the there were knops were lions, oxen, and
cunning to work all chapiters that were upon compassing it, ten in a cherubims: and upon
works in brass. And he the top of the pillars cubit, compassing the the ledges there was a
came to king Solomon, were of lily work in the sea round about: the base above: and
and wrought all his work. porch, four cubits. 20And knops were cast in two beneath the lions and
15
For he castg two pillars the chapiters upon the rows, when it was cast. oxen were certain
of brass, of eighteen two pillars had 25
It stood upon twelve additions made of thin
cubits high apiece: and a pomegranates also oxen, three looking work. 30And every base
line of twelve cubits did above, over against the toward the north, and had four brasen wheels,
compass either of them belly which was by the three looking toward the and plates of brass: and
about. 16And he made network: and the west, and three looking the four corners thereof
two chapiters of molten pomegranates were two toward the south, and had undersetters: under
brass, to set upon the hundred in rows round three looking toward the the laver were
tops of the pillars: the about upon the other east: and the sea was undersetters molten, at
height of the one chapiter. 21And he set up set above upon them, the side of every
chapiter was five cubits, the pillars in the porch of and all their hinder parts addition. 31
And the
and the height of the the temple: and he set were inward. 26And it mouth of it within the
other chapiter was five up the right pillar, and was an hand breadth chapiter and above was
cubits: 17And nets of called the name thereof thick, and the brim a cubit: but the mouth
checker work, and Jachinh: and he set up thereof was wrought like thereof was round after
wreaths of chain work, the left pillar, and called the brim of a cup, with the work of the base, a
for the chapiters which the name thereof Boaz. flowers of lilies: it cubit and an half: and
were upon the top of the 22
And upon the top of the contained two thousand also upon the mouth of
e
pillars was lily work: so baths. 27And he made it were gravings with
Hiram: also called, Huram was the work of the ten bases of brass; four their borders,
f
a widow’s...: Heb. the son of a cubits was the length of foursquare, not round.
h
widow woman Jachin: that is, He shall one base, and four cubits 32
And under the borders
g
cast: Heb. fashioned establish
were four wheels; and one casting, one even two rows of gold, whereupon the
the axletrees of the measure, and one size. pomegranates for one shewbread was, 49And
wheels were joined to 38
Then made he ten network, to cover the the candlesticks of pure
the base: and the height lavers of brass: one laver two bowls of the gold, five on the right
of a wheel was a cubit contained forty baths: chapiters that were side, and five on the
and half a cubit. 33And and every laver was four uponm the pillars; 43And left, before the oracle,
the work of the wheels cubits: and upon every the ten bases, and ten with the flowers, and
was like the work of a one of the ten bases one lavers on the bases; the lamps, and the
chariot wheel: their laver. 39And he put five 44
And one sea, and tongs of gold, 50And the
axletrees, and their bases on the right sidej twelve oxen under the bowls, and the snuffers,
naves, and their felloes, of the house, and five on sea; 45And the pots, and and the basons, and the
and their spokes, were the left side of the the shovels, and the spoons, and the
all molten. 34And there house: and he set the basons: and all these censerso of pure gold;
were four undersetters sea on the right side of vessels, which Hiram and the hinges of gold,
to the four corners of the house eastward over made to king Solomon both for the doors of
one base: and the against the south. k 40And for the house of the the inner house, the
undersetters were of the Hiraml made the lavers, LORD, were of brightn most holy place, and for
very base itself. 35And in and the shovels, and the brass. 46In the plain of the doors of the house,
the top of the base was basons. So Hiram made Jordan did the king cast to wit, of the temple.
there a round compass an end of doing all the them, in the clay ground 51
So was ended all the
of half a cubit high: and work that he made king between Succoth and work that king Solomon
on the top of the base Solomon for the house of Zarthan. 47And Solomon made for the house of
the ledges thereof and the LORD: 41
The two left all the vessels the LORD. And Solomon
the borders thereof were pillars, and the two unweighed, because brought in the things
of the same. 36For on the bowls of the chapiters they were exceeding which David his father
plates of the ledges that were on the top of many: neither was the had dedicated; even
thereof, and on the the two pillars; and the weight of the brass the silver, and the gold,
borders thereof, he two networks, to cover found out. and the vessels, did he
graved cherubims, lions, the two bowls of the 48
And Solomon made put among the
and palm trees, chapiters which were all the vessels that treasures of the house
according to the upon the top of the pertained unto the house of the LORD.
proportion of every one,
i
pillars; 42
And four of the LORD: the altar of
and additions round hundred pomegranates gold, and the table of Chapter 8
about. 37
After this for the two networks, m
manner he made the ten upon...: Heb. upon the face of Then
1
Solomon
j
bases: all of them had side: Heb. shoulder the pillars assembled the elders of
k n
2side: Heb. shoulder bright: Heb. made bright or,
i l o
proportion: Heb. nakedness And Hiram: Heb. And Hirom scoured censers: Heb. ash pans
Israel, and all the heads priests brought in the that the priests could not house for the name of
of the tribes, the chiefa ark of the covenant of stand to minister the LORD God of Israel.
of the fathers of the the LORD unto his place, because of the cloud: for 18
And the LORD said
children of Israel, unto into the oracle of the the glory of the LORD unto David my father,
king Solomon in house, to the most holy had filled the house of Whereas it was in thine
Jerusalem, that they place, even under the the LORD. heart to build an house
might bring up the ark of wings of the cherubims. 12
Then spake unto my name, thou
the covenant of the 7
For the cherubims Solomon, The LORD said didst well that it was in
LORD out of the city of spread forth their two that he would dwell in thine heart.
David, which is Zion. wings over the place of the thick darkness. 13I 19
Nevertheless thou
2
And all the men of Israel the ark, and the have surely built thee an shalt not build the
assembled themselves cherubims covered the house to dwell in, a house; but thy son that
unto king Solomon at the ark and the staves settled place for thee to shall come forth out of
feast in the month thereof above. 8And they abide in for ever. 14And thy loins, he shall build
Ethanim, which is the drew out the staves, that the king turned his face the house unto my
seventh month. 3And all the endsb of the staves about, and blessed all name. 20And the LORD
the elders of Israel were seen out in the holy the congregation of hath performed his
came, and the priests place before the oracle, Israel: (and all the word that he spake, and
took up the ark. 4And and they were not seen congregation of Israel I am risen up in the
they brought up the ark without: and there they stood;) 15And he said, room of David my
of the LORD, and the are unto this day. Blessed be the LORD father, and sit on the
tabernacle of the 9
There was nothing in God of Israel, which throne of Israel, as the
congregation, and all the the ark save the two spake with his mouth LORD promised, and
holy vessels that were in tables of stone, which unto David my father, have built an house for
the tabernacle, even Moses put there at and hath with his hand the name of the LORD
those did the priests and Horeb, when the LORD fulfilled it, saying, 16Since God of Israel. 21And I
the Levites bring up. made a covenant with the day that I brought have set there a place
5
And king Solomon, and the children of Israel, forth my people Israel for the ark, wherein is
all the congregation of when they came outc of out of Egypt, I chose no the covenant of the
Israel, that were the land of Egypt. 10And city out of all the tribes LORD, which he made
assembled unto him, it came to pass, when of Israel to build an with our fathers, when
were with him before the the priests were come house, that my name he brought them out of
ark, sacrificing sheep out of the holy place, might be therein; but I the land of Egypt.
and oxen, that could not that the cloud filled the chose David to be over 22
And Solomon stood
be told nor numbered for house of the LORD, 11So my people Israel. 17And it before the altar of the
multitude. 6
And the b
was in the heart of David LORD in the presence of
ends: Heb. heads my father to build an all the congregation of
a c
chief: Heb. princes when the: or, where the
Israel, and spread forth father. 27But will God hearest, forgive. 31If any thee; if they pray
his hands toward indeed dwell on the man trespass against his toward this place, and
heaven: 23And he said, earth? behold, the neighbour, and an oathg confess thy name, and
LORD God of Israel, heaven and heaven of be laid upon him to turn from their sin,
there is no God like thee, heavens cannot contain cause him to swear, and when thou afflictest
in heaven above, or on thee; how much less this the oath come before them: 36Then hear thou
earth beneath, who house that I have thine altar in this house: in heaven, and forgive
keepest covenant and builded? Yet have thou
28 32
Then hear thou in the sin of thy servants,
mercy with thy servants respect unto the prayer heaven, and do, and and of thy people Israel,
that walk before thee of thy servant, and to his judge thy servants, that thou teach them
with all their heart: supplication, O LORD my condemning the wicked, the good way wherein
24
Who hast kept with thy God, to hearken unto the to bring his way upon his they should walk, and
servant David my father cry and to the prayer, head; and justifying the give rain upon thy land,
that thou promisedst which thy servant righteous, to give him which thou hast given
him: thou spakest also prayeth before thee to according to his to thy people for an
with thy mouth, and hast day: 29That thine eyes righteousness. 33
When inheritance. 37If there
fulfilled it with thine may be open toward this thy people Israel be be in the land famine, if
hand, as it is this day. house night and day, smitten down before the there be pestilence,
25
Therefore now, LORD even toward the place of enemy, because they blasting, mildew, locust,
God of Israel, keep with which thou hast said, My have sinned against or if there be
thy servant David my name shall be there: that thee, and shall turn caterpiller; if their
father that thou thou mayest hearken again to thee, and enemy besiege them in
promisedst him, saying, unto the prayer which confess thy name, and the land of their citiesh;
There shall not faild thee thy servant shall make pray, and make whatsoever plague,
a man in my sight to sit toward this placee. 30And supplication unto thee in whatsoever sickness
on the throne of Israel; hearken thou to the this house: 34Then hear there be; 38What prayer
so that thy children take supplication of thy thou in heaven, and and supplication soever
heed to their way, that servant, and of thy forgive the sin of thy be made by any man,
they walk before me as people Israel, when they people Israel, and bring or by all thy people
thou hast walked before shall pray toward this them again unto the land Israel, which shall know
me. 26And now, O God placef: and hear thou in which thou gavest unto every man the plague
of Israel, let thy word, I heaven thy dwelling their fathers. 35When of his own heart, and
pray thee, be verified, place: and when thou heaven is shut up, and spread forth his hands
which thou spakest unto e
there is no rain, because toward this house:
thy servant David my toward this place: or, in this they have sinned against 39
Then hear thou in
place heaven thy dwelling
d f g
fail...: Heb. be cut off unto toward this place: or, in this and an oath...: Heb. and he
h
thee a man from my sight place require an oath of him cities: or, jurisdiction
place, and forgive, and send them, and shall with all their heart, and supplication of thy
do, and give to every pray unto the LORD with all their soul, in the people Israel, to
man according to his toward the cityi which land of their enemies, hearken unto them in
ways, whose heart thou thou hast chosen, and which led them away all that they call for
knowest; (for thou, even toward the house that I captive, and pray unto unto thee. 53For thou
thou only, knowest the have built for thy name: thee toward their land, didst separate them
hearts of all the children 45
Then hear thou in which thou gavest unto from among all the
of men;) 40That they may heaven their prayer and their fathers, the city people of the earth, to
fear thee all the days their supplication, and which thou hast chosen, be thine inheritance, as
that they live in the land maintain their causej. and the house which I thou spakest by the
which thou gavest unto 46
If they sin against thee, have built for thy name: hand of Moses thy
our fathers. 41Moreover (for there is no man that 49
Then hear thou their servant, when thou
concerning a stranger, sinneth not,) and thou be prayer and their broughtest our fathers
that is not of thy people angry with them, and supplication in heaven out of Egypt, O Lord
Israel, but cometh out of deliver them to the thy dwelling place, and GOD.
a far country for thy enemy, so that they maintain their causel, 54
And it was so, that
name’s sake; 42(For they carry them away 50
And forgive thy people when Solomon had
shall hear of thy great captives unto the land of that have sinned against made an end of praying
name, and of thy strong the enemy, far or near; thee, and all their all this prayer and
hand, and of thy 47
Yet if they shall transgressions wherein supplication unto the
stretched out arm;) bethinkk themselves in they have transgressed LORD, he arose from
when he shall come and the land whither they against thee, and give before the altar of the
pray toward this house; were carried captives, them compassion before LORD, from kneeling on
43
Hear thou in heaven and repent, and make them who carried them his knees with his
thy dwelling place, and supplication unto thee in captive, that they may hands spread up to
do according to all that the land of them that have compassion on heaven. 55And he stood,
the stranger calleth to carried them captives, them: 51For they be thy and blessed all the
thee for: that all people saying, We have sinned, people, and thine congregation of Israel
of the earth may know and have done inheritance, which thou with a loud voice,
thy name, to fear thee, perversely, we have broughtest forth out of saying, 56Blessed be the
as do thy people Israel; committed wickedness; Egypt, from the midst of LORD, that hath given
and that they may know 48
And so return unto thee the furnace of iron: rest unto his people
that this house, which I i
52
That thine eyes may be Israel, according to all
have builded, is called by toward the city: Heb. the way open unto the that he promised: there
thy name. 44
If thy of the city supplication of thy hath not failedm one
j
people go out to battle cause: or, right servant, and unto the word of all his good
k
against their enemy, bethink...: Heb. bring back to
l m
whithersoever thou shalt their heart cause: or, right failed: Heb. fallen
promise, which he Israel with him, offered fourteen days. 66On the wilt walk before me, as
promised by the hand of sacrifice before the eighth day he sent the David thy father
Moses his servant. 57The LORD. 63And Solomon people away: and they walked, in integrity of
LORD our God be with offered a sacrifice of blessedn the king, and heart, and in
us, as he was with our peace offerings, which went unto their tents uprightness, to do
fathers: let him not leave he offered unto the joyful and glad of heart according to all that I
us, nor forsake us: 58That LORD, two and twenty for all the goodness that have commanded thee,
he may incline our thousand oxen, and an the LORD had done for and wilt keep my
hearts unto him, to walk hundred and twenty David his servant, and statutes and my
in all his ways, and to thousand sheep. So the for Israel his people. judgments: 5Then I will
keep his king and all the children establish the throne of
commandments, and his of Israel dedicated the Chapter 9 thy kingdom upon Israel
statutes, and his house of the LORD. 64The for ever, as I promised
judgments, which he same day did the king And it came to pass,
1
to David thy father,
commanded our fathers. hallow the middle of the when Solomon had saying, There shall not
59
And let these my court that was before the finished the building of fail thee a man upon
words, wherewith I have house of the LORD: for the house of the LORD, the throne of Israel.
made supplication there he offered burnt and the king’s house, 6
But if ye shall at all
before the LORD, be nigh offerings, and meat and all Solomon’s desire turn from following me,
unto the LORD our God offerings, and the fat of which he was pleased to ye or your children, and
day and night, that he the peace offerings: do, 2That the LORD will not keep my
maintain the cause of his because the brasen altar appeared to Solomon the commandments and
servant, and the cause that was before the second time, as he had my statutes which I
of his people Israel at all LORD was too little to appeared unto him at have set before you,
times, as the matter receive the burnt Gibeon. 3And the LORD but go and serve other
shall require: 60That all offerings, and meat said unto him, I have gods, and worship
the people of the earth offerings, and the fat of heard thy prayer and thy them: 7Then will I cut
may know that the LORD the peace offerings. supplication, that thou off Israel out of the land
is God, and that there is 65
And at that time hast made before me: I which I have given
none else. 61Let your Solomon held a feast, have hallowed this them; and this house,
heart therefore be and all Israel with him, a house, which thou hast which I have hallowed
perfect with the LORD great congregation, from built, to put my name for my name, will I cast
our God, to walk in his the entering in of there for ever; and mine out of my sight; and
statutes, and to keep his Hamath unto the river of eyes and mine heart Israel shall be a proverb
commandments, as at Egypt, before the LORD shall be there and a byword among all
this day. our God, seven days and perpetually. And if thou
4
people: 8And at this
62
And the king, and all seven days, even n
house, which is high,
blessed: or, thanked
every one that passeth pleaseda him not. 13And and cities for his came up out of the city
by it shall be astonished, he said, What cities are chariots, and cities for of David unto her house
and shall hiss; and they these which thou hast his horsemen, and that which Solomon had
shall say, Why hath the given me, my brother? which Solomon desired built for her: then did
LORD done thus unto And he called them the to build in Jerusalem, he build Millo. 25And
this land, and to this land of Cabulb unto this and in Lebanon, and in three times in a year
house? 9And they shall day. 14And Hiram sent to all the land of his did Solomon offer burnt
answer, Because they the king sixscore talents dominion. 20And all the offerings and peace
forsook the LORD their of gold. people that were left of offerings upon the altar
God, who brought forth 15
And this is the the Amorites, Hittites, which he built unto the
their fathers out of the reason of the levy which Perizzites, Hivites, and LORD, and he burnt
land of Egypt, and have king Solomon raised; for Jebusites, which were incense upon the altar
taken hold upon other to build the house of the not of the children of that was before the
gods, and have LORD, and his own Israel, 21Their children LORD. So he finished
worshipped them, and house, and Millo, and the that were left after them the house. 26And king
served them: therefore wall of Jerusalem, and in the land, whom the Solomon made a navy
hath the LORD brought Hazor, and Megiddo, and children of Israel also of ships in Eziongeber,
upon them all this evil. Gezer. 16
For Pharaoh were not able utterly to which is beside Eloth,
10
And it came to pass king of Egypt had gone destroy, upon those did on the shorec of the Red
at the end of twenty up, and taken Gezer, and Solomon levy a tribute of sea, in the land of
years, when Solomon burnt it with fire, and bondservice unto this Edom. 27
And Hiram
had built the two houses, slain the Canaanites that day. 22But of the children sent in the navy his
the house of the LORD, dwelt in the city, and of Israel did Solomon servants, shipmen that
and the king’s house, given it for a present make no bondmen: but had knowledge of the
11
(Now Hiram the king of unto his daughter, they were men of war, sea, with the servants
Tyre had furnished Solomon’s wife. 17And and his servants, and his of Solomon. 28And they
Solomon with cedar Solomon built Gezer, and princes, and his came to Ophir, and
trees and fir trees, and Bethhoron the nether, captains, and rulers of fetched from thence
with gold, according to 18
And Baalath, and his chariots, and his gold, four hundred and
all his desire,) that then Tadmor in the horsemen. 23These were twenty talents, and
king Solomon gave wilderness, in the land, the chief of the officers brought it to king
Hiram twenty cities in 19
And all the cities of that were over Solomon.
the land of Galilee. 12And store that Solomon had, Solomon’s work, five
Hiram came out from a
hundred and fifty, which Chapter 10
Tyre to see the cities pleased...: Heb. were not right bare rule over the people
which Solomon had in his eyes that wrought in the work.
1
And when the
b
given him; and they Cabul: that is, displeasing, or, 24
But Pharaoh’s daughter c
dirty shore: Heb. lip
queen of Sheba heard of she said to the king, It that brought gold from and of the governorsf of
the fame of Solomon was a true reportc that I Ophir, brought in from the country. 16And king
concerning the name of heard in mine own land Ophir great plenty of Solomon made two
the LORD, she came to of thy acts and of thy almugd trees, and hundred targets of
prove him with hard wisdom. 7
Howbeit I precious stones. 12And beaten gold: six
questions. 2
And she believed not the words, the king made of the hundred shekels of gold
came to Jerusalem with a until I came, and mine almug trees pillarse for went to one target.
very great train, with eyes had seen it: and, the house of the LORD, 17
And he made three
camels that bare spices, behold, the half was not and for the king’s house, hundred shields of
and very much gold, and told me: thy wisdom and harps also and psalteries beaten gold; three
precious stones: and prosperity exceedeth the for singers: there came pound of gold went to
when she was come to fame which I heard. no such almug trees, nor one shield: and the king
Solomon, she communed 8
Happy are thy men, were seen unto this day. put them in the house
with him of all that was happy are these thy 13
And king Solomon gave of the forest of
in her heart. 3
And servants, which stand unto the queen of Sheba Lebanon. 18
Moreover
Solomon told her all her continually before thee, all her desire, the king made a great
questionsa: there was not and that hear thy whatsoever she asked, throne of ivory, and
any thing hid from the wisdom. Blessed be the
9
beside that which overlaid it with the best
king, which he told her LORD thy God, which Solomon gave her of his gold. 19The throne had
not. 4
And when the delighted in thee, to set royal bounty. So she six steps, and the top of
queen of Sheba had thee on the throne of turned and went to her the throne was round
seen all Solomon’s Israel: because the LORD own country, she and behindg: and there were
wisdom, and the house loved Israel for ever, her servants. stays on either side on
that he had built, 5And therefore made he thee 14
Now the weight of the place of the seat,
the meat of his table, king, to do judgment and gold that came to and two lions stood
and the sitting of his justice. 10And she gave Solomon in one year was beside the stays. 20And
servants, and the the king an hundred and six hundred threescore twelve lions stood there
attendance b
of his twenty talents of gold, and six talents of gold, on the one side and on
ministers, and their and of spices very great 15
Beside that he had of the other upon the six
apparel, and his store, and precious the merchantmen, and steps: there was not the
cupbearers, and his stones: there came no of the traffick of the likeh made in any
ascent by which he went more such abundance of spice merchants, and of kingdom. 21
And all king
up unto the house of the spices as these which all the kings of Arabia, Solomon’s drinking
LORD; there was no the queen of Sheba gave f
more spirit in her. 6And to king Solomon. 11And governors: or, captains
d g
the navy also of Hiram, almug...: also called, algum behind: Heb. on the hinder
a
questions: Heb. words trees part thereof
b c e h
attendance: Heb. standing report: Heb. word pillars: or, rails: Heb. a prop the like: Heb. so
vessels were of gold, and horsemen: and he had a But king Solomon
1
of the Ammonites. 6And
all the vessels of the thousand and four loved many strange Solomon did evil in the
house of the forest of hundred chariots, and women, together with sight of the LORD, and
Lebanon were of pure twelve thousand the daughter of Pharaoh, went not fully after the
gold; none were of horsemen, whom he women of the Moabites, LORD, as did David his
silveri: it was nothing bestowed in the cities for Ammonites, Edomites, father. 7
Then did
accounted of in the days chariots, and with the Zidonians, and Hittites; Solomon build an high
of Solomon. 22
For the king at Jerusalem. 27And 2
Of the nations place for Chemosh, the
king had at sea a navy of the king madel silver to concerning which the abomination of Moab, in
Tharshish with the navy be in Jerusalem as LORD said unto the the hill that is before
of Hiram: once in three stones, and cedars made children of Israel, Ye Jerusalem, and for
years came the navy of he to be as the shall not go in to them, Molech, the
Tharshish, bringing gold, sycomore trees that are neither shall they come abomination of the
and silver, ivoryj, and in the vale, for in unto you: for surely children of Ammon.
apes, and peacocks. abundance. 28
And they will turn away your 8
And likewise did he for
23
So king Solomon Solomonm had horses heart after their gods: all his strange wives,
exceeded all the kings of brought out of Egypt, Solomon clave unto which burnt incense
the earth for riches and and linen yarn: the these in love. And he
3
and sacrificed unto
for wisdom. 24And all the king’s merchants had seven hundred their gods.
earth sought tok received the linen yarn wives, princesses, and 9
And the LORD was
Solomon, to hear his at a price. 29
And a three hundred angry with Solomon,
wisdom, which God had chariot came up and concubines: and his because his heart was
put in his heart. 25And went out of Egypt for six wives turned away his turned from the LORD
they brought every man hundred shekels of heart. 4For it came to God of Israel, which had
his present, vessels of silver, and an horse for pass, when Solomon was appeared unto him
silver, and vessels of an hundred and fifty: old, that his wives turned twice, 10
And had
gold, and garments, and and so for all the kings of away his heart after commanded him
armour, and spices, the Hittites, and for the other gods: and his heart concerning this thing,
horses, and mules, a kings of Syria, did they was not perfect with the that he should not go
rate year by year. 26And bring them out by their LORD his God, as was after other gods: but he
Solomon gathered means. the heart of David his kept not that which the
together chariots and father. 5
For Solomon LORD commanded.
i
Chapter 11 went after Ashtoreth the 11
Wherefore the LORD
none...: or, there was no silver goddess of the said unto Solomon,
l
in them made: Heb. gave Zidonians, and after Forasmuch as this is
j m
ivory: or, elephants’ teeth And Solomon...: Heb. And Milcoma the abomination done of thee, and thou
k
sought to: Heb. sought the the going forth of the horses hast not kept my
a
face of which was Solomon’s Milcom: also called, Molech
covenant and my servants with him, to go lacked with me, that, his hand against the
statutes, which I have into Egypt; Hadad being behold, thou seekest to king: Solomon built
commanded thee, I will yet a little child. 18And go to thine own country? Millo, and repairedc the
surely rend the kingdom they arose out of Midian, And he answered, breaches of the city of
from thee, and will give and came to Paran: and Nothing: howbeit let me David his father. 28And
it to thy servant. they took men with them gob in any wise. 23And the man Jeroboam was
12
Notwithstanding in thy out of Paran, and they God stirred him up a mighty man of valour:
days I will not do it for came to Egypt, unto another adversary, and Solomon seeing the
David thy father’s sake: Pharaoh king of Egypt; Rezon the son of Eliadah, young man that he was
but I will rend it out of which gave him an which fled from his lord industriousd, he made
the hand of thy son. house, and appointed Hadadezer king of him ruler over all the
13
Howbeit I will not rend him victuals, and gave Zobah: 24
And he charge of the house of
away all the kingdom; him land. 19And Hadad gathered men unto him, Joseph. 29And it came
but will give one tribe to found great favour in the and became captain to pass at that time
thy son for David my sight of Pharaoh, so that over a band, when David when Jeroboam went
servant’s sake, and for he gave him to wife the slew them of Zobah: and out of Jerusalem, that
Jerusalem’s sake which I sister of his own wife, they went to Damascus, the prophet Ahijah the
have chosen. the sister of Tahpenes and dwelt therein, and Shilonite found him in
14
And the LORD the queen. 20And the reigned in Damascus. the way; and he had
stirred up an adversary sister of Tahpenes bare 25
And he was an clad himself with a new
unto Solomon, Hadad him Genubath his son, adversary to Israel all garment; and they two
the Edomite: he was of whom Tahpenes weaned the days of Solomon, were alone in the field:
the king’s seed in Edom. in Pharaoh’s house: and beside the mischief that 30
And Ahijah caught the
15
For it came to pass, Genubath was in Hadad did: and he new garment that was
when David was in Pharaoh’s household abhorred Israel, and on him, and rent it in
Edom, and Joab the among the sons of reigned over Syria. twelve pieces: 31And he
captain of the host was Pharaoh. 21And when 26
And Jeroboam the said to Jeroboam, Take
gone up to bury the Hadad heard in Egypt son of Nebat, an thee ten pieces: for
slain, after he had that David slept with his Ephrathite of Zereda, thus saith the LORD,
smitten every male in fathers, and that Joab Solomon’s servant, the God of Israel,
Edom; 16(For six months the captain of the host whose mother’s name Behold, I will rend the
did Joab remain there was dead, Hadad said to was Zeruah, a widow kingdom out of the
with all Israel, until he Pharaoh, Let me depart, woman, even he lifted hand of Solomon, and
had cut off every male in that I may go to mine up his hand against the will give ten tribes to
Edom:) 17That Hadad own country. 22
Then king. 27And this was the c
fled, he and certain Pharaoh said unto him, cause that he lifted up repaired: Heb. closed
d
Edomites of his father’s But what hast thou was industrious: Heb. did
b
Nothing: Heb. Not work
thee: 32(But he shall have may have a lighte alway that he did, and his make thou the grievous
one tribe for my servant before me in Jerusalem, wisdom, are they not service of thy father,
David’s sake, and for the city which I have written in the book of the and his heavy yoke
Jerusalem’s sake, the chosen me to put my acts of Solomon? 42And which he put upon us,
city which I have chosen name there. 37And I will the timeg that Solomon lighter, and we will
out of all the tribes of take thee, and thou shalt reigned in Jerusalem serve thee. 5And he
Israel:) 33Because that reign according to all over all Israel was forty said unto them, Depart
they have forsaken me, that thy soul desireth, years. 43
And Solomon yet for three days, then
and have worshipped and shalt be king over slept with his fathers, come again to me. And
Ashtoreth the goddess of Israel. 38And it shall be, if and was buried in the the people departed.
the Zidonians, Chemosh thou wilt hearken unto city of David his father: 6
And king Rehoboam
the god of the Moabites, all that I command thee, and Rehoboamh his son consulted with the old
and Milcom the god of and wilt walk in my reigned in his stead. men, that stood before
the children of Ammon, ways, and do that is Solomon his father
and have not walked in right in my sight, to keep Chapter 12 while he yet lived, and
my ways, to do that my statutes and my said, How do ye advise
which is right in mine commandments, as And Rehoboam went
1
that I may answer this
eyes, and to keep my David my servant did; to Shechem: for all Israel people? 7
And they
statutes and my that I will be with thee, were come to Shechem spake unto him, saying,
judgments, as did David and build thee a sure to make him king. 2And it If thou wilt be a servant
his father. 34Howbeit I house, as I built for came to pass, when unto this people this
will not take the whole David, and will give Jeroboam the son of day, and wilt serve
kingdom out of his hand: Israel unto thee. 39And I Nebat, who was yet in them, and answer
but I will make him will for this afflict the Egypt, heard of it, (for he them, and speak good
prince all the days of his seed of David, but not was fled from the words to them, then
life for David my for ever. 40
Solomon presence of king they will be thy
servant’s sake, whom I sought therefore to kill Solomon, and Jeroboam servants for ever. 8But
chose, because he kept Jeroboam. And Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;) 3That he forsook the counsel
my commandments and arose, and fled into they sent and called him. of the old men, which
my statutes: 35But I will Egypt, unto Shishak king And Jeroboam and all the they had given him,
take the kingdom out of of Egypt, and was in congregation of Israel and consulted with the
his son’s hand, and will Egypt until the death of came, and spake unto young men that were
give it unto thee, even Solomon. Rehoboam, saying, 4Thy grown up with him, and
ten tribes. 36And unto his 41
And the rest of the father made our yoke which stood before him:
son will I give one tribe, actsf of Solomon, and all grievous: now therefore 9
And he said unto them,
that David my servant e g
What counsel give ye
light: Heb. lamp, or, candle time: Heb. days that we may answer
f h
acts: or, words, or, things Rehoboam: Gr. Roboam
this people, who have counsel of the young So when all Israel
16
made him king over all
spoken to me, saying, men, saying, My father saw that the king Israel: there was none
Make the yoke which thy made your yoke heavy, hearkened not unto that followed the house
father did put upon us and I will add to your them, the people of David, but the tribe
lighter? 10And the young yoke: my father also answered the king, of Judah only. 21And
men that were grown up chastised you with saying, What portion when Rehoboam was
with him spake unto him, whips, but I will chastise have we in David? come to Jerusalem, he
saying, Thus shalt thou you with scorpions. neither have we assembled all the house
speak unto this people 15
Wherefore the king inheritance in the son of of Judah, with the tribe
that spake unto thee, hearkened not unto the Jesse: to your tents, O of Benjamin, an
saying, Thy father made people; for the cause Israel: now see to thine hundred and fourscore
our yoke heavy, but was from the LORD, that own house, David. So thousand chosen men,
make thou it lighter unto he might perform his Israel departed unto which were warriors, to
us; thus shalt thou say saying, which the LORD their tents. But as for
17
fight against the house
unto them, My little spake by Ahijah the the children of Israel of Israel, to bring the
finger shall be thicker Shilonite unto Jeroboam which dwelt in the cities kingdom again to
than my father’s loins. the son of Nebat. of Judah, Rehoboam Rehoboam the son of
11
And now whereas my reigned over them. Solomon. 22But the word
father did lade you with 18
Then king Rehoboam of God came unto
a heavy yoke, I will add sent Adoram, who was Shemaiah the man of
to your yoke: my father over the tribute; and all God, saying, 23Speak
hath chastised you with Israel stoned him with unto Rehoboam, the
whips, but I will chastise stones, that he died. son of Solomon, king of
you with scorpions. 12So Therefore king Judah, and unto all the
Jeroboam and all the Rehoboam made speed house of Judah and
people came to to get him up to his Benjamin, and to the
Rehoboam the third day, chariot, to flee to remnant of the people,
as the king had Jerusalem. 19
So Israel saying, 24Thus saith the
appointed, saying, Come rebelledb against the LORD, Ye shall not go
to me again the third house of David unto this up, nor fight against
day. 13And the king day. 20And it came to your brethren the
answered the people pass, when all Israel children of Israel: return
roughlya, and forsook the heard that Jeroboam was every man to his house;
old men’s counsel that come again, that they for this thing is from
they gave him; 14
And sent and called him unto me. They hearkened
spake to them after the the congregation, and therefore to the word of
a b
the LORD, and returned
roughly: Heb. hardly rebelled: or, fell away to depart, according to
the word of the LORD. an house of high places, came a man of God out to him. 5The altar also
25
Then Jeroboam built and made priests of the of Judah by the word of was rent, and the ashes
Shechem in mount lowest of the people, the LORD unto Bethel: poured out from the
Ephraim, and dwelt which were not of the and Jeroboam stood by altar, according to the
therein; and went out sons of Levi. 32And the altar to burn incense. sign which the man of
from thence, and built Jeroboam ordained a 2
And he cried against the God had given by the
Penuel. 26And Jeroboam feast in the eighth altar in the word of the word of the LORD. 6And
said in his heart, Now month, on the fifteenth LORD, and said, O altar, the king answered and
shall the kingdom return day of the month, like altar, thus saith the said unto the man of
to the house of David: unto the feast that is in LORD; Behold, a child God, Intreat now the
27
If this people go up to Judah, and he offeredc shall be born unto the face of the LORD thy
do sacrifice in the house upon the altar. So did he house of David, Josiah by God, and pray for me,
of the LORD at in Bethel, sacrificing name; and upon thee that my hand may be
Jerusalem, then shall the unto the calves that he shall he offer the priests restored me again. And
heart of this people turn had made: and he of the high places that the man of God
again unto their lord, placed in Bethel the burn incense upon thee, besought the LORD,
even unto Rehoboam priests of the high places and men’s bones shall and the king’s hand
king of Judah, and they which he had made. be burnt upon thee. 3And was restored him again,
shall kill me, and go 33
So he offeredd upon the he gave a sign the same and became as it was
again to Rehoboam king altar which he had made day, saying, This is the before. 7And the king
of Judah. 28Whereupon in Bethel the fifteenth sign which the LORD said unto the man of
the king took counsel, day of the eighth month, hath spoken; Behold, the God, Come home with
and made two calves of even in the month which altar shall be rent, and me, and refresh thyself,
gold, and said unto he had devised of his the ashes that are upon and I will give thee a
them, It is too much for own heart; and ordained it shall be poured out. reward. 8And the man
you to go up to a feast unto the children 4
And it came to pass, of God said unto the
Jerusalem: behold thy of Israel: and he offered when king Jeroboam king, If thou wilt give
gods, O Israel, which upon the altar, and burnt heard the saying of the me half thine house, I
brought thee up out of incense. man of God, which had will not go in with thee,
the land of Egypt. 29And cried against the altar in neither will I eat bread
he set the one in Bethel, Chapter 13 Bethel, that he put forth nor drink water in this
and the other put he in his hand from the altar, place: 9For so was it
Dan. 30And this thing
1
And, behold, there saying, Lay hold on him. charged me by the
became a sin: for the c
And his hand, which he word of the LORD,
people went to worship offered...: or, went up to the put forth against him, saying, Eat no bread,
before the one, even altar, etc dried up, so that he nor drink water, nor
d
unto Dan. 31And he made offered...: or, went up to the could not pull it in again turn again by the same
altar, etc
way that thou camest. bread nor drink water camest back, and hast therefore the LORD
10
So he went another with thee in this place: eaten bread and drunk hath delivered him unto
way, and returned not by 17
For it was said to me by water in the place, of the the lion, which hath
the way that he came to the word of the LORD, which the LORD did say torna him, and slain
Bethel. Thou shalt eat no bread to thee, Eat no bread, him, according to the
11
Now there dwelt an nor drink water there, and drink no water; thy word of the LORD,
old prophet in Bethel; nor turn again to go by carcase shall not come which he spake unto
and his sons came and the way that thou unto the sepulchre of thy him. 27And he spake to
told him all the works camest. 18He said unto fathers. his sons, saying, Saddle
that the man of God had him, I am a prophet also 23
And it came to pass, me the ass. And they
done that day in Bethel: as thou art; and an angel after he had eaten saddled him. 28And he
the words which he had spake unto me by the bread, and after he had went and found his
spoken unto the king, word of the LORD, drunk, that he saddled carcase cast in the way,
them they told also to saying, Bring him back for him the ass, to wit, and the ass and the lion
their father. 12And their with thee into thine for the prophet whom he standing by the
father said unto them, house, that he may eat had brought back. 24And carcase: the lion had
What way went he? For bread and drink water. when he was gone, a lion not eaten the carcase,
his sons had seen what But he lied unto him. met him by the way, and nor tornb the ass. 29And
way the man of God 19
So he went back with slew him: and his the prophet took up the
went, which came from him, and did eat bread in carcase was cast in the carcase of the man of
Judah. 13And he said unto his house, and drank way, and the ass stood God, and laid it upon
his sons, Saddle me the water. 20And it came to by it, the lion also stood the ass, and brought it
ass. So they saddled him pass, as they sat at the by the carcase. 25And, back: and the old
the ass: and he rode table, that the word of behold, men passed by, prophet came to the
thereon, 14And went after the LORD came unto the and saw the carcase cast city, to mourn and to
the man of God, and prophet that brought in the way, and the lion bury him. 30And he laid
found him sitting under him back: 21And he cried standing by the carcase: his carcase in his own
an oak: and he said unto unto the man of God that and they came and told grave; and they
him, Art thou the man of came from Judah, it in the city where the mourned over him,
God that camest from saying, Thus saith the old prophet dwelt. 26And saying, Alas, my
Judah? And he said, I am. LORD, Forasmuch as when the prophet that brother! 31And it came
15
Then he said unto him, thou hast disobeyed the brought him back from to pass, after he had
Come home with me, mouth of the LORD, and the way heard thereof, buried him, that he
and eat bread. 16And he hast not kept the he said, It is the man of spake to his sons,
said, I may not return commandment which God, who was saying, When I am
with thee, nor go in with the LORD thy God disobedient unto the a
thee: neither will I eat commanded thee, 22But word of the LORD: torn: Heb. broken
b
torn: Heb. broken
dead, then bury me in to his wife, Arise, I pray wife of Jeroboam; why wall, and him that is
the sepulchre wherein thee, and disguise feignest thou thyself to shut up and left in
the man of God is thyself, that thou be not be another? for I am sent Israel, and will take
buried; lay my bones known to be the wife of to thee with heavya away the remnant of
beside his bones: 32For Jeroboam; and get thee tidings. the house of Jeroboam,
the saying which he to Shiloh: behold, there 7
Go, tell Jeroboam, as a man taketh away
cried by the word of the is Ahijah the prophet, Thus saith the LORD God dung, till it be all gone.
LORD against the altar in which told me that I of Israel, Forasmuch as I 11
Him that dieth of
Bethel, and against all should be king over this exalted thee from Jeroboam in the city
the houses of the high people. 3And take with among the people, and shall the dogs eat; and
places which are in the thee ten loaves, and made thee prince over him that dieth in the
cities of Samaria, shall cracknels, and a cruse of my people Israel, 8And field shall the fowls of
surely come to pass. honey, and go to him: he rent the kingdom away the air eat: for the
33
After this thing shall tell thee what shall from the house of David, LORD hath spoken it.
Jeroboam returned not become of the child. and gave it thee: and 12
Arise thou therefore,
from his evil way, but 4
And Jeroboam’s wife did yet thou hast not been get thee to thine own
madec again of the so, and arose, and went as my servant David, house: and when thy
lowest of the people to Shiloh, and came to who kept my feet enter into the city,
priests of the high the house of Ahijah. But commandments, and the child shall die. 13And
places: whosoever Ahijah could not see; for who followed me with all all Israel shall mourn for
would, he consecrated his eyes were set by his heart, to do that only him, and bury him: for
him, and he became one reason of his age. 5And which was right in mine he only of Jeroboam
of the priests of the high the LORD said unto eyes; 9But hast done evil shall come to the grave,
places. 34And this thing Ahijah, Behold, the wife above all that were because in him there is
became sin unto the of Jeroboam cometh to before thee: for thou found some good thing
house of Jeroboam, even ask a thing of thee for hast gone and made toward the LORD God of
to cut it off, and to her son; for he is sick: thee other gods, and Israel in the house of
destroy it from off the thus and thus shalt thou molten images, to Jeroboam. 14
Moreover
face of the earth. say unto her: for it shall provoke me to anger, the LORD shall raise
be, when she cometh in, and hast cast me behind him up a king over
Chapter 14 that she shall feign thy back: 10Therefore, Israel, who shall cut off
herself to be another behold, I will bring evil the house of Jeroboam
At that time Abijah
1
woman. 6And it was so, upon the house of that day: but what?
the son of Jeroboam fell when Ahijah heard the Jeroboam, and will cut even now. 15For the
sick. 2And Jeroboam said sound of her feet, as she off from Jeroboam him LORD shall smite Israel,
c
came in at the door, that that pisseth against the as a reed is shaken in
made...: Heb. returned and he said, Come in, thou the water, and he shall
a
made heavy: Heb. hard
root up Israel out of this reigned in his stead. year of king Rehoboam, city of David. And his
good land, which he 21
And Rehoboam the that Shishak king of mother’s name was
gave to their fathers, son of Solomon reigned Egypt came up against Naamah an
and shall scatter them in Judah. Rehoboam was Jerusalem: 26And he took Ammonitess. And
beyond the river, forty and one years old away the treasures of Abijame his son reigned
because they have made when he began to reign, the house of the LORD, in his stead.
their groves, provoking and he reigned and the treasures of the
the LORD to anger. 16And seventeen years in king’s house; he even Chapter 15
he shall give Israel up Jerusalem, the city which took away all: and he
because of the sins of the LORD did choose out took away all the shields Now
1
in the
Jeroboam, who did sin, of all the tribes of Israel, of gold which Solomon eighteenth year of king
and who made Israel to to put his name there. had made. 27And king Jeroboam the son of
sin. 17And Jeroboam’s And his mother’s name Rehoboam made in their Nebat reigned Abijam
wife arose, and was Naamah an stead brasen shields, over Judah. 2
Three
departed, and came to Ammonitess. 22And Judah and committed them years reigned he in
Tirzah: and when she did evil in the sight of unto the hands of the Jerusalem. And his
came to the threshold of the LORD, and they chief of the guardd, mother’s name was
the door, the child died; provoked him to jealousy which kept the door of Maachaha, the daughter
18
And they buried him; with their sins which the king’s house. 28And of Abishalom. 3And he
and all Israel mourned they had committed, it was so, when the king walked in all the sins of
for him, according to the above all that their went into the house of his father, which he had
word of the LORD, which fathers had done. 23For the LORD, that the guard done before him: and
he spake by the hand of they also built them high bare them, and brought his heart was not
his servant Ahijah the places, and imagesc, and them back into the guard perfect with the LORD
prophet. 19And the rest groves, on every high chamber. 29Now the rest his God, as the heart of
of the acts of Jeroboam, hill, and under every of the acts of Rehoboam, David his father.
how he warred, and how green tree. 24And there and all that he did, are
4
Nevertheless for
he reigned, behold, they were also sodomites in they not written in the David’s sake did the
are written in the book of the land: and they did book of the chronicles of LORD his God give him
the chronicles of the according to all the the kings of Judah? 30And a lampb in Jerusalem, to
kings of Israel. 20And the abominations of the there was war between set up his son after him,
days which Jeroboam nations which the LORD Rehoboam and Jeroboam e
reigned were two and cast out before the all their days. 31And Abijam: also called, Abijah:
twenty years: and he children of Israel. 25And it Rehoboam slept with his Gr. Abia
a
sleptb with his fathers, came to pass in the fifth fathers, and was buried Maachah...: also called,
and Nadab his son with his fathers in the Michaiah the daughter of
c
images: or, standing images, Uriel
b d b
slept: Heb. lay down or, statues guard: Heb. runners lamp: or, candle
and to establish did that which was right go out or come in to Asa Baasha heard thereof,
Jerusalem: 5
Because in the eyes of the LORD, king of Judah. 18Then Asa that he left off building
David did that which was as did David his father. took all the silver and of Ramah, and dwelt in
right in the eyes of the 12
And he took away the the gold that were left in Tirzah. 22Then king Asa
LORD, and turned not sodomites out of the the treasures of the made a proclamation
aside from any thing that land, and removed all house of the LORD, and throughout all Judah;
he commanded him all the idols that his fathers the treasures of the none was exemptedg:
the days of his life, save had made. 13And also king’s house, and and they took away the
only in the matter of Maachah his mother, delivered them into the stones of Ramah, and
Uriah the Hittite. 6And even her he removed hand of his servants: and the timber thereof,
there was war between from being queen, king Asa sent them to wherewith Baasha had
Rehoboam and Jeroboam because she had made Benhadad, the son of builded; and king Asa
all the days of his life. an idol in a grove; and Tabrimon, the son of built with them Geba of
7
Now the rest of the acts Asa destroyedd her idol, Hezion, king of Syria, Benjamin, and Mizpah.
of Abijam, and all that he and burnt it by the brook that dwelt at Damascus, 23
The rest of all the acts
did, are they not written Kidron. 14But the high saying, 19There is a of Asa, and all his
in the book of the places were not league between me and might, and all that he
chronicles of the kings of removed: nevertheless thee, and between my did, and the cities
Judah? And there was Asa’s heart was perfect father and thy father: which he built, are they
war between Abijam and with the LORD all his behold, I have sent unto not written in the book
Jeroboam. 8And Abijam days. 15And he brought thee a present of silver of the chronicles of the
slept with his fathers; in the thingse which his and gold; come and kings of Judah?
and they buried him in father had dedicated, break thy league with Nevertheless in the
the city of David: and and the things which Baasha king of Israel, time of his old age he
Asa his son reigned in himself had dedicated, that he may departf from was diseased in his
his stead. into the house of the me. 20
So Benhadad feet. 24And Asa slept
9
And in the twentieth LORD, silver, and gold, hearkened unto king with his fathers, and
year of Jeroboam king of and vessels. 16And there Asa, and sent the was buried with his
Israel reigned Asa over was war between Asa captains of the hosts fathers in the city of
Judah. 10And forty and and Baasha king of Israel which he had against the David his father: and
one years reigned he in all their days. 17And cities of Israel, and Jehoshaphath his son
Jerusalem. And his Baasha king of Israel smote Ijon, and Dan, and reigned in his stead.
mother’sc name was went up against Judah, Abelbethmaachah, and 25
And Nadab the son
Maachah, the daughter and built Ramah, that he all Cinneroth, with all the of Jeroboam began to
of Abishalom. 11And Asa might not suffer any to land of Naphtali. 21And it reign over Israel in the
c d
came to pass, when g
mother’s: that is, destroyed: Heb. cut off exempted: Heb. free
e f h
grandmother’s things: Heb. holy depart: Heb. go up Jehoshaphat: Gr. Josaphat
second year of Asa king the LORD God of Israel sins; 3Behold, I will take Judah began Elah the
of Judah, and reigned to anger. 31Now the rest away the posterity of son of Baasha to reign
over Israel two years. of the acts of Nadab, and Baasha, and the over Israel in Tirzah,
26
And he did evil in the all that he did, are they posterity of his house; two years. 9And his
sight of the LORD, and not written in the book of and will make thy house servant Zimri, captain
walked in the way of his the chronicles of the like the house of of half his chariots,
father, and in his sin kings of Israel? 32And Jeroboam the son of conspired against him,
wherewith he made there was war between Nebat. 4Him that dieth of as he was in Tirzah,
Israel to sin. 27
And Asa and Baasha king of Baasha in the city shall drinking himself drunk
Baasha the son of Israel all their days. 33In the dogs eat; and him in the house of Arza
Ahijah, of the house of the third year of Asa king that dieth of his in the steward of his house in
Issachar, conspired of Judah began Baasha fields shall the fowls of Tirzah. 10
And Zimri
against him; and Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign the air eat. 5Now the rest went in and smote him,
smote him at Gibbethon, over all Israel in Tirzah, of the acts of Baasha, and killed him, in the
which belonged to the twenty and four years. and what he did, and his twenty and seventh
Philistines; for Nadab 34
And he did evil in the might, are they not year of Asa king of
and all Israel laid siege sight of the LORD, and written in the book of the Judah, and reigned in
to Gibbethon. 28Even in walked in the way of chronicles of the kings of his stead. 11And it came
the third year of Asa king Jeroboam, and in his sin Israel? 6So Baasha slept to pass, when he began
of Judah did Baasha slay wherewith he made with his fathers, and was to reign, as soon as he
him, and reigned in his Israel to sin. buried in Tirzah: and sat on his throne, that
stead. 29And it came to Elah his son reigned in he slew all the house of
pass, when he reigned, Chapter 16 his stead. 7And also by Baasha: he left him not
that he smote all the the hand of the prophet one that pisseth against
house of Jeroboam; he
1
Then the word of the Jehu the son of Hanani a wall, neither of his
left not to Jeroboam any LORD came to Jehu the came the word of the kinsfolks, nor of his
that breathed, until he son of Hanani against LORD against Baasha, friends. 12
Thus did
had destroyed him, Baasha, saying, and against his house, Zimri destroy all the
according unto the
2
Forasmuch as I exalted even for all the evil that house of Baasha,
saying of the LORD, thee out of the dust, and he did in the sight of the according to the word
which he spake by his made thee prince over LORD, in provoking him of the LORD, which he
servant Ahijah the my people Israel; and to anger with the work of spake against Baasha
Shilonite: 30Because of thou hast walked in the his hands, in being like bya Jehu the prophet,
the sins of Jeroboam way of Jeroboam, and the house of Jeroboam; 13
For all the sins of
which he sinned, and hast made my people and because he killed Baasha, and the sins of
which he made Israel Israel to sin, to provoke him. 8In the twenty and Elah his son, by which
sin, by his provocation me to anger with their sixth year of Asa king of a
wherewith he provoked by: Heb. by the hand of
they sinned, and by 15
In the twenty and wrought, are they not Nebat, and in his sin
which they made Israel seventh year of Asa king written in the book of the wherewith he made
to sin, in provoking the of Judah did Zimri reign chronicles of the kings of Israel to sin, to provoke
LORD God of Israel to seven days in Tirzah. Israel? 21Then were the the LORD God of Israel
anger with their vanities. And the people were people of Israel divided to anger with their
14
Now the rest of the encamped against into two parts: half of the vanities. 27Now the rest
acts of Elah, and all that Gibbethon, which people followed Tibni the of the acts of Omri
he did, are they not belonged to the son of Ginath, to make which he did, and his
written in the book of the Philistines. 16
And the him king; and half might that he shewed,
chronicles of the kings of people that were followed Omri. But the
22
are they not written in
Israel? encamped heard say, people that followed the book of the
Zimri hath conspired, Omri prevailed against chronicles of the kings
and hath also slain the the people that followed of Israel? 28So Omri
king: wherefore all Israel Tibni the son of Ginath: slept with his fathers,
made Omri, the captain so Tibni died, and Omri and was buried in
of the host, king over reigned. 23In the thirty Samaria: and Ahab his
Israel that day in the and first year of Asa king son reigned in his
camp. 17And Omri went of Judah began Omri to stead.
up from Gibbethon, and reign over Israel, twelve 29
And in the thirty
all Israel with him, and years: six years reigned and eighth year of Asa
they besieged Tirzah. he in Tirzah. 24And he king of Judah began
18
And it came to pass, bought the hill Samariab Ahab the son of Omri to
when Zimri saw that the of Shemer for two reign over Israel: and
city was taken, that he talents of silver, and Ahab the son of Omri
went into the palace of built on the hill, and reigned over Israel in
the king’s house, and called the name of the Samaria twenty and
burnt the king’s house city which he built, after two years. 30And Ahab
over him with fire, and the name of Shemer, the son of Omri did evil
died, 19For his sins which owner of the hill, in the sight of the LORD
he sinned in doing evil in Samaria. 25
But Omri above all that were
the sight of the LORD, in wrought evil in the eyes before him. 31And it
walking in the way of of the LORD, and did came to pass, as if it
Jeroboam, and in his sin worse than all that were had been a light thing
which he did, to make before him. 26For he for him to walk in the
Israel to sin. 20Now the walked in all the way of sins of Jeroboam the
rest of the acts of Zimri, Jeroboam the son of son of Nebat, that he
and his treason that he b
took to wife Jezebel the
Samaria: Heb. Shomeron
daughter of Ethbaal king years, but according to have commanded a The barrel of meal shall
of the Zidonians, and my word. 2And the word widow woman there to not waste, neither shall
went and served Baal, of the LORD came unto sustain thee. 10
So he the cruse of oil fail, until
and worshipped him. him, saying, 3Get thee arose and went to the day that the LORD
32
And he reared up an hence, and turn thee Zarephath. And when he sendethd rain upon the
altar for Baal in the eastward, and hide came to the gate of the earth. 15And she went
house of Baal, which he thyself by the brook city, behold, the widow and did according to
had built in Samaria. Cherith, that is before woman was there the saying of Elijah: and
33
And Ahab made a Jordan. 4And it shall be, gathering of sticks: and she, and he, and her
grove; and Ahab did that thou shalt drink of he called to her, and house, did eat many
more to provoke the the brook; and I have said, Fetch me, I pray days. 16And the barrel
LORD God of Israel to commanded the ravens thee, a little water in a of meal wasted not,
anger than all the kings to feed thee there. 5So vessel, that I may drink. neither did the cruse of
of Israel that were before he went and did 11
And as she was going oil fail, according to the
him. 34In his days did Hiel according unto the word to fetch it, he called to word of the LORD,
the Bethelite build of the LORD: for he went her, and said, Bring me, I which he spake bye
Jericho: he laid the and dwelt by the brook pray thee, a morsel of Elijah.
foundation thereof in Cherith, that is before bread in thine hand. 17
And it came to pass
Abiram his firstborn, and Jordan. 6And the ravens 12
And she said, As the after these things, that
set up the gates thereof brought him bread and LORD thy God liveth, I the son of the woman,
in his youngest son flesh in the morning, and have not a cake, but an the mistress of the
Segub, according to the bread and flesh in the handful of meal in a house, fell sick; and his
word of the LORD, which evening; and he drank of barrel, and a little oil in a sickness was so sore,
he spake by Joshua the the brook. 7And it came cruse: and, behold, I am that there was no
son of Nun. to pass afterb a while, gathering two sticks, breath left in him. 18And
that the brook dried up, that I may go in and she said unto Elijah,
Chapter 17 because there had been dress it for me and my What have I to do with
no rain in the land. son, that we may eat it, thee, O thou man of
And
1
Elijaha the 8
And the word of the and die. 13And Elijah said God? art thou come
Tishbite, who was of the LORD came unto him, unto her, Fear not; go unto me to call my sin
inhabitants of Gilead, saying, 9Arise, get thee and do as thou hast said: to remembrance, and
said unto Ahab, As the to Zarephathc, which but make me thereof a to slay my son? 19And
LORD God of Israel belongeth to Zidon, and little cake first, and bring he said unto her, Give
liveth, before whom I dwell there: behold, I it unto me, and after me thy son. And he
stand, there shall not be make for thee and for took him out of her
b
dew nor rain these after...: Heb. at the end of thy son. 14For thus saith d
days the LORD God of Israel, sendeth: Heb. giveth
a c e
Elijah: Heb. Elijahu: Gr. Elias Zarephath: Gr. Sarepta by: Heb. by the hand of
bosom, and carried him And it came to pass
1
Ahab went one way by fear the LORD from my
up into a loft, where he after many days, that himself, and Obadiah youth. 13Was it not told
abode, and laid him the word of the LORD went another way by my lord what I did when
upon his own bed. 20And came to Elijah in the himself. 7And as Obadiah Jezebel slew the
he cried unto the LORD, third year, saying, Go, was in the way, behold, prophets of the LORD,
and said, O LORD my shew thyself unto Ahab; Elijah met him: and he how I hid an hundred
God, hast thou also and I will send rain upon knew him, and fell on his men of the LORD’S
brought evil upon the the earth. 2And Elijah face, and said, Art thou prophets by fifty in a
widow with whom I went to shew himself that my lord Elijah? 8And cave, and fed them with
sojourn, by slaying her unto Ahab. And there he answered him, I am: bread and water? 14And
son? 21And he stretchedf was a sore famine in go, tell thy lord, Behold, now thou sayest, Go,
himself upon the child Samaria. 3
And Ahab Elijah is here. 9And he tell thy lord, Behold,
three times, and cried called Obadiaha, which said, What have I sinned, Elijah is here: and he
unto the LORD, and said, was the governor of his that thou wouldest shall slay me. 15And
O LORD my God, I pray house. (Now Obadiah deliver thy servant into Elijah said, As the LORD
thee, let this child’s soul feared the LORD greatly: the hand of Ahab, to slay of hosts liveth, before
come into him again. 4
For it was so, when me? 10As the LORD thy whom I stand, I will
22
And the LORD heard Jezebelb cut off the God liveth, there is no surely shew myself unto
the voice of Elijah; and prophets of the LORD, nation or kingdom, him to day. 16
So
the soul of the child that Obadiah took an whither my lord hath not Obadiah went to meet
came into him again, hundred prophets, and sent to seek thee: and Ahab, and told him: and
and he revived. 23And hid them by fifty in a when they said, He is not Ahab went to meet
Elijah took the child, and cave, and fed them with there; he took an oath of Elijah.
brought him down out of bread and water.) 5And the kingdom and nation, 17
And it came to
the chamber into the Ahab said unto Obadiah, that they found thee not. pass, when Ahab saw
house, and delivered him Go into the land, unto all 11
And now thou sayest, Elijah, that Ahab said
unto his mother: and fountains of water, and Go, tell thy lord, Behold, unto him, Art thou he
Elijah said, See, thy son unto all brooks: Elijah is here. 12And it that troubleth Israel?
liveth. 24And the woman peradventure we may shall come to pass, as 18
And he answered, I
said to Elijah, Now by find grass to save the soon as I am gone from have not troubled
this I know that thou art horses and mules alive, thee, that the Spirit of Israel; but thou, and thy
a man of God, and that that we lose not all the the LORD shall carry father’s house, in that
the word of the LORD in beasts. 6So they divided thee whither I know not; ye have forsaken the
thy mouth is truth. the land between them and so when I come and commandments of the
to pass throughout it: tell Ahab, and he cannot LORD, and thou hast
Chapter 18 a
find thee, he shall slay followed Baalim. 19Now
Obadiah: Heb. Obadiahu me: but I thy servant therefore send, and
f b
stretched: Heb. measured Jezebel: Heb. Izebel
gather to me all Israel ye on the name of your be awaked. 28
And they measures of seed.
unto mount Carmel, and gods, and I will call on cried aloud, and cut 33
And he put the wood
the prophets of Baal four the name of the LORD: themselves after their in order, and cut the
hundred and fifty, and and the God that manner with knives and bullock in pieces, and
the prophets of the answereth by fire, let lancets, till the bloodf laid him on the wood,
groves four hundred, him be God. And all the gushed out upon them. and said, Fill four
which eat at Jezebel’s people answered and 29
And it came to pass, barrels with water, and
table. 20So Ahab sent said, It is well spoken. when midday was past, pour it on the burnt
unto all the children of 25
And Elijah said unto the and they prophesied sacrifice, and on the
Israel, and gathered the prophets of Baal, Choose until the time of the wood. 34And he said, Do
prophets together unto you one bullock for offeringg of the evening it the second time. And
mount Carmel. yourselves, and dress it sacrifice, that there was they did it the second
21
And Elijah came first; for ye are many; neither voice, nor any to time. And he said, Do it
unto all the people, and and call on the name of answer, nor any that the third time. And they
said, How long halt ye your gods, but put no regarded. 30
And Elijah did it the third time.
between two opinionsc? fire under. 26And they said unto all the people, 35
And the water ranh
if the LORD be God, took the bullock which Come near unto me. And round about the altar;
follow him: but if Baal, was given them, and all the people came near and he filled the trench
then follow him. And the they dressed it, and unto him. And he also with water. 36And
people answered him not called on the name of repaired the altar of the it came to pass at the
a word. 22
Then said Baal from morning even LORD that was broken time of the offering of
Elijah unto the people, I, until noon, saying, O down. 31And Elijah took the evening sacrifice,
even I only, remain a Baal, heard us. But there twelve stones, according that Elijah the prophet
prophet of the LORD; but was no voice, nor any to the number of the came near, and said,
Baal’s prophets are four that answered. And they tribes of the sons of LORD God of Abraham,
hundred and fifty men. leaped upon the altar Jacob, unto whom the Isaac, and of Israel, let
23
Let them therefore give which was made. 27And word of the LORD came, it be known this day
us two bullocks; and let it came to pass at noon, saying, Israel shall be that thou art God in
them choose one bullock that Elijah mocked them, thy name: 32And with the Israel, and that I am thy
for themselves, and cut and said, Cry aloude: for stones he built an altar servant, and that I have
it in pieces, and lay it on he is a god; either he is in the name of the LORD: done all these things at
wood, and put no fire talking, or he is and he made a trench thy word. 37Hear me, O
under: and I will dress pursuing, or he is in a about the altar, as great LORD, hear me, that
the other bullock, and journey, or peradventure as would contain two this people may know
lay it on wood, and put he sleepeth, and must f
that thou art the LORD
no fire under: 24And call the blood...: Heb. poured out God, and that thou hast
d
hear: or, answer blood upon them
c e g h
opinions: or, thoughts? aloud: Heb. with a great voice offering: Heb. ascending ran: Heb. went
turned their heart back up now, look toward the Jezebel sent a 7
And the angel of the
again. 38Then the fire of sea. And he went up, messenger unto Elijah, LORD came again the
the LORD fell, and and looked, and said, saying, So let the gods second time, and
consumed the burnt There is nothing. And he do to me, and more also, touched him, and said,
sacrifice, and the wood, said, Go again seven if I make not thy life as Arise and eat; because
and the stones, and the times. 44And it came to the life of one of them by the journey is too great
dust, and licked up the pass at the seventh to morrow about this for thee. 8And he arose,
water that was in the time, that he said, time. 3And when he saw and did eat and drink,
trench. 39And when all Behold, there ariseth a that, he arose, and went and went in the
the people saw it, they little cloud out of the for his life, and came to strength of that meat
fell on their faces: and sea, like a man’s hand. Beersheba, which forty days and forty
they said, The LORD, he And he said, Go up, say belongeth to Judah, and nights unto Horeb the
is the God; the LORD, he unto Ahab, Preparek thy left his servant there. mount of God.
is the God. 40And Elijah chariot, and get thee 4
But he himself went a 9
And he came thither
said unto them, Takei the down, that the rain stop day’s journey into the unto a cave, and lodged
prophets of Baal; let not thee not. 45And it came wilderness, and came there; and, behold, the
one of them escape. And to pass in the mean and sat down under a word of the LORD came
they took them: and while, that the heaven juniper tree: and he to him, and he said
Elijah brought them was black with clouds requested for himselfa unto him, What doest
down to the brook and wind, and there was that he might die; and thou here, Elijah? 10And
Kishon, and slew them a great rain. And Ahab said, It is enough; now, O he said, I have been
there. rode, and went to LORD, take away my life; very jealous for the
41
And Elijah said unto Jezreel. 46And the hand for I am not better than LORD God of hosts: for
Ahab, Get thee up, eat of the LORD was on my fathers. 5And as he the children of Israel
and drink; for there is a Elijah; and he girded up lay and slept under a have forsaken thy
soundj of abundance of his loins, and ran before juniper tree, behold, covenant, thrown down
rain. 42So Ahab went up Ahab to the entrance of then an angel touched thine altars, and slain
to eat and to drink. And Jezreel. him, and said unto him, thy prophets with the
Elijah went up to the top Arise and eat. 6And he sword; and I, even I
of Carmel; and he cast Chapter 19 looked, and, behold, only, am left; and they
himself down upon the there was a cake baken seek my life, to take it
earth, and put his face And
1
Ahab told on the coals, and a cruse away. 11And he said, Go
between his knees, 43And Jezebel all that Elijah had of water at his headb. forth, and stand upon
said to his servant, Go done, and withal how he And he did eat and drink, the mount before the
had slain all the prophets and laid him down again. LORD. And, behold, the
i
Take: or, Apprehend with the sword. 2Then LORD passed by, and a
j a
a sound...: or, a sound of a for himself: Heb. for his life great and strong wind
k b
noise of rain Prepare: Heb. Tie, or, Bind head: Heb. bolster
rent the mountains, and Hazael to be king over back again: for what and all that I have. 5And
brake in pieces the rocks Syria: 16And Jehu the son have I done to thee? the messengers came
before the LORD; but the of Nimshi shalt thou 21
And he returned back again, and said, Thus
LORD was not in the anoint to be king over from him, and took a speaketh Benhadad,
wind: and after the wind Israel: and Elishac the yoke of oxen, and slew saying, Although I have
an earthquake; but the son of Shaphat of them, and boiled their sent unto thee, saying,
LORD was not in the Abelmeholah shalt thou flesh with the Thou shalt deliver me
earthquake: 12And after anoint to be prophet in instruments of the oxen, thy silver, and thy gold,
the earthquake a fire; thy room. 17And it shall and gave unto the and thy wives, and thy
but the LORD was not in come to pass, that him people, and they did eat. children; 6Yet I will send
the fire: and after the that escapeth the sword Then he arose, and went my servants unto thee
fire a still small voice. of Hazael shall Jehu slay: after Elijah, and to morrow about this
13
And it was so, when and him that escapeth ministered unto him. time, and they shall
Elijah heard it, that he from the sword of Jehu search thine house, and
wrapped his face in his shall Elisha slay. 18Yet I Chapter 20 the houses of thy
mantle, and went out, have left me seven servants; and it shall
and stood in the entering thousand in Israel, all the
1
And Benhadad the be, that whatsoever is
in of the cave. And, knees which have not king of Syria gathered all pleasanta in thine eyes,
behold, there came a bowed unto Baal, and his host together: and they shall put it in their
voice unto him, and said, every mouth which hath there were thirty and hand, and take it away.
What doest thou here, not kissed him. two kings with him, and 7
Then the king of Israel
Elijah? 14And he said, I 19
So he departed horses, and chariots: and called all the elders of
have been very jealous thence, and found Elisha he went up and besieged the land, and said,
for the LORD God of the son of Shaphat, who Samaria, and warred Mark, I pray you, and
hosts: because the was plowing with twelve against it. 2And he sent see how this man
children of Israel have yoke of oxen before him, messengers to Ahab king seeketh mischief: for he
forsaken thy covenant, and he with the twelfth: of Israel into the city, sent unto me for my
thrown down thine and Elijah passed by and said unto him, Thus wives, and for my
altars, and slain thy him, and cast his mantle saith Benhadad, 3Thy children, and for my
prophets with the sword; upon him. 20And he left silver and thy gold is silver, and for my gold;
and I, even I only, am the oxen, and ran after mine; thy wives also and and I deniedb him not.
left; and they seek my Elijah, and said, Let me, I thy children, even the 8
And all the elders and
life, to take it away. pray thee, kiss my father goodliest, are mine. 4And all the people said unto
15
And the LORD said unto and my mother, and the king of Israel him, Hearken not unto
him, Go, return on thy then I will follow thee. answered and said, My
a
way to the wilderness of And he said unto him, Go lord, O king, according to pleasant: Heb. desirable
b
Damascus: and when thy saying, I am thine, I denied...: Heb. I kept not
c
thou comest, anoint Elisha: Gr. Eliseus back from him
him, nor consent. behold, there camee a and Benhadad sent out, of Syria said unto him,
9
Wherefore he said unto prophet unto Ahab king and they told him, Their gods are gods of
the messengers of of Israel, saying, Thus saying, There are men the hills; therefore they
Benhadad, Tell my lord saith the LORD, Hast come out of Samaria. were stronger than we;
the king, All that thou thou seen all this great 18
And he said, Whether but let us fight against
didst send for to thy multitude? behold, I will they be come out for them in the plain, and
servant at the first I will deliver it into thine hand peace, take them alive; surely we shall be
do: but this thing I may this day; and thou shalt or whether they be come stronger than they.
not do. And the know that I am the out for war, take them 24
And do this thing,
messengers departed, LORD. 14And Ahab said, alive. 19So these young Take the kings away,
and brought him word By whom? And he said, men of the princes of the every man out of his
again. 10And Benhadad Thus saith the LORD, provinces came out of place, and put captains
sent unto him, and said, Even by the young men the city, and the army in their rooms: 25And
The gods do so unto me, of the princes of the which followed them. number thee an army,
and more also, if the provinces. Then he said, 20
And they slew every like the army that thou
dust of Samaria shall Who shall order the one his man: and the hast lost, horse for
suffice for handfuls for battle? And he Syrians fled; and Israel horse, and chariot for
all the people that answered, Thou. 15
Then pursued them: and chariot: and we will
followc me. 11
And the he numbered the young Benhadad the king of fight against them in
king of Israel answered men of the princes of the Syria escaped on an the plain, and surely we
and said, Tell him, Let provinces, and they were horse with the shall be stronger than
not him that girdeth on two hundred and thirty horsemen. And the king
21
they. And he hearkened
his harness boast two: and after them he of Israel went out, and unto their voice, and
himself as he that numbered all the people, smote the horses and did so. 26And it came to
putteth it off. even all the children of chariots, and slew the pass at the return of
12
And it came to pass, Israel, being seven Syrians with a great the year, that
when Benhadad heard thousand. 16And they slaughter. Benhadad numbered
this messaged, as he was went out at noon. But 22
And the prophet the Syrians, and went
drinking, he and the Benhadad was drinking came to the king of up to Aphek, to fightf
kings in the pavilions, himself drunk in the Israel, and said unto him, against Israel. 27
And
that he said unto his pavilions, he and the Go, strengthen thyself, the children of Israel
servants, Set yourselves kings, the thirty and two and mark, and see what were numbered, and
in array. And they set kings that helped him. thou doest: for at the were all present, and
themselves in array 17
And the young men of return of the year the went against them: and
against the city. 13
And, the princes of the king of Syria will come the children of Israel
c
provinces went out first; up against thee. 23And f
follow...: Heb. are at my feet the servants of the king to fight...: Heb. to the war
d e
message: Heb. word came: Heb. approached with Israel
pitched before them like the kings of the house of said Ahab, I will send aside, and brought a
two little flocks of kids; Israel are merciful kings: thee away with this man unto me, and said,
but the Syrians filled the let us, I pray thee, put covenant. So he made a Keep this man: if by any
country. 28
And there sackcloth on our loins, covenant with him, and means he be missing,
came a man of God, and and ropes upon our sent him away. 35And a then shall thy life be for
spake unto the king of heads, and go out to the certain man of the sons his life, or else thou
Israel, and said, Thus king of Israel: of the prophets said unto shalt payg a talent of
saith the LORD, Because peradventure he will his neighbour in the silver. 40
And as thy
the Syrians have said, save thy life. 32So they word of the LORD, Smite servant was busy here
The LORD is God of the girded sackcloth on their me, I pray thee. And the and there, he was gone.
hills, but he is not God of loins, and put ropes on man refused to smite And the king of Israel
the valleys, therefore will their heads, and came to him. 36Then said he unto said unto him, So shall
I deliver all this great the king of Israel, and him, Because thou hast thy judgment be;
multitude into thine said, Thy servant not obeyed the voice of thyself hast decided it.
hand, and ye shall know Benhadad saith, I pray the LORD, behold, as 41
And he hasted, and
that I am the LORD. thee, let me live. And he soon as thou art took the ashes away
29
And they pitched one said, Is he yet alive? he departed from me, a lion from his face; and the
over against the other is my brother. 33Now the shall slay thee. And as king of Israel discerned
seven days. And so it men did diligently soon as he was departed him that he was of the
was, that in the seventh observe whether any from him, a lion found prophets. 42And he said
day the battle was thing would come from him, and slew him. unto him, Thus saith
joined: and the children him, and did hastily 37
Then he found another the LORD, Because
of Israel slew of the catch it: and they said, man, and said, Smite thou hast let go out of
Syrians an hundred Thy brother Benhadad. me, I pray thee. And the thy hand a man whom I
thousand footmen in one Then he said, Go ye, man smote him, so that appointed to utter
day. 30But the rest fled to bring him. Then in smiting he wounded destruction, therefore
Aphek, into the city; and Benhadad came forth to him. 38So the prophet thy life shall go for his
there a wall fell upon him; and he caused him departed, and waited for life, and thy people for
twenty and seven to come up into the the king by the way, and his people. 43And the
thousand of the men chariot. 34And Benhadad disguised himself with king of Israel went to
that were left. And said unto him, The cities, ashes upon his face. his house heavy and
Benhadad fled, and which my father took 39
And as the king passed displeased, and came
came into the city, into from thy father, I will by, he cried unto the to Samaria.
an inner chamber. restore; and thou shalt king: and he said, Thy
31
And his servants make streets for thee in servant went out into the Chapter 21
said unto him, Behold Damascus, as my father midst of the battle; and,
now, we have heard that made in Samaria. Then behold, a man turned g
pay: Heb. weigh
1
And it came to pass spirit so sad, that thou blaspheme God and the vineyard of Naboth the
after these things, that eatest no bread? 6And he king. And then carry him Jezreelite, which he
Naboth the Jezreelite said unto her, Because I out, and stone him, that refused to give thee for
had a vineyard, which spake unto Naboth the he may die. 11And the money: for Naboth is
was in Jezreel, hard by Jezreelite, and said unto men of his city, even the not alive, but dead.
the palace of Ahab king him, Give me thy elders and the nobles 16
And it came to pass,
of Samaria. 2And Ahab vineyard for money; or who were the inhabitants when Ahab heard that
spake unto Naboth, else, if it please thee, I in his city, did as Jezebel Naboth was dead, that
saying, Give me thy will give thee another had sent unto them, and Ahab rose up to go
vineyard, that I may vineyard for it: and he as it was written in the down to the vineyard of
have it for a garden of answered, I will not give letters which she had Naboth the Jezreelite, to
herbs, because it is near thee my vineyard. 7And sent unto them. 12They take possession of it.
unto my house: and I will Jezebel his wife said unto proclaimed a fast, and 17
And the word of the
give thee for it a better him, Dost thou now set Naboth on high LORD came to Elijah the
vineyard than it; or, if it govern the kingdom of among the people. 13And Tishbite, saying, 18Arise,
seem good to thee, I will Israel? arise, and eat there came in two men, go down to meet Ahab
give thee the worth of it bread, and let thine children of Belial, and sat king of Israel, which is
in money. 3And Naboth heart be merry: I will before him: and the men in Samaria: behold, he
said to Ahab, The LORD give thee the vineyard of of Belial witnessed is in the vineyard of
forbid it me, that I should Naboth the Jezreelite. against him, even Naboth, whither he is
give the inheritance of 8
So she wrote letters in against Naboth, in the gone down to possess
my fathers unto thee. Ahab’s name, and sealed presence of the people, it. 19And thou shalt
4
And Ahab came into his them with his seal, and saying, Naboth did speak unto him, saying,
house heavy and sent the letters unto the blaspheme God and the Thus saith the LORD,
displeased because of elders and to the nobles king. Then they carried Hast thou killed, and
the word which Naboth that were in his city, him forth out of the city, also taken possession?
the Jezreelite had spoken dwelling with Naboth. and stoned him with And thou shalt speak
to him: for he had said, I 9
And she wrote in the stones, that he died. unto him, saying, Thus
will not give thee the letters, saying, Proclaim 14
Then they sent to saith the LORD, In the
inheritance of my a fast, and set Naboth on Jezebel, saying, Naboth place where dogs licked
fathers. And he laid him higha among the people: is stoned, and is dead. the blood of Naboth
down upon his bed, and 10
And set two men, sons 15
And it came to pass, shall dogs lick thy
turned away his face, of Belial, before him, to when Jezebel heard that blood, even thine. 20And
and would eat no bread. bear witness against Naboth was stoned, and Ahab said to Elijah, Hast
5
But Jezebel his wife him, saying, Thou didst was dead, that Jezebel thou found me, O mine
came to him, and said a
said to Ahab, Arise, take enemy? And he
unto him, Why is thy on high...: Heb. in the top of possession of the answered, I have found
the people
thee: because thou hast idols, according to all ours, and we be stilla, son of Imlah, by whom
sold thyself to work evil things as did the and take it not out of the we may enquire of the
in the sight of the LORD. Amorites, whom the hand of the king of LORD: but I hate him;
21
Behold, I will bring evil LORD cast out before the Syria? 4And he said unto for he doth not
upon thee, and will take children of Israel. 27And it Jehoshaphat, Wilt thou prophesy good
away thy posterity, and came to pass, when go with me to battle to concerning me, but evil.
will cut off from Ahab Ahab heard those words, Ramothgilead? And And Jehoshaphat said,
him that pisseth against that he rent his clothes, Jehoshaphat said to the Let not the king say so.
the wall, and him that is and put sackcloth upon king of Israel, I am as 9
Then the king of Israel
shut up and left in Israel, his flesh, and fasted, and thou art, my people as called an officerb, and
22
And will make thine lay in sackcloth, and thy people, my horses as said, Hasten hither
house like the house of went softly. 28And the thy horses. 5
And Micaiah the son of
Jeroboam the son of word of the LORD came Jehoshaphat said unto Imlah. 10And the king of
Nebat, and like the to Elijah the Tishbite, the king of Israel, Israel and Jehoshaphat
house of Baasha the son saying, 29Seest thou how Enquire, I pray thee, at the king of Judah sat
of Ahijah, for the Ahab humbleth himself the word of the LORD to each on his throne,
provocation wherewith before me? because he day. 6Then the king of having put on their
thou hast provoked me humbleth himself before Israel gathered the robes, in a void place in
to anger, and made me, I will not bring the prophets together, about the entrance of the
Israel to sin. 23And of evil in his days: but in his four hundred men, and gate of Samaria; and all
Jezebel also spake the son’s days will I bring the said unto them, Shall I the prophets
LORD, saying, The dogs evil upon his house. go against Ramothgilead prophesied before
shall eat Jezebel by the to battle, or shall I them. 11And Zedekiah
wallb of Jezreel. 24
Him Chapter 22 forbear? And they said, the son of Chenaanah
that dieth of Ahab in the Go up; for the Lord shall made him horns of iron:
city the dogs shall eat;
1
And they continued deliver it into the hand of and he said, Thus saith
and him that dieth in the three years without war the king. 7
And the LORD, With these
field shall the fowls of between Syria and Israel. Jehoshaphat said, Is shalt thou push the
the air eat. 25But there
2
And it came to pass in there not here a prophet Syrians, until thou have
was none like unto Ahab, the third year, that of the LORD besides, consumed them. 12And
which did sell himself to Jehoshaphat the king of that we might enquire of all the prophets
work wickedness in the Judah came down to the him? 8And the king of prophesied so, saying,
sight of the LORD, whom king of Israel. 3And the Israel said unto Go up to Ramothgilead,
Jezebel his wife stirred king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is and prosper: for the
up. 26And he did very his servants, Know ye yet one man, Micaiah the LORD shall deliver it
abominably in following that Ramoth in Gilead is into the king’s hand.
a
still...: Heb. silent from taking
b b
wall: or, ditch it officer: or, eunuch
13
And the messenger every man to his house LORD hath put a lying king of Judah went up
that was gone to call in peace. 18And the king spirit in the mouth of all to Ramothgilead. 30And
Micaiah spake unto him, of Israel said unto these thy prophets, and the king of Israel said
saying, Behold now, the Jehoshaphat, Did I not the LORD hath spoken unto Jehoshaphat, I will
words of the prophets tell thee that he would evil concerning thee. disguise myself, and
declare good unto the prophesy no good 24
But Zedekiah the son of enter into the battle;
king with one mouth: let concerning me, but evil? Chenaanah went near, but put thou on thy
thy word, I pray thee, be 19
And he said, Hear thou and smote Micaiah on robes. And the king of
like the word of one of therefore the word of the the cheek, and said, Israel disguised himself,
them, and speak that LORD: I saw the LORD Which way went the and went into the
which is good. 14And sitting on his throne, and Spirit of the LORD from battle. 31But the king of
Micaiah said, As the all the host of heaven me to speak unto thee? Syria commanded his
LORD liveth, what the standing by him on his 25
And Micaiah said, thirty and two captains
LORD saith unto me, that right hand and on his Behold, thou shalt see in that had rule over his
will I speak. left. 20And the LORD said, that day, when thou chariots, saying, Fight
15
So he came to the Who shall persuadec shalt go into an inner neither with small nor
king. And the king said Ahab, that he may go up chamber to hide thyself. great, save only with
unto him, Micaiah, shall and fall at 26
And the king of Israel the king of Israel. 32And
we go against Ramothgilead? And one said, Take Micaiah, and it came to pass, when
Ramothgilead to battle, said on this manner, and carry him back unto the captains of the
or shall we forbear? And another said on that Amon the governor of chariots saw
he answered him, Go, manner. 21
And there the city, and to Joash the Jehoshaphat, that they
and prosper: for the came forth a spirit, and king’s son; 27And say, said, Surely it is the
LORD shall deliver it into stood before the LORD, Thus saith the king, Put king of Israel. And they
the hand of the king. and said, I will persuade this fellow in the prison, turned aside to fight
16
And the king said unto him. 22And the LORD said and feed him with bread against him: and
him, How many times unto him, Wherewith? of affliction and with Jehoshaphat cried out.
shall I adjure thee that And he said, I will go water of affliction, until I 33
And it came to pass,
thou tell me nothing but forth, and I will be a lying come in peace. 28And when the captains of
that which is true in the spirit in the mouth of all Micaiah said, If thou the chariots perceived
name of the LORD? 17And his prophets. And he return at all in peace, that it was not the king
he said, I saw all Israel said, Thou shalt the LORD hath not of Israel, that they
scattered upon the hills, persuade him, and spoken by me. And he turned back from
as sheep that have not a prevail also: go forth, said, Hearken, O people, pursuing him. 34
And a
shepherd: and the LORD and do so. 23
Now every one of you. certain man drew a bow
said, These have no therefore, behold, the 29
So the king of Israel at a venture, and smote
master: let them return c
and Jehoshaphat the the king of Israel
persuade: or, deceive
between the joints of the he did, and the ivory 41
And Jehoshaphat the his father Asa, he took
harness: wherefore he house which he made, son of Asa began to out of the land. 47There
said unto the driver of and all the cities that he reign over Judah in the was then no king in
his chariot, Turn thine built, are they not fourth year of Ahab king Edom: a deputy was
hand, and carry me out written in the book of the of Israel. 42Jehoshaphat king. 48Jehoshaphat
of the host; for I am chronicles of the kings of was thirty and five years madef ships of
wounded. 35
And the Israel? 40So Ahab slept old when he began to Tharshish to go to Ophir
battle increasedd that with his fathers; and reign; and he reigned for gold: but they went
day: and the king was Ahaziah his son reigned twenty and five years in not; for the ships were
stayed up in his chariot in his stead. Jerusalem. And his broken at Eziongeber.
against the Syrians, and mother’s name was 49
Then said Ahaziah the
died at even: and the Azubah the daughter of son of Ahab unto
blood ran out of the Shilhi. 43And he walked in Jehoshaphat, Let my
wound into the midst of all the ways of Asa his servants go with thy
the chariot. 36And there father; he turned not servants in the ships.
went a proclamation aside from it, doing that But Jehoshaphat would
throughout the host which was right in the not. 50And Jehoshaphat
about the going down of eyes of the LORD: slept with his fathers,
the sun, saying, Every nevertheless the high and was buried with his
man to his city, and places were not taken fathers in the city of
every man to his own away; for the people David his father: and
country. 37So the king offered and burnt Jehoram his son reigned
died, and was broughte incense yet in the high in his stead. 51Ahaziah
to Samaria; and they places. 44And the son of Ahab began
buried the king in Jehoshaphat made peace to reign over Israel in
Samaria. 38
And one with the king of Israel. Samaria the
washed the chariot in 45
Now the rest of the seventeenth year of
the pool of Samaria; and acts of Jehoshaphat, and Jehoshaphat king of
the dogs licked up his his might that he Judah, and reigned two
blood; and they washed shewed, and how he years over Israel. 52And
his armour; according warred, are they not he did evil in the sight
unto the word of the written in the book of the of the LORD, and
LORD which he spake. chronicles of the kings of walked in the way of his
39
Now the rest of the Judah? 46And the father, and in the way
acts of Ahab, and all that remnant of the of his mother, and in
d
sodomites, which the way of Jeroboam
increased: Heb. ascended remained in the days of
e f
was brought: Heb. came made...: or, had ten ships
the son of Nebat, who LORD, Thou shalt not unto him a captain of went up, and came and
made Israel to sin: 53For come down from that fifty with his fifty. And he fella on his knees before
he served Baal, and bed on which thou art went up to him: and, Elijah, and besought
worshipped him, and gone up, but shalt surely behold, he sat on the top him, and said unto him,
provoked to anger the die. And Elijah departed. of an hill. And he spake O man of God, I pray
LORD God of Israel, 5
And when the unto him, Thou man of thee, let my life, and
according to all that his messengers turned back God, the king hath said, the life of these fifty thy
father had done. unto him, he said unto Come down. 10And Elijah servants, be precious in
them, Why are ye now answered and said to the thy sight. 14
Behold,
Second Kings turned back? 6And they captain of fifty, If I be a there came fire down
said unto him, There man of God, then let fire from heaven, and burnt
Chapter 1 came a man up to meet come down from up the two captains of
us, and said unto us, Go, heaven, and consume the former fifties with
1
Then Moab rebelled turn again unto the king thee and thy fifty. And their fifties: therefore
against Israel after the that sent you, and say there came down fire let my life now be
death of Ahab. 2And unto him, Thus saith the from heaven, and precious in thy sight.
Ahaziah fell down LORD, Is it not because consumed him and his 15
And the angel of the
through a lattice in his there is not a God in fifty. 11Again also he sent LORD said unto Elijah,
upper chamber that was Israel, that thou sendest unto him another captain Go down with him: be
in Samaria, and was sick: to enquire of Baalzebub of fifty with his fifty. And not afraid of him. And
and he sent messengers, the god of Ekron? he answered and said he arose, and went
and said unto them, Go, therefore thou shalt not unto him, O man of God, down with him unto the
enquire of Baalzebub the come down from that thus hath the king said, king. 16And he said unto
god of Ekron whether I bed on which thou art Come down quickly. him, Thus saith the
shall recover of this gone up, but shalt surely 12
And Elijah answered LORD, Forasmuch as
disease. 3But the angel die. 7And he said unto and said unto them, If I thou hast sent
of the LORD said to them, What manner of be a man of God, let fire messengers to enquire
Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, man was he which came come down from of Baalzebub the god of
go up to meet the up to meet you, and told heaven, and consume Ekron, is it not because
messengers of the king you these words? 8And thee and thy fifty. And there is no God in Israel
of Samaria, and say unto they answered him, He the fire of God came to enquire of his word?
them, Is it not because was an hairy man, and down from heaven, and therefore thou shalt not
there is not a God in girt with a girdle of consumed him and his come down off that bed
Israel, that ye go to leather about his loins. fifty. 13And he sent again on which thou art gone
enquire of Baalzebub the And he said, It is Elijah a captain of the third up, but shalt surely die.
god of Ekron? 4Now the Tishbite. fifty with his fifty. And 17
So he died according
therefore thus saith the 9
Then the king sent the third captain of fifty a
fell: Heb. bowed
to the word of the LORD thy head to day? And he it together, and smote them in two pieces.
which Elijah had spoken. said, Yea, I know it; hold the waters, and they 13
He took up also the
And Jehoram reigned in ye your peace. 4And were divided hither and mantle of Elijah that fell
his stead in the second Elijah said unto him, thither, so that they two from him, and went
year of Jehoram the son Elisha, tarry here, I pray went over on dry ground. back, and stood by the
of Jehoshaphat king of thee; for the LORD hath 9
And it came to pass, bankb of Jordan; 14And
Judah; because he had sent me to Jericho. And when they were gone he took the mantle of
no son. 18Now the rest of he said, As the LORD over, that Elijah said Elijah that fell from him,
the acts of Ahaziah liveth, and as thy soul unto Elisha, Ask what I and smote the waters,
which he did, are they liveth, I will not leave shall do for thee, before I and said, Where is the
not written in the book of thee. So they came to be taken away from LORD God of Elijah? and
the chronicles of the Jericho. 5And the sons of thee. And Elisha said, I when he also had
kings of Israel? the prophets that were pray thee, let a double smitten the waters,
at Jericho came to Elisha, portion of thy spirit be they parted hither and
Chapter 2 and said unto him, upon me. 10And he said, thither: and Elisha went
Knowest thou that the Thou hast asked a hard over. 15And when the
1
And it came to pass, LORD will take away thy thing: nevertheless, if sons of the prophets
when the LORD would master from thy head to thou see me when I am which were to view at
take up Elijah into day? And he answered, taken from thee, it shall Jericho saw him, they
heaven by a whirlwind, Yea, I know it; hold ye be so unto thee; but if said, The spirit of Elijah
that Elijah went with your peace. 6And Elijah not, it shall not be so. doth rest on Elisha. And
Elisha from Gilgal. 2And said unto him, Tarry, I 11
And it came to pass, as they came to meet him,
Elijah said unto Elisha, pray thee, here; for the they still went on, and and bowed themselves
Tarry here, I pray thee; LORD hath sent me to talked, that, behold, to the ground before
for the LORD hath sent Jordan. And he said, As there appeared a chariot him. 16And they said
me to Bethel. And Elisha the LORD liveth, and as of fire, and horses of fire, unto him, Behold now,
said unto him, As the thy soul liveth, I will not and parted them both there be with thy
LORD liveth, and as thy leave thee. And they two asunder; and Elijah went servants fifty strongc
soul liveth, I will not went on. 7And fifty men up by a whirlwind into men; let them go, we
leave thee. So they went of the sons of the heaven. 12And Elisha saw pray thee, and seek thy
down to Bethel. 3And the prophets went, and it, and he cried, My master: lest
sons of the prophets that stood to view afar off:
a
father, my father, the peradventure the Spirit
were at Bethel came and they two stood by chariot of Israel, and the of the LORD hath taken
forth to Elisha, and said Jordan. 8And Elijah took horsemen thereof. And him up, and cast him
unto him, Knowest thou his mantle, and wrapped he saw him no more: b
that the LORD will take and he took hold of his bank: Heb. lip
a c
away thy master from to view: Heb. in sight, or, over own clothes, and rent strong...: Heb. sons of
against strength
upon some mountain, or this day, according to mother: for he put away up? And he answered,
into some valley. And he the saying of Elisha the imagea of Baal that The way through the
said, Ye shall not send. which he spake. 23And he his father had made. wilderness of Edom. 9So
17
And when they urged went up from thence 3
Nevertheless he cleaved the king of Israel went,
him till he was ashamed, unto Bethel: and as he unto the sins of and the king of Judah,
he said, Send. They sent was going up by the Jeroboam the son of and the king of Edom:
therefore fifty men; and way, there came forth Nebat, which made and they fetched a
they sought three days, little children out of the Israel to sin; he departed compass of seven days’
but found him not. 18And city, and mocked him, not therefrom. 4
And journey: and there was
when they came again to and said unto him, Go Mesha king of Moab was no water for the host,
him, (for he tarried at up, thou bald head; go a sheepmaster, and and for the cattle that
Jericho,) he said unto up, thou bald head. rendered unto the king followed them. 10
And
them, Did I not say unto 24
And he turned back, of Israel an hundred the king of Israel said,
you, Go not? and looked on them, and thousand lambs, and an Alas! that the LORD
19
And the men of the cursed them in the name hundred thousand rams, hath called these three
city said unto Elisha, of the LORD. And there with the wool. 5But it kings together, to
Behold, I pray thee, the came forth two she came to pass, when deliver them into the
situation of this city is bears out of the wood, Ahab was dead, that the hand of Moab! 11But
pleasant, as my lord and tare forty and two king of Moab rebelled Jehoshaphat said, Is
seeth: but the water is children of them. 25And against the king of Israel. there not here a
naught, and the ground he went from thence to 6
And king Jehoram prophet of the LORD,
barrend. 20And he said, mount Carmel, and from went out of Samaria the that we may enquire of
Bring me a new cruse, thence he returned to same time, and the LORD by him? And
and put salt therein. And Samaria. numbered all Israel. And7
one of the king of
they brought it to him. he went and sent to Israel’s servants
21
And he went forth unto Chapter 3 Jehoshaphat the king of answered and said,
the spring of the waters, Judah, saying, The king Here is Elisha the son of
and cast the salt in
1
Now Jehoram the son of Moab hath rebelled Shaphat, which poured
there, and said, Thus of Ahab began to reign against me: wilt thou go water on the hands of
saith the LORD, I have over Israel in Samaria with me against Moab to Elijah. 12
And
healed these waters; the eighteenth year of battle? And he said, I will Jehoshaphat said, The
there shall not be from Jehoshaphat king of go up: I am as thou art, word of the LORD is
thence any more death Judah, and reigned my people as thy people, with him. So the king of
or barren land. 22So the twelve years. 2And he and my horses as thy Israel and Jehoshaphat
waters were healed unto wrought evil in the sight horses. 8And he said, and the king of Edom
of the LORD; but not like Which way shall we go went down to him.
d
barren: Heb. causing to his father, and like his 13
And Elisha said unto
a
miscarry image: Heb. statue
the king of Israel, What will deliver the Moabites surely slaind, and they him for a burnt offering
have I to do with thee? also into your hand. have smitten one upon the wall. And
get thee to the prophets 19
And ye shall smite another: now therefore, there was great
of thy father, and to the every fenced city, and Moab, to the spoil. 24And indignation against
prophets of thy mother. every choice city, and when they came to the Israel: and they
And the king of Israel shall fell every good camp of Israel, the departed from him, and
said unto him, Nay: for tree, and stop all wells of Israelites rose up and returned to their own
the LORD hath called water, and marb every smote the Moabites, so land.
these three kings good piece of land with that they fled before
together, to deliver them stones. them: but they went Chapter 4
into the hand of Moab. 20
And it came to pass forward smiting the
14
And Elisha said, As the in the morning, when the Moabites, even in their
1
Now there cried a
LORD of hosts liveth, meat offering was country. 25And they beat certain woman of the
before whom I stand, offered, that, behold, down the cities, and on wives of the sons of the
surely, were it not that I there came water by the every good piece of land prophets unto Elisha,
regard the presence of way of Edom, and the cast every man his saying, Thy servant my
Jehoshaphat the king of country was filled with stone, and filled it; and husband is dead; and
Judah, I would not look water. 21And when all the they stopped all the thou knowest that thy
toward thee, nor see Moabites heard that the wells of water, and felled servant did fear the
thee. 15But now bring me kings were come up to all the good trees: only LORD: and the creditor
a minstrel. And it came fight against them, they in Kirharaseth left they is come to take unto
to pass, when the gatheredc all that were the stones thereof; him my two sons to be
minstrel played, that the able to put on armour, howbeit the slingers bondmen. 2And Elisha
hand of the LORD came and upward, and stood went about it, and smote said unto her, What
upon him. 16And he said, in the border. 22
And it. 26And when the king shall I do for thee? tell
Thus saith the LORD, they rose up early in the of Moab saw that the me, what hast thou in
Make this valley full of morning, and the sun battle was too sore for the house? And she
ditches. 17For thus saith shone upon the water, him, he took with him said, Thine handmaid
the LORD, Ye shall not and the Moabites saw seven hundred men that hath not any thing in
see wind, neither shall the water on the other drew swords, to break the house, save a pot of
ye see rain; yet that side as red as blood: through even unto the oil. 3Then he said, Go,
valley shall be filled with 23
And they said, This is king of Edom: but they borrow thee vessels
water, that ye may drink, blood: the kings are could not. 27Then he took abroad of all thy
both ye, and your cattle, his eldest son that neighbours, even
and your beasts. 18And should have reigned in empty vessels; borrow
b
this is but a light thing in mar: Heb. grieve his stead, and offered not a few. 4And when
c
the sight of the LORD: he gathered: Heb. were cried thou art come in, thou
d
together slain: Heb. destroyed
shalt shut the door upon Behold now, I perceive he said, Call her. And pray thee, one of the
thee and upon thy sons, that this is an holy man when he had called her, young men, and one of
and shalt pour out into of God, which passeth by she stood in the door. the asses, that I may
all those vessels, and us continually. 10Let us 16
And he said, About this run to the man of God,
thou shalt set aside that make a little chamber, I seasonc, according to the and come again. 23And
which is full. 5So she pray thee, on the wall; time of life, thou shalt he said, Wherefore wilt
went from him, and shut and let us set for him embrace a son. And she thou go to him to day?
the door upon her and there a bed, and a table, said, Nay, my lord, thou it is neither new moon,
upon her sons, who and a stool, and a man of God, do not lie nor sabbath. And she
brought the vessels to candlestick: and it shall unto thine handmaid. said, It shall be welld.
her; and she poured out. be, when he cometh to 17
And the woman 24
Then she saddled an
6
And it came to pass, us, that he shall turn in conceived, and bare a ass, and said to her
when the vessels were thither. 11And it fell on a son at that season that servant, Drive, and go
full, that she said unto day, that he came Elisha had said unto her, forward; slacke not thy
her son, Bring me yet a thither, and he turned according to the time of riding for me, except I
vessel. And he said unto into the chamber, and life. bid thee. 25So she went
her, There is not a vessel lay there. 12And he said 18
And when the child and came unto the man
more. And the oil stayed. to Gehazi his servant, was grown, it fell on a of God to mount
7
Then she came and told Call this Shunammite. day, that he went out to Carmel. And it came to
the man of God. And he And when he had called his father to the reapers. pass, when the man of
said, Go, sell the oil, and her, she stood before 19
And he said unto his God saw her afar off,
pay thy debta, and live him. 13And he said unto father, My head, my that he said to Gehazi
thou and thy children of him, Say now unto her, head. And he said to a his servant, Behold,
the rest. Behold, thou hast been lad, Carry him to his yonder is that
8
And it fell on a dayb, careful for us with all this mother. 20And when he Shunammite: 26
Run
that Elisha passed to care; what is to be done had taken him, and now, I pray thee, to
Shunem, where was a for thee? wouldest thou brought him to his meet her, and say unto
great woman; and she be spoken for to the mother, he sat on her her, Is it well with thee?
constrained him to eat king, or to the captain of knees till noon, and then is it well with thy
bread. And so it was, the host? And she died. 21And she went up, husband? is it well with
that as oft as he passed answered, I dwell among and laid him on the bed the child? And she
by, he turned in thither mine own people. 14And of the man of God, and answered, It is well.
to eat bread. 9And she he said, What then is to shut the door upon him, 27
And when she came to
said unto her husband, be done for her? And and went out. 22And she the man of God to the
a
Gehazi answered, Verily called unto her husband, d
debt: or, creditor she hath no child, and and said, Send me, I well: Heb. peace
b e
it fell on a day: Heb. there was her husband is old. 15And slack...: Heb. restrain not for
c
a day season: Heb. set time me to ride
hill, she caught him by child is not awaked. ground, and took up her there came a man from
the feet: but Gehazi 32
And when Elisha was son, and went out. Baalshalisha, and
came near to thrust her come into the house, 38
And Elisha came brought the man of God
away. And the man of behold, the child was again to Gilgal: and bread of the firstfruits,
God said, Let her alone; dead, and laid upon his there was a dearth in the twenty loaves of barley,
for her soul is vexed bed. 33
He went in land; and the sons of the and full ears of corn in
within her: and the LORD therefore, and shut the prophets were sitting the huski thereof. And
hath hid it from me, and door upon them twain, before him: and he said he said, Give unto the
hath not told me. and prayed unto the unto his servant, Set on people, that they may
28
Then she said, Did I LORD. 34And he went up, the great pot, and eat. 43And his servitor
desire a son of my lord? and lay upon the child, seethe pottage for the said, What, should I set
did I not say, Do not and put his mouth upon sons of the prophets. this before an hundred
deceive me? 29Then he his mouth, and his eyes 39
And one went out into men? He said again,
said to Gehazi, Gird up upon his eyes, and his the field to gather herbs, Give the people, that
thy loins, and take my hands upon his hands: and found a wild vine, they may eat: for thus
staff in thine hand, and and he stretched himself and gathered thereof saith the LORD, They
go thy way: if thou meet upon the child; and the wild gourds his lap full, shall eat, and shall
any man, salute him not; flesh of the child waxed and came and shred leave thereof. 44So he
and if any salute thee, warm. 35
Then he them into the pot of set it before them, and
answer him not again: returned, and walked in pottage: for they knew they did eat, and left
and lay my staff upon the house to and frog; them not. 40So they thereof, according to
the face of the child. and went up, and poured out for the men the word of the LORD.
30
And the mother of the stretched himself upon to eat. And it came to
child said, As the LORD him: and the child pass, as they were Chapter 5
liveth, and as thy soul sneezed seven times, eating of the pottage,
liveth, I will not leave and the child opened his that they cried out, and Now
1
Naaman,
thee. And he arose, and eyes. 36
And he called said, O thou man of God, captain of the host of
followed her. 31
And Gehazi, and said, Call there is death in the pot. the king of Syria, was a
Gehazi passed on before this Shunammite. So he And they could not eat great man witha his
them, and laid the staff called her. And when she thereof. 41But he said, master, and
upon the face of the was come in unto him, Then bring meal. And he honourable, because by
child; but there was he said, Take up thy son. cast it into the pot; and him the LORD had
neither voice, nor 37
Then she went in, and he said, Pour out for the given deliverance unto
hearing . Wherefore he
f
fell at his feet, and people, that they may Syria: he was also a
went again to meet him, bowed herself to the eat. And there was no i
and told him, saying, The harmh in the pot. 42And the husk...: or, his scrip, or,
g
to and fro: Heb. once hither garment
f h a
hearing: Heb. attention and one thither harm: Heb. evil thing with: Heb. before
mighty man in valour, leprosy. 7And it came to Behold, I thoughtc, He all his company, and
but he was a leper. pass, when the king of will surely come out to came, and stood before
2
And the Syrians had Israel had read the me, and stand, and call him: and he said,
gone out by companies, letter, that he rent his on the name of the LORD Behold, now I know that
and had brought away clothes, and said, Am I his God, and strike his there is no God in all
captive out of the land of God, to kill and to make hand over the place, and the earth, but in Israel:
Israel a little maid; and alive, that this man doth recover the leper. now therefore, I pray
she waited on Naaman’s send unto me to recover 12
Are not Abana and d
thee, take a blessing of
wife. 3And she said unto a man of his leprosy? Pharpar, rivers of thy servant. 16But he
her mistress, Would God wherefore consider, I Damascus, better than said, As the LORD
my lord were withb the pray you, and see how all the waters of Israel? liveth, before whom I
prophet that is in he seeketh a quarrel may I not wash in them, stand, I will receive
Samaria! for he would against me. 8And it was and be clean? So he none. And he urged him
recover him of his so, when Elisha the man turned and went away in to take it; but he
leprosy. 4And one went of God had heard that a rage. 13
And his refused. 17And Naaman
in, and told his lord, the king of Israel had servants came near, and said, Shall there not
saying, Thus and thus rent his clothes, that he spake unto him, and then, I pray thee, be
said the maid that is of sent to the king, saying, said, My father, if the given to thy servant
the land of Israel. 5And Wherefore hast thou rent prophet had bid thee do two mules’ burden of
the king of Syria said, Go thy clothes? let him some great thing, earth? for thy servant
to, go, and I will send a come now to me, and he wouldest thou not have will henceforth offer
letter unto the king of shall know that there is a done it? how much neither burnt offering
Israel. And he departed, prophet in Israel. rather then, when he nor sacrifice unto other
and took with him ten 9
So Naaman came saith to thee, Wash, and gods, but unto the
talents of silver, and six with his horses and with be clean? 14Then went he LORD. 18In this thing the
thousand pieces of gold, his chariot, and stood at down, and dipped LORD pardon thy
and ten changes of the door of the house of himself seven times in servant, that when my
raiment. 6
And he Elisha. 10And Elisha sent Jordan, according to the master goeth into the
brought the letter to the a messenger unto him, saying of the man of house of Rimmon to
king of Israel, saying, saying, Go and wash in God: and his flesh came worship there, and he
Now when this letter is Jordan seven times, and again like unto the flesh leaneth on my hand,
come unto thee, behold, thy flesh shall come of a little child, and he and I bow myself in the
I have therewith sent again to thee, and thou was clean. house of Rimmon: when
Naaman my servant to shalt be clean. 11But 15
And he returned to I bow down myself in
thee, that thou mayest Naaman was wroth, and the man of God, he and the house of Rimmon,
recover him of his went away, and said, c
the LORD pardon thy
I thought: Heb. I said servant in this thing.
b d
with: Heb. before Abana: or, Amana
19
And he said unto him, him, and bound two Naaman shall cleave the place. And he cut
Go in peace. So he talents of silver in two unto thee, and unto thy down a stick, and cast
departed from him a bags, with two changes seed for ever. And he it in thither; and the
littlee way. of garments, and laid went out from his iron did swim.
20
But Gehazi, the them upon two of his presence a leper as 7
Therefore said he,
servant of Elisha the servants; and they bare white as snow. Take it up to thee. And
man of God, said, them before him. 24And he put out his hand,
Behold, my master hath when he came to the Chapter 6 and took it.
spared Naaman this towerf, he took them 8
Then the king of
Syrian, in not receiving from their hand, and And the sons of the
1
Syria warred against
at his hands that which bestowed them in the prophets said unto Israel, and took counsel
he brought: but, as the house: and he let the Elisha, Behold now, the with his servants,
LORD liveth, I will run men go, and they place where we dwell saying, In such and
after him, and take departed. 25
But he went with thee is too strait for such a place shall be
somewhat of him. 21So in, and stood before his us. 2Let us go, we pray my campb. 9
And the
Gehazi followed after master. And Elisha said thee, unto Jordan, and man of God sent unto
Naaman. And when unto him, Whence take thence every man a the king of Israel,
Naaman saw him comest thou, Gehazi? beam, and let us make saying, Beware that
running after him, he And he said, Thy servant us a place there, where thou pass not such a
lighted down from the went no whitherg. 26And we may dwell. And he place; for thither the
chariot to meet him, and he said unto him, Went answered, Go ye. 3And Syrians are come down.
said, Is all well? 22And he not mine heart with one said, Be content, I 10
And the king of Israel
said, All is well. My thee, when the man pray thee, and go with sent to the place which
master hath sent me, turned again from his thy servants. And he the man of God told
saying, Behold, even chariot to meet thee? Is answered, I will go. 4So him and warned him of,
now there be come to it a time to receive he went with them. And and saved himself
me from mount Ephraim money, and to receive when they came to there, not once nor
two young men of the garments, and Jordan, they cut down twice. 11Therefore the
sons of the prophets: oliveyards, and wood. 5But as one was heart of the king of
give them, I pray thee, a vineyards, and sheep, felling a beam, the axe Syria was sore troubled
talent of silver, and two and oxen, and heada fell into the water: for this thing; and he
changes of garments. menservants, and and he cried, and said, called his servants, and
23
And Naaman said, Be maidservants? 27
The Alas, master! for it was said unto them, Will ye
content, take two leprosy therefore of borrowed. 6And the man not shew me which of
talents. And he urged of God said, Where fell us is for the king of
f
tower: or, secret place it? And he shewed him Israel? 12And one of his
e g
a little...: Heb. a little piece of no whither: Heb. not hither or
a b
ground thither axe head: Heb. iron camp: or, encamping
servants said, None, my may see. And the LORD smite them? shall I smite saying, Help, my lord, O
lordc, O king: but Elisha, opened the eyes of the them? 22
And he king. 27And he said, If
the prophet that is in young man; and he saw: answered, Thou shalt not the LORD do not help
Israel, telleth the king of and, behold, the smite them: wouldest thee, whence shall I
Israel the words that mountain was full of thou smite those whom help thee? out of the
thou speakest in thy horses and chariots of thou hast taken captive barnfloor, or out of the
bedchamber. fire round about Elisha. with thy sword and with winepress? 28
And the
13
And he said, Go and 18
And when they came thy bow? set bread and king said unto her,
spy where he is, that I down to him, Elisha water before them, that What aileth thee? And
may send and fetch him. prayed unto the LORD, they may eat and drink, she answered, This
And it was told him, and said, Smite this and go to their master. woman said unto me,
saying, Behold, he is in people, I pray thee, with 23
And he prepared great Give thy son, that we
Dothan. 14Therefore sent blindness. And he smote provision for them: and may eat him to day,
he thither horses, and them with blindness when they had eaten and we will eat my son
chariots, and a greatd according to the word of and drunk, he sent them to morrow. 29So we
host: and they came by Elisha. 19And Elisha said away, and they went to boiled my son, and did
night, and compassed unto them, This is not their master. So the eat him: and I said unto
the city about. 15
And the way, neither is this bands of Syria came no her on the nextg day,
when the servant of the
e
the city: followf me, and I more into the land of Give thy son, that we
man of God was risen will bring you to the man Israel. may eat him: and she
early, and gone forth, whom ye seek. But he 24
And it came to pass hath hid her son. 30And
behold, an host led them to Samaria. after this, that Benhadad it came to pass, when
compassed the city both 20
And it came to pass, king of Syria gathered all the king heard the
with horses and chariots. when they were come his host, and went up, words of the woman,
And his servant said into Samaria, that Elisha and besieged Samaria. that he rent his clothes;
unto him, Alas, my said, LORD, open the 25
And there was a great and he passed by upon
master! how shall we eyes of these men, that famine in Samaria: and, the wall, and the people
do? 16And he answered, they may see. And the behold, they besieged it, looked, and, behold, he
Fear not: for they that LORD opened their eyes, until an ass’s head was had sackcloth within
be with us are more than and they saw; and, sold for fourscore pieces upon his flesh. 31Then
they that be with them. behold, they were in the of silver, and the fourth he said, God do so and
17
And Elisha prayed, and midst of Samaria. 21And part of a cab of dove’s more also to me, if the
said, LORD, I pray thee, the king of Israel said dung for five pieces of head of Elisha the son
open his eyes, that he unto Elisha, when he saw silver. 26And as the king of Shaphat shall stand
c
them, My father, shall I of Israel was passing by on him this day. 32But
None: Heb. No upon the wall, there Elisha sat in his house,
d f
great: Heb. heavy follow...: Heb. come ye after cried a woman unto him,
e g
the servant: or, the minister me next: Heb. other
and the elders sat with whose hand the king hear a noise of chariots, the king’s household.
him; and the king sent a leaned answered the and a noise of horses, 10
So they came and
man from before him: man of God, and said, even the noise of a great called unto the porter of
but ere the messenger Behold, if the LORD host: and they said one the city: and they told
came to him, he said to would make windows in to another, Lo, the king them, saying, We came
the elders, See ye how heaven, might this thing of Israel hath hired to the camp of the
this son of a murderer be? And he said, Behold, against us the kings of Syrians, and, behold,
hath sent to take away thou shalt see it with the Hittites, and the there was no man
mine head? look, when thine eyes, but shalt not kings of the Egyptians, there, neither voice of
the messenger cometh, eat thereof. to come upon us. man, but horses tied,
shut the door, and hold 3
And there were four 7
Wherefore they arose and asses tied, and the
him fast at the door: is leprous men at the and fled in the twilight, tents as they were.
not the sound of his entering in of the gate: and left their tents, and 11
And he called the
master’s feet behind and they said one to their horses, and their porters; and they told it
him? 33And while he yet another, Why sit we here asses, even the camp as to the king’s house
talked with them, until we die? 4If we say, it was, and fled for their within.
behold, the messenger We will enter into the life. 8And when these 12
And the king arose
came down unto him: city, then the famine is lepers came to the in the night, and said
and he said, Behold, this in the city, and we shall uttermost part of the unto his servants, I will
evil is of the LORD; what die there: and if we sit camp, they went into now shew you what the
should I wait for the still here, we die also. one tent, and did eat and Syrians have done to
LORD any longer? Now therefore come, and drink, and carried thence us. They know that we
let us fall unto the host silver, and gold, and be hungry; therefore
Chapter 7 of the Syrians: if they raiment, and went and are they gone out of the
save us alive, we shall hid it; and came again, camp to hide
1
Then Elisha said, live; and if they kill us, and entered into another themselves in the field,
Hear ye the word of the we shall but die. 5And tent, and carried thence saying, When they
LORD; Thus saith the they rose up in the also, and went and hid it. come out of the city, we
LORD, To morrow about twilight, to go unto the 9
Then they said one to shall catch them alive,
this time shall a measure camp of the Syrians: and another, We do not well: and get into the city.
of fine flour be sold for a when they were come to this day is a day of good 13
And one of his
shekel, and two the uttermost part of the tidings, and we hold our servants answered and
measures of barley for a camp of Syria, behold, peace: if we tarry till the said, Let some take, I
shekel, in the gate of there was no man there. morning light, some pray thee, five of the
Samaria. 2Then a lorda on 6
For the Lord had made mischief will come upon horses that remain,
a
the host of the Syrians to us: now therefore come, which are left in the
a lord...: Heb. a lord which that we may go and tell city, (behold, they are
belonged to the king leaning upon his hand
as all the multitude of when the king came upon the land seven appointed unto her a
Israel that are leftb in it: down to him. 18And it years. 2And the woman certain officera, saying,
behold, I say, they are came to pass as the man arose, and did after the Restore all that was
even as all the multitude of God had spoken to the saying of the man of hers, and all the fruits
of the Israelites that are king, saying, Two God: and she went with of the field since the
consumed:) and let us measures of barley for a her household, and day that she left the
send and see. 14
They shekel, and a measure of sojourned in the land of land, even until now.
took therefore two fine flour for a shekel, the Philistines seven 7
And Elisha came to
chariot horses; and the shall be to morrow about years. 3And it came to Damascus; and
king sent after the host this time in the gate of pass at the seven years’ Benhadad the king of
of the Syrians, saying, Samaria: 19And that lord end, that the woman Syria was sick; and it
Go and see. 15And they answered the man of returned out of the land was told him, saying,
went after them unto God, and said, Now, of the Philistines: and The man of God is come
Jordan: and, lo, all the behold, if the LORD she went forth to cry hither. 8And the king
way was full of garments should make windows in unto the king for her said unto Hazael, Take
and vessels, which the heaven, might such a house and for her land. a present in thine hand,
Syrians had cast away in thing be? And he said, 4
And the king talked with and go, meet the man
their haste. And the Behold, thou shalt see it Gehazi the servant of the of God, and enquire of
messengers returned, with thine eyes, but shalt man of God, saying, Tell the LORD by him,
and told the king. 16And not eat thereof. 20And so me, I pray thee, all the saying, Shall I recover
the people went out, and it fell out unto him: for great things that Elisha of this disease? 9So
spoiled the tents of the the people trode upon hath done. 5And it came Hazael went to meet
Syrians. So a measure of him in the gate, and he to pass, as he was telling him, and took a present
fine flour was sold for a died. the king how he had with him, even of every
shekel, and two restored a dead body to good thing of
measures of barley for a Chapter 8 life, that, behold, the Damascus, forty
shekel, according to the woman, whose son he camels’ burden, and
word of the LORD. 17And
1
Then spake Elisha had restored to life, cried came and stood before
the king appointed the unto the woman, whose to the king for her house him, and said, Thy son
lord on whose hand he son he had restored to and for her land. And Benhadad king of Syria
leaned to have the life, saying, Arise, and go Gehazi said, My lord, O hath sent me to thee,
charge of the gate: and thou and thine king, this is the woman, saying, Shall I recover
the people trode upon household, and sojourn and this is her son, of this disease? 10And
him in the gate, and he wheresoever thou canst whom Elisha restored to Elisha said unto him,
died, as the man of God sojourn: for the LORD life. 6And when the king Go, say unto him, Thou
had said, who spake hath called for a famine; asked the woman, she mayest certainly
and it shall also come told him. So the king
b a
in the city: Heb. in it officer: or, eunuch
recover: howbeit the a thick cloth, and dipped and smote the Edomites 27
And he walked in the
LORD hath shewed me it in water, and spread it which compassed him way of the house of
that he shall surely die. on his face, so that he about, and the captains Ahab, and did evil in
11
And he settled his died: and Hazael reigned of the chariots: and the the sight of the LORD,
countenance stedfastlyb, in his stead. people fled into their as did the house of
until he was ashamed: 16
And in the fifth year tents. 22
Yet Edom Ahab: for he was the
and the man of God of Joram the son of Ahab revolted from under the son in law of the house
wept. 12And Hazael said, king of Israel, hand of Judah unto this of Ahab. 28And he went
Why weepeth my lord? Jehoshaphat being then day. Then Libnah with Joram the son of
And he answered, king of Judah, Jehoram revolted at the same Ahab to the war against
Because I know the evil the son of Jehoshaphat time. 23And the rest of Hazael king of Syria in
that thou wilt do unto king of Judah began to the acts of Joram, and all Ramothgilead; and the
the children of Israel: reign. 17Thirty and two that he did, are they not Syrians wounded Joram.
their strong holds wilt years old was he when written in the book of the 29
And king Joram went
thou set on fire, and he began to reign; and chronicles of the kings of back to be healed in
their young men wilt he reigned eight years in Judah? 24And Joram slept Jezreel of the wounds
thou slay with the sword, Jerusalem. 18
And he with his fathers, and was which the Syrians had
and wilt dash their walked in the way of the buried with his fathers in given him at Ramah,
children, and rip up their kings of Israel, as did the the city of David: and when he fought against
women with child. 13And house of Ahab: for the Ahaziahd his son reigned Hazael king of Syria.
Hazael said, But what, is daughter of Ahab was in his stead. And Ahaziah the son of
thy servant a dog, that his wife: and he did evil 25
In the twelfth year Jehoram king of Judah
he should do this great in the sight of the LORD. of Joram the son of Ahab went down to see Joram
thing? And Elisha 19
Yet the LORD would not king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Ahab in
answered, The LORD destroy Judah for David the son of Jehoram king Jezreel, because he was
hath shewed me that his servant’s sake, as he of Judah begin to reign. sick.
thou shalt be king over promised him to give 26
Two and twenty years
Syria. 14So he departed him alway a lightc, and to old was Ahaziah when he Chapter 9
from Elisha, and came to his children. 20
In his began to reign; and he
his master; who said to days Edom revolted from reigned one year in And
1
Elisha the
him, What said Elisha to under the hand of Judah, Jerusalem. And his prophet called one of
thee? And he answered, and made a king over mother’s name was the children of the
He told me that thou themselves. 21So Joram Athaliah, the daughtere prophets, and said unto
shouldest surely recover. went over to Zair, and all of Omri king of Israel. him, Gird up thy loins,
15
And it came to pass on the chariots with him: and take this box of oil
d
the morrow, that he took and he rose by night, Ahaziah: also called, Azariah, in thine hand, and go to
and Jehoahaz Ramothgilead: 2
And
b c e
stedfastly: Heb. and set it light: Heb. candle, or, lamp daughter: or, granddaughter
when thou comest 7
And thou shalt smite the to me, saying, Thus saith stood a watchman on
thither, look out there house of Ahab thy the LORD, I have the tower in Jezreel,
Jehu the son of master, that I may anointed thee king over and he spied the
Jehoshaphat the son of avenge the blood of my Israel. 13
Then they company of Jehu as he
Nimshi, and go in, and servants the prophets, hasted, and took every came, and said, I see a
make him arise up from and the blood of all the man his garment, and company. And Joram
among his brethren, and servants of the LORD, at put it under him on the said, Take an
carry him to an innera the hand of Jezebel. 8For top of the stairs, and horseman, and send to
chamber; 3Then take the the whole house of Ahab blew with trumpets, meet them, and let him
box of oil, and pour it on shall perish: and I will cut saying, Jehu is kingb. say, Is it peace? 18So
his head, and say, Thus off from Ahab him that 14
So Jehu the son of there went one on
saith the LORD, I have pisseth against the wall, Jehoshaphat the son of horseback to meet him,
anointed thee king over and him that is shut up Nimshi conspired against and said, Thus saith the
Israel. Then open the and left in Israel: 9And I Joram. (Now Joram had king, Is it peace? And
door, and flee, and tarry will make the house of kept Ramothgilead, he Jehu said, What hast
not. 4So the young man, Ahab like the house of and all Israel, because of thou to do with peace?
even the young man the Jeroboam the son of Hazael king of Syria. turn thee behind me.
prophet, went to Nebat, and like the 15
But king Joramc was And the watchman told,
Ramothgilead. 5
And house of Baasha the son returned to be healed in saying, The messenger
when he came, behold, of Ahijah: 10And the dogs Jezreel of the wounds came to them, but he
the captains of the host shall eat Jezebel in the which the Syrians had cometh not again.
were sitting; and he said, portion of Jezreel, and given him, when he 19
Then he sent out a
I have an errand to thee, there shall be none to fought with Hazael king second on horseback,
O captain. And Jehu said, bury her. And he opened of Syria.) And Jehu said, which came to them,
Unto which of all us? And the door, and fled. If it be your minds, then and said, Thus saith the
he said, To thee, O 11
Then Jehu came let none go forth nor king, Is it peace? And
captain. 6And he arose, forth to the servants of escape out of the city to Jehu answered, What
and went into the house; his lord: and one said go to tell it in Jezreel. hast thou to do with
and he poured the oil on unto him, Is all well? 16
So Jehu rode in a peace? turn thee
his head, and said unto wherefore came this chariot, and went to behind me. 20
And the
him, Thus saith the mad fellow to thee? And Jezreel; for Joram lay watchman told, saying,
LORD God of Israel, I he said unto them, Ye there. And Ahaziah king He came even unto
have anointed thee king know the man, and his of Judah was come down them, and cometh not
over the people of the communication. 12
And to see Joram. 17And there again: and the drivingd
LORD, even over Israel. they said, It is false; tell b
is like the driving of
us now. And he said, is king: Heb. reigneth Jehu the son of Nimshi;
a c
inner...: Heb. chamber in a Thus and thus spake he Joram: Heb. Jehoram but not
d
chamber in verse sixteen driving: or, marching
for he driveth furiously. thou rode together after come to Jezreel, Jezebel he said, This is the word
21
And Joram said, Make Ahab his father, the heard of it; and she of the LORD, which he
readye. And his chariot LORD laid this burden paintedg her face, and spake byi his servant
was made ready. And upon him; 26Surely I have tired her head, and Elijah the Tishbite,
Joram king of Israel and seen yesterday the looked out at a window. saying, In the portion of
Ahaziah king of Judah blood of Naboth, and the
f 31
And as Jehu entered in Jezreel shall dogs eat
went out, each in his blood of his sons, saith at the gate, she said, the flesh of Jezebel:
chariot, and they went the LORD; and I will Had Zimri peace, who 37
And the carcase of
out against Jehu, and requite thee in this plat, slew his master? 32And Jezebel shall be as dung
met him in the portion of saith the LORD. Now he lifted up his face to upon the face of the
Naboth the Jezreelite. therefore take and cast the window, and said, field in the portion of
22
And it came to pass, him into the plat of Who is on my side? who? Jezreel; so that they
when Joram saw Jehu, ground, according to the And there looked out to shall not say, This is
that he said, Is it peace, word of the LORD. 27But him two or three Jezebel.
Jehu? And he answered, when Ahaziah the king of eunuchsh. 33And he said,
What peace, so long as Judah saw this, he fled Throw her down. So they Chapter 10
the whoredoms of thy by the way of the garden threw her down: and
mother Jezebel and her house. And Jehu followed some of her blood was And
1
Ahab had
witchcrafts are so many? after him, and said, sprinkled on the wall, seventy sons in
23
And Joram turned his Smite him also in the and on the horses: and Samaria. And Jehu
hands, and fled, and said chariot. And they did so he trode her under foot. wrote letters, and sent
to Ahaziah, There is at the going up to Gur, 34
And when he was come to Samaria, unto the
treachery, O Ahaziah. which is by Ibleam. And in, he did eat and drink, rulers of Jezreel, to the
24
And Jehu drew a bow he fled to Megiddo, and and said, Go, see now elders, and to them that
with his full strength, died there. 28And his this cursed woman, and brought up Ahab’s
and smote Jehoram servants carried him in a bury her: for she is a children, saying, 2Now
between his arms, and chariot to Jerusalem, and king’s daughter. 35And as soon as this letter
the arrow went out at his buried him in his they went to bury her: cometh to you, seeing
heart, and he sunk down sepulchre with his but they found no more your master’s sons are
in his chariot. 25
Then fathers in the city of of her than the skull, and with you, and there are
said Jehu to Bidkar his David. 29And in the the feet, and the palms with you chariots and
captain, Take up, and eleventh year of Joram of her hands. horses, a fenced city
cast him in the portion of the son of Ahab began 36
Wherefore they came also, and armour; 3Look
the field of Naboth the Ahaziah to reign over again, and told him. And even out the best and
Jezreelite: for remember Judah. meetest of your
g
how that, when I and 30
And when Jehu was painted...: Heb. put her eyes in master’s sons, and set
painting
e f h i
Make ready: Heb. Bind blood: Heb. bloods eunuchs: or, chamberlains by: Heb. by the hand of
him on his father’s slew seventy persons, him none remaining. he gave him his hand;
throne, and fight for your and put their heads in 12
And he arose and and he took him up to
master’s house. 4But baskets, and sent him departed, and came to him into the chariot.
they were exceedingly them to Jezreel. 8And Samaria. And as he was 16
And he said, Come
afraid, and said, Behold, there came a at the shearingd house in with me, and see my
two kings stood not messenger, and told the way, 13Jehu met with zeal for the LORD. So
before him: how then him, saying, They have the brethren of Ahaziah they made him ride in
shall we stand? 5And he brought the heads of the king of Judah, and said, his chariot. 17And when
that was over the house, king’s sons. And he said, Who are ye? And they he came to Samaria, he
and he that was over the Lay ye them in two answered, We are the slew all that remained
city, the elders also, and heaps at the entering in brethren of Ahaziah; and unto Ahab in Samaria,
the bringers up of the of the gate until the we go down to salutee till he had destroyed
children, sent to Jehu, morning. 9And it came to the children of the king him, according to the
saying, We are thy pass in the morning, that and the children of the saying of the LORD,
servants, and will do all he went out, and stood, queen. 14
And he said, which he spake to
that thou shalt bid us; and said to all the Take them alive. And Elijah. 18
And Jehu
we will not make any people, Ye be righteous: they took them alive, gathered all the people
king: do thou that which behold, I conspired and slew them at the pit together, and said unto
is good in thine eyes. against my master, and of the shearing house, them, Ahab served Baal
6
Then he wrote a letter slew him: but who slew even two and forty men; a little; but Jehu shall
the second time to them, all these? 10Know now neither left he any of serve him much. 19Now
saying, If ye be mine, that there shall fall unto them. therefore call unto me
and if ye will hearkena the earth nothing of the 15
And when he was all the prophets of Baal,
unto my voice, take ye word of the LORD, which departed thence, he all his servants, and all
the heads of the men the LORD spake lighted on Jehonadab the his priests; let none be
your master’s sons, and concerning the house of son of Rechab coming to wanting: for I have a
come to me to Jezreel by Ahab: for the LORD hath meet him: and he great sacrifice to do to
to morrow this time. Now done that which he saluted him, and said to Baal; whosoever shall
the king’s sons, being spake byb his servant him, Is thine heart right, be wanting, he shall not
seventy persons, were Elijah. 11So Jehu slew all as my heart is with thy live. But Jehu did it in
with the great men of that remained of the heart? And Jehonadab subtilty, to the intent
the city, which brought house of Ahab in Jezreel, answered, It is. If it be, that he might destroy
them up. 7And it came and all his great men, give me thine hand. And the worshippers of Baal.
to pass, when the letter and his kinsfolksc, and d
20
And Jehu said,
came to them, that they his priests, until he left shearing...: Heb. house of Proclaimf a solemn
took the king’s sons, and shepherds binding sheep assembly for Baal. And
b e
by: Heb. by the hand of to salute...: Heb. to the peace
a c f
mine: Heb. for me kinsfolks: or, acquaintance of, etc Proclaim: Heb. Sanctify
they proclaimed it. for the life of him. 25And thou hast done well in with his fathers: and
21
And Jehu sent through it came to pass, as soon executing that which is they buried him in
all Israel: and all the as he had made an end right in mine eyes, and Samaria. And Jehoahaz
worshippers of Baal of offering the burnt hast done unto the his son reigned in his
came, so that there was offering, that Jehu said to house of Ahab according stead. 36And the timel
not a man left that came the guard and to the to all that was in mine that Jehu reigned over
not. And they came into captains, Go in, and slay heart, thy children of the Israel in Samaria was
the house of Baal; and them; let none come fourth generation shall twenty and eight years.
the house of Baal was forth. And they smote sit on the throne of
fullg from one end to them with the edgeh of Israel. 31But Jehu took no Chapter 11
another. 22And he said the sword; and the guard heed to walk in the law
unto him that was over and the captains cast of the LORD God of Israel And when Athaliah
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the vestry, Bring forth them out, and went to with all his heart: for he the mother of Ahaziah
vestments for all the the city of the house of departed not from the saw that her son was
worshippers of Baal. And Baal. 26And they brought sins of Jeroboam, which dead, she arose and
he brought them forth forth the imagesi out of made Israel to sin. 32In destroyed all the seeda
vestments. 23And Jehu the house of Baal, and those days the LORD royal. 2But Jehoshebab,
went, and Jehonadab the burned them. 27And they began to cutj Israel the daughter of king
son of Rechab, into the brake down the image of short: and Hazael smote Joram, sister of Ahaziah,
house of Baal, and said Baal, and brake down them in all the coasts of took Joash the son of
unto the worshippers of the house of Baal, and Israel; 33
From Jordan Ahaziah, and stole him
Baal, Search, and look made it a draught house eastward , all the land of
k from among the king’s
that there be here with unto this day. 28Thus Gilead, the Gadites, and sons which were slain;
you none of the servants Jehu destroyed Baal out the Reubenites, and the and they hid him, even
of the LORD, but the of Israel. Manassites, from Aroer, him and his nurse, in
worshippers of Baal only. 29
Howbeit from the which is by the river the bedchamber from
24
And when they went in sins of Jeroboam the son Arnon, even Gilead and Athaliah, so that he was
to offer sacrifices and of Nebat, who made Bashan. 34Now the rest not slain. 3And he was
burnt offerings, Jehu Israel to sin, Jehu of the acts of Jehu, and with her hid in the
appointed fourscore men departed not from after all that he did, and all his house of the LORD six
without, and said, If any them, to wit, the golden might, are they not years. And Athaliah did
of the men whom I have calves that were in written in the book of the reign over the land.
brought into your hands Bethel, and that were in chronicles of the kings of l
escape, he that letteth Dan. 30And the LORD Israel? 35And Jehu slept the time: Heb. the days were
a
him go, his life shall be said unto Jehu, Because seed...: Heb. seed of the
j
to cut: Heb. to cut off the ends kingdom
g h k b
full...: or, so full that they the edge: Heb. the mouth eastward: Heb. toward the Jehosheba: also called,
i
stood mouth to mouth images: Heb. statues rising of the sun Jehoshabeath
And the seventh year
4
with his weapons in his made him king, and she slain.
Jehoiada sent and hand: and he that anointed him; and they 17
And Jehoiada made
fetched the rulers over cometh within the clapped their hands, and a covenant between the
hundreds, with the ranges, let him be slain: said, God save the king. LORD and the king and
captains and the guard, and be ye with the king 13
And when Athaliah the people, that they
and brought them to him as he goeth out and as heard the noise of the should be the LORD’S
into the house of the he cometh in. 9And the guard and of the people, people; between the
LORD, and made a captains over the she came to the people king also and the
covenant with them, and hundreds did according into the temple of the people. 18And all the
took an oath of them in to all things that LORD. 14And when she people of the land went
the house of the LORD, Jehoiada the priest looked, behold, the king into the house of Baal,
and shewed them the commanded: and they stood by a pillar, as the and brake it down; his
king’s son. 5And he took every man his men manner was, and the altars and his images
commanded them, that were to come in on princes and the brake they in pieces
saying, This is the thing the sabbath, with them trumpeters by the king, thoroughly, and slew
that ye shall do; A third that should go out on the and all the people of the Mattan the priest of
part of you that enter in sabbath, and came to land rejoiced, and blew Baal before the altars.
on the sabbath shall Jehoiada the priest. 10And with trumpets: and And the priest
even be keepers of the to the captains over Athaliah rent her clothes, appointed officerse over
watch of the king’s hundreds did the priest and cried, Treason, the house of the LORD.
house; 6And a third part give king David’s spears Treason. 15But Jehoiada 19
And he took the rulers
shall be at the gate of and shields, that were in the priest commanded over hundreds, and the
Sur; and a third part at the temple of the LORD. the captains of the captains, and the
the gate behind the 11
And the guard stood, hundreds, the officers of guard, and all the
guard: so shall ye keep every man with his the host, and said unto people of the land; and
the watch of the house, weapons in his hand, them, Have her forth they brought down the
that it be not broken round about the king, without the ranges: and king from the house of
down. 7And two partsc of from the right cornerd of him that followeth her the LORD, and came by
all you that go forth on the temple to the left kill with the sword. For the way of the gate of
the sabbath, even they corner of the temple, the priest had said, Let the guard to the king’s
shall keep the watch of along by the altar and her not be slain in the house. And he sat on
the house of the LORD the temple. 12
And he house of the LORD. 16And the throne of the kings.
about the king. 8And ye brought forth the king’s they laid hands on her; 20
And all the people of
shall compass the king son, and put the crown and she went by the way the land rejoiced, and
round about, every man upon him, and gave him by the which the horses the city was in quiet:
c
the testimony; and they came into the king’s and they slew Athaliah
parts: or, companies: Heb. house: and there was
d e
hands corner: Heb. shoulder officers: Heb. offices
with the sword beside the house of the LORD, house of the LORD: and snuffers, basons,
the king’s house. 21Seven 5
Let the priests take it to the priests that kept the trumpets, any vessels
years old was Jehoash them, every man of his doorc put therein all the of gold, or vessels of
when he began to reign. acquaintance: and let money that was brought silver, of the money
them repair the into the house of the that was brought into
Chapter 12 breaches of the house, LORD. 10And it was so, the house of the LORD:
wheresoever any breach when they saw that 14
But they gave that to
1
In the seventh year shall be found. 6But it there was much money the workmen, and
of Jehu Jehoash began to was so, that in the threeb in the chest, that the repaired therewith the
reign; and forty years and twentieth year of king’s scribed and the house of the LORD.
reigned he in Jerusalem. king Jehoash the priests high priest came up, and 15
Moreover they
And his mother’s name had not repaired the they put up in bags, and reckoned not with the
was Zibiah of Beersheba. breaches of the house. told the money that was men, into whose hand
2
And Jehoash did that 7
Then king Jehoash found in the house of the they delivered the
which was right in the called for Jehoiada the LORD. 11And they gave money to be bestowed
sight of the LORD all his priest, and the other the money, being told, on workmen: for they
days wherein Jehoiada priests, and said unto into the hands of them dealt faithfully. 16The
the priest instructed him. them, Why repair ye not that did the work, that trespass money and sin
3
But the high places the breaches of the had the oversight of the money was not brought
were not taken away: house? now therefore house of the LORD: and into the house of the
the people still sacrificed receive no more money they laid it out to the LORD: it was the
and burnt incense in the of your acquaintance, carpenters and builders, priests’.
high places. but deliver it for the that wrought upon the 17
Then Hazael king of
4
And Jehoash said to breaches of the house. house of the LORD, Syria went up, and
the priests, All the 8
And the priests 12
And to masons, and fought against Gath,
money of the dedicated consented to receive no hewers of stone, and to and took it: and Hazael
thingsa that is brought more money of the buy timber and hewed set his face to go up to
into the house of the people, neither to repair stone to repair the Jerusalem. 18
And
LORD, even the money the breaches of the breaches of the house of Jehoash king of Judah
of every one that house. 9But Jehoiada the the LORD, and for all took all the hallowed
passeth the account, the priest took a chest, and that was laid out for the things that
money that every man is bored a hole in the lid of house to repair it. Jehoshaphat, and
set at, and all the money it, and set it beside the 13
Howbeit there were not Jehoram, and Ahaziah,
that cometh into any altar, on the right side as made for the house of his fathers, kings of
man’s heart to bring into one cometh into the the LORD bowls of silver, Judah, had dedicated,
a b c
and his own hallowed
dedicated things: or, holy three...: Heb. twentieth year door: Heb. threshold things, and all the gold
d
things: Heb. holinesses and third year scribe: or, secretary
that was found in the reign over Israel in Jeroboam, who made not from all the sins of
treasures of the house of Samaria, and reigned Israel sin, but walkedd Jeroboam the son of
the LORD, and in the seventeen years. 2And therein: and there Nebat, who made Israel
king’s house, and sent it he did that which was remained the grove also sin: but he walked
to Hazael king of Syria: evil in the sight of the in Samaria.) 7
Neither therein. 12And the rest
and he went away from LORD, and followedb the did he leave of the of the acts of Joash, and
Jerusalem. 19
And the sins of Jeroboam the son people to Jehoahaz but all that he did, and his
rest of the acts of Joash, of Nebat, which made fifty horsemen, and ten might wherewith he
and all that he did, are Israel to sin; he departed chariots, and ten fought against Amaziah
they not written in the not therefrom. 3And the thousand footmen; for king of Judah, are they
book of the chronicles of anger of the LORD was the king of Syria had not written in the book
the kings of Judah? 20And kindled against Israel, destroyed them, and had of the chronicles of the
his servants arose, and and he delivered them made them like the dust kings of Israel? 13And
made a conspiracy, and into the hand of Hazael by threshing. 8Now the Joash slept with his
slew Joash in the housee king of Syria, and into rest of the acts of fathers; and Jeroboam
of Millo, which goeth the hand of Benhadad Jehoahaz, and all that he sat upon his throne:
down to Silla. 21
For the son of Hazael, all did, and his might, are and Joash was buried in
Jozachar the son of their days. 4
And they not written in the Samaria with the kings
Shimeath, and Jehoahaz besought the book of the chronicles of of Israel. 14Now Elisha
Jehozabad the son of LORD, and the LORD the kings of Israel? 9And was fallen sick of his
Shomer, his servants, hearkened unto him: for Jehoahaz slept with his sickness whereof he
smote him, and he died; he saw the oppression of fathers; and they buried died. And Joash the king
and they buried him with Israel, because the king him in Samaria: and of Israel came down
his fathers in the city of of Syria oppressed them. Joashe his son reigned in unto him, and wept
David: and Amaziah his 5
(And the LORD gave his stead. over his face, and said,
son reigned in his stead. Israel a saviour, so that 10
In the thirty and O my father, my father,
they went out from seventh year of Joash the chariot of Israel,
Chapter 13 under the hand of the king of Judah began and the horsemen
Syrians: and the children Jehoash the son of thereof. 15And Elisha
In the threea and
1
of Israel dwelt in their Jehoahaz to reign over said unto him, Take
twentieth year of Joash tents, as beforetimec. Israel in Samaria, and bow and arrows. And he
the son of Ahaziah king 6
Nevertheless they reigned sixteen years. took unto him bow and
of Judah Jehoahaz the departed not from the 11
And he did that which arrows. 16And he said to
son of Jehu began to sins of the house of was evil in the sight of the king of Israel, Put
e b
the LORD; he departed thine hand upon the
the house...: or, Bethmillo followed: Heb. walked after bow. And he put his
a c d
three...: Heb. twentieth year as beforetime: Heb. as walked: Heb. he walked hand upon it: and Elisha
e
and third year yesterday, and third day Joash: also called, Jehoash
put his hands upon the And Elisha died, and
20
of the hand of Benhadad in his hand, that he
king’s hands. 17And he they buried him. And the the son of Hazael the slew his servants which
said, Open the window bands of the Moabites cities, which he had had slain the king his
eastward. And he invaded the land at the taken out of the hand of father. 6But the children
opened it. Then Elisha coming in of the year. Jehoahaz his father by of the murderers he
said, Shoot. And he shot. 21
And it came to pass, as war. Three times did slew not: according
And he said, The arrow they were burying a Joash beat him, and unto that which is
of the LORD’S man, that, behold, they recovered the cities of written in the book of
deliverance, and the spied a band of men; Israel. the law of Moses,
arrow of deliverance and they cast the man wherein the LORD
from Syria: for thou shalt into the sepulchre of Chapter 14 commanded, saying,
smite the Syrians in Elisha: and when the The fathers shall not be
Aphek, till thou have man was let down, and
1
In the second year of put to death for the
consumed them. 18And touched the bones of Joash son of Jehoahaz children, nor the
he said, Take the arrows. Elisha, he revived, and king of Israel reigned children be put to death
And he took them. And stood up on his feet. Amaziah the son of Joash for the fathers; but
he said unto the king of 22
But Hazael king of Syria king of Judah. 2He was every man shall be put
Israel, Smite upon the oppressed Israel all the twenty and five years old to death for his own sin.
ground. And he smote days of Jehoahaz. 23And when he began to reign, 7
He slew of Edom in the
thrice, and stayed. 19And the LORD was gracious and reigned twenty and valley of salt ten
the man of God was unto them, and had nine years in Jerusalem. thousand, and took
wroth with him, and said, compassion on them, And his mother’s name Selaha by war, and
Thou shouldest have and had respect unto was Jehoaddan of called the name of it
smitten five or six times; them, because of his Jerusalem. And he did
3
Joktheel unto this day.
then hadst thou smitten covenant with Abraham, that which was right in 8
Then Amaziah sent
Syria till thou hadst Isaac, and Jacob, and the sight of the LORD, messengers to Jehoash,
consumed it: whereas would not destroy them, yet not like David his the son of Jehoahaz son
now thou shalt smite neither cast he them father: he did according of Jehu, king of Israel,
Syria but thrice. from his presencef as to all things as Joash his saying, Come, let us
yet. 24So Hazael king of father did. 4Howbeit the look one another in the
Syria died; and high places were not face. 9And Jehoash the
Benhadad his son taken away: as yet the king of Israel sent to
reigned in his stead. people did sacrifice and Amaziah king of Judah,
25
And Jehoash the son of burnt incense on the saying, The thistle that
Jehoahaz tookg again out high places. 5And it came was in Lebanon sent to
to pass, as soon as the the cedar that was in
f
presence: Heb. face kingdom was confirmed
g a
took...: Heb. returned and took Selah: or, the rock
Lebanon, saying, Give corner gate, four to Lachish; but they sent the LORD God of Israel,
thy daughter to my son hundred cubits. And he
14
after him to Lachish, and which he spake by the
to wife: and there took all the gold and slew him there. 20And hand of his servant
passed by a wild beast silver, and all the vessels they brought him on Jonah, the son of
that was in Lebanon, and that were found in the horses: and he was Amittai, the prophet,
trode down the thistle. house of the LORD, and buried at Jerusalem with which was of
10
Thou hast indeed in the treasures of the his fathers in the city of Gathhepher. 26For the
smitten Edom, and thine king’s house, and David. 21And all the LORD saw the affliction
heart hath lifted thee up: hostages, and returned people of Judah took of Israel, that it was
glory of this, and tarry at to Samaria. Azariahc, which was very bitter: for there
homeb: for why 15
Now the rest of the sixteen years old, and was not any shut up,
shouldest thou meddle acts of Jehoash which he made him king instead nor any left, nor any
to thy hurt, that thou did, and his might, and of his father Amaziah. helper for Israel. 27And
shouldest fall, even thou, how he fought with 22
He built Elath, and the LORD said not that
and Judah with thee? Amaziah king of Judah, restored it to Judah, after he would blot out the
11
But Amaziah would not are they not written in that the king slept with name of Israel from
hear. Therefore Jehoash the book of the his fathers. under heaven: but he
king of Israel went up; chronicles of the kings of 23
In the fifteenth year saved them by the
and he and Amaziah king Israel? 16And Jehoash of Amaziah the son of hand of Jeroboam the
of Judah looked one slept with his fathers, Joash king of Judah son of Joash. 28Now the
another in the face at and was buried in Jeroboam the son of rest of the acts of
Bethshemesh, which Samaria with the kings Joash king of Israel Jeroboam, and all that
belongeth to Judah. of Israel; and Jeroboam began to reign in he did, and his might,
12
And Judah was put to his son reigned in his Samaria, and reigned how he warred, and
the worse before Israel; stead. 17And Amaziah the forty and one years. how he recovered
and they fled every man son of Joash king of 24
And he did that which Damascus, and
to their tents. 13
And Judah lived after the was evil in the sight of Hamath, which
Jehoash king of Israel death of Jehoash son of the LORD: he departed belonged to Judah, for
took Amaziah king of Jehoahaz king of Israel not from all the sins of Israel, are they not
Judah, the son of Jehoash fifteen years. 18And the Jeroboam the son of written in the book of
the son of Ahaziah, at rest of the acts of Nebat, who made Israel the chronicles of the
Bethshemesh, and came Amaziah, are they not to sin. 25He restored the kings of Israel? 29And
to Jerusalem, and brake written in the book of the coast of Israel from the Jeroboam slept with his
down the wall of chronicles of the kings of entering of Hamath unto fathers, even with the
Jerusalem from the gate Judah? 19Now they made the sea of the plain, kings of Israel; and
of Ephraim unto the a conspiracy against him according to the word of Zachariah his son
b
in Jerusalem: and he fled c
reigned in his stead.
at home: Heb. at thy house Azariah: also called, Uzziah
Chapter 15 chronicles of the kings of generation. And so it over Israel, and reigned
Judah? 7So Azariah slept came to pass. 13Shallum ten years in Samaria.
In the twenty and
1
with his fathers; and the son of Jabesh began 18
And he did that which
seventh year of they buried him with his to reign in the nine and was evil in the sight of
Jeroboam king of Israel fathers in the city of thirtieth year of Uzziahb the LORD: he departed
began Azariaha son of David: and Jotham his king of Judah; and he not all his days from the
Amaziah king of Judah to son reigned in his stead. reigned a full month in sins of Jeroboam the
reign. 2Sixteen years old 8
In the thirty and Samaria. 14
For son of Nebat, who
was he when he began eighth year of Azariah Menahem the son of made Israel to sin.
to reign, and he reigned king of Judah did Gadi went up from 19
And Pul the king of
two and fifty years in Zachariah the son of Tirzah, and came to Assyria came against
Jerusalem. And his Jeroboam reign over Samaria, and smote the land: and Menahem
mother’s name was Israel in Samaria six Shallum the son of gave Pul a thousand
Jecholiah of Jerusalem. months. 9And he did that Jabesh in Samaria, and talents of silver, that his
3
And he did that which which was evil in the slew him, and reigned in hand might be with him
was right in the sight of sight of the LORD, as his his stead. 15And the rest to confirm the kingdom
the LORD, according to fathers had done: he of the acts of Shallum, in his hand. 20And
all that his father departed not from the and his conspiracy which Menahem exactedc the
Amaziah had done; sins of Jeroboam the son he made, behold, they money of Israel, even of
4
Save that the high of Nebat, who made are written in the book of all the mighty men of
places were not Israel to sin. 10
And the chronicles of the wealth, of each man
removed: the people Shallum the son of kings of Israel. 16Then fifty shekels of silver, to
sacrificed and burnt Jabesh conspired against Menahem smote give to the king of
incense still on the high him, and smote him Tiphsah, and all that Assyria. So the king of
places. 5And the LORD before the people, and were therein, and the Assyria turned back,
smote the king, so that slew him, and reigned in coasts thereof from and stayed not there in
he was a leper unto the his stead. 11And the rest Tirzah: because they the land. 21And the rest
day of his death, and of the acts of Zachariah, opened not to him, of the acts of Menahem,
dwelt in a several house. behold, they are written therefore he smote it; and all that he did, are
And Jotham the king’s in the book of the and all the women they not written in the
son was over the house, chronicles of the kings of therein that were with book of the chronicles
judging the people of the Israel. 12This was the child he ripped up. 17In of the kings of Israel?
land. 6And the rest of the word of the LORD which the nine and thirtieth 22
And Menahem slept
acts of Azariah, and all he spake unto Jehu, year of Azariah king of with his fathers; and
that he did, are they not saying, Thy sons shall sit Judah began Menahem Pekahiah his son
written in the book of the on the throne of Israel the son of Gadi to reign c
unto the fourth exacted: Heb. caused to
a b
Azariah: also called, Uzziah Uzziah: Gr. Ozias come forth
reigned in his stead. 23In departed not from the mother’s name was of Jotham king of Judah
the fiftieth year of sins of Jeroboam the son Jerusha, the daughter of began to reign. 2Twenty
Azariah king of Judah of Nebat, who made Zadok. 34And he did that years old was Ahaz
Pekahiah the son of Israel to sin. 29In the days which was right in the when he began to
Menahem began to reign of Pekah king of Israel sight of the LORD: he did reign, and reigned
over Israel in Samaria, came Tiglathpileser king according to all that his sixteen years in
and reigned two years. of Assyria, and took Ijon, father Uzziah had done. Jerusalem, and did not
24
And he did that which and Abelbethmaachah, 35
Howbeit the high that which was right in
was evil in the sight of and Janoah, and Kedesh, places were not the sight of the LORD
the LORD: he departed and Hazor, and Gilead, removed: the people his God, like David his
not from the sins of and Galilee, all the land sacrificed and burned father. 3But he walked
Jeroboam the son of of Naphtali, and carried incense still in the high in the way of the kings
Nebat, who made Israel them captive to Assyria. places. He built the of Israel, yea, and made
to sin. 25But Pekah the 30
And Hoshea the son of higher gate of the house his son to pass through
son of Remaliah, a Elah made a conspiracy of the LORD. 36Now the the fire, according to
captain of his, conspired against Pekah the son of rest of the acts of the abominations of the
against him, and smote Remaliah, and smote Jotham, and all that he heathen, whom the
him in Samaria, in the him, and slew him, and did, are they not written LORD cast out from
palace of the king’s reigned in his stead, in in the book of the before the children of
house, with Argob and the twentieth year of chronicles of the kings of Israel. 4
And he
Arieh, and with him fifty Jotham the son of Judah? 37In those days sacrificed and burnt
men of the Gileadites: Uzziah. And the rest of
31
the LORD began to send incense in the high
and he killed him, and the acts of Pekah, and all against Judah Rezin the places, and on the hills,
reigned in his room. that he did, behold, they king of Syria, and Pekah and under every green
26
And the rest of the acts are written in the book of the son of Remaliah. tree.
of Pekahiah, and all that the chronicles of the 38
And Jotham slept with 5
Then Rezin king of
he did, behold, they are kings of Israel. his fathers, and was Syria and Pekah son of
written in the book of the 32
In the second year buried with his fathers in Remaliah king of Israel
chronicles of the kings of of Pekah the son of the city of David his came up to Jerusalem
Israel. 27In the two and Remaliah king of Israel father: and Ahaz his son to war: and they
fiftieth year of Azariah began Jotham the son of reigned in his stead. besieged Ahaz, but
king of Judah Pekah the Uzziah king of Judah to could not overcome
son of Remaliah began reign. 33Five and twenty Chapter 16 him. 6At that time Rezin
to reign over Israel in years old was he when king of Syria recovered
Samaria, and reigned he began to reign, and In the seventeenth
1
Elath to Syria, and
twenty years. 28And he he reigned sixteen years year of Pekah the son of drave the Jews from
did that which was evil in in Jerusalem. And his Remaliah Ahaz the son
the sight of the LORD: he
Elatha: and the Syrians fashion of the altar, and morning burnt offering, in the book of the
came to Elath, and dwelt the pattern of it, and the evening meat chronicles of the kings
there unto this day. 7So according to all the offering, and the king’s of Judah? 20And Ahaz
Ahaz sent messengers to workmanship thereof. burnt sacrifice, and his slept with his fathers,
Tiglathpileser king of 11
And Urijah the priest meat offering, with the and was buried with his
Assyria, saying, I am thy built an altar according burnt offering of all the fathers in the city of
servant and thy son: to all that king Ahaz had people of the land, and David: and Hezekiah his
come up, and save me sent from Damascus: so their meat offering, and son reigned in his
out of the hand of the Urijah the priest made it their drink offerings; and stead.
king of Syria, and out of against king Ahaz came sprinkle upon it all the
the hand of the king of from Damascus. 12And blood of the burnt Chapter 17
Israel, which rise up when the king was come offering, and all the
against me. 8And Ahaz from Damascus, the king blood of the sacrifice: In the twelfth year
1

took the silver and gold saw the altar: and the and the brasen altar of Ahaz king of Judah
that was found in the king approached to the shall be for me to began Hoshea the son
house of the LORD, and altar, and offered enquire by. 16Thus did of Elah to reign in
in the treasures of the thereon. 13And he burnt Urijah the priest, Samaria over Israel
king’s house, and sent it his burnt offering and his according to all that king nine years. And he did
2

for a present to the king meat offering, and Ahaz commanded. that which was evil in
of Assyria. 9And the king poured his drink offering, 17
And king Ahaz cut the sight of the LORD,
of Assyria hearkened and sprinkled the blood off the borders of the but not as the kings of
unto him: for the king of of his peace offeringsd, bases, and removed the Israel that were before
Assyria went up against upon the altar. 14And he laver from off them; and him. 3Against him came
Damascusb, and took it, brought also the brasen took down the sea from up Shalmaneser king of
and carried the people altar, which was before off the brasen oxen that Assyria; and Hoshea
of it captive to Kir, and the LORD, from the were under it, and put it became his servant,
slew Rezin. forefront of the house, upon a pavement of and gavea him presents.
10
And king Ahaz went from between the altar stones. 18And the covert
4
And the king of Assyria
to Damascusc to meet and the house of the for the sabbath that they found conspiracy in
Tiglathpileser king of LORD, and put it on the had built in the house, Hoshea: for he had sent
Assyria, and saw an altar north side of the altar. and the king’s entry messengers to So king
that was at Damascus: 15
And king Ahaz without, turned he from of Egypt, and brought
and king Ahaz sent to commanded Urijah the the house of the LORD no presentb to the king
Urijah the priest the priest, saying, Upon the for the king of Assyria. of Assyria, as he had
great altar burn the 19
Now the rest of the done year by year:
a
from Elath: Heb. from Eloth acts of Ahaz which he
b d a
Damascus: Heb. Dammesek his peace offerings: Heb. the did, are they not written gave: Heb. rendered
c b
Damascus: Heb. Dammesek peace offerings which were his present: or, tribute
therefore the king of places in all their cities, hardened their necks, Israel, and removed
Assyria shut him up, and from the tower of the like to the neck of their them out of his sight:
bound him in prison. watchmen to the fenced fathers, that did not there was none left but
5
Then the king of Assyria city. 10And they set them believe in the LORD their the tribe of Judah only.
came up throughout all up imagesc and groves in God. 15And they rejected 19
Also Judah kept not
the land, and went up to every high hill, and his statutes, and his the commandments of
Samaria, and besieged it under every green tree: covenant that he made the LORD their God, but
three years. 6In the ninth 11
And there they burnt with their fathers, and walked in the statutes
year of Hoshea the king incense in all the high his testimonies which he of Israel which they
of Assyria took Samaria, places, as did the testified against them; made. 20And the LORD
and carried Israel away heathen whom the LORD and they followed vanity, rejected all the seed of
into Assyria, and placed carried away before and became vain, and Israel, and afflicted
them in Halah and in them; and wrought went after the heathen them, and delivered
Habor by the river of wicked things to provoke that were round about them into the hand of
Gozan, and in the cities the LORD to anger: 12For them, concerning whom spoilers, until he had
of the Medes. they served idols, the LORD had charged cast them out of his
7
For so it was, that whereof the LORD had them, that they should sight. 21For he rent
the children of Israel had said unto them, Ye shall not do like them. 16And Israel from the house of
sinned against the LORD not do this thing. 13Yet they left all the David; and they made
their God, which had the LORD testified commandments of the Jeroboam the son of
brought them up out of against Israel, and LORD their God, and Nebat king: and
the land of Egypt, from against Judah, by all the
d
made them molten Jeroboam drave Israel
under the hand of prophets, and by all the images, even two calves, from following the
Pharaoh king of Egypt, seers, saying, Turn ye and made a grove, and LORD, and made them
and had feared other from your evil ways, and worshipped all the host sin a great sin. 22For the
gods, 8And walked in the keep my of heaven, and served children of Israel
statutes of the heathen, commandments and my Baal. 17And they caused walked in all the sins of
whom the LORD cast out statutes, according to all their sons and their Jeroboam which he did;
from before the children the law which I daughters to pass they departed not from
of Israel, and of the kings commanded your through the fire, and them; 23Until the LORD
of Israel, which they had fathers, and which I sent used divination and removed Israel out of
made. 9And the children to you by my servants enchantments, and sold his sight, as he had said
of Israel did secretly the prophets. themselves to do evil in by all his servants the
those things that were 14
Notwithstanding they the sight of the LORD, to prophets. So was Israel
not right against the would not hear, but provoke him to anger. carried away out of
LORD their God, and c
18
Therefore the LORD their own land to
they built them high images: Heb. statues was very angry with Assyria unto this day.
d
by: Heb. by the hand of
24
And the king of dwell there, and let him feared the LORD, and evermore; and ye shall
Assyria brought men teach them the manner served their own gods, not fear other gods.
from Babylon, and from of the God of the land. after the manner of the 38
And the covenant that
Cuthah, and from Ava, 28
Then one of the priests nations whom they I have made with you
and from Hamath, and whom they had carried carried away from ye shall not forget;
from Sepharvaim, and away from Samaria thence. 34Unto this day neither shall ye fear
placed them in the cities came and dwelt in they do after the former other gods. 39But the
of Samaria instead of the Bethel, and taught them manners: they fear not LORD your God ye shall
children of Israel: and how they should fear the the LORD, neither do fear; and he shall
they possessed Samaria, LORD. 29Howbeit every they after their statutes, deliver you out of the
and dwelt in the cities nation made gods of or after their ordinances, hand of all your
thereof. 25And so it was their own, and put them or after the law and enemies. 40
Howbeit
at the beginning of their in the houses of the high commandment which they did not hearken,
dwelling there, that they places which the the LORD commanded but they did after their
feared not the LORD: Samaritans had made, the children of Jacob, former manner. 41So
therefore the LORD sent every nation in their whom he named Israel; these nations feared
lions among them, which cities wherein they 35
With whom the LORD the LORD, and served
slew some of them. dwelt. And the men of
30
had made a covenant, their graven images,
26
Wherefore they spake Babylon made and charged them, both their children, and
to the king of Assyria, Succothbenoth, and the saying, Ye shall not fear their children’s
saying, The nations men of Cuth made other gods, nor bow children: as did their
which thou hast Nergal, and the men of yourselves to them, nor fathers, so do they unto
removed, and placed in Hamath made Ashima, serve them, nor sacrifice this day.
the cities of Samaria, 31
And the Avites made to them: 36But the LORD,
know not the manner of Nibhaz and Tartak, and who brought you up out Chapter 18
the God of the land: the Sepharvites burnt of the land of Egypt with
therefore he hath sent their children in fire to great power and a Now it came to pass
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lions among them, and, Adrammelech and stretched out arm, him in the third year of
behold, they slay them, Anammelech, the gods shall ye fear, and him Hoshea son of Elah king
because they know not of Sepharvaim. 32So they shall ye worship, and to of Israel, that Hezekiaha
the manner of the God of feared the LORD, and him shall ye do sacrifice. the son of Ahaz king of
the land. 27Then the king made unto themselves 37
And the statutes, and Judah began to reign.
of Assyria commanded, of the lowest of them the ordinances, and the
2
Twenty and five years
saying, Carry thither one priests of the high law, and the old was he when he
of the priests whom ye places, which sacrificed commandment, which he began to reign; and he
brought from thence; for them in the houses of wrote for you, ye shall a
and let them go and the high places. 33They observe to do for Hezekiah: he is called
Ezekias
reigned twenty and nine forth: and he rebelled LORD commanded, and Rabsaris and
years in Jerusalem. His against the king of would not hear them, Rabshakeh from
mother’s name also was Assyria, and served him nor do them. 13Now in Lachish to king
Abib, the daughter of not. 8He smote the the fourteenth year of Hezekiah with a greatf
Zachariah. 3And he did Philistines, even unto king Hezekiah did host against Jerusalem.
that which was right in Gazad, and the borders Sennacherib e
king of And they went up and
the sight of the LORD, thereof, from the tower Assyria come up against came to Jerusalem. And
according to all that of the watchmen to the all the fenced cities of when they were come
David his father did. 4He fenced city. Judah, and took them. up, they came and
removed the high 9
And it came to pass 14
And Hezekiah king of stood by the conduit of
places, and brake the in the fourth year of king Judah sent to the king of the upper pool, which is
imagesc, and cut down Hezekiah, which was the Assyria to Lachish, in the highway of the
the groves, and brake in seventh year of Hoshea saying, I have offended; fuller’s field. 18
And
pieces the brasen son of Elah king of Israel, return from me: that when they had called to
serpent that Moses had that Shalmaneser king of which thou puttest on the king, there came
made: for unto those Assyria came up against me will I bear. And the out to them Eliakim the
days the children of Samaria, and besieged king of Assyria appointed son of Hilkiah, which
Israel did burn incense to it. 10And at the end of unto Hezekiah king of was over the
it: and he called it three years they took it: Judah three hundred household, and Shebna
Nehushtan. 5He trusted even in the sixth year of talents of silver and the scribeg, and Joah
in the LORD God of Hezekiah, that is the thirty talents of gold. the son of Asaph the
Israel; so that after him ninth year of Hoshea 15
And Hezekiah gave him recorder. 19
And
was none like him king of Israel, Samaria all the silver that was Rabshakeh said unto
among all the kings of was taken. 11And the found in the house of the them, Speak ye now to
Judah, nor any that were king of Assyria did carry LORD, and in the Hezekiah, Thus saith
before him. 6For he clave away Israel unto Assyria, treasures of the king’s the great king, the king
to the LORD, and and put them in Halah house. 16At that time did of Assyria, What
departed not from and in Habor by the river Hezekiah cut off the gold confidence is this
following him, but kept of Gozan, and in the from the doors of the wherein thou trustest?
his commandments, cities of the Medes: temple of the LORD, and 20
Thou sayesth, (but
which the LORD 12
Because they obeyed from the pillars which they are but vain
commanded Moses. not the voice of the Hezekiah king of Judah words,) I have counsel
7
And the LORD was with LORD their God, but had overlaid, and gave it and strength for the
him; and he prospered transgressed his to the king of Assyria. war. Now on whom dost
whithersoever he went covenant, and all that 17
And the king of f
Moses the servant of the Assyria sent Tartan and great: Heb. heavy
b g
Abi: also called, Abijah scribe: or, secretary
c d e h
images: Heb. statues Gaza: Heb. Azzah Sennacherib: Heb. Sanherib sayest: or, talkest
thou trust, that thou LORD against this place for he shall not be able out of the hand of the
rebellest against me? to destroy it? The LORD to deliver you out of his king of Assyria? 34Where
21
Now, behold, thou said to me, Go up hand: 30
Neither let are the gods of
trustest upon the staff of
i
against this land, and Hezekiah make you trust Hamath, and of Arpad?
this bruised reed, even destroy it. 26Then said in the LORD, saying, The where are the gods of
upon Egypt, on which if a Eliakim the son of LORD will surely deliver Sepharvaim, Hena, and
man lean, it will go into Hilkiah, and Shebna, and us, and this city shall not Ivah? have they
his hand, and pierce it: Joah, unto Rabshakeh, be delivered into the delivered Samaria out
so is Pharaoh king of Speak, I pray thee, to thy hand of the king of of mine hand? 35Who
Egypt unto all that trust servants in the Syrian Assyria. 31Hearken not to are they among all the
on him. 22But if ye say language; for we Hezekiah: for thus saith gods of the countries,
unto me, We trust in the understand it: and talk the king of Assyria, that have delivered
LORD our God: is not not with us in the Jews’ Makel an agreement with their country out of
that he, whose high language in the ears of me by a present, and mine hand, that the
places and whose altars the people that are on come out to me, and LORD should deliver
Hezekiah hath taken the wall. 27
But then eat ye every man of Jerusalem out of mine
away, and hath said to Rabshakeh said unto his own vine, and every hand? 36But the people
Judah and Jerusalem, Ye them, Hath my master one of his fig tree, and held their peace, and
shall worship before this sent me to thy master, drink ye every one the answered him not a
altar in Jerusalem? 23Now and to thee, to speak waters of his cistern: word: for the king’s
therefore, I pray thee, these words? hath he not 32
Until I come and take commandment was,
give pledgesj to my lord sent me to the men you away to a land like saying, Answer him not.
the king of Assyria, and I which sit on the wall, your own land, a land of 37
Then came Eliakim
will deliver thee two that they may eat their corn and wine, a land of the son of Hilkiah,
thousand horses, if thou own dung, and drink bread and vineyards, a which was over the
be able on thy part to set their own pissk with you? land of oil olive and of household, and Shebna
riders upon them. 24How 28
Then Rabshakeh stood honey, that ye may live, the scribe, and Joah the
then wilt thou turn away and cried with a loud and not die: and hearken son of Asaph the
the face of one captain voice in the Jews’ not unto Hezekiah, when recorder, to Hezekiah
of the least of my language, and spake, he persuadethm you, with their clothes rent,
master’s servants, and saying, Hear the word of saying, The LORD will and told him the words
put thy trust on Egypt for the great king, the king deliver us. 33Hath any of of Rabshakeh.
chariots and for of Assyria: 29Thus saith the gods of the nations
horsemen? 25
Am I now the king, Let not delivered at all his land Chapter 19
come up without the Hezekiah deceive you: l
Make...: or, Seek my favour: 1
And it came to pass,
i k
trustest: Heb. trustest thee their own piss: Heb. the water Heb. Make with me a blessing when king Hezekiah
j m
pledges: or, hostages of their feet persuadeth: or, deceiveth
heard it, that he rent his them, Thus shall ye say heard what the kings of the words of
clothes, and covered to your master, Thus Assyria have done to all Sennacherib, which
himself with sackcloth, saith the LORD, Be not lands, by destroying hath sent him to
and went into the house afraid of the words which them utterly: and shalt reproach the living God.
of the LORD. 2And he thou hast heard, with thou be delivered? 17
Of a truth, LORD, the
sent Eliakim, which was which the servants of the 12
Have the gods of the kings of Assyria have
over the household, and king of Assyria have nations delivered them destroyed the nations
Shebna the scribe, and blasphemed me. which my fathers have and their lands, 18And
the elders of the priests, 7
Behold, I will send a destroyed; as Gozan, have castc their gods
covered with sackcloth, blast upon him, and he and Haran, and Rezeph, into the fire: for they
to Isaiah the prophet the shall hear a rumour, and and the children of Eden were no gods, but the
son of Amoz. 3And they shall return to his own which were in Thelasar? work of men’s hands,
said unto him, Thus saith land; and I will cause him 13
Where is the king of wood and stone:
Hezekiah, This day is a to fall by the sword in his Hamath, and the king of therefore they have
day of trouble, and of own land. Arpad, and the king of destroyed them. 19Now
rebuke, and blasphemya: 8
So Rabshakeh the city of Sepharvaim, therefore, O LORD our
for the children are come returned, and found the of Hena, and Ivah? 14And God, I beseech thee,
to the birth, and there is king of Assyria warring Hezekiah received the save thou us out of his
not strength to bring against Libnah: for he letter of the hand of the hand, that all the
forth. 4
It may be the had heard that he was messengers, and read it: kingdoms of the earth
LORD thy God will hear departed from Lachish. and Hezekiah went up may know that thou art
all the words of 9
And when he heard say into the house of the the LORD God, even
Rabshakeh, whom the of Tirhakah king of LORD, and spread it thou only.
king of Assyria his Ethiopia, Behold, he is before the LORD. 15And 20
Then Isaiah the son
master hath sent to come out to fight against Hezekiah prayed before of Amoz sent to
reproach the living God; thee: he sent the LORD, and said, O Hezekiah, saying, Thus
and will reprove the messengers again unto LORD God of Israel, saith the LORD God of
words which the LORD Hezekiah, saying, 10Thus which dwellest between Israel, That which thou
thy God hath heard: shall ye speak to the cherubims, thou art hast prayed to me
wherefore lift up thy Hezekiah king of Judah, the God, even thou against Sennacherib
prayer for the remnant saying, Let not thy God alone, of all the king of Assyria I have
that are leftb. 5So the in whom thou trustest kingdoms of the earth; heard. 21This is the word
servants of king deceive thee, saying, thou hast made heaven that the LORD hath
Hezekiah came to Isaiah. Jerusalem shall not be and earth. 16LORD, bow spoken concerning him;
6
And Isaiah said unto delivered into the hand down thine ear, and The virgin the daughter
a
of the king of Assyria. hear: open, LORD, thine of Zion hath despised
blasphemy: or, provocation 11
Behold, thou hast eyes, and see: and hear
b c
left: Heb. found cast: Heb. given
thee, and laughed thee have I brought it to pass, and plant vineyards, and hundred fourscore and
to scorn; the daughter of that thou shouldest be to eat the fruits thereof. five thousand: and
Jerusalem hath shaken lay waste fenced cities 30
And the remnantg that when they arose early
her head at thee. into ruinous heaps. is escaped of the house in the morning, behold,
22
Whom hast thou 26
Therefore their of Judah shall yet again they were all dead
reproached and inhabitants were of take root downward, and corpses. 36
So
blasphemed? and smalle power, they were bear fruit upward. 31For Sennacherib king of
against whom hast thou dismayed and out of Jerusalem shall go Assyria departed, and
exalted thy voice, and confounded; they were forth a remnant, and went and returned, and
lifted up thine eyes on as the grass of the field, they that escape out of dwelt at Nineveh. 37And
high? even against the and as the green herb, mount Zion: the zeal of it came to pass, as he
Holy One of Israel. 23Byd as the grass on the the LORD of hosts shall was worshipping in the
thy messengers thou housetops, and as corn do this. 32Therefore thus house of Nisroch his
hast reproached the blasted before it be saith the LORD god, that Adrammelech
Lord, and hast said, With grown up. 27But I know concerning the king of and Sharezer his sons
the multitude of my thy abodef, and thy Assyria, He shall not smote him with the
chariots I am come up to going out, and thy come into this city, nor sword: and they
the height of the coming in, and thy rage shoot an arrow there, escaped into the land of
mountains, to the sides against me. 28Because nor come before it with Armeniah. And
of Lebanon, and will cut thy rage against me and shield, nor cast a bank Esarhaddon his son
down the tall cedar trees thy tumult is come up against it. 33By the way reigned in his stead.
thereof, and the choice into mine ears, therefore that he came, by the
fir trees thereof: and I I will put my hook in thy same shall he return, Chapter 20
will enter into the nose, and my bridle in and shall not come into
lodgings of his borders, thy lips, and I will turn this city, saith the LORD. In those days was
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and into the forest of his thee back by the way by 34


For I will defend this Hezekiah sick unto
Carmel. 24I have digged which thou camest. city, to save it, for mine death. And the prophet
and drunk strange 29
And this shall be a sign own sake, and for my Isaiah the son of Amoz
waters, and with the sole unto thee, Ye shall eat servant David’s sake. came to him, and said
of my feet have I dried this year such things as 35
And it came to pass unto him, Thus saith
up all the rivers of grow of themselves, and that night, that the angel the LORD, Set thine
besieged places. 25Hast in the second year that of the LORD went out, house in order; for thou
thou not heard long ago which springeth of the and smote in the camp shalt die, and not live.
how I have done it, and same; and in the third of the Assyrians an
2
Then he turned his
of ancient times that I year sow ye, and reap, face to the wall, and
g
have formed it? now remnant...: Heb. escaping of prayed unto the LORD,
e
of small...: Heb. short of hand the house of Judah that
d f h
By: Heb. By the hand of abode: or, sitting remaineth Armenia: Heb. Ararat
saying, 3I beseech thee, on the boil, and he Hezekiah had been sick. 17
Behold, the days
O LORD, remember now recovered. 8
And 13
And Hezekiah come, that all that is in
how I have walked Hezekiah said unto hearkened unto them, thine house, and that
before thee in truth and Isaiah, What shall be the and shewed them all the which thy fathers have
with a perfect heart, and sign that the LORD will house of his precious laid up in store unto
have done that which is heal me, and that I shall thingse, the silver, and this day, shall be
good in thy sight. And go up into the house of the gold, and the spices, carried into Babylon:
Hezekiah wept sorea. the LORD the third day? and the precious nothing shall be left,
4
And it came to pass, 9
And Isaiah said, This ointment, and all the saith the LORD. 18And of
afore Isaiah was gone sign shalt thou have of house of his armour, and thy sons that shall issue
out into the middle the LORD, that the LORD all that was found in his from thee, which thou
courtb, that the word of will do the thing that he treasures: there was shalt beget, shall they
the LORD came to him, hath spoken: shall the nothing in his house, nor take away; and they
saying, 5Turn again, and shadow go forward ten in all his dominion, that shall be eunuchs in the
tell Hezekiah the captain degrees, or go back ten Hezekiah shewed them palace of the king of
of my people, Thus saith degrees? 10And Hezekiah not. 14Then came Isaiah Babylon. 19Then said
the LORD, the God of answered, It is a light the prophet unto king Hezekiah unto Isaiah,
David thy father, I have thing for the shadow to Hezekiah, and said unto Good is the word of the
heard thy prayer, I have go down ten degrees: him, What said these LORD which thou hast
seen thy tears: behold, I nay, but let the shadow men? and from whence spoken. And he said, Is
will heal thee: on the return backward ten came they unto thee? it not good, if peace
third day thou shalt go degrees. And Isaiah the
11
And Hezekiah said, They and truth be in my
up unto the house of the prophet cried unto the are come from a far days? 20And the rest of
LORD. 6And I will add LORD: and he brought country, even from the acts of Hezekiah,
unto thy days fifteen the shadow ten degrees Babylon. 15And he said, and all his might, and
years; and I will deliver backward, by which it What have they seen in how he made a pool,
thee and this city out of had gone down in the thine house? And and a conduit, and
the hand of the king of dialc of Ahaz. Hezekiah answered, All brought water into the
Assyria; and I will defend 12
At that time the things that are in city, are they not
this city for mine own Berodachbaladan , d
the mine house have they written in the book of
sake, and for my servant son of Baladan, king of seen: there is nothing the chronicles of the
David’s sake. 7And Isaiah Babylon, sent letters and among my treasures kings of Judah? 21And
said, Take a lump of figs. a present unto Hezekiah: that I have not shewed Hezekiah slept with his
And they took and laid it for he had heard that them. 16And Isaiah said fathers: and Manasseh
a c
unto Hezekiah, Hear the his son reigned in his
sore: Heb. with a great dial: Heb. degrees word of the LORD. stead.
d
weeping Berodachbaladan: or,
b e
court: or, city Merodachbaladan precious things: or, spicery
Chapter 21 spirits and wizards: he abominations, and hath Egypt, even unto this
wrought much done wickedly above all day. 16
Moreover
1
Manasseh was wickedness in the sight that the Amorites did, Manasseh shed
twelve years old when of the LORD, to provoke which were before him, innocent blood very
he began to reign, and him to anger. 7And he and hath made Judah much, till he had filled
reigned fifty and five set a graven image of also to sin with his idols: Jerusalem from one end
years in Jerusalem. And the grove that he had 12
Therefore thus saith to another; beside his
his mother’s name was made in the house, of the LORD God of Israel, sin wherewith he made
Hephzibah. 2And he did which the LORD said to Behold, I am bringing Judah to sin, in doing
that which was evil in David, and to Solomon such evil upon Jerusalem that which was evil in
the sight of the LORD, his son, In this house, and Judah, that the sight of the LORD.
after the abominations of and in Jerusalem, which I whosoever heareth of it, 17
Now the rest of the
the heathen, whom the have chosen out of all both his ears shall tingle. acts of Manasseh, and
LORD cast out before the tribes of Israel, will I put 13
And I will stretch over all that he did, and his
children of Israel. 3For he my name for ever: Jerusalem the line of sin that he sinned, are
built up again the high 8
Neither will I make the Samaria, and the they not written in the
places which Hezekiah feet of Israel move any plummet of the house of book of the chronicles
his father had destroyed; more out of the land Ahab: and I will wipe of the kings of Judah?
and he reared up altars which I gave their Jerusalem as a man 18
And Manasseh slept
for Baal, and made a fathers; only if they will wipeth a dish, wipinga it, with his fathers, and
grove, as did Ahab king observe to do according and turning it upside was buried in the
of Israel; and worshipped to all that I have down. 14
And I will garden of his own
all the host of heaven, commanded them, and forsake the remnant of house, in the garden of
and served them. 4And according to all the law mine inheritance, and Uzza: and Amon his son
he built altars in the that my servant Moses deliver them into the reigned in his stead.
house of the LORD, of commanded them. 9But hand of their enemies; 19
Amon was twenty
which the LORD said, In they hearkened not: and and they shall become a and two years old when
Jerusalem will I put my Manasseh seduced them prey and a spoil to all he began to reign, and
name. 5And he built to do more evil than did their enemies; 15Because he reigned two years in
altars for all the host of the nations whom the they have done that Jerusalem. And his
heaven in the two courts LORD destroyed before which was evil in my mother’s name was
of the house of the the children of Israel. sight, and have Meshullemeth, the
LORD. 6And he made his 10
And the LORD spake provoked me to anger, daughter of Haruz of
son pass through the by his servants the since the day their Jotbah. 20And he did
fire, and observed times, prophets, saying, fathers came forth out of that which was evil in
and used enchantments, 11
Because Manasseh king a
the sight of the LORD,
of Judah hath done these wiping...: Heb. he wipeth and as his father Manasseh
and dealt with familiar
turneth it upon the face thereof
did. 21And he walked in thirty and one years in the house, 6
Unto And it came to
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all the way that his Jerusalem. And his carpenters, and builders, pass, when the king
father walked in, and mother’s name was and masons, and to buy had heard the words of
served the idols that his Jedidah, the daughter of timber and hewn stone the book of the law,
father served, and Adaiah of Boscath. 2And to repair the house. that he rent his clothes.
worshipped them: And 22
he did that which was 7
Howbeit there was no 12
And the king
he forsook the LORD God right in the sight of the reckoning made with commanded Hilkiah the
of his fathers, and LORD, and walked in all them of the money that priest, and Ahikam the
walked not in the way of the way of David his was delivered into their son of Shaphan, and
the LORD. 23And the father, and turned not hand, because they dealt Achborc the son of
servants of Amon aside to the right hand faithfully. 8And Hilkiah Michaiah, and Shaphan
conspired against him, or to the left. 3And it the high priest said unto the scribe, and Asahiah
and slew the king in his came to pass in the Shaphan the scribe, I a servant of the king’s,
own house. 24And the eighteenth year of king have found the book of saying, 13
Go ye,
people of the land slew Josiah, that the king sent the law in the house of enquire of the LORD for
all them that had Shaphan the son of the LORD. And Hilkiah me, and for the people,
conspired against king Azaliah, the son of gave the book to and for all Judah,
Amon; and the people of Meshullam, the scribe, to Shaphan, and he read it. concerning the words of
the land made Josiah his the house of the LORD, 9
And Shaphan the scribe this book that is found:
son king in his stead. saying, 4Go up to Hilkiah came to the king, and for great is the wrath of
25
Now the rest of the the high priest, that he brought the king word the LORD that is kindled
acts of Amon which he may sum the silver again, and said, Thy against us, because our
did, are they not written which is brought into the servants have gatheredb fathers have not
in the book of the house of the LORD, the money that was hearkened unto the
chronicles of the kings of which the keepers of the found in the house, and words of this book, to
Judah? 26And he was doora have gathered of have delivered it into the do according unto all
buried in his sepulchre in the people: 5
And let hand of them that do the that which is written
the garden of Uzza: and them deliver it into the work, that have the concerning us. 14
So
Josiahb his son reigned in hand of the doers of the oversight of the house of Hilkiah the priest, and
his stead. work, that have the the LORD. 10
And Ahikam, and Achbor,
oversight of the house of Shaphan the scribe and Shaphan, and
Chapter 22 the LORD: and let them shewed the king, saying, Asahiah, went unto
give it to the doers of the Hilkiah the priest hath Huldah the prophetess,
Josiah
1
was eight work which is in the delivered me a book. the wife of Shallum the
years old when he began house of the LORD, to And Shaphan read it son of Tikvah, the son
to reign, and he reigned repair the breaches of before the king. of Harhas, keeper of the
b a b c
Josiah: Gr. Josias door: Heb. threshold gathered: Heb. melted Achbor: Abdon
wardrobed; (now she before the LORD, when great: and he read in the kings of Judah had
dwelt in Jerusalem in the thou heardest what I their ears all the words ordained to burn
college;) and they spake against this place, of the book of the incense in the high
communed with her. and against the covenant which was places in the cities of
15
And she said unto inhabitants thereof, that found in the house of the Judah, and in the places
them, Thus saith the they should become a LORD. 3
And the king round about Jerusalem;
LORD God of Israel, Tell desolation and a curse, stood by a pillar, and them also that burned
the man that sent you to and hast rent thy made a covenant before incense unto Baal, to
me, 16Thus saith the clothes, and wept before the LORD, to walk after the sun, and to the
LORD, Behold, I will bring me; I also have heard the LORD, and to keep moon, and to the
evil upon this place, and thee, saith the LORD. his commandments and planets, and to all the
upon the inhabitants 20
Behold therefore, I will his testimonies and his host of heaven. 6
And
thereof, even all the gather thee unto thy statutes with all their he brought out the
words of the book which fathers, and thou shalt heart and all their soul, grove from the house of
the king of Judah hath be gathered into thy to perform the words of the LORD, without
read: 17Because they grave in peace; and this covenant that were Jerusalem, unto the
have forsaken me, and thine eyes shall not see written in this book. And brook Kidron, and
have burned incense all the evil which I will all the people stood to burned it at the brook
unto other gods, that bring upon this place. the covenant. Kidron, and stamped it
they might provoke me And they brought the 4
And the king small to powder, and
to anger with all the king word again. commanded Hilkiah the cast the powder thereof
works of their hands; high priest, and the upon the graves of the
therefore my wrath shall Chapter 23 priests of the second children of the people.
be kindled against this order, and the keepers 7
And he brake down the
place, and shall not be
1
And the king sent, of the door, to bring houses of the
quenched. 18But to the and they gathered unto forth out of the temple of sodomites, that were by
king of Judah which sent him all the elders of the LORD all the vessels the house of the LORD,
you to enquire of the Judah and of Jerusalem. that were made for Baal, where the women wove
LORD, thus shall ye say
2
And the king went up and for the grove, and hangingsa for the grove.
to him, Thus saith the into the house of the for all the host of 8
And he brought all the
LORD God of Israel, As LORD, and all the men of heaven: and he burned priests out of the cities
touching the words Judah and all the them without Jerusalem of Judah, and defiled
which thou hast heard; inhabitants of Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, the high places where
19
Because thine heart with him, and the and carried the ashes of the priests had burned
was tender, and thou priests, and the them unto Bethel. 5And incense, from Geba to
hast humbled thyself prophets, and all the he put down the Beersheba, and brake
people, both small and idolatrous priests, whom
d a
wardrobe: Heb. garments hangings: Heb. houses
down the high places of chamber of Ahaz, which was at Bethel, and the the bones of the
the gates that were in the kings of Judah had high place which prophet that came out
the entering in of the made, and the altars Jeroboam the son of of Samaria. 19And all
gate of Joshua the which Manasseh had Nebat, who made Israel the houses also of the
governor of the city, made in the two courts to sin, had made, both high places that were in
which were on a man’s of the house of the that altar and the high the cities of Samaria,
left hand at the gate of LORD, did the king beat place he brake down, which the kings of Israel
the city. 9Nevertheless down, and brake them and burned the high had made to provoke
the priests of the high downc from thence, and place, and stamped it the LORD to anger,
places came not up to cast the dust of them small to powder, and Josiah took away, and
the altar of the LORD in into the brook Kidron. burned the grove. 16And did to them according
Jerusalem, but they did 13
And the high places as Josiah turned himself, to all the acts that he
eat of the unleavened that were before he spied the sepulchres had done in Bethel.
bread among their Jerusalem, which were that were there in the 20
And he slewg all the
brethren. 10
And he on the right hand of the mount, and sent, and priests of the high
defiled Topheth, which is mountd of corruption, took the bones out of the places that were there
in the valley of the which Solomon the king sepulchres, and burned upon the altars, and
children of Hinnom, that of Israel had builded for them upon the altar, and burned men’s bones
no man might make his Ashtoreth the polluted it, according to upon them, and
son or his daughter to abomination of the the word of the LORD returned to Jerusalem.
pass through the fire to Zidonians, and for which the man of God 21
And the king
Molech. 11And he took Chemosh the proclaimed, who commanded all the
away the horses that the abomination of the proclaimed these words. people, saying, Keep
kings of Judah had given Moabites, and for Milcom 17
Then he said, What title the passover unto the
to the sun, at the the abomination of the is that that I see? And LORD your God, as it is
entering in of the house children of Ammon, did the men of the city told written in the book of
of the LORD, by the the king defile. 14And he him, It is the sepulchre this covenant. 22Surely
chamber of brake in pieces the of the man of God, which there was not holden
Nathanmelech the imagese, and cut down came from Judah, and such a passover from
chamberlainb, which was the groves, and filled proclaimed these things the days of the judges
in the suburbs, and their places with the that thou hast done that judged Israel, nor
burned the chariots of bones of men. against the altar of in all the days of the
the sun with fire. 12And 15
Moreover the altar that Bethel. 18And he said, Let kings of Israel, nor of
the altars that were on c
him alone; let no man the kings of Judah; 23But
the top of the upper brake...: or, ran from thence move his bones. So they in the eighteenth year
d
the mount...: that is, the mount let his bones alonef, with
b
chamberlain: or, eunuch, or, of Olives escape
e f g
officer images: Heb. statues bones alone: Heb. bones to slew: or, sacrificed
of king Josiah, wherein Manasseh had provoked twenty and three years people of the land, of
this passover was holden him withal. 27
And the old when he began to every one according to
to the LORD in LORD said, I will remove reign; and he reigned his taxation, to give it
Jerusalem. 24
Moreover Judah also out of my three months in unto Pharaohnechoh.
the workers with familiar sight, as I have removed Jerusalem. And his 36
Jehoiakim was twenty
spirits, and the wizards, Israel, and will cast off mother’s name was and five years old when
and the imagesh, and the this city Jerusalem which Hamutal, the daughter of he began to reign; and
idols, and all the I have chosen, and the Jeremiah of Libnah. he reigned eleven years
abominations that were house of which I said, My 32
And he did that which in Jerusalem. And his
spied in the land of name shall be there. was evil in the sight of mother’s name was
Judah and in Jerusalem, 28
Now the rest of the the LORD, according to Zebudah, the daughter
did Josiah put away, that acts of Josiah, and all all that his fathers had of Pedaiah of Rumah.
he might perform the that he did, are they not done. 33
And 37
And he did that which
words of the law which written in the book of the Pharaohnechoh put him was evil in the sight of
were written in the book chronicles of the kings of in bands at Riblah in the the LORD, according to
that Hilkiah the priest Judah? 29In his days land of Hamath, that he all that his fathers had
found in the house of the Pharaohnechoh king of might not reign in done.
LORD. Egypt went up against Jerusalem; and put the
25
And like unto him the king of Assyria to the land to a tribute of an Chapter 24
was there no king before river Euphrates: and king hundred talents of silver,
him, that turned to the Josiah went against him; and a talent of gold.
1
In his days
LORD with all his heart, and he slew him at 34
And Pharaohnechoh Nebuchadnezzar king of
and with all his soul, and Megiddo, when he had made Eliakim the son of Babylon came up, and
with all his might, seen him. 30And his Josiah king in the room Jehoiakim became his
according to all the law servants carried him in a of Josiah his father, and servant three years:
of Moses; neither after chariot dead from turned his name to then he turned and
him arose there any like Megiddo, and brought Jehoiakim, and took rebelled against him.
him. 26
Notwithstanding him to Jerusalem, and Jehoahaz away: and he
2
And the LORD sent
the LORD turned not buried him in his own came to Egypt, and died against him bands of
from the fierceness of sepulchre. And the there. 35And Jehoiakim the Chaldees, and
his great wrath, people of the land took gave the silver and the bands of the Syrians,
wherewith his anger was Jehoahaz the son of gold to Pharaoh; but he and bands of the
kindled against Judah, Josiah, and anointed him, taxed the land to give Moabites, and bands of
because of all the and made him king in his the money according to the children of Ammon,
provocationsi that father’s stead. the commandment of and sent them against
31
Jehoahazj was Pharaoh: he exacted the Judah to destroy it,
h
images: or, teraphim silver and the gold of the according to the word
i j
provocations: Heb. angers Jehoahaz: also called, Shallum
of the LORD, which he eighteen years old when gold which Solomon king was twenty and one
spake bya his servants he began to reign, and of Israel had made in the years old when he
the prophets. 3Surely at he reigned in Jerusalem temple of the LORD, as began to reign, and he
the commandment of three months. And his the LORD had said. 14And reigned eleven years in
the LORD came this mother’s name was he carried away all Jerusalem. And his
upon Judah, to remove Nehushta, the daughter Jerusalem, and all the mother’s name was
them out of his sight, for of Elnathan of Jerusalem. princes, and all the Hamutal, the daughter
the sins of Manasseh, 9
And he did that which mighty men of valour, of Jeremiah of Libnah.
according to all that he was evil in the sight of even ten thousand 19
And he did that which
did; 4And also for the the LORD, according to captives, and all the was evil in the sight of
innocent blood that he all that his father had craftsmen and smiths: the LORD, according to
shed: for he filled done. 10At that time the none remained, save the all that Jehoiakim had
Jerusalem with innocent servants of poorest sort of the done. 20For through the
blood; which the LORD Nebuchadnezzar king of people of the land. 15And anger of the LORD it
would not pardon. 5Now Babylon came up against he carried away came to pass in
the rest of the acts of Jerusalem, and the city Jehoiachin to Babylon, Jerusalem and Judah,
Jehoiakim, and all that was besieged. 11
And and the king’s mother, until he had cast them
he did, are they not Nebuchadnezzar king of and the king’s wives, out from his presence,
written in the book of the Babylon came against and his officersd, and the that Zedekiah rebelled
chronicles of the kings of the city, and his servants mighty of the land, those against the king of
Judah? 6So Jehoiakim did besiege it. 12And carried he into captivity Babylon.
slept with his fathers: Jehoiachin the king of from Jerusalem to
and Jehoiachin his son Judah went out to the Babylon. 16And all the Chapter 25
reigned in his stead. king of Babylon, he, and men of might, even
7
And the king of Egypt his mother, and his seven thousand, and
1
And it came to pass
came not again any servants, and his craftsmen and smiths a in the ninth year of his
more out of his land: for princes, and his officersc: thousand, all that were reign, in the tenth
the king of Babylon had and the king of Babylon strong and apt for war, month, in the tenth day
taken from the river of took him in the eighth even them the king of of the month, that
Egypt unto the river year of his reign. 13And Babylon brought captive Nebuchadnezzar king of
Euphrates all that he carried out thence all to Babylon. 17And the Babylon came, he, and
pertained to the king of the treasures of the king of Babylon made all his host, against
Egypt. house of the LORD, and Mattaniah his father’s Jerusalem, and pitched
8
Jehoiachinb was the treasures of the brother king in his stead, against it; and they
king’s house, and cut in and changed his name to built forts against it
a
by: Heb. by the hand of pieces all the vessels of Zedekiah. 18
Zedekiah round about. 2And the
b
Jehoiachin: also called city was besieged unto
c d
Jeconiah and Coniah officers: or, eunuchs officers: or, eunuchs
the eleventh year of king Babylon. husbandmen. 13And the the chapiter round
Zedekiah. 3And on the 8
And in the fifth pillars of brass that were about, all of brass: and
ninth day of the fourth month, on the seventh in the house of the like unto these had the
month the famine day of the month, which LORD, and the bases, second pillar with
prevailed in the city, and is the nineteenth year of and the brasen sea that wreathen work. 18And
there was no bread for king Nebuchadnezzar was in the house of the the captain of the guard
the people of the land. king of Babylon, came LORD, did the Chaldees took Seraiah the chief
4
And the city was broken Nebuzaradan, captainb of break in pieces, and priest, and Zephaniah
up, and all the men of the guard, a servant of carried the brass of them the second priest, and
war fled by night by the the king of Babylon, unto to Babylon. 14And the the three keepers of the
way of the gate between Jerusalem: 9
And he pots, and the shovels, doore: 19And out of the
two walls, which is by burnt the house of the and the snuffers, and the city he took an officerf
the king’s garden: (now LORD, and the king’s spoons, and all the that was set over the
the Chaldees were house, and all the vessels of brass men of war, and five
against the city round houses of Jerusalem, and wherewith they men of them that were
about:) and the king every great man’s house ministered, took they in the king’s presence,
went the way toward the burnt he with fire. 10And away. 15And the firepans, which were found in the
plain. 5And the army of all the army of the and the bowls, and such city, and the principal
the Chaldees pursued Chaldees, that were with things as were of gold, in scribe of the host,
after the king, and the captain of the guard, gold, and of silver, in which mustered the
overtook him in the brake down the walls of silver, the captain of the people of the land, and
plains of Jericho: and all Jerusalem round about. guard took away. 16The threescore men of the
his army were scattered 11
Now the rest of the two pillars, oned sea, and people of the land that
from him. 6So they took people that were left in the bases which were found in the city:
the king, and brought the city, and the Solomon had made for 20
And Nebuzaradan
him up to the king of fugitives that fell away
c
the house of the LORD; captain of the guard
Babylon to Riblah; and to the king of Babylon, the brass of all these took these, and brought
they gavea judgment with the remnant of the vessels was without them to the king of
upon him. 7
And they multitude, did weight. 17The height of Babylon to Riblah: 21And
slew the sons of Nebuzaradan the captain the one pillar was the king of Babylon
Zedekiah before his of the guard carry away. eighteen cubits, and the smote them, and slew
eyes, and put out the 12
But the captain of the chapiter upon it was them at Riblah in the
eyes of Zedekiah, and guard left of the poor of brass: and the height of land of Hamath. So
bound him with fetters of the land to be the chapiter three cubits; Judah was carried away
brass, and carried him to vinedressers and and the wreathen work, out of their land.
a b
and pomegranates upon e
gave...: Heb. spake judgment captain...: or, chief marshal door: Heb. threshold
c d f
with him fugitives: Heb. fallen away one...: Heb. the one sea officer: or, eunuch
22
And as for the people Elishama, of the seed the days of his life. 30And Cush; Seba, and
that remained in the royalg, came, and ten his allowance was a Havilah, and Sabta, and
land of Judah, whom men with him, and continual allowance Raamah, and Sabtecha.
Nebuchadnezzar king of smote Gedaliah, that he given him of the king, a And the sons of
Babylon had left, even died, and the Jews and daily rate for every day, Raamah; Sheba, and
over them he made the Chaldees that were all the days of his life. Dedan. 10
And Cush
Gedaliah the son of with him at Mizpah. begat Nimrod: he
Ahikam, the son of 26
And all the people, began to be mighty
Shaphan, ruler. 23And both small and great, upon the earth. 11And
when all the captains of and the captains of the First Mizraim begat Ludim,
the armies, they and armies, arose, and came Chronicles and Anamim, and
their men, heard that the to Egypt: for they were Lehabim, and
king of Babylon had afraid of the Chaldees. Chapter 1 Naphtuhim, 12
And
made Gedaliah 27
And it came to pass in Pathrusim, and
governor, there came to the seven and thirtieth 1
Adam, Sheth, Enosh, Casluhim, (of whom
Gedaliah to Mizpah, even year of the captivity of 2
Kenan, Mahalaleel, came the Philistines,)
Ishmael the son of Jehoiachin king of Judah, Jered, 3
Henoch, and Caphthorim. 13And
Nethaniah, and Johanan in the twelfth month, on Methuselah, Lamech, Canaan begat Zidon his
the son of Careah, and the seven and twentieth 4
Noah, Shem, Ham, and firstborn, and Heth,
Seraiah the son of day of the month, that Japheth. 5The sons of
14
The Jebusite also, and
Tanhumeth the Evilmerodach king of Japheth; Gomer, and the Amorite, and the
Netophathite, and Babylon in the year that Magog, and Madai, and Girgashite, 15And the
Jaazaniah the son of a he began to reign did lift Javan, and Tubal, and Hivite, and the Arkite,
Maachathite, they and up the head of Meshech, and Tiras. 6And and the Sinite, 16And
their men. 24And Jehoiachin king of Judah the sons of Gomer; the Arvadite, and the
Gedaliah sware to them, out of prison; 28And he Ashchenaz, and Zemarite, and the
and to their men, and spake kindlyh to him, and Riphath , and Togarmah.
a Hamathite. 17The sons
said unto them, Fear not set his throne above the 7
And the sons of Javan; of Shem; Elam, and
to be the servants of the throne of the kings that Elishah, and Tarshish, Asshur, and Arphaxad,
Chaldees: dwell in the were with him in Kittim, and Dodanimb. and Lud, and Aram, and
land, and serve the king Babylon; 29And changed 8
The sons of Ham; Cush, Uz, and Hul, and
of Babylon; and it shall his prison garments: and and Mizraim, Put, and Gether, and Meshechc.
be well with you. 25But it he did eat bread Canaan. 9And the sons of
18
And Arphaxad begat
came to pass in the continually before him all a
Shelah, and Shelah
seventh month, that Riphath: or, Diphath as it is in begat Eber. 19And unto
g
Ishmael the son of royal: Heb. of the kingdom some copies Eber were born two
h b
Nethaniah, the son of kindly...: Heb. good things Dodanim: or, Rodanim,
c
with him according to some copies Meshech: or, Mash
sons: the name of the concubine: she bare Shephi, and Onam. And 48
And when Samlah was
one was Pelegd; because Zimran, and Jokshan, the sons of Zibeon; Aiah, dead, Shaul of
in his days the earth was and Medan, and Midian, and Anah. 41The sons of Rehoboth by the river
divided: and his and Ishbak, and Shuah. Anah; Dishon. And the reigned in his stead.
brother’s name was And the sons of Jokshan; sons of Dishon; Amrami, 49
And when Shaul was
Joktan. 20
And Joktan Sheba, and Dedan. 33And and Eshban, and Ithran, dead, Baalhanan the
begat Almodad, and the sons of Midian; and Cheran. 42The sons son of Achbor reigned
Sheleph, and Ephah, and Epher, and of Ezer; Bilhan, and in his stead. 50And when
Hazarmaveth, and Jerah, Henoch, and Abida, and Zavan, and Jakanj. The Baalhanan was dead,
21
Hadoram also, and Eldaah. All these are the sons of Dishan; Uz, and Hadadk reigned in his
Uzal, and Diklah, 22And sons of Keturah. 34And Aran. 43Now these are stead: and the name of
Ebal, and Abimael, and Abraham begat Isaac. the kings that reigned in his city was Pai; and his
Sheba, 23And Ophir, and The sons of Isaac; Esau the land of Edom before wife’s name was
Havilah, and Jobab. All and Israel. 35The sons of any king reigned over Mehetabel, the
these were the sons of Esau; Eliphaz, Reuel, and the children of Israel; daughter of Matred, the
Joktan. 24
Shem, Jeush, and Jaalam, and Bela the son of Beor: and daughter of Mezahab.
Arphaxad, Shelah, Korah. 36The sons of the name of his city was 51
Hadad died also. And
25
Eber, Peleg, Reu, Eliphaz; Teman, and Dinhabah. 44And when the dukes of Edom
26
Serug, Nahor, Terah, Omar, Zephif, and Bela was dead, Jobab the were; duke Timnah,
27
Abram; the same is Gatam, Kenaz, and son of Zerah of Bozrah duke Aliah, duke
Abraham. Timna, and Amalek. reigned in his stead. Jetheth, 52
Duke
28
The sons of 37
The sons of Reuel; 45
And when Jobab was Aholibamah, duke Elah,
Abraham; Isaac, and Nahath, Zerah, dead, Husham of the duke Pinon, 53
Duke
Ishmael. 29
These are Shammah, and Mizzah. land of the Temanites Kenaz, duke Teman,
their generations: The 38
And the sons of Seir; reigned in his stead. duke Mibzar, 54Duke
firstborn of Ishmael, Lotan, and Shobal, and 46
And when Husham was Magdiel, duke Iram.
Nebaioth; then Kedar, Zibeon, and Anah, and dead, Hadad the son of These are the dukes of
and Adbeel, and Mibsam, Dishon, and Ezer, and Bedad, which smote Edom.
30
Mishma, and Dumah, Dishan. 39And the sons of Midian in the field of
Massa, Hadade, and Lotan; Hori, and Moab, reigned in his Chapter 2
Tema, 31
Jetur, Naphish, Homamg: and Timna was stead: and the name of
and Kedemah. These are Lotan’s sister. 40
The his city was Avith. 47And These are the sons
1

the sons of Ishmael. sons of Shobal; Alianh, when Hadad was dead, of Israela; Reuben,
32
Now the sons of and Manahath, and Ebal, Samlah of Masrekah Simeon, Levi, and
Keturah, Abraham’s reigned in his stead. Judah, Issachar, and
f
Zephi: or, Zepho
d g i k
Peleg: that is, division Homam: or, Hemam Amram: or, Hemdan Hadad: or, Hadar
e h j a
Hadad: also called, Hadar Alian: also called, Alvan Jakan: or, Akan Israel: or, Jacob
Zebulun, 2Dan, Joseph, children of Judah; 11And Hezron went in to the were, Shammai, and
and Benjamin, Naphtali, Nahshon begat Salmae, daughter of Machir the Jada. And the sons of
Gad, and Asher. 3The and Salma begat Boaz, father of Gilead, whom Shammai; Nadab, and
sons of Judah; Er, and 12
And Boaz begat Obed, he marriedh when he Abishur. 29
And the
Onan, and Shelah: which and Obed begat Jesse, was threescore years name of the wife of
three were born unto 13
And Jesse begat his old; and she bare him Abishur was Abihail,
him of the daughter of firstborn Eliab, and Segub. 22
And Segub and she bare him
Shua the Canaanitess. Abinadab the second, begat Jair, who had three Ahban, and Molid. 30And
And Er, the firstborn of and Shimmaf the third, and twenty cities in the the sons of Nadab;
Judah, was evil in the 14
Nethaneel the fourth, land of Gilead. 23And he Seled, and Appaim: but
sight of the LORD; and Raddai the fifth, 15Ozem took Geshur, and Aram, Seled died without
he slew him. 4And Tamar the sixth, David the with the towns of Jair, children. And the sons
31

his daughter in law bare seventh: 16Whose sisters from them, with Kenath, of Appaim; Ishi. And the
him Pharez and Zerah. were Zeruiah, and and the towns thereof, sons of Ishi; Sheshan.
All the sons of Judah Abigail. And the sons of even threescore cities. And the children of
were five. 5The sons of Zeruiah; Abishai, and All these belonged to the Sheshan; Ahlai. 32And
Pharez; Hezron, and Joab, and Asahel, three. sons of Machir the father the sons of Jada the
Hamul. And the sons of
6 17
And Abigail bare of Gilead. 24And after brother of Shammai;
Zerah; Zimrib, and Ethan, Amasa: and the father of that Hezron was dead in Jether, and Jonathan:
and Heman, and Calcol, Amasa was Jetherg the Calebephratah, then and Jether died without
and Dara: five of them in Ishmeelite. Abiah Hezron’s wife bare children. 33And the sons
all. 7
And the sons of 18
And Caleb the son of him Ashur the father of of Jonathan; Peleth, and
Carmi; Acharc, the Hezron begat children of Tekoa. 25And the sons of Zaza. These were the
troubler of Israel, who Azubah his wife, and of Jerahmeel the firstborn sons of Jerahmeel.
transgressed in the thing Jerioth: her sons are of Hezron were, Ram the 34
Now Sheshan had no
accursed. 8And the sons these; Jesher, and firstborn, and Bunah, sons, but daughters.
of Ethan; Azariah. 9The Shobab, and Ardon. and Oren, and Ozem, And Sheshan had a
sons also of Hezron, that 19
And when Azubah was and Ahijah. 26Jerahmeel servant, an Egyptian,
were born unto him; dead, Caleb took unto had also another wife, whose name was Jarha.
Jerahmeel, and Ramd, him Ephrath, which bare whose name was Atarah; 35
And Sheshan gave his
and Chelubai. 10
And him Hur. 20And Hur begat she was the mother of daughter to Jarha his
Ram begat Amminadab; Uri, and Uri begat Onam. 27And the sons of servant to wife; and she
and Amminadab begat Bezaleel. 21And afterward Ram the firstborn of bare him Attai. 36And
Nahshon, prince of the e
Jerahmeel were, Maaz, Attai begat Nathan, and
Salma: also called, Salmon and Jamin, and Eker. Nathan begat Zabad,
b f
Zimri: or, Zabdi Shimma: or, Shammah 28
And the sons of Onam 37
And Zabad begat
c g
Achar: or, Achan Jether...: also called, Ithra an Ephlal, and Ephlal begat
d h
Ram: Gr. Aram Israelite married: Heb. took
Obed, 38And Obed begat also Shaaph the father of Tirathites, the Solomon, four, of
Jehu, and Jehu begat Madmannah, Sheva the Shimeathites, and Bathshua the daughter
Azariah, 39And Azariah father of Machbenah, Suchathites. These are of Ammiel: 6
Ibhar
begat Helez, and Helez and the father of Gibea: the Kenites that came of also, and Elishamac,
begat Eleasah, 40And and the daughter of Hemath, the father of and Eliphelet, 7
And
Eleasah begat Sisamai, Caleb was Achsah. the house of Rechab. Nogah, and Nepheg,
and Sisamai begat 50
These were the sons of and Japhia, 8
And
Shallum, 41
And Shallum Caleb the son of Hur, the Chapter 3 Elishama, and Eliadad,
begat Jekamiah, and firstborn of Ephratahi; and Eliphelet, nine.
Jekamiah begat Shobal the father of Now these were the
1 9
These were all the sons
Elishama. 42Now the sons Kirjathjearim, 51
Salma sons of David, which of David, beside the
of Caleb the brother of the father of Bethlehem, were born unto him in sons of the concubines,
Jerahmeel were, Mesha Hareph the father of Hebron; the firstborn and Tamar their sister.
his firstborn, which was Bethgader. 52And Shobal Amnon, of Ahinoam the 10
And Solomon’s son
the father of Ziph; and the father of Jezreelitess; the second was Rehoboam, Abiae
the sons of Mareshah the Kirjathjearim had sons; Daniela, of Abigail the his son, Asa his son,
father of Hebron. 43And Haroehj, and half of the Carmelitess: 2The third, Jehoshaphat his son,
the sons of Hebron; Manahethites. 53And the Absalom the son of 11
Joram his son,
Korah, and Tappuah, and families of Kirjathjearim; Maachah the daughter of Ahaziahf his son, Joash
Rekem, and Shema. the Ithrites, and the Talmai king of Geshur: his son, 12Amaziah his
44
And Shema begat Puhites, and the the fourth, Adonijah the son, Azariahg his son,
Raham, the father of Shumathites, and the son of Haggith: 3The Jotham his son, 13Ahaz
Jorkoam: and Rekem Mishraites; of them came fifth, Shephatiah of his son, Hezekiah his
begat Shammai. 45And the Zareathites, and the Abital: the sixth, Ithream son, Manasseh his son,
the son of Shammai was Eshtaulites. 54The sons of by Eglah his wife. 4These 14
Amon his son, Josiah
Maon: and Maon was the Salma; Bethlehem, and six were born unto him his son. 15And the sons
father of Bethzur. 46And the Netophathites, in Hebron; and there he of Josiah were, the
Ephah, Caleb’s Ataroth , the house of
k reigned seven years and firstborn Johananh, the
concubine, bare Haran, Joab, and half of the six months: and in second Jehoiakim, the
and Moza, and Gazez: Manahethites, the Jerusalem he reigned third Zedekiah, the
and Haran begat Gazez. Zorites. 55
And the thirty and three years.
c
47
And the sons of Jahdai; families of the scribes
5
And these were born Elishama: also called,
Regem, and Jotham, and which dwelt at Jabez; the unto him in Jerusalem; Elishua
d
Geshan, and Pelet, and Shimeab, and Shobab, Eliada: or, Beeliada
i e
Ephah, and Shaaph. Ephratah: also called, Ephreth and Nathan, and Abia: or, Abijam
j f
48
Maachah, Caleb’s Haroeh: or, Reaiah Ahaziah: or, Azariah
k a g
concubine, bare Sheber, Ataroth...: or, Atarites, or, Daniel: or, Chileab Azariah: or, Uzziah
b h
and Tirhanah. 49She bare crowns of the house of Joab Shimea: or, Shammua Johanan: or, Jehoahaz
fourth Shallum. 16
And and Hezekiahk, and Helah and Naarah. 6And Irnahashd. These are
the sons of Jehoiakim: Azrikam, three. 24
And Naarah bare him the men of Rechah.
Jeconiahi his son, the sons of Elioenai Ahuzam, and Hepher, 13
And the sons of
Zedekiah his son. 17
And were, Hodaiah, and and Temeni, and Kenaz; Othniel, and
the sons of Jeconiah; Eliashib, and Pelaiah, Haahashtari. These were Seraiah: and the sons of
Assir, Salathielj his son, and Akkub, and Johanan, the sons of Naarah. 7And Othniel; Hathathe.
18
Malchiram also, and and Dalaiah, and Anani, the sons of Helah were, 14
And Meonothai begat
Pedaiah, and Shenazar, seven. Zereth, and Jezoar, and Ophrah: and Seraiah
Jecamiah, Hoshama, and Ethnan. 8And Coz begat begat Joab, the father
Nedabiah. 19And the sons Chapter 4 Anub, and Zobebah, and of the valleyf of
of Pedaiah were, the families of Aharhel Charashim; for they
Zerubbabel, and Shimei:
1
The sons of Judah; the son of Harum. 9And were craftsmen. 15And
and the sons of Pharez, Hezron, and Jabezc was more the sons of Caleb the
Zerubbabel; Meshullam, Carmi , and Hur, and
a
honourable than his son of Jephunneh; Iru,
and Hananiah, and Shobal. 2
And Reaiahb brethren: and his mother Elah, and Naam: and
Shelomith their sister: the son of Shobal begat called his name Jabez, the sons of Elah, even
20
And Hashubah, and Jahath; and Jahath begat saying, Because I bare Kenazg. 16And the sons
Ohel, and Berechiah, and Ahumai, and Lahad. him with sorrow. 10And of Jehaleleel; Ziph, and
Hasadiah, Jushabhesed, These are the families of Jabez called on the God Ziphah, Tiria, and
five. 21And the sons of the Zorathites. 3
And of Israel, saying, Oh that Asareel. And the sons
17

Hananiah; Pelatiah, and these were of the father thou wouldest bless me of Ezra were, Jether,
Jesaiah: the sons of of Etam; Jezreel, and indeed, and enlarge my and Mered, and Epher,
Rephaiah, the sons of Ishma, and Idbash: and coast, and that thine and Jalon: and she bare
Arnan, the sons of the name of their sister hand might be with me, Miriam, and Shammai,
Obadiah, the sons of was Hazelelponi: 4And and that thou wouldest and Ishbah the father of
Shechaniah. 22And the Penuel the father of keep me from evil, that Eshtemoa. 18And his
sons of Shechaniah; Gedor, and Ezer the it may not grieve me! wife Jehudijahh bare
Shemaiah: and the sons father of Hushah. These And God granted him Jered the father of
of Shemaiah; Hattush, are the sons of Hur, the that which he requested. Gedor, and Heber the
and Igeal, and Bariah, firstborn of Ephratah, the 11
And Chelub the d
and Neariah, and father of Bethlehem. brother of Shuah begat Irnahash: or, the city of
Shaphat, six. And the
23 5
And Ashur the father of Mehir, which was the Nahash
e
sons of Neariah; Elioenai, Tekoa had two wives, father of Eshton. 12And Hathath...: or, Hathath, and
Eshton begat Bethrapha, Meonothai, who begat, etc
k f
Hezekiah: Heb. Hiskijah and Paseah, and valley: or, inhabitants of the
i a
Jeconiah: also called, Carmi: also called, Chelubai Tehinnah the father of valley
g
Jehoiachin or Coniah or Caleb even Kenaz: or, Uknaz
j b c h
Salathiel: Heb. Shealtiel Reaiah: or, Haroeh Jabez: that is, Sorrowful Jehudijah: or, the Jewess
father of Socho, and with the king for his Tochen, and Ashan, five peaceable; for they of
Jekuthiel the father of work. cities: 33
And all their Ham had dwelt there of
Zanoah. And these are 24
The sons of Simeon villages that were round old. 41And these written
the sons of Bithiah the were, Nemuelj, and about the same cities, by name came in the
daughter of Pharaoh, Jamin, Jarib, Zerah, and unto Baaln. These were days of Hezekiah king
which Mered took. 19And Shaul: 25
Shallum his their habitations, and of Judah, and smote
the sons of his wife son, Mibsam his son, their genealogy. 34
And their tents, and the
Hodiahi the sister of Mishma his son. 26And Meshobab, and Jamlech, habitations that were
Naham, the father of the sons of Mishma; and Joshah the son of found there, and
Keilah the Garmite, and Hamuel his son, Zacchur Amaziah, 35And Joel, and destroyed them utterly
Eshtemoa the his son, Shimei his son. Jehu the son of Josibiah, unto this day, and dwelt
Maachathite. 20
And the 27
And Shimei had sixteen the son of Seraiah, the in their rooms: because
sons of Shimon were, sons and six daughters; son of Asiel, 36
And there was pasture there
Amnon, and Rinnah, but his brethren had not Elioenai, and Jaakobah, for their flocks. 42And
Benhanan, and Tilon. many children, neither and Jeshohaiah, and some of them, even of
And the sons of Ishi did all their family Asaiah, and Adiel, and the sons of Simeon, five
were, Zoheth, and multiply, like to the Jesimiel, and Benaiah, hundred men, went to
Benzoheth. The sons of
21
children of Judah. 28And 37
And Ziza the son of mount Seir, having for
Shelah the son of Judah they dwelt at Beersheba, Shiphi, the son of Allon, their captains Pelatiah,
were, Er the father of and Moladah, and the son of Jedaiah, the and Neariah, and
Lecah, and Laadah the Hazarshual, 29
And at son of Shimri, the son of Rephaiah, and Uzziel,
father of Mareshah, and Bilhah , and at Ezem,
k
Shemaiah; 38
These the sons of Ishi. 43And
the families of the house and at Tolad, 30
And at mentioned o
by their they smote the rest of
of them that wrought Bethuel, and at Hormah, names were princes in the Amalekites that
fine linen, of the house and at Ziklag, 31And at their families: and the were escaped, and
of Ashbea, 22And Jokim, Bethmarcaboth, and house of their fathers dwelt there unto this
and the men of Chozeba, Hazarsusiml, and at increased greatly. 39And day.
and Joash, and Saraph, Bethbirei, and at they went to the
who had the dominion in Shaaraim. These were entrance of Gedor, even Chapter 5
Moab, and Jashubilehem. their cities unto the reign unto the east side of the
And these are ancient of David. 32
And their valley, to seek pasture
1
Now the sons of
things. 23These were the villages were, Etamm, for their flocks. 40And Reuben the firstborn of
potters, and those that and Ain, Rimmon, and they found fat pasture Israel, (for he was the
dwelt among plants and and good, and the land firstborn; but,
j
hedges: there they dwelt Nemuel: or, Jemuel was wide, and quiet, and forasmuch as he defiled
k
Bilhah: or, Balah his father’s bed, his
i l n
Hodiah: or, Jehudijah, Hazarsusim: or, Hazarsusah Baal: or, Baalathbeer birthright was given
m o
mentioned before Etam: or, Ether mentioned: Heb. coming
unto the sons of Joseph unto Nebo and 15
Ahi the son of Abdiel, took away their cattle;
the son of Israel: and the Baalmeon: 9
And the son of Guni, chief of of their camels fifty
genealogy is not to be eastward he inhabited the house of their thousand, and of sheep
reckoned after the unto the entering in of fathers. And they dwelt
16
two hundred and fifty
birthright. 2For Judah the wilderness from the in Gilead in Bashan, and thousand, and of asses
prevailed above his river Euphrates: because in her towns, and in all two thousand, and of
brethren, and of him their cattle were the suburbs of Sharon, men an hundred
came the chief ruler; but multiplied in the land of upon their borders. 17All thousand. 22
For there
the birthright was Gilead. 10And in the days these were reckoned by fell down many slain,
Joseph’s:) 3
The sons, I of Saul they made war genealogies in the days because the war was of
say, of Reuben the with the Hagarites, who of Jotham king of Judah, God. And they dwelt in
firstborn of Israel were, fell by their hand: and and in the days of their steads until the
Hanoch, and Pallu, they dwelt in their tents Jeroboam king of Israel. captivity. 23
And the
Hezron, and Carmi. 4The throughoutc all the east 18
The sons of Reuben, children of the half tribe
sons of Joel; Shemaiah land of Gilead. 11And the and the Gadites, and half of Manasseh dwelt in
his son, Gog his son, children of Gad dwelt the tribe of Manasseh, of the land: they increased
Shimei his son, 5Micah over against them, in the valiant men, men able to from Bashan unto
his son, Reaia his son, land of Bashan unto bear buckler and sword, Baalhermon and Senir,
Baal his son, 6Beerah his Salchah: 12Joel the chief, and to shoot with bow, and unto mount
son, whom and Shapham the next, and skilful in war, were Hermon. 24
And these
Tilgathpilnesera king of and Jaanai, and Shaphat four and forty thousand were the heads of the
Assyria carried away in Bashan. 13And their seven hundred and house of their fathers,
captive: he was prince of brethren of the house of threescore, that went even Epher, and Ishi,
the Reubenites. 7And his their fathers were, out to the war. 19And and Eliel, and Azriel,
brethren by their Michael, and Meshullam, they made war with the and Jeremiah, and
families, when the and Sheba, and Jorai, Hagarites, with Jetur, Hodaviah, and Jahdiel,
genealogy of their and Jachan, and Zia, and and Nephish, and Nodab. mighty men of valour,
generations was Heber, seven. 14These 20
And they were helped famousd men, and
reckoned, were the are the children of against them, and the heads of the house of
chief, Jeiel, and Abihail the son of Huri, Hagarites were delivered their fathers. 25
And
Zechariah, 8And Bela the the son of Jaroah, the into their hand, and all they transgressed
son of Azaz, the son of son of Gilead, the son of that were with them: for against the God of their
Shemab, the son of Joel, Michael, the son of they cried to God in the fathers, and went a
who dwelt in Aroer, even Jeshishai, the son of battle, and he was whoring after the gods
a
Jahdo, the son of Buz; intreated of them; of the people of the
Tilgathpilneser: also called, because they put their
c d
Tiglathpileser throughout...: Heb. upon all trust in him. 21And they famous...: Heb. men of
b
Shema: or, Shemaiah the face of the east names
land, whom God begat Meraioth, names of the sons of Vashnih, and Abiah.
destroyed before them. 7
Meraioth begat Gershom; Libni, and 29
The sons of Merari;
26
And the God of Israel Amariah, and Amariah Shimei. 18And the sons of Mahli, Libni his son,
stirred up the spirit of begat Ahitub, 8
And Kohath were, Amram, Shimei his son, Uzza his
Pul king of Assyria, and Ahitub begat Zadok, and and Izhar, and Hebron, son, 30Shimea his son,
the spirit of Zadok begat Ahimaaz, and Uzziel. 19The sons of Haggiah his son, Asaiah
Tilgathpilneser king of 9
And Ahimaaz begat Merari; Mahli, and Mushi. his son.
Assyria, and he carried Azariah, and Azariah And these are the 31
And these are they
them away, even the begat Johanan, 10And families of the Levites whom David set over
Reubenites, and the Johanan begat Azariah, according to their the service of song in
Gadites, and the half (he it is that executed fathers. 20Of Gershom; the house of the LORD,
tribe of Manasseh, and the priest’s office in the Libni his son, Jahath his after that the ark had
brought them unto templeb that Solomon son, Zimmah his son, rest. 32
And they
Halah, and Habor, and built in Jerusalem:) 21
Joahe his son, Iddo his ministered before the
Hara, and to the river 11
And Azariah begat son, Zerah his son, dwelling place of the
Gozan, unto this day. Amariah, and Amariah Jeaterai his son. 22
The tabernacle of the
begat Ahitub, 12
And sons of Kohath; congregation with
Chapter 6 Ahitub begat Zadok, and Amminadabf his son, singing, until Solomon
Zadok begat Shallumc, Korah his son, Assir his had built the house of
The sons of Levi;
1 13
And Shallum begat son, 23Elkanah his son, the LORD in Jerusalem:
Gershona, Kohath, and Hilkiah, and Hilkiah and Ebiasaph his son, and then they waited
Merari. 2And the sons of begat Azariah, 14
And and Assir his son, on their office according
Kohath; Amram, Izhar, Azariah begat Seraiah, 24
Tahath his son, Uriel to their order. 33And
and Hebron, and Uzziel. and Seraiah begat his son, Uzziah his son, these are they that
3
And the children of Jehozadak, 15
And and Shaul his son. 25And waitedi with their
Amram; Aaron, and Jehozadak went into the sons of Elkanah; children. Of the sons of
Moses, and Miriam. The captivity, when the LORD Amasai, and Ahimoth. the Kohathites: Heman
sons also of Aaron; carried away Judah and 26
As for Elkanah: the a singer, the son of Joel,
Nadab, and Abihu, Jerusalem by the hand of sons of Elkanah; Zophaig the son of Shemuel,
Eleazar, and Ithamar. Nebuchadnezzar. 16The his son, and Nahath his 34
The son of Elkanah,
4
Eleazar begat Phinehas, sons of Levi; Gershomd, son, 27
Eliab his son, the son of Jeroham, the
Phinehas begat Abishua, Kohath, and Merari. Jeroham his son, Elkanah son of Eliel, the son of
5
And Abishua begat 17
And these be the his son. 28And the sons of Toah, 35The son of
Bukki, and Bukki begat Samuel; the firstborn Zuph, the son of
b
Uzzi, 6And Uzzi begat in the temple: Heb. in the Elkanah, the son of
e
Zerahiah, and Zerahiah house Joah: or, Ethan
c f h
Shallum: or, Meshullam Amminadab: or, Izhar Vashni: called also Joel
a d g i
Gershon: or, Gershom Gershom: or, Gershon Zophai: or, Zuph waited: Heb. stood
Mahath, the son of the son of Shamer, 47The was the lot. 55And they half tribe, namely, out
Amasai, 36The son of son of Mahli, the son of gave them Hebron in the of the half tribe of
Elkanah, the son of Joel, Mushi, the son of Merari, land of Judah, and the Manasseh, by lot, ten
the son of Azariah, the the son of Levi. 48Their suburbs thereof round cities. 62And to the sons
son of Zephaniah, 37The brethren also the Levites about it. 56But the fields of Gershom throughout
son of Tahath, the son of were appointed unto all of the city, and the their families out of the
Assir, the son of manner of service of the villages thereof, they tribe of Issachar, and
Ebiasaph, the son of tabernacle of the house gave to Caleb the son of out of the tribe of
Korah, 38The son of Izhar, of God. 49But Aaron and Jephunneh. 57And to the Asher, and out of the
the son of Kohath, the his sons offered upon the sons of Aaron they gave tribe of Naphtali, and
son of Levi, the son of altar of the burnt the cities of Judah, out of the tribe of
Israel. 39And his brother offering, and on the altar namely, Hebron, the city Manasseh in Bashan,
Asaph, who stood on his of incense, and were of refuge, and Libnah thirteen cities. 63Unto
right hand, even Asaph appointed for all the with her suburbs, and the sons of Merari were
the son of Berachiah, the work of the place most Jattir, and Eshtemoa, given by lot, throughout
son of Shimea, 40The son holy, and to make an with their suburbs, 58And their families, out of the
of Michael, the son of atonement for Israel, Hilenk with her suburbs, tribe of Reuben, and
Baaseiah, the son of according to all that Debir with her suburbs, out of the tribe of Gad,
Malchiah, 41The son of Moses the servant of 59
And Ashanl with her and out of the tribe of
Ethni, the son of Zerah, God had commanded. suburbs, and Zebulun, twelve cities.
the son of Adaiah, 42The 50
And these are the sons Bethshemesh with her 64
And the children of
son of Ethan, the son of of Aaron; Eleazar his son, suburbs: 60
And out of Israel gave to the
Zimmah, the son of Phinehas his son, the tribe of Benjamin; Levites these cities with
Shimei, 43The son of Abishua his son, Bukki
51
Geba with her suburbs, their suburbs. 65And
Jahath, the son of his son, Uzzi his son, and Alemethm with her they gave by lot out of
Gershom, the son of Zerahiah his son, suburbs, and Anathoth the tribe of the children
Levi. 44And their brethren 52
Meraioth his son, with her suburbs. All of Judah, and out of the
the sons of Merari stood Amariah his son, Ahitub their cities throughout tribe of the children of
on the left hand: Ethan his son, 53Zadok his son, their families were Simeon, and out of the
the son of Kishij, the son Ahimaaz his son. thirteen cities. 61
And tribe of the children of
of Abdi, the son of 54
Now these are their unto the sons of Kohath, Benjamin, these cities,
Malluch, 45
The son of dwelling places which were left of the which are called by
Hashabiah, the son of throughout their castles family of that tribe, were their names. 66And the
Amaziah, the son of in their coasts, of the cities given out of the residue of the families
Hilkiah, 46The son of sons of Aaron, of the k
of the sons of Kohath
Amzi, the son of Bani, families of the Hilen: or, Holon had cities of their
l
Kohathites: for theirs Ashan: or, Ain coasts out of the tribe
j m
Kishi: or, Kushaiah Alemeth: or, Almon
of Ephraim. 67And they Rehob with her suburbs: sons of Tola; Uzzi, and heads of the house of
gave unto them, of the 76
And out of the tribe of Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and their fathers, mighty
cities of refuge, Naphtali; Kedesh in Jahmai, and Jibsam, and men of valour; and
Shechem in mount Galilee with her suburbs, Shemuel, heads of their were reckoned by their
Ephraim with her and Hammon with her father’s house, to wit, of genealogies twenty and
suburbs; they gave also suburbs, and Kirjathaim Tola: they were valiant two thousand and thirty
Gezer with her suburbs, with her suburbs. 77Unto men of might in their and four. 8And the sons
68
And Jokmeam with her the rest of the children generations; whose of Becher; Zemira, and
suburbs, and Bethhoron of Merari were given out number was in the days Joash, and Eliezer, and
with her suburbs, 69And of the tribe of Zebulun, of David two and twenty Elioenai, and Omri, and
Aijalon with her suburbs, Rimmon with her thousand and six Jerimoth, and Abiah,
and Gathrimmon with suburbs, Tabor with her hundred. And the sons
3
and Anathoth, and
her suburbs: 70And out of suburbs: 78And on the of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the Alameth. All these are
the half tribe of other side Jordan by sons of Izrahiah; Michael, the sons of Becher.
Manasseh; Aner with her Jericho, on the east side and Obadiah, and Joel, 9
And the number of
suburbs, and Bileam with of Jordan, were given Ishiah, five: all of them them, after their
her suburbs, for the them out of the tribe of chief men. 4And with genealogy by their
family of the remnant of Reuben, Bezer in the them, by their generations, heads of
the sons of Kohath. wilderness with her generations, after the the house of their
71
Unto the sons of suburbs, and Jahzah with house of their fathers, fathers, mighty men of
Gershom were given out her suburbs, 79Kedemoth were bands of soldiers valour, was twenty
of the family of the half also with her suburbs, for war, six and thirty thousand and two
tribe of Manasseh, Golan and Mephaath with her thousand men: for they hundred. 10The sons
in Bashan with her suburbs: 80And out of the had many wives and also of Jediael; Bilhan:
suburbs, and Ashtaroth tribe of Gad; Ramoth in sons. 5And their brethren and the sons of Bilhan;
with her suburbs: 72And Gilead with her suburbs, among all the families of Jeush, and Benjamin,
out of the tribe of and Mahanaim with her Issachar were valiant and Ehud, and
Issachar; Kedesh with suburbs, 81And Heshbon men of might, reckoned Chenaanah, and
her suburbs, Daberath with her suburbs, and in all by their Zethan, and Tharshish,
with her suburbs, 73And Jazer with her suburbs. genealogies fourscore and Ahishahar. 11
All
Ramoth with her and seven thousand. these the sons of
suburbs, and Anem with Chapter 7 6
The sons of Benjamin; Jediael, by the heads of
her suburbs: 74And out of Bela, and Becher, and their fathers, mighty
the tribe of Asher;
1
Now the sons of Jediael, three. 7And the men of valour, were
Mashal with her suburbs, Issachar were, Tola, and sons of Bela; Ezbon, and seventeen thousand
and Abdon with her Puah, Jashub, and Uzzi, and Uzziel, and and two hundred
suburbs, 75And Hukok Shimron, four. 2And the Jerimoth, and Iri, five; soldiers, fit to go out for
with her suburbs, and
war and battle. Mahalah. 19And the sons Elishama his son, 27Nonb children of Japhlet.
12
Shuppim also, and of Shemida were, Ahian, his son, Jehoshua his 34
And the sons of
Huppim, the children of and Shechem, and Likhi, son. 28
And their Shamer; Ahi, and
Ira, and Hushim, the sons and Aniam. possessions and Rohgah, Jehubbah, and
of Aher. 13
The sons of 20
And the sons of habitations were, Bethel Aram. 35And the sons of
Naphtali; Jahziel, and Ephraim; Shuthelah, and and the towns thereof, his brother Helem;
Guni, and Jezer, and Bered his son, and and eastward Naaran, Zophah, and Imna, and
Shallum, the sons of Tahath his son, and and westward Gezer, Shelesh, and Amal.
Bilhah. 14The sons of Eladah his son, and with the townsc thereof; 36
The sons of Zophah;
Manasseh; Ashriel, Tahath his son, 21And Shechem also and the Suah, and Harnepher,
whom she bare: (but his Zabad his son, and towns thereof, unto Gaza and Shual, and Beri,
concubine the Aramitess Shuthelah his son, and and the towns thereof: and Imrah, 37Bezer, and
bare Machir the father of Ezer, and Elead, whom 29
And by the borders of Hod, and Shamma, and
Gilead: 15And Machir took the men of Gath that the children of Shilshah, and Ithran,
to wife the sister of were born in that land Manasseh, Bethshean and Beera. 38And the
Huppim and Shuppim, slew, because they came and her townsd, Taanach sons of Jether;
whose sister’s name was down to take away their and her towns, Megiddo Jephunneh, and Pispah,
Maachah;) and the name cattle. 22And Ephraim and her towns, Dor and and Ara. 39And the sons
of the second was their father mourned her towns. In these dwelt of Ulla; Arah, and
Zelophehad: and many days, and his the children of Joseph Haniel, and Rezia. 40All
Zelophehad had brethren came to the son of Israel. 30The these were the children
daughters. 16
And comfort him. And when
23
sons of Asher; Imnah, of Asher, heads of their
Maachah the wife of he went in to his wife, and Isuah, and Ishuai, father’s house, choice
Machir bare a son, and she conceived, and bare and Beriah, and Serah and mighty men of
she called his name a son, and he called his their sister. 31And the valour, chief of the
Peresh; and the name of name Beriah, because it sons of Beriah; Heber, princes. And the
his brother was Sheresh; went evil with his house. and Malchiel, who is the number throughout the
and his sons were Ulam 24
(And his daughter was father of Birzavith. 32And genealogy of them that
and Rakem. 17And the Sherah, who built Heber begat Japhlet, and were apt to the war and
sons of Ulam; Bedan. Bethhoron the nether, Shomer, and Hotham, to battle was twenty
These were the sons of and the upper, and and Shua their sister. and six thousand men.
Gilead, the son of Uzzensherah.) 25
And 33
And the sons of Japhlet;
Machir, the son of Rephah was his son, also Pasach, and Bimhal, and Chapter 8
Manasseh. 18
And his Resheph, and Telah his Ashvath. These are the
sister Hammoleketh bare son, and Tahan his son, Now
1
Benjamin
b
Ishod, and Abiezer, and 26
Laadan his son, Non: or, Nun begat Bela his firstborn,
c
Ammihud his son, towns: Heb. daughters Ashbel the second, and
a d
Ir: or, Iri towns: Heb. daughters
Aharah the third, 2Nohah who built Ono, and Lod, and Zichri, the sons of Jehoadahj; and
the fourth, and Rapha with the towns thereof: Jeroham. 28These were Jehoadah begat
the fifth. 3And the sons 13
Beriah also, and heads of the fathers, by Alemeth, and
of Bela were, Addara, and Shema, who were heads their generations, chief Azmaveth, and Zimri;
Gera, and Abihud, 4And of the fathers of the men. These dwelt in and Zimri begat Moza,
Abishua, and Naaman, inhabitants of Aijalon, Jerusalem. 29
And at 37
And Moza begat
and Ahoah, 5And Gera, who drove away the Gibeon dwelt the fatherd Binea: Raphak was his
and Shephuphanb, and inhabitants of Gath: of Gibeon; whose wife’s son, Eleasah his son,
Huram. 6And these are 14
And Ahio, Shashak, and name was Maachah: Azel his son: 38And Azel
the sons of Ehud: these Jeremoth, 15
And 30
And his firstborn son had six sons, whose
are the heads of the Zebadiah, and Arad, and Abdon, and Zur, and names are these,
fathers of the inhabitants Ader, 16And Michael, and Kish, and Baal, and Azrikam, Bocheru, and
of Geba, and they Ispah, and Joha, the sons Nadab, 31And Gedor, and Ishmael, and Sheariah,
removed them to of Beriah; 17
And Ahio, and Zachere. 32And and Obadiah, and
Manahath: 7
And Zebadiah, and Mikloth begat Shimeahf. Hanan. All these were
Naaman, and Ahiah, and Meshullam, and Hezeki, And these also dwelt the sons of Azel. 39And
Gera, he removed them, and Heber, 18Ishmerai with their brethren in the sons of Eshek his
and begat Uzza, and also, and Jezliah, and Jerusalem, over against brother were, Ulam his
Ahihud. 8And Shaharaim Jobab, the sons of Elpaal; them. firstborn, Jehush the
begat children in the 19
And Jakim, and Zichri, 33
And Ner begat Kish, second, and Eliphelet
country of Moab, after he and Zabdi, 20And Elienai, and Kish begat Saul, and the third. 40And the sons
had sent them away; and Zilthai, and Eliel, Saul begat Jonathan, and of Ulam were mighty
Hushim and Baara were 21
And Adaiah, and Malchishua, and men of valour, archers,
his wives. 9And he begat Beraiah, and Shimrath, Abinadab , and Eshbaal.
g
and had many sons,
of Hodesh his wife, the sons of Shimhic; 34
And the son of and sons’ sons, an
Jobab, and Zibia, and 22
And Ishpan, and Heber, Jonathan was Meribbaalh; hundred and fifty. All
Mesha, and Malcham, and Eliel, 23And Abdon, and Meribbaal begat these are of the sons of
10
And Jeuz, and Shachia, and Zichri, and Hanan, Micah. And the sons of
35
Benjamin.
and Mirma. These were 24
And Hananiah, and Micah were, Pithon, and
his sons, heads of the Elam, and Antothijah, Melech, and Tareai, and Chapter 9
fathers. 11And of Hushim 25
And Iphedeiah, and Ahaz. 36And Ahaz begat
he begat Abitub, and Penuel, the sons of So all Israel were
1
d
Elpaal. 12The sons of Shashak; 26
And father...: also called Jehiel reckoned by
e
Elpaal; Eber, and Shamsherai, and Zacher: or, Zechariah genealogies; and,
f
Misham, and Shamed, Shehariah, and Athaliah, Shimeah: or, Shimeam behold, they were
g
27
And Jaresiah, and Eliah, Abinadab: also called, Ishui
a h j
Addar: or, Ard Meribbaal: or, Mephibosheth Jehoadah: also called, Jarah
b c i k
Shephuphan: or, Shupham Shimhi: or, Shema Tarea: or, Tahrea Rapha: also called, Rephaiah
written in the book of the the son of Reuel, the son Hasshub, the son of host of the LORD, were
kings of Israel and Judah, of Ibnijah; 9And their Azrikam, the son of keepers of the entry.
who were carried away brethren, according to Hashabiah, of the sons of 20
And Phinehas the son
to Babylon for their their generations, nine Merari; 15And Bakbakkar, of Eleazar was the ruler
transgression. 2Now the hundred and fifty and Heresh, and Galal, and over them in time past,
first inhabitants that six. All these men were Mattaniah the son of and the LORD was with
dwelt in their chief of the fathers in the Micah, the son of Zichri, him. 21And Zechariah
possessions in their house of their fathers. the son of Asaph; 16And the son of Meshelemiah
cities were, the 10
And of the priests; Obadiah the son of was porter of the door
Israelites, the priests, Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, Shemaiah, the son of of the tabernacle of the
Levites, and the and Jachin, 11
And Galal, the son of congregation. 22
All
Nethinims. 3
And in Azariah a
the son of Jeduthun, and Berechiah these which were
Jerusalem dwelt of the Hilkiah, the son of the son of Asa, the son chosen to be porters in
children of Judah, and of Meshullam, the son of of Elkanah, that dwelt in the gates were two
the children of Benjamin, Zadok, the son of the villages of the hundred and twelve.
and of the children of Meraioth, the son of Netophathites. And the
17
These were reckoned
Ephraim, and Manasseh; Ahitub, the ruler of the porters were, Shallum, by their genealogy in
4
Uthai the son of house of God; 12
And and Akkub, and Talmon, their villages, whom
Ammihud, the son of Adaiah the son of and Ahiman, and their David and Samuel the
Omri, the son of Imri, the Jeroham, the son of brethren: Shallum was seer did ordain in their
son of Bani, of the Pashur, the son of the chief; 18Who hitherto set office. 23
So they
children of Pharez the Malchijah, and Maasiai waited in the king’s gate and their children had
son of Judah. 5And of the the son of Adiel, the son eastward: they were the oversight of the
Shilonites; Asaiah the of Jahzerah, the son of porters in the companies gates of the house of
firstborn, and his sons. Meshullam, the son of of the children of Levi. the LORD, namely, the
6
And of the sons of Meshillemith, the son of 19
And Shallum the son of house of the
Zerah; Jeuel, and their Immer; 13
And their Kore, the son of tabernacle, by wards.
brethren, six hundred brethren, heads of the Ebiasaph, the son of 24
In four quarters were
and ninety. 7And of the house of their fathers, a Korah, and his brethren, the porters, toward the
sons of Benjamin; Sallu thousand and seven of the house of his east, west, north, and
the son of Meshullam, hundred and threescore; father, the Korahites, south. 25
And their
the son of Hodaviah, the very able men for the were over the work of brethren, which were in
son of Hasenuah, 8And work of the service of the service, keepers of their villages, were to
Ibneiah the son of the house of God. the gatesb of the come after seven days
Jeroham, and Elah the 14
And of the Levites; tabernacle: and their from time to time with
son of Uzzi, the son of Shemaiah the son of fathers, being over the them. 26
For these
Michri, and Meshullam a b
Levites, the four chief
the son of Shephathiah, Azariah: also called, Seraiah gates: Heb. thresholds
porters, were in their set were over the 40
And the son of and Malchishua, the
office, and were over the shewbread , to prepare
d
Jonathan was Meribbaal: sons of Saul. 3And the
chambers and treasuries it every sabbath. 33And and Meribbaal begat battle went sore against
of the house of God. these are the singers, Micah. And the sons of
41
Saul, and the archersc
27
And they lodged round chief of the fathers of Micah were, Pithon, and hit him, and he was
about the house of God, the Levites, who Melech, and Tahrea, and wounded of the
because the charge was remaining in the Ahaz. 42And Ahaz begat archers. 4
Then said
upon them, and the chambers were free: for Jarah; and Jarah begat Saul to his
opening thereof every they were employed in Alemeth, and Azmaveth, armourbearer, Draw thy
morning pertained to that work day and night. and Zimri; and Zimri sword, and thrust me
them. 28And certain of 34
These chief fathers of begat Moza; 43And Moza through therewith; lest
them had the charge of the Levites were chief begat Binea; and these uncircumcised
the ministering vessels, throughout their Rephaiah his son, come and abuse me.
that they should bring generations; these dwelt Eleasah his son, Azel his But his armourbearerd
them in and out by tale. at Jerusalem. son. 44And Azel had six would not; for he was
29
Some of them also 35
And in Gibeon dwelt sons, whose names are sore afraid. So Saul
were appointed to the father of Gibeon, these, Azrikam, Bocheru, took a sword, and fell
oversee the vessels, and Jehiel, whose wife’s and Ishmael, and upon it. 5And when his
all the instrumentsc of name was Maachah: Sheariah, and Obadiah, armourbearer saw that
the sanctuary, and the 36
And his firstborn son and Hanan: these were Saul was dead, he fell
fine flour, and the wine, Abdon, then Zur, and the sons of Azel. likewise on the sword,
and the oil, and the Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and died. 6So Saul died,
frankincense, and the and Nadab, 37And Gedor, Chapter 10 and his three sons, and
spices. 30And some of and Ahio, and Zechariah, all his house died
the sons of the priests and Mikloth. 38
And Now the Philistines
1
together. 7And when all
made the ointment of Mikloth begat Shimeam. fought against Israel; the men of Israel that
the spices. 31
And And they also dwelt with and the men of Israel were in the valley saw
Mattithiah, one of the their brethren at fled from before the that they fled, and that
Levites, who was the Jerusalem, over against Philistines, and fell down Saul and his sons were
firstborn of Shallum the their brethren. 39And Ner slaina in mount Gilboa. dead, then they forsook
Korahite, had the set begat Kish; and Kish
2
And the Philistines their cities, and fled:
office over the things begat Saul; and Saul followed hard after Saul, and the Philistines
that were made in the begat Jonathan, and and after his sons; and came and dwelt in
pans. 32
And other of Malchishua, and the Philistines slew them.
their brethren, of the Abinadab, and Eshbaal. Jonathan, and Abinadabb,
c
sons of the Kohathites, and the archers: Heb. and the
d a
shewbread: Heb. bread of slain: or, wounded shooters with bows
c b d
instruments: or, vessels ordering Abinadab: also called, Ishui abuse me: or, mock me
And it came to pass
8
asking counsel of one the word of the LORD byb chief of the mighty men
on the morrow, when the that had a familiar spirit, Samuel. 4And David and whom David had, who
Philistines came to strip to enquire of it; 14And all Israel went to strengthenedf
the slain, that they found enquired not of the Jerusalem, which is themselves with him in
Saul and his sons fallen LORD: therefore he slew Jebus; where the his kingdom, and with
in mount Gilboa. 9And him, and turned the Jebusites were, the all Israel, to make him
when they had stripped kingdom unto David the inhabitants of the land. king, according to the
him, they took his head, son of Jessef. 5
And the inhabitants of word of the LORD
and his armour, and sent Jebus said to David, Thou concerning Israel.
into the land of the Chapter 11 shalt not come hither. 11
And this is the number
Philistines round about, Nevertheless David took of the mighty men
to carry tidings unto Then
1
all Israel the castle of Zion, which whom David had;
their idols, and to the gathered themselves to is the city of David. 6And Jashobeam, an
people. 10And they put David unto Hebron, David said, Whosoever Hachmonite , the chief
g

his armour in the house saying, Behold, we are smiteth the Jebusites of the captains: he
of their gods, and thy bone and thy flesh. first shall be chiefc and lifted up his spear
fastened his head in the
2
And moreover in timea captain. So Joab the son against three hundred
temple of Dagon. 11And past, even when Saul of Zeruiah went first up, slain by him at one
when all Jabeshgilead was king, thou wast he and was chief. 7
And time. 12And after him
heard all that the that leddest out and David dwelt in the was Eleazar the son of
Philistines had done to broughtest in Israel: and castle; therefore they Dodo, the Ahohite, who
Saul, 12They arose, all the LORD thy God said called it the city of was one of the three
the valiant men, and unto thee, Thou shalt David. 8And he built the mighties. 13He was with
took away the body of feed my people Israel, city round about, even David at Pasdammimh,
Saul, and the bodies of and thou shalt be ruler from Millo round about: and there the Philistines
his sons, and brought over my people Israel. and Joab repairedd the were gathered together
them to Jabesh, and
3
Therefore came all the rest of the city. 9
So to battle, where was a
buried their bones under elders of Israel to the David waxed e
greater parcel of ground full of
the oak in Jabesh, and king to Hebron; and and greater: for the barley; and the people
fasted seven days. 13So David made a covenant LORD of hosts was with fled from before the
Saul died for his with them in Hebron him. Philistines. 14And they
transgression which he before the LORD; and 10
These also are the f
committede against the they anointed David king strengthened...: or, held
b
LORD, even against the over Israel, according to by: Heb. by the hand of strongly with him
c g
word of the LORD, which chief: Heb. head an Hachmonite: or, son of
f d
he kept not, and also for Jesse: Heb. Isai repaired: Heb. revived Hachmoni
a e h
in time...: Heb. both yesterday waxed...: Heb. went in going Pasdammim: also called,
e
committed: Heb. transgressed and the third day and increasing Ephesdammim
seti themselves in the shall I drink the blood of slew him with his own the Baharumite, Eliahba
midst of that parcel, and these men that have put spear. 24
These things the Shaalbonite, 34The
delivered it, and slew the their lives in jeopardy? did Benaiah the son of sons of Hashemo the
Philistines; and the LORD for with the jeopardy of Jehoiada, and had the Gizonite, Jonathan the
saved them by a great their lives they brought name among the three son of Shage the
deliverance. 15
Now it. Therefore he would mighties. 25Behold, he Hararite, 35
Ahiam the
three j
of the thirty not drink it. These things was honourable among son of Sacarp the
captains went down to did these three the thirty, but attained Hararite, Eliphal the son
the rock to David, into mightiest. 20And Abishai not to the first three: and of Ur, 36
Hepher the
the cave of Adullam; and the brother of Joab, he David set him over his Mecherathite, Ahijah
the host of the Philistines was chief of the three: guard. 26Also the valiant the Pelonite, 37Hezro
encamped in the valley for lifting up his spear men of the armies were, the Carmelite, Naarai
of Rephaim. 16And David against three hundred, Asahel the brother of the son of Ezbai, 38Joel
was then in the hold, and he slew them, and had a Joab, Elhanan the son of the brother of Nathan,
the Philistines’ garrison name among the three. Dodo of Bethlehem, Mibhar the sonq of
was then at Bethlehem. 21
Of the three, he was 27
Shammoth k
the Haggeri, 39
Zelek the
17
And David longed, and more honourable than Harorite, Helez the Ammonite, Naharai the
said, Oh that one would the two; for he was their Pelonite, 28
Ira the son Berothite, the
give me drink of the captain: howbeit he of Ikkesh the Tekoite, armourbearer of Joab
water of the well of attained not to the first Abiezer the Antothite, the son of Zeruiah, 40Ira
Bethlehem, that is at the three. 22Benaiah the son 29
Sibbecail the the Ithrite, Gareb the
gate! 18And the three of Jehoiada, the son of a Hushathite, Ilai the Ithrite, 41
Uriah the
brake through the host valiant man of Kabzeel, Ahohite, 30
Maharai the Hittite, Zabad the son
of the Philistines, and who had done many Netophathite, Heledm the of Ahlai, 42Adina the son
drew water out of the acts; he slew two lionlike son of Baanah the of Shiza the Reubenite,
well of Bethlehem, that men of Moab: also he Netophathite, 31
Ithai the a captain of the
was by the gate, and went down and slew a son of Ribai of Gibeah, Reubenites, and thirty
took it, and brought it to lion in a pit in a snowy that pertained to the with him, 43Hanan the
David: but David would day. 23And he slew an children of Benjamin, son of Maachah, and
not drink of it, but Egyptian, a man of great Benaiah the Pirathonite, Joshaphat the Mithnite,
poured it out to the stature, five cubits high; 32
Hurain of the brooks of 44
Uzzia the Ashterathite,
LORD, 19And said, My and in the Egyptian’s Gaash, Abiel the Shama and Jehiel the
God forbid it me, that I hand was a spear like a Arbathite, 33
Azmaveth sons of Hothan the
should do this thing: weaver’s beam; and he k
Aroerite, 45Jediael the
went down to him with a Shammoth: or, Shammah
i l o
set...: or, stood staff, and plucked the Sibbecai: or, Mebunnai Hashem: or, Jashen
j m p
three...: or, three captains over spear out of the Heled: or, Heleb Sacar: or, Sharar
n q
the thirty Egyptian’s hand, and Hurai: or, Hiddai the son...: or, the Haggerite
sonr of Shimri, and Joha man among the thirty, eleventh. 14These were camef upon Amasai,
his brother, the Tizite, and over the thirty; and of the sons of Gad, who was chief of the
46
Eliel the Mahavite, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, captains of the host: captains, and he said,
Jeribai, and Joshaviah, and Johanan, and onec of the least was Thine are we, David,
the sons of Elnaam, and Josabad the Gederathite, over an hundred, and and on thy side, thou
Ithmah the Moabite, 5
Eluzai, and Jerimoth, the greatest over a son of Jesse: peace,
47
Eliel, and Obed, and and Bealiah, and thousand. 15
These are peace be unto thee,
Jasiel the Mesobaite. Shemariah, and they that went over and peace be to thine
Shephatiah the Jordan in the first month, helpers; for thy God
Chapter 12 Haruphite, Elkanah, and
6
when it had overflownd helpeth thee. Then
Jesiah, and Azareel, and all his banks; and they David received them,
Now these are they
1
Joezer, and Jashobeam, put to flight all them of and made them
that came to David to the Korhites, 7And Joelah, the valleys, both toward captains of the band.
Ziklag, while he yet kept and Zebadiah, the sons the east, and toward the 19
And there fell some of
himself close because of of Jeroham of Gedor. west. 16And there came Manasseh to David,
Saul the son of Kish: and 8
And of the Gadites there of the children of when he came with the
they were among the separated themselves Benjamin and Judah to Philistines against Saul
mighty men, helpers of unto David into the hold the hold unto David. to battle: but they
the war. 2
They were to the wilderness men of 17
And David went out to helped them not: for
armed with bows, and might, and men of warb meete them, and the lords of the
could use both the right fit for the battle, that answered and said unto Philistines upon
hand and the left in could handle shield and them, If ye be come advisement sent him
hurling stones and buckler, whose faces peaceably unto me to away, saying, He will
shooting arrows out of a were like the faces of help me, mine heart fall to his master Saul
bow, even of Saul’s lions, and were as swift shall be knit unto you: to the jeopardy of our
brethren of Benjamin. as the roes upon the but if ye be come to heads. 20As he went to
3
The chief was Ahiezer, mountains; 9
Ezer the betray me to mine Ziklag, there fell to him
then Joash, the sons of first, Obadiah the enemies, seeing there is of Manasseh, Adnah,
Shemaaha the second, Eliab the third, no wrong in mine hands, and Jozabad, and
Gibeathite; and Jeziel, 10
Mishmannah the the God of our fathers Jediael, and Michael,
and Pelet, the sons of fourth, Jeremiah the fifth, look thereon, and rebuke and Jozabad, and Elihu,
Azmaveth; and 11
Attai the sixth, Eliel the it. 18
Then the spirit and Zilthai, captains of
Berachah, and Jehu the seventh, 12Johanan the the thousands that
c
Antothite, 4And Ismaiah eighth, Elzabad the one...: or, one that was least were of Manasseh.
the Gibeonite, a mighty ninth, 13
Jeremiah the could resist an hundred, and the 21
And they helped David
tenth, Machbanai the greatest a thousand against the band of the
r d
son...: or, Shimrite overflown: Heb. filled over
a b e f
Shemaah: or, Hasmaah of war: Heb. of the host to meet...: Heb. before them came...: Heb. clothed
rovers: for they were all his father’s house twenty of war, fifty thousand, for them. 40Moreover
mighty men of valour, and two captains. 29And which could keep rank: they that were nigh
and were captains in the of the children of they were not of double them, even unto
host. 22For at that time Benjamin, the kindred of i
heart. 34And of Naphtali Issachar and Zebulun
day by day there came Saul, three thousand: for a thousand captains, and and Naphtali, brought
to David to help him, hitherto the greatest with them with shield bread on asses, and on
until it was a great host, part of them had kept and spear thirty and camels, and on mules,
like the host of God. the ward of the house of seven thousand. 35And of and on oxen, and
23
And these are the Saul. 30
And of the the Danites expert in meatm, meal, cakes of
numbers of the bandsg children of Ephraim war twenty and eight figs, and bunches of
that were ready armed twenty thousand and thousand and six raisins, and wine, and
to the war, and came to eight hundred, mighty hundred. And of Asher,
36
oil, and oxen, and
David to Hebron, to turn men of valour, famousj such as went forth to sheep abundantly: for
the kingdom of Saul to throughout the house of battle, expertl in war, there was joy in Israel.
him, according to the their fathers. 31And of forty thousand. 37And on
word of the LORD. 24The the half tribe of the other side of Jordan, Chapter 13
children of Judah that Manasseh eighteen of the Reubenites, and
bare shield and spear thousand, which were the Gadites, and of the And
1
David
were six thousand and expressed by name, to half tribe of Manasseh, consulted with the
eight hundred, ready come and make David with all manner of captains of thousands
armedh to the war. 25Of king. 32
And of the instruments of war for and hundreds, and with
the children of Simeon, children of Issachar, the battle, an hundred every leader. 2
And
mighty men of valour for which were men that and twenty thousand. David said unto all the
the war, seven thousand had understanding of the 38
All these men of war, congregation of Israel,
and one hundred. 26Of times, to know what that could keep rank, If it seem good unto
the children of Levi four Israel ought to do; the came with a perfect you, and that it be of
thousand and six heads of them were two heart to Hebron, to make the LORD our God, let
hundred. And Jehoiada
27
hundred; and all their David king over all us senda abroad unto
was the leader of the brethren were at their Israel: and all the rest our brethren every
Aaronites, and with him commandment. 33
Of also of Israel were of one where, that are left in
were three thousand and Zebulun, such as went heart to make David all the land of Israel,
seven hundred; 28And forth to battle, expertk in king. 39And there they and with them also to
Zadok, a young man war, with all instruments were with David three the priests and Levites
mighty of valour, and of days, eating and which are in their cities
i
kindred: Heb. brethren drinking: for their
g j m
bands: or, captains, or, men: famous: Heb. men of names brethren had prepared meat...: or, victual of meal
k a
Heb. heads expert...: or, rangers of battle, send...: Heb. break forth and
h l
armed: or, prepared or, ranged in battle expert: or, keeping their rank send
and suburbs, that they with singingc, and with house of Obededom the and Eliphalet.
may gather themselves harps, and with Gittite. 14And the ark of 8
And when the
unto us: 3
And let us psalteries, and with God remained with the Philistines heard that
bring again the ark of timbrels, and with family of Obededom in David was anointed
our God to us: for we cymbals, and with his house three months. king over all Israel, all
enquired not at it in the trumpets. And the LORD blessed the Philistines went up
days of Saul. 4And all 9
And when they came the house of Obededom, to seek David. And
the congregation said unto the threshingfloor and all that he had. David heard of it, and
that they would do so: of Chidond, Uzza put went out against them.
for the thing was right in forth his hand to hold the Chapter 14 9
And the Philistines
the eyes of all the ark; for the oxen came and spread
people. 5
So David stumbled. 10
And the Now Hiram king of
1
themselves in the
gathered all Israel anger of the LORD was Tyre sent messengers to valley of Rephaim.
together, from Shihor of kindled against Uzza, David, and timber of 10
And David enquired of
Egypt even unto the and he smote him, cedars, with masons and God, saying, Shall I go
entering of Hemath, to because he put his hand carpenters, to build him up against the
bring the ark of God to the ark: and there he an house. 2And David Philistines? and wilt
from Kirjathjearim. 6And died before God. 11And perceived that the LORD thou deliver them into
David went up, and all David was displeased, had confirmed him king mine hand? And the
Israel, to Baalah, that is, because the LORD had over Israel, for his LORD said unto him, Go
to Kirjathjearim, which made a breach upon kingdom was lifted up on up; for I will deliver
belonged to Judah, to Uzza: wherefore that high, because of his them into thine hand.
bring up thence the ark place is called people Israel. 3And David 11
So they came up to
of God the LORD, that Perezuzza to this day.
e took more wives at Baalperazimb; and
dwelleth between the 12
And David was afraid of Jerusalem: and David David smote them
cherubims, whose name God that day, saying, begat more sons and there. Then David said,
is called on it. 7And they How shall I bring the ark daughters. 4Now these God hath broken in
carriedb the ark of God in of God home to me? 13So are the names of his upon mine enemies by
a new cart out of the David broughtf not the children which he had in mine hand like the
house of Abinadab: and ark home to himself to Jerusalem; Shammua, breaking forth of
Uzza and Ahio drave the the city of David, but and Shobab, Nathan, and waters: therefore they
cart. 8And David and all carried it aside into the Solomon, 5And Ibhar, and called the name of that
Israel played before God Elishua, and Elpalet, place Baalperazim.
c
with all their might, and singing: Heb. songs 6
And Nogah, and 12
And when they had
d
Chidon: also called Nachon Nepheg, and Japhia, 7And left their gods there,
e
Perezuzza: that is, The breach Elishama, and Beeliadaa,
b b
carried...: Heb. made the ark of Uzza Baalperazim: that is, A place
f a
to ride brought: Heb. removed Beeliada: also called, Eliada of breaches
David gave a houses in the city of fourscore: 10Of the sons spake to the chief of
commandment, and they David, and prepared a of Uzziel; Amminadab the Levites to appoint
were burned with fire. place for the ark of God, the chief, and his their brethren to be the
13
And the Philistines yet and pitched for it a tent. brethren an hundred and singers with
again spread themselves 2
Then David said, None twelve. 11
And David instruments of musick,
abroad in the valley. ought to carry the ark of called for Zadok and psalteries and harps
14
Therefore David God but the Levites: for Abiathar the priests, and and cymbals, sounding,
enquired again of God; them hath the LORD for the Levites, for Uriel, by lifting up the voice
and God said unto him, chosen to carry the ark Asaiah, and Joel, with joy. 17
So the
Go not up after them; of God, and to minister Shemaiah, and Eliel, and Levites appointed
turn away from them, unto him for ever. 3And Amminadab, 12And said Heman the son of Joel;
and come upon them David gathered all Israel unto them, Ye are the and of his brethren,
over against the together to Jerusalem, to chief of the fathers of Asaph the son of
mulberry trees. And it
15
bring up the ark of the the Levites: sanctify Berechiah; and of the
shall be, when thou shalt LORD unto his place, yourselves, both ye and sons of Merari their
hear a sound of going in which he had prepared your brethren, that ye brethren, Ethan the son
the tops of the mulberry for it. 4
And David may bring up the ark of of Kushaiah; 18And with
trees, that then thou assembled the children the LORD God of Israel them their brethren of
shalt go out to battle: for of Aaron, and the unto the place that I the second degree,
God is gone forth before Levites: Of the sons of
5
have prepared for it. Zechariah, Ben, and
thee to smite the host of Kohath; Uriel the chief, 13
For because ye did it Jaaziel, and
the Philistines. 16David and his brethrena an not at the first, the LORD Shemiramoth, and
therefore did as God hundred and twenty: 6Of our God made a breach Jehiel, and Unni, Eliab,
commanded him: and the sons of Merari; upon us, for that we and Benaiah, and
they smote the host of Asaiah the chief, and his sought him not after the Maaseiah, and
the Philistines from brethren two hundred due order. 14So the Mattithiah, and
Gibeonc even to Gazer. and twenty: 7Of the sons priests and the Levites Elipheleh, and
17
And the fame of David of Gershom; Joel the sanctified themselves to Mikneiah, and
went out into all lands; chief, and his brethren bring up the ark of the Obededom, and Jeiel,
and the LORD brought an hundred and thirty: LORD God of Israel. the porters. 19So the
the fear of him upon all 8
Of the sons of 15
And the children of the singers, Heman, Asaph,
nations. Elizaphan; Shemaiah the Levites bare the ark of and Ethan, were
chief, and his brethren God upon their shoulders appointed to sound with
Chapter 15 two hundred: 9Of the with the staves thereon, cymbals of brass; 20And
sons of Hebron; Eliel the as Moses commanded Zechariah, and Aziel,
1
And David made him chief, and his brethren according to the word of and Shemiramoth, and
c a
the LORD. 16And David Jehiel, and Unni, and
Gibeon: also called, Geba brethren: or, kinsmen
Eliab, and Maaseiah, and So David, and the
25
out at a window saw king Mattithiah, and Eliab,
Benaiah, with psalteries elders of Israel, and the David dancing and and Benaiah, and
on Alamoth; 21
And captains over thousands, playing: and she Obededom: and Jeiel
Mattithiah, and went to bring up the ark despised him in her with psalteriesa and
Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, of the covenant of the heart. with harps; but Asaph
and Obededom, and LORD out of the house of made a sound with
Jeiel, and Azaziah, with Obededom with joy. Chapter 16 cymbals; 6Benaiah also
harps on the Sheminith 26
And it came to pass, and Jahaziel the priests
to excel. 22
And when God helped the
1
So they brought the with trumpets
Chenaniah, chief of the Levites that bare the ark ark of God, and set it in continually before the
Levites, was for song: he of the covenant of the the midst of the tent that ark of the covenant of
instructed about the LORD, that they offered David had pitched for it: God.
song, because he was seven bullocks and and they offered burnt 7
Then on that day
skilful. 23And Berechiah seven rams. And David
27 sacrifices and peace David delivered first
and Elkanah were was clothed with a robe offerings before God. this psalm to thank the
doorkeepers for the ark. of fine linen, and all the
2
And when David had LORD into the hand of
24
And Shebaniah, and Levites that bare the ark, made an end of offering Asaph and his brethren.
Jehoshaphat, and and the singers, and the burnt offerings and 8
Give thanks unto the
Nethaneel, and Amasai, Chenaniah the master of the peace offerings, he LORD, call upon his
and Zechariah, and the songb with the blessed the people in the name, make known his
Benaiah, and Eliezer, the singers: David also had name of the LORD. 3And deeds among the
priests, did blow with the upon him an ephod of he dealt to every one of people. Sing unto him,
9

trumpets before the ark linen. 28Thus all Israel Israel, both man and sing psalms unto him,
of God: and Obededom brought up the ark of the woman, to every one a talk ye of all his
and Jehiah were covenant of the LORD loaf of bread, and a good wondrous works. 10Glory
doorkeepers for the ark. with shouting, and with piece of flesh, and a ye in his holy name: let
sound of the cornet, and flagon of wine. 4And he the heart of them
with trumpets, and with appointed certain of the rejoice that seek the
cymbals, making a noise Levites to minister LORD. 11Seek the LORD
with psalteries and before the ark of the and his strength, seek
harps. 29And it came to LORD, and to record, and his face continually.
pass, as the ark of the to thank and praise the 12
Remember his
covenant of the LORD LORD God of Israel: marvellous works that
came to the city of
5
Asaph the chief, and he hath done, his
David, that Michal the next to him Zechariah,
a
daughter of Saul looking Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, with psalteries...: Heb. with
and Jehiel, and instruments of psalteries and
b
song: or, carriage harps
wonders, and the 23
Sing unto the LORD, all roar, and the fulness Zadok the priest, and
judgments of his mouth; the earth; shew forth thereof: let the fields his brethren the priests,
13
O ye seed of Israel his from day to day his rejoice, and all that is before the tabernacle of
servant, ye children of salvation. 24Declare his therein. 33Then shall the the LORD in the high
Jacob, his chosen ones. glory among the trees of the wood sing place that was at
14
He is the LORD our heathen; his marvellous out at the presence of Gibeon, To offer burnt
40

God; his judgments are works among all nations. the LORD, because he offerings unto the LORD
in all the earth. 15Be ye 25
For great is the LORD, cometh to judge the upon the altar of the
mindful always of his and greatly to be earth. 34O give thanks burnt offering
covenant; the word praised: he also is to be unto the LORD; for he is continually morningc
which he commanded to feared above all gods. good; for his mercy and evening, and to do
a thousand generations; 26
For all the gods of the endureth for ever. 35And according to all that is
16
Even of the covenant people are idols: but the say ye, Save us, O God written in the law of the
which he made with LORD made the of our salvation, and LORD, which he
Abraham, and of his oath heavens. 27Glory and gather us together, and commanded Israel;
unto Isaac; 17And hath honour are in his deliver us from the 41
And with them Heman
confirmed the same to presence; strength and heathen, that we may and Jeduthun, and the
Jacob for a law, and to gladness are in his place. give thanks to thy holy rest that were chosen,
Israel for an everlasting 28
Give unto the LORD, ye name, and glory in thy who were expressed by
covenant, 18Saying, Unto kindreds of the people, praise. 36Blessed be the name, to give thanks to
thee will I give the land give unto the LORD glory LORD God of Israel for the LORD, because his
of Canaan, the lotb of and strength. 29Give unto ever and ever. And all mercy endureth for
your inheritance; the LORD the glory due the people said, Amen, ever; 42And with them
19
When ye were but few, unto his name: bring an and praised the LORD. Heman and Jeduthun
even a few, and offering, and come 37
So he left there with trumpets and
strangers in it. 20
And before him: worship the before the ark of the cymbals for those that
when they went from LORD in the beauty of covenant of the LORD should make a sound,
nation to nation, and holiness. 30Fear before Asaph and his brethren, and with musical
from one kingdom to him, all the earth: the to minister before the instruments of God.
another people; 21
He world also shall be ark continually, as every And the sons of
suffered no man to do stable, that it be not day’s work required: Jeduthun were portersd.
them wrong: yea, he moved. 31
Let the 38
And Obededom with 43
And all the people
reproved kings for their heavens be glad, and let their brethren, departed every man to
sakes, 22Saying, Touch the earth rejoice: and let threescore and eight; his house: and David
not mine anointed, and men say among the Obededom also the son c
do my prophets no harm. nations, The LORD of Jeduthun and Hosah morning...: Heb. in the
reigneth. 32Let the sea to be porters: 39And morning, and in the evening
b d
the lot: Heb. the cord porters: Heb. for the gate
returned to bless his people, saying, Why enemies. Furthermore I was a small thing in
house. have ye not built me an tell thee that the LORD thine eyes, O God; for
house of cedars? 7Now will build thee an house. thou hast also spoken
Chapter 17 therefore thus shalt thou 11
And it shall come to of thy servant’s house
say unto my servant pass, when thy days be for a great while to
1
Now it came to pass, David, Thus saith the expired that thou must come, and hast
as David sat in his LORD of hosts, I took go to be with thy fathers, regarded me according
house, that David said to thee from the sheepcote, that I will raise up thy to the estate of a man
Nathan the prophet, Lo, I even from followinga the seed after thee, which of high degree, O LORD
dwell in an house of sheep, that thou shall be of thy sons; and God. 18What can David
cedars, but the ark of shouldest be ruler over I will establish his speak more to thee for
the covenant of the my people Israel: 8And I kingdom. He shall build
12
the honour of thy
LORD remaineth under have been with thee me an house, and I will servant? for thou
curtains. 2Then Nathan whithersoever thou hast stablish his throne for knowest thy servant.
said unto David, Do all walked, and have cut off ever. 13I will be his 19
O LORD, for thy
that is in thine heart; for all thine enemies from father, and he shall be servant’s sake, and
God is with thee. 3And it before thee, and have my son: and I will not according to thine own
came to pass the same made thee a name like take my mercy away heart, hast thou done
night, that the word of the name of the great from him, as I took it all this greatness, in
God came to Nathan, men that are in the from him that was before making known all these
saying, 4Go and tell earth. 9Also I will ordain thee: 14But I will settle great things. 20O LORD,
David my servant, Thus a place for my people him in mine house and in there is none like thee,
saith the LORD, Thou Israel, and will plant my kingdom for ever: neither is there any God
shalt not build me an them, and they shall and his throne shall be beside thee, according
house to dwell in: 5For I dwell in their place, and established for to all that we have
have not dwelt in an shall be moved no more; evermore. According to
15
heard with our ears.
house since the day that neither shall the children all these words, and 21
And what one nation
I brought up Israel unto of wickedness waste according to all this in the earth is like thy
this day; but have gone them any more, as at vision, so did Nathan people Israel, whom
from tent to tent, and the beginning, 10
And speak unto David. God went to redeem to
from one tabernacle to since the time that I 16
And David the king be his own people, to
another. 6Wheresoever I commanded judges to came and sat before the make thee a name of
have walked with all be over my people LORD, and said, Who am greatness and
Israel, spake I a word to Israel. Moreover I will I, O LORD God, and what terribleness, by driving
any of the judges of subdue all thine is mine house, that thou out nations from before
Israel, whom I hast brought me thy people, whom thou
a
commanded to feed my from following: Heb. from hitherto? 17And yet this hast redeemed out of
after
Egypt? 22For thy people blessed for ever. thousand men. 6
Then Hadarezer had war with
Israel didst thou make David put garrisons in Tou;) and with him all
thine own people for Chapter 18 Syriadamascus; and the manner of vessels of
ever; and thou, LORD, Syrians became David’s gold and silver and
becamest their God. Now after this it
1
servants, and brought brass. 11
Them also
23
Therefore now, LORD, came to pass, that David gifts. Thus the LORD king David dedicated
let the thing that thou smote the Philistines, preserved David unto the LORD, with the
hast spoken concerning and subdued them, and whithersoever he went. silver and the gold that
thy servant and took Gath and her towns 7
And David took the he brought from all
concerning his house be out of the hand of the shields of gold that were these nations; from
established for ever, and Philistines. 2
And he on the servants of Edom, and from Moab,
do as thou hast said. smote Moab; and the Hadarezer, and brought and from the children of
24
Let it even be Moabites became them to Jerusalem. Ammon, and from the
established, that thy David’s servants, and 8
Likewise from Tibhathd, Philistines, and from
name may be magnified brought gifts. 3And David and from Chun, cities of Amalek. 12
Moreover
for ever, saying, The smote Hadarezera king of Hadarezer, brought Abishai g
the son of
LORD of hosts is the God Zobah unto Hamath, as David very much brass, Zeruiah slew of the
of Israel, even a God to he went to stablish his wherewith Solomon Edomites in the valley
Israel: and let the house dominion by the river made the brasen sea, of salt eighteen
of David thy servant be Euphrates. 4And David and the pillars, and the thousand. 13
And he put
established before thee. took from him a vessels of brass. garrisons in Edom; and
25
For thou, O my God, thousand chariots, and 9
Now when Toue king all the Edomites
hast told thy servant sevenb thousand of Hamath heard how became David’s
that thou wilt build him horsemen, and twenty David had smitten all the servants. Thus the
an house: therefore thy thousand footmen: David host of Hadarezer king of LORD preserved David
servant hath found in his also houghed all the Zobah; 10
He sent whithersoever he went.
heart to pray before chariot horses, but Hadoram his son to king
f 14
So David reigned over
thee. 26And now, LORD, reserved of them an David, to enquire of his all Israel, and executed
thou art God, and hast hundred chariots. 5And welfare, and to judgment and justice
promised this goodness when the Syrians of congratulate him, among all his people.
unto thy servant: 27Now Damascusc came to help because he had fought 15
And Joab the son of
therefore let it please Hadarezer king of Zobah, against Hadarezer, and Zeruiah was over the
thee to bless the house David slew of the Syrians smitten him; (for host; and Jehoshaphat
of thy servant, that it two and twenty the son of Ahilud,
d
may be before thee for Tibhath...: called in the book recorderh. 16And Zadok
a
ever: for thou blessest, O Hadarezer: or, Hadadezer of Samuel Betah, and Berothai
b e g
LORD, and it shall be seven...: or, seven hundred Tou: also called, Toi Abishai: Heb. Abshai
c f h
Damascus: Heb. Darmesek Hadoram: also called, Joram recorder: or, remembrancer
the son of Ahitub, and Thinkesta thou that out of Mesopotamia, and themselves in array
Abimelechi the son of David doth honour thy out of Syriamaachah, against the children of
Abiathar, were the father, that he hath sent and out of Zobah. 7So Ammon. 12And he said,
priests; and Shavsha was comforters unto thee? they hired thirty and two If the Syrians be too
scribe; 17
And Benaiah are not his servants thousand chariots, and strong for me, then
the son of Jehoiada was come unto thee for to the king of Maachah and thou shalt help me: but
over the Cherethites and search, and to his people; who came if the children of
the Pelethites; and the overthrow, and to spy and pitched before Ammon be too strong
sons of David were chief out the land? Medeba. And the for thee, then I will help
aboutj the king. 4
Wherefore Hanun took children of Ammon thee. 13Be of good
David’s servants, and gathered themselves courage, and let us
Chapter 19 shaved them, and cut off together from their behave ourselves
their garments in the cities, and came to valiantly for our people,
Now it came to pass
1
midst hard by their battle. 8And when David and for the cities of our
after this, that Nahash buttocks, and sent them heard of it, he sent Joab, God: and let the LORD
the king of the children away. 5Then there went and all the host of the do that which is good in
of Ammon died, and his certain, and told David mighty men. 9And the his sight. 14So Joab and
son reigned in his stead. how the men were children of Ammon came the people that were
2
And David said, I will served. And he sent to out, and put the battle in with him drew nigh
shew kindness unto meet them: for the men array before the gate of before the Syrians unto
Hanun the son of were greatly ashamed. the city: and the kings the battle; and they fled
Nahash, because his And the king said, Tarry that were come were by before him. 15And when
father shewed kindness at Jericho until your themselves in the field. the children of Ammon
to me. And David sent beards be grown, and 10
Now when Joab saw saw that the Syrians
messengers to comfort then return. that the battlec was set were fled, they likewise
him concerning his 6
And when the against him before and fled before Abishai his
father. So the servants children of Ammon saw behind, he chose out of brother, and entered
of David came into the that they had made all the choice of Israel, into the city. Then Joab
land of the children of themselves odiousb to and put them in array came to Jerusalem.
Ammon to Hanun, to David, Hanun and the against the Syrians. 16
And when the Syrians
comfort him. 3But the children of Ammon sent 11
And the rest of the saw that they were put
princes of the children of a thousand talents of people he delivered unto to the worse before
Ammon said to Hanun, silver to hire them the hand of Abishaid his Israel, they sent
i
chariots and horsemen brother, and they set messengers, and drew
Abimelech: also called, forth the Syrians that
a c
Ahimelech Thinkest...: Heb. In thine eyes the battle...: Heb. the face of were beyond the rivere:
j
about...: Heb. at the hand of doth David, etc the battle wars
b d e
the king odious: Heb. to stink Abishai: Heb. Abshai river: that is, Euphrates
and Shophach the expired, at the time that the Philistines; at which provoked David to
captain of the host of kings go out to battle, time Sibbechai the number Israel. 2
And
Hadarezer went before Joab led forth the power Hushathite slew Sippai, David said to Joab and
them. 17And it was told of the army, and wasted that was of the children to the rulers of the
David; and he gathered the country of the of the giant: and they people, Go, number
all Israel, and passed children of Ammon, and were subdued. 5
And Israel from Beersheba
over Jordan, and came came and besieged there was war again with even to Dan; and bring
upon them, and set the Rabbah. But David the Philistines; and the number of them to
battle in array against tarried at Jerusalem. And Elhanan the son of Jaird me, that I may know it.
them. So when David Joab smote Rabbah, and slew Lahmi the brother 3
And Joab answered,
had put the battle in destroyed it. 2And David of Goliath the Gittite, The LORD make his
array against the took the crown of their whose spear staff was people an hundred
Syrians, they fought with king from off his head, like a weaver’s beam. times so many more as
him. 18But the Syrians and found it to weighb a 6
And yet again there was they be: but, my lord
fled before Israel; and talent of gold, and there war at Gath, where was the king, are they not
David slew of the Syrians were precious stones in a man of great stature, all my lord’s servants?
seven thousand men it; and it was set upon whose fingers and toes why then doth my lord
which fought in chariots, David’s head: and he were four and twenty, require this thing? why
and forty thousand brought also exceeding six on each hand, and six will he be a cause of
footmen, and killed much spoil out of the on each foot: and he also trespass to Israel?
Shophach the captain of city. 3
And he brought was the son of the giant. 4
Nevertheless the king’s
the host. 19And when the out the people that were 7
But when he defiede word prevailed against
servants of Hadarezer in it, and cut them with Israel, Jonathan the son Joab. Wherefore Joab
saw that they were put saws, and with harrows of Shimea David’s departed, and went
to the worse before of iron, and with axes. brother slew him. throughout all Israel,
Israel, they made peace Even so dealt David with 8
These were born unto and came to Jerusalem.
with David, and became all the cities of the the giant in Gath; and 5
And Joab gave the sum
his servants: neither children of Ammon. And they fell by the hand of of the number of the
would the Syrians help David and all the people David, and by the hand people unto David. And
the children of Ammon returned to Jerusalem. of his servants. all they of Israel were a
any more. 4
And it came to pass thousand thousand and
after this, that there Chapter 21 an hundred thousand
Chapter 20 arosec war at Gezer with men that drew sword:
And Satan stood up
1
and Judah was four
And it came to pass,
1 the year against Israel, and hundred threescore and
b
that aftera the year was to weigh: Heb. the weight of ten thousand men that
c d
arose: or, continued: Heb. Jair: also called, Jaareoregim drew sword. 6But Levi
a e
after...: Heb. at the return of stood defied: or, reproached
and Benjamin counted and the angel of the having a drawn sword in and his four sons with
he not among them: for LORD destroying his hand stretched out him hid themselves.
the king’s word was throughout all the coasts over Jerusalem. Then Now Ornan was
abominable to Joab. of Israel. Now therefore David and the elders of threshing wheat. 21
And
7
And God was advise thyself what word Israel, who were clothed as David came to
displeased with this I shall bring again to him in sackcloth, fell upon Ornan, Ornan looked
thing; therefore he that sent me. 13And their faces. 17And David and saw David, and
smote Israel. And David
8
David said unto Gad, I said unto God, Is it not I went out of the
said unto God, I have am in a great strait: let that commanded the threshingfloor, and
sinned greatly, because I me fall now into the people to be numbered? bowed himself to David
have done this thing: but hand of the LORD; for even I it is that have with his face to the
now, I beseech thee, do very greatc are his sinned and done evil ground. 22Then David
away the iniquity of thy mercies: but let me not indeed; but as for these said to Ornan, Grantf
servant; for I have done fall into the hand of man. sheep, what have they me the place of this
very foolishly. 9And the 14
So the LORD sent done? let thine hand, I threshingfloor, that I
LORD spake unto Gad, pestilence upon Israel: pray thee, O LORD my may build an altar
David’s seer, saying, and there fell of Israel God, be on me, and on therein unto the LORD:
10
Go and tell David, seventy thousand men. my father’s house; but thou shalt grant it me
saying, Thus saith the 15
And God sent an angel not on thy people, that for the full price: that
LORD, I offera thee three unto Jerusalem to they should be plagued. the plague may be
things: choose thee one destroy it: and as he was 18
Then the angel of stayed from the people.
of them, that I may do it destroying, the LORD the LORD commanded 23
And Ornan said unto
unto thee. 11
So Gad beheld, and he repented Gad to say to David, that David, Take it to thee,
came to David, and said him of the evil, and said David should go up, and and let my lord the king
unto him, Thus saith the to the angel that set up an altar unto the do that which is good in
LORD, Chooseb thee destroyed, It is enough, LORD in the his eyes: lo, I give thee
12
Either three years’ stay now thine hand. threshingfloor of Ornan the oxen also for burnt
famine; or three months And the angel of the the Jebusite. 19And David offerings, and the
to be destroyed before LORD stood by the went up at the saying of threshing instruments
thy foes, while that the threshingfloor of Ornand Gad, which he spake in for wood, and the
sword of thine enemies the Jebusite. 16
And the name of the LORD. wheat for the meat
overtaketh thee; or else David lifted up his eyes, 20
And Ornane turned offering; I give it all.
three days the sword of and saw the angel of the back, and saw the angel; 24
And king David said to
the LORD, even the LORD stand between the e
Ornan, Nay; but I will
pestilence, in the land, earth and the heaven, And Ornan...: or, When Ornan verily buy it for the full
turned back and saw the angel, price: for I will not take
a c
offer: Heb. stretch out very great: or, very many then he and his four sons with
b d f
Choose...: Heb. Take to thee Ornan: also called, Araunah him hid themselves Grant: Heb. Give
that which is thine for Chapter 22 death. Now, my son, the
11

the LORD, nor offer burnt 6


Then he called for LORD be with thee; and
offerings without cost. 1
Then David said, This Solomon his son, and prosper thou, and build
25
So David gave to Ornan is the house of the LORD charged him to build an the house of the LORD
for the place six hundred God, and this is the altar house for the LORD God thy God, as he hath
shekels of gold by of the burnt offering for of Israel. 7And David said said of thee. 12Only the
weight. 26And David built Israel. 2
And David to Solomon, My son, as LORD give thee wisdom
there an altar unto the commanded to gather for me, it was in my and understanding, and
LORD, and offered burnt together the strangers mind to build an house give thee charge
offerings and peace that were in the land of unto the name of the concerning Israel, that
offerings, and called Israel; and he set LORD my God: 8But the thou mayest keep the
upon the LORD; and he masons to hew wrought word of the LORD came law of the LORD thy
answered him from stones to build the house to me, saying, Thou hast God. 13Then shalt thou
heaven by fire upon the of God. 3And David shed blood abundantly, prosper, if thou takest
altar of burnt offering. prepared iron in and hast made great heed to fulfil the
27
And the LORD abundance for the nails wars: thou shalt not statutes and judgments
commanded the angel; for the doors of the build an house unto my which the LORD
and he put up his sword gates, and for the name, because thou hast charged Moses with
again into the sheath joinings; and brass in shed much blood upon concerning Israel: be
thereof. 28At that time abundance without the earth in my sight. strong, and of good
when David saw that the weight; 4Also cedar trees 9
Behold, a son shall be courage; dread not, nor
LORD had answered him in abundance: for the born to thee, who shall be dismayed. 14Now,
in the threshingfloor of Zidonians and they of be a man of rest; and I behold, in my troubleb I
Ornan the Jebusite, then Tyre brought much will give him rest from all have prepared for the
he sacrificed there. 29For cedar wood to David. his enemies round house of the LORD an
the tabernacle of the 5
And David said, about: for his name shall hundred thousand
LORD, which Moses Solomon my son is be Solomona, and I will talents of gold, and a
made in the wilderness, young and tender, and give peace and thousand thousand
and the altar of the burnt the house that is to be quietness unto Israel in talents of silver; and of
offering, were at that builded for the LORD his days. 10He shall build brass and iron without
season in the high place must be exceeding an house for my name; weight; for it is in
at Gibeon. 30But David magnifical, of fame and and he shall be my son, abundance: timber also
could not go before it to of glory throughout all and I will be his father; and stone have I
enquire of God: for he countries: I will therefore and I will establish the prepared; and thou
was afraid because of now make preparation throne of his kingdom mayest add thereto.
the sword of the angel of for it. So David prepared over Israel for ever. 15
Moreover there are
the LORD. abundantly before his a b
Solomon: that is, Peaceable trouble: or, poverty
workmen with thee in to the name of the Merari. 7
Of the name for ever. 14Now
abundance, hewers and LORD. Gershonites were, concerning Moses the
workersc of stone and Laadanb, and Shimei. man of God, his sons
timber, and all manner Chapter 23 8
The sons of Laadan; the were named of the tribe
of cunning men for every chief was Jehiel, and of Levi. 15The sons of
manner of work. 16Of the So when David was
1
Zetham, and Joel, three. Moses were, Gershom,
gold, the silver, and the old and full of days, he 9
The sons of Shimei; and Eliezer. 16Of the
brass, and the iron, made Solomon his son Shelomith, and Haziel, sons of Gershom,
there is no number. Arise king over Israel. 2And he and Haran, three. These Shebueld was the chief.
therefore, and be doing, gathered together all the were the chief of the 17
And the sons of
and the LORD be with princes of Israel, with the fathers of Laadan. 10And Eliezer were, Rehabiah
thee. priests and the Levites. the sons of Shimei were, the chiefe. And Eliezer
17
David also
3
Now the Levites were Jahath, Zinac, and Jeush, had none other sons;
commanded all the numbered from the age and Beriah. These four but the sons of
princes of Israel to help of thirty years and were the sons of Shimei. Rehabiah were very
Solomon his son, saying, upward: and their 11
And Jahath was the many. 18Of the sons of
18
Is not the LORD your number by their polls, chief, and Zizah the Izhar; Shelomithf the
God with you? and hath man by man, was thirty second: but Jeush and chief. 19Of the sons of
he not given you rest on and eight thousand. 4Of Beriah had not many Hebron; Jeriah the first,
every side? for he hath which, twenty and four sons; therefore they Amariah the second,
given the inhabitants of thousand were to set were in one reckoning, Jahaziel the third, and
the land into mine hand; forward the work of the according to their Jekameam the fourth.
and the land is subdued house of the LORD; and father’s house. 12
The 20
Of the sons of Uzziel;
before the LORD, and six thousand were sons of Kohath; Amram, Michah the first, and
before his people. 19Now officers and judges: Izhar, Hebron, and Jesiah the second. 21The
set your heart and your
5
Moreover four thousand Uzziel, four. The sons of
13
sons of Merari; Mahli,
soul to seek the LORD were porters; and four Amram; Aaron and and Mushi. The sons of
your God; arise thousand praised the Moses: and Aaron was Mahli; Eleazar, and
therefore, and build ye LORD with the separated, that he Kish. 22
And Eleazar
the sanctuary of the instruments which I should sanctify the most died, and had no sons,
LORD God, to bring the made, said David, to holy things, he and his but daughters: and
ark of the covenant of praise therewith. 6And sons for ever, to burn their brethren the sons
g

the LORD, and the holy David divided them into incense before the d
vessels of God, into the coursesa among the sons LORD, to minister unto Shebuel: also called, Shubael
e
house that is to be built of Levi, namely, him, and to bless in his the chief: or, the first
f
Gershon, Kohath, and Shelomith: also called,
c b
workers...: that is, masons and Laadan: or, Libni Shelomoth
a c g
carpenters courses: Heb. divisions Zina: or, Zizah brethren: or, kinsmen
of Kish took them. 23The the purifying of all holy 1
Now these are the of Eleazar, and of the
sons of Mushi; Mahli, and things, and the work of divisions of the sons of sons of Ithamar. 6And
Eder, and Jeremoth, the service of the house Aaron. The sons of Shemaiah the son of
three. of God; 29Both for the Aaron; Nadab, and Nethaneel the scribe,
24
These were the sons shewbread, and for the Abihu, Eleazar, and one of the Levites,
of Levi after the house of fine flour for meat Ithamar. 2But Nadab and wrote them before the
their fathers; even the offering, and for the Abihu died before their king, and the princes,
chief of the fathers, as unleavened cakes, and father, and had no and Zadok the priest,
they were counted by for that which is baked children: therefore and Ahimelech the son
number of names by in the pani, and for that Eleazar and Ithamar of Abiathar, and before
their polls, that did the which is fried, and for all executed the priest’s the chief of the fathers
work for the service of manner of measure and office. 3
And David of the priests and
the house of the LORD, size; 30
And to stand distributed them, both Levites: one principala
from the age of twenty every morning to thank Zadok of the sons of household being taken
years and upward. 25For and praise the LORD, Eleazar, and Ahimelech for Eleazar, and one
David said, The LORD and likewise at even; of the sons of Ithamar, taken for Ithamar.
God of Israel hath given 31
And to offer all burnt according to their offices 7
Now the first lot came
rest unto his people, that sacrifices unto the LORD in their service. 4And forth to Jehoiarib, the
they may dwell in in the sabbaths, in the there were more chief second to Jedaiah, 8The
Jerusalem for ever: new moons, and on the men found of the sons of third to Harim, the
26
And also unto the set feasts, by number, Eleazar than of the sons fourth to Seorim, 9The
Levites; they shall no according to the order of Ithamar; and thus fifth to Malchijah, the
more carry the commanded unto them, were they divided. sixth to Mijamin, 10The
tabernacle, nor any continually before the Among the sons of seventh to Hakkoz, the
vessels of it for the LORD: 32And that they Eleazar there were eighth to Abijah, 11The
service thereof. 27For by should keep the charge sixteen chief men of the ninth to Jeshua, the
the last words of David of the tabernacle of the house of their fathers, tenth to Shecaniah,
the Levites were congregation, and the and eight among the 12
The eleventh to
numberedh from twenty charge of the holy place, sons of Ithamar Eliashib, the twelfth to
years old and above: and the charge of the according to the house Jakim, 13The thirteenth
28
Because their office sons of Aaron their of their fathers. 5Thus to Huppah, the
was to wait on the sons brethren, in the service were they divided by lot, fourteenth to
of Aaron for the service of the house of the one sort with another; Jeshebeab, 14
The
of the house of the LORD. for the governors of the fifteenth to Bilgah, the
LORD, in the courts, and sanctuary, and sixteenth to Immer,
in the chambers, and in Chapter 24 governors of the house a
of God, were of the sons principal...: Heb. house of
h i
numbered: Heb. number pan: or, flat plate the father
The seventeenth to Jahaziel the third, Chapter 25 Mattaniah, Uzzielc,
15

Hezir, the eighteenth to Jekameam the fourth. Shebuel, and Jerimoth,


Aphses, 16The nineteenth 24
Of the sons of Uzziel; 1
Moreover David and Hananiah, Hanani,
to Pethahiah, the Michah: of the sons of the captains of the host Eliathah, Giddalti, and
twentieth to Jehezekel, Michah; Shamir. 25The separated to the service Romamtiezer,
17
The one and twentieth brother of Michah was of the sons of Asaph, and Joshbekashah, Mallothi,
to Jachin, the two and Isshiah: of the sons of of Heman, and of Hothir, and Mahazioth:
twentieth to Gamul, Isshiah; Zechariah. 26The Jeduthun, who should 5
All these were the sons
18
The three and sons of Merari were prophesy with harps, of Heman the king’s
twentieth to Delaiah, the Mahli and Mushi: the with psalteries, and with seer in the wordsd of
four and twentieth to sons of Jaaziah; Beno. cymbals: and the God, to lift up the horn.
Maaziah. 19These were 27
The sons of Merari by number of the workmen And God gave to
the orderings of them in Jaaziah; Beno, and according to their Heman fourteen sons
their service to come Shoham, and Zaccur, service was: Of the sons
2
and three daughters.
into the house of the and Ibri. 28Of Mahli came of Asaph; Zaccur, and 6
All these were under
LORD, according to their Eleazar, who had no Joseph, and Nethaniah, the hands of their
manner, under Aaron sons. 29Concerning Kish: and Asarelaha, the sons father for song in the
their father, as the LORD the son of Kish was of Asaph under the house of the LORD, with
God of Israel had Jerahmeel. 30The sons hands of Asaph, which cymbals, psalteries, and
commanded him. also of Mushi; Mahli, and prophesied according to harps, for the service of
20
And the rest of the Eder, and Jerimoth. the order of the king. the house of God,
sons of Levi were these: These were the sons of 3
Of Jeduthun: the sons of according to the king’s
Of the sons of Amram; the Levites after the Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and order to Asaph,
Shubaelb: of the sons of house of their fathers. Zerib, and Jeshaiah, Jeduthun, and Heman.
Shubael; Jehdeiah. 31
These likewise cast lots Hashabiah, and 7
So the number of
21
Concerning Rehabiah: over against their Mattithiah, six, under the them, with their
of the sons of Rehabiah, brethren the sons of hands of their father brethren that were
the first was Isshiah. 22Of Aaron in the presence of Jeduthun, who instructed in the songs
the Izharites; David the king, and prophesied with a harp, of the LORD, even all
Shelomoth : of the sons
c
Zadok, and Ahimelech, to give thanks and to that were cunning, was
of Shelomoth; Jahath. and the chief of the praise the LORD. 4
Of two hundred fourscore
23
And the sons of fathers of the priests and Heman: the sons of and eight.
Hebron; Jeriah the first, Levites, even the Heman; Bukkiah, 8
And they cast lots,
Amariah the second, principal fathers over ward against ward, as
b
against their younger a
well the small as the
Shubael: also called, Shebuel brethren. Asarelah: otherwise called
c c
Shelomoth: also called, Jesharelah Uzziel: also called, Azareel
b d
Shelomith Zeri: or, Izri words: or, matters
great, the teacher as the and his brethren, were to Romamtiezer, he, his they were mighty men
scholar. 9Now the first lot twelve: 21The fourteenth sons, and his brethren, of valour. 7The sons of
came forth for Asaph to to Mattithiah, he, his were twelve. Shemaiah; Othni, and
Joseph: the second to sons, and his brethren, Rephael, and Obed,
Gedaliah, who with his were twelve: 22
The Chapter 26 Elzabad, whose
brethren and sons were fifteenth to Jeremoth, he, brethren were strong
twelve: 10The third to his sons, and his Concerning
1
the men, Elihu, and
Zaccur, he, his sons, and brethren, were twelve: divisions of the porters: Semachiah. All these of
8

his brethren, were 23


The sixteenth to Of the Korhites was the sons of Obededom:
twelve: 11
The fourth to Hananiah, he, his sons, Meshelemiaha the son of they and their sons and
Izri, he, his sons, and his and his brethren, were Kore, of the sons of their brethren, able
brethren, were twelve: twelve: 24
The Asaph. 2And the sons of men for strength for the
12
The fifth to Nethaniah, seventeenth to Meshelemiah were, service, were
he, his sons, and his Joshbekashah, he, his Zechariah the firstborn, threescore and two of
brethren, were twelve: sons, and his brethren, Jediael the second, Obededom. 9
And
13
The sixth to Bukkiah, were twelve: 25
The Zebadiah the third, Meshelemiah had sons
he, his sons, and his eighteenth to Hanani, Jathniel the fourth, 3Elam and brethren, strong
brethren, were twelve: he, his sons, and his the fifth, Jehohanan the men, eighteen. 10Also
14
The seventh to brethren, were twelve: sixth, Elioenai the Hosah, of the children
Jesharelah, he, his sons, 26
The nineteenth to seventh. Moreover the
4
of Merari, had sons;
and his brethren, were Mallothi, he, his sons, sons of Obededom were, Simri the chief, (for
twelve: 15The eighth to and his brethren, were Shemaiah the firstborn, though he was not the
Jeshaiah, he, his sons, twelve: 27The twentieth Jehozabad the second, firstborn, yet his father
and his brethren, were to Eliathah, he, his sons, Joah the third, and Sacar made him the chief;)
twelve: 16The ninth to and his brethren, were the fourth, and 11
Hilkiah the second,
Mattaniah, he, his sons, twelve: 28The one and Nethaneel the fifth, Tebaliah the third,
and his brethren, were twentieth to Hothir, he,
5
Ammiel the sixth, Zechariah the fourth: all
twelve: 17The tenth to his sons, and his Issachar the seventh, the sons and brethren
Shimei, he, his sons, and brethren, were twelve: Peulthai the eighth: for of Hosah were thirteen.
his brethren, were 29
The two and twentieth God blessed him. b 6Also 12
Among these were the
twelve: 18The eleventh to to Giddalti, he, his sons, unto Shemaiah his son divisions of the porters,
Azareel, he, his sons, and his brethren, were were sons born, that even among the chief
and his brethren, were twelve: 30The three and ruled throughout the men, having wards one
twelve: 19The twelfth to twentieth to Mahazioth, house of their father: for against another, to
Hashabiah, he, his sons, he, his sons, and his a
minister in the house of
and his brethren, were brethren, were twelve: Meshelemiah: also called, the LORD. 13And they
twelve: 20The thirteenth 31
The four and twentieth Shelemiah cast lots, as well the
b
to Shubael, he, his sons, him: that is, Obededom
small as the great, God, and over the spoilsf won in battles did according to the
according to the house treasures of the they dedicate to generations of his
of their fathers, for every dedicated things. 21
As maintain the house of fathers. In the fortieth
gate. 14
And the lot concerning the sons of the LORD. 28And all that year of the reign of
eastward fell to Laadane; the sons of the Samuel the seer, and David they were sought
Shelemiah . Then for
c
Gershonite Laadan, chief Saul the son of Kish, and for, and there were
Zechariah his son, a wise fathers, even of Laadan Abner the son of Ner, found among them
counsellor, they cast the Gershonite, were and Joab the son of mighty men of valour at
lots; and his lot came out Jehieli. 22
The sons of Zeruiah, had dedicated; Jazer of Gilead. 32And
northward. 15
To Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel and whosoever had his brethren, men of
Obededom southward; his brother, which were dedicated any thing, it valour, were two
and to his sons the over the treasures of the was under the hand of thousand and seven
house of Asuppimd. 16To house of the LORD. 23Of Shelomith, and of his hundred chief fathers,
Shuppim and Hosah the the Amramites, and the brethren. whom king David made
lot came forth westward, Izharites, the Hebronites, 29
Of the Izharites, rulers over the
with the gate and the Uzzielites: 24And Chenaniah and his sons Reubenites, the
Shallecheth, by the Shebuel the son of were for the outward Gadites, and the half
causeway of the going Gershom, the son of business over Israel, for tribe of Manasseh, for
up, ward against ward. Moses, was ruler of the officers and judges. every matter pertaining
17
Eastward were six treasures. 25
And his 30
And of the Hebronites, to God, and affairsh of
Levites, northward four a brethren by Eliezer; Hashabiah and his the king.
day, southward four a Rehabiah his son, and brethren, men of valour,
day, and toward Jeshaiah his son, and a thousand and seven Chapter 27
Asuppim two and two. Joram his son, and Zichri hundred, were officersg
18
At Parbar westward, his son, and Shelomith among them of Israel on Now the children of
1

four at the causeway, his son. 26


Which this side Jordan Israel after their
and two at Parbar. Shelomith and his westward in all the number, to wit, the
19
These are the divisions brethren were over all business of the LORD, chief fathers and
of the porters among the the treasures of the and in the service of the captains of thousands
sons of Kore, and among dedicated things, which king. 31
Among the and hundreds, and their
the sons of Merari. David the king, and the Hebronites was Jerijah officers that served the
20
And of the Levites, chief fathers, the the chief, even among king in any matter of
Ahijah was over the captains over thousands the Hebronites, the courses, which
treasures of the house of and hundreds, and the came in and went out
f
captains of the host, had spoils...: Heb. battles and month by month
c
Shelemiah: also called dedicated. 27Out of the spoils throughout all the
g
Meshelemiah officers...: Heb. over the
d e h
Asuppim: Heb. gatherings Laadan: also called, Libni charge affairs: Heb. thing
months of the year, of the brother of Joab, and Netophathite, of the of Ephraim, Hoshea the
every course were Zebadiah his son after Zarhites: and in his son of Azaziah: of the
twenty and four him: and in his course course were twenty and half tribe of Manasseh,
thousand. Over the first
2
were twenty and four four thousand. 14
The Joel the son of Pedaiah:
course for the first thousand. 8
The fifth eleventh captain for the 21
Of the half tribe of
month was Jashobeam captain for the fifth eleventh month was Manasseh in Gilead,
the son of Zabdiel: and month was Shamhuth Benaiah the Pirathonite, Iddo the son of
in his course were the Izrahite: and in his of the children of Zechariah: of Benjamin,
twenty and four course were twenty and Ephraim: and in his Jaasiel the son of Abner:
thousand. 3
Of the four thousand. 9The sixth course were twenty and 22
Of Dan, Azareel the
children of Perez was the captain for the sixth four thousand. 15
The son of Jeroham. These
chief of all the captains month was Ira the son of twelfth captain for the were the princes of the
of the host for the first Ikkesh the Tekoite: and twelfth month was tribes of Israel. 23But
month. 4And over the in his course were Heldai the Netophathite,
c
David took not the
course of the second twenty and four of Othniel: and in his number of them from
month was Dodaia an thousand. The seventh
10
course were twenty and twenty years old and
Ahohite, and of his captain for the seventh four thousand. under: because the
course was Mikloth also month was Helez the 16
Furthermore over LORD had said he
the ruler: in his course Pelonite, of the children the tribes of Israel: the would increase Israel
likewise were twenty and of Ephraim: and in his ruler of the Reubenites like to the stars of the
four thousand. 5
The course were twenty and was Eliezer the son of heavens. 24Joab the son
third captain of the host four thousand. 11
The Zichri: of the Simeonites, of Zeruiah began to
for the third month was eighth captain for the Shephatiah the son of number, but he finished
Benaiah the son of eighth month was Maachah: 17
Of the not, because there fell
Jehoiada, a chiefb priest: Sibbecai the Hushathite, Levites, Hashabiah the wrath for it against
and in his course were of the Zarhites: and in son of Kemuel: of the Israel; neither was the
twenty and four his course were twenty Aaronites, Zadok: 18Of number put in the
thousand. 6
This is that and four thousand. 12The Judah, Elihud, one of the account of the
Benaiah, who was ninth captain for the brethren of David: of chronicles of king
mighty among the thirty, ninth month was Abiezer Issachar, Omri the son of David. 25And over the
and above the thirty: the Anetothite, of the Michael: 19
Of Zebulun, king’s treasures was
and in his course was Benjamites: and in his Ishmaiah the son of Azmaveth the son of
Ammizabad his son. 7The course were twenty and Obadiah: of Naphtali, Adiel: and over the
fourth captain for the four thousand. 13
The Jerimoth the son of storehouses in the
fourth month was Asahel tenth captain for the Azriel: 20Of the children fields, in the cities, and
a
tenth month was c
in the villages, and in
Dodai: also called, Dodo Maharai the Heldai: also called, Heled the castles, was
b d
chief...: or, principal officer Elihu: also called, Eliab
Jehonathan the son of Jehiel the son of me, my brethren, and my courts: for I have
Uzziah: 26And over them Hachmoni was with the my people: As for me, I chosen him to be my
that did the work of the king’s sons: 33
And had in mine heart to son, and I will be his
field for tillage of the Ahithophel was the build an house of rest for father. 7Moreover I will
ground was Ezri the son king’s counsellor: and the ark of the covenant establish his kingdom
of Chelub: 27And over the Hushai the Archite was of the LORD, and for the for ever, if he be
vineyards was Shimei the king’s companion: footstool of our God, and constantc to do my
the Ramathite: over the 34
And after Ahithophel had made ready for the commandments and
increase of the vineyards was Jehoiada the son of building: 3But God said my judgments, as at
for the wine cellars was Benaiah, and Abiathar: unto me, Thou shalt not this day. 8
Now
Zabdi the Shiphmite: and the general of the build an house for my therefore in the sight of
28
And over the olive king’s army was Joab. name, because thou all Israel the
trees and the sycomore hast been a man of war, congregation of the
trees that were in the Chapter 28 and hast shed bloodb. LORD, and in the
low plains was 4
Howbeit the LORD God audience of our God,
Baalhanan the Gederite: And
1
David of Israel chose me before keep and seek for all
and over the cellars of oil assembled all the all the house of my the commandments of
was Joash: 29And over princes of Israel, the father to be king over the LORD your God:
the herds that fed in princes of the tribes, and Israel for ever: for he that ye may possess
Sharon was Shitrai the the captains of the hath chosen Judah to be this good land, and
Sharonite: and over the companies that the ruler; and of the leave it for an
herds that were in the ministered to the king by house of Judah, the inheritance for your
valleys was Shaphat the course, and the captains house of my father; and children after you for
son of Adlai: 30Over the over the thousands, and among the sons of my ever. 9
And thou,
camels also was Obil the captains over the father he liked me to Solomon my son, know
Ishmaelite: and over the hundreds, and the make me king over all thou the God of thy
asses was Jehdeiah the stewards over all the Israel: 5And of all my father, and serve him
Meronothite: 31And over substance and sons, (for the LORD hath with a perfect heart and
the flocks was Jaziz the possessiona of the king, given me many sons,) he with a willing mind: for
Hagerite. All these were and of his sons, with the hath chosen Solomon my the LORD searcheth all
the rulers of the officers, and with the son to sit upon the hearts, and
substance which was mighty men, and with all throne of the kingdom of understandeth all the
king David’s. 32
Also the valiant men, unto the LORD over Israel. imaginations of the
Jonathan David’s uncle Jerusalem. 2Then David 6
And he said unto me, thoughts: if thou seek
was a counsellor, a wise the king stood up upon Solomon thy son, he him, he will be found of
man, and a scribee: and his feet, and said, Hear shall build my house and thee; but if thou forsake
e a b c
scribe: or, secretary possession: or, cattle blood: Heb. bloods constant: Heb. strong
him, he will cast thee off of silver by weight, for all David, the LORD made hath chosen, is yet
for ever. 10Take heed instruments of every me understand in writing young and tender, and
now; for the LORD hath kind of service: 15Even by his hand upon me, the work is great: for
chosen thee to build an the weight for the even all the works of this the palace is not for
house for the sanctuary: candlesticks of gold, and pattern. 20And David said man, but for the LORD
be strong, and do it. for their lamps of gold, to Solomon his son, Be God. 2
Now I have
11
Then David gave to by weight for every strong and of good prepared with all my
Solomon his son the candlestick, and for the courage, and do it: fear might for the house of
pattern of the porch, and lamps thereof: and for not, nor be dismayed: for my God the gold for
of the houses thereof, the candlesticks of silver the LORD God, even my things to be made of
and of the treasuries by weight, both for the God, will be with thee; gold, and the silver for
thereof, and of the upper candlestick, and also for he will not fail thee, nor things of silver, and the
chambers thereof, and of the lamps thereof, forsake thee, until thou brass for things of
the inner parlours according to the use of hast finished all the work brass, the iron for
thereof, and of the place every candlestick. 16And for the service of the things of iron, and wood
of the mercy seat, 12And by weight he gave gold house of the LORD. for things of wood; onyx
the pattern of all that he for the tables of 21
And, behold, the stones, and stones to
had by the spirit, of the shewbread, for every courses of the priests be set, glistering
courts of the house of table; and likewise silver and the Levites, even stones, and of divers
the LORD, and of all the for the tables of silver: they shall be with thee colours, and all manner
chambers round about, 17
Also pure gold for the for all the service of the of precious stones, and
of the treasuries of the fleshhooks, and the house of God: and there marble stones in
house of God, and of the bowls, and the cups: and shall be with thee for all abundance. 3Moreover,
treasuries of the for the golden basons he manner of workmanship because I have set my
dedicated things: 13Also gave gold by weight for every willing skilful man, affection to the house
for the courses of the every bason; and for any manner of of my God, I have of
priests and the Levites, likewise silver by weight service: also the princes mine own proper good,
and for all the work of for every bason of silver: and all the people will be of gold and silver,
the service of the house 18
And for the altar of wholly at thy which I have given to
of the LORD, and for all incense refined gold by commandment. the house of my God,
the vessels of service in weight; and gold for the over and above all that
the house of the LORD. pattern of the chariot of Chapter 29 I have prepared for the
14
He gave of gold by the cherubims, that holy house, 4Even three
weight for things of gold, spread out their wings,
1
Furthermore David thousand talents of
for all instruments of all and covered the ark of the king said unto all the gold, of the gold of
manner of service; silver the covenant of the congregation, Solomon Ophir, and seven
also for all instruments LORD. 19All this, said my son, whom alone God thousand talents of
refined silver, to overlay rejoiced, for that they to offer so willingly after thy people, and
the walls of the houses offered willingly, this sort? for all things prepare e
their heart
withal: 5The gold for because with perfect come of thee, and of unto thee: 19And give
things of gold, and the heart they offered thine own have we given unto Solomon my son a
silver for things of silver, willingly to the LORD: thee. 15
For we are perfect heart, to keep
and for all manner of and David the king also strangers before thee, thy commandments,
work to be made by the rejoiced with great joy. and sojourners, as were thy testimonies, and
hands of artificers. And 10
Wherefore David all our fathers: our days thy statutes, and to do
who then is willing to blessed the LORD before on the earth are as a all these things, and to
consecrate his servicea all the congregation: and shadow, and there is build the palace, for the
this day unto the LORD? David said, Blessed be none abidingc. 16O LORD which I have made
6
Then the chief of the thou, LORD God of Israel our God, all this store provision. 20And David
fathers and princes of our father, for ever and that we have prepared said to all the
the tribes of Israel, and ever. 11Thine, O LORD, is to build thee an house congregation, Now
the captains of the greatness, and the for thine holy name bless the LORD your
thousands and of power, and the glory, cometh of thine hand, God. And all the
hundreds, with the rulers and the victory, and the and is all thine own. 17I congregation blessed
of the king’s work, majesty: for all that is in know also, my God, that the LORD God of their
offered willingly, 7And the heaven and in the thou triest the heart, and fathers, and bowed
gave for the service of earth is thine; thine is hast pleasure in down their heads, and
the house of God of gold the kingdom, O LORD, uprightness. As for me, worshipped the LORD,
five thousand talents and thou art exalted as in the uprightness of and the king. 21And they
and ten thousand drams, head above all. 12Both mine heart I have sacrificed sacrifices
and of silver ten riches and honour come willingly offered all these unto the LORD, and
thousand talents, and of of thee, and thou things: and now have I offered burnt offerings
brass eighteen thousand reignest over all; and in seen with joy thy people, unto the LORD, on the
talents, and one hundred thine hand is power and which are presentd here, morrow after that day,
thousand talents of iron. might; and in thine hand to offer willingly unto even a thousand
8
And they with whom it is to make great, and thee. 18O LORD God of bullocks, a thousand
precious stones were to give strength unto all. Abraham, Isaac, and of rams, and a thousand
found gave them to the 13
Now therefore, our Israel, our fathers, keep lambs, with their drink
treasure of the house of God, we thank thee, and this for ever in the offerings, and sacrifices
the LORD, by the hand of praise thy glorious imagination of the in abundance for all
Jehiel the Gershonite. name. But who am I,
14
thoughts of the heart of Israel: 22And did eat and
9
Then the people and what is my people, drink before the LORD
that we should be ableb strength on that day with great
a c
consecrate his service: Heb. abiding: Heb. expectation
b d e
fill his hand be able: Heb. retain, or, obtain present: Heb. found prepare: or, stablish
gladness. And they made days, riches, and honour: chief of the fathers. 3So Solomon said unto God,
Solomon the son of and Solomon his son Solomon, and all the Thou hast shewed great
David king the second reigned in his stead. congregation with him, mercy unto David my
time, and anointed him 29
Now the acts of David went to the high place father, and hast made
unto the LORD to be the the king, first and last, that was at Gibeon; for me to reign in his stead.
chief governor, and behold, they are written there was the tabernacle 9
Now, O LORD God, let
Zadok to be priest. in the bookf of Samuel of the congregation of thy promise unto David
the seer, and in the book God, which Moses the my father be
23
Then Solomon sat on of Nathan the prophet, servant of the LORD had established: for thou
the throne of the LORD and in the book of Gad made in the wilderness. hast made me king
as king instead of David the seer, 30With all his 4
But the ark of God had over a people like the
his father, and reign and his might, and David brought up from dust of the earth in
prospered; and all Israel the times that went over Kirjathjearim to the multitude. 10
Give me
obeyed him. 24And all the him, and over Israel, and place which David had now wisdom and
princes, and the mighty over all the kingdoms of prepared for it: for he knowledge, that I may
men, and all the sons the countries. had pitched a tent for it go out and come in
likewise of king David, at Jerusalem. 5Moreover before this people: for
submitted themselves
unto Solomon the king.
Second the brasen altar, that who can judge this thy
Bezaleel the son of Uri, people, that is so great?
25
And the LORD Chronicles the son of Hur, had 11
And God said to
magnified Solomon made, he puta before the Solomon, Because this
exceedingly in the sight Chapter 1 tabernacle of the LORD: was in thine heart, and
of all Israel, and and Solomon and the thou hast not asked
bestowed upon him such And Solomon the son
1
congregation sought riches, wealth, or
royal majesty as had not of David was
unto it. 6And Solomon honour, nor the life of
been on any king before strengthened in his
went up thither to the thine enemies, neither
him in Israel. 26Thus kingdom, and the LORD
brasen altar before the yet hast asked long life;
David the son of Jesse his God was with him,
LORD, which was at the but hast asked wisdom
reigned over all Israel. and magnified him
tabernacle of the and knowledge for
27
And the time that he exceedingly. 2
Then
congregation, and thyself, that thou
reigned over Israel was Solomon spake unto all
offered a thousand burnt mayest judge my
forty years; seven years Israel, to the captains of
offerings upon it. 7In that people, over whom I
reigned he in Hebron, thousands and of
night did God appear have made thee king:
and thirty and three hundreds, and to the
unto Solomon, and said 12
Wisdom and
years reigned he in judges, and to every
unto him, Ask what I knowledge is granted
Jerusalem. 28And he died governor in all Israel, the
shall give thee. 8And unto thee; and I will
in a good old age, full of give thee riches, and
f a
book: or, history: Heb. words he put: or, was there
wealth, and honour, such and linen yarn: the him cedars to build him in brass, and in iron,
as none of the kings king’s merchants an house to dwell and in purple, and
have had that have been received the linen yarn therein, even so deal crimson, and blue, and
before thee, neither shall at a price. 17And they with me. 4Behold, I build that can skill to graved
there any after thee fetched up, and brought an house to the name of with the cunning men
have the like. forth out of Egypt a the LORD my God, to that are with me in
13
Then Solomon came chariot for six hundred dedicate it to him, and to Judah and in Jerusalem,
from his journey to the shekels of silver, and an burn before him sweetb whom David my father
high place that was at horse for an hundred incense, and for the did provide. 8Send me
Gibeon to Jerusalem, and fifty: and so brought continual shewbread, also cedar trees, fir
from before the they out horses for all and for the burnt trees, and algum trees,
tabernacle of the the kings of the Hittites, offerings morning and out of Lebanon: for I
congregation, and and for the kings of evening, on the know that thy servants
reigned over Israel. 14And Syria, by their meansd. sabbaths, and on the can skill to cut timber in
Solomon gathered new moons, and on the Lebanon; and, behold,
chariots and horsemen: Chapter 2 solemn feasts of the my servants shall be
and he had a thousand LORD our God. This is an with thy servants,
and four hundred And
1
Solomon ordinance for ever to 9
Even to prepare me
chariots, and twelve determined to build an Israel. 5And the house timber in abundance:
thousand horsemen, house for the name of which I build is great: for for the house which I
which he placed in the the LORD, and an house great is our God above am about to build shall
chariot cities, and with for his kingdom. 2And all gods. 6But who is be wonderfule great.
the king at Jerusalem. Solomon told out ablec to build him an 10
And, behold, I will give
15
And the king madeb threescore and ten house, seeing the to thy servants, the
silver and gold at thousand men to bear heaven and heaven of hewers that cut timber,
Jerusalem as plenteous burdens, and fourscore heavens cannot contain twenty thousand
as stones, and cedar thousand to hew in the him? who am I then, that measures of beaten
trees made he as the mountain, and three I should build him an wheat, and twenty
sycomore trees that are thousand and six house, save only to burn thousand measures of
in the vale for hundred to oversee sacrifice before him? barley, and twenty
abundance. 16
And them. 3And Solomon sent 7
Send me now therefore thousand baths of wine,
Solomonc had horses to Hurama the king of a man cunning to work and twenty thousand
brought out of Egypt, Tyre, saying, As thou in gold, and in silver, and baths of oil.
didst deal with David my
b b d
made: Heb. gave father, and didst send sweet...: Heb. incense of to grave: Heb. to grave
c
Solomon...: Heb. the going spices gravings
d c e
forth of the horses which was means: Heb. hand is able: Heb. hath retained, or, wonderful...: Heb. great and
a
Solomon’s Huram: or, Hiram obtained strength wonderful
Then Huram the cunning men, and with Chapter 3 And the greater house
11 5

king of Tyre answered in the cunning men of my he cieled with fir tree,
writing, which he sent to lord David thy father. Then Solomon began
1
which he overlaid with
Solomon, Because the 15
Now therefore the to build the house of the fine gold, and set
LORD hath loved his wheat, and the barley, LORD at Jerusalem in thereon palm trees and
people, he hath made the oil, and the wine, mount Moriah, where chains. 6
And he
thee king over them. which my lord hath the LORD appeareda garnished the house
c

12
Huram said moreover, spoken of, let him send unto David his father, in with precious stones for
Blessed be the LORD unto his servants: 16And the place that David had beauty: and the gold
God of Israel, that made we will cut wood out of prepared in the was gold of Parvaim.
heaven and earth, who Lebanon, as much as threshingfloor of Ornan 7
He overlaid also the
hath given to David the thou shalt need: and we the Jebusite. 2
And he house, the beams, the
king a wise son, enduedf will bring it to thee in began to build in the posts, and the walls
with prudence and floats by sea to Joppa; second day of the thereof, and the doors
understanding, that and thou shalt carry it up second month, in the thereof, with gold; and
might build an house for to Jerusalem. 17
And fourth year of his reign. graved cherubims on
the LORD, and an house Solomon numbered all 3
Now these are the the walls. 8And he made
for his kingdom. 13And the strangersg that were things wherein Solomon the most holy house,
now I have sent a in the land of Israel, after was instructedb for the the length whereof was
cunning man, endued the numbering building of the house of according to the
with understanding, of wherewith David his God. The length by breadth of the house,
Huram my father’s, 14The father had numbered cubits after the first twenty cubits, and the
son of a woman of the them; and they were measure was threescore breadth thereof twenty
daughters of Dan, and found an hundred and cubits, and the breadth cubits: and he overlaid
his father was a man of fifty thousand and three twenty cubits. 4And the it with fine gold,
Tyre, skilful to work in thousand and six porch that was in the amounting to six
gold, and in silver, in hundred. 18And he set front of the house, the hundred talents. 9And
brass, in iron, in stone, threescore and ten length of it was the weight of the nails
and in timber, in purple, thousand of them to be according to the breadth was fifty shekels of
in blue, and in fine linen, bearers of burdens, and of the house, twenty gold. And he overlaid
and in crimson; also to fourscore thousand to be cubits, and the height the upper chambers
grave any manner of hewers in the mountain, was an hundred and with gold.
graving, and to find out and three thousand and twenty: and he overlaid 10
And in the most
every device which shall six hundred overseers to it within with pure gold. holy house he made
be put to him, with thy set the people a work. a
two cherubims of
where...: or, which was seen
f g
endued...: Heb. knowing the strangers: Heb. the men of David his father
b c
prudence and understanding the strangers instructed: Heb. founded garnished: Heb. covered
imaged work, and cubits highg, and the 3
And under it was the in. 7And he made ten
overlaid them with gold. chapiter that was on the similitude of oxen, which candlesticks of gold
11
And the wings of the top of each of them was did compass it round according to their form,
cherubims were twenty five cubits. 16
And he about: ten in a cubit, and set them in the
cubits long: one wing of made chains, as in the compassing the sea temple, five on the right
the one cherub was five oracle, and put them on round about. Two rows hand, and five on the
cubits, reaching to the the heads of the pillars; of oxen were cast, when left. 8He made also ten
wall of the house: and and made an hundred it was cast. 4It stood tables, and placed
the other wing was pomegranates, and put upon twelve oxen, three them in the temple, five
likewise five cubits, them on the chains. looking toward the north, on the right side, and
reaching to the wing of 17
And he reared up the and three looking toward five on the left. And he
the other cherub. 12And pillars before the temple, the west, and three made an hundred
one wing of the other one on the right hand, looking toward the basonsb of gold.
cherub was five cubits, and the other on the left; south, and three looking 9
Furthermore he made
reaching to the wall of and called the name of toward the east: and the the court of the priests,
the house: and the other that on the right hand sea was set above upon and the great court,
wing was five cubits Jachinh, and the name of them, and all their and doors for the court,
also, joining to the wing that on the left Boaz. hinder parts were and overlaid the doors
of the other cherub. inward. 5
And the of them with brass.
13
The wings of these Chapter 4 thickness of it was an 10
And he set the sea on
cherubims spread handbreadth, and the the right side of the
themselves forth twenty
1
Moreover he made brim of it like the work of east end, over against
cubits: and they stood an altar of brass, twenty the brim of a cup, with the south.
on their feet, and their cubits the length thereof, flowersa of lilies; and it 11
And Huram made
faces were inwarde. and twenty cubits the received and held three the pots, and the
14
And he made the vail breadth thereof, and ten thousand baths. 6
He shovels, and the
of blue, and purple, and cubits the height thereof. made also ten lavers, basonsc. And Huram
crimson, and fine linen,
2
Also he made a molten and put five on the right finished the work that
and wroughtf cherubims sea of ten cubits from hand, and five on the he was to make for king
thereon. 15Also he made brim to brim, round in left, to wash in them: Solomon for the house
before the house two compass, and five cubits such things as they of God; 12
To wit, the
pillars of thirty and five the height thereof; and a offered for the burnt two pillars, and the
line of thirty cubits did offering they washed in pommels, and the
d
image...: or, (as some think) of compass it round about. them; but the sea was chapiters which were
moveable work for the priests to wash on the top of the two
e g
inward: or, toward the house high: Heb. long
f h a b
wrought: Heb. caused to Jachin: that is, He shall with flowers...: or, like a basons: or, bowls
c
ascend establish lilyflower basons: or, bowls
pillars, and the two abundance: for the the things that David his before the ark,
wreaths to cover the two weight of the brass could father had dedicated; sacrificed sheep and
pommels of the not be found out. 19And and the silver, and the oxen, which could not
chapiters which were on Solomon made all the gold, and all the be told nor numbered
the top of the pillars; vessels that were for the instruments, put he for multitude. 7And the
13
And four hundred house of God, the golden among the treasures of priests brought in the
pomegranates on the altar also, and the tables the house of God. 2Then ark of the covenant of
two wreaths; two rows of whereon the shewbread Solomon assembled the the LORD unto his
pomegranates on each was set; 20Moreover the elders of Israel, and all place, to the oracle of
wreath, to cover the two candlesticks with their the heads of the tribes, the house, into the
pommels of the lamps, that they should the chief of the fathers most holy place, even
chapiters which were burn after the manner of the children of Israel, under the wings of the
upond the pillars. 14He before the oracle, of unto Jerusalem, to bring cherubims: 8
For the
made also bases, and pure gold; 21And the up the ark of the cherubims spread forth
laverse made he upon flowers, and the lamps, covenant of the LORD their wings over the
the bases; 15
One sea, and the tongs, made he out of the city of David, place of the ark, and
and twelve oxen under of gold, and that perfecth which is Zion. the cherubims covered
it. 16The pots also, and gold; 22And the snuffers, 3
Wherefore all the men the ark and the staves
the shovels, and the and the basonsi, and the of Israel assembled thereof above. 9And
fleshhooks, and all their spoons, and the censers, themselves unto the they drew out the
instruments, did Huram of pure gold: and the king in the feast which staves of the ark, that
his father make to king entry of the house, the was in the seventh the ends of the staves
Solomon for the house of inner doors thereof for month. 4And all the were seen from the ark
the LORD of brightf the most holy place, and elders of Israel came; before the oracle; but
brass. 17In the plain of the doors of the house of and the Levites took up they were not seen
Jordan did the king cast the temple, were of gold. the ark. 5
And they without. And there it is
them, in the clayg ground brought up the ark, and unto this day. 10There
between Succoth and Chapter 5 the tabernacle of the was nothing in the ark
Zeredathah. 18
Thus congregation, and all the save the two tables
Solomon made all these Thus all the work
1
holy vessels that were in which Moses put
vessels in great that Solomon made for the tabernacle, these did therein at Horeb, when
the house of the LORD the priests and the the LORDa made a
d
upon: Heb. upon the face of was finished: and Levites bring up. 6Also covenant with the
e
lavers: or, caldrons Solomon brought in all king Solomon, and all children of Israel, when
f
bright: Heb. made bright, or, the congregation of they came out of Egypt.
h
scoured perfect...: Heb. perfections of Israel that were
g a
clay...: Heb. thicknesses of the gold assembled unto him when the LORD: or, where,
i
ground basons: or, bowls etc
11
And it came to pass, priests could not stand 6
But I have chosen And
12
he stood
when the priests were to minister by reason of Jerusalem, that my name before the altar of the
come out of the holy the cloud: for the glory might be there; and LORD in the presence of
place: (for all the priests of the LORD had filled have chosen David to be all the congregation of
that were present were the house of God. over my people Israel. Israel, and spread forth
sanctified, and did not 7
Now it was in the heart his hands: 13
For
then wait by course: Chapter 6 of David my father to Solomon had made a
12
Also the Levites which build an house for the brasen scaffold, of five
were the singers, all of
1
Then said Solomon, name of the LORD God cubits longa, and five
them of Asaph, of The LORD hath said that of Israel. 8But the LORD cubits broad, and three
Heman, of Jeduthun, with he would dwell in the said to David my father, cubits high, and had set
their sons and their thick darkness. 2But I Forasmuch as it was in it in the midst of the
brethren, being arrayed have built an house of thine heart to build an court: and upon it he
in white linen, having habitation for thee, and house for my name, thou stood, and kneeled
cymbals and psalteries a place for thy dwelling didst well in that it was down upon his knees
and harps, stood at the for ever. 3And the king in thine heart: before all the
east end of the altar, and turned his face, and 9
Notwithstanding thou congregation of Israel,
with them an hundred blessed the whole shalt not build the and spread forth his
and twenty priests congregation of Israel: house; but thy son which hands toward heaven,
sounding with trumpets:) and all the congregation shall come forth out of 14
And said, O LORD God
13
It came even to pass, of Israel stood. 4And he thy loins, he shall build of Israel, there is no
as the trumpeters and said, Blessed be the the house for my name. God like thee in the
singers were as one, to LORD God of Israel, who 10
The LORD therefore heaven, nor in the
make one sound to be hath with his hands hath performed his word earth; which keepest
heard in praising and fulfilled that which he that he hath spoken: for I covenant, and shewest
thanking the LORD; and spake with his mouth to am risen up in the room mercy unto thy
when they lifted up their my father David, saying, of David my father, and servants, that walk
voice with the trumpets
5
Since the day that I am set on the throne of before thee with all
and cymbals and brought forth my people Israel, as the LORD their hearts: 15
Thou
instruments of musick, out of the land of Egypt I promised, and have built which hast kept with
and praised the LORD, chose no city among all the house for the name thy servant David my
saying, For he is good; the tribes of Israel to of the LORD God of father that which thou
for his mercy endureth build an house in, that Israel. 11And in it have I hast promised him; and
for ever: that then the my name might be put the ark, wherein is spakest with thy mouth,
house was filled with a there; neither chose I the covenant of the and hast fulfilled it with
cloud, even the house of any man to be a ruler LORD, that he made with a
the LORD; 14So that the over my people Israel: the children of Israel. long...: Heb. the length
thereof, etc
thine hand, as it is this wouldest put thy name thee; and shall return the citiesd of their land;
day. 16Now therefore, O there; to hearken unto and confess thy name, whatsoever sore or
LORD God of Israel, keep the prayer which thy and pray and make whatsoever sickness
with thy servant David servant prayeth toward supplication before thee there be: 29Then what
my father that which this place. 21
Hearken in this house; 25
Then prayer or what
thou hast promised him, therefore unto the hear thou from the supplication soever
saying, There shall not supplications of thy heavens, and forgive the shall be made of any
fail thee a man in my servant, and of thy sin of thy people Israel, man, or of all thy
sight to sit upon the people Israel, which they and bring them again people Israel, when
throne of Israel; yet so shall makeb toward this unto the land which thou every one shall know
that thy children take place: hear thou from gavest to them and to his own sore and his
heed to their way to walk thy dwelling place, even their fathers. 26When the own grief, and shall
in my law, as thou hast from heaven; and when heaven is shut up, and spread forth his hands
walked before me. thou hearest, forgive. there is no rain, because in this house: 30Then
17
Now then, O LORD God 22
If a man sin against his they have sinned against hear thou from heaven
of Israel, let thy word be neighbour, and an oathc thee; yet if they pray thy dwelling place, and
verified, which thou hast be laid upon him to toward this place, and forgive, and render
spoken unto thy servant make him swear, and confess thy name, and unto every man
David. 18But will God in the oath come before turn from their sin, when according unto all his
very deed dwell with thine altar in this house; thou dost afflict them; ways, whose heart thou
men on the earth? 23
Then hear thou from 27
Then hear thou from knowest; (for thou only
behold, heaven and the heaven, and do, and heaven, and forgive the knowest the hearts of
heaven of heavens judge thy servants, by sin of thy servants, and the children of men:)
cannot contain thee; requiting the wicked, by of thy people Israel, 31
That they may fear
how much less this recompensing his way when thou hast taught thee, to walk in thy
house which I have built! upon his own head; and them the good way, ways, so long as they
19
Have respect therefore by justifying the wherein they should live in the land which
to the prayer of thy righteous, by giving him walk; and send rain upon thou gavest unto our
servant, and to his according to his thy land, which thou hast fathers. 32
Moreover
supplication, O LORD my righteousness. 24
And if given unto thy people for concerning the
God, to hearken unto the thy people Israel be put an inheritance. 28If there stranger, which is not of
cry and the prayer which to the worse before the be dearth in the land, if thy people Israel, but is
thy servant prayeth enemy, because they there be pestilence, if come from a far country
before thee: That thine
20
have sinned against there be blasting, or for thy great name’s
eyes may be open upon b
mildew, locusts, or sake, and thy mighty
this house day and night, make: Heb. pray caterpillers; if their
c d
upon the place whereof and an oath...: Heb. and he enemies besiege them in in the cities...: Heb. in the
thou hast said that thou require an oath of him land of their gates
hand, and thy stretched a land far off or near; let thine ears be attent the house, they bowed
out arm; if they come 37
Yet if they bethinkf unto the prayer that is themselves with their
and pray in this house; themselves in the land made in this place. faces to the ground
33
Then hear thou from whither they are carried 41
Now therefore arise, O upon the pavement,
the heavens, even from captive, and turn and LORD God, into thy and worshipped, and
thy dwelling place, and pray unto thee in the resting place, thou, and praised the LORD,
do according to all that land of their captivity, the ark of thy strength: saying, For he is good;
the stranger calleth to saying, We have sinned, let thy priests, O LORD for his mercy endureth
thee for; that all people we have done amiss, God, be clothed with for ever. 4Then the king
of the earth may know and have dealt wickedly; salvation, and let thy and all the people
thy name, and fear thee, 38
If they return to thee saints rejoice in offered sacrifices before
as doth thy people Israel, with all their heart and goodness. O LORD God,
42
the LORD. 5And king
and may know that this with all their soul in the turn not away the face of Solomon offered a
house which I have built land of their captivity, thine anointed: sacrifice of twenty and
is called by thy name. whither they have remember the mercies two thousand oxen, and
34
If thy people go out to carried them captives, of David thy servant. an hundred and twenty
war against their and pray toward their thousand sheep: so the
enemies by the way that land, which thou gavest Chapter 7 king and all the people
thou shalt send them, unto their fathers, and dedicated the house of
and they pray unto thee toward the city which
1
Now when Solomon God. 6And the priests
toward this city which thou hast chosen, and had made an end of waited on their offices:
thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I praying, the fire came the Levites also with
the house which I have have built for thy name: down from heaven, and instruments of musick
built for thy name; 39
Then hear thou from consumed the burnt of the LORD, which
35
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from offering and the David the king had
the heavens their prayer thy dwelling place, their sacrifices; and the glory made to praise the
and their supplication, prayer and their of the LORD filled the LORD, because his
and maintain their supplications, and house. 2And the priests mercy endureth for
causee. 36
If they sin maintain their causeg, could not enter into the ever, when David
against thee, (for there and forgive thy people house of the LORD, praised by their
is no man which sinneth which have sinned because the glory of the ministry; and the
not,) and thou be angry against thee. 40
Now, my LORD had filled the priests sounded
with them, and deliver God, let, I beseech thee, LORD’S house. 3
And trumpets before them,
them over before their thine eyes be open, and when all the children of and all Israel stood.
enemies, and they carry Israel saw how the fire 7
Moreover Solomon
f
them away captives unto bethink...: Heb. bring back to came down, and the hallowed the middle of
their heart glory of the LORD upon the court that was
e g
cause: or, right cause: or, right
before the house of the Solomon’s heart to make perpetually. 17And as for shall say, Why hath the
LORD: for there he in the house of the thee, if thou wilt walk LORD done thus unto
offered burnt offerings, LORD, and in his own before me, as David thy this land, and unto this
and the fat of the peace house, he prosperously father walked, and do house? 22And it shall be
offerings, because the effected. according to all that I answered, Because
brasen altar which 12
And the LORD have commanded thee, they forsook the LORD
Solomon had made was appeared to Solomon by and shalt observe my God of their fathers,
not able to receive the night, and said unto him, statutes and my which brought them
burnt offerings, and the I have heard thy prayer, judgments; 18Then will I forth out of the land of
meat offerings, and the and have chosen this stablish the throne of thy Egypt, and laid hold on
fat. 8Also at the same place to myself for an kingdom, according as I other gods, and
time Solomon kept the house of sacrifice. 13If I have covenanted with worshipped them, and
feast seven days, and all shut up heaven that David thy father, saying, served them: therefore
Israel with him, a very there be no rain, or if I There shall not fail thee hath he brought all this
great congregation, from command the locusts to a man to be ruler in evil upon them.
the entering in of devour the land, or if I Israel. 19But if ye turn
Hamath unto the river of send pestilence among away, and forsake my Chapter 8
Egypt. 9And in the eighth my people; 14
If my statutes and my
day they made a solemn people, which are called commandments, which I
1
And it came to pass
assembly: for they kept by my name, shall have set before you, and at the end of twenty
the dedication of the humble themselves, and shall go and serve other years, wherein Solomon
altar seven days, and pray, and seek my face, gods, and worship them; had built the house of
the feast seven days. and turn from their 20
Then will I pluck them the LORD, and his own
10
And on the three and wicked ways; then will I up by the roots out of house, 2That the cities
twentieth day of the hear from heaven, and my land which I have which Huram had
seventh month he sent will forgive their sin, and given them; and this restored to Solomon,
the people away into will heal their land. house, which I have Solomon built them,
their tents, glad and 15
Now mine eyes shall be sanctified for my name, and caused the children
merry in heart for the open, and mine ears will I cast out of my of Israel to dwell there.
goodness that the LORD attent unto the prayer sight, and will make it to
3
And Solomon went to
had shewed unto David, that is made in this be a proverb and a Hamathzobah, and
and to Solomon, and to place. 16For now have I byword among all prevailed against it.
Israel his people. 11Thus chosen and sanctified nations. 21
And this
4
And he built Tadmor in
Solomon finished the this house, that my house, which is high, the wilderness, and all
house of the LORD, and name may be there for shall be an astonishment the store cities, which
the king’s house: and all ever: and mine eyes and to every one that he built in Hamath.
that came into mine heart shall be there passeth by it; so that he
5
Also he built Bethhoron
the upper, and that bare rule over the minister before the fifty talents of gold, and
Bethhoron the nether, people. 11And Solomon priests, as the duty of brought them to king
fenced cities, with walls, brought up the daughter every day required: the Solomon.
gates, and bars; 6And of Pharaoh out of the city porters also by their
Baalath, and all the store of David unto the house courses at every gate: Chapter 9
cities that Solomon had, that he had built for her: for so had Davidb the
and all the chariot cities, for he said, My wife shall man of God commanded.
1
And when the
and the cities of the not dwell in the house of 15
And they departed not queen of Sheba heard
horsemen, and all that David king of Israel, from the commandment of the fame of Solomon,
Solomon desired to build because the places are of the king unto the she came to prove
in Jerusalem, and in holya, whereunto the ark priests and Levites Solomon with hard
Lebanon, and throughout of the LORD hath come. concerning any matter, questions at Jerusalem,
all the land of his 12
Then Solomon or concerning the with a very great
dominion. 7As for all the offered burnt offerings treasures. Now all the
16 company, and camels
people that were left of unto the LORD on the work of Solomon was that bare spices, and
the Hittites, and the altar of the LORD, which prepared unto the day of gold in abundance, and
Amorites, and the he had built before the the foundation of the precious stones: and
Perizzites, and the porch, 13Even after a house of the LORD, and when she was come to
Hivites, and the certain rate every day, until it was finished. So Solomon, she
Jebusites, which were offering according to the the house of the LORD communed with him of
not of Israel, 8But of their commandment of Moses, was perfected. 17Then all that was in her
children, who were left on the sabbaths, and on went Solomon to heart. 2And Solomon
after them in the land, the new moons, and on Eziongeber, and to told her all her
whom the children of the solemn feasts, three Elothc, at the sea side in questions: and there
Israel consumed not, times in the year, even the land of Edom. 18And was nothing hid from
them did Solomon make in the feast of Huram sent him by the Solomon which he told
to pay tribute until this unleavened bread, and hands of his servants her not. 3And when the
day. 9But of the children in the feast of weeks, ships, and servants that queen of Sheba had
of Israel did Solomon and in the feast of had knowledge of the seen the wisdom of
make no servants for his tabernacles. 14And he sea; and they went with Solomon, and the house
work; but they were men appointed, according to the servants of Solomon that he had built, 4And
of war, and chief of his the order of David his to Ophir, and took the meat of his table,
captains, and captains of father, the courses of the thence four hundred and and the sitting of his
his chariots and priests to their service, servants, and the
b
horsemen. 10And these and the Levites to their so had David...: Heb. so was attendance of his
were the chief of king charges, to praise and the commandment of David the ministers, and their
Solomon’s officers, even man of God
a c
two hundred and fifty, holy: Heb. holiness Eloth: also called, Elath
apparel; his cupbearersa an hundred and twenty gold that came to 19
And twelve lions stood
also, and their apparel; talents of gold, and of Solomon in one year was there on the one side
and his ascent by which spices great abundance, six hundred and and on the other upon
he went up into the and precious stones: threescore and six the six steps. There was
house of the LORD; there neither was there any talents of gold; 14Beside not the like made in any
was no more spirit in such spice as the queen that which chapmen and kingdom. 20And all the
her. 5And she said to the of Sheba gave king merchants brought. And drinking vessels of king
king, It was a true Solomon. 10
And the all the kings of Arabia Solomon were of gold,
reportb which I heard in servants also of Huram, and governorse of the and all the vessels of
mine own land of thine and the servants of country brought gold the house of the forest
acts, and of thy wisdom: Solomon, which brought and silver to Solomon. of Lebanon were of
6
Howbeit I believed not gold from Ophir, brought 15
And king Solomon pureg gold: none were
their words, until I came, algumc trees and made two hundred of silver; it was not any
and mine eyes had seen precious stones. 11
And targets of beaten gold: thing accounted of in
it: and, behold, the one the king made of the six hundred shekels of the days of Solomon.
half of the greatness of algum trees terracesd to beaten gold went to one 21
For the king’s ships
thy wisdom was not told the house of the LORD, target. 16
And three went to Tarshish with
me: for thou exceedest and to the king’s palace, hundred shields made the servants of Huram:
the fame that I heard. and harps and psalteries he of beaten gold: three every three years once
7
Happy are thy men, and for singers: and there hundred shekels of gold came the ships of
happy are these thy were none such seen went to one shield. And Tarshish bringing gold,
servants, which stand before in the land of the king put them in the and silver, ivoryh, and
continually before thee, Judah. 12
And king house of the forest of apes, and peacocks.
and hear thy wisdom. Solomon gave to the Lebanon. 17Moreover the 22
And king Solomon
8
Blessed be the LORD queen of Sheba all her king made a great passed all the kings of
thy God, which delighted desire, whatsoever she throne of ivory, and the earth in riches and
in thee to set thee on his asked, beside that which overlaid it with pure wisdom. 23And all the
throne, to be king for the she had brought unto gold. 18And there were kings of the earth
LORD thy God: because the king. So she turned, six steps to the throne, sought the presence of
thy God loved Israel, to and went away to her with a footstool of gold, Solomon, to hear his
establish them for ever, own land, she and her which were fastened to wisdom, that God had
therefore made he thee servants. the throne, and staysf on put in his heart. 24And
king over them, to do 13
Now the weight of each side of the sitting they brought every man
judgment and justice. c
place, and two lions his present, vessels of
9
And she gave the king algum...: also called, almug standing by the stays: silver, and vessels of
trees
a d e g
cupbearers: or, butlers terraces: or, stairs: Heb. governors: or, captains pure: Heb. shut up
b f h
report: Heb. word highways stays: Heb. hands ivory: or, elephants’ teeth
gold, and raiment, against Jeroboam the will serve thee. 5And he Thus shalt thou answer
harness, and spices, son of Nebat? 30
And said unto them, Come the people that spake
horses, and mules, a Solomon reigned in again unto me after unto thee, saying, Thy
rate year by year. 25And Jerusalem over all Israel three days. And the father made our yoke
Solomon had four forty years. 31
And people departed. 6And heavy, but make thou it
thousand stalls for Solomon slept with his king Rehoboam took somewhat lighter for
horses and chariots, and fathers, and he was counsel with the old men us; thus shalt thou say
twelve thousand buried in the city of that had stood before unto them, My little
horsemen; whom he David his father: and Solomon his father while finger shall be thicker
bestowed in the chariot Rehoboam his son he yet lived, saying, than my father’s loins.
cities, and with the king reigned in his stead. What counsel give ye 11
For whereas my father
at Jerusalem. 26And he me to return answer to put a heavy yoke upon
reigned over all the Chapter 10 this people? 7And they you, I will put more to
kings from the riveri spake unto him, saying, your yoke: my father
even unto the land of the
1
And Rehoboam went If thou be kind to this chastised you with
Philistines, and to the to Shechem: for to people, and please whips, but I will
border of Egypt. 27And Shechem were all Israel them, and speak good chastise you with
the king made silverj in come to make him king. words to them, they will scorpions.
Jerusalem as stones, and
2
And it came to pass, be thy servants for ever. 12
So Jeroboam and
cedar trees made he as when Jeroboam the son 8
But he forsook the all the people came to
the sycomore trees that of Nebat, who was in counsel which the old Rehoboam on the third
are in the low plains in Egypt, whither he had men gave him, and took day, as the king bade,
abundance. 28And they fled from the presence of counsel with the young saying, Come again to
brought unto Solomon Solomon the king, heard men that were brought me on the third day.
horses out of Egypt, and it, that Jeroboam up with him, that stood 13
And the king
out of all lands. 29Now returned out of Egypt. before him. 9And he said answered them
the rest of the acts of
3
And they sent and unto them, What advice roughly; and king
Solomon, first and last, called him. So Jeroboam give ye that we may Rehoboam forsook the
are they not written in and all Israel came and return answer to this counsel of the old men,
the bookk of Nathan the spake to Rehoboam, people, which have 14
And answered them
prophet, and in the saying, 4Thy father made spoken to me, saying, after the advice of the
prophecy of Ahijah the our yoke grievous: now Ease somewhat the yoke young men, saying, My
Shilonite, and in the therefore ease thou that thy father did put father made your yoke
visions of Iddo the seer somewhat the grievous upon us? 10And the heavy, but I will add
servitude of thy father, young men that were thereto: my father
i
river: that is, Euphrates and his heavy yoke that brought up with him chastised you with
j
made silver: Heb. gave silver he put upon us, and we spake unto him, saying, whips, but I will
k
book: Heb. words
chastise you with to Jerusalem. 19
And Judah. 6He built even priests for the high
scorpions. So the king
15
Israel rebelled against Bethlehem, and Etam, places, and for the
hearkened not unto the the house of David unto and Tekoa, 7And Bethzur, devils, and for the
people: for the cause this day. and Shoco, and Adullam, calves which he had
was of God, that the 8
And Gath, and made. 16And after them
LORD might perform his Chapter 11 Mareshah, and Ziph, out of all the tribes of
word, which he spake by 9
And Adoraim, and Israel such as set their
the hand of Ahijah the
1
And when Rehoboam Lachish, and Azekah, hearts to seek the
Shilonite to Jeroboam the was come to Jerusalem, 10
And Zorah, and Aijalon, LORD God of Israel
son of Nebat. 16And when he gathered of the house and Hebron, which are in came to Jerusalem, to
all Israel saw that the of Judah and Benjamin Judah and in Benjamin sacrifice unto the LORD
king would not hearken an hundred and fenced cities. 11And he God of their fathers.
unto them, the people fourscore thousand fortified the strong holds, 17
So they strengthened
answered the king, chosen men, which were and put captains in the kingdom of Judah,
saying, What portion warriors, to fight against them, and store of and made Rehoboam
have we in David? and Israel, that he might victual, and of oil and the son of Solomon
we have none bring the kingdom again wine. 12And in every strong, three years: for
inheritance in the son of to Rehoboam. 2But the several city he put three years they walked
Jesse: every man to your word of the LORD came shields and spears, and in the way of David and
tents, O Israel: and now, to Shemaiah the man of made them exceeding Solomon. 18
And
David, see to thine own God, saying, 3Speak unto strong, having Judah and Rehoboam took him
house. So all Israel went Rehoboam the son of Benjamin on his side. Mahalath the daughter
to their tents. 17But as Solomon, king of Judah, 13
And the priests and of Jerimoth the son of
for the children of Israel and to all Israel in Judah the Levites that were in David to wife, and
that dwelt in the cities of and Benjamin, saying, all Israel resorteda to him Abihail the daughter of
Judah, Rehoboam
4
Thus saith the LORD, Ye out of all their coasts. Eliab the son of Jesse;
reigned over them. shall not go up, nor fight 14
For the Levites left 19
Which bare him
18
Then king Rehoboam against your brethren: their suburbs and their children; Jeush, and
sent Hadoram that was return every man to his possession, and came to Shamariah, and Zaham.
over the tribute; and the house: for this thing is Judah and Jerusalem: for 20
And after her he took
children of Israel stoned done of me. And they Jeroboam and his sons Maachahb the daughter
him with stones, that he obeyed the words of the had cast them off from of Absalom; which bare
died. But king Rehoboam LORD, and returned from executing the priest’s him Abijah, and Attai,
made speeda to get him going against Jeroboam. office unto the LORD: and Ziza, and
up to his chariot, to flee
5
And Rehoboam dwelt in 15
And he ordained him b
Jerusalem, and built Maachah: she is also called
a a
made speed: Heb. cities for defence in resorted...: Heb. presented Michaiah the daughter of
strengthened himself themselves to him Uriel
Shelomith. 21
And Israel with him. 2And it LORD saw that they house. 11And when the
Rehoboam loved came to pass, that in the humbled themselves, king entered into the
Maachah the daughter of fifth year of king the word of the LORD house of the LORD, the
Absalom above all his Rehoboam Shishak king came to Shemaiah, guard came and
wives and his of Egypt came up saying, They have fetched them, and
concubines: (for he took against Jerusalem, humbled themselves; brought them again
eighteen wives, and because they had therefore I will not into the guard chamber.
threescore concubines; transgressed against the destroy them, but I will 12
And when he humbled
and begat twenty and LORD, 3
With twelve grant them somea himself, the wrath of
eight sons, and hundred chariots, and deliverance; and my the LORD turned from
threescore daughters.) threescore thousand wrath shall not be him, that he would not
22
And Rehoboam made horsemen: and the poured out upon destroy him altogether:
Abijah the son of people were without Jerusalem by the hand of and also in Judah things
Maachah the chief, to be number that came with Shishak. 8
Nevertheless went well.
ruler among his him out of Egypt; the they shall be his 13
So king Rehoboam
brethren: for he thought Lubims, the Sukkiims, servants; that they may strengthened himself in
to make him king. 23And and the Ethiopians. 4And know my service, and Jerusalem, and reigned:
he dealt wisely, and he took the fenced cities the service of the for Rehoboam was one
dispersed of all his which pertained to kingdoms of the and forty years old
children throughout all Judah, and came to countries. 9So Shishak when he began to
the countries of Judah Jerusalem. 5Then came king of Egypt came up reign, and he reigned
and Benjamin, unto Shemaiah the prophet to against Jerusalem, and seventeen years in
every fenced city: and Rehoboam, and to the took away the treasures Jerusalem, the city
he gave them victual in princes of Judah, that of the house of the which the LORD had
abundance. And he were gathered together LORD, and the treasures chosen out of all the
desired many wives .c
to Jerusalem because of of the king’s house; he tribes of Israel, to put
Shishak, and said unto took all: he carried away his name there. And his
Chapter 12 them, Thus saith the also the shields of gold mother’s name was
LORD, Ye have forsaken which Solomon had Naamah an
And it came to pass,
1
me, and therefore have I made. Instead of which
10
Ammonitess. 14
And he
when Rehoboam had also left you in the hand king Rehoboam made did evil, because he
established the kingdom, of Shishak. 6Whereupon shields of brass, and preparedb not his heart
and had strengthened the princes of Israel and committed them to the to seek the LORD.
himself, he forsook the the king humbled hands of the chief of the 15
Now the acts of
law of the LORD, and all themselves; and they guard, that kept the Rehoboam, first and
c
said, The LORD is entrance of the king’s last, are they not
many wives: Heb. a multitude righteous. 7And when the a b
of wives some: or, a little while prepared: or, fixed
written in the bookc of mighty men of valour. you for gods. 9Have ye 12
And, behold, God
Shemaiah the prophet, 4
And Abijah stood up not cast out the priests himself is with us for
and of Iddo the seer upon mount Zemaraim, of the LORD, the sons of our captain, and his
concerning genealogies? which is in mount Aaron, and the Levites, priests with sounding
And there were wars Ephraim, and said, Hear and have made you trumpets to cry alarm
between Rehoboam and me, thou Jeroboam, and priests after the manner against you. O children
Jeroboam continually. all Israel; 5Ought ye not of the nations of other of Israel, fight ye not
16
And Rehoboam slept to know that the LORD lands? so that against the LORD God
with his fathers, and was God of Israel gave the whosoever cometh to of your fathers; for ye
buried in the city of kingdom over Israel to consecratea himself with shall not prosper.
David: and Abijahd his David for ever, even to a young bullock and 13
But Jeroboam
son reigned in his stead. him and to his sons by a seven rams, the same caused an ambushment
covenant of salt? 6Yet may be a priest of them to come about behind
Chapter 13 Jeroboam the son of that are no gods. 10But them: so they were
Nebat, the servant of as for us, the LORD is before Judah, and the
Now
1
in the Solomon the son of our God, and we have ambushment was
eighteenth year of king David, is risen up, and not forsaken him; and behind them. 14
And
Jeroboam began Abijah hath rebelled against his the priests, which when Judah looked
to reign over Judah. 2He lord. 7And there are minister unto the LORD, back, behold, the battle
reigned three years in gathered unto him vain are the sons of Aaron, was before and behind:
Jerusalem. His mother’s men, the children of and the Levites wait and they cried unto the
name also was Michaiah Belial, and have upon their business: LORD, and the priests
the daughter of Uriel of strengthened 11
And they burn unto the sounded with the
Gibeah. And there was themselves against LORD every morning and trumpets. 15
Then the
war between Abijah and Rehoboam the son of every evening burnt men of Judah gave a
Jeroboam. 3And Abijah Solomon, when sacrifices and sweet shout: and as the men
set the battle in array Rehoboam was young incense: the shewbread of Judah shouted, it
with an army of valiant and tenderhearted, and also set they in order came to pass, that God
men of war, even four could not withstand upon the pure table; and smote Jeroboam and all
hundred thousand them. And now ye think
8
the candlestick of gold Israel before Abijah and
chosen men: Jeroboam to withstand the with the lamps thereof, Judah. 16
And the
also set the battle in kingdom of the LORD in to burn every evening: children of Israel fled
array against him with the hand of the sons of for we keep the charge before Judah: and God
eight hundred thousand David; and ye be a great of the LORD our God; but delivered them into
chosen men, being multitude, and there are ye have forsaken him. their hand. 17And Abijah
c
with you golden calves, a
and his people slew
book: Heb. words which Jeroboam made to consecrate...: Heb. to fill his them with a great
d
Abijah: also called, Abijam hand
slaughter: so there fell his fathers, and they while the land is yet thy name we go against
down slain of Israel five buried him in the city of before us; because we this multitude. O LORD,
hundred thousand David: and Asa his son have sought the LORD thou art our God; let
chosen men. Thus the
18
reigned in his stead. In our God, we have sought not man prevail against
children of Israel were his days the land was him, and he hath given thee. 12
So the LORD
brought under at that quiet ten years. 2And Asa us rest on every side. So smote the Ethiopians
time, and the children of did that which was good they built and prospered. before Asa, and before
Judah prevailed, because and right in the eyes of 8
And Asa had an army of Judah; and the
they relied upon the the LORD his God: 3For men that bare targets Ethiopians fled. 13And
LORD God of their he took away the altars and spears, out of Judah Asa and the people that
fathers. 19
And Abijah of the strange gods, and three hundred thousand; were with him pursued
pursued after Jeroboam, the high places, and and out of Benjamin, them unto Gerar: and
and took cities from him, brake down the imagesa, that bare shields and the Ethiopians were
Bethel with the towns and cut down the drew bows, two hundred overthrown, that they
thereof, and Jeshanah groves: 4
And and fourscore thousand: could not recover
with the towns thereof, commanded Judah to all these were mighty themselves; for they
and Ephrain with the seek the LORD God of men of valour. were destroyedd before
towns thereof. 20Neither their fathers, and to do 9
And there came out the LORD, and before
did Jeroboam recover the law and the against them Zerah the his host; and they
strength again in the commandment. Also he
5
Ethiopian with an host of carried away very much
days of Abijah: and the took away out of all the a thousand thousand, spoil. 14And they smote
LORD struck him, and he cities of Judah the high and three hundred all the cities round
died. 21But Abijah waxed places and the imagesb: chariots; and came unto about Gerar; for the
mighty, and married and the kingdom was Mareshah. 10Then Asa fear of the LORD came
fourteen wives, and quiet before him. 6And went out against him, upon them: and they
begat twenty and two he built fenced cities in and they set the battle in spoiled all the cities; for
sons, and sixteen Judah: for the land had array in the valley of there was exceeding
daughters. And the rest
22
rest, and he had no war Zephathah at Mareshah. much spoil in them.
of the acts of Abijah, and in those years; because 11
And Asa cried unto the 15
They smote also the
his ways, and his the LORD had given him LORD his God, and said, tents of cattle, and
sayings, are written in rest. 7Therefore he said LORD, it is nothing with carried away sheep and
the story of the prophet unto Judah, Let us build thee to help, whether camels in abundance,
Iddo. these cities, and make with manyc, or with them and returned to
about them walls, and that have no power: help Jerusalem.
Chapter 14 towers, gates, and bars, us, O LORD our God; for
a
we rest on thee, and in Chapter 15
1
So Abijah slept with images: Heb. statues
b c d
images: Heb. sun images man: or, mortal man destroyed: Heb. broken
And the Spirit of God
1
your hands be weak: for thousand sheep. 12And of Israel: nevertheless
came upon Azariah the your work shall be they entered into a the heart of Asa was
son of Oded: 2And he rewarded. covenant to seek the perfect all his days.
went out to meeta Asa, 8
And when Asa heard LORD God of their 18
And he brought into
and said unto him, Hear these words, and the fathers with all their the house of God the
ye me, Asa, and all Judah prophecy of Oded the heart and with all their things that his father
and Benjamin; The LORD prophet, he took soul; 13That whosoever had dedicated, and that
is with you, while ye be courage, and put away would not seek the LORD he himself had
with him; and if ye seek the abominable idols out God of Israel should be dedicated, silver, and
him, he will be found of of all the land of Judah put to death, whether gold, and vessels. 19And
you; but if ye forsake and Benjamin, and out of small or great, whether there was no more war
him, he will forsake you. the cities which he had man or woman. 14And unto the five and
3
Now for a long season taken from mount they sware unto the thirtieth year of the
Israel hath been without Ephraim, and renewed LORD with a loud voice, reign of Asa.
the true God, and the altar of the LORD, and with shouting, and
without a teaching that was before the with trumpets, and with Chapter 16
priest, and without law. porch of the LORD. 9And cornets. 15And all Judah
4
But when they in their he gathered all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for In1
the six and
trouble did turn unto the and Benjamin, and the they had sworn with all thirtieth year of the
LORD God of Israel, and strangers with them out their heart, and sought reign of Asa Baasha
sought him, he was of Ephraim and him with their whole king of Israel came up
found of them. 5And in Manasseh, and out of desire; and he was found against Judah, and built
those times there was no Simeon: for they fell to of them: and the LORD Ramah, to the intent
peace to him that went him out of Israel in gave them rest round that he might let none
out, nor to him that abundance, when they about. 16
And also go out or come in to
came in, but great saw that the LORD his concerning Maachah the Asa king of Judah. 2Then
vexations were upon all God was with him. 10So motherc of Asa the king, Asa brought out silver
the inhabitants of the they gathered he removed her from and gold out of the
countries. 6And nation themselves together at being queen, because treasures of the house
was destroyedb of nation, Jerusalem in the third she had made an idol in of the LORD and of the
and city of city: for God month, in the fifteenth a grove: and Asa cut king’s house, and sent
did vex them with all year of the reign of Asa. down her idol, and to Benhadad king of
adversity. 7Be ye strong 11
And they offered unto stamped it, and burnt it Syria, that dwelt at
therefore, and let not the LORD the same time, at the brook Kidron. Damascusa, saying,
of the spoil which they 17
But the high places
3
There is a league
a
to meet...: Heb. before Asa had brought, seven were not taken away out between me and thee,
b
destroyed: Heb. beaten in hundred oxen and seven c a
pieces mother: that is, grandmother Damascus: Heb. Darmesek
as there was between host of the king of Syria was diseased in his feet, because he walked in
my father and thy father: escaped out of thine until his disease was the first ways of his
behold, I have sent thee hand. 8Were not the exceeding great: yet in father David, and
silver and gold; go, Ethiopians and the his disease he sought sought not unto Baalim;
break thy league with Lubims a hugeb host, not to the LORD, but to 4
But sought to the
Baasha king of Israel, with very many chariots the physicians. 13And Asa LORD God of his father,
that he may depart from and horsemen? yet, slept with his fathers, and walked in his
me. 4
And Benhadad because thou didst rely and died in the one and commandments, and
hearkened unto king on the LORD, he fortieth year of his reign. not after the doings of
Asa, and sent the delivered them into thine 14
And they buried him in Israel. 5Therefore the
captains of his armies hand. 9For the eyes of his own sepulchres, LORD stablished the
against the cities of the LORD run to and fro which he had maded for kingdom in his hand;
Israel; and they smote throughout the whole himself in the city of and all Judah broughta
Ijon, and Dan, and earth, to shew himself David, and laid him in to Jehoshaphat
Abelmaim, and all the strong in the behalf of the bed which was filled presents; and he had
store cities of Naphtali. them whose heart is with sweet odours and riches and honour in
5
And it came to pass, perfect toward him. divers kinds of spices abundance. 6
And his
when Baasha heard it, Herein thou hast done prepared by the heart was lifted up in
that he left off building foolishly: therefore from apothecaries’ art: and the ways of the LORD:
of Ramah, and let his henceforth thou shalt they made a very great moreover he took away
work cease. 6Then Asa have wars. 10Then Asa burning for him. the high places and
the king took all Judah; was wroth with the seer, groves out of Judah.
and they carried away and put him in a prison Chapter 17 7
Also in the third year of
the stones of Ramah, house; for he was in a his reign he sent to his
and the timber thereof, rage with him because of And Jehoshaphat his
1
princes, even to
wherewith Baasha was this thing. And Asa son reigned in his stead, Benhail, and to
building; and he built oppressedc some of the and strengthened Obadiah, and to
therewith Geba and people the same time. himself against Israel. Zechariah, and to
Mizpah. 11
And, behold, the acts of
2
And he placed forces in Nethaneel, and to
7
And at that time Asa, first and last, lo, all the fenced cities of Michaiah, to teach in
Hanani the seer came to they are written in the Judah, and set garrisons the cities of Judah. 8And
Asa king of Judah, and book of the kings of in the land of Judah, and with them he sent
said unto him, Because Judah and Israel. 12And in the cities of Ephraim, Levites, even
thou hast relied on the Asa in the thirty and which Asa his father had Shemaiah, and
king of Syria, and not ninth year of his reign taken. 3And the LORD Nethaniah, and
relied on the LORD thy was with Jehoshaphat, Zebadiah, and Asahel,
b
God, therefore is the a huge: Heb. in abundance
c d a
oppressed: Heb. crushed had made: Heb. had digged brought: Heb. gave
and Shemiramoth, and the men of war, mighty all Judah. to Ramothgilead to
Jehonathan, and men of valour, were in battle, or shall I
Adonijah, and Tobijah, Jerusalem. 14And these Chapter 18 forbear? And they said,
and Tobadonijah, are the numbers of them Go up; for God will
Levites; and with them according to the house
1
Now Jehoshaphat deliver it into the king’s
Elishama and Jehoram, of their fathers: Of Judah, had riches and honour in hand. 6But Jehoshaphat
priests. 9And they taught the captains of abundance, and joined said, Is there not here a
in Judah, and had the thousands; Adnah the affinity with Ahab. 2And prophet of the LORD
book of the law of the chief, and with him aftera certain years he besides, that we might
LORD with them, and mighty men of valour went down to Ahab to enquireb of him? 7And
went about throughout three hundred thousand. Samaria. And Ahab killed the king of Israel said
all the cities of Judah, 15
And nextc to him was sheep and oxen for him unto Jehoshaphat,
and taught the people. Jehohanan the captain, in abundance, and for There is yet one man,
10
And the fear of the and with him two the people that he had by whom we may
LORD fell upon all the hundred and fourscore with him, and persuaded enquire of the LORD:
kingdoms of the lands thousand. 16
And next him to go up with him to but I hate him; for he
that were round about him was Amasiah the Ramothgilead. 3
And never prophesied good
Judah, so that they made son of Zichri, who Ahab king of Israel said unto me, but always
no war against willingly offered himself unto Jehoshaphat king of evil: the same is
Jehoshaphat. 11
Also unto the LORD; and with Judah, Wilt thou go with Micaiah the son of Imla.
some of the Philistines him two hundred me to Ramothgilead? And Jehoshaphat said,
brought Jehoshaphat thousand mighty men of And he answered him, I Let not the king say so.
presents, and tribute valour. 17
And of am as thou art, and my 8
And the king of Israel
silver; and the Arabians Benjamin; Eliada a people as thy people; called for one of his
brought him flocks, mighty man of valour, and we will be with thee officersc, and said,
seven thousand and and with him armed men in the war. Fetch quickly Micaiah
seven hundred rams, with bow and shield two
4
And Jehoshaphat said the son of Imla. 9
And
and seven thousand and hundred thousand. 18And unto the king of Israel, the king of Israel and
seven hundred he goats. next him was Jehozabad, Enquire, I pray thee, at Jehoshaphat king of
12
And Jehoshaphat and with him an hundred the word of the LORD to Judah sat either of them
waxed great and fourscore thousand day. 5Therefore the king on his throne, clothed in
exceedingly; and he built ready prepared for the of Israel gathered their robes, and they
in Judah castlesb, and war. 19These waited on together of prophets four sat in a void place at
cities of store. 13And he the king, beside those hundred men, and said the entering in of the
had much business in whom the king put in the unto them, Shall we go gate of Samaria; and all
the cities of Judah: and fenced cities throughout a b
after...: Heb. at the end of besides: Heb. yet, or, more
b c c
castles: or, palaces next...: Heb. at his hand years officers: or, eunuchs
the prophets prophesied king said to him, How stood before the LORD, this fellow in the prison,
before them. 10
And many times shall I adjure and said, I will entice and feed him with
Zedekiah the son of thee that thou say him. And the LORD said bread of affliction and
Chenaanah had made nothing but the truth to unto him, Wherewith? with water of affliction,
him horns of iron, and me in the name of the 21
And he said, I will go until I return in peace.
said, Thus saith the LORD? 16Then he said, I out, and be a lying spirit 27
And Micaiah said, If
LORD, With these thou did see all Israel in the mouth of all his thou certainly return in
shalt push Syria until scattered upon the prophets. And the LORD peace, then hath not
they be consumed. mountains, as sheep that said, Thou shalt entice the LORD spoken by
11
And all the prophets have no shepherd: and him, and thou shalt also me. And he said,
prophesied so, saying, the LORD said, These prevail: go out, and do Hearken, all ye people.
Go up to Ramothgilead, have no master; let them even so. 22
Now 28
So the king of
and prosper: for the return therefore every therefore, behold, the Israel and Jehoshaphat
LORD shall deliver it into man to his house in LORD hath put a lying the king of Judah went
the hand of the king. peace. 17And the king of spirit in the mouth of up to Ramothgilead.
12
And the messenger Israel said to these thy prophets, and 29
And the king of Israel
that went to call Micaiah Jehoshaphat, Did I not the LORD hath spoken said unto Jehoshaphat, I
spake to him, saying, tell thee that he would evil against thee. 23Then will disguise myself,
Behold, the words of the not prophesy good unto Zedekiah the son of and will go to the
prophets declare good to me, but evild? 18Again he Chenaanah came near, battle; but put thou on
the king with one assent; said, Therefore hear the and smote Micaiah upon thy robes. So the king
let thy word therefore, I word of the LORD; I saw the cheek, and said, of Israel disguised
pray thee, be like one of the LORD sitting upon Which way went the himself; and they went
theirs, and speak thou his throne, and all the Spirit of the LORD from to the battle. 30Now the
good. 13
And Micaiah host of heaven standing me to speak unto thee? king of Syria had
said, As the LORD liveth, on his right hand and on 24
And Micaiah said, commanded the
even what my God saith, his left. 19And the LORD Behold, thou shalt see captains of the chariots
that will I speak. 14And said, Who shall entice on that day when thou that were with him,
when he was come to Ahab king of Israel, that shalt go into an inner saying, Fight ye not
the king, the king said he may go up and fall at chamber to hide thyself. with small or great,
unto him, Micaiah, shall Ramothgilead? And one 25
Then the king of Israel save only with the king
we go to Ramothgilead spake saying after this said, Take ye Micaiah, of Israel. 31And it came
to battle, or shall I manner, and another and carry him back to to pass, when the
forbear? And he said, Go saying after that Amon the governor of captains of the chariots
ye up, and prosper, and manner. 20Then there the city, and to Joash the saw Jehoshaphat, that
they shall be delivered came out a spirit, and king’s son; 26And say, they said, It is the king
into your hand. 15And the d
Thus saith the king, Put of Israel. Therefore they
but evil: or, but for evil
compassed about him to his house in peace to upon you; take heed and Zebadiah the son of
fight: but Jehoshaphat Jerusalem. 2And Jehu the do it: for there is no Ishmael, the ruler of the
cried out, and the LORD son of Hanani the seer iniquity with the LORD house of Judah, for all
helped him; and God went out to meet him, our God, nor respect of the king’s matters: also
moved them to depart and said to king persons, nor taking of the Levites shall be
from him. 32For it came Jehoshaphat, Shouldest gifts. 8
Moreover in officers before you.
to pass, that, when the thou help the ungodly, Jerusalem did Deala courageously, and
captains of the chariots and love them that hate Jehoshaphat set of the the LORD shall be with
perceived that it was not the LORD? therefore is Levites, and of the the good.
the king of Israel, they wrath upon thee from priests, and of the chief
turned back again from before the LORD. of the fathers of Israel, Chapter 20
pursuing him. 33And a 3
Nevertheless there are for the judgment of the
certain man drew a bow good things found in LORD, and for It came to pass
1

at a venturee, and smote thee, in that thou hast controversies, when they after this also, that the
the king of Israel taken away the groves returned to Jerusalem. children of Moab, and
between the joints of the out of the land, and hast 9
And he charged them, the children of Ammon,
harness: therefore he prepared thine heart to saying, Thus shall ye do and with them other
said to his chariot man, seek God. 4
And in the fear of the LORD, beside the Ammonites,
Turn thine hand, that Jehoshaphat dwelt at faithfully, and with a came against
thou mayest carry me Jerusalem: and he went perfect heart. 10And what Jehoshaphat to battle.
out of the host; for I am out again through the cause soever shall come
2
Then there came some
wounded. 34
And the people from Beersheba to you of your brethren that told Jehoshaphat,
battle increased that to mount Ephraim, and that dwell in their cities, saying, There cometh a
day: howbeit the king of brought them back unto between blood and great multitude against
Israel stayed himself up the LORD God of their blood, between law and thee from beyond the
in his chariot against the fathers. commandment, statutes sea on this side Syria;
Syrians until the even: 5
And he set judges in and judgments, ye shall and, behold, they be in
and about the time of the land throughout all even warn them that Hazazontamar, which is
the sun going down he the fenced cities of they trespass not against Engedi. 3
And
died. Judah, city by city, 6And the LORD, and so wrath Jehoshaphat feared,
said to the judges, Take come upon you, and and set himselfa to seek
Chapter 19 heed what ye do: for ye upon your brethren: this the LORD, and
judge not for man, but do, and ye shall not proclaimed a fast
And Jehoshaphat the
1
for the LORD, who is with trespass. 11And, behold, throughout all Judah.
king of Judah returned to you in the judgment. Amariah the chief priest a
7
Wherefore now let the is over you in all matters Deal...: Heb. Take courage
e
at a venture: Heb. in his fear of the LORD be of the LORD; and and do
a
simplicity himself: Heb. his face
4
And Judah gathered thee in our affliction, said, Hearken ye, all Kohathites, and of the
themselves together, to then thou wilt hear and Judah, and ye children of the Korhites,
ask help of the LORD: help. 10And now, behold, inhabitants of Jerusalem, stood up to praise the
even out of all the cities the children of Ammon and thou king LORD God of Israel with
of Judah they came to and Moab and mount Jehoshaphat, Thus saith a loud voice on high.
seek the LORD. 5And Seir, whom thou the LORD unto you, Be 20
And they rose early
Jehoshaphat stood in the wouldest not let Israel not afraid nor dismayed in the morning, and
congregation of Judah invade, when they came by reason of this great went forth into the
and Jerusalem, in the out of the land of Egypt, multitude; for the battle wilderness of Tekoa:
house of the LORD, but they turned from is not yours, but God’s. and as they went forth,
before the new court, them, and destroyed 16
To morrow go ye down Jehoshaphat stood and
6
And said, O LORD God them not; 11Behold, I against them: behold, said, Hear me, O Judah,
of our fathers, art not say, how they reward us, they come up by the and ye inhabitants of
thou God in heaven? and to come to cast us out of cliffb of Ziz; and ye shall Jerusalem; Believe in
rulest not thou over all thy possession, which find them at the end of the LORD your God, so
the kingdoms of the thou hast given us to the brook, before the shall ye be established;
heathen? and in thine inherit. 12O our God, wilt wilderness of Jeruel. believe his prophets, so
hand is there not power thou not judge them? for 17
Ye shall not need to shall ye prosper. 21And
and might, so that none we have no might fight in this battle: set when he had consulted
is able to withstand against this great yourselves, stand ye still, with the people, he
thee? 7Art not thou our company that cometh and see the salvation of appointed singers unto
God, who didst drive out against us; neither know the LORD with you, O the LORD, and that
the inhabitants of this we what to do: but our Judah and Jerusalem: should praise the
land before thy people eyes are upon thee. fear not, nor be beauty of holiness, as
Israel, and gavest it to 13
And all Judah stood dismayed; to morrow go they went out before
the seed of Abraham thy before the LORD, with out against them: for the the army, and to say,
friend for ever? 8
And their little ones, their LORD will be with you. Praise the LORD; for his
they dwelt therein, and wives, and their children. 18
And Jehoshaphat mercy endureth for
have built thee a 14
Then upon Jahaziel bowed his head with his ever. 22And whenc they
sanctuary therein for thy the son of Zechariah, the face to the ground: and began to sing and to
name, saying, 9If, when son of Benaiah, the son all Judah and the praise, the LORD set
evil cometh upon us, as of Jeiel, the son of inhabitants of Jerusalem ambushments against
the sword, judgment, or Mattaniah, a Levite of fell before the LORD, the children of Ammon,
pestilence, or famine, we the sons of Asaph, came worshipping the LORD. Moab, and mount Seir,
stand before this house, the Spirit of the LORD in 19
And the Levites, of the which were come
and in thy presence, (for the midst of the children of the c
thy name is in this congregation; 15And he And when...: Heb. And in the
b
house,) and cry unto cliff: Heb. ascent time that they, etc
against Judah; and they the valley of Berachahe; twenty and five years in Jehoshaphat, saying,
were smitten. 23For the for there they blessed Jerusalem. And his Because thou hast
children of Ammon and the LORD: therefore the mother’s name was joined thyself with
Moab stood up against name of the same place Azubah the daughter of Ahaziah, the LORD hath
the inhabitants of mount was called, The valley of Shilhi. 32And he walked in broken thy works. And
Seir, utterly to slay and Berachah, unto this day. the way of Asa his the ships were broken,
destroy them: and when 27
Then they returned, father, and departed not that they were not able
they had made an end of every man of Judah and from it, doing that which to go to Tarshish.
the inhabitants of Seir, Jerusalem, and was right in the sight of
every one helped to Jehoshaphat in the the LORD. 33Howbeit the Chapter 21
destroyd another. 24And forefrontf of them, to go high places were not
when Judah came toward again to Jerusalem with taken away: for as yet
1
Now Jehoshaphat
the watch tower in the joy; for the LORD had the people had not slept with his fathers,
wilderness, they looked made them to rejoice prepared their hearts and was buried with his
unto the multitude, and, over their enemies. unto the God of their fathers in the city of
behold, they were dead 28
And they came to fathers. 34Now the rest of David. And Jehoram his
bodies fallen to the Jerusalem with psalteries the acts of Jehoshaphat, son reigned in his
earth, and none and harps and trumpets first and last, behold, stead. 2And he had
escaped. 25
And when unto the house of the they are written in the brethren the sons of
Jehoshaphat and his LORD. 29And the fear of book of Jehug the son of Jehoshaphat, Azariah,
people came to take God was on all the Hanani, who is and Jehiel, and
away the spoil of them, kingdoms of those mentioned in the book of Zechariah, and Azariah,
they found among them countries, when they had the kings of Israel. and Michael, and
in abundance both riches heard that the LORD 35
And after this did Shephatiah: all these
with the dead bodies, fought against the Jehoshaphat king of were the sons of
and precious jewels, enemies of Israel. 30
So Judah join himself with Jehoshaphat king of
which they stripped off the realm of Jehoshaphat Ahaziah king of Israel, Israel. 3And their father
for themselves, more was quiet: for his God who did very wickedly: gave them great gifts of
than they could carry gave him rest round 36
And he joined himself silver, and of gold, and
away: and they were about. with him to make ships of precious things, with
three days in gathering 31
And Jehoshaphat to go to Tarshish: and fenced cities in Judah:
of the spoil, it was so reigned over Judah: he they made the ships in but the kingdom gave
much. 26And on the was thirty and five years Eziongeber. 37
Then he to Jehoram; because
fourth day they old when he began to Eliezer the son of he was the firstborn.
assembled themselves in reign, and he reigned Dodavah of Mareshah
4
Now when Jehoram
prophesied against was risen up to the
d e
to destroy: Heb. for the Berachah: that is, blessing kingdom of his father,
f g
destruction forefront: Heb. head book of Jehu: Heb. words, etc
he strengthened himself, compassed him in, and which were better than died of sore diseases.
and slew all his brethren the captains of the thyself: 14Behold, with a And his people made no
with the sword, and chariots. 10
So the greatc plague will the burning for him, like the
divers also of the princes Edomites revolted from LORD smite thy people, burning of his fathers.
of Israel. 5Jehoram was under the hand of Judah and thy children, and thy 20
Thirty and two years
thirty and two years old unto this day. The same wives, and all thy goods: old was he when he
when he began to reign, time also did Libnah 15
And thou shalt have began to reign, and he
and he reigned eight revolt from under his great sickness by reigned in Jerusalem
years in Jerusalem. 6And hand; because he had disease of thy bowels, eight years, and
he walked in the way of forsaken the LORD God until thy bowels fall out departed without being
the kings of Israel, like of his fathers. 11Moreover by reason of the sickness desired. Howbeit they
as did the house of he made high places in day by day. 16Moreover buried him in the city of
Ahab: for he had the the mountains of Judah, the LORD stirred up David, but not in the
daughter of Ahab to and caused the against Jehoram the sepulchres of the kings.
wife: and he wrought inhabitants of Jerusalem spirit of the Philistines,
that which was evil in to commit fornication, and of the Arabians, that Chapter 22
the eyes of the LORD. and compelled Judah were near the
7
Howbeit the LORD thereto. Ethiopians: 17
And they
1
And the inhabitants
would not destroy the 12
And there came a came up into Judah, and of Jerusalem made
house of David, because writing to him from Elijah brake into it, and carried Ahaziah his youngest
of the covenant that he the prophet, saying, away all the substance son king in his stead:
had made with David, Thus saith the LORD God that was found in the for the band of men
and as he promised to of David thy father, king’s house, and his that came with the
give a lighta to him and Because thou hast not sons also, and his wives; Arabians to the camp
to his sons for ever. 8In walked in the ways of so that there was never had slain all the eldest.
his days the Edomites Jehoshaphat thy father, a son left him, save So Ahaziah the son of
revolted from under the nor in the ways of Asa Jehoahaz, the youngest Jehoram king of Judah
dominionb of Judah, and king of Judah, 13But hast of his sons. 18And after reigned. 2Forty and two
made themselves a king. walked in the way of the all this the LORD smote years old was Ahaziah
9
Then Jehoram went kings of Israel, and hast him in his bowels with an when he began to
forth with his princes, made Judah and the incurable disease. 19And reign, and he reigned
and all his chariots with inhabitants of Jerusalem it came to pass, that in one year in Jerusalem.
him: and he rose up by to go a whoring, like to process of time, after the His mother’s name also
night, and smote the the whoredoms of the end of two years, his was Athaliah the
Edomites which house of Ahab, and also bowels fell out by reason daughter of Omri. 3He
hast slain thy brethren of of his sickness: so he also walked in the ways
a
light: Heb. lamp, or, candle thy father’s house, of the house of Ahab:
b c
dominion: Heb. hand a great...: Heb. a great stroke
for his mother was his cut off the house of from among the king’s Israel, and they came to
counsellor to do Ahab. 8And it came to sons that were slain, and Jerusalem. 3And all the
wickedly. 4Wherefore he pass, that, when Jehu put him and his nurse in congregation made a
did evil in the sight of was executing judgment a bedchamber. So covenant with the king
the LORD like the house upon the house of Ahab, Jehoshabeath, the in the house of God.
of Ahab: for they were and found the princes of daughter of king And he said unto them,
his counsellors after the Judah, and the sons of Jehoram, the wife of Behold, the king’s son
death of his father to his the brethren of Ahaziah, Jehoiada the priest, (for shall reign, as the LORD
destruction. 5He walked that ministered to she was the sister of hath said of the sons of
also after their counsel, Ahaziah, he slew them. Ahaziah,) hid him from David. 4This is the thing
and went with Jehoram 9
And he sought Ahaziah: Athaliah, so that she that ye shall do; A third
the son of Ahab king of and they caught him, slew him not. 12And he part of you entering on
Israel to war against (for he was hid in was with them hid in the the sabbath, of the
Hazael king of Syria at Samaria,) and brought house of God six years: priests and of the
Ramothgilead: and the him to Jehu: and when and Athaliah reigned Levites, shall be porters
Syrians smote Joram. they had slain him, they over the land. of the doorsa; 5And a
6
And he returned to be buried him: Because, third part shall be at
healed in Jezreel said they, he is the son Chapter 23 the king’s house; and a
because of the wounds of Jehoshaphat, who third part at the gate of
which were given him at sought the LORD with all
1
And in the seventh the foundation: and all
Ramah, when he fought his heart. So the house year Jehoiada the people shall be in
with Hazael king of Syria. of Ahaziah had no power strengthened himself, the courts of the house
And Azariah the son of to keep still the and took the captains of of the LORD. 6But let
Jehoram king of Judah kingdom. hundreds, Azariah the none come into the
went down to see 10
But when Athaliah son of Jeroham, and house of the LORD,
Jehoram the son of Ahab the mother of Ahaziah Ishmael the son of save the priests, and
at Jezreel, because he saw that her son was Jehohanan, and Azariah they that minister of
was sick. 7
And the dead, she arose and the son of Obed, and the Levites; they shall
destruction of Ahaziah
a
destroyed all the seed Maaseiah the son of go in, for they are holy:
was of God by coming to royal of the house of Adaiah, and Elishaphat but all the people shall
Joram: for when he was Judah. 11
But the son of Zichri, into keep the watch of the
come, he went out with Jehoshabeath , b
the covenant with him. 2And LORD. 7And the Levites
Jehoram against Jehu the daughter of the king, they went about in shall compass the king
son of Nimshi, whom the took Joash the son of Judah, and gathered the round about, every man
LORD had anointed to Ahaziah, and stole him Levites out of all the with his weapons in his
cities of Judah, and the hand; and whosoever
a b
destruction: Heb. treading Jehoshabeath: also called, chief of the fathers of
a
down Jehosheba doors: Heb. thresholds
else cometh into the and made him king. And they laid hands on her; in. 20And he took the
house, he shall be put to Jehoiada and his sons and when she was come captains of hundreds,
death: but be ye with the anointed him, and said, to the entering of the and the nobles, and the
king when he cometh in, God save the king. horse gate by the king’s governors of the
and when he goeth out. 12
Now when Athaliah house, they slew her people, and all the
8
So the Levites and all heard the noise of the there. 16And Jehoiada people of the land, and
Judah did according to all people running and made a covenant brought down the king
things that Jehoiada the praising the king, she between him, and from the house of the
priest had commanded, came to the people into between all the people, LORD: and they came
and took every man his the house of the LORD: and between the king, through the high gate
men that were to come 13
And she looked, and, that they should be the into the king’s house,
in on the sabbath, with behold, the king stood at LORD’S people. 17Then and set the king upon
them that were to go out his pillar at the entering all the people went to the throne of the
on the sabbath: for in, and the princes and the house of Baal, and kingdom. And all the
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Jehoiada the priest the trumpets by the brake it down, and brake people of the land
dismissed not the king: and all the people his altars and his images rejoiced: and the city
courses. 9
Moreover of the land rejoiced, and in pieces, and slew was quiet, after that
Jehoiada the priest sounded with trumpets, Mattan the priest of Baal they had slain Athaliah
delivered to the captains also the singers with before the altars. 18Also with the sword.
of hundreds spears, and instruments of musick, Jehoiada appointed the
bucklers, and shields, and such as taught to offices of the house of Chapter 24
that had been king sing praise. Then the LORD by the hand of
David’s, which were in Athaliah rent her clothes, the priests the Levites,
1
Joash was seven
the house of God. 10And and said, Treasonc, whom David had years old when he
he set all the people, Treason. 14
Then distributed in the house began to reign, and he
every man having his Jehoiada the priest of the LORD, to offer the reigned forty years in
weapon in his hand, from brought out the captains burnt offerings of the Jerusalem. His mother’s
the right sideb of the of hundreds that were LORD, as it is written in name also was Zibiah of
temple to the left side of set over the host, and the law of Moses, with Beersheba. 2And Joash
the temple, along by the said unto them, Have rejoicing and with did that which was right
altar and the temple, by her forth of the ranges: singing, as it was in the sight of the LORD
the king round about. and whoso followeth her, ordained by David. all the days of Jehoiada
11
Then they brought out let him be slain with the 19
And he set the porters the priest. 3
And
the king’s son, and put sword. For the priest at the gates of the house Jehoiada took for him
upon him the crown, and said, Slay her not in the of the LORD, that none two wives; and he
gave him the testimony, house of the LORD. 15So which was unclean in begat sons and
any thing should enter daughters. 4And it came
b c
side: Heb. shoulder Treason: Heb. Conspiracy
to pass after this, that king’s commandment carpenters to repair the had done good in Israel,
Joash was minded to they made a chest, and house of the LORD, and both toward God, and
repaira the house of the set it without at the gate also such as wrought toward his house. 17Now
LORD. 5And he gathered of the house of the iron and brass to mend after the death of
together the priests and LORD. 9And they made a the house of the LORD. Jehoiada came the
the Levites, and said to proclamationb through 13
So the workmen princes of Judah, and
them, Go out unto the Judah and Jerusalem, to wrought, and the workc made obeisance to the
cities of Judah, and bring in to the LORD the was perfected by them, king. Then the king
gather of all Israel collection that Moses the and they set the house hearkened unto them.
money to repair the servant of God laid upon of God in his state, and 18
And they left the
house of your God from Israel in the wilderness. strengthened it. 14
And house of the LORD God
year to year, and see 10
And all the princes and when they had finished of their fathers, and
that ye hasten the all the people rejoiced, it, they brought the rest served groves and
matter. Howbeit the and brought in, and cast of the money before the idols: and wrath came
Levites hastened it not. into the chest, until they king and Jehoiada, upon Judah and
6
And the king called for had made an end. 11Now whereof were made Jerusalem for this their
Jehoiada the chief, and it came to pass, that at vessels for the house of trespass. 19Yet he sent
said unto him, Why hast what time the chest was the LORD, even vessels prophets to them, to
thou not required of the brought unto the king’s to minister, and to offerd bring them again unto
Levites to bring in out of office by the hand of the withal, and spoons, and the LORD; and they
Judah and out of Levites, and when they vessels of gold and testified against them:
Jerusalem the collection, saw that there was much silver. And they offered but they would not give
according to the money, the king’s scribe burnt offerings in the ear. 20And the Spirit of
commandment of Moses and the high priest’s house of the LORD God camee upon
the servant of the LORD, officer came and continually all the days Zechariah the son of
and of the congregation emptied the chest, and of Jehoiada. Jehoiada the priest,
of Israel, for the took it, and carried it to 15
But Jehoiada waxed which stood above the
tabernacle of witness? his place again. Thus old, and was full of days people, and said unto
7
For the sons of Athaliah, they did day by day, and when he died; an them, Thus saith God,
that wicked woman, had gathered money in hundred and thirty years Why transgress ye the
broken up the house of abundance. 12And the old was he when he died. commandments of the
God; and also all the king and Jehoiada gave it 16
And they buried him in LORD, that ye cannot
dedicated things of the to such as did the work the city of David among prosper? because ye
house of the LORD did of the service of the the kings, because he have forsaken the
they bestow upon house of the LORD, and c
LORD, he hath also
Baalim. 8
And at the hired masons and the work...: Heb. the healing forsaken you. 21
And
went up upon the work
a b d e
to repair: Heb. to renew a proclamation: Heb. a voice to offer...: or, pestils came...: Heb. clothed
they conspired against departed from him, (for he reigned twenty and above, and found them
him, and stoned him they left him in great nine years in Jerusalem. three hundred thousand
with stones at the diseases,) his own And his mother’s name choice men, able to go
commandment of the servants conspired was Jehoaddan of forth to war, that could
king in the court of the against him for the blood Jerusalem. 2And he did handle spear and
house of the LORD. of the sons of Jehoiada that which was right in shield. He hired also an
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Thus Joash the king the priest, and slew him the sight of the LORD, hundred thousand
remembered not the on his bed, and he died: but not with a perfect mighty men of valour
kindness which Jehoiada and they buried him in heart. 3Now it came to out of Israel for an
his father had done to the city of David, but pass, when the kingdom hundred talents of
him, but slew his son. they buried him not in was establisheda to him, silver. 7But there came
And when he died, he the sepulchres of the that he slew his servants a man of God to him,
said, The LORD look kings. 26And these are that had killed the king saying, O king, let not
upon it, and require it. they that conspired his father. 4But he slew the army of Israel go
23
And it came to pass at against him; Zabadf the not their children, but with thee; for the LORD
the end of the year, that son of Shimeath an did as it is written in the is not with Israel, to wit,
the host of Syria came Ammonitess, and law in the book of Moses, with all the children of
up against him: and they Jehozabad the son of where the LORD Ephraim. 8But if thou
came to Judah and Shimrith a Moabitess. commanded, saying, The wilt go, do it, be strong
Jerusalem, and 27
Now concerning his fathers shall not die for for the battle: God shall
destroyed all the princes sons, and the greatness the children, neither make thee fall before
of the people from of the burdens laid upon shall the children die for the enemy: for God
among the people, and him, and the repairingg the fathers, but every hath power to help, and
sent all the spoil of them of the house of God, man shall die for his own to cast down. 9And
unto the king of behold, they are written sin. 5Moreover Amaziah Amaziah said to the
Damascus. 24
For the in the story of the book gathered Judah together, man of God, But what
army of the Syrians of the kings. And and made them captains shall we do for the
came with a small Amaziah his son reigned over thousands, and hundred talents which I
company of men, and in his stead. captains over hundreds, have given to the armyb
the LORD delivered a according to the houses of Israel? And the man
very great host into their Chapter 25 of their fathers, of God answered, The
hand, because they had throughout all Judah and LORD is able to give
forsaken the LORD God Amaziah was twenty
1
Benjamin: and he thee much more than
of their fathers. So they and five years old when numbered them from this. 10
Then Amaziah
executed judgment he began to reign, and twenty years old and separated them, to wit,
against Joash. 25
And f a
the army that was
when they were Zabad: or, Jozacher established...: Heb. confirmed
g b
repairing: Heb. founding upon him army: Heb. band
come to him out of after that Amaziah was Jehoahaz, the son of another in the face,
Ephraim, to go home come from the slaughter Jehu, king of Israel, both he and Amaziah
againc: wherefore their of the Edomites, that he saying, Come, let us see king of Judah, at
anger was greatly brought the gods of the one another in the face. Bethshemesh, which
kindled against Judah, children of Seir, and set 18
And Joash king of Israel belongeth to Judah.
and they returned home them up to be his gods, sent to Amaziah king of 22
And Judah was put to
in great anger. 11
And and bowed down himself Judah, saying, The the worse before Israel,
Amaziah strengthened before them, and burned thistle f
that was in and they fled every
himself, and led forth his incense unto them. Lebanon sent to the man to his tent. 23And
people, and went to the 15
Wherefore the anger of cedar that was in Joash the king of Israel
valley of salt, and smote the LORD was kindled Lebanon, saying, Give took Amaziah king of
of the children of Seir against Amaziah, and he thy daughter to my son Judah, the son of Joash,
ten thousand. 12
And sent unto him a prophet, to wife: and there the son of Jehoahaz, at
other ten thousand left which said unto him, passed by a wild beast Bethshemesh, and
alive did the children of Why hast thou sought that was in Lebanon, and brought him to
Judah carry away after the gods of the trode down the thistle. Jerusalem, and brake
captive, and brought people, which could not 19
Thou sayest, Lo, thou down the wall of
them unto the top of the deliver their own people hast smitten the Jerusalem from the gate
rock, and cast them out of thine hand? 16And Edomites; and thine of Ephraim to the
down from the top of the it came to pass, as he heart lifteth thee up to cornerg gate, four
rock, that they all were talked with him, that the boast: abide now at hundred cubits. 24And
broken in pieces. 13But king said unto him, Art home; why shouldest he took all the gold and
the soldiersd of the army thou made of the king’s thou meddle to thine the silver, and all the
which Amaziah sent counsel? forbear; why hurt, that thou shouldest vessels that were found
back, that they should shouldest thou be fall, even thou, and in the house of God
not go with him to battle, smitten? Then the Judah with thee? 20But with Obededom, and
fell upon the cities of prophet forbare, and Amaziah would not hear; the treasures of the
Judah, from Samaria said, I know that God for it came of God, that king’s house, the
even unto Bethhoron, hath determinede to he might deliver them hostages also, and
and smote three destroy thee, because into the hand of their returned to Samaria.
thousand of them, and thou hast done this, and enemies, because they 25
And Amaziah the son
took much spoil. hast not hearkened unto sought after the gods of of Joash king of Judah
14
Now it came to pass, my counsel. Edom. 21So Joash the lived after the death of
c
17
Then Amaziah king king of Israel went up; Joash son of Jehoahaz
home again: Heb. to their of Judah took advice, and and they saw one king of Israel fifteen
place sent to Joash, the son of
d f g
the soldiers...: Heb. the sons thistle: or, furze bush, or, the corner...: Heb. the gate of
e
of the band determined: Heb. counselled thorn it that looketh
years. 26Now the rest of two years in Jerusalem. towers in Jerusalem at and seven thousand
the acts of Amaziah, first His mother’s name also the corner gate, and at and five hundred, that
and last, behold, are was Jecoliah of the valley gate, and at made war with mighty
they not written in the Jerusalem. And he did
4
the turning of the wall, power, to help the king
book of the kings of that which was right in and fortifiedc them. against the enemy.
Judah and Israel? 27Now the sight of the LORD, 10
Also he built towers in 14
And Uzziah prepared
after the time that according to all that his the desert, and diggedd for them throughout all
Amaziah did turn away father Amaziah did. 5And many wells: for he had the host shields, and
from following the LORD he sought God in the much cattle, both in the spears, and helmets,
they made a conspiracy days of Zechariah, who low country, and in the and habergeons, and
against him in Jerusalem; had understanding in the plains: husbandmen bows, and slingsf to
and he fled to Lachish: visionsb of God: and as also, and vine dressers cast stones. 15And he
but they sent to Lachish long as he sought the in the mountains, and in made in Jerusalem
after him, and slew him LORD, God made him to Carmel: for he loved engines, invented by
there. 28
And they prosper. 6And he went husbandry. 11
Moreover cunning men, to be on
brought him upon forth and warred against Uzziah had an host of the towers and upon
horses, and buried him the Philistines, and brake fighting men, that went the bulwarks, to shoot
with his fathers in the down the wall of Gath, out to war by bands, arrows and great stones
city of Judahh. and the wall of Jabneh, according to the number withal. And his name
and the wall of Ashdod, of their account by the spreadg far abroad; for
Chapter 26 and built cities about hand of Jeiel the scribe he was marvellously
Ashdod, and among the and Maaseiah the ruler, helped, till he was
Then all the people
1
Philistines. 7
And God under the hand of strong.
of Judah took Uzziaha, helped him against the Hananiah, one of the 16
But when he was
who was sixteen years Philistines, and against king’s captains. 12The strong, his heart was
old, and made him king the Arabians that dwelt whole number of the lifted up to his
in the room of his father in Gurbaal, and the chief of the fathers of destruction: for he
Amaziah. 2He built Eloth, Mehunims. 8
And the the mighty men of valour transgressed against
and restored it to Judah, Ammonites gave gifts to were two thousand and the LORD his God, and
after that the king slept Uzziah: and his name six hundred. 13And under went into the temple of
with his fathers. 3Sixteen spread abroad even to their hand was an armye, the LORD to burn
years old was Uzziah the entering in of Egypt; three hundred thousand incense upon the altar
when he began to reign, for he strengthened of incense. 17
And
c
and he reigned fifty and himself exceedingly. fortified: or, repaired Azariah the priest went
d
9
Moreover Uzziah built digged...: or, cut out many
h f
Judah: that is, the city of cisterns slings...: Heb. stones of
b e
David in the visions...: Heb. in the an army: Heb. the power of an slings
a g
Uzziah: or, Azariah seeing of God army spread: Heb. went forth
in after him, and with leper unto the day of his father Uzziah did: Israel and Judah. 8He
him fourscore priests of death, and dwelt in a howbeit he entered not was five and twenty
the LORD, that were severalh house, being a into the temple of the years old when he
valiant men: 18And they leper; for he was cut off LORD. And the people began to reign, and
withstood Uzziah the from the house of the did yet corruptly. 3He reigned sixteen years in
king, and said unto him, LORD: and Jotham his built the high gate of the Jerusalem. 9And Jotham
It appertaineth not unto son was over the king’s house of the LORD, and slept with his fathers,
thee, Uzziah, to burn house, judging the on the wall of Ophela he and they buried him in
incense unto the LORD, people of the land. built much. 4
Moreover the city of David: and
but to the priests the 22
Now the rest of the he built cities in the Ahaz his son reigned in
sons of Aaron, that are acts of Uzziah, first and mountains of Judah, and his stead.
consecrated to burn last, did Isaiah the in the forests he built
incense: go out of the prophet, the son of castles and towers. 5He Chapter 28
sanctuary; for thou hast Amoz, write. 23So Uzziah fought also with the king
trespassed; neither shall slept with his fathers, of the Ammonites, and Ahaz was twenty
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it be for thine honour and they buried him with prevailed against them. years old when he
from the LORD God. his fathers in the field of And the children of began to reign, and he
19
Then Uzziah was wroth, the burial which Ammon gave him the reigned sixteen years in
and had a censer in his belonged to the kings; same year an hundred Jerusalem: but he did
hand to burn incense: for they said, He is a talents of silver, and ten not that which was right
and while he was wroth leper: and Jotham his thousand measures of in the sight of the
with the priests, the son reigned in his stead. wheat, and ten thousand LORD, like David his
leprosy even rose up in of barley. So much did father: 2For he walked
his forehead before the Chapter 27 the children of Ammon in the ways of the kings
priests in the house of pay unto him, both the of Israel, and made also
the LORD, from beside Jotham was twenty
1
second year, and the molten images for
the incense altar. 20And and five years old when third. 6
So Jotham Baalim. 3Moreover he
Azariah the chief priest, he began to reign, and became mighty, because burnt incense in the
and all the priests, he reigned sixteen years he preparedb his ways valley of the son of
looked upon him, and, in Jerusalem. His before the LORD his God. Hinnom, and burnta his
behold, he was leprous mother’s name also was 7
Now the rest of the acts children in the fire,
in his forehead, and they Jerushah, the daughter of Jotham, and all his after the abominations
thrust him out from of Zadok. 2And he did wars, and his ways, lo, of the heathen whom
thence; yea, himself that which was right in they are written in the the LORD had cast out
hasted also to go out, the sight of the LORD, book of the kings of before the children of
because the LORD had according to all that his Israel. 4
He sacrificed
a
smitten him. 21
And Ophel: or, the tower
h b a
Uzziah the king was a several: Heb. free prepared: or, established burnt...: or, offered sacrifice
also and burnt incense in two hundred thousand, Azariah the son of palm trees, to their
the high places, and on women, sons, and Johanan, Berechiah the brethren: then they
the hills, and under daughters, and took also son of Meshillemoth, and returned to Samaria.
every green tree. away much spoil from Jehizkiah the son of 16
At that time did
5
Wherefore the LORD his them, and brought the Shallum, and Amasa the king Ahaz send unto the
God delivered him into spoil to Samaria. 9But a son of Hadlai, stood up kings of Assyria to help
the hand of the king of prophet of the LORD was against them that came him. 17For again the
Syria; and they smote there, whose name was from the war, 13And said Edomites had come and
him, and carried away a Oded: and he went out unto them, Ye shall not smitten Judah, and
great multitude of them before the host that bring in the captives carried away captivese.
captives, and brought came to Samaria, and hither: for whereas we 18
The Philistines also
them to Damascusb. And said unto them, Behold, have offended against had invaded the cities
he was also delivered because the LORD God the LORD already, ye of the low country, and
into the hand of the king of your fathers was intend to add more to of the south of Judah,
of Israel, who smote him wroth with Judah, he our sins and to our and had taken
with a great slaughter. hath delivered them into trespass: for our Bethshemesh, and
6
For Pekah the son of your hand, and ye have trespass is great, and Ajalon, and Gederoth,
Remaliah slew in Judah slain them in a rage that there is fierce wrath and Shocho with the
an hundred and twenty reacheth up unto against Israel. 14So the villages thereof, and
thousand in one day, heaven. 10
And now ye armed men left the Timnah with the
which were all valiantc purpose to keep under captives and the spoil villages thereof, Gimzo
men; because they had the children of Judah and before the princes and also and the villages
forsaken the LORD God Jerusalem for bondmen all the congregation. thereof: and they dwelt
of their fathers. 7
And and bondwomen unto 15
And the men which there. 19For the LORD
Zichri, a mighty man of you: but are there not were expressed by name brought Judah low
Ephraim, slew Maaseiah with you, even with you, rose up, and took the because of Ahaz king of
the king’s son, and sins against the LORD captives, and with the Israel; for he made
Azrikam the governor of your God? 11Now hear spoil clothed all that Judah naked, and
the house, and Elkanah me therefore, and were naked among transgressed sore
that was nextd to the deliver the captives them, and arrayed them, against the LORD. 20And
king. 8And the children again, which ye have and shod them, and Tilgathpilneser king of
of Israel carried away taken captive of your gave them to eat and to Assyria came unto him,
captive of their brethren brethren: for the fierce drink, and anointed and distressed him, but
b
wrath of the LORD is them, and carried all the strengthened him not.
Damascus: Heb. Darmesek upon you. 12Then certain feeble of them upon 21
For Ahaz took away a
c
valiant...: Heb. sons of valour of the heads of the asses, and brought them portion out of the house
d
next...: Heb. the second to the children of Ephraim, to Jericho, the city of e
king captives: Heb. a captivity
of the LORD, and out of his ways, first and last, them together into the and our daughters and
the house of the king, behold, they are written east street, 5And said our wives are in
and of the princes, and in the book of the kings unto them, Hear me, ye captivity for this. 10Now
gave it unto the king of of Judah and Israel. 27And Levites, sanctify now it is in mine heart to
Assyria: but he helped Ahaz slept with his yourselves, and sanctify make a covenant with
him not. 22And in the fathers, and they buried the house of the LORD the LORD God of Israel,
time of his distress did him in the city, even in God of your fathers, and that his fierce wrath
he trespass yet more Jerusalem: but they carry forth the filthiness may turn away from us.
against the LORD: this is brought him not into the out of the holy place. 11
My sons, be not now
that king Ahaz. 23For he sepulchres of the kings 6
For our fathers have negligent: for the LORD
sacrificed unto the gods of Israel: and Hezekiah trespassed, and done hath chosen you to
of Damascusf, which his son reigned in his that which was evil in stand before him, to
smote him: and he said, stead. the eyes of the LORD our serve him, and that ye
Because the gods of the God, and have forsaken should minister unto
kings of Syria help them, Chapter 29 him, and have turned him, and burn incense.
therefore will I sacrifice away their faces from 12
Then the Levites
to them, that they may
1
Hezekiah began to the habitation of the arose, Mahath the son
help me. But they were reign when he was five LORD, and turned their of Amasai, and Joel the
the ruin of him, and of all and twenty years old, backs. 7Also they have son of Azariah, of the
Israel. 24
And Ahaz and he reigned nine and shut up the doors of the sons of the Kohathites:
gathered together the twenty years in porch, and put out the and of the sons of
vessels of the house of Jerusalem. And his lamps, and have not Merari, Kish the son of
God, and cut in pieces mother’s name was burned incense nor Abdi, and Azariah the
the vessels of the house Abijah, the daughter of offered burnt offerings in son of Jehalelel: and of
of God, and shut up the Zechariah. 2And he did the holy place unto the the Gershonites; Joah
doors of the house of the that which was right in God of Israel. 8Wherefore the son of Zimmah, and
LORD, and he made him the sight of the LORD, the wrath of the LORD Eden the son of Joah:
altars in every corner of according to all that was upon Judah and 13
And of the sons of
Jerusalem. 25And in every David his father had Jerusalem, and he hath Elizaphan; Shimri, and
several city of Judah he done. 3He in the first delivered them to Jeiel: and of the sons of
made high places to year of his reign, in the troublea, to Asaph; Zechariah, and
burn incense unto other first month, opened the astonishment, and to Mattaniah: 14And of the
gods, and provoked to doors of the house of the hissing, as ye see with sons of Heman; Jehiel,
anger the LORD God of LORD, and repaired your eyes. 9For, lo, our and Shimei: and of the
his fathers. 26Now the them. 4And he brought in fathers have fallen by sons of Jeduthun;
rest of his acts and of all the priests and the the sword, and our sons Shemaiah, and Uzziel.
Levites, and gathered 15
And they gathered
f a
Damascus: Heb. Darmesek trouble: Heb. commotion
their brethren, and offering, with all the killed also the lambs, upon the altar. And
sanctified themselves, vessels thereof, and the and they sprinkled the whend the burnt
and came, according to shewbread table, with all blood upon the altar. offering began, the
the commandment of the vessels thereof. 23
And they brought forthc song of the LORD
the king, by the wordsb 19
Moreover all the the he goats for the sin began also with the
of the LORD, to cleanse vessels, which king Ahaz offering before the king trumpets, and with the
the house of the LORD. in his reign did cast and the congregation; instruments ordained
16
And the priests went away in his and they laid their hands by David king of Israel.
into the inner part of the transgression, have we upon them: 24And the 28
And all the
house of the LORD, to prepared and sanctified, priests killed them, and congregation
cleanse it, and brought and, behold, they are they made reconciliation worshipped, and the
out all the uncleanness before the altar of the with their blood upon the singerse sang, and the
that they found in the LORD. altar, to make an trumpeters sounded:
temple of the LORD into 20
Then Hezekiah the atonement for all Israel: and all this continued
the court of the house of king rose early, and for the king commanded until the burnt offering
the LORD. And the gathered the rulers of that the burnt offering was finished. 29
And
Levites took it, to carry it the city, and went up to and the sin offering when they had made an
out abroad into the the house of the LORD. should be made for all end of offering, the king
brook Kidron. 17Now they 21
And they brought Israel. 25And he set the and all that were
began on the first day of seven bullocks, and Levites in the house of present f
with him
the first month to seven rams, and seven the LORD with cymbals, bowed themselves, and
sanctify, and on the lambs, and seven he with psalteries, and with worshipped.
eighth day of the month goats, for a sin offering harps, according to the 30
Moreover Hezekiah
came they to the porch for the kingdom, and for commandment of David, the king and the princes
of the LORD: so they the sanctuary, and for and of Gad the king’s commanded the Levites
sanctified the house of Judah. And he seer, and Nathan the to sing praise unto the
the LORD in eight days; commanded the priests prophet: for so was the LORD with the words of
and in the sixteenth day the sons of Aaron to commandment of the David, and of Asaph the
of the first month they offer them on the altar of LORD by his prophets. seer. And they sang
made an end. 18Then the LORD. 22So they 26
And the Levites stood praises with gladness,
they went in to Hezekiah killed the bullocks, and with the instruments of and they bowed their
the king, and said, We the priests received the David, and the priests heads and worshipped.
have cleansed all the blood, and sprinkled it on with the trumpets. 27And 31
Then Hezekiah
house of the LORD, and the altar: likewise, when Hezekiah commanded to answered and said,
the altar of burnt they had killed the rams, offer the burnt offering d
they sprinkled the blood when: Heb. in the time
b e
by the words...: or, in the upon the altar: they singers: Heb. song
c f
business of the LORD forth: Heb. near present: Heb. found
Now ye have for the Levites were not sanctified kings of Assyria. 7And
consecrated yourselves
g
more upright in heart to themselves sufficiently, be not ye like your
unto the LORD, come sanctify themselves than neither had the people fathers, and like your
near and bring sacrifices the priests. 35And also gathered themselves brethren, which
and thank offerings into the burnt offerings were together to Jerusalem. trespassed against the
the house of the LORD. in abundance, with the 4
And the thing pleaseda LORD God of their
And the congregation fat of the peace the king and all the fathers, who therefore
brought in sacrifices and offerings, and the drink congregation. 5So they gave them up to
thank offerings; and as offerings for every burnt established a decree to desolation, as ye see.
many as were of a free offering. So the service make proclamation 8
Now be ye not
heart burnt offerings. of the house of the LORD throughout all Israel, stiffnecked, as your
32
And the number of the was set in order. 36And from Beersheba even to fathers were, but yield
burnt offerings, which Hezekiah rejoiced, and Dan, that they should yourselves unto the
the congregation all the people, that God come to keep the LORD, and enter into
brought, was threescore had prepared the passover unto the LORD his sanctuary, which he
and ten bullocks, an people: for the thing was God of Israel at hath sanctified for ever:
hundred rams, and two done suddenly. Jerusalem: for they had and serve the LORD
hundred lambs: all these not done it of a long your God, that the
were for a burnt offering Chapter 30 time in such sort as it fierceness of his wrath
to the LORD. 33And the was written. 6So the may turn away from
consecrated things were
1
And Hezekiah sent to posts went with the you. 9
For if ye turn
six hundred oxen and all Israel and Judah, and letters fromb the king again unto the LORD,
three thousand sheep. wrote letters also to and his princes your brethren and your
34
But the priests were Ephraim and Manasseh, throughout all Israel and children shall find
too few, so that they that they should come to Judah, and according to compassion before
could not flay all the the house of the LORD at the commandment of them that lead them
burnt offerings: Jerusalem, to keep the the king, saying, Ye captive, so that they
wherefore their brethren passover unto the LORD children of Israel, turn shall come again into
the Levites did helph God of Israel. 2For the again unto the LORD this land: for the LORD
them, till the work was king had taken counsel, God of Abraham, Isaac, your God is gracious
ended, and until the and his princes, and all and Israel, and he will and merciful, and will
other priests had the congregation in return to the remnant of not turn away his face
sanctified themselves: Jerusalem, to keep the you, that are escaped from you, if ye return
passover in the second out of the hand of the unto him. 10So the posts
g
consecrated...: or, filled your month. 3For they could passed from city to city
a
hand not keep it at that time, pleased...: Heb. was right in through the country of
h
did help...: Heb. strengthened because the priests had the eyes of the king Ephraim and Manasseh
b
them from: Heb. from the hand
even unto Zebulun: but of the LORD. 16And they LORD hearkened to thousand bullocks and
they laughed them to stood in their placec after Hezekiah, and healed seven thousand sheep;
scorn, and mocked their manner, according the people. and the princes gave to
them. 11
Nevertheless to the law of Moses the 21
And the children of the congregation a
divers of Asher and man of God: the priests Israel that were presentd thousand bullocks and
Manasseh and of sprinkled the blood, at Jerusalem kept the ten thousand sheep:
Zebulun humbled which they received of feast of unleavened and a great number of
themselves, and came to the hand of the Levites. bread seven days with priests sanctified
Jerusalem. 12
Also in 17
For there were many in great gladness: and the themselves. 25
And all
Judah the hand of God the congregation that Levites and the priests the congregation of
was to give them one were not sanctified: praised the LORD day by Judah, with the priests
heart to do the therefore the Levites had day, singing with loud and the Levites, and all
commandment of the the charge of the killing instruments unto the the congregation that
king and of the princes, of the passovers for LORD. 22
And Hezekiah came out of Israel, and
by the word of the LORD. every one that was not spake comfortablye unto the strangers that came
13
And there clean, to sanctify them all the Levites that out of the land of Israel,
assembled at Jerusalem unto the LORD. 18For a taught the good and that dwelt in Judah,
much people to keep the multitude of the people, knowledge of the LORD: rejoiced. 26So there was
feast of unleavened even many of Ephraim, and they did eat great joy in Jerusalem:
bread in the second and Manasseh, Issachar, throughout the feast for since the time of
month, a very great and Zebulun, had not seven days, offering Solomon the son of
congregation. 14And they cleansed themselves, peace offerings, and David king of Israel
arose and took away the yet did they eat the making confession to the there was not the like in
altars that were in passover otherwise than LORD God of their Jerusalem. 27Then the
Jerusalem, and all the it was written. But fathers. 23And the whole priests the Levites
altars for incense took Hezekiah prayed for assembly took counsel to arose and blessed the
they away, and cast them, saying, The good keep other seven days: people: and their voice
them into the brook LORD pardon every one and they kept other was heard, and their
Kidron. 15Then they killed 19
That prepareth his seven days with prayer came up to his
the passover on the heart to seek God, the gladness. For Hezekiah
24
holyg dwelling place,
fourteenth day of the LORD God of his fathers, king of Judah did givef to even unto heaven.
second month: and the though he be not the congregation a
priests and the Levites cleansed according to d
Chapter 31
were ashamed, and the purification of the present: Heb. found
e
sanctified themselves, sanctuary. 20
And the comfortably...: Heb. to the 1
Now when all this
and brought in the burnt heart of all
c f g
offerings into the house their place: Heb. their did give: Heb. lifted up, or, his holy...: Heb. the
standing offered habitation of his holiness
was finished, all Israel new moons, and for the Hezekiah and the princes Jozabad, and Eliel, and
that were presenta went set feasts, as it is written came and saw the Ismachiah, and Mahath,
out to the cities of Judah, in the law of the LORD. heaps, they blessed the and Benaiah, were
and brake the images in 4
Moreover he LORD, and his people overseers under the
pieces, and cut down the commanded the people Israel. 9Then Hezekiah hand of Cononiah and
groves, and threw down that dwelt in Jerusalem questioned with the Shimei his brother, at
the high places and the to give the portion of the priests and the Levites the commandment of
altars out of all Judah priests and the Levites, concerning the heaps. Hezekiah the king, and
and Benjamin, in that they might be 10
And Azariah the chief Azariah the ruler of the
Ephraim also and encouraged in the law of priest of the house of house of God. 14
And
Manasseh, until they had the LORD. 5And as soon Zadok answered him, Kore the son of Imnah
utterly destroyed them as the commandment and said, Since the the Levite, the porter
all. Then all the children came abroad, the people began to bring toward the east, was
of Israel returned, every children of Israel brought the offerings into the over the freewill
man to his possession, in abundance the house of the LORD, we offerings of God, to
into their own cities. firstfruits of corn, wine, have had enough to eat, distribute the oblations
2
And Hezekiah appointed and oil, and honey, and and have left plenty: for of the LORD, and the
the courses of the of all the increase of the the LORD hath blessed most holy things. 15And
priests and the Levites field; and the tithe of all his people; and that next him were Eden,
after their courses, every things brought they in which is left is this great and Miniamin, and
man according to his abundantly. 6
And store. Jeshua, and Shemaiah,
service, the priests and concerning the children 11
Then Hezekiah Amariah, and
Levites for burnt of Israel and Judah, that commanded to prepare Shecaniah, in the cities
offerings and for peace dwelt in the cities of chambersc in the house of the priests, in their
offerings, to minister, Judah, they also brought of the LORD; and they set office, to give to
and to give thanks, and in the tithe of oxen and prepared them, 12
And their brethren by
to praise in the gates of sheep, and the tithe of brought in the offerings courses, as well to the
the tents of the LORD. holy things which were and the tithes and the great as to the small:
3
He appointed also the consecrated unto the dedicated things 16
Beside their
king’s portion of his LORD their God, and laid faithfully: over which genealogy of males,
substance for the burnt them by heapsb. 7In the Cononiah the Levite was from three years old
offerings, to wit, for the third month they began ruler, and Shimei his and upward, even unto
morning and evening to lay the foundation of brother was the next. every one that entereth
burnt offerings, and the the heaps, and finished 13
And Jehiel, and Azaziah, into the house of the
burnt offerings for the them in the seventh and Nahath, and Asahel, LORD, his daily portion
sabbaths, and for the month. 8
And when and Jerimoth, and for their service in their
a b c
charges according to
present: Heb. found by heaps: Heb. heaps, heaps chambers: or, storehouses
their courses; 17Both to commandments, to seek much water? 5Also he Assyria send his
the genealogy of the his God, he did it with all strengthened himself, servants to Jerusalem,
priests by the house of his heart, and prospered. and built up all the wall (but he himself laid
their fathers, and the that was broken, and siege against Lachish,
Levites from twenty Chapter 32 raised it up to the and all his power with
years old and upward, in towers, and another wall him,) unto Hezekiah
their charges by their After these things,
1
without, and repaired king of Judah, and unto
courses; 18And to the and the establishment Millo in the city of David, all Judah that were at
genealogy of all their thereof, Sennacherib and made dartsc and Jerusalem, saying,
little ones, their wives, king of Assyria came, shields in abundance. 10
Thus saith
and their sons, and their and entered into Judah, 6
And he set captains of Sennacherib king of
daughters, through all and encamped against war over the people, and Assyria, Whereon do ye
the congregation: for in the fenced cities, and gathered them together trust, that ye abide in
their set office they thought to wina them for to him in the street of the siegef in Jerusalem?
sanctified themselves in himself. 2
And when the gate of the city, and 11
Doth not Hezekiah
holiness: 19Also of the Hezekiah saw that spaked comfortably to persuade you to give
sons of Aaron the Sennacherib was come, them, saying, 7Be strong over yourselves to die
priests, which were in and that he was and courageous, be not by famine and by thirst,
the fields of the suburbs purposed to fight against afraid nor dismayed for saying, The LORD our
of their cities, in every Jerusalem, 3
He took the king of Assyria, nor God shall deliver us out
several city, the men counsel with his princes for all the multitude that of the hand of the king
that were expressed by and his mighty men to is with him: for there be of Assyria? 12Hath not
name, to give portions to stop the waters of the more with us than with the same Hezekiah
all the males among the fountains which were him: 8With him is an arm taken away his high
priests, and to all that without the city: and of flesh; but with us is places and his altars,
were reckoned by they did help him. 4So the LORD our God to and commanded Judah
genealogies among the there was gathered help us, and to fight our and Jerusalem, saying,
Levites. 20And thus did much people together, battles. And the people Ye shall worship before
Hezekiah throughout all who stopped all the restede themselves upon one altar, and burn
Judah, and wrought that fountains, and the brook the words of Hezekiah incense upon it? 13Know
which was good and that ranb through the king of Judah. ye not what I and my
right and truth before midst of the land, saying, 9
After this did fathers have done unto
the LORD his God. 21And Why should the kings of Sennacherib king of all the people of other
in every work that he Assyria come, and find lands? were the gods of
c
began in the service of darts: or, swords, or, weapons the nations of those
a d
the house of God, and in to win...: Heb. to break them spake...: Heb. he spoke to lands any ways able to
the law, and in the up their heart
b e f
ran: Heb. overflowed rested...: Heb. leaned siege: or, strong hold
deliver their lands out of hand. 18Then they cried Sennacherib the king of not upon them in the
mine hand? 14Who was with a loud voice in the Assyria, and from the days of Hezekiah.
there among all the gods Jews’ speech unto the hand of all other, and 27
And Hezekiah had
of those nations that my people of Jerusalem that guided them on every exceeding much riches
fathers utterly were on the wall, to side. 23
And many and honour: and he
destroyed, that could affright them, and to brought gifts unto the made himself treasuries
deliver his people out of trouble them; that they LORD to Jerusalem, and for silver, and for gold,
mine hand, that your might take the city. presentsh to Hezekiah and for precious stones,
God should be able to 19
And they spake against king of Judah: so that he and for spices, and for
deliver you out of mine the God of Jerusalem, as was magnified in the shields, and for all
hand? 15Now therefore against the gods of the sight of all nations from manner of pleasantk
let not Hezekiah deceive people of the earth, thenceforth. jewels; 28
Storehouses
you, nor persuade you which were the work of 24
In those days also for the increase of
on this manner, neither the hands of man. 20And Hezekiah was sick to the corn, and wine, and oil;
yet believe him: for no for this cause Hezekiah death, and prayed unto and stalls for all manner
god of any nation or the king, and the the LORD: and he spake of beasts, and cotes for
kingdom was able to prophet Isaiah the son of unto him, and he gavei flocks. 29Moreover he
deliver his people out of Amoz, prayed and cried him a sign. 25
But provided him cities, and
mine hand, and out of to heaven. 21And the Hezekiah rendered not possessions of flocks
the hand of my fathers: LORD sent an angel, again according to the and herds in
how much less shall your which cut off all the benefit done unto him; abundance: for God had
God deliver you out of mighty men of valour, for his heart was lifted given him substance
mine hand? 16And his and the leaders and up: therefore there was very much. 30This same
servants spake yet more captains in the camp of wrath upon him, and Hezekiah also stopped
against the LORD God, the king of Assyria. So upon Judah and the upper watercourse
and against his servant he returned with shame Jerusalem. of Gihon, and brought it
Hezekiah. 17He wrote of face to his own land. 26
Notwithstanding straight down to the
also letters to rail on the And when he was come Hezekiah humbled west side of the city of
LORD God of Israel, and into the house of his himself for the pridej of David. And Hezekiah
to speak against him, god, they that came his heart, both he and prospered in all his
saying, As the gods of forth of his own bowels the inhabitants of works. 31Howbeit in the
the nations of other slewg him there with the Jerusalem, so that the business of the
lands have not delivered sword. 22Thus the LORD wrath of the LORD came ambassadorsl of the
their people out of mine saved Hezekiah and the h k
hand, so shall not the inhabitants of Jerusalem presents: Heb. precious things pleasant...: Heb. instruments
i
God of Hezekiah deliver from the hand of gave...: or, wrought a miracle of desire
l
his people out of mine for him ambassadors: Heb.
g j
slew...: Heb. made him fall pride: Heb. lifting up interpreters
princes of Babylon, who like unto the 7
And he set a carved the kingb of Assyria,
sent unto him to enquire abominations of the image, the idol which he which took Manasseh
of the wonder that was heathen, whom the had made, in the house among the thorns, and
done in the land, God LORD had cast out of God, of which God had bound him with fetters,
left him, to try him, that before the children of said to David and to and carried him to
he might know all that Israel. 3For he builta Solomon his son, In this Babylon. 12
And when
was in his heart. 32Now again the high places house, and in Jerusalem, he was in affliction, he
the rest of the acts of which Hezekiah his which I have chosen besought the LORD his
Hezekiah, and his father had broken down, before all the tribes of God, and humbled
goodness , behold, they
m
and he reared up altars Israel, will I put my name himself greatly before
are written in the vision for Baalim, and made for ever: 8Neither will I the God of his fathers,
of Isaiah the prophet, the groves, and worshipped any more remove the 13
And prayed unto him:
son of Amoz, and in the all the host of heaven, foot of Israel from out of and he was intreated of
book of the kings of and served them. 4Also the land which I have him, and heard his
Judah and Israel. 33And he built altars in the appointed for your supplication, and
Hezekiah slept with his house of the LORD, fathers; so that they will brought him again to
fathers, and they buried whereof the LORD had take heed to do all that I Jerusalem into his
him in the chiefestn of said, In Jerusalem shall have commanded them, kingdom. Then
the sepulchres of the my name be for ever. according to the whole Manasseh knew that
sons of David: and all 5
And he built altars for law and the statutes and the LORD he was God.
Judah and the all the host of heaven in the ordinances by the 14
Now after this he built
inhabitants of Jerusalem the two courts of the hand of Moses. 9So a wall without the city
did him honour at his house of the LORD. 6And Manasseh made Judah of David, on the west
death. And Manasseh his he caused his children to and the inhabitants of side of Gihon, in the
son reigned in his stead. pass through the fire in Jerusalem to err, and to valley, even to the
the valley of the son of do worse than the entering in at the fish
Chapter 33 Hinnom: also he heathen, whom the gate, and compassed
observed times, and LORD had destroyed about Ophelc, and
Manasseh
1
was used enchantments, and before the children of raised it up a very great
twelve years old when used witchcraft, and Israel. 10And the LORD height, and put
he began to reign, and dealt with a familiar spake to Manasseh, and captains of war in all
he reigned fifty and five spirit, and with wizards: to his people: but they the fenced cities of
years in Jerusalem: 2But he wrought much evil in would not hearken. Judah. 15And he took
did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD, to 11
Wherefore the LORD away the strange gods,
the sight of the LORD, provoke him to anger. brought upon them the b
captains of the host of of the king: Heb. which were
m a
goodness: Heb. kindnesses he built...: Heb. he returned the king’s
n c
chiefest: or, highest and built Ophel: or, the tower
and the idol out of the the sayings of the seersd. Chapter 34 that had sacrificed unto
house of the LORD, and 20
So Manasseh slept with them. 5And he burnt
all the altars that he had his fathers, and they Josiah
1
was eight the bones of the priests
built in the mount of the buried him in his own years old when he began upon their altars, and
house of the LORD, and house: and Amon his son to reign, and he reigned cleansed Judah and
in Jerusalem, and cast reigned in his stead. in Jerusalem one and Jerusalem. And so did
6

them out of the city. 21


Amon was two and thirty years. 2And he did he in the cities of
16
And he repaired the twenty years old when that which was right in Manasseh, and
altar of the LORD, and he began to reign, and the sight of the LORD, Ephraim, and Simeon,
sacrificed thereon peace reigned two years in and walked in the ways even unto Naphtali,
offerings and thank Jerusalem. 22But he did of David his father, and with their mattocksb
offerings, and that which was evil in declined neither to the round about. 7
And
commanded Judah to the sight of the LORD, as right hand, nor to the when he had broken
serve the LORD God of did Manasseh his father: left. 3For in the eighth down the altars and the
Israel. 17Nevertheless the for Amon sacrificed unto year of his reign, while groves, and had beaten
people did sacrifice still all the carved images he was yet young, he the graven images into
in the high places, yet which Manasseh his began to seek after the powder, and cut down
unto the LORD their God father had made, and God of David his father: all the idols throughout
only. 18Now the rest of served them; 23
And and in the twelfth year all the land of Israel, he
the acts of Manasseh, humbled not himself he began to purge Judah returned to Jerusalem.
and his prayer unto his before the LORD, as and Jerusalem from the 8
Now in the
God, and the words of Manasseh his father had high places, and the eighteenth year of his
the seers that spake to humbled himself; but groves, and the carved reign, when he had
him in the name of the Amon trespassed more images, and the molten purged the land, and
LORD God of Israel, and more. 24
And his images. 4And they brake the house, he sent
behold, they are written servants conspired down the altars of Shaphan the son of
in the book of the kings against him, and slew Baalim in his presence; Azaliah, and Maaseiah
of Israel. 19His prayer him in his own house. and the imagesa, that the governor of the city,
also, and how God was 25
But the people of the were on high above and Joah the son of
intreated of him, and all land slew all them that them, he cut down; and Joahaz the recorder, to
his sin, and his trespass, had conspired against the groves, and the repair the house of the
and the places wherein king Amon; and the carved images, and the LORD his God. 9And
he built high places, and people of the land made molten images, he brake when they came to
set up groves and Josiah his son king in his in pieces, and made dust Hilkiah the high priest,
graven images, before stead. of them, and strowed it they delivered the
he was humbled: behold, upon the graves of them money that was
they are written among d a b
the seers: or, Hosai the images: or, the sun images mattocks: or, mauls
brought into the house instruments of musick. into the hand of the the wife of Shallum the
of God, which the Levites 13
Also they were over the overseers, and to the son of Tikvath, the son
that kept the doors had bearers of burdens, and hand of the workmen. of Hasrahg, keeper of
gathered of the hand of were overseers of all 18
Then Shaphan the the wardrobe; (now she
Manasseh and Ephraim, that wrought the work in scribe told the king, dwelt in Jerusalem in
and of all the remnant of any manner of service: saying, Hilkiah the priest the college:) and they
Israel, and of all Judah and of the Levites there hath given me a book. spake to her to that
and Benjamin; and they were scribes, and And Shaphan read it effect. 23
And she
returned to Jerusalem. officers, and porters. before the king. 19And it answered them, Thus
10
And they put it in the 14
And when they came to pass, when the saith the LORD God of
hand of the workmen brought out the money king had heard the Israel, Tell ye the man
that had the oversight of that was brought into words of the law, that he that sent you to me,
the house of the LORD, the house of the LORD, rent his clothes. 20And 24
Thus saith the LORD,
and they gave it to the Hilkiah the priest found a the king commanded Behold, I will bring evil
workmen that wrought in book of the law of the Hilkiah, and Ahikam the upon this place, and
the house of the LORD, LORD given byd Moses. son of Shaphan, and upon the inhabitants
to repair and amend the 15
And Hilkiah answered Abdonf the son of Micah, thereof, even all the
house: 11Even to the and said to Shaphan the and Shaphan the scribe, curses that are written
artificers and builders scribe, I have found the and Asaiah a servant of in the book which they
gave they it, to buy book of the law in the the king’s, saying, 21Go, have read before the
hewn stone, and timber house of the LORD. And enquire of the LORD for king of Judah: 25Because
for couplings, and to Hilkiah delivered the me, and for them that they have forsaken me,
floorc the houses which book to Shaphan. 16And are left in Israel and in and have burned
the kings of Judah had Shaphan carried the Judah, concerning the incense unto other
destroyed. 12
And the book to the king, and words of the book that is gods, that they might
men did the work brought the king word found: for great is the provoke me to anger
faithfully: and the back again, saying, All wrath of the LORD that is with all the works of
overseers of them were that was committed to poured out upon us, their hands; therefore
Jahath and Obadiah, the thy servants, they do it. because our fathers my wrath shall be
Levites, of the sons of 17
And they have have not kept the word poured out upon this
Merari; and Zechariah gathered togethere the of the LORD, to do after place, and shall not be
and Meshullam, of the money that was found in all that is written in this quenched. 26And as for
sons of the Kohathites, the house of the LORD, book. 22And Hilkiah, and the king of Judah, who
to set it forward; and and have delivered it they that the king had sent you to enquire of
other of the Levites, all d
appointed, went to the LORD, so shall ye
that could skill of by: Heb. by the hand of Huldah the prophetess, say unto him, Thus
e
gathered together: Heb.
c f g
to floor: or, to rafter poured out, or, melted Abdon: or, Achbor Hasrah: also called, Harhas
saith the LORD God of and all the people, greath serve the LORD their his son. 5And stand in
Israel concerning the and small: and he read God. And all his days the holy place
words which thou hast in their ears all the they departed not from according to the
heard; 27Because thine words of the book of the following the LORD, the divisions of the families
heart was tender, and covenant that was found God of their fathers. of the fathers of your
thou didst humble in the house of the brethren the people,
thyself before God, when LORD. 31
And the king Chapter 35 and after the division of
thou heardest his words stood in his place, and the families of the
against this place, and made a covenant before
1
Moreover Josiah kept Levites. 6
So kill the
against the inhabitants the LORD, to walk after a passover unto the passover, and sanctify
thereof, and humbledst the LORD, and to keep LORD in Jerusalem: and yourselves, and prepare
thyself before me, and his commandments, and they killed the passover your brethren, that
didst rend thy clothes, his testimonies, and his on the fourteenth day of they may do according
and weep before me; I statutes, with all his the first month. 2And he to the word of the LORD
have even heard thee heart, and with all his set the priests in their by the hand of Moses.
also, saith the LORD. soul, to perform the charges, and 7
And Josiah gavea to the
28
Behold, I will gather words of the covenant encouraged them to the people, of the flock,
thee to thy fathers, and which are written in this service of the house of lambs and kids, all for
thou shalt be gathered book. 32And he caused all the LORD, 3And said unto the passover offerings,
to thy grave in peace, that were presenti in the Levites that taught for all that were
neither shall thine eyes Jerusalem and Benjamin all Israel, which were present, to the number
see all the evil that I will to stand to it. And the holy unto the LORD, Put of thirty thousand, and
bring upon this place, inhabitants of Jerusalem the holy ark in the house three thousand
and upon the inhabitants did according to the which Solomon the son bullocks: these were of
of the same. So they covenant of God, the of David king of Israel the king’s substance.
brought the king word God of their fathers. did build; it shall not be a 8
And his princes gave
again. 33
And Josiah took away burden upon your willinglyb unto the
29
Then the king sent all the abominations out shoulders: serve now the people, to the priests,
and gathered together of all the countries that LORD your God, and his and to the Levites:
all the elders of Judah pertained to the children people Israel, 4
And Hilkiah and Zechariah
and Jerusalem. 30And the of Israel, and made all prepare yourselves by and Jehiel, rulers of the
king went up into the that were presentj in the houses of your house of God, gave
house of the LORD, and Israel to serve, even to fathers, after your unto the priests for the
all the men of Judah, and courses, according to the passover offerings two
h
the inhabitants of great...: Heb. from great even writing of David king of
a
Jerusalem, and the to small Israel, and according to gave: Heb. offered
i b
priests, and the Levites, present: Heb. found the writing of Solomon gave willingly: Heb. offered,
j
present: Heb. found etc
thousand and six ordinance: but the other burnt offerings upon the ambassadors to him,
hundred small cattle, holy offerings sod they in altar of the LORD, saying, What have I to
and three hundred oxen. pots, and in caldrons, according to the do with thee, thou king
9
Conaniah also, and and in pans, and divided commandment of king of Judah? I come not
Shemaiah and them speedilyd among all Josiah. 17And the children against thee this day,
Nethaneel, his brethren, the people. 14
And of Israel that were but against the housei
and Hashabiah and Jeiel afterward they made presentf kept the wherewith I have war:
and Jozabad, chief of the ready for themselves, passover at that time, for God commanded me
Levites, gavec unto the and for the priests: and the feast of to make haste: forbear
Levites for passover because the priests the unleavened bread seven thee from meddling
offerings five thousand sons of Aaron were days. 18And there was with God, who is with
small cattle, and five busied in offering of no passover like to that me, that he destroy
hundred oxen. 10So the burnt offerings and the kept in Israel from the thee not.
service was prepared, fat until night; therefore days of Samuel the 22
Nevertheless Josiah
and the priests stood in the Levites prepared for prophet; neither did all would not turn his face
their place, and the themselves, and for the the kings of Israel keep from him, but disguised
Levites in their courses, priests the sons of such a passover as himself, that he might
according to the king’s Aaron. 15And the singers Josiah kept, and the fight with him, and
commandment. 11
And the sons of Asaph were priests, and the Levites, hearkened not unto the
they killed the passover, in their placee, according and all Judah and Israel words of Necho from
and the priests sprinkled to the commandment of that were presentg, and the mouth of God, and
the blood from their David, and Asaph, and the inhabitants of came to fight in the
hands, and the Levites Heman, and Jeduthun Jerusalem. 19
In the valley of Megiddo. 23And
flayed them. 12And they the king’s seer; and the eighteenth year of the the archers shot at king
removed the burnt porters waited at every reign of Josiah was this Josiah; and the king
offerings, that they gate; they might not passover kept. said to his servants,
might give according to depart from their 20
After all this, when Have me away; for I am
the divisions of the service; for their Josiah had prepared the sore woundedj. 24
His
families of the people, to brethren the Levites templeh, Necho king of servants therefore took
offer unto the LORD, as prepared for them. 16So Egypt came up to fight him out of that chariot,
it is written in the book all the service of the against Carchemish by and put him in the
of Moses. And so did LORD was prepared the Euphrates: and Josiah second chariot that he
they with the oxen. 13And same day, to keep the went out against him. had; and they brought
they roasted the passover, and to offer 21
But he sent him to Jerusalem, and
passover with fire d f i
according to the divided...: Heb. made them present: Heb. found the house...: Heb. the house
g
run present: Heb. found of my war
c e h j
gave: Heb. offered place: Heb. station temple: Heb. house wounded: Heb. made sick
he died, and was buried three months in did, and that which was the mouth of the LORD.
in one of the sepulchres Jerusalem. And the king
3
found in him, behold, 13
And he also rebelled
of his fathers. And all of Egypt put him down at they are written in the against king
Judah and Jerusalem Jerusalem, and book of the kings of Nebuchadnezzar, who
mourned for Josiah. condemned the land in Israel and Judah: and had made him swear by
25
And Jeremiah lamented an hundred talents of Jehoiachinb his son God: but he stiffened
for Josiah: and all the silver and a talent of reigned in his stead. his neck, and hardened
singing men and the gold. 4And the king of 9
Jehoiachin was eight his heart from turning
singing women spake of Egypt made Eliakim his years old when he began unto the LORD God of
Josiah in their brother king over Judah to reign, and he reigned Israel. 14Moreover all
lamentations to this day, and Jerusalem, and three months and ten the chief of the priests,
and made them an turned his name to days in Jerusalem: and and the people,
ordinance in Israel: and, Jehoiakim. And Necho he did that which was transgressed very much
behold, they are written took Jehoahaz his evil in the sight of the after all the
in the lamentations. brother, and carried him LORD. 10And when the abominations of the
26
Now the rest of the to Egypt. 5Jehoiakim was year was expired, king heathen; and polluted
acts of Josiah, and his twenty and five years old Nebuchadnezzar sent, the house of the LORD
goodnessk, according to when he began to reign, and brought him to which he had hallowed
that which was written in and he reigned eleven Babylon, with the goodly in Jerusalem. 15And the
the law of the LORD, years in Jerusalem: and vessels of the house of LORD God of their
27
And his deeds, first and he did that which was the LORD, and made fathers sent to them byc
last, behold, they are evil in the sight of the Zedekiah his brother his messengers, rising
written in the book of the LORD his God. 6Against king over Judah and up betimes, and
kings of Israel and Judah. him came up Jerusalem. sending; because he
Nebuchadnezzar king of 11
Zedekiah was one had compassion on his
Chapter 36 Babylon, and bound him and twenty years old people, and on his
in fettersa, to carry him when he began to reign, dwelling place: 16
But
Then the people of
1
to Babylon. and reigned eleven they mocked the
the land took Jehoahaz 7
Nebuchadnezzar also years in Jerusalem. 12And messengers of God, and
the son of Josiah, and carried of the vessels of he did that which was despised his words, and
made him king in his the house of the LORD to evil in the sight of the misused his prophets,
father’s stead in Babylon, and put them in LORD his God, and until the wrath of the
Jerusalem. 2
Jehoahaz his temple at Babylon. humbled not himself LORD arose against his
was twenty and three 8
Now the rest of the acts before Jeremiah the people, till there was no
years old when he began of Jehoiakim, and his prophet speaking from remedyd. 17
Therefore
to reign, and he reigned abominations which he b c
Jehoiachin: also called, by: Heb. by the hand of
k a d
goodness: Heb. kindnesses fetters: or, chains Jeconiah, or, Coniah remedy: Heb. healing
he brought upon them she lay desolate she LORD by the mouth of chief of the fathers of
the king of the Chaldees, kept sabbath, to fulfil Jeremiah might be Judah and Benjamin,
who slew their young threescore and ten fulfilled, the LORD stirred and the priests, and the
men with the sword in years. up the spirit of Cyrus Levites, with all them
the house of their king of Persia, that he whose spirit God had
sanctuary, and had no
22
Now in the first year of made a proclamation raised, to go up to build
compassion upon young Cyrus king of Persia, that throughout all his the house of the LORD
man or maiden, old man, the word of the LORD kingdom, and put it also which is in Jerusalem.
or him that stooped for spoken by the mouth of in writing, saying, 2Thus 6
And all they that were
age: he gave them all Jeremiah might be saith Cyrus king of about them
into his hand. 18And all accomplished, the LORD Persia, The LORD God of strengthenedb their
the vessels of the house stirred up the spirit of heaven hath given me hands with vessels of
of God, great and small, Cyrus king of Persia, that all the kingdoms of the silver, with gold, with
and the treasures of the he made a proclamation earth; and he hath goods, and with beasts,
house of the LORD, and throughout all his charged me to build him and with precious
the treasures of the king, kingdom, and put it also an house at Jerusalem, things, beside all that
and of his princes; all in writing, saying, 23Thus which is in Judah. 3Who was willingly offered.
these he brought to saith Cyrus king of is there among you of all 7
Also Cyrus the king
Babylon. 19
And they Persia, All the kingdoms his people? his God be brought forth the
burnt the house of God, of the earth hath the with him, and let him go vessels of the house of
and brake down the wall LORD God of heaven up to Jerusalem, which is the LORD, which
of Jerusalem, and burnt given me; and he hath in Judah, and build the Nebuchadnezzar had
all the palaces thereof charged me to build him house of the LORD God brought forth out of
with fire, and destroyed an house in Jerusalem, of Israel, (he is the God,) Jerusalem, and had put
all the goodly vessels which is in Judah. Who is which is in Jerusalem. them in the house of his
thereof. 20And them that there among you of all 4
And whosoever gods; 8Even those did
had escaped from the his people? The LORD his remaineth in any place Cyrus king of Persia
sword carried he away to God be with him, and let where he sojourneth, let bring forth by the hand
Babylon; where they him go up. the men of his place of Mithredath the
were servants to him helpa him with silver, and treasurer, and
and his sons until the Ezra with gold, and with numbered them unto
reign of the kingdom of goods, and with beasts, Sheshbazzar, the prince
Persia: 21
To fulfil the Chapter 1 beside the freewill of Judah. 9And this is
word of the LORD by the offering for the house of the number of them:
mouth of Jeremiah, until Now in the first year
1
God that is in Jerusalem. thirty chargers of gold,
the land had enjoyed her of Cyrus king of Persia, 5
Then rose up the b
sabbaths: for as long as that the word of the strengthened...: that is,
a
help...: Heb. lift him up helped them
a thousand chargers of Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, thousand fifty and six. and Ai, two hundred
silver, nine and twenty Rehum, Baanah. The 15
The children of Adin, twenty and three. 29The
knives, 10Thirty basons of number of the men of four hundred fifty and children of Nebo, fifty
gold, silver basons of a the people of Israel: four. 16The children of and two. 30The children
second sort four hundred 3
The children of Parosh, Ater of Hezekiah, ninety of Magbish, an hundred
and ten, and other two thousand an and eight. 17The children fifty and six. 31The
vessels a thousand. 11All hundred seventy and of Bezai, three hundred children of the other
the vessels of gold and two. 4The children of twenty and three. 18The Elam, a thousand two
of silver were five Shephatiah, three children of Jorahc, an hundred fifty and four.
thousand and four hundred seventy and hundred and twelve. 32
The children of Harim,
hundred. All these did two. 5The children of 19
The children of three hundred and
Sheshbazzar bring up Arah, seven hundred Hashum, two hundred twenty. 33
The children
with them of the seventy and five. 6The twenty and three. 20The of Lod, Hadidf, and Ono,
captivity c
that were children of Pahathmoab, children of Gibbard, seven hundred twenty
brought up from Babylon of the children of Jeshua ninety and five. 21The and five. 34The children
unto Jerusalem. and Joab, two thousand children of Bethlehem, of Jericho, three
eight hundred and an hundred twenty and hundred forty and five.
Chapter 2 twelve. The children of
7
three. 22The men of 35
The children of
Elam, a thousand two Netophah, fifty and six. Senaah, three thousand
Now these are the
1
hundred fifty and four. 23
The men of Anathoth, and six hundred and
children of the province 8
The children of Zattu, an hundred twenty and thirty.
that went up out of the nine hundred forty and eight. 24The children of 36
The priests: the
captivity, of those which five. 9The children of Azmavethe, forty and children of Jedaiah, of
had been carried away, Zaccai, seven hundred two. 25
The children of the house of Jeshua,
whom Nebuchadnezzar and threescore. 10The Kirjatharim, Chephirah, nine hundred seventy
the king of Babylon had children of Banib, six and Beeroth, seven and three. 37
The
carried away unto hundred forty and two. hundred and forty and children of Immer, a
Babylon, and came again 11
The children of Bebai, three. 26The children of thousand fifty and two.
unto Jerusalem and six hundred twenty and Ramah and Gaba, six 38
The children of
Judah, every one unto three. 12The children of hundred twenty and one. Pashur, a thousand two
his city; 2Which came Azgad, a thousand two 27
The men of Michmas, hundred forty and
with Zerubbabel: Jeshua, hundred twenty and two. an hundred twenty and seven. The children of
39

Nehemiah, Seraiaha, 13
The children of two. 28The men of Bethel Harim, a thousand and
Reelaiah, Mordecai, Adonikam, six hundred seventeen. 40
The
c
sixty and six. 14The Jorah: also called, Hariph Levites: the children of
c d
the captivity: Heb. the children of Bigvai, two Gibbar: also called, Gibeon
e f
transportation Azmaveth: also called, Hadid: or, Harid, as it is in
a b
Seraiah: also called, Azariah Bani: also called, Binnui Bethazmaveth some copies
Jeshua and Kadmiel, of Gazzam, 49The children children of Solomon’s not eat of the most holy
the children of of Uzza, the children of servants, were three things, till there stood
Hodaviahg, seventy and Paseah, the children of hundred ninety and two. up a priest with Urim
four. 41The singers: the Besai, 50The children of 59
And these were they and with Thummim.
children of Asaph, an Asnah, the children of which went up from 64
The whole
hundred twenty and Mehunim, the children of Telmelah, Telharsa, congregation together
eight. 42The children of Nephusimj, 51
The Cherub, Addann, and was forty and two
the porters: the children children of Bakbuk, the Immer: but they could thousand three hundred
of Shallum, the children children of Hakupha, the not shew their father’s and threescore,
of Ater, the children of children of Harhur, 52The house, and their seed, 65
Beside their servants
Talmon, the children of children of Bazluthk, the whether they were of and their maids, of
Akkub, the children of children of Mehida, the Israel: 60The children of whom there were seven
Hatita, the children of children of Harsha, 53The Delaiah, the children of thousand three hundred
Shobai, in all an hundred children of Barkos, the Tobiah, the children of thirty and seven: and
thirty and nine. 43The children of Sisera, the Nekoda, six hundred fifty there were among them
Nethinims: the children children of Thamah, and two. 61And of the two hundred singing
of Ziha, the children of 54
The children of Neziah, children of the priests: men and singing
Hasupha, the children of the children of Hatipha. the children of Habaiah, women. 66
Their horses
Tabbaoth, 44The children 55
The children of the children of Koz, the were seven hundred
of Keros, the children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Barzillai; thirty and six; their
Siahah, the children of children of Sotai, the which took a wife of the mules, two hundred
Padon, 45The children of children of Sophereth, daughters of Barzillai the forty and five; 67Their
Lebanah, the children of the children of Perudal, Gileadite, and was called camels, four hundred
Hagabah, the children of 56
The children of Jaalah, after their name: 62These thirty and five; their
Akkub, 46The children of the children of Darkon, sought their register asses, six thousand
Hagab, the children of the children of Giddel, among those that were seven hundred and
Shalmaii, the children of 57
The children of reckoned by genealogy, twenty. 68And some of
Hanan, 47The children of Shephatiah, the children but they were not found: the chief of the fathers,
Giddel, the children of of Hattil, the children of therefore were they, as when they came to the
Gahar, the children of Pochereth of Zebaim, the pollutedo, put from the house of the LORD
Reaiah, 48The children of children of Amim. 58All priesthood. 63
And the which is at Jerusalem,
Rezin, the children of the Nethinims, and the Tirshatha p
said unto offered freely for the
Nekoda, the children of j
them, that they should house of God to set it
Nephusim: also called, up in his place: 69They
g n
Hodaviah: also called, Judah Nephishesim Addan: also called, Addon gave after their ability
k o
or Hodevah Bazluth: also called, Bazlith were they...: Heb. they were unto the treasure of the
h l
Siaha: also called, Sia Peruda: also called, Perida polluted from the priesthood work threescore and
i m p
Shalmai: also called, Shamlai Ami: also called, Amon Tirshatha: or, governor
one thousand drams of was upon them because carpentersd; and meat, sons of Henadad, with
gold, and five thousand of the people of those and drink, and oil, unto their sons and their
pound of silver, and one countries: and they them of Zidon, and to brethren the Levites.
hundred priests’ offered burnt offerings them of Tyre, to bring 10
And when the builders
garments. 70
So the thereon unto the LORD, cedar trees from laid the foundation of
priests, and the Levites, even burnt offerings Lebanon to the sea of the temple of the LORD,
and some of the people, morning and evening. Joppa, according to the they set the priests in
and the singers, and the 4
They kept also the feast grant that they had of their apparel with
porters, and the of tabernacles, as it is Cyrus king of Persia. trumpets, and the
Nethinims, dwelt in their written, and offered the 8
Now in the second Levites the sons of
cities, and all Israel in daily burnt offerings by year of their coming Asaph with cymbals, to
their cities. number, according to the unto the house of God at praise the LORD, after
custom, as the dutyb of Jerusalem, in the second the ordinance of David
Chapter 3 every day required; month, began king of Israel. 11And
5
And afterward offered Zerubbabel the son of they sang together by
And
1
when the the continual burnt Shealtiel, and Jeshua the course in praising and
seventh month was offering, both of the new son of Jozadak, and the giving thanks unto the
come, and the children moons, and of all the set remnant of their LORD; because he is
of Israel were in the feasts of the LORD that brethren the priests and good, for his mercy
cities, the people were consecrated, and of the Levites, and all they endureth for ever
gathered themselves every one that willingly that were come out of toward Israel. And all
together as one man to offered a freewill offering the captivity unto the people shouted with
Jerusalem. 2Then stood unto the LORD. 6From Jerusalem; and a great shout, when
up Jeshuaa the son of the first day of the appointed the Levites, they praised the LORD,
Jozadak, and his seventh month began from twenty years old because the foundation
brethren the priests, and they to offer burnt and upward, to set of the house of the
Zerubbabel the son of offerings unto the LORD. forward the work of the LORD was laid. 12But
Shealtiel, and his But the foundationc of house of the LORD. many of the priests and
brethren, and builded the temple of the LORD 9
Then stood Jeshua with Levites and chief of the
the altar of the God of was not yet laid. 7They his sons and his fathers, who were
Israel, to offer burnt gave money also unto brethren, Kadmiel and ancient men, that had
offerings thereon, as it is the masons, and to the his sons, the sons of seen the first house,
written in the law of Judahe, together, to set when the foundation of
b
Moses the man of God. as the duty...: Heb. the matter forward the workmen in this house was laid
3
And they set the altar of the day in his day the house of God: the before their eyes, wept
c
upon his bases; for fear the foundation...: Heb. the with a loud voice; and
d
temple of the LORD was not carpenters: or, workmen many shouted aloud for
a e
Jeshua: also called, Joshua yet founded Judah: also called, Hodaviah
joy: 13So that the people God; but we ourselves the scribed wrote a letter are come unto
could not discern the together will build unto against Jerusalem to Jerusalem, building the
noise of the shout of joy the LORD God of Israel, Artaxerxes the king in rebellious and the bad
from the noise of the as king Cyrus the king of this sort: 9Then wrote city, and have set upf
weeping of the people: Persia hath commanded Rehum the chancellor, the walls thereof, and
for the people shouted us. 4Then the people of and Shimshai the scribe, joined the foundations.
with a loud shout, and the land weakened the and the rest of their 13
Be it known now unto
the noise was heard afar hands of the people of companionse; the the king, that, if this
off. Judah, and troubled Dinaites, the city be builded, and the
them in building, 5And Apharsathchites, the walls set up again, then
Chapter 4 hired counsellors against Tarpelites, the will they not payg toll,
them, to frustrate their Apharsites, the tribute, and custom,
Now
1
when the purpose, all the days of Archevites, the and so thou shalt
adversaries of Judah and Cyrus king of Persia, Babylonians, the endamage the revenue
Benjamin heard that the even until the reign of Susanchites, the of the kings. 14
Now
childrena of the captivity Darius king of Persia. Dehavites, and the because we haveh
builded the temple unto 6
And in the reign of Elamites, 10And the rest maintenance from the
the LORD God of Israel; Ahasuerusb, in the of the nations whom the king’s palace, and it
2
Then they came to beginning of his reign, great and noble was not meet for us to
Zerubbabel, and to the wrote they unto him an Asnappar brought over, see the king’s
chief of the fathers, and accusation against the and set in the cities of dishonour, therefore
said unto them, Let us inhabitants of Judah and Samaria, and the rest have we sent and
build with you: for we Jerusalem. 7And in the that are on this side the certified the king;
seek your God, as ye do; days of Artaxerxes wrote river, and at such a time. 15
That search may be
and we do sacrifice unto Bishlamc, Mithredath, 11
This is the copy of the made in the book of the
him since the days of Tabeel, and the rest of letter that they sent unto records of thy fathers:
Esarhaddon king of their companions, unto him, even unto so shalt thou find in the
Assur, which brought us Artaxerxes king of Artaxerxes the king; Thy book of the records,
up hither. 3
But Persia; and the writing of servants the men on this and know that this city
Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, the letter was written in side the river, and at is a rebellious city, and
and the rest of the chief the Syrian tongue, and such a time. 12Be it hurtful unto kings and
of the fathers of Israel, interpreted in the Syrian known unto the king, provinces, and that
said unto them, Ye have tongue. 8
Rehum the that the Jews which f
nothing to do with us to chancellor and Shimshai came up from thee to us set up: or, finished
g
build an house unto our pay: Chaldee, give
d h
scribe: or, secretary we have...: Chaldee, we are
a b e
the children...: Heb. the sons Ahasuerus: Heb. Ahashverosh companions: Chaldee, salted with the salt of the
c
of the transportation Bishlam: or, in peace societies palace
they have movedi mighty kings also over Chapter 5 them to cease, till the
sedition within the same Jerusalem, which have matter came to Darius:
of old time: for which ruled over all countries Then the prophets,
1
and then they returned
cause was this city beyond the river; and Haggai the prophet, and answer by letter
destroyed. 16We certify toll, tribute, and custom, Zechariah the son of concerning this matter.
the king that, if this city was paid unto them. Iddo, prophesied unto 6
The copy of the letter
be builded again, and 21
Givel ye now the Jews that were in that Tatnai, governor
the walls thereof set up, commandment to cause Judah and Jerusalem in on this side the river,
by this means thou shalt these men to cease, and the name of the God of and Shetharboznai, and
have no portion on this that this city be not Israel, even unto them. his companions the
side the river. builded, until another 2
Then rose up Apharsachites, which
17
Then sent the king commandment shall be Zerubbabel the son of were on this side the
an answer unto Rehum given from me. 22Take Shealtiel, and Jeshua the river, sent unto Darius
the chancellor, and to heed now that ye fail not son of Jozadak, and the king: 7They sent a
Shimshai the scribe, and to do this: why should began to build the house letter unto him,
to the rest of their damage grow to the hurt of God which is at wherein b
was written
companionsj that dwell in of the kings? 23Now when Jerusalem: and with thus; Unto Darius the
Samaria, and unto the the copy of king them were the prophets king, all peace. 8Be it
rest beyond the river, Artaxerxes’ letter was of God helping them. known unto the king,
Peace, and at such a read before Rehum, and 3
At the same time that we went into the
time. 18The letter which Shimshai the scribe, and came to them Tatnai, province of Judea, to
ye sent unto us hath their companions, they governor on this side the the house of the great
been plainly read before went up in haste to river, and Shetharboznai, God, which is builded
me. 19And I commandedk, Jerusalem unto the Jews, and their companions, with greatc stones, and
and search hath been and made them to cease and said thus unto them, timber is laid in the
made, and it is found by forcem and power. Who hath commanded walls, and this work
that this city of old time 24
Then ceased the work you to build this house, goeth fast on, and
hath made insurrection of the house of God and to make up this prospereth in their
against kings, and that which is at Jerusalem. So wall? 4Then said we unto hands. 9Then asked we
rebellion and sedition it ceased unto the them after this manner, those elders, and said
have been made therein. second year of the reign What are the names of unto them thus, Who
20
There have been of Darius king of Persia. the men that makea this commanded you to
i
building? 5But the eye of build this house, and to
moved: Chaldee, made their God was upon the
j l b
companions: Chaldee, Give...: Chaldee, Make a elders of the Jews, that wherein: Chaldee, in the
societies decree they could not cause midst whereof
k m c
I commanded: Chaldee, by me by force...: Chaldee, by arm great...: Chaldee, stones of
a
a decree is set and power make: Chaldee, build rolling
make up these walls? brought them into the concerning this matter. the king’s house: 5And
10
We asked their names temple of Babylon, those also let the golden and
also, to certify thee, that did Cyrus the king take Chapter 6 silver vessels of the
we might write the out of the temple of house of God, which
names of the men that Babylon, and they were Then Darius the king
1
Nebuchadnezzar took
were the chief of them. delivered unto one, made a decree, and forth out of the temple
11
And thus they returned whose name was search was made in the which is at Jerusalem,
us answer, saying, We Sheshbazzar, whom he house of the rollsa, and brought unto
are the servants of the had made governord; where the treasures Babylon, be restored,
God of heaven and 15
And said unto him, were laid up in Babylon. and brought againc unto
earth, and build the Take these vessels, go,
2
And there was found at the temple which is at
house that was builded carry them into the Achmethab, in the palace Jerusalem, every one to
these many years ago, temple that is in that is in the province of his place, and place
which a great king of Jerusalem, and let the the Medes, a roll, and them in the house of
Israel builded and set up. house of God be builded therein was a record God. 6
Now therefore,
12
But after that our in his place. 16Then came thus written: 3In the first Tatnai, governor
fathers had provoked the the same Sheshbazzar, year of Cyrus the king beyond the river,
God of heaven unto and laid the foundation the same Cyrus the king Shetharboznai, and
wrath, he gave them into of the house of God made a decree your companions the
the hand of which is in Jerusalem: concerning the house of Apharsachites, which
Nebuchadnezzar the and since that time even God at Jerusalem, Let are beyond the river, be
king of Babylon, the until now hath it been in the house be builded, ye far from thence:
Chaldean, who building, and yet it is not the place where they 7
Let the work of this
destroyed this house, finished. 17
Now offered sacrifices, and let house of God alone; let
and carried the people therefore, if it seem the foundations thereof the governor of the
away into Babylon. 13But good to the king, let be strongly laid; the Jews and the elders of
in the first year of Cyrus there be search made in height thereof the Jews build this
the king of Babylon the the king’s treasure threescore cubits, and house of God in his
same king Cyrus made a house, which is there at the breadth thereof place. 8
Moreover I
decree to build this Babylon, whether it be threescore cubits; 4With make a decree what ye
d

house of God. 14And the so, that a decree was three rows of great shall do to the elders of
vessels also of gold and made of Cyrus the king stones, and a row of new these Jews for the
silver of the house of to build this house of timber: and let the building of this house of
God, which God at Jerusalem, and let expenses be given out of God: that of the king’s
Nebuchadnezzar took the king send his a c
out of the temple that pleasure to us rolls: Chaldee, books brought again: Chaldee, go
b d
was in Jerusalem, and Achmetha: or, Ecbatana, or, in I make...: Chaldee, by me a
d
governor: or, deputy a coffer decree is made
goods, even of the and to destroy this children of the captivity, from the filthiness of
tribute beyond the river, house of God which is at kept the dedication of the heathen of the land,
forthwith expenses be Jerusalem. I Darius have this house of God with to seek the LORD God
given unto these men, made a decree; let it be joy, 17And offered at the of Israel, did eat, 22And
that they be not done with speed. dedication of this house kept the feast of
hindered. 9
And that 13
Then Tatnai, of God an hundred unleavened bread
which they have need of, governor on this side the bullocks, two hundred seven days with joy: for
both young bullocks, and river, Shetharboznai, and rams, four hundred the LORD had made
rams, and lambs, for the their companions, lambs; and for a sin them joyful, and turned
burnt offerings of the according to that which offering for all Israel, the heart of the king of
God of heaven, wheat, Darius the king had sent, twelve he goats, Assyria unto them, to
salt, wine, and oil, so they did speedily. according to the number strengthen their hands
according to the 14
And the elders of the of the tribes of Israel. in the work of the house
appointment of the Jews builded, and they 18
And they set the priests of God, the God of
priests which are at prospered through the in their divisions, and the Israel.
Jerusalem, let it be given prophesying of Haggai Levites in their courses,
them day by day without the prophet and for the service of God, Chapter 7
fail: 10That they may Zechariah the son of which is at Jerusalem; as
offer sacrifices of sweet Iddo. And they builded, it is written in the book
1
Now after these
savours unto the God of and finished it, according of Moses. 19
And the things, in the reign of
heaven, and pray for the to the commandment of children of the captivity Artaxerxes king of
life of the king, and of the God of Israel, and kept the passover upon Persia, Ezra the son of
his sons. 11Also I have according to the the fourteenth day of the Seraiah, the son of
made a decree, that commandment of Cyrus,
e
first month. 20For the Azariah, the son of
whosoever shall alter and Darius, and priests and the Levites Hilkiah, 2The son of
this word, let timber be Artaxerxes king of were purified together, Shallum, the son of
pulled down from his Persia. 15And this house all of them were pure, Zadok, the son of
house, and being set up, was finished on the third and killed the passover Ahitub, 3The son of
let him be hanged day of the month Adar, for all the children of the Amariah, the son of
thereon; and let his which was in the sixth captivity, and for their Azariah, the son of
house be made a year of the reign of brethren the priests, and Meraioth, 4The son of
dunghill for this. 12
And Darius the king. 16And for themselves. 21And the Zerahiah, the son of
the God that hath the children of Israel, the children of Israel, which Uzzi, the son of Bukki,
caused his name to dwell priests, and the Levites, were come again out of
5
The son of Abishua, the
there destroy all kings and the rest of the captivity, and all such as son of Phinehas, the
and people, that shall had separated son of Eleazar, the son
e
put to their hand to alter commandment: Chaldee, themselves unto them of Aaron the chief
decree
priest: 6This Ezra went to teach in Israel offered unto the God of the king’s treasure
up from Babylon; and he statutes and judgments. Israel, whose habitation house. And I, even I
21

was a ready scribe in the 11


Now this is the copy is in Jerusalem, 16And all Artaxerxes the king, do
law of Moses, which the of the letter that the king the silver and gold that make a decree to all
LORD God of Israel had Artaxerxes gave unto thou canst find in all the the treasurers which
given: and the king Ezra the priest, the province of Babylon, with are beyond the river,
granted him all his scribe, even a scribe of the freewill offering of that whatsoever Ezra
request, according to the the words of the the people, and of the the priest, the scribe of
hand of the LORD his commandments of the priests, offering willingly the law of the God of
God upon him. 7And LORD, and of his for the house of their heaven, shall require of
there went up some of statutes to Israel. God which is in you, it be done
the children of Israel, 12
Artaxerxes, king of Jerusalem: 17
That thou speedily, 22
Unto an
and of the priests, and kings, unto Ezra the mayest buy speedily hundred talents of
the Levites, and the priest, a scribe of the law with this money bullocks, silver, and to an
singers, and the porters, of the God of heaven, rams, lambs, with their hundred measuresc of
and the Nethinims, unto perfect peace, and at meat offerings and their wheat, and to an
Jerusalem, in the such a time. 13I make a drink offerings, and offer hundred baths of wine,
seventh year of decree, that all they of them upon the altar of and to an hundred
Artaxerxes the king. the people of Israel, and the house of your God baths of oil, and salt
8
And he came to of his priests and which is in Jerusalem. without prescribing how
Jerusalem in the fifth Levites, in my realm, 18
And whatsoever shall much. 23Whatsoeverd is
month, which was in the which are minded of seem good to thee, and commanded by the God
seventh year of the king. their own freewill to go to thy brethren, to do of heaven, let it be
9
For upon the first day of up to Jerusalem, go with with the rest of the silver diligently done for the
the first month begana thee. 14Forasmuch as and the gold, that do house of the God of
he to go up from thou art sent of the after the will of your heaven: for why should
Babylon, and on the first kingb, and of his seven God. 19The vessels also there be wrath against
day of the fifth month counsellors, to enquire that are given thee for the realm of the king
came he to Jerusalem, concerning Judah and the service of the house and his sons? 24Also we
according to the good Jerusalem, according to of thy God, those deliver certify you, that
hand of his God upon the law of thy God which thou before the God of touching any of the
him. 10
For Ezra had is in thine hand; 15And to Jerusalem. 20
And priests and Levites,
prepared his heart to carry the silver and gold, whatsoever more shall singers, porters,
seek the law of the which the king and his be needful for the house Nethinims, or ministers
LORD, and to do it, and counsellors have freely of thy God, which thou c
shalt have occasion to measures: Chaldee, cors
a b d
began...: Heb. was the of the king: Chaldee, from bestow, bestow it out of Whatsoever...: Chaldee,
foundation of the going up before the king Whatsoever is of the decree
of this house of God, it mighty princes. And I fifty males. 7And of the seventy males. 15And I
shall not be lawful to was strengthened as the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah gathered them together
impose toll, tribute, or hand of the LORD my the son of Athaliah, and to the river that
custom, upon them. God was upon me, and I with him seventy males. runneth to Ahava; and
25
And thou, Ezra, after gathered together out of 8
And of the sons of there abode we in tents
the wisdom of thy God, Israel chief men to go up Shephatiah; Zebadiah three days: and I
that is in thine hand, set with me. the son of Michael, and viewed the people, and
magistrates and judges, with him fourscore the priests, and found
which may judge all the Chapter 8 males. 9Of the sons of there none of the sons
people that are beyond Joab; Obadiah the son of of Levi. 16Then sent I
the river, all such as
1
These are now the Jehiel, and with him two for Eliezer, for Ariel, for
know the laws of thy chief of their fathers, and hundred and eighteen Shemaiah, and for
God; and teach ye them this is the genealogy of males. 10And of the sons Elnathan, and for Jarib,
that know them not. them that went up with of Shelomith; the son of and for Elnathan, and
26
And whosoever will not me from Babylon, in the Josiphiah, and with him for Nathan, and for
do the law of thy God, reign of Artaxerxes the an hundred and Zechariah, and for
and the law of the king, king. 2Of the sons of threescore males. 11And Meshullam, chief men;
let judgment be Phinehas; Gershom: of of the sons of Bebai; also for Joiarib, and for
executed speedily upon the sons of Ithamar; Zechariah the son of Elnathan, men of
him, whether it be unto Daniel: of the sons of Bebai, and with him understanding. 17
And I
death, or to David; Hattush. 3Of the twenty and eight males. sent them with
banishment , e
or to sons of Shechaniah, of 12
And of the sonsa of commandment unto
confiscation of goods, or the sons of Pharosh; Azgad; Johanan the son Iddo the chief at the
to imprisonment. Zechariah: and with him of Hakkatan, and with place Casiphia, and I
27
Blessed be the were reckoned by him an hundred and ten toldc them what they
LORD God of our fathers, genealogy of the males males. 13And of the last should say unto Iddo,
which hath put such a an hundred and fifty. 4Of sons of Adonikam, whose and to his brethren the
thing as this in the king’s the sons of Pahathmoab; names are these, Nethinims, at the place
heart, to beautify the Elihoenai the son of Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Casiphia, that they
house of the LORD which Zerahiah, and with him Shemaiah, and with should bring unto us
is in Jerusalem: 28And two hundred males. 5Of them threescore males. ministers for the house
hath extended mercy the sons of Shechaniah; 14
Of the sons also of of our God. 18And by
unto me before the king, the son of Jahaziel, and Bigvai; Uthai, and the good hand of our
and his counsellors, and with him three hundred Zabbud , and with them
b
God upon us they
before all the king’s males. 6Of the sons also brought us a man of
a
of Adin; Ebed the son of the son...: or, the youngest son
e b c
to banishment: Chaldee, to Jonathan, and with him Zabbud: or, Zaccur, as some I told...: Heb. I put words in
rooting out read their mouth
understanding, of the against all them that offering unto the LORD son of Phinehas; and
sons of Mahli, the son of forsake him. 23So we God of your fathers. with them was Jozabad
Levi, the son of Israel; fasted and besought our 29
Watch ye, and keep the son of Jeshua, and
and Sherebiah, with his God for this: and he was them, until ye weigh Noadiah the son of
sons and his brethren, intreated of us. them before the chief of Binnui, Levites; 34By
eighteen; 19
And 24
Then I separated the priests and the number and by weight
Hashabiah, and with him twelve of the chief of the Levites, and chief of the of every one: and all
Jeshaiah of the sons of priests, Sherebiah, fathers of Israel, at the weight was written
Merari, his brethren and Hashabiah, and ten of Jerusalem, in the at that time. 35Also the
their sons, twenty; 20Also their brethren with them, chambers of the house children of those that
of the Nethinims, whom 25
And weighed unto of the LORD. 30So took had been carried away,
David and the princes them the silver, and the the priests and the which were come out of
had appointed for the gold, and the vessels, Levites the weight of the the captivity, offered
service of the Levites, even the offering of the silver, and the gold, and burnt offerings unto the
two hundred and twenty house of our God, which the vessels, to bring God of Israel, twelve
Nethinims: all of them the king, and his them to Jerusalem unto bullocks for all Israel,
were expressed by counsellors, and his the house of our God. ninety and six rams,
name. lords, and all Israel there 31
Then we departed seventy and seven
21
Then I proclaimed a present, had offered: 26I from the river of Ahava lambs, twelve he goats
fast there, at the river of even weighed unto their on the twelfth day of the for a sin offering: all
Ahava, that we might hand six hundred and first month, to go unto this was a burnt
afflict ourselves before fifty talents of silver, and Jerusalem: and the hand offering unto the LORD.
our God, to seek of him a silver vessels an of our God was upon us, 36
And they delivered the
right way for us, and for hundred talents, and of and he delivered us from king’s commissions
our little ones, and for all gold an hundred talents; the hand of the enemy, unto the king’s
our substance. 22For I 27
Also twenty basons of and of such as lay in wait lieutenants, and to the
was ashamed to require gold, of a thousand by the way. 32And we governors on this side
of the king a band of drams; and two vessels came to Jerusalem, and the river: and they
soldiers and horsemen to of fined copper, precious abode there three days. furthered the people,
help us against the as gold. 28
And I said 33
Now on the fourth day and the house of God.
enemy in the way: unto them, Ye are holy was the silver and the
because we had spoken unto the LORD; the gold and the vessels Chapter 9
unto the king, saying, vessels are holy also; weighed in the house of
The hand of our God is and the silver and the our God by the hand of
1
Now when these
upon all them for good gold are a freewill Meremoth the son of things were done, the
that seek him; but his Uriah the priest; and princes came to me,
d
power and his wrath is fine...: Heb. yellow, or, with him was Eleazar the saying, The people of
shining brass
Israel, and the priests, sacrifice. nail in his holy place, their daughters unto
and the Levites, have 5
And at the evening that our God may lighten your sons, nor seek
not separated sacrifice I arose up from our eyes, and give us a their peace or their
themselves from the my heavinessa; and little reviving in our wealth for ever: that ye
people of the lands, having rent my garment bondage. 9For we were may be strong, and eat
doing according to their and my mantle, I fell bondmen; yet our God the good of the land,
abominations, even of upon my knees, and hath not forsaken us in and leave it for an
the Canaanites, the spread out my hands our bondage, but hath inheritance to your
Hittites, the Perizzites, unto the LORD my God, extended mercy unto us children for ever. 13And
the Jebusites, the 6
And said, O my God, I in the sight of the kings after all that is come
Ammonites, the am ashamed and blush of Persia, to give us a upon us for our evil
Moabites, the Egyptians, to lift up my face to reviving, to set up the deeds, and for our great
and the Amorites. 2For thee, my God: for our house of our God, and to trespass, seeing that
they have taken of their iniquities are increased repaird the desolations thou our God hast
daughters for over our head, and our thereof, and to give us a punishedf us less than
themselves, and for their trespassb is grown up wall in Judah and in our iniquities deserve,
sons: so that the holy unto the heavens. Jerusalem. 10And now, O and hast given us such
seed have mingled 7
Since the days of our our God, what shall we deliverance as this;
themselves with the fathers have we been in say after this? for we 14
Should we again break
people of those lands: a great trespass unto have forsaken thy thy commandments,
yea, the hand of the this day; and for our commandments, 11Which and join in affinity with
princes and rulers hath iniquities have we, our thou hast commanded the people of these
been chief in this kings, and our priests, bye thy servants the abominations? wouldest
trespass. And when I
3
been delivered into the prophets, saying, The not thou be angry with
heard this thing, I rent hand of the kings of the land, unto which ye go to us till thou hadst
my garment and my lands, to the sword, to possess it, is an unclean consumed us, so that
mantle, and plucked off captivity, and to a spoil, land with the filthiness of there should be no
the hair of my head and and to confusion of face, the people of the lands, remnant nor escaping?
of my beard, and sat as it is this day. 8And with their abominations, 15
O LORD God of Israel,
down astonied. 4Then now for a little spacec which have filled it from thou art righteous: for
were assembled unto me grace hath been shewed one end to another with we remain yet escaped,
every one that trembled from the LORD our God, their uncleanness. as it is this day: behold,
at the words of the God to leave us a remnant to 12
Now therefore give not we are before thee in
of Israel, because of the escape, and to give us a your daughters unto our trespasses: for we
transgression of those a
their sons, neither take f
that had been carried heaviness: or, affliction hast punished...: Heb. hast
b d
away; and I sat astonied trespass: or, guiltiness to repair: Heb. to set up withheld beneath our
c e
until the evening space: Heb. moment by: Heb. by the hand of iniquities
cannot stand before thee God; and let it be done substance should be voice, As thou hast
because of this. according to the law. forfeited , and himself
b
said, so must we do.
4
Arise; for this matter separated from the 13
But the people are
Chapter 10 belongeth unto thee: we congregation of those many, and it is a time
also will be with thee: be that had been carried of much rain, and we
Now when Ezra had
1
of good courage, and do away. 9Then all the men are not able to stand
prayed, and when he it. 5Then arose Ezra, and of Judah and Benjamin without, neither is this a
had confessed, weeping made the chief priests, gathered themselves work of one day or two:
and casting himself the Levites, and all together unto Jerusalem for we are manyd that
down before the house Israel, to swear that they within three days. It was have transgressed in
of God, there assembled should do according to the ninth month, on the this thing. 14
Let now
unto him out of Israel a this word. And they twentieth day of the our rulers of all the
very great congregation sware. month; and all the congregation stand,
of men and women and 6
Then Ezra rose up people sat in the street and let all them which
children: for the people from before the house of of the house of God, have taken strange
wepta very sore. 2And God, and went into the trembling because of wives in our cities come
Shechaniah the son of chamber of Johanan the this matter, and for the at appointed times, and
Jehiel, one of the sons of son of Eliashib: and great rain. 10And Ezra with them the elders of
Elam, answered and said when he came thither, the priest stood up, and every city, and the
unto Ezra, We have he did eat no bread, nor said unto them, Ye have judges thereof, until the
trespassed against our drink water: for he transgressed, and have fierce wrath of our God
God, and have taken mourned because of the takenc strange wives, to for this matter be
strange wives of the transgression of them increase the trespass of turned from us.
people of the land: yet that had been carried Israel. 11Now therefore
now there is hope in away. 7And they made make confession unto
15
Only Jonathan the son
Israel concerning this proclamation throughout the LORD God of your of Asahel and Jahaziah
thing. 3Now therefore let Judah and Jerusalem fathers, and do his the son of Tikvah were
us make a covenant with unto all the children of pleasure: and separate employed about this
our God to put away all the captivity, that they yourselves from the matter: and Meshullam
the wives, and such as should gather people of the land, and and Shabbethai the
are born of them, themselves together from the strange wives. Levite helped them.
according to the counsel unto Jerusalem; 8And 12
Then all the
16
And the children of
of my lord, and of those that whosoever would congregation answered the captivity did so. And
that tremble at the not come within three and said with a loud Ezra the priest, with
commandment of our days, according to the certain chief of the
b
counsel of the princes forfeited: Heb. devoted
a c d
wept...: Heb. wept a great and the elders, all his have taken: Heb. have caused we are many...: or, we have
weeping to dwell, or, have brought back greatly offended in this thing
fathers, after the house Jozabad, and Shimei, and Shimeon, 32Benjamin, Nehemiah the son of
of their fathers, and all Kelaiah, (the same is Malluch, and Shemariah. Hachaliah. And it came
of them by their names, Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, 33
Of the sons of Hashum; to pass in the month
were separated, and sat and Eliezer. 24Of the Mattenai, Mattathah, Chisleu, in the
down in the first day of singers also; Eliashib: Zabad, Eliphelet, twentieth year, as I was
the tenth month to and of the porters; Jeremai, Manasseh, and in Shushan the palace,
examine the matter. Shallum, and Telem, and Shimei. 34Of the sons of 2
That Hanani, one of my
17
And they made an end Uri. 25Moreover of Israel: Bani; Maadai, Amram, brethren, came, he and
with all the men that had of the sons of Parosh; and Uel, 35Benaiah, certain men of Judah;
taken strange wives by Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Bedeiah, Chelluh, and I asked them
the first day of the first Malchiah, and Miamin, 36
Vaniah, Meremoth, concerning the Jews
month. 18And among the and Eleazar, and Eliashib, 37Mattaniah, that had escaped,
sons of the priests there Malchijah, and Benaiah. Mattenai, and Jaasau, which were left of the
were found that had 26
And of the sons of 38
And Bani, and Binnui, captivity, and
taken strange wives: Elam; Mattaniah, Shimei, 39And Shelemiah, concerning Jerusalem.
namely, of the sons of Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Nathan, and Adaiah, 3
And they said unto me,
Jeshua the son of and Abdi, and Jeremoth, 40
Machnadebaie, Shashai, The remnant that are
Jozadak, and his and Eliah. 27And of the Sharai, 41Azareel, and left of the captivity
brethren; Maaseiah, and sons of Zattu; Elioenai, Shelemiah, Shemariah, there in the province
Eliezer, and Jarib, and Eliashib, Mattaniah, and 42
Shallum, Amariah, and are in great affliction
Gedaliah. 19And they Jeremoth, and Zabad, Joseph. 43Of the sons of and reproach: the wall
gave their hands that and Aziza. 28Of the sons Nebo; Jeiel, Mattithiah, of Jerusalem also is
they would put away also of Bebai; Jehohanan, Zabad, Zebina, Jadau, broken down, and the
their wives; and being Hananiah, Zabbai, and and Joel, Benaiah. 44All gates thereof are
guilty, they offered a Athlai. 29And of the sons these had taken strange burned with fire. 4And it
ram of the flock for their of Bani; Meshullam, wives: and some of them came to pass, when I
trespass. 20And of the Malluch, and Adaiah, had wives by whom they heard these words, that
sons of Immer; Hanani, Jashub, and Sheal, and had children. I sat down and wept,
and Zebadiah. 21And of Ramoth. 30And of the and mourned certain
the sons of Harim; sons of Pahathmoab; Nehemiah days, and fasted, and
Maaseiah, and Elijah, Adna, and Chelal, prayed before the God
and Shemaiah, and Benaiah, Maaseiah, Chapter 1 of heaven,
Jehiel, and Uzziah. 22And Mattaniah, Bezaleel, and 5
And said, I beseech
of the sons of Pashur; Binnui, and Manasseh. 1
The words of thee, O LORD God of
Elioenai, Maaseiah, 31
And of the sons of e
heaven, the great and
Ishmael, Nethaneel, Harim; Eliezer, Ishijah, Machnadebai: or, terrible God, that
Jozabad, and Elasah. Malchiah, Shemaiah, Mabnadebai, according to keepeth covenant and
23
Also of the Levites; some copies
mercy for them that love heaven, yet will I gather Why is thy countenance given me to the
him and observe his them from thence, and sad, seeing thou art not governors beyond the
commandments: 6
Let will bring them unto the sick? this is nothing else river, that they may
thine ear now be place that I have chosen but sorrow of heart. convey me over till I
attentive, and thine eyes to set my name there. Then I was very sore come into Judah; 8And a
open, that thou mayest 10
Now these are thy afraid, 3And said unto letter unto Asaph the
hear the prayer of thy servants and thy people, the king, Let the king keeper of the king’s
servant, which I pray whom thou hast live for ever: why should forest, that he may give
before thee now, day redeemed by thy great not my countenance be me timber to make
and night, for the power, and by thy strong sad, when the city, the beams for the gates of
children of Israel thy hand. 11O Lord, I beseech place of my fathers’ the palace which
servants, and confess thee, let now thine ear sepulchres, lieth waste, appertained to the
the sins of the children be attentive to the and the gates thereof house, and for the wall
of Israel, which we have prayer of thy servant, are consumed with fire? of the city, and for the
sinned against thee: and to the prayer of thy 4
Then the king said unto house that I shall enter
both I and my father’s servants, who desire to me, For what dost thou into. And the king
house have sinned. 7We fear thy name: and make request? So I granted me, according
have dealt very corruptly prosper, I pray thee, thy prayed to the God of to the good hand of my
against thee, and have servant this day, and heaven. 5And I said unto God upon me.
not kept the grant him mercy in the the king, If it please the 9
Then I came to the
commandments, nor the sight of this man. For I king, and if thy servant governors beyond the
statutes, nor the was the king’s have found favour in thy river, and gave them
judgments, which thou cupbearer. sight, that thou wouldest the king’s letters. Now
commandedst thy send me unto Judah, the king had sent
servant Moses. Chapter 2 unto the city of my captains of the army
8
Remember, I beseech fathers’ sepulchres, that and horsemen with me.
thee, the word that thou
1
And it came to pass I may build it. 6And the 10
When Sanballat the
commandedst thy in the month Nisan, in king said unto me, (the Horonite, and Tobiah
servant Moses, saying, If the twentieth year of queen also sitting by the servant, the
ye transgress, I will Artaxerxes the king, that him,) For how long shall Ammonite, heard of it,
scatter you abroad wine was before him: thy journey be? and it grieved them
among the nations: 9But and I took up the wine, when wilt thou return? exceedingly that there
if ye turn unto me, and and gave it unto the So it pleased the king to was come a man to
keep my king. Now I had not been send me; and I set him a seek the welfare of the
commandments, and do beforetime sad in his time. 7Moreover I said children of Israel. 11So I
them; though there were presence. 2
Wherefore unto the king, If it please came to Jerusalem, and
of you cast out unto the the king said unto me, the king, let letters be was there three days.
uttermost part of the
And I arose in the unto them, Ye see the Chapter 3 old gate repaired
12

night, I and some few distress that we are in, Jehoiada the son of
men with me; neither how Jerusalem lieth 1
Then Eliashib the Paseah, and Meshullam
told I any man what my waste, and the gates high priest rose up with the son of Besodeiah;
God had put in my heart thereof are burned with his brethren the priests, they laid the beams
to do at Jerusalem: fire: come, and let us and they builded the thereof, and set up the
neither was there any build up the wall of sheep gate; they doors thereof, and the
beast with me, save the Jerusalem, that we be no sanctified it, and set up locks thereof, and the
beast that I rode upon. more a reproach. 18Then the doors of it; even unto bars thereof. 7And next
13
And I went out by night I told them of the hand the tower of Meah they unto them repaired
by the gate of the valley, of my God which was sanctified it, unto the Melatiah the Gibeonite,
even before the dragon good upon me; as also tower of Hananeel. 2And and Jadon the
well, and to the dung the king’s words that he next unto him builded Meronothite, the men of
port, and viewed the had spoken unto me. the men of Jericho. And Gibeon, and of Mizpah,
walls of Jerusalem, which And they said, Let us rise next to them builded unto the throne of the
were broken down, and up and build. So they Zaccur the son of Imri. governor on this side
the gates thereof were strengthened their hands 3
But the fish gate did the the river. 8Next unto
consumed with fire. for this good work. 19But sons of Hassenaah build, him repaired Uzziel the
14
Then I went on to the when Sanballat the who also laid the beams son of Harhaiah, of the
gate of the fountain, and Horonite, and Tobiah the thereof, and set up the goldsmiths. Next unto
to the king’s pool: but servant, the Ammonite, doors thereof, the locks him also repaired
there was no place for and Geshem the thereof, and the bars Hananiah the son of
the beast that was under Arabian, heard it, they thereof. 4And next unto one of the
me to pass. 15Then went laughed us to scorn, and them repaired Meremoth apothecaries, and they
I up in the night by the despised us, and said, the son of Urijah, the son fortifieda Jerusalem unto
brook, and viewed the What is this thing that ye of Koz. And next unto the broad wall. 9
And
wall, and turned back, do? will ye rebel against them repaired next unto them
and entered by the gate the king? 20
Then Meshullam the son of repaired Rephaiah the
of the valley, and so answered I them, and Berechiah, the son of son of Hur, the ruler of
returned. 16
And the said unto them, The God Meshezabeel. And next the half part of
rulers knew not whither I of heaven, he will unto them repaired Jerusalem. 10And next
went, or what I did; prosper us; therefore we Zadok the son of Baana. unto them repaired
neither had I as yet told his servants will arise 5
And next unto them the Jedaiah the son of
it to the Jews, nor to the and build: but ye have Tekoites repaired; but Harumaph, even over
priests, nor to the no portion, nor right, nor their nobles put not their against his house. And
nobles, nor to the rulers, memorial, in Jerusalem. necks to the work of a
nor to the rest that did fortified...: or, left Jerusalem
their Lord. 6Moreover the
the work. 17Then said I unto the broad wall
next unto him repaired the locks thereof, and wall unto the door of the Ophel, unto the place
Hattush the son of the bars thereof, and the house of Eliashib the over against the water
Hashabniah. 11Malchijah wall of the pool of Siloah high priest. 21After him gate toward the east,
the son of Harim, and by the king’s garden, repaired Meremoth the and the tower that lieth
Hashub the son of and unto the stairs that son of Urijah the son of out. 27
After them the
Pahathmoab, repaired go down from the city of Koz another piece, from Tekoites repaired
the otherb piece, and the David. 16
After him the door of the house of another piece, over
tower of the furnaces. repaired Nehemiah the Eliashib even to the end against the great tower
12
And next unto him son of Azbuk, the ruler of of the house of Eliashib. that lieth out, even unto
repaired Shallum the son the half part of Bethzur, 22
And after him repaired the wall of Ophel.
of Halohesh, the ruler of unto the place over the priests, the men of 28
From above the horse
the half part of against the sepulchres of the plain. 23After him gate repaired the
Jerusalem, he and his David, and to the pool repaired Benjamin and priests, every one over
daughters. 13The valley that was made, and unto Hashub over against against his house.
gate repaired Hanun, the house of the mighty. their house. After him 29
After them repaired
and the inhabitants of 17
After him repaired the repaired Azariah the son Zadok the son of Immer
Zanoah; they built it, and Levites, Rehum the son of Maaseiah the son of over against his house.
set up the doors thereof, of Bani. Next unto him Ananiah by his house. After him repaired also
the locks thereof, and repaired Hashabiah, the 24
After him repaired Shemaiah the son of
the bars thereof, and a ruler of the half part of Binnui the son of Shechaniah, the keeper
thousand cubits on the Keilah, in his part. 18After Henadad another piece, of the east gate. 30After
wall unto the dung gate. him repaired their from the house of him repaired Hananiah
14
But the dung gate brethren, Bavai the son Azariah unto the turning the son of Shelemiah,
repaired Malchiah the of Henadad, the ruler of of the wall, even unto and Hanun the sixth
son of Rechab, the ruler the half part of Keilah. the corner. 25Palal the son of Zalaph, another
of part of Bethhaccerem; 19
And next to him son of Uzai, over against piece. After him
he built it, and set up the repaired Ezer the son of the turning of the wall, repaired Meshullam the
doors thereof, the locks Jeshua, the ruler of and the tower which son of Berechiah over
thereof, and the bars Mizpah, another piece lieth out from the king’s against his chamber.
thereof. 15But the gate of over against the going high house, that was by 31
After him repaired
the fountain repaired up to the armoury at the the court of the prison. Malchiah the
Shallun the son of turning of the wall. After him Pedaiah the goldsmith’s son unto
Colhozeh, the ruler of 20
After him Baruch the son of Parosh. the place of the
part of Mizpah; he built son of Zabbaic earnestly 26
Moreover the Nethinims, and of the
it, and covered it, and repaired the other piece, Nethinims dweltd in merchants, over
set up the doors thereof, from the turning of the d
against the gate
dwelt...: or, which dwelt in Miphkad, and to the
b c
other...: Heb. second measure Zabbai: also called, Zaccai Ophel, repaired unto
going up of the corner. despisedb: and turn their and set a watch against terrible, and fight for
32
And between the going reproach upon their own them day and night, your brethren, your
up of the corner unto the head, and give them for because of them. 10And sons, and your
sheep gate repaired the a prey in the land of Judah said, The strength daughters, your wives,
goldsmiths and the captivity: 5And cover not of the bearers of burdens and your houses. 15And
merchants. their iniquity, and let not is decayed, and there is it came to pass, when
their sin be blotted out much rubbish; so that we our enemies heard that
Chapter 4 from before thee: for are not able to build the it was known unto us,
they have provoked thee wall. 11
And our and God had brought
But it came to pass,
1
to anger before the adversaries said, They their counsel to nought,
that when Sanballat builders. 6So built we the shall not know, neither that we returned all of
heard that we builded wall; and all the wall was see, till we come in the us to the wall, every
the wall, he was wroth, joined together unto the midst among them, and one unto his work.
and took great half thereof: for the slay them, and cause the 16
And it came to pass
indignation, and mocked people had a mind to work to cease. 12And it from that time forth,
the Jews. 2And he spake work. came to pass, that when that the half of my
before his brethren and 7
But it came to pass, the Jews which dwelt by servants wrought in the
the army of Samaria, that when Sanballat, and them came, they said work, and the other half
and said, What do these Tobiah, and the unto us ten times, From of them held both the
feeble Jews? will they Arabians, and the all places whence ye spears, the shields, and
fortifya themselves? will Ammonites, and the shall return unto us they the bows, and the
they sacrifice? will they Ashdodites, heard that will be upon you. habergeons; and the
make an end in a day? the walls of Jerusalem 13
Therefore set I in the rulers were behind all
will they revive the were made upc, and that lower places behind the the house of Judah.
stones out of the heaps the breaches began to wall, and on the higher 17
They which builded on
of the rubbish which are be stopped, then they places, I even set the the wall, and they that
burned? 3
Now Tobiah were very wroth, 8And people after their bare burdens, with
the Ammonite was by conspired all of them families with their those that laded, every
him, and he said, Even together to come and to swords, their spears, and one with one of his
that which they build, if fight against Jerusalem, their bows. 14
And I hands wrought in the
a fox go up, he shall and to hinderd it. looked, and rose up, and work, and with the
even break down their 9
Nevertheless we made said unto the nobles, and other hand held a
stone wall. 4Hear, O our our prayer unto our God, to the rulers, and to the weapon. 18
For the
God; for we are rest of the people, Be builders, every one had
b
despised: Heb. despite not ye afraid of them: his sword girded by his
c
were made up: Heb. ascended remember the Lord, sidee, and so builded.
a d
fortify...: Heb. leave to to hinder...: Heb. to make an which is great and e
themselves error to it by his side: Heb. on his loins
And he that sounded the 1
And there was a and these words. 7Then I houses, also the
trumpet was by me. great cry of the people consulteda with myself, hundredth part of the
19
And I said unto the and of their wives and I rebuked the money, and of the corn,
nobles, and to the rulers, against their brethren nobles, and the rulers, the wine, and the oil,
and to the rest of the the Jews. 2For there were and said unto them, Ye that ye exact of them.
people, The work is great that said, We, our sons, exact usury, every one 12
Then said they, We
and large, and we are and our daughters, are of his brother. And I set a will restore them, and
separated upon the wall, many: therefore we take great assembly against will require nothing of
one far from another. up corn for them, that them. 8And I said unto them; so will we do as
20
In what place therefore we may eat, and live. them, We after our thou sayest. Then I
ye hear the sound of the 3
Some also there were ability have redeemed called the priests, and
trumpet, resort ye that said, We have our brethren the Jews, took an oath of them,
thither unto us: our God mortgaged our lands, which were sold unto the that they should do
shall fight for us. 21So we vineyards, and houses, heathen; and will ye according to this
laboured in the work: that we might buy corn, even sell your brethren? promise. 13Also I shook
and half of them held the because of the dearth. or shall they be sold unto my lap, and said, So
spears from the rising of 4
There were also that us? Then held they their God shake out every
the morning till the stars said, We have borrowed peace, and found man from his house,
appeared. 22Likewise at money for the king’s nothing to answer. 9Also and from his labour,
the same time said I tribute, and that upon I said, It is not good that that performeth not this
unto the people, Let our lands and vineyards. ye do: ought ye not to promise, even thus be
every one with his 5
Yet now our flesh is as walk in the fear of our he shaken out, and
servant lodge within the flesh of our brethren, God because of the emptiedb. And all the
Jerusalem, that in the our children as their reproach of the heathen congregation said,
night they may be a children: and, lo, we our enemies? 10I likewise, Amen, and praised the
guard to us, and labour bring into bondage our and my brethren, and LORD. And the people
on the day. 23So neither sons and our daughters my servants, might did according to this
I, nor my brethren, nor to be servants, and exact of them money promise.
my servants, nor the some of our daughters and corn: I pray you, let 14
Moreover from the
men of the guard which are brought unto us leave off this usury. time that I was
followed me, none of us bondage already: neither 11
Restore, I pray you, to appointed to be their
put off our clothes, is it in our power to them, even this day, governor in the land of
saving that every one redeem them; for other their lands, their Judah, from the
put them off for washing. men have our lands and vineyards, their twentieth year even
vineyards. oliveyards, and their unto the two and
Chapter 5 6
And I was very angry a b
when I heard their cry I consulted...: Heb. my heart emptied: Heb. empty, or,
consulted in me void
thirtieth year of governor, because the I answered them after O God, strengthen my
Artaxerxes the king, that bondage was heavy the same manner. 5Then hands.
is, twelve years, I and upon this people. 19Think sent Sanballat his 10
Afterward I came
my brethren have not upon me, my God, for servant unto me in like unto the house of
eaten the bread of the good, according to all manner the fifth time Shemaiah the son of
governor. 15
But the that I have done for this with an open letter in his Delaiah the son of
former governors that people. hand; 6
Wherein was Mehetabeel, who was
had been before me written, It is reported shut up; and he said,
were chargeable unto Chapter 6 among the heathen, and Let us meet together in
the people, and had Gashmua saith it, that the house of God,
taken of them bread and
1
Now it came to pass, thou and the Jews think within the temple, and
wine, beside forty when Sanballat, and to rebel: for which cause let us shut the doors of
shekels of silver; yea, Tobiah, and Geshem the thou buildest the wall, the temple: for they will
even their servants bare Arabian, and the rest of that thou mayest be come to slay thee; yea,
rule over the people: but our enemies, heard that I their king, according to in the night will they
so did not I, because of had builded the wall, and these words. 7And thou come to slay thee.
the fear of God. 16Yea, that there was no breach hast also appointed 11
And I said, Should
also I continued in the left therein; (though at prophets to preach of such a man as I flee?
work of this wall, neither that time I had not set thee at Jerusalem, and who is there, that,
bought we any land: and up the doors upon the saying, There is a king in being as I am, would go
all my servants were gates;) 2That Sanballat Judah: and now shall it into the temple to save
gathered thither unto and Geshem sent unto be reported to the king his life? I will not go in.
the work. 17Moreover me, saying, Come, let us according to these 12
And, lo, I perceived
there were at my table meet together in some words. Come now that God had not sent
an hundred and fifty of one of the villages in the therefore, and let us him; but that he
the Jews and rulers, plain of Ono. But they take counsel together. pronounced this
beside those that came thought to do me 8
Then I sent unto him, prophecy against me:
unto us from among the mischief. 3
And I sent saying, There are no for Tobiah and
heathen that are about messengers unto them, such things done as thou Sanballat had hired
us. 18Now that which was saying, I am doing a sayest, but thou feignest him. 13Therefore was he
prepared for me daily great work, so that I them out of thine own hired, that I should be
was one ox and six cannot come down: why heart. 9For they all made afraid, and do so, and
choice sheep; also fowls should the work cease, us afraid, saying, Their sin, and that they might
were prepared for me, whilst I leave it, and hands shall be weakened have matter for an evil
and once in ten days come down to you? 4Yet from the work, that it be report, that they might
store of all sorts of wine: they sent unto me four not done. Now therefore, reproach me. 14My God,
yet for all this required times after this sort; and think thou upon Tobiah
a
not I the bread of the Gashmu: also called, Geshem
and Sanballat according good deeds before me, builded. three hundred seventy
to these their works, and and uttered my wordsc to 5
And my God put into and two. 10The children
on the prophetess him. And Tobiah sent mine heart to gather of Arah, six hundred
Noadiah, and the rest of letters to put me in fear. together the nobles, and fifty and two. 11The
the prophets, that would the rulers, and the children of
have put me in fear. Chapter 7 people, that they might Pahathmoab, of the
15
So the wall was be reckoned by children of Jeshua and
finished in the twenty Now it came to pass,
1
genealogy. And I found a Joab, two thousand and
and fifth day of the when the wall was built, register of the genealogy eight hundred and
month Elul, in fifty and and I had set up the of them which came up eighteen. The children
12

two days. 16And it came doors, and the porters at the first, and found of Elam, a thousand two
to pass, that when all and the singers and the written therein, 6These hundred fifty and four.
our enemies heard Levites were appointed, are the children of the 13
The children of Zattu,
thereof, and all the
2
That I gave my brother province, that went up eight hundred forty and
heathen that were about Hanani, and Hananiah out of the captivity, of five. 14The children of
us saw these things, the ruler of the palace, those that had been Zaccai, seven hundred
they were much cast charge over Jerusalem: carried away, whom and threescore. 15The
down in their own eyes: for he was a faithful Nebuchadnezzar the children of Binnuic, six
for they perceived that man, and feared God king of Babylon had hundred forty and
this work was wrought of above many. 3And I said carried away, and came eight. 16
The children of
our God. 17Moreover in unto them, Let not the again to Jerusalem and Bebai, six hundred
those days the nobles of gates of Jerusalem be to Judah, every one unto twenty and eight. 17The
Judah sentb many letters opened until the sun be his city; 7Who came with children of Azgad, two
unto Tobiah, and the hot; and while they Zerubbabel, Jeshua, thousand three hundred
letters of Tobiah came stand by, let them shut Nehemiah, Azariahb, twenty and two. 18The
unto them. 18For there the doors, and bar them: Raamiah, Nahamani, children of Adonikam,
were many in Judah and appoint watches of Mordecai, Bilshan, six hundred threescore
sworn unto him, because the inhabitants of Mispereth, Bigvai, and seven. 19
The
he was the son in law of Jerusalem, every one in Nehum, Baanah. The children of Bigvai, two
Shechaniah the son of his watch, and every one number, I say, of the thousand threescore
Arah; and his son to be over against his men of the people of and seven. 20
The
Johanan had taken the house. 4Now the city was Israel was this; 8
The children of Adin, six
daughter of Meshullam largea and great: but the children of Parosh, two hundred fifty and five.
the son of Berechiah. people were few therein, thousand an hundred 21
The children of Ater of
19
Also they reported his and the houses were not seventy and two. 9The Hezekiah, ninety and
b c
children of Shephatiah, eight. 22The children of
sent...: Heb. multiplied their words: or, matters
a b c
letters passing to Tobiah large: Heb. broad in spaces Azariah: also called, Seraiah Binnui: also called, Bani
Hashum, three hundred two hundred fifty and children of Hatita, the 57
The children of
twenty and eight. 23The four. 35The children of children of Shobai, an Solomon’s servants: the
children of Bezai, three Harim, three hundred hundred thirty and eight. children of Sotai, the
hundred twenty and and twenty. 36
The 46
The Nethinims: the children of Sophereth,
four. 24The children of children of Jericho, three children of Ziha, the the children of Perida,
Hariphd, an hundred and hundred forty and five. children of Hashupha, 58
The children of Jaala,
twelve. 25The children of 37
The children of Lod, the children of Tabbaoth, the children of Darkon,
Gibeone, ninety and five. Hadid, and Ono, seven 47
The children of Keros, the children of Giddel,
26
The men of Bethlehem hundred twenty and one. the children of Sia, the 59
The children of
and Netophah, an 38
The children of Senaah, children of Padon, 48The Shephatiah, the
hundred fourscore and three thousand nine children of Lebana, the children of Hattil, the
eight. 27The men of hundred and thirty. The
39
children of Hagaba, the children of Pochereth of
Anathoth, an hundred priests: the children of children of Shalmai, Zebaim, the children of
twenty and eight. 28The Jedaiah, of the house of 49
The children of Hanan, Amoni. 60
All the
men of Bethazmavethf, Jeshua, nine hundred the children of Giddel, Nethinims, and the
forty and two. 29
The seventy and three. 40The the children of Gahar, children of Solomon’s
men of Kirjathjearimg, children of Immer, a 50
The children of Reaiah, servants, were three
Chephirah, and Beeroth, thousand fifty and two. the children of Rezin, the hundred ninety and
seven hundred forty and 41
The children of Pashur, children of Nekoda, 51The two. 61And these were
three. 30
The men of a thousand two hundred children of Gazzam, the they which went up
Ramah and Geba, six forty and seven. 42The children of Uzza, the also from Telmelah,
hundred twenty and one. children of Harim, a children of Phaseah, Telharesha, Cherub,
31
The men of Michmas, thousand and seventeen. 52
The children of Besai, Addon, and Immer: but
an hundred and twenty 43
The Levites: the the children of Meunim, they could not shew
and two. 32The men of children of Jeshua, of the children of their father’s house, nor
Bethel and Ai, an Kadmiel, and of the Nephishesim, 53
The their seedj, whether
hundred twenty and children of Hodevahh, children of Bakbuk, the they were of Israel.
three. 33The men of the seventy and four. 44The children of Hakupha, the 62
The children of
other Nebo, fifty and singers: the children of children of Harhur, 54The Delaiah, the children of
two. 34The children of the Asaph, an hundred forty children of Bazlith, the Tobiah, the children of
other Elam, a thousand and eight. 45The porters: children of Mehida, the Nekoda, six hundred
d
the children of Shallum, children of Harsha, 55The forty and two. 63And of
Hariph: also called, Jora the children of Ater, the children of Barkos, the the priests: the children
e
Gibeon: also called, Gibbar children of Talmon, the children of Sisera, the of Habaiah, the children
f
Bethazmaveth: also called, children of Akkub, the children of Tamah, 56The of Koz, the children of
Azmaveth children of Neziah, the
g h i
Kirjathjearim: also called, Hodevah: also called, children of Hatipha. Amon: also called, Ami
j
Kirjatharim Hodaviah or Judah seed: or, pedigree
Barzillai, which took one thirty and five: six And all the people
1
right hand; and on his
of the daughters of thousand seven hundred gathered themselves left hand, Pedaiah, and
Barzillai the Gileadite to and twenty asses. 70And together as one man into Mishael, and Malchiah,
wife, and was called some of the chief of the the street that was and Hashum, and
after their name. 64These fathers gave unto the before the water gate; Hashbadana,
sought their register work. The Tirshatha gave and they spake unto Zechariah, and
among those that were to the treasure a Ezra the scribe to bring Meshullam. 5And Ezra
reckoned by genealogy, thousand drams of gold, the book of the law of opened the book in the
but it was not found: fifty basons, five Moses, which the LORD sightb of all the people;
therefore were they, as hundred and thirty had commanded to (for he was above all
polluted, put from the priests’ garments. 71And Israel. 2And Ezra the the people;) and when
priesthood. 65And the some of the chief of the priest brought the law he opened it, all the
Tirshathak said unto fathers gave to the before the congregation people stood up: 6And
them, that they should treasure of the work both of men and women, Ezra blessed the LORD,
not eat of the most holy twenty thousand drams and all that could hear the great God. And all
things, till there stood up of gold, and two with understanding, the people answered,
a priest with Urim and thousand and two upon the first day of the Amen, Amen, with
Thummim. 66The whole hundred pound of silver. seventh month. 3And he lifting up their hands:
congregation together 72
And that which the rest read therein before the and they bowed their
was forty and two of the people gave was street that was before heads, and worshipped
thousand three hundred twenty thousand drams the water gate from the the LORD with their
and threescore, 67Beside of gold, and two morning until midday, faces to the ground.
their manservants and thousand pound of before the men and the 7
Also Jeshua, and Bani,
their maidservants, of silver, and threescore women, and those that and Sherebiah, Jamin,
whom there were seven and seven priests’ could understand; and Akkub, Shabbethai,
thousand three hundred garments. 73
So the the ears of all the people Hodijah, Maaseiah,
thirty and seven: and priests, and the Levites, were attentive unto the Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad,
they had two hundred and the porters, and the book of the law. 4And Hanan, Pelaiah, and the
forty and five singing singers, and some of the Ezra the scribe stood Levites, caused the
men and singing women. people, and the upon a pulpita of wood, people to understand
68
Their horses, seven Nethinims, and all Israel, which they had made for the law: and the people
hundred thirty and six: dwelt in their cities; and the purpose; and beside stood in their place. 8So
their mules, two hundred when the seventh month him stood Mattithiah, they read in the book in
forty and five: 69Their came, the children of and Shema, and Anaiah, the law of God
camels, four hundred Israel were in their cities. and Urijah, and Hilkiah, distinctly, and gave the
k
and Maaseiah, on his sense, and caused
the Tirshatha: also called, the Chapter 8 a b
governor pulpit...: Heb. tower of wood sight: Heb. eyes
them to understand the And on the second
13
in the courts of the strangersa, and stood
reading. day were gathered house of God, and in the and confessed their
9
And Nehemiah, together the chief of the street of the water gate, sins, and the iniquities
which is the Tirshathac, fathers of all the people, and in the street of the of their fathers. 3And
and Ezra the priest the the priests, and the gate of Ephraim. 17And they stood up in their
scribe, and the Levites Levites, unto Ezra the all the congregation of place, and read in the
that taught the people, scribe, even to them that were come book of the law of the
said unto all the people, understand the words of
d
again out of the captivity LORD their God one
This day is holy unto the the law. 14
And they made booths, and sat fourth part of the day;
LORD your God; mourn found written in the law under the booths: for and another fourth part
not, nor weep. For all the which the LORD had since the days of Jeshua they confessed, and
people wept, when they commanded bye Moses, the son of Nun unto that worshipped the LORD
heard the words of the that the children of Israel day had not the children their God.
law. 10Then he said unto should dwell in booths in of Israel done so. And 4
Then stood up upon
them, Go your way, eat the feast of the seventh there was very great the stairsb, of the
the fat, and drink the month: 15And that they gladness. 18Also day by Levites, Jeshua, and
sweet, and send portions should publish and day, from the first day Bani, Kadmiel,
unto them for whom proclaim in all their unto the last day, he Shebaniah, Bunni,
nothing is prepared: for cities, and in Jerusalem, read in the book of the Sherebiah, Bani, and
this day is holy unto our saying, Go forth unto the law of God. And they Chenani, and cried with
Lord: neither be ye sorry; mount, and fetch olive kept the feast seven a loud voice unto the
for the joy of the LORD is branches, and pine days; and on the eighth LORD their God. 5Then
your strength. 11So the branches, and myrtle day was a solemn the Levites, Jeshua, and
Levites stilled all the branches, and palm assembly, according Kadmiel, Bani,
people, saying, Hold branches, and branches unto the manner. Hashabniah, Sherebiah,
your peace, for the day of thick trees, to make Hodijah, Shebaniah,
is holy; neither be ye booths, as it is written. Chapter 9 and Pethahiah, said,
grieved. 12And all the 16
So the people went Stand up and bless the
people went their way to forth, and brought them,
1
Now in the twenty LORD your God for ever
eat, and to drink, and to and made themselves and fourth day of this and ever: and blessed
send portions, and to booths, every one upon month the children of be thy glorious name,
make great mirth, the roof of his house, Israel were assembled which is exalted above
because they had and in their courts, and with fasting, and with all blessing and praise.
understood the words sackclothes, and earth 6
Thou, even thou, art
d
that were declared unto to understand...: or, that they upon them. 2And the
a
them. might instruct in the words of seed of Israel separated strangers: Heb. strange
the law themselves from all children
c e b
the Tirshatha: or, the governor by: Heb. by the hand of stairs: or, scaffold
LORD alone; thou hast thou knewest that they water for them out of the the wilderness: the
made heaven, the dealt proudly against rock for their thirst, and pillar of the cloud
heaven of heavens, with them. So didst thou get promisedst them that departed not from them
all their host, the earth, thee a name, as it is this they should go in to by day, to lead them in
and all things that are day. 11And thou didst possess the land which the way; neither the
therein, the seas, and all divide the sea before thou hadst sworn to give pillar of fire by night, to
that is therein, and thou them, so that they went them. 16But they and our shew them light, and
preservest them all; and through the midst of the fathers dealt proudly, the way wherein they
the host of heaven sea on the dry land; and and hardened their should go. 20
Thou
worshippeth thee. 7Thou their persecutors thou necks, and hearkened gavest also thy good
art the LORD the God, threwest into the deeps, not to thy spirit to instruct them,
who didst choose Abram, as a stone into the commandments, 17
And and withheldest not thy
and broughtest him forth mighty waters. refused to obey, neither manna from their
out of Ur of the 12
Moreover thou leddest were mindful of thy mouth, and gavest
Chaldees, and gavest them in the day by a wonders that thou didst them water for their
him the name of cloudy pillar; and in the among them; but thirst. 21Yea, forty years
Abraham; 8And foundest night by a pillar of fire, hardened their necks, didst thou sustain them
his heart faithful before to give them light in the and in their rebellion in the wilderness, so
thee, and madest a way wherein they should appointed a captain to that they lacked
covenant with him to go. 13Thou camest down return to their bondage: nothing; their clothes
give the land of the also upon mount Sinai, but thou art a Godd waxed not old, and
Canaanites, the Hittites, and spakest with them ready to pardon, their feet swelled not.
the Amorites, and the from heaven, and gavest gracious and merciful, 22
Moreover thou gavest
Perizzites, and the them right judgments, slow to anger, and of them kingdoms and
Jebusites, and the and truec laws, good great kindness, and nations, and didst
Girgashites, to give it, I statutes and forsookest them not. divide them into
say, to his seed, and commandments: 14
And 18
Yea, when they had corners: so they
hast performed thy madest known unto made them a molten possessed the land of
words; for thou art them thy holy sabbath, calf, and said, This is thy Sihon, and the land of
righteous: 9And didst see and commandedst them God that brought thee the king of Heshbon,
the affliction of our precepts, statutes, and up out of Egypt, and had and the land of Og king
fathers in Egypt, and laws, by the hand of wrought great of Bashan. 23
Their
heardest their cry by the Moses thy servant: 15And provocations; 19Yet thou children also
Red sea; 10And shewedst gavest them bread from in thy manifold mercies multipliedst thou as the
signs and wonders upon heaven for their hunger, forsookest them not in stars of heaven, and
Pharaoh, and on all his and broughtest forth d
broughtest them into
servants, and on all the a God...: Heb. a God of the land, concerning
c
people of his land: for true...: Heb. laws of truth pardons
which thou hadst thou deliveredst them them;) and withdrewg thy people, since the
promised to their into the hand of their the shoulder, and time of the kings of
fathers, that they should enemies, who vexed hardened their neck, and Assyria unto this day.
go in to possess it. 24So them: and in the time of would not hear. 30
Yet 33
Howbeit thou art just
the children went in and their trouble, when they many years didst thou in all that is brought
possessed the land, and cried unto thee, thou forbearh them, and upon us; for thou hast
thou subduedst before heardest them from testifiedst against them done right, but we have
them the inhabitants of heaven; and according by thy spirit in thy done wickedly:
the land, the Canaanites, to thy manifold mercies prophets: yet would they 34
Neither have our
and gavest them into thou gavest them not give ear: therefore kings, our princes, our
their hands, with their saviours, who saved gavest thou them into priests, nor our fathers,
kings, and the people of them out of the hand of the hand of the people of kept thy law, nor
the land, that they might their enemies. 28But after the lands. hearkened unto thy
do with them as they they had rest, they didf 31
Nevertheless for thy commandments and
would. 25And they took evil again before thee: great mercies’ sake thou thy testimonies,
strong cities, and a fat therefore leftest thou didst not utterly wherewith thou didst
land, and possessed them in the hand of their consume them, nor testify against them.
houses full of all goods, enemies, so that they forsake them; for thou 35
For they have not
wellse digged, vineyards, had the dominion over art a gracious and served thee in their
and oliveyards, and fruit them: yet when they merciful God. 32
Now kingdom, and in thy
trees in abundance: so returned, and cried unto therefore, our God, the great goodness that
they did eat, and were thee, thou heardest great, the mighty, and thou gavest them, and
filled, and became fat, them from heaven; and the terrible God, who in the large and fat land
and delighted many times didst thou keepest covenant and which thou gavest
themselves in thy great deliver them according mercy, let not all the before them, neither
goodness. to thy mercies; 29
And troublei seem little turned they from their
26
Nevertheless they were testifiedst against them, before thee, that hath wicked works. 36Behold,
disobedient, and that thou mightest bring come upon us, on our we are servants this
rebelled against thee, them again unto thy law: kings, on our princes, day, and for the land
and cast thy law behind yet they dealt proudly, and on our priests, and that thou gavest unto
their backs, and slew thy and hearkened not unto on our prophets, and on our fathers to eat the
prophets which testified thy commandments, but our fathers, and on all fruit thereof and the
against them to turn sinned against thy g
good thereof, behold,
them to thee, and they judgments, (which if a withdrew...: Heb. they gave a we are servants in it:
wrought great man do, he shall live in withdrawing shoulder 37
And it yieldeth much
h
provocations. Therefore
27 forbear...: Heb. protract over increase unto the kings
f
they did...: Heb. they returned them whom thou hast set
e i
wells: or, cisterns to do evil trouble: Heb. weariness
over us because of our brethren, Shebaniah, one having knowledge, for the continual meat
sins: also they have Hodijah, Kelita, Pelaiah, and having offering, and for the
dominion over our Hanan, 11Micha, Rehob, understanding; 29
They continual burnt offering,
bodies, and over our Hashabiah, 12
Zaccur, clave to their brethren, of the sabbaths, of the
cattle, at their pleasure, Sherebiah, Shebaniah, their nobles, and entered new moons, for the set
and we are in great 13
Hodijah, Bani, Beninu. into a curse, and into an feasts, and for the holy
distress. 38And because 14
The chief of the people; oath, to walk in God’s things, and for the sin
of all this we make a Parosh, Pahathmoab, law, which was given bya offerings to make an
sure covenant, and write Elam, Zatthu, Bani, Moses the servant of atonement for Israel,
it; and our princes, 15
Bunni, Azgad, Bebai, God, and to observe and and for all the work of
Levites, and priests, sealj 16
Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin, do all the the house of our God.
unto it. 17
Ater, Hizkijah, Azzur, commandments of the 34
And we cast the lots
18
Hodijah, Hashum, LORD our Lord, and his among the priests, the
Chapter 10 Bezai, 19
Hariph, judgments and his Levites, and the people,
Anathoth, Nebai, statutes; 30And that we for the wood offering, to
1
Now those that 20
Magpiash, Meshullam, would not give our bring it into the house
sealed were, Nehemiah, Hezir, 21
Meshezabeel, daughters unto the of our God, after the
the Tirshatha, the son of Zadok, Jaddua, people of the land, nor houses of our fathers,
Hachaliah, and Zidkijah, 22
Pelatiah, Hanan, take their daughters for at times appointed year
2
Seraiah, Azariah, Anaiah, 23
Hoshea, our sons: 31And if the by year, to burn upon
Jeremiah, 3
Pashur, Hananiah, Hashub, people of the land bring the altar of the LORD
Amariah, Malchijah, 24
Hallohesh, Pileha, ware or any victuals on our God, as it is written
4
Hattush, Shebaniah, Shobek, 25
Rehum, the sabbath day to sell, in the law: 35And to
Malluch, 5
Harim, Hashabnah, Maaseiah, that we would not buy it bring the firstfruits of
Meremoth, Obadiah, 26
And Ahijah, Hanan, of them on the sabbath, our ground, and the
6
Daniel, Ginnethon, Anan, 27
Malluch, Harim, or on the holy day: and firstfruits of all fruit of
Baruch, 7
Meshullam, Baanah. 28And the rest of that we would leave the all trees, year by year,
Abijah, Mijamin, the people, the priests, seventh year, and the unto the house of the
8
Maaziah, Bilgai, the Levites, the porters, exaction of every debt. LORD: 36
Also the
Shemaiah: these were the singers, the 32
Also we made firstborn of our sons,
the priests. 9And the Nethinims, and all they ordinances for us, to and of our cattle, as it
Levites: both Jeshua the that had separated charge ourselves yearly is written in the law,
son of Azaniah, Binnui of themselves from the with the third part of a and the firstlings of our
the sons of Henadad, people of the lands unto shekel for the service of herds and of our flocks,
Kadmiel; 10
And their the law of God, their the house of our God; to bring to the house of
j
wives, their sons, and 33
For the shewbread, and our God, unto the
seal: Heb. are at the sealing, their daughters, every priests that minister in
a
or, sealed by: Heb. by the hand of
the house of our God: Chapter 11 children of Pereza; 5And the house of God. 12And
37
And that we should Maaseiah the son of their brethren that did
bring the firstfruits of our 1
And the rulers of the Baruch, the son of the work of the house
dough, and our offerings, people dwelt at Colhozeh, the son of were eight hundred
and the fruit of all Jerusalem: the rest of Hazaiah, the son of twenty and two: and
manner of trees, of wine the people also cast lots, Adaiah, the son of Adaiah the son of
and of oil, unto the to bring one of ten to Joiarib, the son of Jeroham, the son of
priests, to the chambers dwell in Jerusalem the Zechariah, the son of Pelaliah, the son of
of the house of our God; holy city, and nine parts Shiloni. 6All the sons of Amzi, the son of
and the tithes of our to dwell in other cities. Perez that dwelt at Zechariah, the son of
ground unto the Levites, 2
And the people blessed Jerusalem were four Pashur, the son of
that the same Levites all the men, that willingly hundred threescore and Malchiah, 13
And his
might have the tithes in offered themselves to eight valiant men. 7And brethren, chief of the
all the cities of our dwell at Jerusalem. 3Now these are the sons of fathers, two hundred
tillage. 38And the priest these are the chief of the Benjamin; Sallu the son forty and two: and
the son of Aaron shall be province that dwelt in of Meshullam, the son of Amashai the son of
with the Levites, when Jerusalem: but in the Joed, the son of Pedaiah, Azareel, the son of
the Levites take tithes: cities of Judah dwelt the son of Kolaiah, the Ahasai, the son of
and the Levites shall every one in his son of Maaseiah, the son Meshillemoth, the son
bring up the tithe of the possession in their cities, of Ithiel, the son of of Immer, 14And their
tithes unto the house of to wit, Israel, the priests, Jesaiah. 8And after him brethren, mighty men
our God, to the and the Levites, and the Gabbai, Sallai, nine of valour, an hundred
chambers, into the Nethinims, and the hundred twenty and twenty and eight: and
treasure house. For the
39
children of Solomon’s eight. And Joel the son
9
their overseer was
children of Israel and the servants. 4
And at of Zichri was their Zabdiel, the sonb of one
children of Levi shall Jerusalem dwelt certain overseer: and Judah the of the great men.
bring the offering of the of the children of Judah, son of Senuah was 15
Also of the Levites:
corn, of the new wine, and of the children of second over the city. 10Of Shemaiah the son of
and the oil, unto the Benjamin. Of the the priests: Jedaiah the Hashub, the son of
chambers, where are the children of Judah; son of Joiarib, Jachin. Azrikam, the son of
vessels of the sanctuary, Athaiah the son of 11
Seraiah the son of Hashabiah, the son of
and the priests that Uzziah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Bunni; 16
And
minister, and the Zechariah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Shabbethai and
porters, and the singers: Amariah, the son of Zadok, the son of Jozabad, of the chief of
and we will not forsake Shephatiah, the son of Meraioth, the son of the Levites, had the
the house of our God. Mahalaleel, of the Ahitub, was the ruler of b
the son...: or, the son of
a
Perez: also called, Pharez Haggedolim
oversight of the outward son of Mattaniah, the Zareah, and at Jarmuth, 4
Iddo, Ginnethoc, Abijah,
business of the house of son of Micha. Of the sons 30
Zanoah, Adullam, and 5
Miamind, Maadiah,
God. 17
And Mattaniah of Asaph, the singers in their villages, at Bilgah, 6
Shemaiah,
the son of Micha, the son were over the business Lachish, and the fields and Joiarib, Jedaiah,
of Zabdi, the son of of the house of God. thereof, at Azekah, and 7
Sallue, Amok, Hilkiah,
Asaph, was the principal 23
For it was the king’s in the villages thereof. Jedaiah. These were the
to begin the commandment And they dwelt from chief of the priests and
thanksgiving in prayer: concerning them, that a Beersheba unto the of their brethren in the
and Bakbukiah the certain portion should be valley of Hinnom. 31The days of Jeshua.
second among his for the singers, due for children also of Benjamin 8
Moreover the Levites:
brethren, and Abda the every day. 24
And from Geba dwelt at Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel,
son of Shammua, the Pethahiah the son of Michmash, and Aija, and Sherebiah, Judah, and
son of Galal, the son of Meshezabeel, of the Bethel, and in their Mattaniah, which was
Jeduthun. 18
All the children of Zerah the e
villages, 32
And at over the thanksgivingf,
Levites in the holy city son of Judah, was at the Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah, he and his brethren.
were two hundred king’s hand in all 33
Hazor, Ramah, Gittaim, 9
Also Bakbukiah and
fourscore and four. matters concerning the 34
Hadid, Zeboim, Unni, their brethren,
19
Moreover the porters, people. 25
And for the Neballat, Lod, and Ono,
35
were over against them
Akkub, Talmon, and their villages, with their fields, the valley of craftsmen. in the watches. 10And
brethren that kept the some of the children of 36
And of the Levites were Jeshua begat Joiakim,
gatesc, were an hundred Judah dwelt at divisions in Judah, and in Joiakim also begat
seventy and two. Kirjatharba, and in the Benjamin. Eliashib, and Eliashib
20
And the residue of villages thereof, and at begat Joiada, 11
And
Israel, of the priests, and Dibon, and in the Chapter 12 Joiada begat Jonathan,
the Levites, were in all villages thereof, and at and Jonathan begat
the cities of Judah, every Jekabzeel, and in the Now these are the
1
Jaddua. 12
And in the
one in his inheritance. villages thereof, 26And at priests and the Levites days of Joiakim were
21
But the Nethinims Jeshua, and at Moladah, that went up with priests, the chief of the
dwelt in Opheld: and Ziha and at Bethphelet, 27And Zerubbabel the son of fathers: of Seraiah,
and Gispa were over the at Hazarshual, and at Shealtiel, and Jeshua: Meraiah; of Jeremiah,
Nethinims. 22
The Beersheba, and in the Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
c
overseer also of the villages thereof, 28And at
2
Amariah, Mallucha, Ginnetho: also called,
Levites at Jerusalem was Ziklag, and at Mekonah, Hattush, 3
Shechaniahb, Ginnethon
d
Uzzi the son of Bani, the and in the villages Rehum, Meremoth, Miamin: also called,
son of Hashabiah, the thereof, 29
And at Miniamin
a e
Enrimmon, and at Malluch: also called, Melicu Sallu: also called, Sallai
c b f
the gates: Heb. at the gates Shechaniah: also called, the thanksgiving: that is, the
d e
Ophel: or, the tower Zerah: also called, Zarah Shebaniah psalms of thanksgiving
Hananiah; 13
Of Ezra, give thanks, according to 29
Also from the house of brethren, Shemaiah,
Meshullam; of Amariah, the commandment of Gilgal, and out of the and Azarael, Milalai,
Jehohanan; 14Of Melicu, David the man of God, fields of Geba and Gilalai, Maai,
Jonathan; of Shebaniah, ward over against ward. Azmaveth: for the Nethaneel, and Judah,
Joseph; 15Of Harim, Adna; 25
Mattaniah, and singers had builded Hanani, with the
of Meraioth, Helkai; 16Of Bakbukiah, Obadiah, them villages round musical instruments of
Iddo, Zechariah; of Meshullam, Talmon, about Jerusalem. 30And David the man of God,
Ginnethon, Meshullam; Akkub, were porters the priests and the and Ezra the scribe
17
Of Abijah, Zichri; of keeping the ward at the Levites purified before them. 37And at
Miniamin, of Moadiah, thresholdsg of the gates. themselves, and purified the fountain gate,
Piltai; 18
Of Bilgah, 26
These were in the days the people, and the which was over against
Shammua; of Shemaiah, of Joiakim the son of gates, and the wall. them, they went up by
Jehonathan; 19
And of Jeshua, the son of 31
Then I brought up the the stairs of the city of
Joiarib, Mattenai; of Jozadak, and in the days princes of Judah upon David, at the going up
Jedaiah, Uzzi; 20Of Sallai, of Nehemiah the the wall, and appointed of the wall, above the
Kallai; of Amok, Eber; governor, and of Ezra two great companies of house of David, even
21
Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; the priest, the scribe. them that gave thanks, unto the water gate
of Jedaiah, Nethaneel. 27
And at the whereof one went on the eastward. 38And the
22
The Levites in the days dedication of the wall of right hand upon the wall other company of them
of Eliashib, Joiada, and Jerusalem they sought toward the dung gate: that gave thanks went
Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites out of all 32
And after them went over against them, and
were recorded chief of their places, to bring Hoshaiah, and half of the I after them, and the
the fathers: also the them to Jerusalem, to princes of Judah, 33And half of the people upon
priests, to the reign of keep the dedication with Azariah, Ezra, and the wall, from beyond
Darius the Persian. 23The gladness, both with Meshullam, 34Judah, and the tower of the
sons of Levi, the chief of thanksgivings, and with Benjamin, and furnaces even unto the
the fathers, were written singing, with cymbals, Shemaiah, and Jeremiah, broad wall; 39And from
in the book of the psalteries, and with 35
And certain of the above the gate of
chronicles, even until the harps. 28And the sons of priests’ sons with Ephraim, and above the
days of Johanan the son the singers gathered trumpets; namely, old gate, and above the
of Eliashib. 24And the themselves together, Zechariah the son of fish gate, and the tower
chief of the Levites: both out of the plain Jonathan, the son of of Hananeel, and the
Hashabiah, Sherebiah, country round about Shemaiah, the son of tower of Meah, even
and Jeshua the son of Jerusalem, and from the Mattaniah, the son of unto the sheep gate:
Kadmiel, with their villages of Netophathi; Michaiah, the son of and they stood still in
brethren over against g
Zaccur, the son of the prison gate. 40So
them, to praise and to thresholds: or, treasuries, or, Asaph: 36
And his stood the two
assemblies
companies of them that and Levites: for Judah the Ammonite and the and thirtieth year of
gave thanks in the house rejoiced for the priests Moabite should not come Artaxerxes king of
of God, and I, and the and for the Levites that into the congregation of Babylon came I unto
half of the rulers with waited. 45
And both the God for ever; 2Because the king, and aftera
me: 41And the priests; singers and the porters they met not the certain days obtained I
Eliakim, Maaseiah, kept the ward of their children of Israel with leave of the king: 7And
Miniamin, Michaiah, God, and the ward of the bread and with water, I came to Jerusalem,
Elioenai, Zechariah, and purification, according to but hired Balaam against and understood of the
Hananiah, with the commandment of them, that he should evil that Eliashib did for
trumpets; 42
And David, and of Solomon curse them: howbeit our Tobiah, in preparing
Maaseiah, and his son. 46For in the days God turned the curse him a chamber in the
Shemaiah, and Eleazar, of David and Asaph of into a blessing. 3Now it courts of the house of
and Uzzi, and Jehohanan, old there were chief of came to pass, when they God. 8And it grieved me
and Malchijah, and Elam, the singers, and songs of had heard the law, that sore: therefore I cast
and Ezer. And the praise and thanksgiving they separated from forth all the household
singers sang loud, with unto God. 47And all Israel Israel all the mixed stuff of Tobiah out of
Jezrahiah their overseer. in the days of multitude. 4And before the chamber. 9Then I
43
Also that day they Zerubbabel, and in the this, Eliashib the priest, commanded, and they
offered great sacrifices, days of Nehemiah, gave having the oversight of cleansed the chambers:
and rejoiced: for God the portions of the the chamber of the and thither brought I
had made them rejoice singers and the porters, house of our God, was again the vessels of the
with great joy: the wives every day his portion: allied unto Tobiah: 5And house of God, with the
also and the children and they sanctifiedi holy he had prepared for him meat offering and the
rejoiced: so that the joy things unto the Levites; a great chamber, where frankincense.
of Jerusalem was heard and the Levites aforetime they laid the 10
And I perceived
even afar off. sanctified them unto the meat offerings, the that the portions of the
44
And at that time children of Aaron. frankincense, and the Levites had not been
were some appointed vessels, and the tithes of given them: for the
over the chambers for Chapter 13 the corn, the new wine, Levites and the singers,
the treasures, for the and the oil, which was that did the work, were
offerings, for the On that day they
1
commanded to be given fled every one to his
firstfruits, and for the read in the book of to the Levites, and the field. 11Then contended
tithes, to gather into Moses in the audience of singers, and the porters; I with the rulers, and
them out of the fields of the people; and therein and the offerings of the said, Why is the house
the cities the portions of was found written, that priests. 6But in all this of God forsaken? And I
the lawh for the priests time was not I at a
by the law Jerusalem: for in the two after...: Heb. at the end of
h i
of the law: that is, appointed sanctified: that is, set apart days
gathered them together, manner of burdens, should no burden be not speak in the Jews’
and set them in their which they brought into brought in on the language, but according
placeb. 12Then brought Jerusalem on the sabbath day. 20So the to the language of each
all Judah the tithe of the sabbath day: and I merchants and sellers of people. 25And I
corn and the new wine testified against them in all kind of ware lodged contended with them,
and the oil unto the the day wherein they without Jerusalem once and cursedi them, and
treasuriesc. 13And I made sold victuals. 16There or twice. 21
Then I smote certain of them,
treasurers over the dwelt men of Tyre also testified against them, and plucked off their
treasuriesd, Shelemiah therein, which brought and said unto them, Why hair, and made them
the priest, and Zadok the fish, and all manner of lodge ye aboutf the wall? swear by God, saying,
scribe, and of the ware, and sold on the if ye do so again, I will Ye shall not give your
Levites, Pedaiah: and sabbath unto the lay hands on you. From daughters unto their
next to them was Hanan children of Judah, and in that time forth came sons, nor take their
the son of Zaccur, the Jerusalem. 17
Then I they no more on the daughters unto your
son of Mattaniah: for contended with the sabbath. 22
And I sons, or for yourselves.
they were counted nobles of Judah, and said commanded the Levites 26
Did not Solomon king
faithful, and their office unto them, What evil that they should cleanse of Israel sin by these
was to distribute unto thing is this that ye do, themselves, and that things? yet among
their brethren. and profane the sabbath they should come and many nations was there
14
Remember me, O my day? 18Did not your keep the gates, to no king like him, who
God, concerning this, fathers thus, and did not sanctify the sabbath day. was beloved of his God,
and wipe not out my our God bring all this evil Remember me, O my and God made him king
goode deeds that I have upon us, and upon this God, concerning this over all Israel:
done for the house of my city? yet ye bring more also, and spare me nevertheless even him
God, and for the offices wrath upon Israel by according to the did outlandish women
thereof. profaning the sabbath. greatness of thy mercy.
g
cause to sin. 27Shall we
15
In those days saw I 19
And it came to pass, then hearken unto you
in Judah some treading that when the gates of
23
In those days also saw I to do all this great evil,
wine presses on the Jerusalem began to be Jews that had married to transgress against
sabbath, and bringing in dark before the sabbath, wives of Ashdod, of our God in marrying
sheaves, and lading I commanded that the Ammon, and of Moab: strange wives? 28And
asses; as also wine, gates should be shut,
24
And their children one of the sons of
grapes, and figs, and all and charged that they spake half in the speech Joiada, the son of
should not be opened till of Ashdod, and couldh Eliashib the high priest,
b
place: Heb. standing after the sabbath: and was son in law to
c f
treasuries: or, storehouses some of my servants set about: Heb. before
d g
treasuries: or, storehouses I at the gates, that there greatness: or, multitude not to speak
e h i
good...: Heb. kindnesses could...: Heb. they discerned cursed: or, reviled
Sanballat the Horonite: reign, he made a feast another,) and royalb wine 12
But the queen Vashti
therefore I chased him unto all his princes and in abundance, according refused to come at the
from me. 29Remember his servants; the power to the state of the king. king’s commandment
them, O my God, of Persia and Media, the 8
And the drinking was by his chamberlains:
because they have nobles and princes of the according to the law; therefore was the king
defiled the priesthood, provinces, being before none did compel: for so very wroth, and his
and the covenant of the him: 4When he shewed the king had appointed anger burned in him.
priesthood, and of the the riches of his glorious to all the officers of his 13
Then the king said to
Levites. 30Thus cleansed kingdom and the honour house, that they should the wise men, which
I them from all of his excellent majesty do according to every knew the times, (for so
strangers, and appointed many days, even an man’s pleasure. 9Also was the king’s manner
the wards of the priests hundred and fourscore Vashti the queen made a toward all that knew
and the Levites, every days. 5And when these feast for the women in law and judgment:
one in his business; days were expired, the the royal house which 14
And the next unto him
31
And for the wood king made a feast unto belonged to king was Carshena, Shethar,
offering, at times all the people that were Ahasuerus. Admatha, Tarshish,
appointed, and for the presenta in Shushan the 10
On the seventh day, Meres, Marsena, and
firstfruits. Remember palace, both unto great when the heart of the Memucan, the seven
me, O my God, for good. and small, seven days, in king was merry with princes of Persia and
the court of the garden wine, he commanded Media, which saw the
Esther of the king’s palace; Mehuman, Biztha, king’s face, and which
6
Where were white, Harbona, Bigtha, and sat the first in the
Chapter 1 green, and blue, Abagtha, Zethar, and kingdom;) 15What shall
hangings, fastened with Carcas, the seven we do unto the queen
1
Now it came to pass cords of fine linen and chamberlainsc that Vashti according to law,
in the days of Ahasuerus, purple to silver rings and served in the presence because she hath not
(this is Ahasuerus which pillars of marble: the of Ahasuerus the king, performed the
reigned, from India even beds were of gold and 11
To bring Vashti the commandment of the
unto Ethiopia, over an silver, upon a pavement queen before the king king Ahasuerus by the
hundred and seven and of red, and blue, and with the crown royal, to chamberlains? 16
And
twenty provinces:) 2That white, and black, marble. shew the people and the Memucan answered
in those days, when the 7
And they gave them princes her beauty: for before the king and the
king Ahasuerus sat on drink in vessels of gold, she was faird to look on. princes, Vashti the
the throne of his (the vessels being b
queen hath not done
kingdom, which was in diverse one from royal...: Heb. wine of the wrong to the king only,
Shushan the palace, 3In kingdom but also to all the
c
the third year of his chamberlains: or, eunuchs
a d
present: Heb. found fair...: Heb. good of countenance
princes, and to all the decree which he shall the king’s servants that whom Nebuchadnezzar
people that are in all the make shall be published ministered unto him, Let the king of Babylon had
provinces of the king throughout all his there be fair young carried away. 7And he
Ahasuerus. 17
For this empire, (for it is great,) virgins sought for the brought up Hadassah,
deed of the queen shall all the wives shall give to king: 3And let the king that is, Esther, his
come abroad unto all their husbands honour, appoint officers in all the uncle’s daughter: for
women, so that they both to great and small. provinces of his she had neither father
shall despise their 21
And the saying kingdom, that they may nor mother, and the
husbands in their eyes, pleasede the king and gather together all the maid was fair and
when it shall be the princes; and the king fair young virgins unto beautiful; whom
reported, The king did according to the Shushan the palace, to Mordecai, when her
Ahasuerus commanded word of Memucan: 22For the house of the women, father and mother were
Vashti the queen to be he sent letters into all unto the custody of Hege dead, took for his own
brought in before him, the king’s provinces, into the king’s chamberlain, daughter. 8So it came
but she came not. every province according keeper of the women; to pass, when the king’s
18
Likewise shall the to the writing thereof, and let their things for commandment and his
ladies of Persia and and to every people purification be given decree was heard, and
Media say this day unto after their language, that them: 4
And let the when many maidens
all the king’s princes, every man should bear maiden which pleaseth were gathered together
which have heard of the rule in his own house, the king be queen unto Shushan the
deed of the queen. Thus and that it should be instead of Vashti. And palace, to the custody
shall there arise too published according to the thing pleased the of Hegai, that Esther
much contempt and the language of every king; and he did so. was brought also unto
wrath. If it please the
19
people. 5
Now in Shushan the the king’s house, to the
king, let there go a royal palace there was a custody of Hegai,
commandment from Chapter 2 certain Jew, whose name keeper of the women.
him, and let it be written was Mordecai, the son of 9
And the maiden
among the laws of the After these things,
1
Jair, the son of Shimei, pleased him, and she
Persians and the Medes, when the wrath of king the son of Kish, a obtained kindness of
that it be not altered, Ahasuerus was Benjamite; 6Who had him; and he speedily
That Vashti come no appeased, he been carried away from gave her her things for
more before king remembered Vashti, and Jerusalem with the purification, with such
Ahasuerus; and let the what she had done, and captivity which had been things as belonged to
king give her royal what was decreed carried away with her, and seven
estate unto another that against her. 2Then said Jeconiaha king of Judah, maidens, which were
is better than she. e a
meet to be given her,
20
And when the king’s pleased...: Heb. was good in Jeconiah: also called, out of the king’s house:
the eyes of the king Jehoiachin
and he preferred her and king’s house. 14In the obtained grace and door, were wroth, and
her maids unto the best evening she went, and favour in his sight more
c
sought to lay hand on
place of the house of the on the morrow she than all the virgins; so the king Ahasuerus.
women. 10
Esther had returned into the second that he set the royal 22
And the thing was
not shewed her people house of the women, to crown upon her head, known to Mordecai, who
nor her kindred: for the custody of and made her queen told it unto Esther the
Mordecai had charged Shaashgaz, the king’s instead of Vashti. queen; and Esther
her that she should not chamberlain, which kept 18
Then the king made a certified the king
shew it. 11And Mordecai the concubines: she great feast unto all his thereof in Mordecai’s
walked every day before came in unto the king no princes and his servants, name. 23
And when
the court of the women’s more, except the king even Esther’s feast; and inquisition was made of
house, to knowb how delighted in her, and he made a released to the matter, it was found
Esther did, and what that she were called by the provinces, and gave out; therefore they
should become of her. name. 15Now when the gifts, according to the were both hanged on a
12
Now when every maid’s turn of Esther, the state of the king. 19And tree: and it was written
turn was come to go in daughter of Abihail the when the virgins were in the book of the
to king Ahasuerus, after uncle of Mordecai, who gathered together the chronicles before the
that she had been had taken her for his second time, then king.
twelve months, daughter, was come to Mordecai sat in the
according to the manner go in unto the king, she king’s gate. 20Esther had Chapter 3
of the women, (for so required nothing but not yet shewed her
were the days of their what Hegai the king’s kindred nor her people;
1
After these things
purifications chamberlain, the keeper as Mordecai had charged did king Ahasuerus
accomplished, to wit, six of the women, her: for Esther did the promote Haman the son
months with oil of myrrh, appointed. And Esther commandment of of Hammedatha the
and six months with obtained favour in the Mordecai, like as when Agagite, and advanced
sweet odours, and with sight of all them that she was brought up with him, and set his seat
other things for the looked upon her. 16So him. above all the princes
purifying of the women;) Esther was taken unto 21
In those days, while that were with him.
13
Then thus came every king Ahasuerus into his Mordecai sat in the
2
And all the king’s
maiden unto the king; house royal in the tenth king’s gate, two of the servants, that were in
whatsoever she desired month, which is the king’s chamberlains, the king’s gate, bowed,
was given her to go with month Tebeth, in the Bigthane and Teresh, of and reverenced Haman:
her out of the house of seventh year of his those which kept the for the king had so
the women unto the reign. 17And the king commanded concerning
c
loved Esther above all favour: or, kindness him. But Mordecai
b d
to know...: Heb. to know the the women, and she release: Heb. rest bowed not, nor did him
e
peace Bigthan: also called, Bigthana
reverence. 3Then the to day, and from month good to thee. 12Then was published unto all
king’s servants, which to month, to the twelfth were the king’s scribesb people, that they
were in the king’s gate, month, that is, the called on the thirteenth should be ready against
said unto Mordecai, Why month Adar. 8
And day of the first month, that day. 15The posts
transgressest thou the Haman said unto king and there was written went out, being
king’s commandment? Ahasuerus, There is a according to all that hastened by the king’s
4
Now it came to pass, certain people scattered Haman had commanded commandment, and the
when they spake daily abroad and dispersed unto the king’s decree was given in
unto him, and he among the people in all lieutenants, and to the Shushan the palace.
hearkened not unto the provinces of thy governors that were over And the king and
them, that they told kingdom; and their laws every province, and to Haman sat down to
Haman, to see whether are diverse from all the rulers of every drink; but the city
Mordecai’s matters people; neither keep people of every province Shushan was
would stand: for he had they the king’s laws: according to the writing perplexed.
told them that he was a therefore it is not for the thereof, and to every
Jew. 5And when Haman king’s profit to suffer people after their Chapter 4
saw that Mordecai them. 9If it please the language; in the name of
bowed not, nor did him king, let it be written king Ahasuerus was it
1
When Mordecai
reverence, then was that they may be written, and sealed with perceived all that was
Haman full of wrath. destroyed: and I will pay the king’s ring. 13
And done, Mordecai rent his
6
And he thought scorn to ten thousand talents of the letters were sent by clothes, and put on
lay hands on Mordecai silver to the hands of posts into all the king’s sackcloth with ashes,
alone; for they had those that have the provinces, to destroy, to and went out into the
shewed him the people charge of the business, kill, and to cause to midst of the city, and
of Mordecai: wherefore to bring it into the king’s perish, all Jews, both cried with a loud and a
Haman sought to destroy treasuries. 10
And the young and old, little bitter cry; 2And came
all the Jews that were king took his ring from children and women, in even before the king’s
throughout the whole his hand, and gave it one day, even upon the gate: for none might
kingdom of Ahasuerus, unto Haman the son of thirteenth day of the enter into the king’s
even the people of Hammedatha the twelfth month, which is gate clothed with
Mordecai. Agagite, the Jews’ the month Adar, and to sackcloth. 3And in every
7
In the first month, enemya. 11And the king take the spoil of them for province, whithersoever
that is, the month Nisan, said unto Haman, The a prey. 14The copy of the the king’s
in the twelfth year of silver is given to thee, writing for a commandment and his
king Ahasuerus, they the people also, to do commandment to be decree came, there was
cast Pur, that is, the lot, with them as it seemeth given in every province great mourning among
before Haman from day the Jews, and fasting,
a b
enemy: or, oppressor scribes: or, secretaries
and weeping, and treasuries for the Jews, they told to Mordecai Esther had commanded
wailing; and many lay in
a
to destroy them. 8Also he Esther’s words. 13Then him.
sackcloth and ashes. 4So gave him the copy of the Mordecai commanded to
Esther’s maids and her writing of the decree answer Esther, Think not Chapter 5
chamberlainsb came and that was given at with thyself that thou
told it her. Then was the Shushan to destroy shalt escape in the
1
Now it came to pass
queen exceedingly them, to shew it unto king’s house, more than on the third day, that
grieved; and she sent Esther, and to declare it all the Jews. 14For if thou Esther put on her royal
raiment to clothe unto her, and to charge altogether holdest thy apparel, and stood in
Mordecai, and to take her that she should go in peace at this time, then the inner court of the
away his sackcloth from unto the king, to make shall there enlargementd king’s house, over
him: but he received it supplication unto him, and deliverance arise to against the king’s
not. and to make request the Jews from another house: and the king sat
5
Then called Esther before him for her place; but thou and thy upon his royal throne in
for Hatach, one of the people. 9
And Hatach father’s house shall be the royal house, over
king’s chamberlains, came and told Esther the destroyed: and who against the gate of the
whom he had appointedc words of Mordecai. knoweth whether thou house. 2And it was so,
to attend upon her, and 10
Again Esther spake art come to the kingdom when the king saw
gave him a unto Hatach, and gave for such a time as this? Esther the queen
commandment to him commandment unto 15
Then Esther bade them standing in the court,
Mordecai, to know what Mordecai; 11All the king’s return Mordecai this that she obtained
it was, and why it was. servants, and the people answer, 16
Go, gather favour in his sight: and
6
So Hatach went forth to of the king’s provinces, together all the Jews that the king held out to
Mordecai unto the street do know, that are presente in Shushan, Esther the golden
of the city, which was whosoever, whether man and fast ye for me, and sceptre that was in his
before the king’s gate. or woman, shall come neither eat nor drink hand. So Esther drew
7
And Mordecai told him unto the king into the three days, night or day: near, and touched the
of all that had happened inner court, who is not I also and my maidens top of the sceptre.
unto him, and of the sum called, there is one law will fast likewise; and so
3
Then said the king
of the money that of his to put him to will I go in unto the king, unto her, What wilt
Haman had promised to death, except such to which is not according to thou, queen Esther?
pay to the king’s whom the king shall hold the law: and if I perish, I and what is thy
out the golden sceptre, perish. 17
So Mordecai request? it shall be
a
many...: Heb. sackcloth and that he may live: but I went his way, and did even given thee to the
ashes were laid under many have not been called to according to all that half of the kingdom.
b
chamberlains: Heb. eunuchs come in unto the king
4
And Esther answered,
c d
appointed...: Heb. set before these thirty days. 12And enlargement: Heb. respiration If it seem good unto the
e
her present: Heb. found
king, let the king and when Haman saw Let a gallowsc be made him.
Haman come this day Mordecai in the king’s of fifty cubits high, and 4
And the king said,
unto the banquet that I gate, that he stood not to morrow speak thou Who is in the court?
have prepared for him. up, nor moved for him, unto the king that Now Haman was come
5
Then the king said, he was full of indignation Mordecai may be hanged into the outward court
Cause Haman to make against Mordecai. thereon: then go thou in of the king’s house, to
haste, that he may do as 10
Nevertheless Haman merrily with the king speak unto the king to
Esther hath said. So the refrained himself: and unto the banquet. And hang Mordecai on the
king and Haman came to when he came home, he the thing pleased gallows that he had
the banquet that Esther sent and calledb for his Haman; and he caused prepared for him. 5And
had prepared. 6And the friends, and Zeresh his the gallows to be made. the king’s servants said
king said unto Esther at wife. 11And Haman told unto him, Behold,
the banquet of wine, them of the glory of his Chapter 6 Haman standeth in the
What is thy petition? and riches, and the multitude court. And the king
it shall be granted thee: of his children, and all On that night could
1
said, Let him come in.
and what is thy request? the things wherein the not the king sleep, and 6
So Haman came in.
even to the half of the king had promoted him, he commanded to bring And the king said unto
kingdom it shall be and how he had the book of records of him, What shall be done
performed. 7
Then advanced him above the the chronicles; and they unto the man whom the
answered Esther, and princes and servants of were read before the kingb delighteth to
said, My petition and my the king. 12Haman said king. 2And it was found honour? Now Haman
request is; 8If I have moreover, Yea, Esther written, that Mordecai thought in his heart, To
found favour in the sight the queen did let no man had told of Bigthanaa whom would the king
of the king, and if it come in with the king and Teresh, two of the delight to do honour
please the king to grant unto the banquet that king’s chamberlains, the more than to myself?
my petition, and to she had prepared but keepers of the door, who 7
And Haman answered
performa my request, let myself; and to morrow sought to lay hand on the king, For the man
the king and Haman am I invited unto her the king Ahasuerus. whom the kingc
come to the banquet also with the king. 13Yet
3
And the king said, What delighteth to honour,
that I shall prepare for all this availeth me honour and dignity hath 8
Let the royal apparel
them, and I will do to nothing, so long as I see been done to Mordecai be brought which the
morrow as the king hath Mordecai the Jew sitting for this? Then said the
b
said. at the king’s gate. 14Then king’s servants that whom the king...: Heb. in
9
Then went Haman said Zeresh his wife and ministered unto him, whose honour the king
forth that day joyful and all his friends unto him, There is nothing done for delighteth
c
with a glad heart: but whom the king...: Heb. in
c
gallows: Heb. tree whose honour the king
a b a
perform: Heb. do called...: Heb. caused to come Bigthana: also called, Bigthan delighteth
king useth to wear, and Thus shall it be done on the second day at the The adversaryc and
the horse that the king unto the man whom the banquet of wine, What is enemy is this wicked
rideth upon, and the king delighteth to thy petition, queen Haman. Then Haman
crown royal which is set honour. Esther? and it shall be was afraid before the
upon his head: 9And let 12
And Mordecai came granted thee: and what king and the queen.
this apparel and horse again to the king’s gate. is thy request? and it 7
And the king arising
be delivered to the hand But Haman hasted to his shall be performed, even from the banquet of
of one of the king’s most house mourning, and to the half of the wine in his wrath went
noble princes, that they having his head covered. kingdom. 3Then Esther into the palace garden:
may array the man 13
And Haman told Zeresh the queen answered and and Haman stood up to
withal whom the king his wife and all his said, If I have found make request for his life
delighteth to honour, friends every thing that favour in thy sight, O to Esther the queen; for
and bringd him on had befallen him. Then king, and if it please the he saw that there was
horseback through the said his wise men and king, let my life be given evil determined against
street of the city, and Zeresh his wife unto him, me at my petition, and him by the king. 8Then
proclaim before him, If Mordecai be of the my people at my the king returned out of
Thus shall it be done to seed of the Jews, before request: 4For we are the palace garden into
the man whom the king whom thou hast begun sold, I and my people, to the place of the
delighteth to honour. to fall, thou shalt not be destroyedb, to be banquet of wine; and
10
Then the king said to prevail against him, but slain, and to perish. But Haman was fallen upon
Haman, Make haste, and shalt surely fall before if we had been sold for the bed whereon Esther
take the apparel and the him. 14And while they bondmen and was. Then said the king,
horse, as thou hast said, were yet talking with bondwomen, I had held Will he force the queen
and do even so to him, came the king’s my tongue, although the also before me in the
Mordecai the Jew, that chamberlains, and enemy could not house? As the word
sitteth at the king’s gate: hasted to bring Haman countervail the king’s went out of the king’s
let nothing fail of all that unto the banquet that damage. 5Then the king mouth, they covered
thou hast spoken. Esther had prepared. Ahasuerus answered and Haman’s face. 9
And
11
Then took Haman the said unto Esther the Harbonah, one of the
apparel and the horse, Chapter 7 queen, Who is he, and chamberlains, said
and arrayed Mordecai, where is he, that durst before the king, Behold
and brought him on So the king and
1
presume in his heart to also, the gallowsd fifty
horseback through the Haman came to do so? 6And Esther said, cubits high, which
street of the city, and banquet with Esther the
a
Haman had made for
proclaimed before him, queen. 2
And the king
b c
said again unto Esther to be destroyed...: Heb. that The adversary: Heb. The
d
bring...: Heb. cause him to they should destroy, and kill, man adversary
a d
ride to banquet: Heb. to drink and cause to perish gallows: Heb. tree
Mordecai, who had that he had devised his hand upon the Jews. letters by posts on
spoken good for the against the Jews. 4Then 8
Write ye also for the horseback, and riders
king, standeth in the the king held out the Jews, as it liketh you, in on mules, camels, and
house of Haman. Then golden sceptre toward the king’s name, and young dromedaries:
the king said, Hang him Esther. So Esther arose, seal it with the king’s 11
Wherein the king
thereon. 10
So they and stood before the ring: for the writing granted the Jews which
hanged Haman on the king, 5And said, If it which is written in the were in every city to
gallows that he had please the king, and if I king’s name, and sealed gather themselves
prepared for Mordecai. have found favour in his with the king’s ring, may together, and to stand
Then was the king’s sight, and the thing no man reverse. 9Then for their life, to destroy,
wrath pacified. seem right before the were the king’s scribes to slay, and to cause to
king, and I be pleasing in called at that time in the perish, all the power of
Chapter 8 his eyes, let it be written third month, that is, the the people and province
to reverse the letters month Sivan, on the that would assault
1
On that day did the devisedb by Haman the three and twentieth day them, both little ones
king Ahasuerus give the son of Hammedatha the thereof; and it was and women, and to
house of Haman the Agagite, which he wrote written according to all take the spoil of them
Jews’ enemy unto Esther to destroy the Jews that Mordecai for a prey, 12Upon one
the queen. And Mordecai which are in all the commanded unto the day in all the provinces
came before the king; for king’s provinces: 6
For Jews, and to the of king Ahasuerus,
Esther had told what he how can I endure to see
c
lieutenants, and the namely, upon the
was unto her. 2And the the evil that shall come deputies and rulers of thirteenth day of the
king took off his ring, unto my people? or how the provinces which are twelfth month, which is
which he had taken from can I endure to see the from India unto Ethiopia, the month Adar. 13The
Haman, and gave it unto destruction of my an hundred twenty and copy of the writing for a
Mordecai. And Esther set kindred? Then the king
7
seven provinces, unto commandment to be
Mordecai over the house Ahasuerus said unto every province according given in every province
of Haman. Esther the queen and to to the writing thereof, was publishedd unto all
3
And Esther spake yet Mordecai the Jew, and unto every people people, and that the
again before the king, Behold, I have given after their language, and Jews should be ready
and fell down at his feet, Esther the house of to the Jews according to against that day to
and besoughta him with Haman, and him they their writing, and avenge themselves on
tears to put away the have hanged upon the according to their their enemies. 14So the
mischief of Haman the gallows, because he laid language. 10And he wrote posts that rode upon
Agagite, and his device in the king Ahasuerus’ mules and camels went
b
devised: Heb. the device name, and sealed it with out, being hastened
a c
and besought...: Heb. and she endure...: Heb. be able that I the king’s ring, and sent d
wept, and besought him may see published: Heb. revealed
and pressed on by the commandment and his Jews smote all their be granted thee: or
king’s commandment. decree drew near to be enemies with the stroke what is thy request
And the decree was put in execution, in the of the sword, and further? and it shall be
given at Shushan the day that the enemies of slaughter, and done. 13
Then said
palace. the Jews hoped to have destruction, and did Esther, If it please the
15
And Mordecai went power over them, what they would unto king, let it be granted to
out from the presence of (though it was turned to those that hated them. the Jews which are in
the king in royal apparel the contrary, that the 6
And in Shushan the Shushan to do to
of bluee and white, and Jews had rule over them palace the Jews slew and morrow also according
with a great crown of that hated them;) 2The destroyed five hundred unto this day’s decree,
gold, and with a garment Jews gathered men. 7And Parshandatha, and let Haman’sb ten
of fine linen and purple: themselves together in and Dalphon, and sons be hanged upon
and the city of Shushan their cities throughout all Aspatha, 8And Poratha, the gallows. 14And the
rejoiced and was glad. the provinces of the king and Adalia, and Aridatha, king commanded it so
16
The Jews had light, and Ahasuerus, to lay hand 9
And Parmashta, and to be done: and the
gladness, and joy, and on such as sought their Arisai, and Aridai, and decree was given at
honour. 17And in every hurt: and no man could Vajezatha, 10
The ten Shushan; and they
province, and in every withstand them; for the sons of Haman the son hanged Haman’s ten
city, whithersoever the fear of them fell upon all of Hammedatha, the sons. 15For the Jews that
king’s commandment people. 3And all the enemy of the Jews, slew were in Shushan
and his decree came, the rulers of the provinces, they; but on the spoil gathered themselves
Jews had joy and and the lieutenants, and laid they not their hand. together on the
gladness, a feast and a the deputies, and 11
On that day the fourteenth day also of
good day. And many of officers a
of the king, number of those that the month Adar, and
the people of the land helped the Jews; were slain in Shushan slew three hundred
became Jews; for the because the fear of the palace was brought men at Shushan; but on
fear of the Jews fell upon Mordecai fell upon them. before the king. 12And the prey they laid not
them. 4
For Mordecai was great the king said unto Esther their hand. 16But the
in the king’s house, and the queen, The Jews other Jews that were in
Chapter 9 his fame went out have slain and destroyed the king’s provinces
throughout all the five hundred men in gathered themselves
Now in the twelfth
1
provinces: for this man Shushan the palace, and together, and stood for
month, that is, the Mordecai waxed greater the ten sons of Haman; their lives, and had rest
month Adar, on the and greater. 5Thus the what have they done in from their enemies, and
thirteenth day of the the rest of the king’s slew of their foes
a
same, when the king’s officers...: Heb. those which provinces? now what is b
did the business that belonged thy petition? and it shall let Haman’s...: Heb. let men
e
blue: or, violet to the king hang, etc
seventy and five fourteenth day of the upon his own head, and from their seed. 29Then
thousand, but they laid month Adar, and the that he and his sons Esther the queen, the
not their hands on the fifteenth day of the should be hanged on the daughter of Abihail, and
prey, 17On the thirteenth same, yearly, 22As the gallows. 26
Wherefore Mordecai the Jew, wrote
day of the month Adar; days wherein the Jews they called these days with all authorityh, to
and on the fourteenth rested from their Purim after the name of confirm this second
day of the same rested enemies, and the month Pure. Therefore for all the letter of Purim. 30And
they, and made it a day which was turned unto words of this letter, and he sent the letters unto
of feasting and gladness. them from sorrow to joy, of that which they had all the Jews, to the
18
But the Jews that were and from mourning into seen concerning this hundred twenty and
at Shushan assembled a good day: that they matter, and which had seven provinces of the
together on the should make them days come unto them, 27The kingdom of Ahasuerus,
thirteenth day thereof, of feasting and joy, and Jews ordained, and took with words of peace
and on the fourteenth of sending portions one upon them, and upon and truth, 31To confirm
thereof; and on the to another, and gifts to their seed, and upon all these days of Purim in
fifteenth day of the same the poor. 23And the Jews such as joined their times appointed,
they rested, and made it undertook to do as they themselves unto them, according as Mordecai
a day of feasting and had begun, and as so as it should not failf, the Jew and Esther the
gladness. 19Therefore the Mordecai had written that they would keep queen had enjoined
Jews of the villages, that unto them; 24Because these two days them, and as they had
dwelt in the unwalled Haman the son of according to their decreed for themselvesi
towns, made the Hammedatha, the writing, and according to and for their seed, the
fourteenth day of the Agagite, the enemy of all their appointed time matters of the fastings
month Adar a day of the Jews, had devised every year; 28
And that and their cry. 32And the
gladness and feasting, against the Jews to these days should be decree of Esther
and a good day, and of destroy them, and had remembered and kept confirmed these
sending portions one to cast Pur, that is, the lot, throughout every matters of Purim; and it
another. to consumec them, and generation, every family, was written in the book.
20
And Mordecai wrote to destroy them; 25But every province, and
these things, and sent when Esther camed every city; and that Chapter 10
letters unto all the Jews before the king, he these days of Purim
that were in all the commanded by letters should not failg from
1
And the king
provinces of the king that his wicked device, among the Jews, nor the Ahasuerus laid a tribute
Ahasuerus, both nigh which he devised against memorial of them perish upon the land, and
and far, 21To stablish this the Jews, should return upon the isles of the
e
among them, that they Pur: that is, Lot
c f h
should keep the consume: Heb. crush fail: Heb. pass authority: Heb. strength
d g i
when...: Heb. when she came fail: Heb. pass themselves: Heb. their souls
sea. 2And all the acts of substancea also was LORD, and Satanc came 12
And the LORD said
his power and of his seven thousand sheep, also among them. 7And unto Satan, Behold, all
might, and the and three thousand the LORD said unto that he hath is in thy
declaration of the camels, and five hundred Satan, Whence comest powerf; only upon
greatness of Mordecai, yoke of oxen, and five thou? Then Satan himself put not forth
whereunto the king hundred she asses, and answered the LORD, and thine hand. So Satan
advanceda him, are they a very great household; said, From going to and went forth from the
not written in the book of so that this man was the fro in the earth, and from presence of the LORD.
the chronicles of the greatest of all the men of walking up and down in 13
And there was a
kings of Media and the east. it. 8And the LORD said day when his sons and
Persia? 3For Mordecai 4
And his sons went unto Satan, Hast thou his daughters were
the Jew was next unto and feasted in their consideredd my servant eating and drinking
king Ahasuerus, and houses, every one his Job, that there is none wine in their eldest
great among the Jews, day; and sent and called like him in the earth, a brother’s house: 14And
and accepted of the for their three sisters to perfect and an upright there came a
multitude of his eat and to drink with man, one that feareth messenger unto Job,
brethren, seeking the them. 5And it was so, God, and escheweth and said, The oxen
wealth of his people, and when the days of their evil? 9
Then Satan were plowing, and the
speaking peace to all his feasting were gone answered the LORD, and asses feeding beside
seed. about, that Job sent and said, Doth Job fear God them: 15
And the
sanctified them, and for nought? 10Hast not Sabeans fell upon them,
Job rose up early in the thou made an hedge and took them away;
morning, and offered about him, and about his yea, they have slain the
Chapter 1 burnt offerings house, and about all that servants with the edge
according to the number he hath on every side? of the sword; and I only
There was a man in
1
of them all: for Job said, thou hast blessed the am escaped alone to
the land of Uz, whose It may be that my sons work of his hands, and tell thee. 16While he
name was Job; and that have sinned, and cursed his substancee is was yet speaking, there
man was perfect and God in their hearts. Thus increased in the land. came also another, and
upright, and one that did Job continuallyb. 11
But put forth thine said, The fireg of God is
feared God, and 6
Now there was a day hand now, and touch all fallen from heaven, and
eschewed evil. 2
And when the sons of God that he hath, and he will hath burned up the
there were born unto came to present curse thee to thy face. sheep, and the
him seven sons and themselves before the c
servants, and
three daughters. 3His Satan: Heb. the adversary consumed them; and I
d
considered: Heb. set thy heart
a a f
advanced...: Heb. made him substance: or, cattle on power: Heb. hand
b e g
great continually: Heb. all the days substance: or, cattle The fire...: or, A great fire
only am escaped alone said, Naked came I out God, and escheweth speaketh. What? shall
to tell thee. 17While he of my mother’s womb, evil? and still he holdeth we receive good at the
was yet speaking, there and naked shall I return fast his integrity, hand of God, and shall
came also another, and thither: the LORD gave, although thou movedst we not receive evil? In
said, The Chaldeans and the LORD hath taken me against him, to all this did not Job sin
made out three bands, away; blessed be the destroya him without with his lips.
and fellh upon the name of the LORD. 22In cause. 4
And Satan 11
Now when Job’s
camels, and have carried all this Job sinned not, answered the LORD, and three friends heard of
them away, yea, and nor chargedk God said, Skin for skin, yea, all this evil that was
slain the servants with foolishly. all that a man hath will come upon him, they
the edge of the sword; he give for his life. 5But came every one from
and I only am escaped Chapter 2 put forth thine hand his own place; Eliphaz
alone to tell thee. now, and touch his bone the Temanite, and
18
While he was yet
1
Again there was a and his flesh, and he will Bildad the Shuhite, and
speaking, there came day when the sons of curse thee to thy face. Zophar the Naamathite:
also another, and said, God came to present 6
And the LORD said unto for they had made an
Thy sons and thy themselves before the Satan, Behold, he is in appointment together
daughters were eating LORD, and Satan came thine hand; but save his to come to mourn with
and drinking wine in also among them to life. him and to comfort him.
their eldest brother’s present himself before 7
So went Satan forth 12
And when they lifted
house: 19And, behold, the LORD. 2And the from the presence of the up their eyes afar off,
there came a great wind LORD said unto Satan, LORD, and smote Job and knew him not, they
fromi the wilderness, and From whence comest with sore boils from the lifted up their voice,
smote the four corners thou? And Satan sole of his foot unto his and wept; and they rent
of the house, and it fell answered the LORD, and crown. 8And he took him every one his mantle,
upon the young men, said, From going to and a potsherd to scrape and sprinkled dust upon
and they are dead; and I fro in the earth, and from himself withal; and he their heads toward
only am escaped alone walking up and down in sat down among the heaven. 13
So they sat
to tell thee. it. 3And the LORD said ashes. 9Then said his down with him upon the
20
Then Job arose, and unto Satan, Hast thou wife unto him, Dost thou ground seven days and
rent his mantlej, and considered my servant still retain thine seven nights, and none
shaved his head, and fell Job, that there is none integrity? curse God, and spake a word unto him:
down upon the ground, like him in the earth, a die. 10But he said unto for they saw that his
and worshipped, 21And perfect and an upright her, Thou speakest as grief was very great.
man, one that feareth one of the foolish women
h
fell: Heb. rushed Chapter 3
i k a
from...: Heb. from aside, etc charged...: or, attributed folly to destroy...: Heb. to swallow
j
mantle: or, robe to God him up
1
After this opened Job the day: 10
Because it there; and the servant is thou be grieved? but
his mouth, and cursed shut not up the doors of free from his master. who can withhold
his day. 2And Job spakea, my mother’s womb, nor 20
Wherefore is light himself from speaking?
and said, 3Let the day hid sorrow from mine given to him that is in 3
Behold, thou hast
perish wherein I was eyes. misery, and life unto the instructed many, and
born, and the night in 11
Why died I not from bitter in soul; 21Which thou hast strengthened
which it was said, There the womb? why did I not longe for death, but it the weak hands. 4Thy
is a man child conceived. give up the ghost when I cometh not; and dig for words have upholden
4
Let that day be came out of the belly? it more than for hid him that was falling,
darkness; let not God 12
Why did the knees treasures; 22
Which and thou hast
regard it from above, prevent me? or why the rejoice exceedingly, and strengthened the feeble
neither let the light shine breasts that I should are glad, when they can knees. 5But now it is
upon it. 5Let darkness suck? 13For now should I find the grave? 23Why is come upon thee, and
and the shadow of death have lain still and been light given to a man thou faintest; it
stainb it; let a cloud dwell quiet, I should have whose way is hid, and toucheth thee, and thou
upon it; let the blackness slept: then had I been at whom God hath hedged art troubled. 6Is not this
of the day terrify it. 6As rest, 14With kings and in? 24For my sighing thy fear, thy
for that night, let counsellors of the earth, cometh before I eatf, and confidence, thy hope,
darkness seize upon it; which built desolate my roarings are poured and the uprightness of
let it not be joined unto places for themselves; out like the waters. 25For thy ways?
the days of the year, let 15
Or with princes that the thing which I greatly 7
Remember, I pray
it not come into the had gold, who filled their feared is come upon me, thee, who ever
number of the months. houses with silver: 16Or and that which I was perished, being
7
Lo, let that night be as an hidden untimely afraid of is come unto innocent? or where
solitary, let no joyful birth I had not been; as me. 26
I was not in were the righteous cut
voice come therein. 8Let infants which never saw safety, neither had I rest, off? 8Even as I have
them curse it that curse light. 17There the wicked neither was I quiet; yet seen, they that plow
the day, who are ready cease from troubling; trouble came. iniquity, and sow
to raise up their and there the wearyd be wickedness, reap the
mourning. Let the stars
9
at rest. 18
There the Chapter 4 same. 9By the blast of
of the twilight thereof be prisoners rest together; God they perish, and by
dark; let it look for light, they hear not the voice Then
1
Eliphaz the the breatha of his
but have none; neither of the oppressor. 19The Temanite answered and nostrils are they
let it see the dawningc of small and great are said, 2If we assay to consumed. 10
The
commune with thee, wilt roaring of the lion, and
a
spake: Heb. answered eyelids of the morning
b d e a
stain: or, challenge weary: Heb. wearied in long: Heb. wait by the breath...: that is, by
c f
the dawning...: Heb. the strength I eat: Heb. my meat his anger
the voice of the fierce clay, whose foundation and the robber froward is carried
lion, and the teeth of the is in the dust, which are swalloweth up their headlong. They meetg
14

young lions, are broken. crushed before the substance. with darkness in the
11
The old lion perisheth moth? 20
They are 6
Although afflictionc daytime, and grope in
for lack of prey, and the destroyedc from morning cometh not forth of the the noonday as in the
stout lion’s whelps are to evening: they perish dust, neither doth night. 15But he saveth
scattered abroad. for ever without any trouble spring out of the the poor from the
12
Now a thing was regarding it. 21Doth not ground; 7
Yet man is sword, from their
secretly brought to me, their excellency which is born unto troubled, as mouth, and from the
and mine ear received a in them go away? they the sparks fly upward. hand of the mighty. 16So
little thereof. 13
In die, even without 8
I would seek unto God, the poor hath hope, and
thoughts from the wisdom. and unto God would I iniquity stoppeth her
visions of the night, commit my cause: mouth.
when deep sleep falleth Chapter 5 9
Which doeth great 17
Behold, happy is
on men, 14Fear cameb things and the man whom God
upon me, and trembling,
1
Call now, if there be unsearchable ; e
correcteth: therefore
which made all my any that will answer marvellous things despise not thou the
bones to shake. 15Then thee; and to which of the without number: 10Who chastening of the
a spirit passed before my saints wilt thou turna? giveth rain upon the Almighty: 18
For he
face; the hair of my flesh
2
For wrath killeth the earth, and sendeth maketh sore, and
stood up: 16It stood still, foolish man, and envyb waters upon the fieldsf: bindeth up: he
but I could not discern slayeth the silly one. 3I 11
To set up on high those woundeth, and his
the form thereof: an have seen the foolish that be low; that those hands make whole. 19He
image was before mine taking root: but suddenly which mourn may be shall deliver thee in six
eyes, there was silence, I cursed his habitation. exalted to safety. 12He troubles: yea, in seven
and I heard a voice,
4
His children are far from disappointeth the there shall no evil touch
saying, 17
Shall mortal safety, and they are devices of the crafty, so thee. 20In famine he
man be more just than crushed in the gate, that their hands cannot shall redeem thee from
God? shall a man be neither is there any to perform their enterprise. death: and in war from
more pure than his deliver them. 5Whose 13
He taketh the wise in the powerh of the
maker? 18Behold, he put harvest the hungry their own craftiness: and sword. 21Thou shalt be
no trust in his servants; eateth up, and taketh it the counsel of the hid from the scourge of
and his angels he even out of the thorns, the tongue: neither
c
charged with folly: affliction: or, iniquity shalt thou be afraid of
c d
19
How much less in them destroyed: Heb. beaten in trouble: or, labour destruction when it
e
that dwell in houses of pieces unsearchable: Heb. there is no
a g
turn: or, look? search meet...: or, run into
b b f h
came...: Heb. met envy: or, indignation fields: Heb. outplaces power: Heb. hands
cometh. 22At destruction weighed, and my yet have comfort; yea, I nothing, and perish.
and famine thou shalt calamity laid a
in the would harden myself in 19
The troops of Tema
laugh: neither shalt thou balances together! 3For sorrow: let him not looked, the companies
be afraid of the beasts of now it would be heavier spare; for I have not of Sheba waited for
the earth. 23For thou than the sand of the sea: concealed the words of them. 20
They were
shalt be in league with therefore my wordsb are the Holy One. 11What is confounded because
the stones of the field: swallowed up. 4For the my strength, that I they had hoped; they
and the beasts of the arrows of the Almighty should hope? and what came thither, and were
field shall be at peace are within me, the is mine end, that I should ashamed. 21For now ye
with thee. 24And thou poison whereof drinketh prolong my life? 12Is my are nothing; ye see my
shalt know that thy up my spirit: the terrors strength the strength of casting down, and are
tabernaclei shall be in of God do set stones? or is my flesh of afraid.
peace; and thou shalt themselves in array brassc? 13Is not my help 22
Did I say, Bring
visit thy habitation, and against me. 5Doth the in me? and is wisdom unto me? or, Give a
shalt not sin. 25
Thou wild ass bray when he driven quite from me? reward for me of your
shalt know also that thy hath grass? or loweth 14
To him that is substance? 23Or, Deliver
seed shall be greatj, and the ox over his fodder? afflictedd pity should be me from the enemy’s
thine offspring as the 6
Can that which is shewed from his friend; hand? or, Redeem me
grass of the earth. unsavoury be eaten but he forsaketh the fear from the hand of the
26
Thou shalt come to thy without salt? or is there of the Almighty. 15
My mighty? 24Teach me,
grave in a full age, like any taste in the white of brethren have dealt and I will hold my
as a shock of corn an egg? 7The things that deceitfully as a brook, tongue: and cause me
cometh ink in his season. my soul refused to touch and as the stream of to understand wherein I
27
Lo this, we have are as my sorrowful brooks they pass away; have erred. 25
How
searched it, so it is; hear meat. 16
Which are blackish by forcible are right words!
it, and know thou it for 8
Oh that I might have reason of the ice, and but what doth your
thy good. my request; and that wherein the snow is hid: arguing reprove? 26Do
God would grant me the 17
What time they wax ye imagine to reprove
Chapter 6 thing that I long for! warm, they vanishe: words, and the
9
Even that it would when it is hot, they are speeches of one that is
But Job answered
1
please God to destroy consumed out of their desperate, which are as
and said, 2Oh that my me; that he would let place. 18
The paths of wind? 27
Yea, ye
grief were throughly loose his hand, and cut their way are turned overwhelmf the
i
me off! 10Then should I aside; they go to fatherless, and ye dig a
thy tabernacle...: or, peace is pit for your friend.
a c
thy tabernacle laid: Heb. lifted up of brass: Heb. brasen?
j b d f
great: or, much my words...: that is, I want is afflicted: Heb. melteth ye overwhelm: Heb. ye cause
k e
cometh in: Heb. ascendeth words to express my grief vanish: Heb. are cut off to fall upon
28
Now therefore be flesh is clothed with chooseth strangling, and Bildad the Shuhite, and
content, look upon me; worms and clods of dust; death rather than my said, 2How long wilt
for it is evident unto you my skin is broken, and lifeb. 16I loathe it; I would thou speak these
if I lie. 29Return, I pray become loathsome. 6My not live alway: let me things? and how long
you, let it not be iniquity; days are swifter than a alone; for my days are shall the words of thy
yea, return again, my weaver’s shuttle, and vanity. mouth be like a strong
righteousness is in it. g are spent without hope. 17
What is man, that wind? 3
Doth God
30
Is there iniquity in my 7
O remember that my thou shouldest magnify pervert judgment? or
tongue? cannot my life is wind: mine eye him? and that thou doth the Almighty
taste discern perverse
h
shall no more see good. shouldest set thine heart pervert justice? 4If thy
things? 8
The eye of him that upon him? 18And that children have sinned
hath seen me shall see thou shouldest visit him against him, and he
Chapter 7 me no more: thine eyes every morning, and try have cast them away
are upon me, and I am him every moment? fora their transgression;
Is
1
there not an not. 9
As the cloud is 19
How long wilt thou not 5
If thou wouldest seek
appointed time to man consumed and vanisheth depart from me, nor let unto God betimes, and
upon earth? are not his away: so he that goeth me alone till I swallow make thy supplication
days also like the days of down to the grave shall down my spittle? 20I have to the Almighty; 6If thou
an hireling? 2
As a come up no more. 10He sinned; what shall I do wert pure and upright;
servant earnestly shall return no more to unto thee, O thou surely now he would
desireth the shadow, and his house, neither shall preserver of men? why awake for thee, and
as an hireling looketh for his place know him any hast thou set me as a make the habitation of
the reward of his work: more. 11Therefore I will mark against thee, so thy righteousness
3
So am I made to not refrain my mouth; I that I am a burden to prosperous. 7
Though
possess months of will speak in the anguish myself? 21And why dost thy beginning was
vanity, and wearisome of my spirit; I will thou not pardon my small, yet thy latter end
nights are appointed to complain in the transgression, and take should greatly increase.
me. 4When I lie down, I bitterness of my soul. away mine iniquity? for 8
For enquire, I pray
say, When shall I arise, 12
Am I a sea, or a whale, now shall I sleep in the thee, of the former age,
and the nighta be gone? that thou settest a watch dust; and thou shalt seek and prepare thyself to
and I am full of tossings over me? 13When I say, me in the morning, but I the search of their
to and fro unto the My bed shall comfort me, shall not be. fathers: 9(For we are
dawning of the day. 5My my couch shall ease my but of yesterday, and
g
complaint; 14Then thou Chapter 8 know nothing, because
in it: that is, in this matter scarest me with dreams,
h
my taste: Heb. my palate and terrifiest me through
1
Then answered
a a
the night...: Heb. the evening visions: 15So that my soul for...: Heb. in the hand of
b
be measured? life: Heb. bones their transgression
our daysb upon earth are others grow. in his anger. 6Which I answer him, and
a shadow:) 10Shall not 20
Behold, God will not shaketh the earth out of choose out my words to
they teach thee, and tell cast away a perfect man, her place, and the pillars reason with him?
thee, and utter words neither will he helpd the thereof tremble. 7Which 15
Whom, though I were
out of their heart? 11Can evil doers: 21Till he fill commandeth the sun, righteous, yet would I
the rush grow up without thy mouth with laughing, and it riseth not; and not answer, but I would
mire? can the flag grow and thy lips with sealeth up the stars. make supplication to
without water? 12Whilst it rejoicing .
e 22
They that 8
Which alone spreadeth my judge. 16If I had
is yet in his greenness, hate thee shall be out the heavens, and called, and he had
and not cut down, it clothed with shame; and treadeth upon the answered me; yet
withereth before any the dwelling place of the wavesb of the sea. would I not believe that
other herb. 13So are the wicked shall come to 9
Which maketh he had hearkened unto
paths of all that forget nought. Arcturusc, Orion, and my voice. 17For he
God; and the hypocrite’s Pleiades, and the breaketh me with a
hope shall perish: Chapter 9 chambers of the south. tempest, and
14
Whose hope shall be 10
Which doeth great multiplieth my wounds
cut off, and whose trust Then Job answered
1
things past finding out; without cause. 18He will
shall be a spider’s webc. and said, 2I know it is so yea, and wonders not suffer me to take
15
He shall lean upon his of a truth: but how without number. 11Lo, he my breath, but filleth
house, but it shall not should man be just with goeth by me, and I see me with bitterness. 19If I
stand: he shall hold it Goda? 3If he will contend him not: he passeth on speak of strength, lo,
fast, but it shall not with him, he cannot also, but I perceive him he is strong: and if of
endure. 16He is green answer him one of a not. 12Behold, he taketh judgment, who shall set
before the sun, and his thousand. 4He is wise in away, who can hinderd me a time to plead? 20If
branch shooteth forth in heart, and mighty in him? who will say unto I justify myself, mine
his garden. 17His roots strength: who hath him, What doest thou? own mouth shall
are wrapped about the hardened himself 13
If God will not withdraw condemn me: if I say, I
heap, and seeth the against him, and hath his anger, the proude am perfect, it shall also
place of stones. 18If he prospered? 5
Which helpers do stoop under prove me perverse.
destroy him from his removeth the mountains, him. 21
Though I were perfect,
place, then it shall deny and they know not: 14
How much less shall yet would I not know
him, saying, I have not which overturneth them my soul: I would
b
seen thee. 19Behold, this waves: Heb. heights despise my life.
d c
is the joy of his way, and help...: Heb. take the ungodly Arcturus...: Heb. Ash, Cesil, 22
This is one thing,
out of the earth shall by the hand and Cimah therefore I said it, He
e d
rejoicing: Heb. shouting for hinder...: Heb. turn him away? destroyeth the perfect
b e
nothing: Heb. not joy proud...: Heb. helpers of pride, and the wicked. 23If the
c a
web: Heb. house with God: or, before God? or, strength
scourge slay suddenly, should come together in man’s days, 6That thou wicked, woe unto me;
he will laugh at the trial judgment. 33Neither is enquirest after mine and if I be righteous,
of the innocent. 24The there any daysman iniquity, and searchest yet will I not lift up my
earth is given into the betwixt us, that might after my sin? 7Thou head. I am full of
hand of the wicked: he lay his hand upon us knowest that I am not confusion; therefore
covereth the faces of the both. 34Let him take his wicked; and there is see thou mine affliction;
judges thereof; if not, rod away from me, and none that can deliver out 16
For it increaseth. Thou
where, and who is he? let not his fear terrify of thine hand. huntest me as a fierce
25
Now my days are me: 35Then would I 8
Thine hands have lion: and again thou
swifter than a post: they speak, and not fear him; made me and fashioned shewest thyself
flee away, they see no but it is not so with me. me together round marvellous upon me.
good. 26They are passed about; yet thou dost 17
Thou renewest thy
away as the swiftf ships: Chapter 10 destroy me. witnessesd against me,
as the eagle that hasteth 9
Remember, I beseech and increasest thine
to the prey. 27If I say, I
1
My soul is wearya of thee, that thou hast indignation upon me;
will forget my complaint, my life; I will leave my made me as the clay; changes and war are
I will leave off my complaint upon myself; I and wilt thou bring me against me.
heaviness, and comfort will speak in the into dust again? 10Hast 18
Wherefore then hast
myself: 28I am afraid of bitterness of my soul. 2I thou not poured me out thou brought me forth
all my sorrows, I know will say unto God, Do not as milk, and curdled me out of the womb? Oh
that thou wilt not hold condemn me; shew me like cheese? 11Thou hast that I had given up the
me innocent. 29If I be wherefore thou clothed me with skin and ghost, and no eye had
wicked, why then labour contendest with me. 3Is flesh, and hast fencedc seen me! 19I should
I in vain? 30If I wash it good unto thee that me with bones and have been as though I
myself with snow water, thou shouldest oppress, sinews. 12
Thou hast had not been; I should
and make my hands that thou shouldest granted me life and have been carried from
never so clean; 31Yet despise the workb of favour, and thy visitation the womb to the grave.
shalt thou plunge me in thine hands, and shine hath preserved my spirit. 20
Are not my days few?
the ditch, and mine own upon the counsel of the 13
And these things hast cease then, and let me
clothes shall abhorg me. wicked? 4Hast thou eyes thou hid in thine heart: I alone, that I may take
32
For he is not a man, as of flesh? or seest thou as know that this is with comfort a little, 21Before
I am, that I should man seeth? 5Are thy thee. I go whence I shall not
answer him, and we days as the days of 14
If I sin, then thou return, even to the land
man? are thy years as markest me, and thou of darkness and the
f
swift...: or, ships of Ebeh: wilt not acquit me from shadow of death; 22A
a
Heb. ships of desire weary...: or, cut off while I mine iniquity. 15If I be land of darkness, as
g
abhor...: or, make me to be live
b c d
abhorred work: Heb. labour fenced: Heb. hedged witnesses: that is, plagues
darkness itself; and of Almighty unto waters that pass away: mocked of his
the shadow of death, perfection? It is as highb
8 17
And thine age shall be neighbour, who calleth
without any order, and as heaven; what canst clearer than the upon God, and he
where the light is as thou do? deeper than noonday; thou shalt answereth him: the just
darkness. hell; what canst thou shine forth, thou shalt be upright man is laughed
know? 9
The measure as the morning. 18And to scorn. 5He that is
Chapter 11 thereof is longer than thou shalt be secure, ready to slip with his
the earth, and broader because there is hope; feet is as a lamp
Then
1
answered than the sea. 10If he cut yea, thou shalt dig about despised in the thought
Zophar the Naamathite, off, and shut up, or thee, and thou shalt take of him that is at ease.
and said, 2Should not the gather together, then thy rest in safety. 19Also 6
The tabernacles of
multitude of words be who can hinder him? thou shalt lie down, and robbers prosper, and
answered? and should a 11
For he knoweth vain none shall make thee they that provoke God
man full of talk be men: he seeth afraid; yea, many shall are secure; into whose
justified? 3
Should thy wickedness also; will he make suitd unto thee. hand God bringeth
lies a
make men hold not then consider it? 20
But the eyes of the abundantly. 7
But ask
their peace? and when 12
For vainc man would be wicked shall fail, and now the beasts, and
thou mockest, shall no wise, though man be they shall not escape, they shall teach thee;
man make thee born like a wild ass’s and their hope shall be and the fowls of the air,
ashamed? 4
For thou colt. as the giving up of the and they shall tell thee:
hast said, My doctrine is 13
If thou prepare thine ghost. 8
Or speak to the earth,
pure, and I am clean in heart, and stretch out and it shall teach thee:
thine eyes. 5But oh that thine hands toward him; Chapter 12 and the fishes of the
God would speak, and 14
If iniquity be in thine sea shall declare unto
open his lips against hand, put it far away, And Job answered
1
thee. 9Who knoweth not
thee; 6And that he would and let not wickedness and said, 2No doubt but in all these that the
shew thee the secrets of dwell in thy tabernacles. ye are the people, and hand of the LORD hath
wisdom, that they are 15
For then shalt thou lift wisdom shall die with wrought this? 10
In
double to that which is! up thy face without spot; you. 3
But I have whose hand is the soulb
Know therefore that God yea, thou shalt be understanding as well
a
of every living thing,
exacteth of thee less stedfast, and shalt not as you; I am not inferior and the breath of all
than thine iniquity fear: 16
Because thou to you: yea, who mankind. 11
Doth not
deserveth. shalt forget thy misery, knoweth not such things the ear try words? and
7
Canst thou by and remember it as as these? 4
I am as one the mouthc taste his
searching find out God? meat?
b d
canst thou find out the as high...: Heb. the heights of make suit...: Heb. intreat thy
b
heaven face soul: or, life
a c a c
lies: or, devices vain: Heb. empty understanding: Heb. an heart mouth: Heb. palate
With the ancient is
12
and weakenethf the reason with God. 4But ye him: but I will maintaina
wisdom; and in length of strength of the mighty. are forgers of lies, ye are mine own ways before
days understanding. 22
He discovereth deep all physicians of no him. 16He also shall be
13
With him is wisdom and things out of darkness, value. 5O that ye would my salvation: for an
strength, he hath and bringeth out to light altogether hold your hypocrite shall not
counsel and the shadow of death. peace! and it should be come before him.
understanding. 14Behold, 23
He increaseth the your wisdom. 6Hear now 17
Hear diligently my
he breaketh down, and it nations, and destroyeth my reasoning, and speech, and my
cannot be built again: he them: he enlargeth the hearken to the pleadings declaration with your
shutteth upd a man, and nations, and straitenethg of my lips. 7Will ye speak ears. 18Behold now, I
there can be no opening. them again. 24He taketh wickedly for God? and have ordered my cause;
15
Behold, he withholdeth away the heart of the talk deceitfully for him? I know that I shall be
the waters, and they dry chief of the people of the 8
Will ye accept his justified. 19Who is he
up: also he sendeth earth, and causeth them person? will ye contend that will plead with me?
them out, and they to wander in a for God? 9Is it good that for now, if I hold my
overturn the earth. wilderness where there he should search you tongue, I shall give up
16
With him is strength is no way. 25They grope out? or as one man the ghost. 20Only do not
and wisdom: the in the dark without light, mocketh another, do ye two things unto me:
deceived and the and he maketh them to so mock him? 10He will then will I not hide
deceiver are his. 17
He staggerh like a drunken surely reprove you, if ye myself from thee.
leadeth counsellors away man. do secretly accept 21
Withdraw thine hand
spoiled, and maketh the persons. Shall not his
11
far from me: and let not
judges fools. 18He looseth Chapter 13 excellency make you thy dread make me
the bond of kings, and afraid? and his dread fall afraid. 22Then call thou,
girdeth their loins with a Lo, mine eye hath
1
upon you? 12
Your and I will answer: or let
girdle. 19
He leadeth seen all this, mine ear remembrances are like me speak, and answer
princes away spoiled, hath heard and unto ashes, your bodies thou me.
and overthroweth the understood it. What ye
2
to bodies of clay. 23
How many are
mighty. 20He removeth know, the same do I 13
Hold your peace, let mine iniquities and
away the speeche of the know also: I am not me alone, that I may sins? make me to know
trusty, and taketh away inferior unto you. 3Surely speak, and let come on my transgression and
the understanding of the I would speak to the me what will. my sin. 24Wherefore
aged. 21
He poureth Almighty, and I desire to 14
Wherefore do I take my hidest thou thy face,
contempt upon princes, f
flesh in my teeth, and and holdest me for
weakeneth...: or, looseth the put my life in mine thine enemy? 25
Wilt
d
up: Heb. upon girdle of the strong hand? 15Though he slay
e g a
speech...: Heb. lip of the straiteneth: Heb. leadeth in me, yet will I trust in maintain: Heb. prove, or,
h
faithful stagger: Heb. wander argue
thou break a leaf driven are with thee, thou hast past, that thou wouldest and they are brought
to and fro? and wilt thou appointed his bounds appoint me a set time, low, but he perceiveth
pursue the dry stubble? that he cannot pass; and remember me! 14If a it not of them. 22But his
26
For thou writest bitter 6
Turn from him, that he man die, shall he live flesh upon him shall
things against me, and may restb, till he shall again? all the days of my have pain, and his soul
makest me to possess accomplish, as an appointed time will I within him shall mourn.
the iniquities of my hireling, his day. wait, till my change
youth. 27Thou puttest my 7
For there is hope of a come. 15Thou shalt call, Chapter 15
feet also in the stocks, tree, if it be cut down, and I will answer thee:
and lookest narrowly that it will sprout again, thou wilt have a desire Then
1
answered
unto all my paths; thou and that the tender to the work of thine Eliphaz the Temanite,
settest a print upon the branch thereof will not hands. and said, 2Should a wise
heels of my feet. 28And cease. 8Though the root 16
For now thou man utter vaina
he, as a rotten thing, thereof wax old in the numberest my steps: knowledge, and fill his
consumeth, as a earth, and the stock dost thou not watch over belly with the east
garment that is moth thereof die in the my sin? 17
My wind? 3
Should he
eaten. ground; 9Yet through the transgression is sealed reason with
scent of water it will bud, up in a bag, and thou unprofitable talk? or
Chapter 14 and bring forth boughs sewest up mine iniquity. with speeches
like a plant. 10But man 18
And surely the wherewith he can do no
Man that is born of a
1
dieth, and wasteth away: mountain falling cometh good? 4
Yea, thou
woman is of fewa days, yea, man giveth up the to nought, and the rock castest off fear, and
and full of trouble. 2He ghost, and where is he? is removed out of his restrainest prayer
cometh forth like a 11
As the waters fail from place. 19The waters wear before God. 5
For thy
flower, and is cut down: the sea, and the flood the stones: thou washest mouth utterethb thine
he fleeth also as a decayeth and drieth up: away the things which iniquity, and thou
shadow, and continueth 12
So man lieth down, and grow out of the dust of choosest the tongue of
not. 3And dost thou open riseth not: till the the earth; and thou the crafty. 6Thine own
thine eyes upon such an heavens be no more, destroyest the hope of mouth condemneth
one, and bringest me they shall not awake, nor man. 20Thou prevailest thee, and not I: yea,
into judgment with thee? be raised out of their for ever against him, and thine own lips testify
4
Who can bring a clean sleep. 13O that thou he passeth: thou against thee. 7Art thou
thing out of an unclean? wouldest hide me in the changest his the first man that was
not one. 5
Seeing his grave, that thou countenance, and born? or wast thou
days are determined, the wouldest keep me sendest him away. 21His a
number of his months secret, until thy wrath be sons come to honour, vain...: Heb. knowledge of
and he knoweth it not; wind
a b b
few...: Heb. short of days rest: Heb. cease uttereth: Heb. teacheth
made before the hills? 18
Which wise men have the thick bosses of his of bribery. 35
They
8
Hast thou heard the told from their fathers, bucklers: 27Because he conceive mischief, and
secret of God? and dost and have not hid it: covereth his face with bring forth vanitye, and
thou restrain wisdom to 19
Unto whom alone the his fatness, and maketh their belly prepareth
thyself? 9What knowest earth was given, and no collops of fat on his deceit.
thou, that we know not? stranger passed among flanks. 28And he dwelleth
what understandest them. 20The wicked man in desolate cities, and in Chapter 16
thou, which is not in us? travaileth with pain all houses which no man
10
With us are both the his days, and the inhabiteth, which are
1
Then Job answered
grayheaded and very number of years is ready to become heaps. and said, 2I have heard
aged men, much elder hidden to the oppressor. 29
He shall not be rich, many such things:
than thy father. 11Are the 21
A dreadfulc sound is in neither shall his miserable a
comforters
consolations of God his ears: in prosperity substance continue, are ye all. 3Shall vainb
small with thee? is there the destroyer shall come neither shall he prolong words have an end? or
any secret thing with upon him. 22
He the perfection thereof what emboldeneth thee
thee? 12Why doth thine believeth not that he upon the earth. 30He that thou answerest? 4I
heart carry thee away? shall return out of shall not depart out of also could speak as ye
and what do thy eyes darkness, and he is darkness; the flame shall do: if your soul were in
wink at, 13That thou waited for of the sword. dry up his branches, and my soul’s stead, I could
turnest thy spirit against 23
He wandereth abroad by the breath of his heap up words against
God, and lettest such for bread, saying, Where mouth shall he go away. you, and shake mine
words go out of thy is it? he knoweth that 31
Let not him that is head at you. 5But I
mouth? 14What is man, the day of darkness is deceived trust in vanity: would strengthen you
that he should be clean? ready at his hand. for vanity shall be his with my mouth, and the
and he which is born of a 24
Trouble and anguish recompence. 32It shall be moving of my lips
woman, that he should shall make him afraid; accomplishedd before his should asswage your
be righteous? 15Behold, they shall prevail against time, and his branch grief.
he putteth no trust in his him, as a king ready to shall not be green. 33He
6
Though I speak, my
saints; yea, the heavens the battle. 25For he shall shake off his unripe grief is not asswaged:
are not clean in his sight. stretcheth out his hand grape as the vine, and and though I forbear,
16
How much more against God, and shall cast off his flower what am I eased? 7But
abominable and filthy is strengtheneth himself as the olive. 34For the now he hath made me
man, which drinketh against the Almighty. congregation of weary: thou hast made
iniquity like water? 26
He runneth upon him, hypocrites shall be desolate all my
17
I will shew thee, even on his neck, upon desolate, and fire shall e
hear me; and that which consume the tabernacles vanity: or, iniquity
c a
I have seen I will declare; A dreadful...: Heb. A sound of miserable: or, troublesome
d b
fears accomplished: or, cut off vain...: Heb. words of wind
company. 8And thou hast have sewed sackcloth my days are extinct, the But as for you all,
10

filled me with wrinkles, upon my skin, and graves are ready for me. do ye return, and come
which is a witness defiled my horn in the 2
Are there not mockers now: for I cannot find
against me: and my dust. 16My face is foul with me? and doth not one wise man among
leanness rising up in me with weeping, and on my mine eye continueb in you. 11My days are past,
beareth witness to my eyelids is the shadow of their provocation? 3Lay my purposes are
face. 9He teareth me in death; down now, put me in a broken off, even the
his wrath, who hateth 17
Not for any injustice surety with thee; who is thoughtsf of my heart.
me: he gnasheth upon in mine hands: also my he that will strike hands 12
They change the night
me with his teeth; mine prayer is pure. 18O earth, with me? 4For thou hast into day: the light is
enemy sharpeneth his cover not thou my blood, hid their heart from shortg because of
eyes upon me. 10They and let my cry have no understanding: therefore darkness. If I wait, the
13

have gaped upon me place. 19


Also now, shalt thou not exalt grave is mine house: I
with their mouth; they behold, my witness is in them. 5He that speaketh have made my bed in
have smitten me upon heaven, and my record flattery to his friends, the darkness. 14I have
the cheek reproachfully; is on highc. 20My friends even the eyes of his saidh to corruption,
they have gathered scorn me: but mine eyed children shall fail. 6He Thou art my father: to
themselves together poureth out tears unto hath made me also a the worm, Thou art my
against me. 11God hath God. 21O that one might byword of the people; mother, and my sister.
delivered me to the plead for a man with and aforetimec I was as a 15
And where is now my
ungodly, and turned me God, as a man pleadeth tabret. 7Mine eye also is hope? as for my hope,
over into the hands of for his neighboure! dim by reason of sorrow, who shall see it? 16They
the wicked. 12I was at 22
When a fewf years are and all my membersd are shall go down to the
ease, but he hath broken come, then I shall go the as a shadow. 8Upright bars of the pit, when
me asunder: he hath way whence I shall not men shall be astonied at our rest together is in
also taken me by my return. this, and the innocent the dust.
neck, and shaken me to shall stir up himself
pieces, and set me up Chapter 17 against the hypocrite. Chapter 18
for his mark. 13
His 9
The righteous also shall
archers compass me
1
My breatha is corrupt, hold on his way, and he Then
1
answered
round about, he cleaveth that hath clean hands Bildad the Shuhite, and
c
my reins asunder, and on high: Heb. in the high shall bee stronger and said, 2How long will it
doth not spare; he places stronger. be ere ye make an end
d
poureth out my gall upon scorn me: Heb. are my
b f
the ground. 14
He scorners continue: Heb. lodge the thoughts: Heb. the
e c
breaketh me with breach neighbour: or, friend aforetime: or, before them possessions
f d g
upon breach, he runneth a few...: Heb. years of number my members: or, my thoughts short: Heb. near
a e h
upon me like a giant. 15I breath...: or, spirit is spent be...: Heb. add strength said: Heb. cried, or, called
of words? mark, and him afraid on every side, dwellings. 20They that 8
He hath fenced up
afterwards we will speak. and shall drived him to come after him shall be my way that I cannot
3
Wherefore are we his feet. 12His strength astonied at his day, as pass, and he hath set
counted as beasts, and shall be hungerbitten, they that went before darkness in my paths.
reputed vile in your and destruction shall be were affrighted. 9
He hath stripped me of
sight? 4
He teareth ready at his side. 13It 21
Surely such are the my glory, and taken the
himself in his anger:
a
shall devour the dwellings of the wicked, crown from my head.
shall the earth be strength e
of his skin: and this is the place of 10
He hath destroyed me
forsaken for thee? and even the firstborn of him that knoweth not on every side, and I am
shall the rock be death shall devour his God. gone: and mine hope
removed out of his strength. 14
His hath he removed like a
place? confidence shall be Chapter 19 tree. 11He hath also
5
Yea, the light of the rooted out of his kindled his wrath
wicked shall be put out, tabernacle, and it shall Then Job answered
1
against me, and he
and the spark of his fire bring him to the king of and said, 2How long will counteth me unto him
shall not shine. 6The light terrors. 15It shall dwell in ye vex my soul, and as one of his enemies.
shall be dark in his his tabernacle, because break me in pieces with 12
His troops come
tabernacle, and his it is none of his: words? 3These ten times together, and raise up
candleb shall be put out brimstone shall be have ye reproached me: their way against me,
with him. 7The steps of scattered upon his ye are not ashamed that and encamp round
his strength shall be habitation. 16His roots ye make yourselves about my tabernacle.
straitened, and his own shall be dried up strange to me. 4And be 13
He hath put my
counsel shall cast him beneath, and above shall it indeed that I have brethren far from me,
down. 8For he is cast into his branch be cut off. erred, mine error and mine acquaintance
a net by his own feet, 17
His remembrance shall remaineth with myself. are verily estranged
and he walketh upon a perish from the earth,
5
If indeed ye will magnify from me. 14My kinsfolk
snare. 9The gin shall take and he shall have no yourselves against me, have failed, and my
him by the heel, and the name in the street. 18He and plead against me familiar friends have
robber shall prevail shall be driven from light my reproach: 6Know now forgotten me. 15They
against him. The snare
10
into darkness, and that God hath that dwell in mine
is laidc for him in the chased out of the world. overthrown me, and hath house, and my maids,
ground, and a trap for 19
He shall neither have compassed me with his count me for a
him in the way. son nor nephew among net. 7Behold, I cry out of stranger: I am an alien
11
Terrors shall make his people, nor any wronga, but I am not in their sight. 16I called
remaining in his heard: I cry aloud, but my servant, and he
a
himself: Heb. his soul there is no judgment. gave me no answer; I
b d
candle: or, lamp drive: Heb. scatter intreated him with my
c e a
laid: Heb. hidden strength: Heb. bars wrong: or, violence
mouth. 17My breath is destroy this body, yet in wicked is shorta, and the still withind his mouth:
strange to my wife, my flesh shall I see God: joy of the hypocrite but 14
Yet his meat in his
though I intreated for the 27
Whom I shall see for for a moment? 6Though bowels is turned, it is
children’s sake of mine myself, and mine eyes his excellency mount up the gall of asps within
own body. 18Yea, young shall behold, and not to the heavens, and his him. 15
He hath
children despised me; I anotherc; though my head reach unto the swallowed down riches,
arose, and they spake reins be consumed cloudsb; 7
Yet he shall and he shall vomit them
against me. 19
All my within me. 28
But ye perish for ever like his up again: God shall cast
inward friends abhorred should say, Why own dung: they which them out of his belly.
me: and they whom I persecute we him, have seen him shall say, 16
He shall suck the
loved are turned against seeing the root of the Where is he? 8He shall fly poison of asps: the
me. 20My bone cleaveth matter is found in me? away as a dream, and viper’s tongue shall slay
to my skin and to my 29
Be ye afraid of the shall not be found: yea, him. 17He shall not see
flesh, and I am escaped sword: for wrath he shall be chased away the rivers, the floodse,
with the skin of my bringeth the as a vision of the night. the brooks of honey
teeth. 21Have pity upon punishments of the 9
The eye also which saw and butter. 18
That
me, have pity upon me, sword, that ye may know him shall see him no which he laboured for
O ye my friends; for the there is a judgment. more; neither shall his shall he restore, and
hand of God hath place any more behold shall not swallow it
touched me. Why do ye
22
Chapter 20 him. down: according to his
persecute me as God, 10
His childrenc shall substance shall the
and are not satisfied
1
Then answered seek to please the poor, restitution be, and he
with my flesh? Zophar the Naamathite, and his hands shall shall not rejoice therein.
23
Oh that my words and said, 2Therefore do restore their goods. 19
Because he hath
were now written! oh my thoughts cause me 11
His bones are full of oppressedf and hath
that they were printed in to answer, and for this I the sin of his youth, forsaken the poor;
a book! 24That they were make haste. 3
I have which shall lie down with because he hath
graven with an iron pen heard the check of my him in the dust. 12Though violently taken away an
and lead in the rock for reproach, and the spirit wickedness be sweet in house which he builded
ever! 25For I know that of my understanding his mouth, though he not; 20Surely he shall
my redeemer liveth, and causeth me to answer. hide it under his tongue; not feelg quietness in
that he shall stand at the
4
Knowest thou not this of 13
Though he spare it, and d
latter day upon the old, since man was forsake it not; but keep it within...: Heb. in the midst
earth: 26
And though placed upon earth, 5That of his palate
a e
after my skin worms
b the triumphing of the short: Heb. from near the floods...: or, streaming
b
clouds: Heb. cloud brooks
b c f
And...: or, After I shall awake, yet out of my flesh His children...: or, The poor oppressed: Heb. crushed
c g
though this body be destroyed, another: Heb. a stranger shall oppress his children feel: Heb. know
his belly, he shall not goods shall flow away in with them, and their them! God distributeth
save of that which he the day of his wrath. offspring before their sorrows in his anger.
desired. 21
There shall 29
This is the portion of a eyes. 9Their houses are 18
They are as stubble
none of his meat be left; wicked man from God, safec from fear, neither before the wind, and as
therefore shall no man and the heritage is the rod of God upon chaff that the storm
look for his goods. 22In appointed unto him by
i
them. 10
Their bull carrieth away. 19
God
the fulness of his God. gendereth, and faileth layeth up his iniquityf
sufficiency he shall be in not; their cow calveth, for his children: he
straits: every hand of the Chapter 21 and casteth not her calf. rewardeth him, and he
wickedh shall come upon 11
They send forth their shall know it. 20His eyes
him.
1
But Job answered little ones like a flock, shall see his
23
When he is about to and said, 2Hear diligently and their children dance. destruction, and he
fill his belly, God shall my speech, and let this 12
They take the timbrel shall drink of the wrath
cast the fury of his wrath be your consolations. and harp, and rejoice at of the Almighty. 21For
upon him, and shall rain
3
Suffer me that I may the sound of the organ. what pleasure hath he
it upon him while he is speak; and after that I 13
They spend their days in his house after him,
eating. 24He shall flee have spoken, mock on. in wealthd, and in a when the number of his
from the iron weapon,
4
As for me, is my moment go down to the months is cut off in the
and the bow of steel complaint to man? and if grave. 14Therefore they midst? 22Shall any teach
shall strike him through. it were so, why should say unto God, Depart God knowledge? seeing
25
It is drawn, and cometh not my spirit be from us; for we desire he judgeth those that
out of the body; yea, the troubled ?a 5
Mark me,
b
not the knowledge of thy are high. 23One dieth in
glittering sword cometh and be astonished, and ways. 15What is the his full strength, being
out of his gall: terrors lay your hand upon your Almighty, that we should wholly at ease and
are upon him. 26All mouth. 6
Even when I serve him? and what quiet. 24His breastsg are
darkness shall be hid in remember I am afraid, profit should we have, if full of milk, and his
his secret places: a fire and trembling taketh we pray unto him? 16Lo, bones are moistened
not blown shall consume hold on my flesh. their good is not in their with marrow. 25
And
him; it shall go ill with
7
Wherefore do the hand: the counsel of the another dieth in the
him that is left in his wicked live, become old, wicked is far from me. bitterness of his soul,
tabernacle. 27The heaven yea, are mighty in 17
How oft is the and never eateth with
shall reveal his iniquity; power? Their seed is
8
candle of the wicked put
e
pleasure. 26They shall
and the earth shall rise established in their sight out! and how oft cometh lie down alike in the
up against him. 28The i
their destruction upon dust, and the worms
increase of his house appointed...: Heb. of his
c f
shall depart, and his decree from God safe...: Heb. peace from his iniquity: that is, the
a d
troubled: Heb. shortened? in wealth: or, in mirth punishment of his iniquity
h b e g
wicked: or, troublesome Mark...: Heb. Look unto me candle: or, lamp breasts: or, milk pails
shall cover them. falsehoodk? it. 9
Thou hast sent good things: but the
27
Behold, I know your widows away empty, and counsel of the wicked is
thoughts, and the Chapter 22 the arms of the far from me. 19The
devices which ye fatherless have been righteous see it, and
wrongfully imagine
1
Then Eliphaz the broken. 10
Therefore are glad: and the
against me. 28For ye say, Temanite answered and snares are round about innocent laugh them to
Where is the house of said, 2Can a man be thee, and sudden fear scorn. 20Whereas our
the prince? and where profitable unto God, as troubleth thee; 11
Or substanced is not cut
are the dwellingh places he that is wise may be darkness, that thou down, but the remnant
of the wicked? 29Have ye profitable unto himself? canst not see; and of them the fire
not asked them that go
3
Is it any pleasure to the abundance of waters consumeth.
by the way? and do ye Almighty, that thou art cover thee. 12Is not God 21
Acquaint now
not know their tokens, righteous? or is it gain to in the height of heaven? thyself with him, and be
30
That the wicked is him, that thou makest and behold the height of at peacee: thereby good
reserved to the day of thy ways perfect? 4Will the starsc, how high they shall come unto thee.
destruction? they shall he reprove thee for fear are! 13And thou sayest, 22
Receive, I pray thee,
be brought forth to the of thee? will he enter How doth God know? can the law from his mouth,
day of wrathi. 31
Who with thee into judgment? he judge through the and lay up his words in
shall declare his way to
5
Is not thy wickedness dark cloud? 14
Thick thine heart. 23If thou
his face? and who shall great? and thine clouds are a covering to return to the Almighty,
repay him what he hath iniquities infinite? 6For him, that he seeth not; thou shalt be built up,
done? 32Yet shall he be thou hast taken a pledge and he walketh in the thou shalt put away
brought to the gravej, from thy brother for circuit of heaven. iniquity far from thy
and shall remain in the nought, and stripped the 15
Hast thou marked tabernacles. 24
Then
tomb. 33The clods of the nakeda of their clothing. the old way which shalt thou lay up gold
valley shall be sweet
7
Thou hast not given wicked men have as dustf, and the gold of
unto him, and every man water to the weary to trodden? 16Which were Ophir as the stones of
shall draw after him, as drink, and thou hast cut down out of time, the brooks. 25Yea, the
there are innumerable withholden bread from whose foundation was Almighty shall be thy
before him. 34How then the hungry. 8But as for overflown with a flood: defenceg, and thou
comfort ye me in vain, the mightyb man, he had 17
Which said unto God, shalt have plenty of
seeing in your answers the earth; and the Depart from us: and silver. 26For then shalt
there remaineth honourable man dwelt in what can the Almighty thou have thy delight in
h k
do for them? 18Yet he d
the dwelling...: Heb. the tent falsehood: Heb. transgression? filled their houses with substance: or, estate
a e
of the tabernacles the naked...: Heb. the clothes him: that is, God
i c f
wrath: Heb. wraths of the naked height of the stars: Heb. head as dust: or, on the dust
j b g
grave: Heb. graves mighty...: Heb. man of arm of the stars defence: or, gold
the Almighty, and shalt know the words which he him? and what his soul 5
Behold, as wild asses
lift up thy face unto God. would answer me, and desireth, even that he in the desert, go they
27
Thou shalt make thy understand what he doeth. 14
For he forth to their work;
prayer unto him, and he would say unto me. Will6
performeth the thing rising betimes for a
shall hear thee, and thou he plead against me with that is appointed for me: prey: the wilderness
shalt pay thy vows. his great power? No; but and many such things yieldeth food for them
28
Thou shalt also decree he would put strength in are with him. 15Therefore and for their children.
a thing, and it shall be me. 7There the righteous am I troubled at his 6
They reap every one
established unto thee: might dispute with him; presence: when I his cornb in the field:
and the light shall shine so should I be delivered consider, I am afraid of and they gather the
upon thy ways. 29When for ever from my judge. him. 16For God maketh vintage of the wicked.
men are cast down, then 8
Behold, I go forward, my heart soft, and the 7
They cause the naked
thou shalt say, There is but he is not there; and Almighty troubleth me: to lodge without
lifting up; and he shall backward, but I cannot 17
Because I was not cut clothing, that they have
save the humbleh perceive him: 9On the off before the darkness, no covering in the cold.
person. 30
He shall left hand, where he doth neither hath he covered 8
They are wet with the
deliver the island of the work, but I cannot the darkness from my showers of the
innocent: and it is behold him: he hideth face. mountains, and
delivered by the himself on the right embrace the rock for
pureness of thine hands. hand, that I cannot see Chapter 24 want of a shelter. 9They
him: 10But he knoweth pluck the fatherless
Chapter 23 the way that I take: Why, seeing times
1
from the breast, and
when he hath tried me, I are not hidden from the take a pledge of the
Then Job answered
1
shall come forth as gold. Almighty, do they that poor. 10They cause him
and said, 2Even to day is 11
My foot hath held his know him not see his to go naked without
my complaint bitter: my steps, his way have I days? 2Some remove the clothing, and they take
strokea is heavier than kept, and not declined. landmarks; they violently away the sheaf from
my groaning. 3Oh that I 12
Neither have I gone take away flocks, and the hungry; 11Which
knew where I might find back from the feeda thereof. 3
They make oil within their
him! that I might come commandment of his drive away the ass of the walls, and tread their
even to his seat! 4I would lips; I have esteemedb fatherless, they take the winepresses, and suffer
order my cause before the words of his mouth widow’s ox for a pledge. thirst. 12Men groan from
him, and fill my mouth more than my necessary
4
They turn the needy out out of the city, and the
with arguments. 5I would food. of the way: the poor of soul of the wounded
13
But he is in one the earth hide crieth out: yet God
h
the humble...: Heb. him that mind, and who can turn themselves together.
b
hath low eyes corn: Heb. mingled corn, or,
a b a
stroke: Heb. hand esteemed: Heb. hid, or, laid up feed...: or, feed them dredge
layeth not folly to them. sinned. 20
The womb peace in his high places. 6
Hell is naked before
13
They are of those shall forget him; the 3
Is there any number of him, and destruction
that rebel against the worm shall feed sweetly his armies? and upon hath no covering. 7He
light; they know not the on him; he shall be no whom doth not his light stretcheth out the north
ways thereof, nor abide more remembered; and arise? 4How then can over the empty place,
in the paths thereof. wickedness shall be man be justified with and hangeth the earth
14
The murderer rising broken as a tree. 21He God? or how can he be upon nothing. 8
He
with the light killeth the evil entreateth the clean that is born of a bindeth up the waters
poor and needy, and in barren that beareth not: woman? 5Behold even to in his thick clouds; and
the night is as a thief. and doeth not good to the moon, and it shineth the cloud is not rent
15
The eye also of the the widow. 22He draweth not; yea, the stars are under them. 9
He
adulterer waiteth for the also the mighty with his not pure in his sight. holdeth back the face of
twilight, saying, No eye power: he riseth up, and 6
How much less man, his throne, and
shall see me: and no man is suree of life. that is a worm? and the spreadeth his cloud
disguisethc his face. 16In 23
Though it be given him son of man, which is a upon it. 10He hath
the dark they dig to be in safety, whereon worm? compassed the waters
through houses, which he resteth; yet his eyes with bounds, until the
they had marked for are upon their ways. Chapter 26 day and night come to
themselves in the 24
They are exalted for a an end. 11The pillars of
daytime: they know not little while, but are gone
1
But Job answered heaven tremble and are
the light. 17
For the and brought low; they and said, 2How hast thou astonished at his
morning is to them even are taken out of the way helped him that is reproof. 12
He divideth
as the shadow of death: as all other, and cut off without power? how the sea with his power,
if one know them, they as the tops of the ears of savest thou the arm that and by his
are in the terrors of the corn. 25And if it be not hath no strength? 3How understanding he
shadow of death. so now, who will make hast thou counselled him smiteth through the
18
He is swift as the me a liar, and make my that hath no wisdom? prouda. 13By his spirit
waters; their portion is speech nothing worth? and how hast thou he hath garnished the
cursed in the earth: he plentifully declared the heavens; his hand hath
beholdeth not the way of Chapter 25 thing as it is? 4To whom formed the crooked
the vineyards. 19Drought hast thou uttered words? serpent. 14Lo, these are
and heat consumed the Then
1
answered and whose spirit came parts of his ways: but
snow waters: so doth the Bildad the Shuhite, and from thee? how little a portion is
grave those which have said, 2Dominion and fear 5
Dead things are heard of him? but the
are with him, he maketh formed from under the thunder of his power
c
disguiseth...: Heb. setteth his waters, and the who can understand?
e
face in secret no...: or, he trusteth not his inhabitants thereof.
d a
consume: Heb. violently take own life the proud: Heb. pride
Chapter 27 Will God hear his cry rich man shall lie down, waters forgotten of the
9

when trouble cometh but he shall not be foot: they are dried up,
1
Moreover Job upon him? 10Will he gathered: he openeth his they are gone away
continued his parable,
a
delight himself in the eyes, and he is not. from men. 5As for the
and said, 2As God liveth, Almighty? will he always 20
Terrors take hold on earth, out of it cometh
who hath taken away my call upon God? him as waters, a tempest bread: and under it is
judgment; and the 11
I will teach you by stealeth him away in the turned up as it were
Almighty, who hath the hand of God: that night. 21The east wind fire. 6The stones of it
vexedb my soul; 3All the which is with the carrieth him away, and are the place of
while my breath is in me, Almighty will I not he departeth: and as a sapphires: and it hath
and the spiritc of God is conceal. 12Behold, all ye storm hurleth him out of dustc of gold. 7There is
in my nostrils; 4My lips yourselves have seen it; his place. 22For God shall a path which no fowl
shall not speak why then are ye thus cast upon him, and not knoweth, and which the
wickedness, nor my altogether vain? 13This is spare: he would fain flee vulture’s eye hath not
tongue utter deceit. 5God the portion of a wicked out of his hand. 23Men seen: 8The lion’s whelps
forbid that I should man with God, and the shall clap their hands at have not trodden it, nor
justify you: till I die I will heritage of oppressors, him, and shall hiss him the fierce lion passed
not remove mine which they shall receive out of his place. by it. 9He putteth forth
integrity from me. 6My of the Almighty. 14If his his hand upon the
righteousness I hold fast, children be multiplied, it Chapter 28 rockd; he overturneth
and will not let it go: my is for the sword: and his the mountains by the
heart shall not reproach offspring shall not be Surely there is a
1
roots. 10He cutteth out
me so long as I live. satisfied with bread. veina for the silver, and a rivers among the rocks;
7
Let mine enemy be 15
Those that remain of place for gold where and his eye seeth every
as the wicked, and he him shall be buried in they fine it. 2
Iron is precious thing. 11He
that riseth up against me death: and his widows taken out of the earthb, bindeth the floods from
as the unrighteous. 8For shall not weep. 16Though and brass is molten out overflowinge; and the
what is the hope of the he heap up silver as the of the stone. 3He setteth thing that is hid
hypocrite, though he dust, and prepare an end to darkness, and bringeth he forth to
hath gained, when God raiment as the clay; 17He searcheth out all light. 12But where shall
taketh away his soul? may prepare it, but the perfection: the stones of wisdom be found? and
just shall put it on, and darkness, and the where is the place of
a
continued: Heb. added to take the innocent shall divide shadow of death. 4The understanding? 13
Man
up the silver. 18He buildeth flood breaketh out from knoweth not the price
b
vexed...: Heb. made my soul his house as a moth, and the inhabitant; even the
c
bitter as a booth that the dust...: or, gold ore
c a d
the spirit...: that is, the breath keeper maketh. 19The vein: or, mine rock: or, flint
b e
which God gave him earth: or, dust overflowing: Heb. weeping
thereof; neither is it heard the fame thereof head, and when by his to help him. 13The
found in the land of the with our ears. 23God light I walked through blessing of him that
living. understandeth the way darkness; 4As I was in was ready to perish
14
The depth saith, It is thereof, and he knoweth the days of my youth, came upon me: and I
not in me: and the sea the place thereof. 24For when the secret of God caused the widow’s
saith, It is not with me. he looketh to the ends of was upon my tabernacle; heart to sing for joy. 14I
15
It cannot be gotten for the earth, and seeth 5
When the Almighty was put on righteousness,
gold, neither shall silver under the whole heaven; yet with me, when my and it clothed me: my
be weighed for the price 25
To make the weight for children were about me; judgment was as a robe
thereof. 16It cannot be the winds; and he 6
When I washed my and a diadem. 15I was
valued with the gold of weigheth the waters by steps with butter, and eyes to the blind, and
Ophir, with the precious measure. 26
When he the rock poured me out feet was I to the lame.
onyx, or the sapphire. made a decree for the rivers of oil; 16
I was a father to the
17
The gold and the rain, and a way for the 7
When I went out to poor: and the cause
crystal cannot equal it: lightning of the thunder: the gate through the which I knew not I
and the exchange of it 27
Then did he see it, and city, when I prepared my searched out. 17And I
shall not be for jewelsf of declarei it; he prepared seat in the street! 8The brake the jawsd of the
fine gold. 18No mention it, yea, and searched it young men saw me, and wicked, and plucked the
shall be made of coralg, out. 28And unto man he hid themselves: and the spoil out of his teeth.
or of pearls: for the price said, Behold, the fear of aged arose, and stood 18
Then I said, I shall
of wisdom is above the Lord, that is wisdom; up. 9
The princes die in my nest, and I
rubies. 19
The topaz of and to depart from evil refrained talking, and shall multiply my days
Ethiopia shall not equal is understanding. laid their hand on their as the sand. 19My root
it, neither shall it be mouth. 10The noblesc was spread out by the
valued with pure gold. Chapter 29 held their peace, and waters, and the dew lay
20
Whence then their tongue cleaved to all night upon my
cometh wisdom? and Moreover
1
Job the roof of their mouth. branch. 20My glory was
where is the place of continued his parable,
a 11
When the ear heard freshe in me, and my
understanding? 21Seeing and said, 2Oh that I were me, then it blessed me; bow was renewed in my
it is hid from the eyes of as in months past, as in and when the eye saw hand. 21Unto me men
all living, and kept close the days when God me, it gave witness to gave ear, and waited,
from the fowls of the preserved me; 3When his me: 12
Because I and kept silence at my
airh. 22
Destruction and candleb shined upon my delivered the poor that counsel. 22
After my
death say, We have i
cried, and the fatherless, words they spake not
declare...: or, number it and him that had none
f a d
jewels...: or, vessels of continued: Heb. added to take the jaws: Heb. the jawteeth,
g c
coral: or, Ramoth up The nobles...: Heb. The voice or, the grinders
h b e
air: or, heaven candle: or, lamp of the nobles was hid fresh: Heb. new
again; and my speech the bushes, and juniper breaking in of waters: in upon it, and dissolvest
dropped upon them. roots for their meat. the desolation they my substancef. 23For I
23
And they waited for me 5
They were driven forth rolled themselves upon know that thou wilt
as for the rain; and they from among men, (they me. bring me to death, and
opened their mouth wide cried after them as after 15
Terrors are turned to the house appointed
as for the latter rain. 24If I a thief;) 6To dwell in the upon me: they pursue for all living. 24Howbeit
laughed on them, they clifts of the valleys, in my sould as the wind: he will not stretch out
believed it not; and the cavesc of the earth, and and my welfare passeth his hand to the graveg,
light of my countenance in the rocks. 7Among the away as a cloud. 16And though they cry in his
they cast not down. 25I bushes they brayed; now my soul is poured destruction. 25Did not I
chose out their way, and under the nettles they out upon me; the days of weep for him that was
sat chief, and dwelt as a were gathered together. affliction have taken hold in troubleh? was not my
king in the army, as one 8
They were children of upon me. 17My bones are soul grieved for the
that comforteth the fools, yea, children of pierced in me in the poor? 26When I looked
mourners. base men: they were night season: and my for good, then evil
viler than the earth. sinews take no rest. 18By came unto me: and
Chapter 30 9
And now am I their the great force of my when I waited for light,
song, yea, I am their disease is my garment there came darkness.
But now they that
1
byword. 10They abhor changed: it bindeth me 27
My bowels boiled, and
are youngera than I have me, they flee far from about as the collar of my rested not: the days of
me in derision, whose me, and spare not to spit coat. 19He hath cast me affliction prevented me.
fathers I would have in my face. 11Because he into the mire, and I am 28
I went mourning
disdained to have set hath loosed my cord, become like dust and without the sun: I stood
with the dogs of my and afflicted me, they ashes. 20I cry unto thee, up, and I cried in the
flock. 2
Yea, whereto have also let loose the and thou dost not hear congregation. 29I am a
might the strength of bridle before me. 12Upon me: I stand up, and thou brother to dragons, and
their hands profit me, in my right hand rise the regardest me not. 21Thou a companion to owlsi.
whom old age was youth; they push away art becomee cruel to me: 30
My skin is black upon
perished? 3For want and my feet, and they raise with thy strong hand me, and my bones are
famine they were up against me the ways thou opposest thyself burned with heat. 31My
solitaryb; fleeing into the of their destruction. against me. 22
Thou harp also is turned to
wilderness in former 13
They mar my path, liftest me up to the wind; mourning, and my
time desolate and waste. they set forward my thou causest me to ride organ into the voice of
4
Who cut up mallows by calamity, they have no d f
helper. 14
They came my soul: Heb. my principal substance: or, wisdom
a g
younger...: Heb. of fewer days upon me as a wide one grave: Heb. heap
e h
than I become...: Heb. turned to be in trouble: Heb. hard of day?
b c i
solitary: or, dark as the night caves: Heb. holes cruel owls: or, ostriches
them that weep. wait at my neighbour’s with a father, and I have 27
And my heart hath
door; 10Then let my wife guided her from my been secretly enticed,
Chapter 31 grind unto another, and mother’s womb;) 19If I or my mouthe hath
let others bow down have seen any perish for kissed my hand: 28This
1
I made a covenant upon her. 11For this is an want of clothing, or any also were an iniquity to
with mine eyes; why heinous crime; yea, it is poor without covering; be punished by the
then should I think upon an iniquity to be 20
If his loins have not judge: for I should have
a maid? 2
For what punished by the judges. blessed me, and if he denied the God that is
portion of God is there 12
For it is a fire that were not warmed with above. 29If I rejoiced at
from above? and what consumeth to the fleece of my sheep; the destruction of him
inheritance of the destruction, and would 21
If I have lifted up my that hated me, or lifted
Almighty from on high? root out all mine hand against the up myself when evil
3
Is not destruction to the increase. 13
If I did fatherless, when I saw found him: 30Neither
wicked? and a strange despise the cause of my my help in the gate: have I suffered my
punishment to the manservant or of my 22
Then let mine arm fall mouthf to sin by wishing
workers of iniquity? maidservant, when they from my shoulder blade, a curse to his soul. 31If
4
Doth not he see my contended with me; and mine arm be broken the men of my
ways, and count all my 14
What then shall I do from the boneb. 23
For tabernacle said not, Oh
steps? 5If I have walked when God riseth up? and destruction from God that we had of his flesh!
with vanity, or if my foot when he visiteth, what was a terror to me, and we cannot be satisfied.
hath hasted to deceit; shall I answer him? 15Did by reason of his 32
The stranger did not
6
Let me be weighed in not he that made me in highness I could not lodge in the street: but I
an even balance, that the womb make him? endure. opened my doors to the
God may know mine and did not onea fashion 24
If I have made gold travellerg.
integrity. 7
If my step us in the womb? my hope, or have said to 33
If I covered my
hath turned out of the 16
If I have withheld the fine gold, Thou art transgressions as
way, and mine heart the poor from their my confidence; 25If I Adamh, by hiding mine
walked after mine eyes, desire, or have caused rejoiced because my iniquity in my bosom:
and if any blot hath the eyes of the widow to wealth was great, and 34
Did I fear a great
cleaved to mine hands; fail; 17Or have eaten my because mine hand had multitude, or did the
8
Then let me sow, and morsel myself alone, and gottenc much; 26
If I contempt of families
let another eat; yea, let the fatherless hath not beheld the sun when it
d
e
my offspring be rooted eaten thereof; 18
(For shined, or the moon my mouth...: Heb. my hand
out. from my youth he was walking in brightness; hath kissed my mouth
f
9
If mine heart have brought up with me, as mouth: Heb. palate
b g
been deceived by a bone: or, chanelbone traveller: or, way
a c h
woman, or if I have laid did not one...: or, did he not gotten...: Heb. found much as Adam: or, after the
d
fashion us in one womb? sun: Heb. light manner of men
terrify me, that I kept righteous in his own spirit in man: and the answer also my part, I
silence, and went not out eyes. 2Then was kindled inspiration of the also will shew mine
of the door? 35Oh that the wrath of Elihu the Almighty giveth them opinion. 18For I am full
one would hear me! son of Barachel the understanding. 9
Great of matterf, the spirit
behold, my desire is, Buzite, of the kindred of men are not always within me constraineth
that the Almighty would Ram: against Job was his wise: neither do the me. 19Behold, my belly
answer me, and that wrath kindled, because aged understand is as wine which hath
mine adversary had he justified himselfa judgment. 10
Therefore I no vent; it is ready to
written a book. 36Surely I rather than God. 3Also said, Hearken to me; I burst like new bottles.
would take it upon my against his three friends also will shew mine 20
I will speak, that I may
shoulder, and bind it as a was his wrath kindled, opinion. 11
Behold, I be refreshed: I will open
crown to me. 37I would because they had found waited for your words; I my lips and answer.
declare unto him the no answer, and yet had gave ear to your 21
Let me not, I pray you,
number of my steps; as condemned Job. 4Now reasons ,d
whilst ye accept any man’s
a prince would I go near Elihu had waitedb till Job searched out what to person, neither let me
unto him. 38If my land cry had spoken, because say. 12
Yea, I attended give flattering titles
against me, or that the they were elder than he. unto you, and, behold, unto man. 22For I know
furrows likewise thereof 5
When Elihu saw that there was none of you not to give flattering
complaini; 39
If I have there was no answer in that convinced Job, or titles; in so doing my
eaten the fruitsj thereof the mouth of these three that answered his words: maker would soon take
without money, or have men, then his wrath was 13
Lest ye should say, We me away.
caused the owners kindled. have found out wisdom:
thereof to lose their life: 6
And Elihu the son of God thrusteth him down, Chapter 33
40
Let thistles grow Barachel the Buzite not man. 14Now he hath
instead of wheat, and answered and said, I am not directede his words Wherefore, Job, I
1

cocklek instead of barley. youngc, and ye are very against me: neither will I pray thee, hear my
The words of Job are old; wherefore I was answer him with your speeches, and hearken
ended. afraid, and durst not speeches. to all my words.
shew you mine opinion. 15
They were amazed,
2
Behold, now I have
Chapter 32 7
I said, Days should they answered no more: opened my mouth, my
speak, and multitude of they left off speaking. tongue hath spoken in
So these three men
1
years should teach 16
When I had waited, (for my moutha. 3My words
ceased to answer Job, wisdom. 8But there is a they spake not, but shall be of the
because he was stood still, and answered uprightness of my
a
himself: Heb. his soul no more;) 17I said, I will
i b f
complain: Heb. weep waited...: Heb. expected Job matter: Heb. words
j d a
fruits: Heb. strength in words reasons: Heb. understandings in my mouth: Heb. in my
k c e
cockle: or, noisome weeds young: Heb. few of days directed: or, ordered palate
heart: and my lips shall thou strive against him? life to the destroyers. 23If pit, to be enlightened
utter knowledge clearly. for he giveth not account there be a messenger with the light of the
4
The Spirit of God hath of any of his matters. with him, an interpreter, living. 31Mark well, O
made me, and the 14
For God speaketh one among a thousand, Job, hearken unto me:
breath of the Almighty once, yea twice, yet man to shew unto man his hold thy peace, and I
hath given me life. 5If perceiveth it not. 15In a uprightness: 24Then he is will speak. 32If thou hast
thou canst answer me, dream, in a vision of the gracious unto him, and any thing to say,
set thy words in order night, when deep sleep saith, Deliver him from answer me: speak, for I
before me, stand up. falleth upon men, in going down to the pit: I desire to justify thee.
6
Behold, I am according slumberings upon the have found a ransomg. 33
If not, hearken unto
to thy wishb in God’s bed; 16Then he openeth 25
His flesh shall be me: hold thy peace, and
stead: I also am formed the ears of men, and fresher than a child’sh: I shall teach thee
out of the clay. 7Behold, sealeth their instruction, he shall return to the wisdom.
my terror shall not make 17
That he may withdraw days of his youth: 26He
thee afraid, neither shall man from his purposed, shall pray unto God, and Chapter 34
my hand be heavy upon and hide pride from he will be favourable
thee. man. 18He keepeth back unto him: and he shall Furthermore
1
Elihu
8
Surely thou hast his soul from the pit, and see his face with joy: for answered and said,
spoken in mine hearingc, his life from perishinge he will render unto man
2
Hear my words, O ye
and I have heard the by the sword. his righteousness. 27He wise men; and give ear
voice of thy words, 19
He is chastened also looketh upon men, and if unto me, ye that have
saying, 9
I am clean with pain upon his bed, any say, I have sinned, knowledge. 3For the ear
without transgression, I and the multitude of his and perverted that trieth words, as the
am innocent; neither is bones with strong pain: which was right, and it moutha tasteth meat.
there iniquity in me. 20
So that his life profited me not; 28
He
4
Let us choose to us
10
Behold, he findeth abhorreth bread, and his will deliver his soul from judgment: let us know
occasions against me, he soul daintyf meat. 21His going into the pit, and among ourselves what
counteth me for his flesh is consumed away, his life shall see the is good. 5For Job hath
enemy, 11He putteth my that it cannot be seen; light. said, I am righteous:
feet in the stocks, he and his bones that were 29
Lo, all these things and God hath taken
marketh all my paths. not seen stick out. 22Yea, worketh God oftentimesi away my judgment.
12
Behold, in this thou art his soul draweth near with man, 30
To bring
6
Should I lie against my
not just: I will answer unto the grave, and his back his soul from the right? my woundb is
thee, that God is greater incurable without
d g
than man. 13Why dost purpose: Heb. work a ransom: or, an atonement transgression. 7
What
e h
from perishing: Heb. from a child’s: Heb. childhood
b i a
wish: Heb. mouth passing oftentimes: Heb. twice and mouth: Heb. palate
c f b
hearing: Heb. ears dainty...: Heb. meat of desire thrice my wound: Heb. mine arrow
man is like Job, who If now thou hast
16
should enterg into 31
Surely it is meet to
drinketh up scorning like understanding, hear this: judgment with God. He 24
be said unto God, I
water? 8Which goeth in hearken to the voice of shall break in pieces have borne
company with the my words. 17Shall even mighty men without chastisement, I will not
workers of iniquity, and he that hateth right numberh, and set others offend any more: 32That
walketh with wicked governe? and wilt thou in their stead. which I see not teach
men. 9For he hath said, It condemn him that is 25
Therefore he knoweth thou me: if I have done
profiteth a man nothing most just? 18Is it fit to their works, and he iniquity, I will do no
that he should delight say to a king, Thou art overturneth them in the more. 33Should it be
himself with God. wicked? and to princes, night, so that they are according to thy mind?
10
Therefore hearken Ye are ungodly? 19How destroyedi. 26He striketh he will recompense it,
unto me, ye menc of much less to him that them as wicked men in whether thou refuse, or
understanding: far be it accepteth not the the openj sight of others; whether thou choose;
from God, that he should persons of princes, nor 27
Because they turned and not I: therefore
do wickedness; and from regardeth the rich more back from himk, and speak what thou
the Almighty, that he than the poor? for they would not consider any knowest. 34
Let men of
should commit iniquity. all are the work of his of his ways: 28So that understanding tell me,
11
For the work of a man hands. 20In a moment they cause the cry of the and let a wise man
shall he render unto him, shall they die, and the poor to come unto him, hearken unto me. 35Job
and cause every man to people shall be troubled and he heareth the cry hath spoken without
find according to his at midnight, and pass of the afflicted. 29When knowledge, and his
ways. 12Yea, surely God away: and the mightyf he giveth quietness, who words were without
will not do wickedly, shall be taken away then can make trouble? wisdom. 36My desire is
neither will the Almighty without hand. 21For his and when he hideth his that Job may be tried
pervert judgment. 13Who eyes are upon the ways face, who then can unto the end because
hath given him a charge of man, and he seeth all behold him? whether it of his answers for
over the earth? or who his goings. 22There is no be done against a wicked men. 37For he
hath disposed the whole darkness, nor shadow of nation, or against a man addeth rebellion unto
world? 14
If he set his death, where the only: 30
That the his sin, he clappeth his
heart upon man, if he workers of iniquity may hypocrite reign not, lest hands among us, and
gatherd unto himself his hide themselves. 23For the people be ensnared. multiplieth his words
spirit and his breath; he will not lay upon man g
against God.
15
All flesh shall perish more than right; that he enter: Heb. go
h
together, and man shall number: Heb. searching out Chapter 35
i
turn again unto dust. destroyed: Heb. crushed
e j
govern: Heb. bind? open...: Heb. place of Elihu
1
spake
c f
men...: Heb. men of heart the mighty...: Heb. they shall beholders moreover, and said,
d k
man: Heb. him take away the mighty him: Heb. after him
2
Thinkest thou this to be my maker, who giveth righteousness to my obey not, they shall
right, that thou saidst, songs in the night; 11Who Maker. 4
For truly my perishc by the sword,
My righteousness is teacheth us more than words shall not be false: and they shall die
more than God’s? For 3
the beasts of the earth, he that is perfect in without knowledge.
thou saidst, What and maketh us wiser knowledge is with thee. 13
But the hypocrites in
advantage will it be unto than the fowls of 5
Behold, God is heart heap up wrath:
thee? and, What profit heaven? 12There they mighty, and despiseth they cry not when he
shall I have, if I be cry, but none giveth not any: he is mighty in bindeth them. 14Theyd
cleansed from my sin? 4I answer, because of the strength and wisdoma. die in youth, and their
will answera thee, and pride of evil men. 6
He preserveth not the life is among the
thy companions with 13
Surely God will not life of the wicked: but unclean.
thee. 5
Look unto the hear vanity, neither will giveth right to the poorb. 15
He delivereth the
heavens, and see; and the Almighty regard it. 7
He withdraweth not his poore in his affliction,
behold the clouds which 14
Although thou eyes from the righteous: and openeth their ears
are higher than thou. 6If sayest thou shalt not see but with kings are they in oppression. 16
Even
thou sinnest, what doest him, yet judgment is on the throne; yea, he so would he have
thou against him? or if before him; therefore doth establish them for removed thee out of
thy transgressions be trust thou in him. 15But ever, and they are the strait into a broad
multiplied, what doest now, because it is not so, exalted. 8And if they be place, where there is no
thou unto him? 7If thou he hath visited in his bound in fetters, and be straitness; and that
be righteous, what givest anger; yet he knoweth it holden in cords of which should be set on
thou him? or what not in great extremity: affliction; 9
Then he thy table should be full
receiveth he of thine 16
Therefore doth Job sheweth them their of fatness. 17But thou
hand? 8Thy wickedness open his mouth in vain; work, and their hast fulfilled the
may hurt a man as thou he multiplieth words transgressions that they judgment of the wicked:
art; and thy without knowledge. have exceeded. 10
He judgment and justice
righteousness may profit openeth also their ear to take hold on thee.
the son of man. Chapter 36 discipline, and 18
Because there is
9
By reason of the commandeth that they wrath, beware lest he
multitude of oppressions
1
Elihu also proceeded, return from iniquity. 11If take thee away with his
they make the and said, 2Suffer me a they obey and serve stroke: then a great
oppressed to cry: they little, and I will shew him, they shall spend ransom cannot deliverf
cry out by reason of the thee that I have yet to their days in prosperity, c
arm of the mighty. 10But speak on God’s behalf. and their years in perish: Heb. pass away
d
none saith, Where is God
3
I will fetch my pleasures. 12But if they They...: Heb. Their soul
knowledge from afar, dieth
a a e
answer...: Heb. return to thee and will ascribe wisdom: Heb. heart poor: or, afflicted
b f
words poor: or, afflicted deliver...: Heb. turn thee
thee. 19Will he esteem tabernacle? 30Behold, he when his voice is heard. correctiond, or for his
thy riches? no, not gold, spreadeth his light upon 5
God thundereth land, or for mercy.
nor all the forces of it, and covereth the marvellously with his 14
Hearken unto this,
strength. 20Desire not the bottomg of the sea. 31For voice; great things doeth O Job: stand still, and
night, when people are by them judgeth he the he, which we cannot consider the wondrous
cut off in their place. people; he giveth meat comprehend. works of God. 15Dost
21
Take heed, regard not in abundance. 32With 6
For he saith to the thou know when God
iniquity: for this hast clouds he covereth the snow, Be thou on the disposed them, and
thou chosen rather than light; and commandeth it earth; likewise to the caused the light of his
affliction. 22Behold, God not to shine by the cloud small rain, and to the cloud to shine? 16Dost
exalteth by his power: that cometh betwixt. great rain of his thou know the
who teacheth like him? 33
The noise thereof strength. He sealeth up
7
balancings of the
23
Who hath enjoined him sheweth concerning it, the hand of every man; clouds, the wondrous
his way? or who can say, the cattle also that all men may know works of him which is
Thou hast wrought concerning the vapourh. his work. 8Then the perfect in knowledge?
iniquity? beasts go into dens, and 17
How thy garments are
24
Remember that thou Chapter 37 remain in their places. warm, when he
magnify his work, which 9
Out of the southc quieteth the earth by
men behold. 25Every man
1
At this also my heart cometh the whirlwind: the south wind? 18Hast
may see it; man may trembleth, and is moved and cold out of the thou with him spread
behold it afar off. out of his place. 2Heara north. 10
By the breath out the sky, which is
26
Behold, God is great, attentively the noise of of God frost is given: and strong, and as a molten
and we know him not, his voice, and the sound the breadth of the looking glass? 19Teach
neither can the number that goeth out of his waters is straitened. us what we shall say
of his years be searched mouth. 3He directeth it 11
Also by watering he unto him; for we cannot
out. 27For he maketh under the whole heaven, wearieth the thick cloud: order our speech by
small the drops of water: and his lightningb unto he scattereth his bright reason of darkness.
they pour down rain the ends of the earth. cloud: 12And it is turned 20
Shall it be told him
according to the vapour
4
After it a voice roareth: round about by his that I speak? if a man
thereof: 28
Which the he thundereth with the counsels: that they may speak, surely he shall
clouds do drop and distil voice of his excellency; do whatsoever he be swallowed up.
upon man abundantly. and he will not stay them commandeth them upon 21
And now men see
29
Also can any g
the face of the world in not the bright light
understand the bottom: Heb. roots the earth. 13He causeth it which is in the clouds:
h
spreadings of the clouds, the vapour: Heb. that which to come, whether for but the wind passeth,
or the noise of his goeth up and cleanseth them.
a
Hear...: Heb. Hear in hearing
b c d
aside lightning: Heb. light south: Heb. chamber correction: Heb. a rod
22
Fair weather cometh the line upon it? wicked their light is what way is the light
out of the north: with 6
Whereupon are the withholden, and the high parted, which
God is terrible majesty. foundationsc thereof arm shall be broken. scattereth the east
23
Touching the Almighty, fastened? or who laid the 16
Hast thou entered into wind upon the earth?
we cannot find him out: corner stone thereof; the springs of the sea? 25
Who hath divided a
he is excellent in power, 7
When the morning stars or hast thou walked in watercourse for the
and in judgment, and in sang together, and all the search of the depth? overflowing of waters,
plenty of justice: he will the sons of God shouted 17
Have the gates of or a way for the
not afflict. 24Men do for joy? 8Or who shut up death been opened unto lightning of thunder;
therefore fear him: he the sea with doors, when thee? or hast thou seen 26
To cause it to rain on
respecteth not any that it brake forth, as if it had the doors of the shadow the earth, where no
are wise of heart. issued out of the womb? of death? 18Hast thou man is; on the
9
When I made the cloud perceived the breadth of wilderness, wherein
Chapter 38 the garment thereof, and the earth? declare if thou there is no man; 27To
thick darkness a knowest it all. 19Where is satisfy the desolate and
Then
1
the LORD swaddlingband for it, the way where light waste ground; and to
answered Job out of the 10
And brake up for it my dwelleth? and as for cause the bud of the
whirlwind, and said, decreed place, and set darkness, where is the tender herb to spring
2
Who is this that bars and doors, 11And place thereof, 20
That forth? 28Hath the rain a
darkeneth counsel by said, Hitherto shalt thou thou shouldest take it to father? or who hath
words without come, but no further: the bounde thereof, and begotten the drops of
knowledge? Gird up now
3
and here shall thy proud that thou shouldest know dew? 29Out of whose
thy loins like a man; for I waves be stayed? the paths to the house womb came the ice?
will demand of thee, and 12
Hast thou thereof? 21Knowest thou and the hoary frost of
answera thou me. commanded the morning it, because thou wast heaven, who hath
4
Where wast thou since thy days; and then born? or because gendered it? 30
The
when I laid the caused the dayspring to the number of thy days waters are hid as with a
foundations of the earth? know his place; 13That it is great? 22Hast thou stone, and the face of
declare, if thou hastb might take hold of the entered into the the deep is frozen.
understanding. 5
Who endsd of the earth, that treasures of the snow? or 31
Canst thou bind the
hath laid the measures the wicked might be hast thou seen the sweet influences of
thereof, if thou knowest? shaken out of it? 14It is treasures of the hail, Pleiades , or loose the
f

or who hath stretched turned as clay to the 23


Which I have reserved bands of Orion?
a
seal; and they stand as a against the time of 32
Canst thou bring forth
answer...: Heb. make me garment. 15And from the trouble, against the day
know of battle and war? 24By
b c f
hast...: Heb. knowest foundations: Heb. sockets Pleiades: or, the seven stars:
d e
understanding ends: Heb. wings to the bound: or, at, etc Heb. Cimah
Mazzarothg in his their dens, and abide in neither regardeth he the hers: her labour is in
season? or canst thou the covert to lie in wait? crying of the driverb. vain without fear;
guide Arcturus with his 41
Who provideth for the 8
The range of the 17
Because God hath
sons? 33
Knowest thou raven his food? when his mountains is his pasture, deprived her of wisdom,
the ordinances of young ones cry unto and he searcheth after neither hath he
heaven? canst thou set God, they wander for every green thing. 9Will imparted to her
the dominion thereof in lack of meat. the unicorn be willing to understanding. 18What
the earth? 34Canst thou serve thee, or abide by time she lifteth up
lift up thy voice to the Chapter 39 thy crib? 10Canst thou herself on high, she
clouds, that abundance bind the unicorn with his scorneth the horse and
of waters may cover Knowest thou the
1
band in the furrow? or his rider.
thee? 35Canst thou send time when the wild goats will he harrow the 19
Hast thou given the
lightnings, that they may of the rock bring forth? valleys after thee? 11Wilt horse strength? hast
go, and say unto thee, or canst thou mark when thou trust him, because thou clothed his neck
Here we are? 36
Who the hinds do calve? his strength is great? or with thunder? 20Canst
hath put wisdom in the
2
Canst thou number the wilt thou leave thy thou make him afraid
inward parts? or who months that they fulfil? labour to him? 12Wilt as a grasshopper? the
hath given or knowest thou the time thou believe him, that he glory of his nostrils is
understanding to the when they bring forth? will bring home thy seed, terriblec. 21He pawethd
heart? 37
Who can
3
They bow themselves, and gather it into thy in the valley, and
number the clouds in they bring forth their barn? rejoiceth in his
wisdom? or who can young ones, they cast 13
Gavest thou the strength: he goeth on
stayh the bottles of out their sorrows. 4Their goodly wings unto the to meet the armed
heaven, 38When the dust young ones are in good peacocks? or wings and men. 22He mocketh at
growethi into hardness, liking, they grow up with feathers unto the fear, and is not
and the clods cleave fast corn; they go forth, and ostrich? 14
Which leaveth affrighted; neither
together? 39
Wilt thou return not unto them. her eggs in the earth, turneth he back from
hunt the prey for the
5
Who hath sent out the and warmeth them in the sword. 23The quiver
lion? or fill the appetitej wild ass free? or who dust, 15And forgetteth rattleth against him,
of the young lions, hath loosed the bands of that the foot may crush the glittering spear and
40
When they couch in the wild ass? 6Whose them, or that the wild the shield. 24
He
house I have made the beast may break them. swalloweth the ground
g
Mazzaroth: or, the twelve wilderness, and the 16
She is hardened with fierceness and
signs barren a
land his against her young ones, rage: neither believeth
h
stay: Heb. cause to lie down dwellings. 7He scorneth as though they were not he that it is the sound
i
groweth...: or, is turned into the multitude of the city,
b c
mire: Heb. is poured of the driver: Heb. of the terrible: Heb. terror
j a d
the appetite: Heb. the life barren...: Heb. salt places exactor He paweth: or, His feet dig
of the trumpet. 25He thee? I will lay mine save thee. 24
He taketh it with his
saith among the hand upon my mouth. 15
Behold now eyes: his nose pierceth
trumpets, Ha, ha; and he 5
Once have I spoken; but behemotha, which I through snares.
smelleth the battle afar I will not answer: yea, made with thee; he
off, the thunder of the twice; but I will proceed eateth grass as an ox. Chapter 41
captains, and the no further. 16
Lo now, his strength is
shouting. 6
Then answered the in his loins, and his force Canst thou draw out
1

26
Doth the hawk fly by LORD unto Job out of the is in the navel of his leviathana with an
thy wisdom, and stretch whirlwind, and said, belly. 17He moveth his hook? or his tongue
her wings toward the 7
Gird up thy loins now tail like a cedar: the with a cord which thou
south? 27Doth the eagle like a man: I will demand sinews of his stones are lettest down? 2
Canst
mount up at thy of thee, and declare thou wrapped together. 18His thou put an hook into
command, and make her unto me. 8Wilt thou also bones are as strong his nose? or bore his
nest on high? 28
She disannul my judgment? pieces of brass; his jaw through with a
dwelleth and abideth on wilt thou condemn me, bones are like bars of thorn? 3Will he make
the rock, upon the crag that thou mayest be iron. 19He is the chief of many supplications
of the rock, and the righteous? 9Hast thou an the ways of God: he that unto thee? will he speak
strong place. 29
From arm like God? or canst made him can make his soft words unto thee?
thence she seeketh the thou thunder with a sword to approach unto
4
Will he make a
prey, and her eyes voice like him? 10Deck him. 20
Surely the covenant with thee?
behold afar off. 30Her thyself now with majesty mountains bring him wilt thou take him for a
young ones also suck up and excellency; and forth food, where all the servant for ever? 5Wilt
blood: and where the array thyself with glory beasts of the field play. thou play with him as
slain are, there is she. and beauty. 11
Cast 21
He lieth under the with a bird? or wilt thou
abroad the rage of thy shady trees, in the bind him for thy
Chapter 40 wrath: and behold every covert of the reed, and maidens? 6
Shall the
one that is proud, and fens. 22The shady trees companions make a
1
Moreover the LORD abase him. 12Look on cover him with their banquet of him? shall
answered Job, and said, every one that is proud, shadow; the willows of they part him among
2
Shall he that and bring him low; and the brook compass him the merchants? 7Canst
contendeth with the tread down the wicked in about. 23
Behold, he thou fill his skin with
Almighty instruct him? their place. 13Hide them drinketh up a river, and barbed irons? or his
he that reproveth God, in the dust together; and hasteth not: he trusteth head with fish spears?
let him answer it. 3Then bind their faces in that he can draw up
8
Lay thine hand upon
Job answered the LORD, secret. 14Then will I also Jordan into his mouth. him, remember the
and said, 4Behold, I am confess unto thee that a a
vile; what shall I answer thine own right hand can behemoth: an extinct animal leviathan: an extinct animal
of some kind of some kind
battle, do no more. like the eyelids of the slingstones are turned have I uttered that I
9
Behold, the hope of him morning. 19Out of his with him into stubble. understood not; things
is in vain: shall not one mouth go burning lamps, 29
Darts are counted as too wonderful for me,
be cast down even at the and sparks of fire leap stubble: he laugheth at which I knew not. 4Hear,
sight of him? 10None is out. 20Out of his nostrils the shaking of a spear. I beseech thee, and I
so fierce that dare stir goeth smoke, as out of a 30
Sharp stonesf are under will speak: I will
him up: who then is able seething pot or caldron. him: he spreadeth sharp demand of thee, and
to stand before me? 21
His breath kindleth pointed things upon the declare thou unto me. 5I
11
Who hath prevented coals, and a flame goeth mire. 31He maketh the have heard of thee by
me, that I should repay out of his mouth. 22In his deep to boil like a pot: the hearing of the ear:
him? whatsoever is neck remaineth strength, he maketh the sea like a but now mine eye seeth
under the whole heaven and sorrow is turned into pot of ointment. 32He thee. 6
Wherefore I
is mine. 12I will not joyc before him. 23The maketh a path to shine abhor myself, and
conceal his parts, nor his flakesd of his flesh are after him; one would repent in dust and
power, nor his comely joined together: they are think the deep to be ashes.
proportion. 13Who can firm in themselves; they hoary. 33
Upon earth 7
And it was so, that
discover the face of his cannot be moved. 24His there is not his like, who after the LORD had
garment? or who can heart is as firm as a is made without fearg. spoken these words
come to him with his stone; yea, as hard as a 34
He beholdeth all high unto Job, the LORD said
double bridle? 14
Who piece of the nether things: he is a king over to Eliphaz the
can open the doors of his millstone. 25When he all the children of pride. Temanite, My wrath is
face? his teeth are raiseth up himself, the kindled against thee,
terrible round about. mighty are afraid: by Chapter 42 and against thy two
15
His scalesb are his reason of breakings they friends: for ye have not
pride, shut up together purify themselves. 26The Then Job answered
1
spoken of me the thing
as with a close seal. sword of him that layeth the LORD, and said, 2I that is right, as my
16
One is so near to at him cannot hold: the know that thou canst do servant Job hath.
another, that no air can spear, the dart, nor the every thing, and that no 8
Therefore take unto
come between them. habergeone. 27
He thought can be you now seven bullocks
17
They are joined one to esteemeth iron as straw, withholden from thee. and seven rams, and go
another, they stick and brass as rotten
3
Who is he that hideth to my servant Job, and
together, that they wood. 28
The arrow counsel without offer up for yourselves
cannot be sundered. 18By cannot make him flee: knowledge? therefore a burnt offering; and
his neesings a light doth c f
my servant Job shall
shine, and his eyes are is turned into joy: Heb. Sharp stones: Heb. Sharp pray for you: for hima
rejoiceth pieces of potsherd
b d g a
scales: Heb. strong pieces of flakes: Heb. fallings is made without fear: or, him: Heb. his face, or,
e
shields habergeon: or, breastplate behave themselves without fear person
will I accept: lest I deal gold. 12So the LORD counsel of the ungodlya, imagine a vain thing?
with you after your folly, blessed the latter end of nor standeth in the way 2
The kings of the earth
in that ye have not Job more than his of sinners, nor sitteth in set themselves, and the
spoken of me the thing beginning: for he had the seat of the scornful. rulers take counsel
which is right, like my fourteen thousand 2
But his delight is in the together, against the
servant Job. 9So Eliphaz sheep, and six thousand law of the LORD; and in LORD, and against his
the Temanite and Bildad camels, and a thousand his law doth he meditate anointed, saying, 3Let
the Shuhite and Zophar yoke of oxen, and a day and night. 3And he us break their bands
the Naamathite went, thousand she asses. 13He shall be like a tree asunder, and cast away
and did according as the had also seven sons and planted by the rivers of their cords from us. 4He
LORD commanded them: three daughters. 14And water, that bringeth that sitteth in the
the LORD also accepted he called the name of forth his fruit in his heavens shall laugh:
Jobb. the first, Jemima; and season; his leaf also the Lord shall have
the name of the second, shall not witherb; and them in derision. 5Then
10
And the LORD turned Kezia; and the name of whatsoever he doeth shall he speak unto
the captivity of Job, the third, Kerenhappuch. shall prosper. them in his wrath, and
when he prayed for his 15
And in all the land were 4
The ungodly are not vexb them in his sore
friends: also the LORD no women found so fair so: but are like the chaff displeasure. 6Yet have I
gavec Job twice as much as the daughters of Job: which the wind driveth setc my king upon my
as he had before. 11Then and their father gave away. 5Therefore the holy hill of Zion.
came there unto him all them inheritance among ungodly shall not stand 7
I will declare the
his brethren, and all his their brethren. 16After in the judgment, nor decreed: the LORD hath
sisters, and all they that this lived Job an hundred sinners in the said unto me, Thou art
had been of his and forty years, and saw congregation of the my Son; this day have I
acquaintance before, his sons, and his sons’ righteous. 6For the LORD begotten thee. 8Ask of
and did eat bread with sons, even four knoweth the way of the me, and I shall give
him in his house: and generations. 17So Job righteous: but the way of thee the heathen for
they bemoaned him, and died, being old and full the ungodly shall perish. thine inheritance, and
comforted him over all of days. the uttermost parts of
the evil that the LORD Psalm 2 the earth for thy
had brought upon him:
every man also gave him
Psalms possession. 9Thou shalt
Why do the heathen
1
break them with a rod
a piece of money, and ragea, and the people
every one an earring of
Psalm 1 of iron; thou shalt dash
a
them in pieces like a
1
Blessed is the man ungodly: or, wicked
b b b
Job: Heb. the face of Job that walketh not in the wither: Heb. fade vex: or, trouble
c a c
gave...: Heb. added all that rage: or, tumultuously set: Heb. anointed
d
had been to Job unto the double assemble the decree: or, for a decree
potter’s vessel. sustained me. 6I will not LORD will hear when I in the morning will I
10
Be wise now be afraid of ten call unto him. 4Stand in direct my prayer unto
therefore, O ye kings: be thousands of people, awe, and sin not: thee, and will look up.
instructed, ye judges of that have set commune with your own 4
For thou art not a God
the earth. 11Serve the themselves against me heart upon your bed, that hath pleasure in
LORD with fear, and round about. 7Arise, O and be still. Selah. 5Offer wickedness: neither
rejoice with trembling. LORD; save me, O my the sacrifices of shall evil dwell with
12
Kiss the Son, lest he be God: for thou hast righteousness, and put thee. 5The foolish shall
angry, and ye perish smitten all mine enemies your trust in the LORD. not stand in thy sight:
from the way, when his upon the cheek bone; 6
There be many that thou hatest all workers
wrath is kindled but a thou hast broken the say, Who will shew us of iniquity. 6Thou shalt
little. Blessed are all they teeth of the ungodly. any good? LORD, lift destroy them that
that put their trust in 8
Salvation belongeth thou up the light of thy speak leasing: the
him. unto the LORD: thy countenance upon us. LORD will abhor the
blessing is upon thy 7
Thou hast put gladness bloodya and deceitful
Psalm 3 people. Selah. in my heart, more than man.
in the time that their 7
But as for me, I will
A Psalm of David, when Psalm 4 corn and their wine come into thy house in
he fled from Absalom his increased. 8I will both lay the multitude of thy
son. To the chief Musician on me down in peace, and mercy: and in thy fear
Neginoth, A Psalm of sleep: for thou, LORD, will I worship toward
1
LORD, how are they David. only makest me dwell in thy holyb temple. 8Lead
increased that trouble
safety. me, O LORD, in thy
me! many are they that 1
Hear me when I call,
righteousness because
rise up against me. O God of my
2
Many there be which righteousness: thou hast
Psalm 5 of mine enemies; make
thy way straight before
say of my soul, There is enlarged me when I was To the chief Musician my face. 9For there is
no help for him in God. in distress; have mercy upon Nehiloth, A Psalm no faithfulnessc in their
Selah. 3But thou, O upon me, and hear my of David. mouth; their inward
LORD, art a shield for prayer. 2
O ye sons of
part is very wickedness;
me; my glory, and the men, how long will ye 1
Give ear to my
their throat is an open
lifter up of mine head. turn my glory into words, O LORD, consider
sepulchre; they flatter
4
I cried unto the LORD shame? how long will ye my meditation. 2Hearken
with my voice, and he love vanity, and seek unto the voice of my cry, a
bloody...: Heb. man of
heard me out of his holy after leasing? Selah. 3But my King, and my God: bloods and deceit
hill. Selah. 5I laid me know that the LORD hath for unto thee will I pray. b
thy holy...: Heb. the temple
down and slept; I set apart him that is 3
My voice shalt thou hear of thy holiness
awaked; for the LORD godly for himself: the in the morning, O LORD; c
faithfulness: or, stedfastness
with their tongue. thy hot displeasure. Shiggaion of David, the congregation of the
10
Destroy thou them, O
d 2
Have mercy upon me, O which he sang unto the people compass thee
God; let them fall by LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, concerning the about: for their sakes
their own counsels; cast LORD, heal me; for my wordsa of Cush the therefore return thou
them out in the bones are vexed. 3My Benjamite. on high. 8The LORD
multitude of their soul is also sore vexed: shall judge the people:
transgressions; for they but thou, O LORD, how O LORD my God, in
1
judge me, O LORD,
have rebelled against long? 4Return, O LORD, thee do I put my trust: according to my
thee. 11But let all those deliver my soul: oh save save me from all them righteousness, and
that put their trust in me for thy mercies’ that persecute me, and according to mine
thee rejoice: let them sake. 5For in death there deliver me: 2Lest he tear integrity that is in me.
ever shout for joy, is no remembrance of my soul like a lion, 9
Oh let the wickedness
because thou defendeste thee: in the grave who rending it in pieces, of the wicked come to
them: let them also that shall give thee thanks? 6I while there is none to an end; but establish
love thy name be joyful am weary with my deliver. 3
O LORD my the just: for the
in thee. 12
For thou, groaning; all the night God, if I have done this; righteous God trieth the
LORD, wilt bless the make I my bed to swim; I if there be iniquity in my hearts and reins.
righteous; with favour water my couch with my hands; 4
If I have 10
My defence is of
wilt thou compassf him tears. 7
Mine eye is rewarded evil unto him God, which saveth the
as with a shield. consumed because of that was at peace with upright in heart. 11God
grief; it waxeth old me; (yea, I have judgethb the righteous,
Psalm 6 because of all mine delivered him that and God is angry with
enemies. without cause is mine the wicked every day.
To the chief Musician on 8
Depart from me, all enemy:) 5Let the enemy 12
If he turn not, he will
Neginoth upon ye workers of iniquity; persecute my soul, and whet his sword; he hath
Sheminitha, A Psalm of for the LORD hath heard take it; yea, let him bent his bow, and made
David. the voice of my weeping. tread down my life upon it ready. 13He hath also
9
The LORD hath heard the earth, and lay mine prepared for him the
1
O LORD, rebuke me honour in the dust.
my supplication; the instruments of death;
not in thine anger, Selah. 6Arise, O LORD, in
LORD will receive my he ordaineth his arrows
neither chasten me in thine anger, lift up
prayer. 10Let all mine against the persecutors.
enemies be ashamed thyself because of the 14
Behold, he travaileth
d
Destroy...: or, Make them and sore vexed: let them rage of mine enemies: with iniquity, and hath
guilty return and be ashamed and awake for me to the conceived mischief, and
e
defendest...: Heb. coverest suddenly. judgment that thou hast brought forth falsehood.
over, or, protectest them commanded. 7So shall
f b
compass: Heb. crown Psalm 7 judgeth...: or, is a righteous
a a
Sheminith: or, the eighth words: or, business judge
15
He made a pitc, and fingers, the moon and to thy name, O thou will put their trust in
digged it, and is fallen the stars, which thou most High. 3When mine thee: for thou, LORD,
into the ditch which he hast ordained; 4What is enemies are turned hast not forsaken them
made. 16
His mischief man, that thou art back, they shall fall and that seek thee.
shall return upon his own mindful of him? and the perish at thy presence. 11
Sing praises to the
head, and his violent son of man, that thou 4
For thou hast LORD, which dwelleth in
dealing shall come down visitest him? 5For thou maintaineda my right Zion: declare among
upon his own pate. 17I hast made him a little and my cause; thou the people his doings.
will praise the LORD lower than the angels, satest in the throne 12
When he maketh
according to his and hast crowned him judging right. 5
Thou inquisition for blood, he
righteousness: and will with glory and honour. hast rebuked the remembereth them: he
sing praise to the name 6
Thou madest him to heathen, thou hast forgetteth not the cry of
of the LORD most high. have dominion over the destroyed the wicked, the humblec. 13
Have
works of thy hands; thou thou hast put out their mercy upon me, O
Psalm 8 hast put all things under name for ever and ever. LORD; consider my
his feet: 7All sheep and 6
O thou enemy, trouble which I suffer of
To the chief Musician oxen, yea, and the destructions are come to them that hate me,
upon Gittith, A Psalm of beasts of the field; 8The a perpetual end: and thou that liftest me up
David. fowl of the air, and the thou hast destroyed from the gates of
fish of the sea, and cities; their memorial is death: 14
That I may
1
O LORD our Lord,
whatsoever passeth perished with them. shew forth all thy praise
how excellent is thy
through the paths of the 7
But the LORD shall in the gates of the
name in all the earth!
seas. 9O LORD our Lord, endure for ever: he hath daughter of Zion: I will
who hast set thy glory
how excellent is thy prepared his throne for rejoice in thy salvation.
above the heavens. 2Out
name in all the earth! judgment. 8And he shall 15
The heathen are sunk
of the mouth of babes
judge the world in down in the pit that
and sucklings hast thou
ordaineda strength
Psalm 9 righteousness, he shall they made: in the net
minister judgment to the which they hid is their
because of thine To the chief Musician people in uprightness. own foot taken. 16The
enemies, that thou upon Muthlabben, A 9
The LORD also will be a LORD is known by the
mightest still the enemy Psalm of David. refugeb for the judgment which he
and the avenger.
oppressed, a refuge in executeth: the wicked
3
When I consider thy 1
I will praise thee, O
times of trouble. 10And is snared in the work of
heavens, the work of thy LORD, with my whole
they that know thy name his own hands.
heart; I will shew forth all
Higgaiond. Selah. 17The
c
He made a pit: Heb. He hath thy marvellous works. 2I a
maintained...: Heb. made my
digged a pit will be glad and rejoice judgment c
humble: or, afflicted
a
ordained: Heb. founded in thee: I will sing praise b
a refuge: Heb. an high place d
Higgaion: that is, Meditation
wicked shall be turned seek after God: God is forgotten: he hideth his Psalm 11
into hell, and all the not in all his thoughts. face; he will never see it.
nations that forget God. 5
His ways are always 12
Arise, O LORD; O To the chief Musician, A
18
For the needy shall not grievous; thy judgments God, lift up thine hand: Psalm of David.
alway be forgotten: the are far above out of his forget not the humblef.
expectation of the poor sight: as for all his 13
Wherefore doth the
1
In the LORD put I
shall not perish for ever. enemies, he puffeth at wicked contemn God? he my trust: how say ye to
19
Arise, O LORD; let not them. 6He hath said in hath said in his heart, my soul, Flee as a bird
man prevail: let the his heart, I shall not be Thou wilt not require it. to your mountain? 2For,
heathen be judged in thy moved: for I shall neverc 14
Thou hast seen it; for lo, the wicked bend
sight. 20Put them in fear, be in adversity. 7
His thou beholdest mischief their bow, they make
O LORD: that the nations mouth is full of cursing and spite, to requite it ready their arrow upon
may know themselves to and deceitd and fraud: with thy hand: the poor the string, that they
be but men. Selah. under his tongue is committethg himself unto may privilya shoot at
mischief and vanity. thee; thou art the helper the upright in heart. 3If
Psalm 10 8
He sitteth in the lurking of the fatherless. the foundations be
places of the villages: in 15
Break thou the arm of destroyed, what can the
Why standest thou
1
the secret places doth the wicked and the evil righteous do?
afar off, O LORD? why he murder the innocent: man: seek out his
4
The LORD is in his
hidest thou thyself in his eyes are privily set wickedness till thou find holy temple, the
times of trouble? 2The against the poor. 9
He none. 16The LORD is King LORD’S throne is in
wickeda in his pride doth lieth in wait secretly as
e
for ever and ever: the heaven: his eyes
persecute the poor: let a lion in his den: he lieth heathen are perished out behold, his eyelids try,
them be taken in the in wait to catch the poor: of his land. 17LORD, thou the children of men.
devices that they have he doth catch the poor, hast heard the desire of
5
The LORD trieth the
imagined. 3
For the when he draweth him the humble: thou wilt righteous: but the
wicked boasteth of his into his net. 10
He prepareh their heart, wicked and him that
heart’sb desire, and croucheth, and humbleth thou wilt cause thine ear loveth violence his soul
blesseth the covetous, himself, that the poor to hear: 18To judge the hateth. 6
Upon the
whom the LORD may fall by his strong fatherless and the wicked he shall rain
abhorreth. 4The wicked, ones. 11He hath said in oppressed, that the man snares, fire and
through the pride of his his heart, God hath of the earth may no brimstone, and an
countenance, will not more oppressi. horribleb tempest: this
c
never: Heb. unto generation shall be the portion of
a f
The wicked...: Heb. In the and generation humble: or, afflicted
d g a
pride of the wicked he doth deceit: Heb. deceits committeth: Heb. leaveth privily: Heb. in darkness
e h b
persecute secretly: Heb. in the secret prepare: or, establish an horrible...: or, a burning
b i
heart’s: Heb. soul’s places oppress: or, terrify tempest
their cup. 7
For the that puffethc at him. prevailed against him; bread, and call not
righteous LORD loveth 6
The words of the LORD and those that trouble upon the LORD. 5There
righteousness; his are pure words: as silver me rejoice when I am were they in great fear:
countenance doth tried in a furnace of moved. 5But I have for God is in the
behold the upright. earth, purified seven trusted in thy mercy; my generation of the
times. 7Thou shalt keep heart shall rejoice in thy righteous. 6
Ye have
Psalm 12 them, O LORD, thou salvation. 6I will sing shamed the counsel of
shalt preserve them unto the LORD, because the poor, because the
To the chief Musician from this generation for he hath dealt bountifully LORD is his refuge. 7Oh
upon Sheminith, A Psalm ever. 8The wicked walk with me. that the salvation of
of David. on every side, when the Israel were come out of
1
Help, LORD; for the
vilest mend are exalted. Psalm 14 Zion! when the LORD
bringeth back the
godly man ceaseth; for
the faithful fail from
Psalm 13 To the chief Musician, A captivity of his people,
Psalm of David. Jacob shall rejoice, and
among the children of To the chief Musician, A Israel shall be glad.
men. 2
They speak Psalm of David.
1
The fool hath said in
vanity every one with his his heart, There is no
neighbour: with 1
How long wilt thou God. They are corrupt,
Psalm 15
flattering lips and with a forget me, O LORD? for they have done A Psalm of David.
doublea heart do they ever? how long wilt thou abominable works, there
speak. 3The LORD shall hide thy face from me? is none that doeth good. LORD, who shall
1

cut off all flattering lips, 2


How long shall I take 2
The LORD looked down abidea in thy
and the tongue that counsel in my soul, from heaven upon the tabernacle? who shall
speaketh proudb things: having sorrow in my children of men, to see if dwell in thy holy hill?
4
Who have said, With our heart daily? how long there were any that did 2
He that walketh
tongue will we prevail; shall mine enemy be understand, and seek uprightly, and worketh
our lips are our own: who exalted over me? God. 3They are all gone righteousness, and
is lord over us? 5For the 3
Consider and hear me, aside, they are all speaketh the truth in
oppression of the poor, O LORD my God: lighten together become filthya: his heart. 3He that
for the sighing of the mine eyes, lest I sleep there is none that doeth backbiteth not with his
needy, now will I arise, the sleep of death; 4Lest good, no, not one. tongue, nor doeth evil
saith the LORD; I will set mine enemy say, I have 4
Have all the workers to his neighbour, nor
him in safety from him of iniquity no taketh up a reproach
c
puffeth...: or, would ensnare knowledge? who eat up against his neighbour.
a
a double...: Heb. an heart and him my people as they eat 4
In whose eyes a vile
d
an heart men: Heb. of the sons of the
b a a
proud: Heb. great men filthy: Heb. stinking abide: Heb. sojourn
person is contemned; inheritance and of my LORD, attend unto my me under the shadow
but he honoureth them cup: thou maintainest cry, give ear unto my of thy wings, 9From the
that fear the LORD. He my lot. 6The lines are prayer, that goeth not wicked that oppressc
that sweareth to his own fallen unto me in out of feigned lips. 2Let me, from my deadly
hurt, and changeth not. pleasant places; yea, I my sentence come forth enemies, who compass
5
He that putteth not out have a goodly heritage. from thy presence; let me about. 10
They are
his money to usury, nor 7
I will bless the LORD, thine eyes behold the inclosed in their own
taketh reward against who hath given me things that are equal. fat: with their mouth
the innocent. He that counsel: my reins also 3
Thou hast proved mine they speak proudly.
doeth these things shall instruct me in the night heart; thou hast visited 11
They have now
never be moved. seasons. me in the night; thou compassed us in our
8
I have set the LORD hast tried me, and shalt steps: they have set
Psalm 16 always before me: find nothing; I am their eyes bowing down
because he is at my right purposed that my mouth to the earth; 12Liked as a
Michtam of David. hand, I shall not be shall not transgress. lion that is greedy of his
moved. 9Therefore my 4
Concerning the works of prey, and as it were a
1
Preserve me, O God:
heart is glad, and my men, by the word of thy young lion lurking in
for in thee do I put my
glory rejoiceth: my flesh lips I have kept me from secret places. 13
Arise,
trust. 2O my soul, thou
also shall restb in hope. the paths of the O LORD, disappointe
hast said unto the LORD, 10
For thou wilt not leave destroyer. Hold up my
5
him, cast him down:
Thou art my Lord: my
my soul in hell; neither goings in thy paths, that deliver my soul from
goodness extendeth not
wilt thou suffer thine my footsteps slipb not. 6I the wicked, which is thy
to thee; 3But to the
Holy One to see have called upon thee, sword: 14
From men
saints that are in the
corruption. 11
Thou wilt for thou wilt hear me, O which are thy hand, O
earth, and to the
shew me the path of life: God: incline thine ear LORD, from men of the
excellent, in whom is all
in thy presence is unto me, and hear my world, which have their
my delight. 4
Their
fulness of joy; at thy speech. 7
Shew thy portion in this life, and
sorrows shall be
right hand there are marvellous whose belly thou fillest
multiplied that hastena
pleasures for evermore. lovingkindness, O thou with thy hid treasure:
after another god: their
that savest by thy right they are full of children,
drink offerings of blood
will I not offer, nor take
Psalm 17 hand them which put c
their trust in thee from oppress: Heb. waste
up their names into my A Prayer of David. d
Like...: Heb. The likeness of
those that rise up
lips. 5The LORD is the him (that is, of every one of
against them.
portion of mine 1
Hear the righta, O them) is as a lion that desireth
8
Keep me as the
apple of the eye, hide to ravin
a b e
hasten...: or, give gifts to rest...: Heb. dwell confidently disappoint...: Heb. prevent
a b
another the right: Heb. justice slip...: Heb. be not moved his face
and leave the rest of death compassed me, dark waters and thick because he delighted in
their substance to their and the floods of clouds of the skies. 12At me.
babes. 15As for me, I will ungodly menb made me the brightness that was 20
The LORD
behold thy face in afraid. 5The sorrowsc of before him his thick rewarded me according
righteousness: I shall be hell compassed me clouds passed, hail to my righteousness;
satisfied, when I awake, about: the snares of stones and coals of fire. according to the
with thy likeness. death prevented me. 6In 13
The LORD also cleanness of my hands
my distress I called upon thundered in the hath he recompensed
Psalm 18 the LORD, and cried unto heavens, and the me. 21For I have kept
my God: he heard my Highest gave his voice; the ways of the LORD,
To the chief Musician, A voice out of his temple, hail stones and coals of and have not wickedly
Psalm of David, the and my cry came before fire. 14Yea, he sent out departed from my God.
servant of the LORD, him, even into his ears. his arrows, and scattered 22
For all his judgments
who spake unto the 7
Then the earth shook them; and he shot out were before me, and I
LORD the words of this and trembled; the lightnings, and did not put away his
song in the day that the foundations also of the discomfited them. Then
15
statutes from me. 23I
LORD delivered him from hills moved and were the channels of waters was also upright before
the hand of all his shaken, because he was were seen, and the him, and I kept myself
enemies, and from the wroth. 8There went up a foundations of the world from mine iniquity.
hand of Saul: And he smoke out of his were discovered at thy 24
Therefore hath the
said, nostrilsd, and fire out of rebuke, O LORD, at the LORD recompensed me
his mouth devoured: blast of the breath of thy according to my
I will love thee, O
1
coals were kindled by it. nostrils. 16He sent from righteousness,
LORD, my strength. 2The 9
He bowed the heavens above, he took me, he according to the
LORD is my rock, and my
also, and came down: drew me out of manye cleanness of my hands
fortress, and my
and darkness was under waters. 17
He delivered in his eyesight. 25With
deliverer; my God, my
his feet. 10And he rode me from my strong the merciful thou wilt
strengtha, in whom I will
upon a cherub, and did enemy, and from them shew thyself merciful;
trust; my buckler, and
fly: yea, he did fly upon which hated me: for they with an upright man
the horn of my salvation,
the wings of the wind. were too strong for me. thou wilt shew thyself
and my high tower. 3I 11
He made darkness his 18
They prevented me in upright; 26With the pure
will call upon the LORD,
secret place; his pavilion the day of my calamity: thou wilt shew thyself
who is worthy to be
round about him were but the LORD was my pure; and with the
praised: so shall I be
stay. 19He brought me froward thou wilt shew
saved from mine b
ungodly men: Heb. Belial forth also into a large thyself frowardf. 27For
enemies. The sorrows of
4 c
sorrows: or, cords
d
place; he delivered me, f
out of his nostrils: Heb. by shew thyself froward: or,
a e
my strength: Heb. my rock his, etc many: or, great wrestle
thou wilt save the me great. 36Thou hast a people whom I have and sheweth mercy to
afflicted people; but wilt enlarged my steps under not known shall serve his anointed, to David,
bring down high looks. me, that my feetj did not me. 44As soon as they and to his seed for
28
For thou wilt light my slip. 37
I have pursued hear of me, they shall evermore.
candleg: the LORD my mine enemies, and obey me: the strangers
God will enlighten my overtaken them: neither shall submit themselves Psalm 19
darkness. did I turn again till they unto me. 45
The
29
For by thee I have were consumed. 38I have strangers l
shall fade To the chief Musician, A
run through a troop; and wounded them that they away, and be afraid out Psalm of David.
by my God have I leaped were not able to rise: of their close places. 1
The heavens
over a wall. 30As for God, they are fallen under my 46
The LORD liveth; and
declare the glory of
his way is perfect: the feet. 39For thou hast blessed be my rock; and
God; and the firmament
word of the LORD is girded me with strength let the God of my
sheweth his handywork.
triedh: he is a buckler to unto the battle: thou salvation be exalted. 47It 2
Day unto day uttereth
all those that trust in hast subduedk under me is God that avengethm
speech, and night unto
him. 31For who is God those that rose up me, and subdueth the
night sheweth
save the LORD? or who against me. 40Thou hast people under me. 48He
knowledge. There is no
3
is a rock save our God? also given me the necks delivereth me from mine
speech nor language,
32
It is God that girdeth of mine enemies; that I enemies: yea, thou
where their voice is not
me with strength, and might destroy them that liftest me up above
heard. 4
Their linea is
maketh my way perfect. hate me. 41They cried, those that rise up
gone out through all the
33
He maketh my feet like but there was none to against me: thou hast
earth, and their words
hinds’ feet, and setteth save them: even unto delivered me from the
to the end of the world.
me upon my high places. the LORD, but he violentn man.
In them hath he set a
34
He teacheth my hands answered them not. 49
Therefore will I give
tabernacle for the sun,
to war, so that a bow of 42
Then did I beat them thanks unto thee, O 5
Which is as a
steel is broken by mine small as the dust before LORD, among the
bridegroom coming out
arms. 35Thou hast also the wind: I did cast them heathen, and sing
of his chamber, and
given me the shield of out as the dirt in the praises unto thy name.
rejoiceth as a strong
thy salvation: and thy streets. 43
Thou hast 50
Great deliverance
man to run a race. 6His
right hand hath holden delivered me from the giveth he to his king;
going forth is from the
me up, and thy strivings of the people; l
strangers: Heb. sons of the end of the heaven, and
gentlenessi hath made and thou hast made me
stranger his circuit unto the ends
the head of the heathen:
g
candle: or, lamp m
avengeth: Heb. giveth of it: and there is
h
tried: or, refined me avengements for nothing hid from the
i j n
thy gentleness...: or, with thy my feet: Heb. mine ankles violent...: Heb. man of
k a
meekness thou hast multiplied subdued: Heb. caused to bow violence line: or, rule, or, direction
heat thereof. shall be innocent from and in the name of our with the blessings of
7
The lawb of the LORD the greate transgression. God we will set up our goodness: thou settest
is perfect, converting the 14
Let the words of my banners: the LORD fulfil a crown of pure gold on
soul: the testimony of mouth, and the all thy petitions. his head. 4He asked life
the LORD is sure, making meditation of my heart, 6
Now know I that the of thee, and thou
wise the simple. 8
The be acceptable in thy LORD saveth his gavest it him, even
statutes of the LORD are sight, O LORD, my anointed; he will hear length of days for ever
right, rejoicing the heart: strength ,
f
and my him from his holyd and ever. 5His glory is
the commandment of redeemer. heaven with the saving great in thy salvation:
the LORD is pure, strength of his right honour and majesty
enlightening the eyes. Psalm 20 hand. 7
Some trust in hast thou laid upon
9
The fear of the LORD is chariots, and some in him. 6For thou hast
clean, enduring for ever: To the chief Musician, A horses: but we will made him most blessed
the judgments of the Psalm of David. remember the name of for ever: thou hast
LORD are truec and the LORD our God. 8They made him exceeding
1
The LORD hear thee
righteous altogether. are brought down and glad with thy
in the day of trouble; the
10
More to be desired are fallen: but we are risen, countenance.
name of the God of Jacob
they than gold, yea, than and stand upright. 9Save, 7
For the king trusteth
defenda thee; 2
Send
much fine gold: sweeter LORD: let the king hear in the LORD, and
thee help b
from the
also than honey and the us when we call. through the mercy of
sanctuary, and
honeycombd. 11Moreover the most High he shall
strengthen thee out of
by them is thy servant
Zion; 3
Remember all
Psalm 21 not be moved. 8Thine
warned: and in keeping hand shall find out all
thy offerings, and To the chief Musician, A
of them there is great thine enemies: thy right
acceptc thy burnt Psalm of David.
reward. 12
Who can hand shall find out
sacrifice; Selah. 4Grant
understand his errors? those that hate thee.
thee according to thine 1
The king shall joy in
cleanse thou me from 9
Thou shalt make them
own heart, and fulfil all thy strength, O LORD;
secret faults. 13
Keep as a fiery oven in the
thy counsel. 5We will and in thy salvation how
back thy servant also time of thine anger: the
rejoice in thy salvation, greatly shall he rejoice!
from presumptuous sins; LORD shall swallow
2
Thou hast given him his
let them not have them up in his wrath,
e
the great: or, much heart’s desire, and hast
dominion over me: then and the fire shall
f
strength: Heb. rock not withholden the
shall I be upright, and I devour them. 10Their
a
defend...: Heb. set thee on an request of his lips. Selah.
fruit shalt thou destroy
b
law: or, doctrine high place
3
For thou preventest him
c b
from the earth, and
true: Heb. truth thee help: Heb. thy help their seed from among
d c d
the honeycomb: Heb. the accept: Heb. turn to ashes: or, his holy...: Heb. the heaven of the children of men.
dropping of honeycomb make fat his holiness
11
For they intended evil trusted in thee: they gapedc upon me with from the horns of the
against thee: they trusted, and thou didst their mouths, as a unicorns.
imagined a mischievous deliver them. 5They cried ravening and a roaring 22
I will declare thy
device, which they are unto thee, and were lion. 14I am poured out name unto my
not able to perform. delivered: they trusted in like water, and all my brethren: in the midst
12
Therefore shalt thou thee, and were not bones are out of joint: of the congregation will
make them turn their confounded. 6But I am a my heart is like wax; it is I praise thee. 23Ye that
back, when thou shalt worm, and no man; a melted in the midst of fear the LORD, praise
make ready thine arrows reproach of men, and my bowels. 15
My him; all ye the seed of
upon thy strings against despised of the people. strength is dried up like Jacob, glorify him; and
the face of them. 13
Be 7
All they that see me a potsherd; and my fear him, all ye the seed
thou exalted, LORD, in laugh me to scorn: they tongue cleaveth to my of Israel. 24For he hath
thine own strength: so shoot out the lip, they jaws; and thou hast not despised nor
will we sing and praise shake the head, saying, brought me into the dust abhorred the affliction
thy power. 8
He trustedb on the LORD of death. 16For dogs have of the afflicted; neither
that he would deliver compassed me: the hath he hid his face
Psalm 22 him: let him deliver him, assembly of the wicked from him; but when he
seeing he delighted in have inclosed me: they cried unto him, he
To the chief Musician him. 9
But thou art he pierced my hands and heard. 25My praise shall
upon Aijeletha Shahar, A that took me out of the my feet. 17I may tell all be of thee in the great
Psalm of David. womb: thou didst make my bones: they look and congregation: I will pay
me hope when I was stare upon me. 18They my vows before them
1
My God, my God,
upon my mother’s part my garments that fear him. 26The
why hast thou forsaken
breasts. 10
I was cast among them, and cast meek shall eat and be
me? why art thou so far
upon thee from the lots upon my vesture. satisfied: they shall
from helping me, and
womb: thou art my God 19
But be not thou far praise the LORD that
from the words of my
from my mother’s belly. from me, O LORD: O my seek him: your heart
roaring? 2
O my God, I 11
Be not far from me; strength, haste thee to shall live for ever. 27All
cry in the daytime, but
for trouble is near; for help me. 20Deliver my the ends of the world
thou hearest not; and in
there is none to help. soul from the sword; my shall remember and
the night season, and 12
Many bulls have darlingd from the power turn unto the LORD:
am not silent. 3But thou
compassed me: strong of the dog. 21
Save me and all the kindreds of
art holy, O thou that
bulls of Bashan have from the lion’s mouth: the nations shall
inhabitest the praises of
beset me round. 13They for thou hast heard me worship before thee.
Israel. 4
Our fathers
c
28
For the kingdom is the
gaped...: Heb. opened their LORD’S: and he is the
a b
Aijeleth...: or, the hind of the He trusted...: Heb. He rolled mouths against me governor among the
d
morning himself on my darling: Heb. my only one
nations. 29All they that with me; thy rod and thy deceitfully. 5
He shall triumph over me. 3Yea,
be fat upon earth shall staff they comfort me. receive the blessing from let none that wait on
eat and worship: all they 5
Thou preparest a table the LORD, and thee be ashamed: let
that go down to the dust before me in the righteousness from the them be ashamed
shall bow before him: presence of mine God of his salvation. which transgress
and none can keep alive enemies: thou anointestb 6
This is the generation of without cause. 4Shew
his own soul. 30A seed my head with oil; my cup them that seek him, that me thy ways, O LORD;
shall serve him; it shall runneth over. 6
Surely seek thy face, O Jacoba. teach me thy paths.
be accounted to the Lord goodness and mercy Selah. 5
Lead me in thy truth,
for a generation. 31They shall follow me all the 7
Lift up your heads, O and teach me: for thou
shall come, and shall days of my life: and I will ye gates; and be ye lift art the God of my
declare his dwell in the house of the up, ye everlasting doors; salvation; on thee do I
righteousness unto a LORD for everc. and the King of glory wait all the day.
people that shall be shall come in. 8Who is 6
Remember, O LORD,
born, that he hath done Psalm 24 this King of glory? The thy tender mercies and
this. LORD strong and mighty, thy lovingkindnesses;
A Psalm of David. the LORD mighty in for they have been ever
Psalm 23 1
The earth is the
battle. 9Lift up your of old. 7Remember not
heads, O ye gates; even the sins of my youth,
A Psalm of David. LORD’S, and the fulness
lift them up, ye nor my transgressions:
thereof; the world, and
everlasting doors; and according to thy mercy
1
The LORD is my they that dwell therein.
the King of glory shall remember thou me for
shepherd; I shall not 2
For he hath founded it
come in. 10Who is this thy goodness’ sake, O
want. 2He maketh me to upon the seas, and
King of glory? The LORD LORD.
lie down in greena established it upon the
of hosts, he is the King of 8
Good and upright is
pastures: he leadeth me floods.
glory. Selah. the LORD: therefore will
beside the still waters. 3
Who shall ascend
he teach sinners in the
3
He restoreth my soul: into the hill of the LORD?
he leadeth me in the or who shall stand in his
Psalm 25 way. 9The meek will he
guide in judgment: and
paths of righteousness holy place? 4He that hath A Psalm of David. the meek will he teach
for his name’s sake. clean hands, and a pure
his way. 10All the paths
4
Yea, though I walk heart; who hath not Unto thee, O LORD,
1
of the LORD are mercy
through the valley of the lifted up his soul unto do I lift up my soul. 2O
and truth unto such as
shadow of death, I will vanity, nor sworn my God, I trust in thee:
keep his covenant and
fear no evil: for thou art let me not be ashamed,
his testimonies. 11For
b
anointest: Heb. makest fat let not mine enemies
a c
thy name’s sake, O
green...: Heb. pastures of for ever: Heb. to length of LORD, pardon mine
a
tender grass days O Jacob: or, O God of Jacob
iniquity; for it is great. trust in thee. 21
Let habitation of thy house, against me, my heart
12
What man is he that integrity and uprightness and the place where shall not fear: though
feareth the LORD? him preserve me; for I wait thine honour dwelleth. war should rise against
shall he teach in the way on thee. 22Redeem Israel, 9
Gathera not my soul me, in this will I be
that he shall choose. O God, out of all his with sinners, nor my life confident. 4One thing
13
His soul shall dwella at troubles. with bloody men: 10
In have I desired of the
ease; and his seed shall whose hands is mischief, LORD, that will I seek
inherit the earth. 14The Psalm 26 and their right hand is after; that I may dwell
secret of the LORD is fullb of bribes. 11But as in the house of the
with them that fear him; A Psalm of David. for me, I will walk in LORD all the days of my
and he will shew them mine integrity: redeem life, to behold the
1
Judge me, O LORD;
his covenant. me, and be merciful unto beautyb of the LORD,
for I have walked in mine
15
Mine eyes are ever me. 12My foot standeth in and to enquire in his
integrity: I have trusted
toward the LORD; for he an even place: in the temple. 5For in the time
also in the LORD;
shall pluckb my feet out congregations will I bless of trouble he shall hide
therefore I shall not
of the net. 16Turn thee the LORD. me in his pavilion: in
slide. 2Examine me, O
unto me, and have the secret of his
LORD, and prove me; try
mercy upon me; for I am
my reins and my heart.
Psalm 27 tabernacle shall he hide
desolate and afflicted. me; he shall set me up
3
For thy lovingkindness A Psalm of David.
17
The troubles of my upon a rock. 6And now
is before mine eyes: and
heart are enlarged: O shall mine head be
I have walked in thy 1
The LORD is my light
bring thou me out of my lifted up above mine
truth. 4I have not sat and my salvation; whom
distresses. 18Look upon enemies round about
with vain persons, shall I fear? the LORD is
mine affliction and my me: therefore will I offer
neither will I go in with the strength of my life;
pain; and forgive all my in his tabernacle
dissemblers. 5
I have of whom shall I be
sins. 19Consider mine sacrifices of joyc; I will
hated the congregation afraid? 2
When the
enemies; for they are sing, yea, I will sing
of evil doers; and will not wicked, even mine
many; and they hate me praises unto the LORD.
sit with the wicked. enemies and my foes,
with cruelc hatred. 20O 7
Hear, O LORD,
6
I will wash mine camea upon me to eat up
keep my soul, and when I cry with my
hands in innocency: so my flesh, they stumbled
deliver me: let me not be voice: have mercy also
will I compass thine and fell. 3
Though an
ashamed; for I put my upon me, and answer
altar, O LORD: 7That I host should encamp
me. 8When thou saidst,
a
dwell...: Heb. lodge in may publish with the
Seek ye my face; my
goodness voice of thanksgiving, a
Gather...: or, Take not away heart said unto thee,
b
pluck: Heb. bring forth and tell of all thy b
full...: Heb. filled with
c
cruel...: Heb. hatred of wondrous works. 8LORD, a
came...: Heb. approached b
the beauty: or, the delight
violence I have loved the against me c
joy: Heb. shouting
Thy face, LORD, will I O LORD my rock; be not in him, and I am helped: is powerfuld; the voice
seek. 9Hide not thy face silent to me: lest, if thou therefore my heart of the LORD is full of
far from me; put not thy be silenta to me, I greatly rejoiceth; and majesty. 5The voice of
servant away in anger: become like them that with my song will I praise the LORD breaketh the
thou hast been my help; go down into the pit. him. 8The LORD is their cedars; yea, the LORD
leave me not, neither 2
Hear the voice of my strength, and he is the breaketh the cedars of
forsake me, O God of my supplications, when I cry saving strength of his Lebanon. 6He maketh
salvation. 10When my unto thee, when I lift up anointed. 9
Save thy them also to skip like a
father and my mother my hands toward thy people, and bless thine calf; Lebanon and Sirion
forsake me, then the holy oracle. 3Draw me inheritance: feedb them like a young unicorn.
LORD will take me up. not away with the also, and lift them up for 7
The voice of the LORD
11
Teach me thy way, O wicked, and with the ever. dividethe the flames of
LORD, and lead me in a workers of iniquity, fire. 8The voice of the
plaind path, because of which speak peace to Psalm 29 LORD shaketh the
mine enemies. 12Deliver their neighbours, but wilderness; the LORD
me not over unto the will mischief is in their A Psalm of David. shaketh the wilderness
of mine enemies: for hearts. 4
Give them of Kadesh. 9The voice of
1
Give unto the LORD,
false witnesses are risen according to their deeds, the LORD maketh the
O ye mightya, give unto
up against me, and such and according to the hinds to calvef, and
the LORD glory and
as breathe out cruelty. wickedness of their discovereth the forests:
strength. 2Give unto the
13
I had fainted, unless I endeavours: give them and in his temple doth
LORD the gloryb due
had believed to see the after the work of their every one speak of his
unto his name; worship
goodness of the LORD in hands; render to them glory. 10
The LORD
the LORD in the beauty
the land of the living. their desert. 5Because sitteth upon the flood;
of holiness. 3
The voice
14
Wait on the LORD: be they regard not the yea, the LORD sitteth
of the LORD is upon the
of good courage, and he works of the LORD, nor King for ever. 11The
waters: the God of glory
shall strengthen thine the operation of his LORD will give strength
thundereth: the LORD is
heart: wait, I say, on the hands, he shall destroy unto his people; the
upon manyc waters.
LORD. them, and not build LORD will bless his
4
The voice of the LORD
them up. people with peace.
Psalm 28 6
Blessed be the LORD,
because he hath heard b
Psalm 30
A Psalm of David. the voice of my feed: or, rule
a
supplications. The LORD
7 ye mighty: Heb. ye sons of the A Psalm and Song at
1
Unto thee will I cry, mighty
is my strength and my b d
shield; my heart trusted the glory...: Heb. the honour powerful: Heb. in power
d e
a plain...: Heb. a way of of his name divideth: Heb. cutteth out
a c f
plainness to me: Heb. from me many: or, great to calve: or, to be in pain
the dedication of the the LORD I made sake lead me, and guide that did see me without
house of David. supplication. What profit
9
me. 4Pull me out of the fled from me. 12I am
is there in my blood, net that they have laid forgotten as a dead
1
I will extol thee, O when I go down to the privily for me: for thou man out of mind: I am
LORD; for thou hast pit? Shall the dust praise art my strength. 5Into like a brokena vessel.
lifted me up, and hast thee? shall it declare thy thine hand I commit my 13
For I have heard the
not made my foes to truth? 10Hear, O LORD, spirit: thou hast slander of many: fear
rejoice over me. 2O LORD and have mercy upon redeemed me, O LORD was on every side:
my God, I cried unto me: LORD, be thou my God of truth. 6I have while they took counsel
thee, and thou hast helper. 11
Thou hast hated them that regard together against me,
healed me. 3O LORD, turned for me my lying vanities: but I trust they devised to take
thou hast brought up my mourning into dancing: in the LORD. 7I will be away my life. 14But I
soul from the grave: thou hast put off my glad and rejoice in thy trusted in thee, O
thou hast kept me alive, sackcloth, and girded me mercy: for thou hast LORD: I said, Thou art
that I should not go with gladness; 12To the considered my trouble; my God. 15My times are
down to the pit. 4Sing end that my glory may thou hast known my soul in thy hand: deliver me
unto the LORD, O ye sing praise to thee, and in adversities; 8And hast from the hand of mine
saints of his, and give not be silent. O LORD my not shut me up into the enemies, and from
thanks at the God, I will give thanks hand of the enemy: thou them that persecute
remembrance of his unto thee for ever. hast set my feet in a me. 16Make thy face to
holiness. 5For his angera large room. shine upon thy servant:
endureth but a moment; Psalm 31 9
Have mercy upon save me for thy
in his favour is life: me, O LORD, for I am in mercies’ sake. 17Let me
weeping may endure for To the chief Musician, A trouble: mine eye is not be ashamed, O
a night, but joy cometh Psalm of David. consumed with grief, LORD; for I have called
in the morning. yea, my soul and my upon thee: let the
6
And in my prosperity
1
In thee, O LORD, do I
belly. 10For my life is wicked be ashamed,
I said, I shall never be put my trust; let me
spent with grief, and my and let them be silentb
moved. 7LORD, by thy never be ashamed:
years with sighing: my in the grave. 18Let the
favour thou hast made deliver me in thy
strength faileth because lying lips be put to
my mountain to stand righteousness. 2
Bow
of mine iniquity, and my silence; which speak
strong: thou didst hide down thine ear to me;
bones are consumed. 11I grievousc things proudly
thy face, and I was deliver me speedily: be
was a reproach among and contemptuously
troubled. 8
I cried to thou my strong rock, for
all mine enemies, but
thee, O LORD; and unto an house of defence to a
a broken...: Heb. a vessel that
especially among my
save me. 3For thou art perisheth
neighbours, and a fear to
a
his anger...: Heb. there is but a my rock and my fortress; b
silent...: or, cut off for
mine acquaintance: they
moment in his anger therefore for thy name’s c
grievous...: Heb. a hard thing
against the righteous. A Psalm of David, compass me about with with a loud noise. 4For
19
Oh how great is thy Maschil. songs of deliverance. the word of the LORD is
goodness, which thou Selah. 8I will instruct right; and all his works
hast laid up for them
1
Blessed is he whose thee and teach thee in are done in truth. 5He
that fear thee; which transgression is forgiven, the way which thou shalt loveth righteousness
thou hast wrought for whose sin is covered. go: I will guidea thee with and judgment: the
them that trust in thee
2
Blessed is the man unto mine eye. 9Be ye not as earth is full of the
before the sons of men! whom the LORD the horse, or as the goodnessa of the LORD.
20
Thou shalt hide them in imputeth not iniquity, mule, which have no 6
By the word of the
the secret of thy and in whose spirit there understanding: whose LORD were the heavens
presence from the pride is no guile. 3When I kept mouth must be held in made; and all the host
of man: thou shalt keep silence, my bones waxed with bit and bridle, lest of them by the breath
them secretly in a old through my roaring they come near unto of his mouth. 7
He
pavilion from the strife of all the day long. 4For day thee. 10Many sorrows gathereth the waters of
tongues. 21Blessed be and night thy hand was shall be to the wicked: the sea together as an
the LORD: for he hath heavy upon me: my but he that trusteth in heap: he layeth up the
shewed me his moisture is turned into the LORD, mercy shall depth in storehouses.
marvellous kindness in a the drought of summer. compass him about. 11Be 8
Let all the earth fear
strongd city. 22For I said Selah. 5I acknowledged glad in the LORD, and the LORD: let all the
in my haste, I am cut off my sin unto thee, and rejoice, ye righteous: inhabitants of the world
from before thine eyes: mine iniquity have I not and shout for joy, all ye stand in awe of him.
nevertheless thou hid. I said, I will confess that are upright in heart. 9
For he spake, and it
heardest the voice of my my transgressions unto was done; he
supplications when I the LORD; and thou Psalm 33 commanded, and it
cried unto thee. 23O love forgavest the iniquity of stood fast. 10The LORD
the LORD, all ye his my sin. Selah. 6For this Rejoice in the LORD,
1
bringethb the counsel of
saints: for the LORD shall every one that is O ye righteous: for the heathen to nought:
preserveth the faithful, godly pray unto thee in a praise is comely for the he maketh the devices
and plentifully rewardeth time when thou mayest upright. 2
Praise the of the people of none
the proud doer. 24Be of be found: surely in the LORD with harp: sing effect. 11The counsel of
good courage, and he floods of great waters unto him with the the LORD standeth for
shall strengthen your they shall not come nigh psaltery and an ever, the thoughts of
heart, all ye that hope in unto him. instrument of ten his heart to allc
the LORD.
7
Thou art my hiding strings. 3Sing unto him a
a
place; thou shalt new song; play skilfully goodness: or, mercy
b
Psalm 32 preserve me from bringeth: Heb. maketh
a
trouble; thou shalt guide...: Heb. counsel thee, frustrate
d c
strong: or, fenced mine eye shall be upon thee to all...: Heb. to generation
generations. in his holy name. 22Let him out of all his the LORD heareth, and
12
Blessed is the nation thy mercy, O LORD, be troubles. 7The angel of delivereth them out of
whose God is the LORD; upon us, according as we the LORD encampeth all their troubles. 18The
and the people whom he hope in thee. round about them that LORD is nigh unto them
hath chosen for his own fear him, and delivereth that are of a broken
inheritance. 13The LORD Psalm 34 them. 8O taste and see heart; and saveth such
looketh from heaven; he that the LORD is good: as be of a contrite
beholdeth all the sons of A Psalm of David, when blessed is the man that spirit. 19
Many are the
men. 14From the place of he changed his trusteth in him. 9O fear afflictions of the
his habitation he looketh behaviour before the LORD, ye his saints: righteous: but the LORD
upon all the inhabitants Abimelecha; who drove for there is no want to delivereth him out of
of the earth. 15
He him away, and he them that fear him. 10The them all. 20He keepeth
fashioneth their hearts departed. young lions do lack, and all his bones: not one of
alike; he considereth all suffer hunger: but they them is broken. 21Evil
1
I will bless the LORD
their works. 16There is no that seek the LORD shall shall slay the wicked:
at all times: his praise
king saved by the not want any good thing. and they that hate the
shall continually be in
multitude of an host: a 11
Come, ye children, righteous shall be
my mouth. 2
My soul
mighty man is not hearken unto me: I will desolate .c 22
The LORD
shall make her boast in
delivered by much teach you the fear of the redeemeth the soul of
the LORD: the humble
strength. 17An horse is a LORD. 12What man is he his servants: and none
shall hear thereof, and
vain thing for safety: that desireth life, and of them that trust in
be glad. 3O magnify the
neither shall he deliver loveth many days, that him shall be desolated.
LORD with me, and let
any by his great he may see good? 13Keep
us exalt his name
strength. 18
Behold, the
together. 4I sought the
thy tongue from evil, and Psalm 35
eye of the LORD is upon thy lips from speaking
LORD, and he heard me, A Psalm of David.
them that fear him, upon guile. 14Depart from evil,
and delivered me from
them that hope in his and do good; seek
all my fears. 5They Plead my cause, O
1
mercy; 19To deliver their peace, and pursue it.
looked unto him, and LORD, with them that
soul from death, and to 15
The eyes of the LORD
were lightenedb: and strive with me: fight
keep them alive in are upon the righteous,
their faces were not against them that fight
famine. 20
Our soul and his ears are open
ashamed. 6
This poor against me. 2Take hold
waiteth for the LORD: he unto their cry. 16The face
man cried, and the LORD of shield and buckler,
is our help and our of the LORD is against
heard him, and saved and stand up for mine
shield. 21For our heart them that do evil, to cut
help. 3Draw out also the
shall rejoice in him, a
off the remembrance of
because we have trusted Abimelech: or, Achish them from the earth.
b c
were lightened: or, they 17
The righteous cry, and desolate: or, guilty
d
and generation flowed unto him desolate: or, guilty
spear, and stop the way him that is too strong for feasts, they gnashed God, according to thy
against them that him, yea, the poor and upon me with their righteousness; and let
persecute me: say unto the needy from him that teeth. them not rejoice over
my soul, I am thy spoileth him? 17
Lord, how long wilt me. 25Let them not say
salvation. 4Let them be 11
Falseb witnesses did thou look on? rescue my in their hearts, Ahi, so
confounded and put to rise up; they laid to my soul from their would we have it: let
shame that seek after charge things that I destructions, my darlingf them not say, We have
my soul: let them be knew not. 12
They from the lions. 18I will swallowed him up.
turned back and brought rewarded me evil for give thee thanks in the 26
Let them be ashamed
to confusion that devise good to the spoilingc of great congregation: I will and brought to
my hurt. 5Let them be as my soul. 13But as for me, praise thee among confusion together that
chaff before the wind: when they were sick, my much people.
g 19
Let not rejoice at mine hurt: let
and let the angel of the clothing was sackcloth: I them that are mine them be clothed with
LORD chase them. 6Let humbledd my soul with enemies wrongfullyh shame and dishonour
their way be darka and fasting; and my prayer rejoice over me: neither that magnify
slippery: and let the returned into mine own let them wink with the themselves against me.
angel of the LORD bosom. 14
I behaved eye that hate me without 27
Let them shout for joy,
persecute them. 7
For myself as though he had a cause. 20
For they and be glad, that favour
without cause have they been my friend or speak not peace: but my righteous cause:
hid for me their net in a brother: I bowed down they devise deceitful yea, let them say
pit, which without cause heavily, as one that matters against them continually, Let the
they have digged for my mourneth for his mother. that are quiet in the LORD be magnified,
soul. 8Let destruction 15
But in mine adversitye land. 21Yea, they opened which hath pleasure in
come upon him at they rejoiced, and their mouth wide against the prosperity of his
unawares; and let his net gathered themselves me, and said, Aha, aha, servant. 28
And my
that he hath hid catch together: yea, the our eye hath seen it. tongue shall speak of
himself: into that very abjects gathered 22
This thou hast seen, O thy righteousness and
destruction let him fall. themselves together LORD: keep not silence: of thy praise all the day
9
And my soul shall be against me, and I knew O Lord, be not far from long.
joyful in the LORD: it it not; they did tear me, me. 23Stir up thyself, and
shall rejoice in his and ceased not: 16With awake to my judgment, Psalm 36
salvation. All my bones
10
hypocritical mockers in even unto my cause, my
shall say, LORD, who is God and my Lord. To the chief Musician, A
b
like unto thee, which False...: Heb. Witnesses of 24
Judge me, O LORD my Psalm of David the
deliverest the poor from wrong servant of the LORD.
c f
spoiling: Heb. depriving darling: Heb. only one
a d g
dark...: Heb. darkness and humbled: or, afflicted much: Heb. strong
e h i
slipperiness adversity: Heb. halting wrongfully: Heb. falsely Ah...: Heb. Ah, ah, our soul
1
The transgression of make them drink of the shalt be fed. 4
Delight themselves in the
the wicked saith within river of thy pleasures. thyself also in the LORD; abundance of peace.
my heart, that there is 9
For with thee is the and he shall give thee 12
The wicked plottethc
no fear of God before his fountain of life: in thy the desires of thine against the just, and
eyes. 2For he flattereth light shall we see light. heart. 5Commitb thy way gnasheth upon him with
himself in his own eyes, 10
O continuec thy unto the LORD; trust also his teeth. 13The Lord
until his iniquity be lovingkindness unto in him; and he shall shall laugh at him: for
found to be hateful. them that know thee; bring it to pass. 6And he he seeth that his day is
3
The words of his mouth and thy righteousness to shall bring forth thy coming. 14The wicked
are iniquity and deceit: the upright in heart. righteousness as the have drawn out the
he hath left off to be 11
Let not the foot of pride light, and thy judgment sword, and have bent
wise, and to do good. come against me, and as the noonday. their bow, to cast down
4
He deviseth mischiefa let not the hand of the 7
Rest in the LORD, the poor and needy,
upon his bed; he setteth wicked remove me. and wait patiently for and to slay such as be
himself in a way that is 12
There are the workers him: fret not thyself of upright conversation.
not good; he abhorreth of iniquity fallen: they because of him who 15
Their sword shall
not evil. are cast down, and shall prospereth in his way, enter into their own
5
Thy mercy, O LORD, not be able to rise. because of the man who heart, and their bows
is in the heavens; and bringeth wicked devices shall be broken. 16A
thy faithfulness reacheth Psalm 37 to pass. 8
Cease from little that a righteous
unto the clouds. 6Thy anger, and forsake man hath is better than
righteousness is like the A Psalm of David. wrath: fret not thyself in the riches of many
great mountains; thy any wise to do evil. 9For wicked. 17For the arms
1
Fret not thyself
judgments are a great evildoers shall be cut off: of the wicked shall be
because of evildoers,
deep: O LORD, thou but those that wait upon broken: but the LORD
neither be thou envious
preservest man and the LORD, they shall upholdeth the
against the workers of
beast. 7How excellentb is inherit the earth. 10For righteous. 18The LORD
iniquity. 2For they shall
thy lovingkindness, O yet a little while, and the knoweth the days of the
soon be cut down like
God! therefore the wicked shall not be: yea, upright: and their
the grass, and wither as
children of men put their thou shalt diligently inheritance shall be for
the green herb. 3Trust in
trust under the shadow consider his place, and it ever. 19They shall not
the LORD, and do good;
of thy wings. 8They shall shall not be. 11But the be ashamed in the evil
so shalt thou dwell in the
be abundantly satisfied meek shall inherit the time: and in the days of
land, and verilya thou
with the fatness of thy earth; and shall delight famine they shall be
house; and thou shalt c
satisfied. 20
But the
continue: Heb. draw out at stableness wicked shall perish, and
a b
mischief: or, vanity length Commit...: Heb. Roll thy way
b a c
excellent: Heb. precious verily: Heb. in truth, or, upon plotteth: or, practiseth
the enemies of the LORD judgment, and forsaketh found. 37Mark the perfect iniquities are gone over
shall be as the fatd of not his saints; they are man, and behold the mine head: as an heavy
lambs: they shall preserved for ever: but upright: for the end of burden they are too
consume; into smoke the seed of the wicked that man is peace. 38But heavy for me. 5My
shall they consume shall be cut off. 29The the transgressors shall wounds stink and are
away. righteous shall inherit be destroyed together: corrupt because of my
21
The wicked the land, and dwell the end of the wicked foolishness. 6
I am
borroweth, and payeth therein for ever. 30The shall be cut off. 39But the troubled ; I am bowed
b

not again: but the mouth of the righteous salvation of the down greatly; I go
righteous sheweth speaketh wisdom, and righteous is of the LORD: mourning all the day
mercy, and giveth. 22For his tongue talketh of he is their strength in long. 7For my loins are
such as be blessed of judgment. 31The law of the time of trouble. 40And filled with a loathsome
him shall inherit the his God is in his heart; the LORD shall help disease: and there is no
earth; and they that be none of his stepsg shall them, and deliver them: soundness in my flesh.
cursed of him shall be slide. 32
The wicked he shall deliver them 8
I am feeble and sore
cut off. 23The steps of a watcheth the righteous, from the wicked, and broken: I have roared
good man are orderede and seeketh to slay him. save them, because they by reason of the
by the LORD: and he 33
The LORD will not leave trust in him. disquietness of my
delighteth in his way. him in his hand, nor heart. 9Lord, all my
24
Though he fall, he shall condemn him when he is Psalm 38 desire is before thee;
not be utterly cast down: judged. and my groaning is not
for the LORD upholdeth 34
Wait on the LORD, A Psalm of David, to hid from thee. 10My
him with his hand. 25I and keep his way, and bring to remembrance. heart panteth, my
have been young, and he shall exalt thee to strength faileth me: as
O LORD, rebuke me
1
now am old; yet have I inherit the land: when for the light of mine
not in thy wrath: neither
not seen the righteous the wicked are cut off, eyes, it also is gonec
chasten me in thy hot
forsaken, nor his seed thou shalt see it. 35I have from me. 11My lovers
displeasure. 2For thine
begging bread. 26He is seen the wicked in great and my friends stand
arrows stick fast in me,
everf merciful, and power, and spreading aloof from my sored;
and thy hand presseth
lendeth; and his seed is himself like a greenh bay and my kinsmen stand
me sore. 3There is no
blessed. 27Depart from tree. 36
Yet he passed afar off.
soundness in my flesh
evil, and do good; and away, and, lo, he was 12
They also that seek
because of thine anger;
dwell for evermore. 28For not: yea, I sought him, after my life lay snares
neither is there any resta
the LORD loveth but he could not be
in my bones because of b
troubled: Heb. wried
d
the fat: Heb. the preciousness g
steps: or, goings my sin. 4
For mine c
is gone...: Heb. is not with
e h
ordered: or, established a green...: or, a green tree that me
f a d
ever: Heb. all the day groweth in his own soil rest: Heb. peace, or, health sore: Heb. stroke
for me: and they that LORD: O my God, be not his best state is strength, before I go
seek my hurt speak far from me. 22Make altogether vanity. Selah. hence, and be no more.
mischievous things, and haste to help me, O Lord 6
Surely every man
imagine deceits all the my salvation. walketh in a vain shew: Psalm 40
day long. 13But I, as a surely they are
deaf man, heard not; Psalm 39 disquieted in vain: he To the chief Musician, A
and I was as a dumb heapeth up riches, and Psalm of David.
man that openeth not his To the chief Musician, knoweth not who shall
even to Jeduthun, A
1
I waiteda patiently
mouth. 14Thus I was as a gather them.
Psalm of David. for the LORD; and he
man that heareth not, 7
And now, Lord, what
inclined unto me, and
and in whose mouth are wait I for? my hope is in
1
I said, I will take heard my cry. 2
He
no reproofs. 15For in thee. 8Deliver me from
heed to my ways, that I brought me up also out
thee, O LORD, do I hope: all my transgressions:
sin not with my tongue: I of an horribleb pit, out
thou wilt hear, O Lord make me not the
will keep my moutha with of the miry clay, and
my God. 16
For I said, reproach of the foolish. 9I
a bridle, while the set my feet upon a
Hear me, lest otherwise was dumb, I opened not
wicked is before me. 2I rock, and established
they should rejoice over my mouth; because thou
was dumb with silence, I my goings. 3
And he
me: when my foot didst it. 10Remove thy
held my peace, even hath put a new song in
slippeth, they magnify stroke away from me: I
from good; and my my mouth, even praise
themselves against me. am consumed by the
sorrow was stirredb. 3My unto our God: many
17
For I am ready to halte, blowc of thine hand.
heart was hot within me, shall see it, and fear,
and my sorrow is 11
When thou with
while I was musing the and shall trust in the
continually before me. rebukes dost correct
fire burned: then spake I LORD. 4Blessed is that
18
For I will declare mine man for iniquity, thou
with my tongue, 4LORD, man that maketh the
iniquity; I will be sorry makest his beauty to
make me to know mine LORD his trust, and
for my sin. 19But mine consume away like a
end, and the measure of respecteth not the
enemies are lively, and moth: surely every man
my days, what it is; that I proud, nor such as turn
they are strong: and is vanity. Selah. 12Hear
may know how frail I am. aside to lies. 5Many, O
they that hate me my prayer, O LORD, and
5
Behold, thou hast made LORD my God, are thy
wrongfully are give ear unto my cry;
my days as an wonderful works which
multiplied. 20They also hold not thy peace at my
handbreadth; and mine thou hast done, and thy
that render evil for good tears: for I am a stranger
age is as nothing before thoughts which are to
are mine adversaries; with thee, and a
thee: verily every man at
because I follow the sojourner, as all my a
thing that good is. fathers were. 13O spare I waited...: Heb. In waiting I
a
21
Forsake me not, O my mouth...: Heb. a bridle, or, me, that I may recover waited
b
muzzle for my mouth an horrible...: Heb. a pit of
e b c
to halt: Heb. for halting stirred: Heb. troubled blow: Heb. conflict noise
us-ward: they cannot be me, O LORD: let thy Psalm 41 devise my hurt. An
8

reckoned up in order lovingkindness and thy evil disease, say they,


unto thee: if I would truth continually To the chief Musician, A cleaveth fast unto him:
declare and speak of preserve me. 12
For Psalm of David. and now that he lieth
them, they are more innumerable evils have he shall rise up no
than can be numbered. compassed me about:
1
Blessed is he that more. 9Yea, mine own
6
Sacrifice and offering mine iniquities have considereth the poora: familiar friend, in whom
thou didst not desire; taken hold upon me, so the LORD will deliver him I trusted, which did eat
mine ears hast thou that I am not able to look in time of trouble. 2The of my bread, hath lifted
openedc: burnt offering up; they are more than LORD will preserve him, up his heel against me.
and sin offering hast the hairs of mine head: and keep him alive; and 10
But thou, O LORD, be
thou not required. 7Then therefore my heart he shall be blessed upon merciful unto me, and
said I, Lo, I come: in the faileth me. 13Be pleased, the earth: and thou wilt raise me up, that I may
volume of the book it is O LORD, to deliver me: O not deliver him unto the requite them. 11By this I
written of me, 8I delight LORD, make haste to will of his enemies. 3The know that thou
to do thy will, O my God: help me. 14Let them be LORD will strengthen favourest me, because
yea, thy law is withind ashamed and him upon the bed of mine enemy doth not
my heart. 9
I have confounded together languishing: thou wilt triumph over me. 12And
preached righteousness that seek after my soul makeb all his bed in his as for me, thou
in the great to destroy it; let them be sickness. 4I said, LORD, upholdest me in mine
congregation: lo, I have driven backward and put be merciful unto me: integrity, and settest
not refrained my lips, O to shame that wish me heal my soul; for I have me before thy face for
LORD, thou knowest. 10I evil. 15
Let them be sinned against thee. ever. 13Blessed be the
have not hid thy desolate for a reward of
5
Mine enemies speak LORD God of Israel from
righteousness within my their shame that say evil of me, When shall he everlasting, and to
heart; I have declared unto me, Aha, aha. 16Let die, and his name everlasting. Amen, and
thy faithfulness and thy all those that seek thee perish? 6And if he come Amen.
salvation: I have not rejoice and be glad in to see me, he speaketh
concealed thy thee: let such as love thy vanity: his heart Psalm 42
lovingkindness and thy salvation say continually, gathereth iniquity to
truth from the great The LORD be magnified. itself; when he goeth To the chief Musician,
congregation. 17
But I am poor and abroad, he telleth it. 7All Maschila, for the sons of
11
Withhold not thou needy; yet the Lord that hate me whisper Korah.
thy tender mercies from thinketh upon me: thou together against me:
art my help and my against me do they
c a
opened: Heb. digged deliverer; make no Maschil...: or, A Psalm
d a
within...: Heb. in the midst of tarrying, O my God. the poor: or, the weak, or, sick giving instruction of the sons,
b
my bowels make: Heb. turn etc
As the hart panteth
1
waves and thy billows unjust man. 2
For thou what work thou didst in
after the water brooks, are gone over me. 8Yet art the God of my their days, in the times
so panteth my soul after the LORD will command strength: why dost thou of old. 2How thou didst
thee, O God. 2
My soul his lovingkindness in the cast me off? why go I drive out the heathen
thirsteth for God, for the daytime, and in the night mourning because of the with thy hand, and
living God: when shall I his song shall be with oppression of the plantedst them; how
come and appear before me, and my prayer unto enemy? 3O send out thy thou didst afflict the
God? 3My tears have the God of my life. 9I will light and thy truth: let people, and cast them
been my meat day and say unto God my rock, them lead me; let them out. 3For they got not
night, while they Why hast thou forgotten bring me unto thy holy the land in possession
continually say unto me, me? why go I mourning hill, and to thy by their own sword,
Where is thy God? because of the tabernacles. Then will I
4
neither did their own
4
When I remember these oppression of the go unto the altar of God, arm save them: but thy
things, I pour out my enemy? 10As with a unto God my exceedingb right hand, and thine
soul in me: for I had swordc in my bones, joy: yea, upon the harp arm, and the light of
gone with the multitude, mine enemies reproach will I praise thee, O God thy countenance,
I went with them to the me; while they say daily my God. 5Why art thou because thou hadst a
house of God, with the unto me, Where is thy cast down, O my soul? favour unto them.
voice of joy and praise, God? 11
Why art thou and why art thou 4
Thou art my King, O
with a multitude that cast down, O my soul? disquieted within me? God: command
kept holyday. 5Why art and why art thou hope in God: for I shall deliverances for Jacob.
thou cast down, O my disquieted within me? yet praise him, who is 5
Through thee will we
soul? and why art thou hope thou in God: for I the health of my push down our
disquieted in me? hope shall yet praise him, who countenance, and my enemies: through thy
thou in God: for I shall is the health of my God. name will we tread
yet praise him for the countenance, and my them under that rise up
help of his countenance. God. Psalm 44 against us. 6For I will
6
O my God, my soul is not trust in my bow,
cast down within me: Psalm 43 To the chief Musician for neither shall my sword
therefore will I the sons of Korah, save me. 7But thou hast
remember thee from the Judge me, O God,
1
Maschil. saved us from our
land of Jordan, and of the and plead my cause enemies, and hast put
against an ungodlya
1
We have heard with
Hermonites, from the them to shame that
nation: O deliver me our ears, O God, our
hillb Mizar. 7Deep calleth hated us. 8In God we
from the deceitful and fathers have told us,
unto deep at the noise of boast all the day long,
thy waterspouts: all thy c b
and praise thy name for
sword: or, killing my exceeding...: Heb. the ever. Selah.
b a
the hill...: or, the little hill ungodly: or, unmerciful gladness of my joy
9
But thou hast cast thy covenant. 18
Our upon Shoshannim, for lovest righteousness,
off, and put us to shame; heart is not turned back, the sons of Korah, and hatest wickedness:
and goest not forth with neither have our stepsa Maschila, A Song of therefore God, thy God,
our armies. 10
Thou declined from thy way; loves. hath anointed thee with
makest us to turn back 19
Though thou hast sore the oil of gladness
from the enemy: and broken us in the place of
1
My heart is inditing above thy fellows. 8All
they which hate us spoil dragons, and covered us a good matter: I speak of thy garments smell of
for themselves. 11Thou with the shadow of the things which I have myrrh, and aloes, and
hast given us like sheep death. 20If we have made touching the king: cassia, out of the ivory
appointed for meat; and forgotten the name of my tongue is the pen of palaces, whereby they
hast scattered us among our God, or stretched out a ready writer. 2
Thou have made thee glad.
the heathen. 12
Thou our hands to a strange art fairer than the 9
Kings’ daughters were
sellest thy people for god; 21Shall not God children of men: grace is among thy honourable
nought, and dost not search this out? for he poured into thy lips: women: upon thy right
increase thy wealth by knoweth the secrets of therefore God hath hand did stand the
their price. 13
Thou the heart. 22Yea, for thy blessed thee for ever. queen in gold of Ophir.
makest us a reproach to sake are we killed all the
3
Gird thy sword upon thy 10
Hearken, O
our neighbours, a scorn day long; we are thigh, O most mighty, daughter, and consider,
and a derision to them counted as sheep for the with thy glory and thy and incline thine ear;
that are round about us. slaughter. 23Awake, why majesty. 4And in thy forget also thine own
14
Thou makest us a sleepest thou, O Lord? majesty rideb people, and thy father’s
byword among the arise, cast us not off for prosperously because of house; 11So shall the
heathen, a shaking of ever. 24Wherefore hidest truth and meekness and king greatly desire thy
the head among the thou thy face, and righteousness; and thy beauty: for he is thy
people. 15My confusion is forgettest our affliction right hand shall teach Lord; and worship thou
continually before me, and our oppression? thee terrible things. him. 12And the daughter
and the shame of my 25
For our soul is bowed
5
Thine arrows are sharp of Tyre shall be there
face hath covered me, down to the dust: our in the heart of the king’s with a gift; even the
16
For the voice of him belly cleaveth unto the enemies; whereby the rich among the people
that reproacheth and earth. 26Arise for our people fall under thee. shall intreat thy favourc.
blasphemeth; by reason help, and redeem us for
6
Thy throne, O God, is 13
The king’s daughter is
of the enemy and thy mercies’ sake. for ever and ever: the all glorious within: her
avenger. sceptre of thy kingdom clothing is of wrought
17
All this is come upon Psalm 45 is a right sceptre. 7Thou gold. 14She shall be
us; yet have we not a
brought unto the king in
forgotten thee, neither To the chief Musician Maschil: or, of instruction raiment of needlework:
b
have we dealt falsely in ride...: Heb. prosper thou, ride
a c
steps: or, goings thou favour: Heb. face
the virgins her the swelling thereof. Psalm 47 the people are gathered
companions that follow Selah. There is a river,
4
together, even the
her shall be brought unto the streams whereof To the chief Musician, A people of the God of
thee. 15With gladness shall make glad the city Psalm for the sons of Abraham: for the
and rejoicing shall they of God, the holy place of Korah. shields of the earth
be brought: they shall the tabernacles of the belong unto God: he is
enter into the king’s most High. 5God is in the
1
O clap your hands, greatly exalted.
palace. 16Instead of thy midst of her; she shall all ye people; shout unto
fathers shall be thy not be moved: God shall God with the voice of Psalm 48
children, whom thou help her, and that right triumph. 2For the LORD
mayest make princes in early. most high is terrible; he A Song and Psalm for
all the earth. 17I will 6
The heathen raged, is a great King over all the sons of Korah.
make thy name to be the kingdoms were the earth. 3He shall
subdue the people under
1
Great is the LORD,
remembered in all moved: he uttered his
us, and the nations and greatly to be
generations: therefore voice, the earth melted.
under our feet. 4He shall praised in the city of
shall the people praise 7
The LORD of hosts is
choose our inheritance our God, in the
thee for ever and ever. with us; the God of Jacob
for us, the excellency of mountain of his
is our refuge. Selah.
holiness. 2Beautiful for
Psalm 46 8
Come, behold the works Jacob whom he loved.
situation, the joy of the
of the LORD, what Selah.
To the chief Musician for 5
God is gone up with whole earth, is mount
desolations he hath
the sons of Korah, A a shout, the LORD with Zion, on the sides of the
made in the earth. 9He
Song upon Alamoth. the sound of a trumpet. north, the city of the
maketh wars to cease 6
Sing praises to God, great King. 3God is
unto the end of the
God is our refuge
1
sing praises: sing praises known in her palaces
earth; he breaketh the
and strength, a very unto our King, sing for a refuge. 4For, lo,
bow, and cutteth the
present help in trouble. praises. 7For God is the the kings were
spear in sunder; he
2
Therefore will not we King of all the earth: sing assembled, they passed
burneth the chariot in
fear, though the earth be ye praises with by together. 5They saw
the fire. 10Be still, and
removed, and though understanding. 8
God it, and so they
know that I am God: I
the mountains be carried reigneth over the marvelled; they were
will be exalted among
into the midsta of the heathen: God sitteth troubled, and hasted
the heathen, I will be
sea; 3Though the waters upon the throne of his away. 6Fear took hold
exalted in the earth.
thereof roar and be holiness. 9The princesa of upon them there, and
11
The LORD of hosts is
troubled, though the pain, as of a woman in
with us; the God of Jacob
mountains shake with a
princes...: or, voluntary of the travail. 7Thou breakest
is our refuge. Selah.
people are gathered unto the the ships of Tarshish
a
midst...: Heb. heart of the seas people of the God of Abraham with an east wind.
As we have heard, so
8
people; give ear, all ye houses shall continue for nothing away: his glory
have we seen in the city inhabitants of the world: ever, and their dwelling shall not descend after
of the LORD of hosts, in 2
Both low and high, rich places to alla him. 18Though while he
the city of our God: God and poor, together. 3My generations; they call lived he blessed his
will establish it for ever. mouth shall speak of their lands after their soul: and men will
Selah. 9We have thought wisdom; and the own names. praise thee, when thou
of thy lovingkindness, O meditation of my heart 12
Nevertheless man doest well to thyself.
God, in the midst of thy shall be of being in honour abideth 19
He shall go to the
temple. 10According to understanding. 4I will not: he is like the beasts generation of his
thy name, O God, so is incline mine ear to a that perish. 13This their fathers; they shall
thy praise unto the ends parable: I will open my way is their folly: yet never see light. 20Man
of the earth: thy right dark saying upon the their posterity approveb that is in honour, and
hand is full of harp. 5Wherefore should their sayings. Selah. understandeth not, is
righteousness. 11
Let I fear in the days of evil, 14
Like sheep they are laid like the beasts that
mount Zion rejoice, let when the iniquity of my in the grave; death shall perish.
the daughters of Judah heels shall compass me feed on them; and the
be glad, because of thy about? upright shall have Psalm 50
judgments. 12Walk about 6
They that trust in dominion over them in
Zion, and go round about their wealth, and boast the morning; and their A Psalm of Asaph.
her: tell the towers themselves in the beautyc shall consume in 1
The mighty God,
thereof. 13Marka ye well multitude of their riches; the grave from their
even the LORD, hath
her bulwarks, consider 7
None of them can by dwelling.
spoken, and called the
her palaces; that ye may any means redeem his 15
But God will redeem
earth from the rising of
tell it to the generation brother, nor give to God my soul from the powerd
the sun unto the going
following. 14For this God a ransom for him: 8(For of the grave: for he shall
down thereof. 2Out of
is our God for ever and the redemption of their receive me. Selah. 16Be
Zion, the perfection of
ever: he will be our soul is precious, and it not thou afraid when one
beauty, God hath
guide even unto death. ceaseth for ever:) 9That is made rich, when the
shined. 3Our God shall
he should still live for glory of his house is
come, and shall not
Psalm 49 ever, and not see increased; 17For when he
keep silence: a fire shall
corruption. 10
For he dieth he shall carry
To the chief Musician, A devour before him, and
seeth that wise men die,
Psalm for the sons of a
all...: Heb. generation and it shall be very
likewise the fool and the
Korah. generation tempestuous round
brutish person perish, b
approve...: Heb. delight in about him. 4He shall call
and leave their wealth to
1
Hear this, all ye their mouth to the heavens from
others. 11Their inward c
beauty: or, strength above, and to the earth,
thought is, that their
a
Mark...: Heb. Set your heart to d
power: Heb. hand that he may judge his
people. 5
Gather my High: 15And call upon me 23
Whoso offereth praise my mother conceivea
saints together unto me; in the day of trouble: I glorifieth me: and to him me. 6
Behold, thou
those that have made a will deliver thee, and that ordereth his desirest truth in the
covenant with me by thou shalt glorify me. conversation aright will I inward parts: and in the
sacrifice. 6
And the 16
But unto the wicked shew the salvation of hidden part thou shalt
heavens shall declare his God saith, What hast God. make me to know
righteousness: for God is thou to do to declare my wisdom.
judge himself. Selah. statutes, or that thou Psalm 51 7
Purge me with
7
Hear, O my people, shouldest take my hyssop, and I shall be
and I will speak; O Israel, covenant in thy mouth? To the chief Musician, A clean: wash me, and I
and I will testify against 17
Seeing thou hatest Psalm of David, when shall be whiter than
thee: I am God, even thy instruction, and castest Nathan the prophet snow. 8Make me to hear
God. 8I will not reprove my words behind thee. came unto him, after he joy and gladness; that
thee for thy sacrifices or 18
When thou sawest a had gone in to the bones which thou
thy burnt offerings, to thief, then thou Bathsheba. hast broken may
have been continually consentedst with him, rejoice. Hide thy face
9
1
Have mercy upon
before me. 9I will take no and hast been partaker from my sins, and blot
me, O God, according to
bullock out of thy house, with adulterers. 19Thou out all mine iniquities.
thy lovingkindness:
nor he goats out of thy givestb thy mouth to evil, 10
Create in me a clean
according unto the
folds. 10For every beast and thy tongue frameth heart, O God; and
multitude of thy tender
of the forest is mine, and deceit. 20
Thou sittest renew a rightb spirit
mercies blot out my
the cattle upon a and speakest against thy within me. 11Cast me
transgressions. 2
Wash
thousand hills. 11I know brother; thou slanderest not away from thy
me throughly from mine
all the fowls of the thine own mother’s son. presence; and take not
iniquity, and cleanse me
mountains: and the wild 21
These things hast thou thy holy spirit from me.
from my sin. 3For I
beasts of the field are done, and I kept silence; 12
Restore unto me the
acknowledge my
minea. 12
If I were thou thoughtest that I joy of thy salvation; and
transgressions: and my
hungry, I would not tell was altogether such an uphold me with thy free
sin is ever before me.
thee: for the world is one as thyself: but I will spirit. 13Then will I teach
4
Against thee, thee only,
mine, and the fulness reprove thee, and set transgressors thy ways;
have I sinned, and done
thereof. 13Will I eat the them in order before and sinners shall be
this evil in thy sight: that
flesh of bulls, or drink thine eyes. 22
Now converted unto thee.
thou mightest be
the blood of goats? consider this, ye that 14
Deliver me from
justified when thou
14
Offer unto God forget God, lest I tear bloodguiltinessc, O God,
speakest, and be clear
thanksgiving; and pay you in pieces, and there
when thou judgest. a
conceive...: Heb. warm me
thy vows unto the most be none to deliver. 5
Behold, I was shapen in b
right: or, constant
a
mine: Heb. with me b
givest: Heb. sendest iniquity; and in sin did c
bloodguiltiness: Heb. bloods
thou God of my thyself in mischief, O ever and ever. 9I will him that encampeth
salvation: and my mighty man? the praise thee for ever, against thee: thou hast
tongue shall sing aloud goodness of God because thou hast done put them to shame,
of thy righteousness. 15O endureth continually. it: and I will wait on thy because God hath
Lord, open thou my lips; 2
Thy tongue deviseth name; for it is good despised them. 6
Oh
and my mouth shall mischiefs; like a sharp before thy saints. that the salvation of
a

shew forth thy praise. razor, working Israel were come out of
16
For thou desirest not deceitfully. Thou lovest
3
Psalm 53 Zion! When God
sacrifice; else would I evil more than good; and bringeth back the
give it: thou delightest lying rather than to To the chief Musician captivity of his people,
not in burnt offering. speak righteousness. upon Mahalath, Maschil, Jacob shall rejoice, and
17
The sacrifices of God Selah. Thou lovest all
4 A Psalm of David. Israel shall be glad.
are a broken spirit: a devouring words, O thou 1
The fool hath said in
broken and a contrite deceitful tongue. 5God
his heart, There is no
Psalm 54
heart, O God, thou wilt shall likewise destroya
God. Corrupt are they, To the chief Musician on
not despise. 18Do good in thee for ever, he shall
and have done Neginoth, Maschil, A
thy good pleasure unto take thee away, and
abominable iniquity: Psalm of David, when
Zion: build thou the walls pluck thee out of thy
there is none that doeth the Ziphims came and
of Jerusalem. 19
Then dwelling place, and root
good. 2God looked down said to Saul, Doth not
shalt thou be pleased thee out of the land of
from heaven upon the David hide himself with
with the sacrifices of the living. Selah.
children of men, to see if us?
righteousness, with 6
The righteous also
there were any that did
burnt offering and whole shall see, and fear, and
understand, that did 1
Save me, O God, by
burnt offering: then shall shall laugh at him: 7Lo,
seek God. 3Every one of thy name, and judge
they offer bullocks upon this is the man that
them is gone back: they me by thy strength.
thine altar. made not God his
are altogether become 2
Hear my prayer, O
strength; but trusted in
filthy; there is none that God; give ear to the
Psalm 52 the abundance of his
doeth good, no, not one. words of my mouth.
riches, and strengthened
To the chief Musician,
4
Have the workers of 3
For strangers are risen
himself in his
Maschil, A Psalm of iniquity no knowledge? up against me, and
wickednessb. 8But I am
David, when Doeg the who eat up my people as oppressors seek after
like a green olive tree in
Edomite came and told they eat bread: they my soul: they have not
the house of God: I trust
Saul, and said unto him, have not called upon set God before them.
in the mercy of God for
David is come to the God. 5There were they in Selah.
house of Ahimelech.
a
destroy...: Heb. beat thee great fear, where no fear
down was: for God hath a
Oh that...: Heb. Who will
1
Why boastest thou b
wickedness: or, substance scattered the bones of give salvation, etc
4
Behold, God is mine 5
Fearfulness and mine equalb, my guide, of his mouth were
helper: the Lord is with trembling are come upon and mine acquaintance. smoother than butter,
them that uphold my me, and horror hath 14
We took sweet counsel but war was in his
soul. 5He shall reward overwhelmeda me. 6And together, and walked heart: his words were
evil unto mine enemies: I said, Oh that I had unto the house of God in softer than oil, yet were
cut them off in thy truth. wings like a dove! for company. 15
Let death they drawn swords.
6
I will freely sacrifice then would I fly away, seize upon them, and let 22
Cast thy burdene upon
unto thee: I will praise and be at rest. 7Lo, then them go down quick into the LORD, and he shall
thy name, O LORD; for it would I wander far off, hellc: for wickedness is in sustain thee: he shall
is good. 7For he hath and remain in the their dwellings, and never suffer the
delivered me out of all wilderness. Selah. 8
I among them. righteous to be moved.
trouble: and mine eye would hasten my escape 16
As for me, I will call 23
But thou, O God, shalt
hath seen his desire from the windy storm upon God; and the LORD bring them down into
upon mine enemies. and tempest. shall save me. 17Evening, the pit of destruction:
9
Destroy, O Lord, and and morning, and at bloodyf and deceitful
Psalm 55 divide their tongues: for I noon, will I pray, and cry men shall not live out
have seen violence and aloud: and he shall hear half their days; but I will
To the chief Musician on strife in the city. 10Day my voice. 18He hath trust in thee.
Neginoth, Maschil, A and night they go about delivered my soul in
Psalm of David. it upon the walls thereof: peace from the battle Psalm 56
mischief also and sorrow that was against me: for
1
Give ear to my To the chief Musician
are in the midst of it. there were many with
prayer, O God; and hide upon
11
Wickedness is in the me. 19God shall hear, and
not thyself from my Jonathelemrechokim,
midst thereof: deceit and afflict them, even he
supplication. 2
Attend Michtama of David,
guile depart not from her that abideth of old.
unto me, and hear me: I when the Philistines
streets. 12For it was not Selah. Because they
mourn in my complaint, took him in Gath.
an enemy that have no changes,
and make a noise;
reproached me; then I therefore they fear not
3
Because of the voice of 1
Be merciful unto
could have borne it: God. 20He hath put forth
the enemy, because of me, O God: for man
neither was it he that his hands against such
the oppression of the would swallow me up;
hated me that did as be at peace with him:
wicked: for they cast he fighting daily
magnify himself against he hath brokend his
iniquity upon me, and in
me; then I would have covenant. 21The words
wrath they hate me. 4My e
burden: or, gift
hid myself from him:
heart is sore pained b
mine equal: Heb. according to f
bloody...: Heb. men of
13
But it was thou, a man
within me: and the my rank bloods and deceit
terrors of death are c
hell: or, the grave a
Michtam...: or, A golden
fallen upon me. a
overwhelmed: Heb. covered d
broken: Heb. profaned Psalm of David
oppresseth me. Mine can do unto me. 12Thy lions: and I lie even Psalm 58
2

enemies b
would daily vows are upon me, O among them that are set
swallow me up: for they God: I will render praises on fire, even the sons of To the chief Musician,
be many that fight unto thee. 13For thou men, whose teeth are Altaschitha, Michtam of
against me, O thou most hast delivered my soul spears and arrows, and David.
High. 3What time I am from death: wilt not thou their tongue a sharp
afraid, I will trust in thee. deliver my feet from sword. 5Be thou exalted,
1
Do ye indeed speak
4
In God I will praise his falling, that I may walk O God, above the righteousness, O
word, in God I have put before God in the light of heavens; let thy glory be congregation? do ye
my trust; I will not fear the living? above all the earth. judge uprightly, O ye
what flesh can do unto 6
They have prepared a sons of men? 2Yea, in
me. 5Every day they Psalm 57 net for my steps; my heart ye work
wrest my words: all their soul is bowed down: they wickedness; ye weigh
thoughts are against me To the chief Musician, have digged a pit before the violence of your
for evil. 6They gather Altaschitha, Michtam of me, into the midst hands in the earth. 3The
themselves together, David, when he fled from whereof they are fallen wicked are estranged
they hide themselves, Saul in the cave. themselves. Selah. from the womb: they go
they mark my steps, 7
My heart is fixedb, O astray as soon as they
Be merciful unto me,
1
be born, speaking lies.
when they wait for my God, my heart is fixed: I
O God, be merciful unto 4
Their poison is like the
soul. 7Shall they escape will sing and give praise.
me: for my soul trusteth poisonb of a serpent:
by iniquity? in thine 8
Awake up, my glory;
in thee: yea, in the they are like the deaf
anger cast down the awake, psaltery and
shadow of thy wings will adder that stoppeth her
people, O God. harp: I myself will awake
I make my refuge, until ear; 5
Which will not
8
Thou tellest my early. 9I will praise thee,
these calamities be hearken to the voice of
wanderings: put thou my O Lord, among the
overpast. I will cry unto
2
charmers, charmingc
tears into thy bottle: are people: I will sing unto
God most high; unto God never so wisely.
they not in thy book? thee among the nations.
that performeth all 6
Break their teeth, O
9
When I cry unto thee, 10
For thy mercy is great
things for me. 3He shall God, in their mouth:
then shall mine enemies unto the heavens, and
send from heaven, and break out the great
turn back: this I know; thy truth unto the
save me from the teeth of the young
for God is for me. 10In clouds. 11
Be thou
reproach of him that
God will I praise his exalted, O God, above
would swallow me up. a
Altaschith...: or, Destroy not,
word: in the LORD will I the heavens: let thy
Selah. God shall send A golden Psalm of David
praise his word. 11In God glory be above all the
forth his mercy and his b
like the poison: Heb.
have I put my trust: I will earth.
truth. 4My soul is among according to the likeness, etc
not be afraid what man c
charming...: or, be the
b a b
enemies: Heb. observers Altaschith: or, Destroy not fixed: or, prepared charmer never so cunning
lions, O LORD. 7Let them and they watched the shalt have all the satisfied. 16
But I will
melt away as waters house to kill him. heathen in derision. sing of thy power; yea, I
which run continually: 9
Because of his strength will sing aloud of thy
when he bendeth his
1
Deliver me from will I wait upon thee: for mercy in the morning:
bow to shoot his arrows, mine enemies, O my God is my defencec. for thou hast been my
let them be as cut in God: defend me from 10
The God of my mercy defence and refuge in
pieces. 8As a snail which them that rise up against shall prevent me: God the day of my trouble.
melteth, let every one of me. 2
Deliver me from shall let me see my 17
Unto thee, O my
them pass away: like the the workers of iniquity, desire upon mine strength, will I sing: for
untimely birth of a and save me from enemies .d 11
Slay them God is my defence, and
woman, that they may bloody men. 3For, lo, not, lest my people the God of my mercy.
not see the sun. 9Before they lie in wait for my forget: scatter them by
your pots can feel the soul: the mighty are thy power; and bring Psalm 60
thorns, he shall take gathered against me; them down, O Lord our
them away as with a not for my transgression, shield. 12For the sin of To the chief Musician
whirlwind, both living, nor for my sin, O LORD. their mouth and the upon Shushaneduth,
and in his wrath. 10The
4
They run and prepare words of their lips let Michtama of David, to
righteous shall rejoice themselves without my them even be taken in teach; when he strove
when he seeth the fault: awake to helpb me, their pride: and for with Aramnaharaim and
vengeance: he shall and behold. 5
Thou cursing and lying which with Aramzobah, when
wash his feet in the therefore, O LORD God they speak. 13Consume Joab returned, and
blood of the wicked. 11So of hosts, the God of them in wrath, consume smote of Edom in the
that a man shall say, Israel, awake to visit all them, that they may not valley of salt twelve
Verily there is a rewardd the heathen: be not be: and let them know thousand.
for the righteous: verily merciful to any wicked that God ruleth in Jacob
transgressors. Selah.
1
O God, thou hast
he is a God that judgeth unto the ends of the
6
They return at evening: cast us off, thou hast
in the earth. earth. Selah. 14And at
they make a noise like a scattered us, thou hast
evening let them return;
been displeased; O turn
Psalm 59 dog, and go round about and let them make a
thyself to us again.
the city. 7Behold, they noise like a dog, and go
To the chief Musician, belch out with their
2
Thou hast made the
round about the city.
Altaschitha, Michtam of mouth: swords are in earth to tremble; thou
15
Let them wander up
David; when Saul sent, their lips: for who, say hast broken it: heal the
and down for meate, and
they, doth hear? breaches thereof; for it
grudge if they be not
d
a reward...: Heb. fruit of the, 8
But thou, O LORD, shaketh. 3Thou hast
c
etc shalt laugh at them; thou defence: Heb. high place
a d a
Altaschith...: or, Destroy not, enemies: Heb. observers Michtam: or, A golden
b e
A golden Psalm of David help: Heb. meet for meat: Heb. to eat Psalm
shewed thy people hard with our armies? 11Give prolong the king’s life: their mouth, but they
things: thou hast made us help from trouble: for and his years as many curse inwardlyb. Selah.
us to drink the wine of vain is the help of mand. generations. 7
He shall 5
My soul, wait thou only
astonishment. 4
Thou 12
Through God we shall abide before God for upon God; for my
hast given a banner to do valiantly: for he it is ever: O prepare mercy expectation is from
them that fear thee, that that shall tread down our and truth, which may him. He only is my rock
6

it may be displayed enemies. preserve him. 8So will I and my salvation: he is


because of the truth. sing praise unto thy my defence; I shall not
Selah. 5That thy beloved Psalm 61 name for ever, that I be moved. 7In God is
may be delivered; save may daily perform my my salvation and my
with thy right hand, and To the chief Musician vows. glory: the rock of my
hear me. upon Neginah, A Psalm strength, and my
6
God hath spoken in of David. Psalm 62 refuge, is in God.
his holiness; I will 8
Trust in him at all
1
Hear my cry, O God; To the chief Musician, to
rejoice, I will divide times; ye people, pour
attend unto my prayer. Jeduthun, A Psalm of
Shechem, and mete out out your heart before
2
From the end of the David.
the valley of Succoth. him: God is a refuge for
earth will I cry unto thee,
7
Gilead is mine, and us. Selah. 9Surely men
when my heart is 1
Truly my soul
Manasseh is mine; of low degree are
overwhelmed: lead me waiteth upon God: from
Ephraim also is the vanity, and men of high
to the rock that is higher him cometh my
strength of mine head; degree are a lie: to be
than I. 3For thou hast salvation. 2
He only is
Judah is my lawgiver; laid in the balance, they
been a shelter for me, my rock and my
8
Moab is my washpot; are altogetherc lighter
and a strong tower from salvation; he is my
over Edom will I cast out than vanity. 10Trust not
the enemy. 4I will abide defencea; I shall not be
my shoe: Philistia, in oppression, and
in thy tabernacle for greatly moved. 3
How
triumph thou because of
b
become not vain in
ever: I will trusta in the long will ye imagine
me. 9Who will bring me robbery: if riches
covert of thy wings. mischief against a man?
into the strongc city? increase, set not your
Selah. ye shall be slain all of
who will lead me into heart upon them. 11God
5
For thou, O God, hast you: as a bowing wall
Edom? 10Wilt not thou, O hath spoken once;
heard my vows: thou shall ye be, and as a
God, which hadst cast us twice have I heard this;
hast given me the tottering fence. 4They
off? and thou, O God, that powerd belongeth
heritage of those that only consult to cast him
which didst not go out unto God. 12Also unto
fear thy name. 6Thou wilt down from his
b
triumph...: or, triumph thou excellency: they delight b
inwardly: Heb. in their
over me: (by an irony) d
help of man: Heb. salvation, in lies: they bless with inward parts
c c
strong...: Heb. city of etc altogether: or, alike
a a d
strength? trust: or, make my refuge defence: Heb. high place power: or, strength
thee, O Lord, belongeth night watches. the workers of iniquity: shall trust in him; and
mercy: for thou 7
Because thou hast 3
Who whet their tongue all the upright in heart
renderest to every man been my help, therefore like a sword, and bend shall glory.
according to his work. in the shadow of thy their bows to shoot their
wings will I rejoice. 8My arrows, even bitter Psalm 65
Psalm 63 soul followeth hard after words: That they may
4

thee: thy right hand shoot in secret at the To the chief Musician, A
A Psalm of David, when upholdeth me. 9
But perfect: suddenly do Psalm and Song of
he was in the wilderness those that seek my soul, they shoot at him, and David.
of Judah. to destroy it, shall go fear not. 5
They
Praise waitetha for
1
into the lower parts of encourage themselves in
1
O God, thou art my thee, O God, in Sion:
the earth. 10They shall an evil mattera: they
God; early will I seek and unto thee shall the
fallc by the sword: they commune of laying
thee: my soul thirsteth vow be performed. 2O
shall be a portion for snares privily; they say,
for thee, my flesh thou that hearest
foxes. 11
But the king Who shall see them?
longeth for thee in a dry prayer, unto thee shall
shall rejoice in God; 6
They search out
and thirstya land, where all flesh come.
every one that sweareth iniquities; they
no water is; 2To see thy 3
Iniquities prevail
by him shall glory: but accomplish a diligent
power and thy glory, so against me: as for our
the mouth of them that search: both the inward
as I have seen thee in transgressions, thou
speak lies shall be thought of every one of
the sanctuary. shalt purge them away.
stopped. them, and the heart, is
3
Because thy 4
Blessed is the man
deep.
lovingkindness is better whom thou choosest,
than life, my lips shall
Psalm 64 7
But God shall shoot
and causest to
at them with an arrow;
praise thee. 4Thus will I To the chief Musician, A approach unto thee,
suddenly shall they be
bless thee while I live: I Psalm of David. that he may dwell in thy
wounded. 8So they shall
will lift up my hands in courts: we shall be
make their own tongue
thy name. 5My soul shall 1
Hear my voice, O satisfied with the
to fall upon themselves:
be satisfied as with God, in my prayer: goodness of thy house,
all that see them shall
marrowb and fatness; preserve my life from even of thy holy
flee away. 9And all men
and my mouth shall fear of the enemy. 2Hide temple. 5
By terrible
shall fear, and shall
praise thee with joyful me from the secret things in righteousness
declare the work of God;
lips: 6When I remember counsel of the wicked; wilt thou answer us, O
for they shall wisely
thee upon my bed, and from the insurrection of God of our salvation;
consider of his doing.
meditate on thee in the who art the confidence
10
The righteous shall be
c
They shall fall...: Heb. They of all the ends of the
a
glad in the LORD, and
thirsty: Heb. weary shall make him run out like
b a a
marrow: Heb. fatness water by the hands of matter: or, speech waiteth: Heb. is silent
earth, and of them that paths drop fatness. the works of God: he is lips have utteredd, and
are afar off upon the 12
They drop upon the terrible in his doing my mouth hath spoken,
sea: pastures of the toward the children of when I was in trouble.
6
Which by his wilderness: and the little men. 6He turned the sea 15
I will offer unto thee
strength setteth fast the hills rejoiced on every into dry land: they went burnt sacrifices of
mountains; being girded side. 13The pastures are through the flood on fatlings ,
e
with the
with power: 7
Which clothed with flocks; the foot: there did we rejoice incense of rams; I will
stilleth the noise of the valleys also are covered in him. 7He ruleth by his offer bullocks with
seas, the noise of their over with corn; they power for ever; his eyes goats. Selah. 16
Come
waves, and the tumult of shout for joy, they also behold the nations: let and hear, all ye that
the people. 8They also sing. not the rebellious exalt fear God, and I will
that dwell in the themselves. Selah. declare what he hath
uttermost parts are Psalm 66 8
O bless our God, ye done for my soul. 17I
afraid at thy tokens: people, and make the cried unto him with my
thou makest the To the chief Musician, A voice of his praise to be mouth, and he was
outgoings of the morning Song or Psalm. heard: 9Which holdethb extolled with my
and evening to rejoiceb. our soul in life, and tongue. 18If I regard
1
Make a joyful noise
9
Thou visitest the earth, suffereth not our feet to iniquity in my heart, the
unto God, all ye lands:
and waterest it: thou be moved. 10For thou, O Lord will not hear me:
2
Sing forth the honour of
greatly enrichest it with God, hast proved us: 19
But verily God hath
his name: make his
the river of God, which is thou hast tried us, as heard me; he hath
praise glorious. 3
Say
full of water: thou silver is tried. 11Thou attended to the voice of
unto God, How terrible
preparest them corn, broughtest us into the my prayer. 20Blessed be
art thou in thy works!
when thou hast so net; thou laidst affliction God, which hath not
through the greatness of
provided for it. 10Thou upon our loins. 12Thou turned away my prayer,
thy power shall thine
waterest the ridges hast caused men to ride nor his mercy from me.
enemies submita
thereof abundantly: thou over our heads; we went
themselves unto thee.
settlestc the furrows 4
All the earth shall
through fire and through Psalm 67
thereof: thou makest it water: but thou
worship thee, and shall To the chief Musician on
soft with showers: thou broughtest us out into a
sing unto thee; they Neginoth, A Psalm or
blessest the springing wealthyc place.
shall sing to thy name. Song.
thereof. 11
Thou 13
I will go into thy
Selah. 5Come and see
crownest the year with house with burnt
God be merciful
1
thy goodness; and thy offerings: I will pay thee
d
rejoice...: Heb. are girded with unto us, and bless us;
b
my vows, 14Which my
rejoice: or, sing joy
c a b d
settlest: or, causest rain to submit...: or, yield feigned holdeth: Heb. putteth uttered: Heb. opened
c e
descend into obedience: Heb. lie wealthy: Heb. moist fatlings: Heb. marrow
and cause his face to melteth before the fire, 9
Thou, O God, didst ever. 17The chariots of
shine upon us; Selah. so let the wicked perish sendd a plentiful rain, God are twenty
2
That thy way may be at the presence of God. whereby thou didst thousand, even
known upon earth, thy 3
But let the righteous be confirm thine thousands of angels:
saving health among all glad; let them rejoice inheritance, when it was the Lord is among
nations. 3Let the people before God: yea, let weary. 10
Thy them, as in Sinai, in the
praise thee, O God; let them exceedinglyb congregation hath dwelt holy place. 18Thou hast
all the people praise rejoice. 4Sing unto God, therein: thou, O God, ascended on high, thou
thee. 4O let the nations sing praises to his name: hast prepared of thy hast led captivity
be glad and sing for joy: extol him that rideth goodness for the poor. captive: thou hast
for thou shalt judge the upon the heavens by his 11
The Lord gave the received gifts for meng;
people righteously, and name JAH, and rejoice word: great was the yea, for the rebellious
governa the nations upon before him. 5A father of companye of those that also, that the LORD God
earth. Selah. 5
Let the the fatherless, and a published it. 12Kings of might dwell among
people praise thee, O judge of the widows, is armies did flee apace: them. 19Blessed be the
God; let all the people God in his holy and she that tarried at Lord, who daily loadeth
praise thee. 6Then shall habitation. 6God setteth home divided the spoil. us with benefits, even
the earth yield her the solitary in familiesc: 13
Though ye have lien the God of our
increase; and God, even he bringeth out those among the pots, yet salvation. Selah. 20He
our own God, shall bless which are bound with shall ye be as the wings that is our God is the
us. 7God shall bless us; chains: but the rebellious of a dove covered with God of salvation; and
and all the ends of the dwell in a dry land. silver, and her feathers unto GOD the Lord
earth shall fear him. 7
O God, when thou with yellow gold. 14When belong the issues from
wentest forth before thy the Almighty scattered death. 21But God shall
Psalm 68 people, when thou didst kings in it, it was white wound the head of his
march through the as snowf in Salmon. enemies, and the hairy
To the chief Musician, A wilderness; Selah: 8The 15
The hill of God is as scalp of such an one as
Psalm or Song of David. earth shook, the the hill of Bashan; an goeth on still in his
heavens also dropped at high hill as the hill of trespasses.
1
Let God arise, let his
the presence of God: Bashan. 16Why leap ye, 22
The Lord said, I will
enemies be scattered:
even Sinai itself was ye high hills? this is the bring again from
let them also that hate
moved at the presence hill which God desireth Bashan, I will bring my
him flee beforea him. 2As
of God, the God of Israel. to dwell in; yea, the people again from the
smoke is driven away, so
LORD will dwell in it for depths of the sea:
drive them away: as wax
b d
23
That thy foot may be
exceedingly...: Heb. rejoice send: Heb. shake out
a e
govern: Heb. lead with gladness company: Heb. army
a c f g
before...: Heb. from his face in families: Heb. in a house in it...: or, for her, she for men: Heb. in the man
dippedh in the blood of people, till every one the waters are come in alien unto my mother’s
thine enemies, and the submit himself with unto my soul. 2I sink in children. 9For the zeal
tongue of thy dogs in the pieces of silver: scatter deep mirea, where there of thine house hath
same. 24They have seen thou the people that is no standing: I am eaten me up; and the
thy goings, O God; even delight in war. 31Princes come into deep waters, reproaches of them that
the goings of my God, shall come out of Egypt; where the floods reproached thee are
my King, in the Ethiopia shall soon overflow me. 3
I am fallen upon me. 10When
sanctuary. The singers
25
stretch out her hands weary of my crying: my I wept, and chastened
went before, the players unto God. throat is dried: mine my soul with fasting,
on instruments followed 32
Sing unto God, ye eyes fail while I wait for that was to my
after; among them were kingdoms of the earth; O my God. 4They that hate reproach. 11
I made
the damsels playing with sing praises unto the me without a cause are sackcloth also my
timbrels. 26Bless ye God Lord; Selah: 33To him more than the hairs of garment; and I became
in the congregations, that rideth upon the mine head: they that a proverb to them.
even the Lord, from the heavens of heavens, would destroy me, being 12
They that sit in the
fountain of Israel. which were of old; lo, he mine enemies gate speak against me;
27
There is little Benjamin doth send out his voice, wrongfully, are mighty: and I was the song of
with their ruler, the and that a mighty voice. then I restored that the drunkardsc.
princes of Judah and 34
Ascribe ye strength which I took not away. 5O 13
But as for me, my
their council, the princes unto God: his excellency God, thou knowest my prayer is unto thee, O
of Zebulun, and the is over Israel, and his foolishness; and my sinsb LORD, in an acceptable
princes of Naphtali. strength is in the cloudsj. are not hid from thee. time: O God, in the
28
Thy God hath 35
O God, thou art terrible 6
Let not them that wait multitude of thy mercy
commanded thy out of thy holy places: on thee, O Lord GOD of hear me, in the truth of
strength: strengthen, O the God of Israel is he hosts, be ashamed for thy salvation. 14Deliver
God, that which thou that giveth strength and my sake: let not those me out of the mire, and
hast wrought for us. power unto his people. that seek thee be let me not sink: let me
29
Because of thy temple Blessed be God. confounded for my sake, be delivered from them
at Jerusalem shall kings O God of Israel. 7Because that hate me, and out
bring presents unto thee. Psalm 69 for thy sake I have borne of the deep waters.
30
Rebuke the companyi reproach; shame hath 15
Let not the waterflood
of spearmen, the To the chief Musician covered my face. 8I am overflow me, neither let
multitude of the bulls, upon Shoshannim, A become a stranger unto the deep swallow me
with the calves of the Psalm of David. my brethren, and an up, and let not the pit
shut her mouth upon
h
dipped: or, red
1
Save me, O God; for a
deep mire: Heb. the mire of
i c
the company...: or, the beasts depth drunkards: Heb. drinkers of
j b
of the reeds clouds: or, heavens sins: Heb. guiltiness strong drink
me. 16Hear me, O LORD; become a trap. 23Let humblef shall see this, be turned backward,
for thy lovingkindness is their eyes be darkened, and be glad: and your and put to confusion,
good: turn unto me that they see not; and heart shall live that seek that desire my hurt.
according to the make their loins God. 33
For the LORD 3
Let them be turned
multitude of thy tender continually to shake. heareth the poor, and back for a reward of
mercies. 17And hide not 24
Pour out thine despiseth not his their shame that say,
thy face from thy indignation upon them, prisoners. 34
Let the Aha, aha. 4Let all those
servant; for I am in and let thy wrathful heaven and earth praise that seek thee rejoice
trouble: heard me anger take hold of them. him, the seas, and every and be glad in thee:
speedily. 18
Draw nigh 25
Let their habitatione be thing that movethg and let such as love thy
unto my soul, and desolate; and let none therein. 35
For God will salvation say
redeem it: deliver me dwell in their tents. save Zion, and will build continually, Let God be
because of mine 26
For they persecute him the cities of Judah: that magnified. 5But I am
enemies. 19
Thou hast whom thou hast smitten; they may dwell there, poor and needy: make
known my reproach, and and they talk to the grief and have it in haste unto me, O God:
my shame, and my of those whom thou hast possession. 36
The seed thou art my help and
dishonour: mine wounded. 27Add iniquity also of his servants shall my deliverer; O LORD,
adversaries are all unto their iniquity: and inherit it: and they that make no tarrying.
before thee. 20Reproach let them not come into love his name shall dwell
hath broken my heart; thy righteousness. 28Let therein. Psalm 71
and I am full of them be blotted out of
heaviness: and I looked the book of the living, Psalm 70 1
In thee, O LORD, do
for some to take pity, and not be written with I put my trust: let me
but there was none; and the righteous. 29But I am To the chief Musician, A never be put to
for comforters, but I poor and sorrowful: let Psalm of David, to bring confusion. 2Deliver me
found none. 21They gave thy salvation, O God, set to remembrance. in thy righteousness,
me also gall for my me up on high. and cause me to
1
Make haste, O God, escape: incline thine
meat; and in my thirst 30
I will praise the
to deliver me; make ear unto me, and save
they gave me vinegar to name of God with a
haste to helpa me, O me. 3Be thou my strong
drink. song, and will magnify
LORD. 2
Let them be habitation, whereunto I
22
Let their table him with thanksgiving.
ashamed and may continually resort:
become a snare before 31
This also shall please
confounded that seek thou hast given
them: and that which the LORD better than an
after my soul: let them commandment to save
should have been for ox or bullock that hath
their welfare, let it horns and hoofs. 32The me; for thou art my
f
humble: or, meek rock and my fortress.
d e g
hear...: Heb. make haste to their habitation: Heb. their moveth: Heb. creepeth 4
Deliver me, O my God,
a
hear me palace to help...: Heb. to my help
out of the hand of the that seek my hurt. shalt bring me up again peace to the people,
wicked, out of the hand 14
But I will hope from the depths of the and the little hills, by
of the unrighteous and continually, and will yet earth. 21
Thou shalt righteousness. 4He shall
cruel man. 5For thou art praise thee more and increase my greatness, judge the poor of the
my hope, O Lord GOD: more. 15My mouth shall and comfort me on every people, he shall save
thou art my trust from shew forth thy side. 22I will also praise the children of the
my youth. 6By thee have righteousness and thy thee with the psalteryb, needy, and shall break
I been holden up from salvation all the day; for even thy truth, O my in pieces the oppressor.
the womb: thou art he I know not the numbers God: unto thee will I sing 5
They shall fear thee as
that took me out of my thereof. 16I will go in the with the harp, O thou long as the sun and
mother’s bowels: my strength of the Lord Holy One of Israel. 23My moon endure,
praise shall be GOD: I will make lips shall greatly rejoice throughout all
continually of thee. 7I am mention of thy when I sing unto thee; generations. 6He shall
as a wonder unto many; righteousness, even of and my soul, which thou come down like rain
but thou art my strong thine only. 17O God, thou hast redeemed. 24My upon the mown grass:
refuge. 8Let my mouth hast taught me from my tongue also shall talk of as showers that water
be filled with thy praise youth: and hitherto have thy righteousness all the the earth. 7In his days
and with thy honour all I declared thy wondrous day long: for they are shall the righteous
the day. 9Cast me not off works. 18Now also whena confounded, for they are flourish; and abundance
in the time of old age; I am old and brought unto shame, of peace so long as the
forsake me not when my grayheaded, O God, that seek my hurt. moon endureth. 8
He
strength faileth. 10For forsake me not; until I shall have dominion
mine enemies speak have shewed thy Psalm 72 also from sea to sea,
against me; and they strength unto this and from the river unto
that lay wait for my soul generation, and thy A Psalm for Solomon. the ends of the earth.
take counsel together, power to every one that 9
They that dwell in the
1
Give the king thy
11
Saying, God hath is to come. 19
Thy wilderness shall bow
judgments, O God, and
forsaken him: persecute righteousness also, O before him; and his
thy righteousness unto
and take him; for there God, is very high, who enemies shall lick the
the king’s son.
is none to deliver him. hast done great things: dust. 10The kings of
2
He shall judge thy
12
O God, be not far from O God, who is like unto Tarshish and of the isles
people with
me: O my God, make thee! 20Thou, which hast shall bring presents: the
righteousness, and thy
haste for my help. 13Let shewed me great and kings of Sheba and
poor with judgment. 3The
them be confounded and sore troubles, shalt Seba shall offer gifts.
mountains shall bring
consumed that are quicken me again, and 11
Yea, all kings shall fall
adversaries to my soul; a b
down before him: all
let them be covered with when...: Heb. unto old age and the psaltery: Heb. the nations shall serve him.
reproach and dishonour gray hairs instrument of psaltery
12
For he shall deliver the Israel, who only doeth they have more than sanctuary of God; then
needy when he crieth; wondrous things. 19And heart could wish. 8They understood I their end.
the poor also, and him blessed be his glorious are corrupt, and speak 18
Surely thou didst set
that hath no helper. 13He name for ever: and let wickedly concerning them in slippery places:
shall spare the poor and the whole earth be filled oppression: they speak thou castedst them
needy, and shall save with his glory; Amen, loftily. 9They set their down into destruction.
the souls of the needy. and Amen. 20The prayers mouth against the 19
How are they brought
14
He shall redeem their of David the son of Jesse heavens, and their into desolation, as in a
soul from deceit and are ended. tongue walketh through moment! they are
violence: and precious the earth. 10Therefore his utterly consumed with
shall their blood be in his Psalm 73 people return hither: and terrors. 20As a dream
sight. 15And he shall live, waters of a full cup are when one awaketh; so,
and to him shall be A Psalm of Asaph. wrung out to them. 11And O Lord, when thou
givena of the gold of they say, How doth God awakest, thou shalt
Truly God is good to
1
Sheba: prayer also shall know? and is there despise their image.
Israel, even to such as
be made for him knowledge in the most 21
Thus my heart was
are of a clean heart.
continually; and daily High? 12Behold, these grieved, and I was
2
But as for me, my feet
shall he be praised. are the ungodly, who pricked in my reins.
were almost gone; my
16
There shall be an prosper in the world; 22
So foolish was I, and
steps had well nigh
handful of corn in the they increase in riches. ignorantc: I was as a
slipped. 3
For I was
earth upon the top of the 13
Verily I have cleansed beast before thee. d
envious at the foolish,
mountains; the fruit my heart in vain, and 23
Nevertheless I am
when I saw the
thereof shall shake like washed my hands in continually with thee:
prosperity of the wicked.
Lebanon: and they of the innocency. 14For all the thou hast holden me by
4
For there are no bands
city shall flourish like day long have I been my right hand. 24Thou
in their death: but their
grass of the earth. 17His plagued, and chastenedb shalt guide me with thy
strength is firma. 5They
name shall endure for every morning. counsel, and afterward
are not in trouble as
ever: his name shall be 15
If I say, I will speak receive me to glory.
other men; neither are
continued as long as the thus; behold, I should 25
Whom have I in
they plagued like other
sun: and men shall be offend against the heaven but thee? and
men. 6
Therefore pride
blessed in him: all generation of thy there is none upon
compasseth them about
nations shall call him children. 16
When I earth that I desire
as a chain; violence
blessed. thought to know this, it beside thee. 26My flesh
covereth them as a
18
Blessed be the was too painful for me; and my heart faileth:
garment. 7Their eyes
LORD God, the God of 17
Until I went into the
stand out with fatness:
a b c
shall be given: Heb. one shall chastened: Heb. my ignorant: Heb. I knew not
a d
give firm: Heb. fat chastisement was before Heb. with
but God is the strengthe enemies roar in the hand, even thy right unto the multitude of
of my heart, and my midst of thy hand? pluck it out of thy the wicked: forget not
portion for ever. 27For, congregations; they set bosom. the congregation of thy
lo, they that are far from up their ensigns for 12
For God is my King poor for ever. 20Have
thee shall perish: thou signs. 5
A man was of old, working salvation respect unto the
hast destroyed all them famous according as he in the midst of the earth. covenant: for the dark
that go a whoring from had lifted up axes upon 13
Thou didst divided the places of the earth are
thee. 28But it is good for the thick trees. 6But now sea by thy strength: thou full of the habitations of
me to draw near to God: they break down the brakest the heads of the cruelty. 21O let not the
I have put my trust in carved work thereof at dragons in the waters. oppressed return
the Lord GOD, that I may once with axes and 14
Thou brakest the heads ashamed: let the poor
declare all thy works. hammers. 7They have of leviathan in pieces, and needy praise thy
castb fire into thy and gavest him to be name. 22Arise, O God,
Psalm 74 sanctuary, they have meat to the people plead thine own cause:
defiled by casting down inhabiting the remember how the
Maschil of Asaph. the dwelling place of thy wilderness. Thou didst
15
foolish man
name to the ground. cleave the fountain and reproacheth thee daily.
O God, why hast
1
8
They said in their the flood: thou driedst 23
Forget not the voice of
thou cast us off for ever?
hearts, Let us destroyc up mightye rivers. 16The thine enemies: the
why doth thine anger
them together: they day is thine, the night tumult of those that rise
smoke against the sheep
have burned up all the also is thine: thou hast up against thee
of thy pasture?
synagogues of God in prepared the light and increaseth continually.
g
2
Remember thy
the land. 9We see not the sun. 17Thou hast set
congregation, which
thou hast purchased of
our signs: there is no all the borders of the Psalm 75
more any prophet: earth: thou hast madef
old; the roda of thine To the chief Musician,
neither is there among summer and winter.
inheritance, which thou Altaschitha, A Psalm or
us any that knoweth how 18
Remember this, that
hast redeemed; this Song of Asaph.
long. 10O God, how long the enemy hath
mount Zion, wherein
shall the adversary reproached, O LORD,
thou hast dwelt. 3Lift up Unto thee, O God,
1
reproach? shall the and that the foolish
thy feet unto the do we give thanks, unto
enemy blaspheme thy people have blasphemed
perpetual desolations; thee do we give thanks:
name for ever? 11Why thy name. 19O deliver not
even all that the enemy for that thy name is
withdrawest thou thy the soul of thy turtledove
hath done wickedly in near thy wondrous
the sanctuary. 4Thine b
They have cast...: Heb. They d
divide: Heb. break works declare. 2When I
e
have sent thy sanctuary unto mighty...: Heb. rivers of
e g
strength: Heb. rock the fire strength increaseth: Heb. ascendeth
a c f a
rod: or, tribe destroy: Heb. break made: Heb. made them Altaschith: or, Destroy not
shall receiveb the exalted. judgment, to save all the mine eyes waking: I am
congregation I will judge meek of the earth. Selah. so troubled that I
uprightly. 3
The earth Psalm 76 10
Surely the wrath of cannot speak. 5I have
and all the inhabitants man shall praise thee: considered the days of
thereof are dissolved: I To the chief Musician on the remainder of wrath old, the years of ancient
bear up the pillars of it. Neginoth, A Psalm or shalt thou restrain. times. 6
I call to
Selah. 4I said unto the Song of Asaph. 11
Vow, and pay unto the remembrance my song
fools, Deal not foolishly: LORD your God: let all in the night: I commune
1
In Judah is God
and to the wicked, Lift that be round about him with mine own heart:
known: his name is great
not up the horn: 5Lift not bring presents unto him and my spirit made
in Israel. 2In Salem also
up your horn on high: that ought to be feared. diligent search. 7Will the
is his tabernacle, and his
speak not with a stiff 12
He shall cut off the Lord cast off for ever?
dwelling place in Zion.
neck. spirit of princes: he is and will he be
3
There brake he the
6
For promotion terrible to the kings of favourable no more? 8Is
arrows of the bow, the
cometh neither from the the earth. his mercy clean gone
shield, and the sword,
east, nor from the west, for ever? doth his
and the battle. Selah.
nor from the southc. 4
Thou art more glorious
Psalm 77 promise fail for
7
But God is the judge: he evermore ? Hath God
b 9
and excellent than the To the chief Musician, to
putteth down one, and forgotten to be
mountains of prey. 5The Jeduthun, A Psalm of
setteth up another. 8For gracious? hath he in
stouthearted are spoiled, Asaph.
in the hand of the LORD anger shut up his
they have slept their
there is a cup, and the tender mercies? Selah.
sleep: and none of the I cried unto God with
1
wine is red; it is full of 10
And I said, This is my
men of might have found my voice, even unto God
mixture; and he poureth infirmity: but I will
their hands. 6At thy with my voice; and he
out of the same: but the remember the years of
rebuke, O God of Jacob, gave ear unto me. 2In
dregs thereof, all the the right hand of the
both the chariot and the day of my trouble I
wicked of the earth shall most High.
horse are cast into a sought the Lord: my
wring them out, and 11
I will remember the
dead sleep. sorea ran in the night,
drink them. 9But I will works of the LORD:
7
Thou, even thou, art and ceased not: my soul
declare for ever; I will surely I will remember
to be feared: and who refused to be comforted.
sing praises to the God thy wonders of old. 12I
may stand in thy sight 3
I remembered God, and
of Jacob. 10All the horns will meditate also of all
when once thou art was troubled: I
of the wicked also will I thy work, and talk of
angry? 8Thou didst cause complained, and my
cut off; but the horns of thy doings. 13Thy way,
judgment to be heard spirit was overwhelmed.
the righteous shall be O God, is in the
from heaven; the earth Selah. 4
Thou holdest
b
receive...: or, take a set time feared, and was still, b
for evermore: Heb. to
c
south: Heb. desert
9
When God arose to a
sore: Heb. hand generation and generation?
sanctuary: who is so incline your ears to the their heart aright, and wilderness. 18And they
great a God as our God? words of my mouth. 2I whose spirit was not tempted God in their
14
Thou art the God that will open my mouth in a stedfast with God. heart by asking meat
doest wonders: thou hast parable: I will utter dark 9
The children of for their lust. 19Yea,
declared thy strength sayings of old: 3Which Ephraim, being armed, they spake against God;
among the people. we have heard and and carryinga bows, they said, Can God
15
Thou hast with thine known, and our fathers turned back in the day of furnishb a table in the
arm redeemed thy have told us. 4We will not battle. 10They kept not wilderness? 20
Behold,
people, the sons of Jacob hide them from their the covenant of God, and he smote the rock, that
and Joseph. Selah. 16The children, shewing to the refused to walk in his the waters gushed out,
waters saw thee, O God, generation to come the law; 11And forgat his and the streams
the waters saw thee; praises of the LORD, and works, and his wonders overflowed; can he give
they were afraid: the his strength, and his that he had shewed bread also? can he
depths also were wonderful works that he them. 12
Marvellous provide flesh for his
troubled. 17The clouds hath done. 5For he things did he in the sight people? 21Therefore the
poured out water: the established a testimony of their fathers, in the LORD heard this, and
skies sent out a sound: in Jacob, and appointed a land of Egypt, in the field was wroth: so a fire was
thine arrows also went law in Israel, which he of Zoan. 13He divided the kindled against Jacob,
abroad. 18The voice of commanded our fathers, sea, and caused them to and anger also came up
thy thunder was in the that they should make pass through; and he against Israel;
heaven: the lightnings them known to their made the waters to 22
Because they believed
lightened the world: the children: 6
That the stand as an heap. 14In not in God, and trusted
earth trembled and generation to come the daytime also he led not in his salvation:
shook. 19
Thy way is in might know them, even them with a cloud, and 23
Though he had
the sea, and thy path in the children which all the night with a light commanded the clouds
the great waters, and should be born; who of fire. 15He clave the from above, and
thy footsteps are not should arise and declare rocks in the wilderness, opened the doors of
known. 20Thou leddest them to their children: and gave them drink as heaven, 24
And had
thy people like a flock by 7
That they might set out of the great depths. rained down manna
the hand of Moses and their hope in God, and 16
He brought streams upon them to eat, and
Aaron. not forget the works of also out of the rock, and had given them of the
God, but keep his caused waters to run corn of heaven. 25Manc
Psalm 78 commandments: 8
And down like rivers. 17And did eat angels’ food: he
might not be as their they sinned yet more sent them meat to the
Maschil of Asaph. fathers, a stubborn and against him by provoking b
rebellious generation; a the most High in the furnish: Heb. order
1
Give ear, O my c
Man...: or, Every one did eat
generation that set not
people, to my law: a
carrying: Heb. throwing forth the bread of the mighty
full. 26He caused an east was their rock, and the Egypt, and his wonders tabernacles of Ham:
wind to blowd in the high God their redeemer. in the field of Zoan: 52
But made his own
heaven: and by his 36
Nevertheless they did 44
And had turned their people to go forth like
power he brought in the flatter him with their rivers into blood; and sheep, and guided
south wind. 27He rained mouth, and they lied their floods, that they them in the wilderness
flesh also upon them as unto him with their could not drink. 45He sent like a flock. 53And he led
dust, and featherede tongues. 37For their heart divers sorts of flies them on safely, so that
fowls like as the sand of was not right with him, among them, which they feared not: but the
the sea: 28And he let it neither were they devoured them; and sea overwhelmedj their
fall in the midst of their stedfast in his covenant. frogs, which destroyed enemies. 54
And he
camp, round about their 38
But he, being full of them. 46He gave also brought them to the
habitations. 29So they did compassion, forgave their increase unto the border of his sanctuary,
eat, and were well filled: their iniquity, and caterpiller, and their even to this mountain,
for he gave them their destroyed them not: yea, labour unto the locust. which his right hand
own desire; 30They were many a time turned he 47
He destroyedh their had purchased. 55He
not estranged from their his anger away, and did vines with hail, and their cast out the heathen
lust. But while their meat not stir up all his wrath. sycomore trees with also before them, and
was yet in their mouths, 39
For he remembered frost. 48
He gave up their divided them an
31
The wrath of God came that they were but flesh; cattle also to the hail, inheritance by line, and
upon them, and slew the a wind that passeth and their flocks to hot made the tribes of
fattest of them, and away, and cometh not thunderbolts. 49He cast Israel to dwell in their
smote down the chosen again. upon them the tents. 56
Yet they
men of Israel. 32
For all 40
How oft did they fierceness of his anger, tempted and provoked
this they sinned still, and provokef him in the wrath, and indignation, the most high God, and
believed not for his wilderness, and grieve and trouble, by sending kept not his
wondrous works. him in the desert! 41Yea, evil angels among them. testimonies: 57
But
33
Therefore their days they turned back and 50
He madei a way to his turned back, and dealt
did he consume in tempted God, and anger; he spared not unfaithfully like their
vanity, and their years in limited the Holy One of their soul from death, fathers: they were
trouble. 34When he slew Israel. 42
They but gave their life over turned aside like a
them, then they sought remembered not his to the pestilence; 51And deceitful bow. 58
For
him: and they returned hand, nor the day when smote all the firstborn in they provoked him to
and enquired early after he delivered them from Egypt; the chief of their anger with their high
God. 35
And they the enemy. 43
How he strength in the places, and moved him
remembered that God had wrought his signs in
g
h
to jealousy with their
destroyed: Heb. killed graven images. 59When
d f i
to blow: Heb. to go provoke: or, rebel against He made...: Heb. He weighed
e g j
feathered...: Heb. fowl of wing wrought: Heb. set a path overwhelmed: Heb. covered
God heard this, he was palaces, like the earth about Jerusalem; and the revengingb of the
wroth, and greatly which he hath there was none to bury blood of thy servants
abhorred Israel: 60So that establishedk for ever. them. 4We are become a which is shed. 11Let the
he forsook the 70
He chose David also his reproach to our sighing of the prisoner
tabernacle of Shiloh, the servant, and took him neighbours, a scorn and come before thee;
tent which he placed from the sheepfolds: derision to them that are according to the
among men; 61
And 71
From followingl the round about us. 5How greatness of thy power
delivered his strength ewes great with young long, LORD? wilt thou be preserve thou those
into captivity, and his he brought him to feed angry for ever? shall thy that are appointed to
glory into the enemy’s Jacob his people, and jealousy burn like fire? die; 12And render unto
hand. 62He gave his Israel his inheritance. 6
Pour out thy wrath our neighbours
people over also unto 72
So he fed them upon the heathen that sevenfold into their
the sword; and was according to the integrity have not known thee, bosom their reproach,
wroth with his of his heart; and guided and upon the kingdoms wherewith they have
inheritance. 63The fire them by the skilfulness that have not called reproached thee, O
consumed their young of his hands. upon thy name. 7For Lord. 13
So we thy
men; and their maidens they have devoured people and sheep of thy
were not given to Psalm 79 Jacob, and laid waste his pasture will give thee
marriage. 64Their priests dwelling place. 8
O thanks for ever: we will
fell by the sword; and A Psalm of Asaph. remember not against us shew forth thy praise to
their widows made no formera iniquities: let thy allc generations.
1
O God, the heathen
lamentation. 65Then the tender mercies speedily
are come into thine
Lord awaked as one out
inheritance; thy holy
prevent us: for we are Psalm 80
of sleep, and like a brought very low. 9Help
temple have they To the chief Musician
mighty man that us, O God of our
defiled; they have laid upon
shouteth by reason of salvation, for the glory of
Jerusalem on heaps. Shoshannimeduth, A
wine. 66And he smote his thy name: and deliver
2
The dead bodies of thy Psalm of Asaph.
enemies in the hinder us, and purge away our
servants have they given
parts: he put them to a sins, for thy name’s
to be meat unto the 1
Give ear, O
perpetual reproach. sake. 10Wherefore should
fowls of the heaven, the Shepherd of Israel, thou
67
Moreover he refused the heathen say, Where
flesh of thy saints unto that leadest Joseph like
the tabernacle of Joseph, is their God? let him be
the beasts of the earth. a flock; thou that
and chose not the tribe known among the
3
Their blood have they dwellest between the
of Ephraim: 68But chose heathen in our sight by
shed like water round
the tribe of Judah, the b
mount Zion which he revenging: Heb. vengeance
k a c
loved. 69And he built his established: Heb. founded former...: or, the iniquities of to all...: Heb. to generation
l
sanctuary like high following: Heb. after them that were before us and generation
cherubims, shine forth. thereof were like the face to shine; and we secret place of thunder:
2
Before Ephraim and goodlyb cedars. 11
She shall be saved. I proved thee at the
Benjamin and Manasseh sent out her boughs unto waters of Meribahb.
stir up thy strength, and the sea, and her Psalm 81 Selah.
comea and save us. branches unto the river. 8
Hear, O my people,
3
Turn us again, O God, 12
Why hast thou then To the chief Musician and I will testify unto
and cause thy face to broken down her upon Gittith, A Psalm of thee: O Israel, if thou
shine; and we shall be hedges, so that all they Asapha. wilt hearken unto me;
saved. 4O LORD God of which pass by the way 9
There shall no strange
Sing aloud unto God
1
hosts, how long wilt thou do pluck her? 13The boar god be in thee; neither
our strength: make a
be angry against the out of the wood doth shalt thou worship any
joyful noise unto the God
prayer of thy people? waste it, and the wild strange god. 10I am the
of Jacob. 2Take a psalm,
5
Thou feedest them with beast of the field doth LORD thy God, which
and bring hither the
the bread of tears; and devour it. 14Return, we brought thee out of the
timbrel, the pleasant
givest them tears to beseech thee, O God of land of Egypt: open thy
harp with the psaltery.
drink in great measure. hosts: look down from mouth wide, and I will
3
Blow up the trumpet in
6
Thou makest us a strife heaven, and behold, and fill it. 11But my people
the new moon, in the
unto our neighbours: and visit this vine; 15And the would not hearken to
time appointed, on our
our enemies laugh vineyard which thy right my voice; and Israel
solemn feast day. 4For
among themselves. hand hath planted, and would none of me. 12So
this was a statute for
7
Turn us again, O God of the branch that thou I gave them up unto
Israel, and a law of the
hosts, and cause thy madest strong for their own hearts’ lust:
God of Jacob. 5This he
face to shine; and we thyself. 16It is burned and they walked in their
ordained in Joseph for a
shall be saved. with fire, it is cut down: own counsels. 13Oh that
testimony, when he went
8
Thou hast brought a they perish at the rebuke my people had
out through the land of
vine out of Egypt: thou of thy countenance. 17Let hearkened unto me,
Egypt: where I heard a
hast cast out the thy hand be upon the and Israel had walked
language that I
heathen, and planted it. man of thy right hand, in my ways! 14I should
understood not. 6
I
9
Thou preparedst room upon the son of man soon have subdued
removed his shoulder
before it, and didst whom thou madest their enemies, and
from the burden: his
cause it to take deep strong for thyself. 18So turned my hand against
hands were delivered
root, and it filled the will not we go back from their adversaries. 15The
from the pots. 7
Thou
land. 10The hills were thee: quicken us, and we haters of the LORD
calledst in trouble, and I
covered with the shadow will call upon thy name. should have submittedc
delivered thee; I
of it, and the boughs 19
Turn us again, O LORD
answered thee in the b
Meribah: or, Strife
a
God of hosts, cause thy c
come...: Heb. come for submitted...: or, yielded
b a
salvation to us goodly...: Heb. cedars of God of Asaph: or, for Asaph feigned obedience: Heb. lied
themselves unto him: gods; and all of you are thee: 6The tabernacles shame; that they may
but their time should children of the most of Edom, and the seek thy name, O
have endured for ever. High. 7But ye shall die Ishmaelites; of Moab, LORD. 17Let them be
16
He should have fed like men, and fall like and the Hagarenes; confounded and
them also with the one of the princes. 7
Gebal, and Ammon, and troubled for ever; yea,
finestd of the wheat: and 8
Arise, O God, judge the Amalek; the Philistines let them be put to
with honey out of the earth: for thou shalt with the inhabitants of shame, and perish:
rock should I have inherit all nations. Tyre; 8Assur also is 18
That men may know
satisfied thee. joined with them: they that thou, whose name
Psalm 83 have holpenc the alone is JEHOVAH, art
Psalm 82 children of Lot. Selah. the most high over all
A Song or Psalm of 9
Do unto them as the earth.
A Psalm of Asapha. Asapha. unto the Midianites; as
1
God standeth in the 1
Keep not thou
to Sisera, as to Jabin, at Psalm 84
the brook of Kison:
congregation of the silence, O God: hold not To the chief Musician
10
Which perished at
mighty; he judgeth thy peace, and be not upon Gittith, A Psalm
Endor: they became as
among the gods. 2How still, O God. 2
For, lo, for the sonsa of Korah.
dung for the earth.
long will ye judge thine enemies make a 11
Make their nobles like
unjustly, and accept the tumult: and they that How amiable are
1
Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea,
persons of the wicked? hate thee have lifted up thy tabernacles, O
all their princes as
Selah. 3Defendb the poor the head. 3They have LORD of hosts! 2
My
Zebah, and as
and fatherless: do justice taken crafty counsel soul longeth, yea, even
Zalmunna: 12Who said,
to the afflicted and against thy people, and fainteth for the courts
Let us take to ourselves
needy. 4Deliver the poor consulted against thy of the LORD: my heart
the houses of God in
and needy: rid them out hidden ones. 4They have and my flesh crieth out
possession. 13O my God,
of the hand of the said, Come, and let us for the living God. 3Yea,
make them like a wheel;
wicked. 5They know not, cut them off from being the sparrow hath found
as the stubble before the
neither will they a nation; that the name an house, and the
wind. 14
As the fire
understand; they walk of Israel may be no more swallow a nest for
burneth a wood, and as
on in darkness: all the in remembrance. 5For herself, where she may
the flame setteth the
foundations of the earth they have consulted lay her young, even
mountains on fire; 15So
are out of course. together with one thine altars, O LORD of
persecute them with thy
6
I have said, Ye are consent :b
they are hosts, my King, and my
tempest, and make them
confederate against God. 4Blessed are they
afraid with thy storm.
d
finest...: Heb. fat of wheat that dwell in thy house:
a a
16
Fill their faces with
of Asaph: or, for Asaph of Asaph: or, for Asaph
b b c a
Defend: Heb. Judge consent: Heb. heart holpen: Heb. been an arm to for the sons: or, of the sons
they will be still praising Psalm 85 turn again to folly. dailyb. 4Rejoice the soul
thee. Selah. 5Blessed is 9
Surely his salvation is of thy servant: for unto
the man whose strength To the chief Musician, A nigh them that fear him; thee, O Lord, do I lift up
is in thee; in whose heart Psalm for the sonsa of that glory may dwell in my soul. 5For thou,
are the ways of them. Korah. our land. 10Mercy and Lord, art good, and
6
Who passing through truth are met together; ready to forgive; and
the valley of Bacab make
1
LORD, thou hast righteousness and peace plenteous in mercy
it a well; the rain also been favourable unto thy have kissed each other. unto all them that call
filleth the pools. 7
They land: thou hast brought 11
Truth shall spring out of upon thee. 6Give ear, O
go from strength to back the captivity of the earth; and LORD, unto my prayer;
strength, every one of Jacob. 2
Thou hast righteousness shall look and attend to the voice
them in Zion appeareth forgiven the iniquity of down from heaven. of my supplications. 7In
before God. thy people, thou hast 12
Yea, the LORD shall the day of my trouble I
8
O LORD God of hosts, covered all their sin. give that which is good; will call upon thee: for
hear my prayer: give Selah. 3Thou hast taken and our land shall yield thou wilt answer me.
ear, O God of Jacob. away all thy wrath: thou her increase. 8
Among the gods
Selah. 9Behold, O God hast turned thyself from 13
Righteousness shall go there is none like unto
our shield, and look upon the fierceness of thine before him; and shall set thee, O Lord; neither
the face of thine anger. 4Turn us, O God us in the way of his are there any works like
anointed. For a day in
10 of our salvation, and steps. unto thy works. 9All
thy courts is better than cause thine anger nations whom thou hast
a thousand. I had rather toward us to cease. 5Wilt Psalm 86 made shall come and
be a doorkeeper in the thou be angry with us for worship before thee, O
house of my God, than ever? wilt thou draw out A Prayer of David. Lord; and shall glorify
to dwell in the tents of thine anger to all thy name. 10For thou art
generations? Wilt thou
6
1
Bow down thine ear,
wickedness. 11
For the great, and doest
not revive us again: that O LORD, hear me: for I
LORD God is a sun and wondrous things: thou
thy people may rejoice in am poor and needy.
shield: the LORD will art God alone. 11Teach
thee? 7Shew us thy
2
Preserve my soul; for I
give grace and glory: no me thy way, O LORD; I
mercy, O LORD, and am holya: O thou my
good thing will he will walk in thy truth:
grant us thy salvation. God, save thy servant
withhold from them that unite my heart to fear
8
I will hear what God that trusteth in thee.
walk uprightly. 12O LORD thy name. 12I will praise
the LORD will speak: for
3
Be merciful unto me, O
of hosts, blessed is the thee, O Lord my God,
he will speak peace unto Lord: for I cry unto thee
man that trusteth in with all my heart: and I
thee. his people, and to his will glorify thy name for
saints: but let them not evermore. 13For great is
b a
Baca...: or, mulberry trees holy: or, one whom thou
a b
make him a well, etc for the sons: or, of the sons favourest daily: or, all the day
thy mercy toward me: 2
The LORD loveth the salvation, I have cried wonders to the dead?
and thou hast delivered gates of Zion more than day and night before shall the dead arise and
my soul from the lowest all the dwellings of thee: 2
Let my prayer praise thee? Selah.
hellc. 14O God, the proud Jacob. 3Glorious things come before thee: 11
Shall thy
are risen against me, are spoken of thee, O incline thine ear unto my lovingkindness be
and the assemblies of city of God. Selah. cry; 3For my soul is full of declared in the grave?
violentd men have 4
I will make mention troubles: and my life or thy faithfulness in
sought after my soul; of Rahab and Babylon to draweth nigh unto the destruction? 12Shall thy
and have not set thee them that know me: grave. 4I am counted wonders be known in
before them. 15But thou, behold Philistia, and with them that go down the dark? and thy
O Lord, art a God full of Tyre, with Ethiopia; this into the pit: I am as a righteousness in the
compassion, and man was born there. man that hath no land of forgetfulness?
gracious, longsuffering, 5
And of Zion it shall be strength: 5Free among 13
But unto thee have I
and plenteous in mercy said, This and that man the dead, like the slain cried, O LORD; and in
and truth. 16O turn unto was born in her: and the that lie in the grave, the morning shall my
me, and have mercy highest himself shall whom thou rememberest prayer prevent thee.
upon me; give thy establish her. 6The LORD no more: and they are 14
LORD, why castest
strength unto thy shall count, when he cut off from thy hand. thou off my soul? why
servant, and save the writeth up the people, 6
Thou hast laid me in the hidest thou thy face
son of thine handmaid. that this man was born lowest pit, in darkness, from me? 15
I am
17
Shew me a token for there. Selah. 7As well the in the deeps. 7Thy wrath afflicted and ready to
good; that they which singers as the players on lieth hard upon me, and die from my youth up:
hate me may see it, and instruments shall be thou hast afflicted me while I suffer thy terrors
be ashamed: because there: all my springs are with all thy waves. Selah. I am distracted. 16Thy
thou, LORD, hast holpen in thee. 8
Thou hast put away fierce wrath goeth over
me, and comforted me. mine acquaintance far me; thy terrors have
Psalm 88 from me; thou hast cut me off. 17They came
Psalm 87 made me an round about me dailyb
A Song or Psalm for the abomination unto them: like water; they
A Psalm or Song for the sonsa of Korah, to the I am shut up, and I compassed me about
sonsa of Korah. chief Musician upon cannot come forth. 9Mine together. 18Lover and
Mahalath Leannoth, eye mourneth by reason friend hast thou put far
His foundation is in
1
Maschil of Heman the of affliction: LORD, I from me, and mine
the holy mountains. Ezrahite. have called daily upon acquaintance into
thee, I have stretched darkness.
c
hell: or, grave
1
O LORD God of my
d
out my hands unto thee.
violent: Heb. terrible 10
Wilt thou shew
a a b
for the sons: or, of the sons for the sons: or, of the sons daily: or, all the day
Psalm 89 reverence of all them people that know the plague them that hate
that are about him. 8O joyful sound: they shall him. 24
But my
Maschil of Ethan the LORD God of hosts, who walk, O LORD, in the faithfulness and my
Ezrahite. is a strong LORD like light of thy countenance. mercy shall be with
unto thee? or to thy 16
In thy name shall they him: and in my name
1
I will sing of the faithfulness round about rejoice all the day: and in shall his horn be
mercies of the LORD for thee? 9Thou rulest the thy righteousness shall exalted. 25I will set his
ever: with my mouth will raging of the sea: when they be exalted. 17For hand also in the sea,
I make known thy the waves thereof arise, thou art the glory of their and his right hand in
faithfulness to all thou stillest them. 10Thou strength: and in thy the rivers. 26He shall cry
generations. 2For I have hast broken Rahaba in favour our horn shall be unto me, Thou art my
said, Mercy shall be built pieces, as one that is exalted. 18For the LORDd father, my God, and the
up for ever: thy slain; thou hast is our defence; and the rock of my salvation.
faithfulness shalt thou scattered thine enemies Holy One of Israel is our 27
Also I will make him
establish in the very with thy strong arm. king. my firstborn, higher
heavens. 3I have made a 11
The heavens are thine, 19
Then thou spakest in than the kings of the
covenant with my the earth also is thine: vision to thy holy one, earth. 28My mercy will I
chosen, I have sworn as for the world and the and saidst, I have laid keep for him for
unto David my servant, fulnessb thereof, thou help upon one that is evermore, and my
4
Thy seed will I establish hast founded them. mighty; I have exalted covenant shall stand
for ever, and build up thy 12
The north and the one chosen out of the fast with him. 29His seed
throne to all generations. south thou hast created people. 20I have found also will I make to
Selah. them: Tabor and Hermon David my servant; with endure for ever, and his
5
And the heavens shall rejoice in thy name. my holy oil have I throne as the days of
shall praise thy wonders, 13
Thou hast a mighty anointed him: 21
With heaven. 30If his children
O LORD: thy faithfulness arm: strong is thy hand, whom my hand shall be forsake my law, and
also in the congregation and high is thy right established: mine arm walk not in my
of the saints. 6For who in hand. 14
Justice and also shall strengthen judgments; 31
If they
the heaven can be judgment are the him. 22The enemy shall breake my statutes, and
compared unto the habitation of thy throne:
c
not exact upon him; nor keep not my
LORD? who among the mercy and truth shall go the son of wickedness commandments;
sons of the mighty can before thy face. afflict him. 23And I will 32
Then will I visit their
be likened unto the 15
Blessed is the beat down his foes transgression with the
LORD? 7God is greatly to before his face, and rod, and their iniquity
a
be feared in the Rahab: or, Egypt with stripes.
b d
assembly of the saints, the fulness...: or, all it the LORD...: or, our shield is 33
Nevertheless my
and to be had in containeth of the LORD, and our king is
c e
habitation: or, establishment of the Holy One of Israel break: Heb. profane
lovingkindness will I not 43
Thou hast also turned wherewith they have and withereth.
utterly take from him, the edge of his sword, reproached the footsteps 7
For we are
nor suffer my and hast not made him of thine anointed. consumed by thine
faithfulness to fail. 34
My to stand in the battle. 52
Blessed be the LORD anger, and by thy wrath
covenant will I not break, 44
Thou hast made his for evermore. Amen, and are we troubled. 8Thou
nor alter the thing that is gloryf to cease, and cast Amen. hast set our iniquities
gone out of my lips. his throne down to the before thee, our secret
35
Once have I sworn by ground. 45The days of Psalm 90 sins in the light of thy
my holiness that I will his youth hast thou countenance. 9For all
not lie unto David. 36His shortened: thou hast A Prayer of Moses the our days are passed
seed shall endure for covered him with shame. man of God. away in thy wrath: we
ever, and his throne as Selah. 46
How long, spend our years as a
1
Lord, thou hast been
the sun before me. 37It LORD? wilt thou hide tale that is told. 10The
our dwelling place in all
shall be established for thyself for ever? shall thy daysa of our years are
generations. 2
Before
ever as the moon, and wrath burn like fire? threescore years and
the mountains were
as a faithful witness in 47
Remember how short ten; and if by reason of
brought forth, or ever
heaven. Selah. my time is: wherefore strength they be
thou hadst formed the
38
But thou hast cast hast thou made all men fourscore years, yet is
earth and the world,
off and abhorred, thou in vain? 48What man is their strength labour
even from everlasting to
hast been wroth with he that liveth, and shall and sorrow; for it is
everlasting, thou art
thine anointed. 39Thou not see death? shall he soon cut off, and we fly
God. Thou turnest man
3
hast made void the deliver his soul from the away. 11Who knoweth
to destruction; and
covenant of thy servant: hand of the grave? the power of thine
sayest, Return, ye
thou hast profaned his Selah. 49Lord, where are anger? even according
children of men. 4For a
crown by casting it to thy former to thy fear, so is thy
thousand years in thy
the ground. 40Thou hast lovingkindnesses, which wrath.
sight are but as
broken down all his thou swarest unto David 12
So teach us to
yesterday when it is
hedges; thou hast in thy truth? number our days, that
past, and as a watch in
brought his strong holds 50
Remember, Lord, the we may applyb our
the night. 5Thou carriest
to ruin. 41All that pass by reproach of thy servants; hearts unto wisdom.
them away as with a
the way spoil him: he is how I do bear in my 13
Return, O LORD, how
flood; they are as a
a reproach to his bosom the reproach of long? and let it repent
sleep: in the morning
neighbours. 42Thou hast all the mighty people; thee concerning thy
they are like grass which
set up the right hand of 51
Wherewith thine
groweth up. 6
In the a
The days...: Heb. As for the
his adversaries; thou enemies have
morning it flourisheth, days of our years, in them are
hast made all his reproached, O LORD;
and groweth up; in the seventy years
enemies to rejoice. f
glory: Heb. brightness evening it is cut down, b
apply: Heb. cause to come
servants. 14O satisfy us feathers, and under his lion and the dragon shalt made me glad through
early with thy mercy; wings shalt thou trust: thou trample under feet. thy work: I will triumph
that we may rejoice and his truth shall be thy 14
Because he hath set his in the works of thy
be glad all our days. shield and buckler. 5Thou love upon me, therefore hands. 5O LORD, how
15
Make us glad according shalt not be afraid for will I deliver him: I will great are thy works!
to the days wherein thou the terror by night; nor set him on high, because and thy thoughts are
hast afflicted us, and the for the arrow that flieth he hath known my very deep. 6A brutish
years wherein we have by day; 6Nor for the name. 15He shall call man knoweth not;
seen evil. 16Let thy work pestilence that walketh upon me, and I will neither doth a fool
appear unto thy in darkness; nor for the answer him: I will be with understand this.
servants, and thy glory destruction that wasteth him in trouble; I will 7
When the wicked
unto their children. 17And at noonday. 7A thousand deliver him, and honour spring as the grass, and
let the beauty of the shall fall at thy side, and him. 16With longc life will when all the workers of
LORD our God be upon ten thousand at thy right I satisfy him, and shew iniquity do flourish; it is
us: and establish thou hand; but it shall not him my salvation. that they shall be
the work of our hands come nigh thee. 8Only destroyed for ever: 8But
upon us; yea, the work with thine eyes shalt Psalm 92 thou, LORD, art most
of our hands establish thou behold and see the high for evermore. 9For,
thou it. reward of the wicked. A Psalm or Song for the lo, thine enemies, O
9
Because thou hast sabbath day. LORD, for, lo, thine
Psalm 91 made the LORD, which is 1
It is a good thing to
enemies shall perish; all
my refuge, even the the workers of iniquity
He that dwelleth in
1 give thanks unto the
most High, thy shall be scattered. 10But
the secret place of the LORD, and to sing
habitation; There shall
10
my horn shalt thou
most High shall abidea praises unto thy name, O
no evil befall thee, exalt like the horn of an
under the shadow of the most High: 2To shew
neither shall any plague unicorn: I shall be
Almighty. 2I will say of forth thy lovingkindness
come nigh thy dwelling. anointed with fresh oil.
the LORD, He is my in the morning, and thy
11
For he shall give his 11
Mine eye also shall
refuge and my fortress: faithfulness every night,
angels charge over thee, see my desire on mine
my God; in him will I
3
Upon an instrument of
to keep thee in all thy enemies, and mine ears
trust. 3Surely he shall ten strings, and upon the
ways. 12They shall bear shall hear my desire of
deliver thee from the psaltery; upon the harpa
thee up in their hands, the wicked that rise up
snare of the fowler, and with a solemn sound.
lest thou dash thy foot against me. 12
The
from the noisome
4
For thou, LORD, hast
against a stone. 13Thou righteous shall flourish
pestilence. 4
He shall shalt tread upon the lion like the palm tree: he
c
cover thee with his and adderb: the young long...: Heb. length of days shall grow like a cedar
a
the harp...: or, the solemn in Lebanon. 13Those
a b
abide: Heb. lodge adder: or, asp sound with the harp
that be planted in the becometh thine house, O the ear, shall he not my soul had almostc
house of the LORD shall LORD, for everb. hear? he that formed the dwelt in silence.
flourish in the courts of eye, shall he not see? 18
When I said, My foot
our God. 14They shall still Psalm 94 10
He that chastiseth the slippeth; thy mercy, O
bring forth fruit in old heathen, shall not he LORD, held me up. 19In
age; they shall be fat
1
O LORD Goda, to correct? he that the multitude of my
and flourishingb; 15
To whom vengeance teacheth man thoughts within me thy
shew that the LORD is belongeth; O God, to knowledge, shall not he comforts delight my
upright: he is my rock, whom vengeance know? 11
The LORD soul. 20Shall the throne
and there is no belongeth, shew thyself. knoweth the thoughts of of iniquity have
unrighteousness in him.
2
Lift up thyself, thou man, that they are fellowship with thee,
judge of the earth: vanity. which frameth mischief
Psalm 93 render a reward to the 12
Blessed is the man by a law? 21They gather
proud. 3LORD, how long whom thou chastenest, themselves together
The LORD reigneth,
1
shall the wicked, how O LORD, and teachest against the soul of the
he is clothed with long shall the wicked him out of thy law; 13That righteous, and
majesty; the LORD is triumph? 4How long shall thou mayest give him condemn the innocent
clothed with strength, they utter and speak rest from the days of blood. 22But the LORD is
wherewith he hath hard things? and all the adversity, until the pit be my defence; and my
girded himself: the world workers of iniquity boast digged for the wicked. God is the rock of my
also is stablished, that it themselves? 5They break 14
For the LORD will not refuge. 23And he shall
cannot be moved. 2Thy in pieces thy people, O cast off his people, bring upon them their
throne is established of LORD, and afflict thine neither will he forsake own iniquity, and shall
olda: thou art from heritage. 6They slay the his inheritance. 15But cut them off in their
everlasting. 3The floods widow and the stranger, judgment shall return own wickedness; yea,
have lifted up, O LORD, and murder the unto righteousness: and the LORD our God shall
the floods have lifted up fatherless. 7Yet they say, all the upright in heart cut them off.
their voice; the floods lift The LORD shall not see, shall followb it. 16
Who
up their waves. 4The neither shall the God of will rise up for me Psalm 95
LORD on high is mightier Jacob regard it. against the evildoers? or
than the noise of many 8
Understand, ye brutish who will stand up for me O come, let us sing
1

waters, yea, than the among the people: and against the workers of unto the LORD: let us
mighty waves of the sea. ye fools, when will ye be iniquity? 17Unless the make a joyful noise to
5
Thy testimonies are wise? 9He that planted LORD had been my help, the rock of our
very sure: holiness salvation. 2Let us comea
b
for ever: Heb. to length of
b b c
flourishing: Heb. green days shall follow...: Heb. shall be almost: or, quickly
a a a
of old: Heb. from then God...: Heb. God of revenges after it come...: Heb. prevent his
before his presence with they have not known my of holiness: fear before judgment are the
thanksgiving, and make ways: 11Unto whom I him, all the earth. habitation b
of his
a joyful noise unto him sware in my wrath that 10
Say among the throne. 3
A fire goeth
with psalms. 3
For the they should not enter heathen that the LORD before him, and
LORD is a great God, and into my rest. reigneth: the world also burneth up his enemies
a great King above all shall be established that round about. 4
His
gods. 4In his hand are Psalm 96 it shall not be moved: he lightnings enlightened
the deep places of the shall judge the people the world: the earth
earth: the strength of
1
O sing unto the LORD righteously. 11Let the saw, and trembled.
the hills is his also. 5The a new song: sing unto heavens rejoice, and let 5
The hills melted like
seab is his, and he made the LORD, all the earth. the earth be glad; let the wax at the presence of
it: and his hands formed
2
Sing unto the LORD, sea roar, and the the LORD, at the
the dry land. 6O come, bless his name; shew fulnessa thereof. 12
Let presence of the Lord of
let us worship and bow forth his salvation from the field be joyful, and the whole earth. 6The
down: let us kneel before day to day. 3Declare his all that is therein: then heavens declare his
the LORD our maker. glory among the shall all the trees of the righteousness, and all
7
For he is our God; heathen, his wonders wood rejoice 13Before the the people see his
and we are the people of among all people. 4For LORD: for he cometh, for glory. 7Confounded be
his pasture, and the the LORD is great, and he cometh to judge the all they that serve
sheep of his hand. To greatly to be praised: he earth: he shall judge the graven images, that
day if ye will hear his is to be feared above all world with boast themselves of
voice, 8Harden not your gods. 5For all the gods of righteousness, and the idols: worship him, all
heart, as in the the nations are idols: but people with his truth. ye gods.
provocation , and as in
c the LORD made the 8
Zion heard, and was
the day of temptation in heavens. 6Honour and Psalm 97 glad; and the daughters
the wilderness: 9When majesty are before him: of Judah rejoiced
your fathers tempted strength and beauty are The LORD reigneth;
1
because of thy
me, proved me, and saw in his sanctuary. 7Give let the earth rejoice; let judgments, O LORD.
my work. 10Forty years unto the LORD, O ye the multitudea of isles be 9
For thou, LORD, art
long was I grieved with kindreds of the people, glad thereof. 2
Clouds high above all the
this generation, and give unto the LORD glory and darkness are round earth: thou art exalted
said, It is a people that and strength. 8Give unto about him: far above all gods. 10Ye
do err in their heart, and the LORD the glory due righteousness and that love the LORD,
unto his name: bring an hate evil: he preserveth
a
face offering, and come into the fulness...: or, all it the souls of his saints;
b
The sea...: Heb. Whose the sea his courts. 9O worship containeth he delivereth them out
a
is the LORD in the beauty multitude...: Heb. many, or,
c b
provocation: Heb. contention great isles habitation: or, establishment
of the hand of the voice of a psalm. 6With Jacob. 5Exalt ye the the LORD he is God: it
wicked. 11Light is sown trumpets and sound of LORD our God, and is he that hath made
for the righteous, and cornet make a joyful worship at his footstool; us, and not we
gladness for the upright noise before the LORD, for he is holy. ourselves; we are his
in heart. 12Rejoice in the the King. 7Let the sea 6
Moses and Aaron people, and the sheep
LORD, ye righteous; and roar, and the fulnessa among his priests, and of his pasture. 4Enter
give thanks at the thereof; the world, and Samuel among them into his gates with
remembrance of his they that dwell therein. that call upon his name; thanksgiving, and into
holiness. 8
Let the floods clap their they called upon the his courts with praise:
hands: let the hills be LORD, and he answered be thankful unto him,
Psalm 98 joyful together 9Before them. 7He spake unto and bless his name.
the LORD; for he cometh them in the cloudy pillar: 5
For the LORD is good;
A Psalm. to judge the earth: with they kept his his mercy is
righteousness shall he testimonies, and the everlasting; and his
1
O sing unto the
judge the world, and the ordinance that he gave truth endureth to allb
LORD a new song; for he
people with equity. them. 8Thou answeredst generations.
hath done marvellous
them, O LORD our God:
things: his right hand,
and his holy arm, hath
Psalm 99 thou wast a God that Psalm 101
forgavest them, though
gotten him the victory. The LORD reigneth;
1
A Psalm of David.
thou tookest vengeance
2
The LORD hath made let the people tremble: of their inventions. 9Exalt
known his salvation: his he sitteth between the
1
I will sing of mercy
the LORD our God, and
righteousness hath he cherubims; let the earth and judgment: unto
worship at his holy hill;
openly shewed in the be moveda. 2The LORD thee, O LORD, will I
for the LORD our God is
sight of the heathen. is great in Zion; and he sing. 2I will behave
holy.
3
He hath remembered is high above all the myself wisely in a
his mercy and his truth perfect way. O when
toward the house of
people. 3Let them praise Psalm 100 wilt thou come unto
thy great and terrible
Israel: all the ends of the name; for it is holy. 4The A Psalm of praisea. me? I will walk within
earth have seen the king’s strength also my house with a perfect
salvation of our God. loveth judgment; thou Make a joyful noise
1
heart. 3I will set no
4
Make a joyful noise dost establish equity, unto the LORD, all ye wickeda thing before
unto the LORD, all the thou executest judgment lands. 2Serve the LORD mine eyes: I hate the
earth: make a loud and righteousness in with gladness: come
noise, and rejoice, and before his presence with b
to all...: Heb. to generation
sing praise. 5Sing unto a
the fulness...: or, all it singing. 3Know ye that and generation
the LORD with the harp; containeth a
wicked...: Heb. thing of
with the harp, and the a
be moved: Heb. stagger a
praise: or, thanksgiving Belial
work of them that turn Hear my prayer, O
1
me down. 11My days are to loose those that are
aside; it shall not cleave LORD, and let my cry like a shadow that appointed to death;
to me. 4A froward heart come unto thee. 2Hide declineth; and I am 21
To declare the name
shall depart from me: I not thy face from me in withered like grass. of the LORD in Zion,
will not know a wicked the day when I am in 12
But thou, O LORD, and his praise in
person. 5Whoso privily trouble; incline thine ear shalt endure for ever; Jerusalem; 22
When the
slandereth his unto me: in the day and thy remembrance people are gathered
neighbour, him will I cut when I call answer me unto all generations. together, and the
off: him that hath an speedily. 3For my days 13
Thou shalt arise, and kingdoms, to serve the
high look and a proud are consumed like have mercy upon Zion: LORD.
heart will not I suffer. smoke, and my bones for the time to favour 23
He weakenedb my
6
Mine eyes shall be upon are burned as an hearth. her, yea, the set time, is strength in the way; he
the faithful of the land, 4
My heart is smitten, and come. 14For thy servants shortened my days. 24I
that they may dwell with withered like grass; so take pleasure in her said, O my God, take
me: he that walketh in a that I forget to eat my stones, and favour the me not away in the
perfect way, he shall bread. 5By reason of the dust thereof. 15So the midst of my days: thy
serve me. 7
He that voice of my groaning my heathen shall fear the years are throughout all
worketh deceit shall not bones cleave to my name of the LORD, and generations. 25Of old
dwell within my house: skina. 6
I am like a all the kings of the earth hast thou laid the
he that telleth lies shall pelican of the thy glory. 16When the foundation of the earth:
not tarryb in my sight. 8I wilderness: I am like an LORD shall build up Zion, and the heavens are
will early destroy all the owl of the desert. 7I he shall appear in his the work of thy hands.
wicked of the land; that I watch, and am as a glory. 17He will regard 26
They shall perish, but
may cut off all wicked sparrow alone upon the the prayer of the thou shalt endurec: yea,
doers from the city of house top. 8
Mine destitute, and not all of them shall wax old
the LORD. enemies reproach me all despise their prayer. like a garment; as a
the day; and they that 18
This shall be written for vesture shalt thou
Psalm 102 are mad against me are the generation to come: change them, and they
sworn against me. 9For I and the people which shall be changed: 27But
A Prayer of the afflicted, have eaten ashes like shall be created shall thou art the same, and
when he is bread, and mingled my praise the LORD. 19For he thy years shall have no
overwhelmed, and drink with weeping, hath looked down from end. 28The children of
poureth out his 10
Because of thine the height of his thy servants shall
complaint before the indignation and thy sanctuary; from heaven continue, and their
LORD. wrath: for thou hast did the LORD behold the seed shall be
b
lifted me up, and cast earth; 20To hear the b
shall not tarry: Heb. shall not groaning of the prisoner; weakened: Heb. afflicted
a c
be established skin: or, flesh endure: Heb. stand
established before thee. us after our sins; nor the heavens; and his angels spirits; his
rewarded us according kingdom ruleth over all. ministers a flaming fire:
Psalm 103 to our iniquities. 11For as 20
Bless the LORD, ye his 5
Who laid the
the heaven is high above angels, that excela in foundations of the
A Psalm of David. the earth, so great is his strength, that do his earth, that it should not
mercy toward them that commandments, be removed for ever.
1
Bless the LORD, O
fear him. 12As far as the hearkening unto the 6
Thou coveredst it with
my soul: and all that is
east is from the west, so voice of his word. the deep as with a
within me, bless his holy
far hath he removed our 21
Bless ye the LORD, all garment: the waters
name. 2Bless the LORD,
transgressions from us. ye his hosts; ye stood above the
O my soul, and forget 13
Like as a father pitieth ministers of his, that do mountains. 7
At thy
not all his benefits: 3Who
his children, so the LORD his pleasure. 22Bless the rebuke they fled; at the
forgiveth all thine
pitieth them that fear LORD, all his works in all voice of thy thunder
iniquities; who healeth
him. 14For he knoweth places of his dominion: they hasted away.
all thy diseases; 4Who
our frame; he bless the LORD, O my 8
They go upa by the
redeemeth thy life from
remembereth that we soul. mountains; they go
destruction; who
are dust. 15As for man, down by the valleys
crowneth thee with
lovingkindness and
his days are as grass: as Psalm 104 unto the place which
a flower of the field, so thou hast founded for
tender mercies; 5
Who Bless the LORD, O
1
he flourisheth. 16For the them. 9Thou hast set a
satisfieth thy mouth with my soul. O LORD my
wind passeth over it, and bound that they may
good things; so that thy God, thou art very great;
it is gone; and the place not pass over; that they
youth is renewed like the thou art clothed with
thereof shall know it no turn not again to cover
eagle’s. honour and majesty.
more. 17But the mercy of the earth.
6
The LORD executeth 2
Who coverest thyself
the LORD is from 10
He sendeth the
righteousness and with light as with a
everlasting to springs into the valleys,
judgment for all that are garment: who stretchest
everlasting upon them which run among the
oppressed. 7He made out the heavens like a
that fear him, and his hills. 11They give drink
known his ways unto curtain: 3Who layeth the
righteousness unto to every beast of the
Moses, his acts unto the beams of his chambers
children’s children; 18To field: the wild asses
children of Israel. 8The in the waters: who
such as keep his quenchb their thirst.
LORD is merciful and maketh the clouds his
covenant, and to those 12
By them shall the
gracious, slow to anger, chariot: who walketh
that remember his fowls of the heaven
and plenteous in mercy. upon the wings of the
commandments to do
9
He will not always wind: 4Who maketh his
a
They go up...: or, The
them.
chide: neither will he mountains ascend, the valleys
19
The LORD hath
keep his anger for ever. a
that excel...: Heb. mighty in descend
prepared his throne in
10
He hath not dealt with strength b
quench: Heb. break
have their habitation, wherein all the beastse of takest away their breath, wondrous works. 3Glory
which singc among the the forest do creep forth. they die, and return to ye in his holy name: let
branches. 13He watereth 21
The young lions roar their dust. 30
Thou the heart of them
the hills from his after their prey, and sendest forth thy spirit, rejoice that seek the
chambers: the earth is seek their meat from they are created: and LORD. 4Seek the LORD,
satisfied with the fruit of God. 22The sun ariseth, thou renewest the face and his strength: seek
thy works. 14He causeth they gather themselves of the earth. his face evermore.
the grass to grow for the together, and lay them 31
The glory of the 5
Remember his
cattle, and herb for the down in their dens. LORD shall endure for marvellous works that
service of man: that he 23
Man goeth forth unto ever: the LORD shall he hath done; his
may bring forth food out his work and to his rejoice in his works. 32He wonders, and the
of the earth; 15And wine labour until the evening. looketh on the earth, and judgments of his
that maketh glad the 24
O LORD, how manifold it trembleth: he toucheth mouth; 6O ye seed of
heart of man, and oild to are thy works! in wisdom the hills, and they Abraham his servant,
make his face to shine, hast thou made them all: smoke. 33I will sing unto ye children of Jacob his
and bread which the earth is full of thy the LORD as long as I chosen. 7He is the LORD
strengtheneth man’s riches. 25So is this great live: I will sing praise to our God: his judgments
heart. 16The trees of the and wide sea, wherein my God while I have my are in all the earth.
LORD are full of sap; the are things creeping being. 34My meditation of 8
He hath
cedars of Lebanon, innumerable, both small him shall be sweet: I will remembered his
which he hath planted; and great beasts. 26There be glad in the LORD. covenant for ever, the
17
Where the birds make go the ships: there is 35
Let the sinners be word which he
their nests: as for the that leviathan, whom consumed out of the commanded to a
stork, the fir trees are thou hast madef to play earth, and let the wicked thousand generations.
her house. 18The high therein. 27These wait all be no more. Bless thou 9
Which covenant he
hills are a refuge for the upon thee; that thou the LORD, O my soul. made with Abraham,
wild goats; and the rocks mayest give them their Praise ye the LORD. and his oath unto Isaac;
for the conies. meat in due season. 10
And confirmed the
19
He appointed the 28
That thou givest them Psalm 105 same unto Jacob for a
moon for seasons: the they gather: thou law, and to Israel for an
sun knoweth his going openest thine hand, they
1
O give thanks unto everlasting covenant:
down. 20Thou makest are filled with good. the LORD; call upon his 11
Saying, Unto thee will
darkness, and it is night: 29
Thou hidest thy face, name: make known his I give the land of
they are troubled: thou deeds among the Canaan, the lota of your
people. 2Sing unto him, inheritance: 12
When
c e
sing: Heb. give a voice beasts...: Heb. beasts thereof sing psalms unto him: they were but a few
d
oil...: Heb. to make his face do trample on the forest talk ye of all his
f a
shine with oil, or, more than oil made: Heb. formed lot: Heb. cord
men in number; yea, wisdom. 23
Israel also and caterpillers, and that inherited the labour of
very few, and strangers came into Egypt; and without number, 35And the people; 45That they
in it. 13When they went Jacob sojourned in the did eat up all the herbs might observe his
from one nation to land of Ham. 24And he in their land, and statutes, and keep his
another, from one increased his people devoured the fruit of laws. Praisee ye the
kingdom to another greatly; and made them their ground. 36He smote LORD.
people; 14He suffered no stronger than their also all the firstborn in
man to do them wrong: enemies. their land, the chief of all Psalm 106
yea, he reproved kings 25
He turned their their strength. 37
He
for their sakes; 15Saying, heart to hate his people, brought them forth also Praisea ye the LORD.
1

Touch not mine to deal subtilly with his with silver and gold: and O give thanks unto the
anointed, and do my servants. 26
He sent there was not one feeble LORD; for he is good:
prophets no harm. Moses his servant; and person among their for his mercy endureth
16
Moreover he called for Aaron whom he had tribes. Egypt was glad
38 for ever. 2
Who can
a famine upon the land: chosen. 27They shewed when they departed: for utter the mighty acts of
he brake the whole staff his signs among them, the fear of them fell the LORD? who can
of bread. 17He sent a and wonders in the land upon them. 39He spread shew forth all his
man before them, even of Ham. 28
He sent a cloud for a covering; praise? 3
Blessed are
Joseph, who was sold for darkness, and made it and fire to give light in they that keep
a servant: 18Whose feet dark; and they rebelled the night. 40The people judgment, and he that
they hurt with fetters: not against his word. asked, and he brought doeth righteousness at
heb was laid in iron: 29
He turned their waters quails, and satisfied all times. 4Remember
19
Until the time that his into blood, and slew their them with the bread of me, O LORD, with the
word came: the word of fish. 30Their land brought heaven. 41He opened the favour that thou
the LORD tried him. forth frogs in abundance, rock, and the waters bearest unto thy
20
The king sent and in the chambers of their gushed out; they ran in people: O visit me with
loosed him; even the kings. 31He spake, and the dry places like a thy salvation; 5That I
ruler of the people, and there came divers sorts river. 42
For he may see the good of
let him go free. 21He of flies, and lice in all remembered his holy thy chosen, that I may
made him lord of his their coasts. 32He gave promise, and Abraham rejoice in the gladness
house, and ruler of all his them hail for rain, and his servant. 43And he of thy nation, that I may
substancec: 22To bind his flaming fire in their land. brought forth his people glory with thine
princes at his pleasure; 33
He smote their vines with joy, and his chosen inheritance.
and teach his senators also and their fig trees; with gladnessd: 44
And
6
We have sinned
and brake the trees of gave them the lands of with our fathers, we
b
he...: Heb. his soul came into their coasts. 34He spake, the heathen: and they e
iron and the locusts came, Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah
c d a
substance: Heb. possession gladness: Heb. singing Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah
have committed iniquity, tempted God in the believed not his word: 34
They did not
we have done wickedly. desert. 15And he gave 25
But murmured in their destroy the nations,
7
Our fathers understood them their request; but tents, and hearkened not concerning whom the
not thy wonders in sent leanness into their unto the voice of the LORD commanded
Egypt; they remembered soul. 16
They envied LORD. 26Therefore he them: 35
But were
not the multitude of thy Moses also in the camp, lifted up his hand against mingled among the
mercies; but provoked and Aaron the saint of them, to overthrowe heathen, and learned
him at the sea, even at the LORD. 17The earth them in the wilderness: their works. 36And they
the Red sea. opened and swallowed 27
To overthrow their seed served their idols:
8
Nevertheless he saved up Dathan, and covered also among the nations, which were a snare
them for his name’s the company of Abiram. and to scatter them in unto them. 37Yea, they
sake, that he might 18
And a fire was kindled the lands. 28They joined sacrificed their sons
make his mighty power in their company; the themselves also unto and their daughters
to be known. 9
He flame burned up the Baalpeor, and ate the unto devils, 38And shed
rebuked the Red sea wicked. 19They made a sacrifices of the dead. innocent blood, even
also, and it was dried up: calf in Horeb, and 29
Thus they provoked the blood of their sons
so he led them through worshipped the molten him to anger with their and of their daughters,
the depths, as through image. 20
Thus they inventions: and the whom they sacrificed
the wilderness. 10And he changed their glory into plague brake in upon unto the idols of
saved them from the the similitude of an ox them. 30Then stood up Canaan: and the land
hand of him that hated that eateth grass. 21They Phinehas, and executed was polluted with blood.
them, and redeemed forgat God their saviour, judgment: and so the 39
Thus were they defiled
them from the hand of which had done great plague was stayed. 31And with their own works,
the enemy. 11And the things in Egypt; that was counted unto and went a whoring
waters covered their 22
Wondrous works in the him for righteousness with their own
enemies: there was not land of Ham, and terrible unto all generations for inventions. 40
Therefore
one of them left. 12Then things by the Red sea. evermore. 32
They was the wrath of the
believed they his words; 23
Therefore he said that angered him also at the LORD kindled against
they sang his praise. he would destroy them, waters of strife, so that it his people, insomuch
13
They soonb forgat had not Moses his went ill with Moses for that he abhorred his
his works; they waited chosen stood before him their sakes: 33Because own inheritance. 41And
not for his counsel: 14But in the breach, to turn they provoked his spirit, he gave them into the
lustedc exceedingly in away his wrath, lest he so that he spake hand of the heathen;
the wilderness, and should destroy them. unadvisedly with his lips. and they that hated
b
24
Yea, they despised the them ruled over them.
They soon...: Heb. They made pleasantd land, they desire 42
Their enemies also
e
haste, they forgat to overthrow: Heb. to make oppressed them, and
c d
lusted...: Heb. lusted a lust the pleasant...: Heb. a land of them fall
they were brought into for ever. 2
Let the iron; 11
Because they distresses. 20He sent his
subjection under their redeemed of the LORD rebelled against the word, and healed them,
hand. 43Many times did say so, whom he hath words of God, and and delivered them
he deliver them; but redeemed from the hand contemned the counsel from their destructions.
they provoked him with of the enemy; 3And of the most High: 21
Oh that men would
their counsel, and were gathered them out of the 12
Therefore he brought praise the LORD for his
brought low for their lands, from the east, and down their heart with goodness, and for his
iniquity. 44Nevertheless from the west, from the labour; they fell down, wonderful works to the
he regarded their north, and from the and there was none to children of men! 22And
affliction, when he heard southa. 4They wandered help. 13Then they cried let them sacrifice the
their cry: 45
And he in the wilderness in a unto the LORD in their sacrifices of
remembered for them solitary way; they found trouble, and he saved thanksgiving, and
his covenant, and no city to dwell in. them out of their declare his works with
repented according to 5
Hungry and thirsty, their distresses. He brought
14
rejoicingb.
the multitude of his soul fainted in them. them out of darkness 23
They that go down
mercies. 46
He made 6
Then they cried unto and the shadow of to the sea in ships, that
them also to be pitied of the LORD in their death, and brake their do business in great
all those that carried trouble, and he delivered bands in sunder. 15Oh waters; 24These see the
them captives. 47Save us, them out of their that men would praise works of the LORD, and
O LORD our God, and distresses. And he led
7
the LORD for his his wonders in the
gather us from among them forth by the right goodness, and for his deep. 25
For he
the heathen, to give way, that they might go wonderful works to the commandeth, and
thanks unto thy holy to a city of habitation. children of men! 16For he raisethc the stormy
name, and to triumph in 8
Oh that men would hath broken the gates of wind, which lifteth up
thy praise. 48Blessed be praise the LORD for his brass, and cut the bars the waves thereof.
the LORD God of Israel goodness, and for his of iron in sunder. 26
They mount up to the
from everlasting to wonderful works to the 17
Fools because of heaven, they go down
everlasting: and let all children of men! 9For he their transgression, and again to the depths:
the people say, Amen. satisfieth the longing because of their their soul is melted
Praisef ye the LORD. soul, and filleth the iniquities, are afflicted. because of trouble.
hungry soul with 18
Their soul abhorreth all 27
They reel to and fro,
Psalm 107 goodness. manner of meat; and and stagger like a
10
Such as sit in they draw near unto the drunken man, and are
O give thanks unto
1
darkness and in the gates of death. 19Then at their wits’ end.
the LORD, for he is good: shadow of death, being they cry unto the LORD 28
Then they cry unto the
for his mercy endureth bound in affliction and in their trouble, and he b
saveth them out of their rejoicing: Heb. singing
f a c
Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah south: Heb. sea raiseth: Heb. maketh to stand
LORD in their trouble, vineyards, which may praise, even with my cast us off? and wilt not
and he bringeth them yield fruits of increase. glory. 2Awake, psaltery thou, O God, go forth
out of their distresses. 38
He blesseth them also, and harp: I myself will with our hosts? 12Give
29
He maketh the storm a so that they are awake early. 3I will praise us help from trouble:
calm, so that the waves multiplied greatly; and thee, O LORD, among for vain is the help of
thereof are still. 30Then suffereth not their cattle the people: and I will man. 13Through God we
are they glad because to decrease. 39Again, sing praises unto thee shall do valiantly: for he
they be quiet; so he they are minished and among the nations. 4For it is that shall tread
bringeth them unto their brought low through thy mercy is great above down our enemies.
desired haven. 31Oh that oppression, affliction, the heavens: and thy
men would praise the and sorrow. 40He poureth truth reacheth unto the Psalm 109
LORD for his goodness, contempt upon princes, cloudsa. 5
Be thou
and for his wonderful and causeth them to exalted, O God, above To the chief Musician, A
works to the children of wander in the the heavens: and thy Psalm of David.
men! 32Let them exalt wildernesse, where there glory above all the earth; 1
Hold not thy peace,
him also in the is no way. 41Yet setteth 6
That thy beloved
O God of my praise;
congregation of the he the poor on high from may be delivered: save 2
For the mouth of the
people, and praise him in affliction, and maketh with thy right hand, and
wicked and the mouth
the assembly of the him families like a flock. answer me. 7God hath
of the deceitfula are
elders. 42
The righteous shall see spoken in his holiness; I
opened against me:
33
He turneth rivers it, and rejoice: and all will rejoice, I will divide
they have spoken
into a wilderness, and iniquity shall stop her Shechem, and mete out
against me with a lying
the watersprings into dry mouth. 43Whoso is wise, the valley of Succoth.
tongue. 3
They
ground; 34A fruitful land and will observe these 8
Gilead is mine;
compassed me about
into barrennessd, for the things, even they shall Manasseh is mine;
also with words of
wickedness of them that understand the Ephraim also is the
hatred; and fought
dwell therein. 35
He lovingkindness of the strength of mine head;
against me without a
turneth the wilderness LORD. Judah is my lawgiver;
cause. 4For my love
into a standing water, 9
Moab is my washpot;
they are my
and dry ground into Psalm 108 over Edom will I cast out
adversaries: but I give
watersprings. 36
And my shoe; over Philistia
A Song or Psalm of myself unto prayer.
there he maketh the will I triumph. 10Who will
David.
5
And they have
hungry to dwell, that bring me into the strong
rewarded me evil for
they may prepare a city city? who will lead me
O God, my heart is
1
good, and hatred for my
for habitation; 37And sow into Edom? 11Wilt not
fixed; I will sing and give
the fields, and plant thou, O God, who hast a
of the deceitful: Heb. of
d e a
barrenness: Heb. saltiness wilderness: or, void place clouds: or, skies deceit
love. LORD; and let not the sin name’s sake: because stand at the right hand
6
Set thou a wicked of his mother be blotted thy mercy is good, of the poor, to save him
man over him: and let out. 15Let them be before deliver thou me. 22For I from those that
Satanb stand at his right the LORD continually, am poor and needy, and condemn his soul.
hand. 7When he shall be that he may cut off the my heart is wounded
judged, let him be memory of them from within me. 23I am gone Psalm 110
condemnedc: and let his the earth. 16Because that like the shadow when it
prayer become sin. 8Let he remembered not to declineth: I am tossed up A Psalm of David.
his days be few; and let shew mercy, but and down as the locust. 1
The LORD said unto
another take his officed. persecuted the poor and 24
My knees are weak
my Lord, Sit thou at my
9
Let his children be needy man, that he through fasting; and my
right hand, until I make
fatherless, and his wife a might even slay the flesh faileth of fatness.
thine enemies thy
widow. 10Let his children broken in heart. 17As he 25
I became also a
footstool. 2
The LORD
be continually loved cursing, so let it reproach unto them:
shall send the rod of thy
vagabonds, and beg: let come unto him: as he when they looked upon
strength out of Zion:
them seek their bread delighted not in blessing, me they shaked their
rule thou in the midst of
also out of their desolate so let it be far from him. heads. 26Help me, O
thine enemies. 3Thy
places. 11
Let the 18
As he clothed himself LORD my God: O save
people shall be willing
extortioner catch all that with cursing like as with me according to thy
in the day of thy power,
he hath; and let the his garment, so let it mercy: 27That they may
in the beauties of
strangers spoil his come into his bowelse know that this is thy
holiness from the womb
labour. 12
Let there be like water, and like oil hand; that thou, LORD,
of the morning: thou
none to extend mercy into his bones. 19Let it hast done it. 28Let them
hast the dew of thy
unto him: neither let be unto him as the curse, but bless thou:
youth. 4The LORD hath
there be any to favour garment which covereth when they arise, let
sworn, and will not
his fatherless children. him, and for a girdle them be ashamed; but
repent, Thou art a
13
Let his posterity be cut wherewith he is girded let thy servant rejoice.
priest for ever after the
off; and in the continually. 20Let this be 29
Let mine adversaries
order of Melchizedek.
generation following let the reward of mine be clothed with shame, 5
The Lord at thy right
their name be blotted adversaries from the and let them cover
hand shall strike
out. 14Let the iniquity of LORD, and of them that themselves with their
through kings in the
his fathers be speak evil against my own confusion, as with a
day of his wrath. 6He
remembered with the soul. mantle. 30I will greatly
shall judge among the
21
But do thou for me, praise the LORD with my
b
Satan: or, an adversary heathen, he shall fill
O GOD the Lord, for thy mouth; yea, I will praise
c
be condemned: Heb. go out the places with the
him among the
guilty, or, wicked e
into his bowels: Heb. within dead bodies; he shall
multitude. 31For he shall
d
office: or, charge him wound the heads over
manya countries. 7
He commandments are is gracious, and full of the LORD from this time
shall drink of the brook sure. They stand fast for
8
compassion, and forth and for evermore.
in the way: therefore ever and ever, and are righteous. 5A good man 3
From the rising of the
shall he lift up the head. done in truth and sheweth favour, and sun unto the going
uprightness. 9
He sent lendeth: he will guide his down of the same the
Psalm 111 redemption unto his affairs with discretionb. LORD’S name is to be
people: he hath 6
Surely he shall not praised. 4The LORD is
Praise ye the LORD. I
1
commanded his be moved for ever: the high above all nations,
will praise the LORD with covenant for ever: holy righteous shall be in and his glory above the
my whole heart, in the and reverend is his everlasting heavens. 5Who is like
assembly of the upright, name. 10The fear of the remembrance. 7He shall unto the LORD our God,
and in the congregation. LORD is the beginning of not be afraid of evil who dwelletha on high,
2
The works of the LORD wisdom: a goodb tidings: his heart is fixed, 6
Who humbleth himself
are great, sought out of understanding have all trusting in the LORD. to behold the things
all them that have they that do his 8
His heart is established, that are in heaven, and
pleasure therein. 3His commandments: his he shall not be afraid, in the earth! 7He raiseth
work is honourable and praise endureth for ever. until he see his desire up the poor out of the
glorious: and his upon his enemies. 9He dust, and lifteth the
righteousness endureth Psalm 112 hath dispersed, he hath needy out of the
for ever. 4He hath made given to the poor; his dunghill; That he may
8

his wonderful works to Praisea ye the LORD.


1
righteousness endureth set him with princes,
be remembered: the Blessed is the man that for ever; his horn shall even with the princes of
LORD is gracious and full feareth the LORD, that be exalted with honour. his people. 9He maketh
of compassion. 5He hath delighteth greatly in his 10
The wicked shall see it, the barren woman to
given meata unto them commandments. 2
His and be grieved; he shall keepb house, and to be
that fear him: he will seed shall be mighty gnash with his teeth, and a joyful mother of
ever be mindful of his upon earth: the melt away: the desire of children. Praise ye the
covenant. generation of the upright the wicked shall perish. LORD.
6
He hath shewed his shall be blessed. 3Wealth
people the power of his and riches shall be in his Psalm 113 Psalm 114
works, that he may give house: and his
them the heritage of the righteousness endureth Praise ye the LORD.
1
When Israel went
1

heathen. 7The works of for ever. 4Unto the Praise, O ye servants of out of Egypt, the house
his hands are verity and upright there ariseth the LORD, praise the
a
judgment; all his light in the darkness: he name of the LORD. dwelleth...: Heb. exalteth
2
Blessed be the name of himself to dwell
a b b
many: or, great a good...: or, good success to keep...: Heb. to dwell in
a a b
meat: Heb. prey Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah discretion: Heb. judgment an house
of Jacob from a people of silver and gold, the work children. 15Ye are blessed LORD preserveth the
strange language; 2Judah of men’s hands. 5They of the LORD which made simple: I was brought
was his sanctuary, and have mouths, but they heaven and earth. 16The low, and he helped me.
Israel his dominion. 3The speak not: eyes have heaven, even the 7
Return unto thy rest, O
sea saw it, and fled: they, but they see not: heavens, are the my soul; for the LORD
Jordan was driven back. 6
They have ears, but LORD’S: but the earth hath dealt bountifully
4
The mountains skipped they hear not: noses hath he given to the with thee. 8For thou
like rams, and the little have they, but they children of men. 17The hast delivered my soul
hills like lambs. 5What smell not: 7They have dead praise not the from death, mine eyes
ailed thee, O thou sea, hands, but they handle LORD, neither any that from tears, and my feet
that thou fleddest? thou not: feet have they, but go down into silence. from falling. 9I will walk
Jordan, that thou wast they walk not: neither 18
But we will bless the before the LORD in the
driven back? 6
Ye speak they through their LORD from this time land of the living.
mountains, that ye throat. 8They that make forth and for evermore. 10
I believed,
skipped like rams; and them are like unto them; Praise the LORD. therefore have I
ye little hills, like lambs? so is every one that spoken: I was greatly
7
Tremble, thou earth, at trusteth in them. Psalm 116 afflicted: 11I said in my
the presence of the Lord, 9
O Israel, trust thou in haste, All men are liars.
at the presence of the the LORD: he is their
1
I love the LORD, 12
What shall I render
God of Jacob; 8Which help and their shield. 10O because he hath heard unto the LORD for all
turned the rock into a house of Aaron, trust in my voice and my his benefits toward me?
standing water, the flint the LORD: he is their supplications. 2
Because 13
I will take the cup of
into a fountain of waters. help and their shield. he hath inclined his ear salvation, and call upon
11
Ye that fear the LORD, unto me, therefore will I the name of the LORD.
Psalm 115 trust in the LORD: he is call upon him as long as 14
I will pay my vows
their help and their I live. 3The sorrows of unto the LORD now in
1
Not unto us, O LORD, shield. 12The LORD hath death compassed me, the presence of all his
not unto us, but unto thy been mindful of us: he and the pains of hell gat people. 15Precious in the
name give glory, for thy will bless us; he will hold upon me: I found sight of the LORD is the
mercy, and for thy bless the house of Israel; trouble and sorrow. death of his saints. 16O
truth’s sake. 2Wherefore he will bless the house of
4
Then called I upon the LORD, truly I am thy
should the heathen say, Aaron. 13He will bless name of the LORD; O servant; I am thy
Where is now their God? them that fear the LORD, LORD, I beseech thee, servant, and the son of
3
But our God is in the both small and great. deliver my soul. thine handmaid: thou
heavens: he hath done 14
The LORD shall
5
Gracious is the LORD, hast loosed my bonds.
whatsoever he hath increase you more and and righteous; yea, our 17
I will offer to thee the
pleased. 4Their idols are more, you and your God is merciful. 6The sacrifice of
thanksgiving, and will distressa: the LORD song, and is become my LORD: O LORD, I
call upon the name of answered me, and set salvation. 15The voice of beseech thee, send now
the LORD. 18I will pay my me in a large place. rejoicing and salvation is prosperity. 26Blessed be
vows unto the LORD now 6
The LORD is on my side; in the tabernacles of the he that cometh in the
in the presence of all his I will not fear: what can righteous: the right hand name of the LORD: we
people, 19In the courts of man do unto me? 7The of the LORD doeth have blessed you out of
the LORD’S house, in the LORD taketh my part valiantly. 16
The right the house of the LORD.
midst of thee, O with them that help me: hand of the LORD is 27
God is the LORD,
Jerusalem. Praise ye the therefore shall I see my exalted: the right hand which hath shewed us
LORD. desire upon them that of the LORD doeth light: bind the sacrifice
hate me. 8It is better to valiantly. 17I shall not die, with cords, even unto
Psalm 117 trust in the LORD than to but live, and declare the the horns of the altar.
put confidence in man. works of the LORD. 18The 28
Thou art my God, and
1
O praise the LORD, 9
It is better to trust in the LORD hath chastened I will praise thee: thou
all ye nations: praise LORD than to put me sore: but he hath not art my God, I will exalt
him, all ye people. 2For confidence in princes. given me over unto thee. 29O give thanks
his merciful kindness is 10
All nations compassed death. unto the LORD; for he is
great toward us: and the me about: but in the 19
Open to me the good: for his mercy
truth of the LORD name of the LORD will I gates of righteousness: I endureth for ever.
endureth for ever. Praise destroyb them. 11
They will go into them, and I
ye the LORD. compassed me about; will praise the LORD: Psalm 119
yea, they compassed me 20
This gate of the LORD,
Psalm 118 about: but in the name into which the righteous
1
ALEPH. Blessed are
of the LORD I will destroy shall enter. 21I will praise the undefileda in the
1
O give thanks unto way, who walk in the
them. 12They compassed thee: for thou hast heard
the LORD; for he is good: law of the LORD.
me about like bees; they me, and art become my
because his mercy 2
Blessed are they that
are quenched as the fire salvation. 22The stone
endureth for ever. 2Let keep his testimonies,
of thorns: for in the which the builders
Israel now say, that his and that seek him with
name of the LORD I will refused is become the
mercy endureth for ever. the whole heart. 3They
destroyc them. 13
Thou head stone of the corner.
3
Let the house of Aaron also do no iniquity: they
hast thrust sore at me 23
This is the LORD’S
now say, that his mercy walk in his ways.
that I might fall: but the doing; it is marvellous in
endureth for ever. 4Let 4
Thou hast
LORD helped me. 14The our eyes. 24This is the
them now that fear the commanded us to keep
LORD is my strength and day which the LORD hath
LORD say, that his mercy thy precepts diligently.
made; we will rejoice
endureth for ever. 5I a
in distress: Heb. out of distress and be glad in it. 25Save
called upon the LORD in b
destroy...: Heb. cut them off a
undefiled: or, perfect, or,
c
now, I beseech thee, O
destroy: Heb. cut down sincere
5
O that my ways were respect unto thy ways. counsellorsc. it unto the end. 34Give
directed to keep thy 16
I will delight myself in 25
DALETH. My soul me understanding, and
statutes! 6Then shall I thy statutes: I will not cleaveth unto the dust: I shall keep thy law;
not be ashamed, when I forget thy word. quicken thou me yea, I shall observe it
have respect unto all thy 17
GIMEL. Deal according to thy word. with my whole heart.
commandments. bountifully with thy 26
I have declared my 35
Make me to go in
7
I will praise thee with servant, that I may live, ways, and thou heardest the path of thy
uprightness of heart, and keep thy word. me: teach me thy commandments; for
when I shall have 18
Openb thou mine statutes. 27Make me to therein do I delight.
learned thy righteous eyes, that I may behold understand the way of 36
Incline my heart unto
judgments. 8I will keep wondrous things out of thy precepts: so shall I thy testimonies, and
thy statutes: O forsake thy law. talk of thy wondrous not to covetousness.
me not utterly. 19
I am a stranger in works. 37
Turn away mine
9
BETH. Wherewithal the earth: hide not thy 28
My soul meltethd for eyes from beholding
shall a young man commandments from heaviness: strengthen vanity; and quicken
cleanse his way? by me. thou me according unto thou me in thy way.
taking heed thereto 20
My soul breaketh for thy word. 29
Remove 38
Stablish thy word
according to thy word. the longing that it hath from me the way of unto thy servant, who
10
With my whole heart unto thy judgments at all lying: and grant me thy is devoted to thy fear.
have I sought thee: O let times. law graciously. 39
Turn away my
me not wander from thy 21
Thou hast rebuked 30
I have chosen the reproach which I fear:
commandments. the proud that are way of truth: thy for thy judgments are
11
Thy word have I hid cursed, which do err judgments have I laid good.
in mine heart, that I from thy before me. 31I have stuck 40
Behold, I have
might not sin against commandments. unto thy testimonies: O longed after thy
thee. 22
Remove from me LORD, put me not to precepts: quicken me in
12
Blessed art thou, O reproach and contempt; shame. 32I will run the thy righteousness.
LORD: teach me thy for I have kept thy way of thy 41
VAU. Let thy
statutes. testimonies. commandments, when mercies come also unto
13
With my lips have I 23
Princes also did sit thou shalt enlarge my me, O LORD, even thy
declared all the and speak against me: heart. salvation, according to
judgments of thy mouth. but thy servant did 33
HE. Teach me, O thy word. 42So shall I
14
I have rejoiced in the meditate in thy statutes. LORD, the way of thy have wherewith to
way of thy testimonies, 24
Thy testimonies also statutes; and I shall keep answer him that
as much as in all riches. are my delight and my c
reproacheth me: for I
15
I will meditate in thy my counsellors: Heb. men of trust in thy word.
precepts, and have my counsel 43
And take not the
b d
Open: Heb. Reveal melteth: Heb. droppeth
word of truth utterly out Horror hath taken
53
thee because of thy mouth is better unto
of my mouth; for I have hold upon me because of righteous judgments. me than thousands of
hoped in thy judgments. the wicked that forsake 63
I am a companion of gold and silver.
44
So shall I keep thy law thy law. all them that fear thee, 73
JOD. Thy hands
continually for ever and 54
Thy statutes have and of them that keep have made me and
ever. been my songs in the thy precepts. fashioned me: give me
45
And I will walk at house of my pilgrimage. 64
The earth, O LORD, understanding, that I
libertye: for I seek thy 55
I have remembered is full of thy mercy: may learn thy
precepts. 46I will speak thy name, O LORD, in teach me thy statutes. commandments.
of thy testimonies also the night, and have kept 65
TETH. Thou hast 74
They that fear thee
before kings, and will not thy law. 56This I had, dealt well with thy will be glad when they
be ashamed. 47And I will because I kept thy servant, O LORD, see me; because I have
delight myself in thy precepts. according unto thy word. hoped in thy word.
commandments, which I 57
CHETH. Thou art my 66
Teach me good 75
I know, O LORD,
have loved. 48My hands portion, O LORD: I have judgment and that thy judgments are
also will I lift up unto thy said that I would keep knowledge: for I have righth, and that thou in
commandments, which I thy words. believed thy faithfulness hast
have loved; and I will 58
I intreated thy commandments. afflicted me.
meditate in thy statutes. favourf with my whole 67
Before I was 76
Let, I pray thee, thy
49
ZAIN. Remember heart: be merciful unto afflicted I went astray: merciful kindness be for
the word unto thy me according to thy but now have I kept thy my comfort, according
servant, upon which word. word. to thy word unto thy
thou hast caused me to 59
I thought on my 68
Thou art good, and servant. 77
Let thy
hope. ways, and turned my doest good; teach me tender mercies come
50
This is my comfort in feet unto thy thy statutes. unto me, that I may
my affliction: for thy testimonies. 60
I made 69
The proud have live: for thy law is my
word hath quickened haste, and delayed not forged a lie against me: delight.
me. to keep thy but I will keep thy 78
Let the proud be
51
The proud have had commandments. precepts with my whole ashamed; for they dealt
me greatly in derision: 61
The bandsg of the heart. 70Their heart is as perversely with me
yet have I not declined wicked have robbed me: fat as grease; but I without a cause: but I
from thy law. but I have not forgotten delight in thy law. will meditate in thy
52
I remembered thy thy law. 71
It is good for me precepts. 79Let those
judgments of old, O 62
At midnight I will that I have been that fear thee turn unto
LORD; and have rise to give thanks unto afflicted; that I might me, and those that
comforted myself. f
learn thy statutes. have known thy
favour: Heb. face 72
The law of thy
e g h
at liberty: Heb. at large bands: or, companies right: Heb. righteousness
testimonies. in heaven. 90
Thy are everj with me. 99I thy word.
80
Let my heart be faithfulness is unto all have more 108
Accept, I beseech
sound in thy statutes; generations: thou hast understanding than all thee, the freewill
that I be not ashamed. established the earth, my teachers: for thy offerings of my mouth,
81
CAPH. My soul and it abideth. 91
They testimonies are my O LORD, and teach me
fainteth for thy salvation: continue this day meditation. 100
I thy judgments.
but I hope in thy word. according to thine understand more than 109
My soul is
82
Mine eyes fail for thy ordinances: for all are the ancients, because I continually in my hand:
word, saying, When wilt thy servants. keep thy precepts. yet do I not forget thy
thou comfort me? 92
Unless thy law had 101
I have refrained my law. 110The wicked have
83
For I am become like been my delights, I feet from every evil way, laid a snare for me: yet
a bottle in the smoke; should then have that I might keep thy I erred not from thy
yet do I not forget thy perished in mine word. precepts.
statutes. affliction. 102
I have not departed 111
Thy testimonies
84
How many are the 93
I will never forget from thy judgments: for have I taken as an
days of thy servant? thy precepts: for with thou hast taught me. heritage for ever: for
when wilt thou execute them thou hast 103
How sweet are thy they are the rejoicing of
judgment on them that quickened me. words unto my tastek! my heart. 112I have
persecute me? 94
I am thine, save me; yea, sweeter than honey inclined mine heart to
85
The proud have for I have sought thy to my mouth! performm thy statutes
digged pits for me, which precepts. 104
Through thy precepts I alway, even unto the
are not after thy law. 95
The wicked have get understanding: end.
86
All thy commandments waited for me to destroy therefore I hate every 113
SAMECH. I hate
are faithfuli: they me: but I will consider false way. vain thoughts: but thy
persecute me thy testimonies. 105
NUN. Thy word is a law do I love.
wrongfully; help thou 96
I have seen an end lamp unto my feet, and
l 114
Thou art my hiding
me. 87They had almost of all perfection: but thy a light unto my path. place and my shield: I
consumed me upon commandment is 106
I have sworn, and I hope in thy word.
earth; but I forsook not exceeding broad. will perform it, that I will 115
Depart from me,
thy precepts. 97
MEM. O how love I keep thy righteous ye evildoers: for I will
88
Quicken me after thy law! it is my judgments. keep the
thy lovingkindness; so meditation all the day. 107
I am afflicted very commandments of my
shall I keep the 98
Thou through thy much: quicken me, O God.
testimony of thy mouth. commandments hast LORD, according unto 116
Uphold me
89
LAMED. For ever, O made me wiser than j
according unto thy
LORD, thy word is settled mine enemies: for they they...: Heb. it is ever with me word, that I may live:
k
taste: Heb. palate
i l m
faithful: Heb. faithfulness lamp: or, candle to perform: Heb. to do
and let me not be LORD, to work: for they down mine eyes, shall live.
ashamed of my hope. have made void thy law. because they keep not 145
KOPH. I cried with
117
Hold thou me up, and I 127
Therefore I love thy thy law. my whole heart; hear
shall be safe: and I will commandments above 137
TZADDI. Righteous me, O LORD: I will keep
have respect unto thy gold; yea, above fine art thou, O LORD, and thy statutes. 146I cried
statutes continually. gold. 128
Therefore I upright are thy unto thee; save me,
118
Thou hast trodden esteem all thy precepts judgments. 138
Thy and I shall keep thy
down all them that err concerning all things to testimonies that thou testimonies.
from thy statutes: for be right; and I hate hast commanded are 147
I prevented the
their deceit is falsehood. every false way. righteousn and very dawning of the
119
Thou puttest away all 129
PE. Thy testimonies faithful. morning, and cried: I
the wicked of the earth are wonderful: therefore 139
My zeal hath hoped in thy word.
like dross: therefore I doth my soul keep them. consumedo me, because 148
Mine eyes prevent
love thy testimonies. 130
The entrance of thy mine enemies have the night watches, that
120
My flesh trembleth for words giveth light; it forgotten thy words. I might meditate in thy
fear of thee; and I am giveth understanding 140
Thy word is very word.
afraid of thy judgments. unto the simple. purep: therefore thy 149
Hear my voice
121
AIN. I have done 131
I opened my mouth, servant loveth it. according unto thy
judgment and justice: and panted: for I longed 141
I am small and lovingkindness: O
leave me not to mine for thy commandments. despised: yet do not I LORD, quicken me
oppressors. 122Be surety 132
Look thou upon me, forget thy precepts. according to thy
for thy servant for good: and be merciful unto me, 142
Thy righteousness judgment.
let not the proud oppress as thou usest to do unto is an everlasting 150
They draw nigh
me. those that love thy righteousness, and thy that follow after
123
Mine eyes fail for name. law is the truth. mischief: they are far
thy salvation, and for the 133
Order my steps in 143
Trouble and from thy law. 151Thou
word of thy thy word: and let not any anguish have taken hold art near, O LORD; and
righteousness. iniquity have dominion on me: yet thy all thy commandments
124
Deal with thy over me. commandments are my are truth.
servant according unto 134
Deliver me from the delights. 144
The 152
Concerning thy
thy mercy, and teach me oppression of man: so righteousness of thy testimonies, I have
thy statutes. 125I am thy will I keep thy precepts. testimonies is known of old that thou
servant; give me 135
Make thy face to everlasting: give me hast founded them for
understanding, that I shine upon thy servant; understanding, and I ever.
may know thy and teach me thy n
153
RESH. Consider
testimonies. statutes. righteous: Heb. righteousness mine affliction, and
o
126
It is time for thee, 136
Rivers of waters run consumed...: Heb. cut me off deliver me: for I do not
p
pure: Heb. tried, or, refined
forget thy law. 154Plead 162
I rejoice at thy speak of thy word: for all 4
Sharpb arrows of the
my cause, and deliver word, as one that findeth thy commandments are mighty, with coals of
me: quicken me great spoil. righteousness. juniper.
according to thy word. 163
I hate and abhor 173
Let thine hand help 5
Woe is me, that I
155
Salvation is far from lying: but thy law do I me; for I have chosen sojourn in Mesech, that
the wicked: for they seek love. thy precepts. 174I have I dwell in the tents of
not thy statutes. 164
Seven times a day longed for thy salvation, Kedar! 6My soul hath
156
Greatq are thy do I praise thee because O LORD; and thy law is long dwelt with him
tender mercies, O LORD: of thy righteous my delight. that hateth peace. 7I
quicken me according to judgments. 175
Let my soul live, am for peace: but when
thy judgments. 165
Great peace have and it shall praise thee; I speak, they are for
157
Many are my they which love thy law: and let thy judgments war.
persecutors and mine and nothing shall offend help me.
enemies; yet do I not them. 176
I have gone astray Psalm 121
decline from thy 166
LORD, I have hoped like a lost sheep; seek
testimonies. for thy salvation, and thy servant; for I do not A Song of degrees.
158
I beheld the done thy forget thy 1
I will lift up mine
transgressors, and was commandments. commandments.
eyes unto the hills, from
grieved; because they 167
My soul hath kept
whence cometh my
kept not thy word. thy testimonies; and I Psalm 120 help. 2My help cometh
159
Consider how I love love them exceedingly.
A Song of degrees. from the LORD, which
thy precepts: quicken 168
I have kept thy
made heaven and
me, O LORD, according precepts and thy 1
In my distress I cried earth. He will not suffer
3
to thy lovingkindness. testimonies: for all my
unto the LORD, and he thy foot to be moved:
160
Thy wordr is true ways are before thee.
heard me. 2Deliver my he that keepeth thee
from the beginning: and 169
TAU. Let my cry
soul, O LORD, from lying will not slumber.
every one of thy come near before thee,
lips, and from a deceitful 4
Behold, he that
righteous judgments O LORD: give me
tongue. 3What shall be keepeth Israel shall
endureth for ever. understanding according
givena unto thee? or neither slumber nor
161
SCHIN. Princes to thy word. 170Let my
what shall be done unto sleep. 5The LORD is thy
have persecuted me supplication come before
thee, thou false tongue? keeper: the LORD is thy
without a cause: but my thee: deliver me
shade upon thy right
heart standeth in awe of according to thy word.
hand. 6The sun shall not
thy word. 171
My lips shall utter a
praise, when thou hast What shall be given...: or,
q b
Great: or, Many taught me thy statutes. What shall the deceitful tongue Sharp...: or, It is as the sharp
r
Thy word...: Heb. The 172
My tongue shall give unto thee? or, what shall is arrows of the mighty man,
beginning of thy word is true profit thee? with coals of juniper
smite thee by day, nor within thy palaces. 8For 1
If it had not been about Jerusalem, so the
the moon by night. 7The my brethren and the LORD who was on LORD is round about his
LORD shall preserve companions’ sakes, I will our side, now may Israel people from henceforth
thee from all evil: he now say, Peace be within say; 2If it had not been even for ever. 3For the
shall preserve thy soul. thee. 9Because of the the LORD who was on rod of the wickeda shall
8
The LORD shall preserve house of the LORD our our side, when men rose not rest upon the lot of
thy going out and thy God I will seek thy good. up against us: 3Then the righteous; lest the
coming in from this time they had swallowed us righteous put forth their
forth, and even for Psalm 123 up quick, when their hands unto iniquity.
evermore. wrath was kindled 4
Do good, O LORD,
A Song of degrees. against us: 4Then the unto those that be
Psalm 122 1
Unto thee lift I up
waters had overwhelmed good, and to them that
us, the stream had gone are upright in their
A Song of degrees of mine eyes, O thou that
over our soul: 5Then the hearts. 5As for such as
David. dwellest in the heavens.
proud waters had gone turn aside unto their
2
Behold, as the eyes of
over our soul. crooked ways, the
1
I was glad when servants look unto the 6
Blessed be the LORD, LORD shall lead them
they said unto me, Let hand of their masters,
who hath not given us as forth with the workers
us go into the house of and as the eyes of a
a prey to their teeth. of iniquity: but peace
the LORD. 2Our feet shall maiden unto the hand of 7
Our soul is escaped as a shall be upon Israel.
stand within thy gates, O her mistress; so our eyes
bird out of the snare of
Jerusalem. 3Jerusalem is wait upon the LORD our
builded as a city that is God, until that he have
the fowlers: the snare is Psalm 126
broken, and we are
compact together: mercy upon us. 3Have A Song of degrees.
escaped. 8Our help is in
4
Whither the tribes go mercy upon us, O LORD,
the name of the LORD,
up, the tribes of the have mercy upon us: for When the LORD
1
who made heaven and
LORD, unto the we are exceedingly filled turned again the
earth.
testimony of Israel, to with contempt. 4Our soul captivity of Zion, we
give thanks unto the is exceedingly filled with were like them that
name of the LORD. 5For the scorning of those
Psalm 125 dream. 2Then was our
there are set thrones of that are at ease, and A Song of degrees. mouth filled with
judgment, the thrones of with the contempt of the laughter, and our
the house of David. proud. 1
They that trust in tongue with singing:
6
Pray for the peace of the LORD shall be as then said they among
Jerusalem: they shall Psalm 124 mount Zion, which the heathen, The LORD
prosper that love thee. cannot be removed, but hath done great things
7
Peace be within thy A Song of degrees of abideth for ever. 2As the
walls, and prosperity David. mountains are round a
the wicked: Heb. wickedness
for them. The LORD reward. 4As arrows are in Psalm 129 Out of the depths
3 1

hath done great things the hand of a mighty have I cried unto thee,
for us; whereof we are man; so are children of A Song of degrees. O LORD. 2Lord, hear my
glad. the youth. 5Happy is the voice: let thine ears be
4
Turn again our man that hath his quiver
1
Many a time have attentive to the voice of
captivity, O LORD, as the full of them: they shall they afflicted me from my supplications. 3If
streams in the south. not be ashamed, but my youth, may Israel thou, LORD, shouldest
5
They that sow in tears they shall speak with the now say: 2Many a time mark iniquities, O Lord,
shall reap in joya. 6He enemies in the gate. have they afflicted me who shall stand? 4But
that goeth forth and from my youth: yet they there is forgiveness
weepeth, bearing Psalm 128 have not prevailed with thee, that thou
precious b
seed, shall against me. 3
The mayest be feared.
doubtless come again A Song of degrees. plowers plowed upon my 5
I wait for the LORD,
with rejoicing, bringing back: they made long my soul doth wait, and
1
Blessed is every one their furrows. 4The LORD
his sheaves with him. in his word do I hope.
that feareth the LORD; is righteous: he hath cut 6
My soul waiteth for the
that walketh in his ways.
Psalm 127 2
For thou shalt eat the
asunder the cords of the Lord more than they
wicked. that watch for the
A Song of degrees for labour of thine hands: 5
Let them all be morning: I say, more
Solomon. happy shalt thou be, and confounded and turned than they that watcha
it shall be well with thee. back that hate Zion. 6Let for the morning. 7Let
1
Except the LORD 3
Thy wife shall be as a them be as the grass Israel hope in the LORD:
build the house, they fruitful vine by the sides upon the housetops, for with the LORD there
labour in vain that build of thine house: thy which withereth afore it is mercy, and with him
it: except the LORD keep children like olive plants groweth up: 7Wherewith is plenteous
the city, the watchman round about thy table. the mower filleth not his redemption. 8And he
waketh but in vain. 2It 4
Behold, that thus shall hand; nor he that shall redeem Israel
is vain for you to rise up the man be blessed that bindeth sheaves his from all his iniquities.
early, to sit up late, to feareth the LORD. 5The bosom. 8Neither do they
eat the bread of sorrows: LORD shall bless thee
for so he giveth his out of Zion: and thou
which go by say, The Psalm 131
blessing of the LORD be
beloved sleep. 3
Lo, shalt see the good of upon you: we bless you A Song of degrees of
children are an heritage Jerusalem all the days of in the name of the LORD. David.
of the LORD: and the thy life. 6Yea, thou shalt
fruit of the womb is his see thy children’s Psalm 130 LORD, my heart is
1

children, and peace upon not haughty, nor mine


a
joy: or, singing Israel. A Song of degrees.
b a
precious...: or, seed basket I say...: or, which watch unto
eyes lofty: neither do I tabernacles: we will 17
There will I make the 1
Behold, bless ye
exercisea myself in great worship at his footstool. horn of David to bud: I the LORD, all ye
matters, or in things too 8
Arise, O LORD, into thy have ordained a lampd servants of the LORD,
high for me. 2
Surely I rest; thou, and the ark of for mine anointed. 18His which by night stand in
have behaved and thy strength. 9Let thy enemies will I clothe with the house of the LORD.
quieted myself , as a
b
priests be clothed with shame: but upon himself 2
Lift up your hands in
child that is weaned of righteousness; and let shall his crown flourish. the sanctuarya, and
his mother: my soul is thy saints shout for joy. bless the LORD. 3
The
even as a weaned child. 10
For thy servant David’s Psalm 133 LORD that made
3
Let Israel hope in the sake turn not away the heaven and earth bless
LORD from henceforth face of thine anointed. A Song of degrees of thee out of Zion.
and for ever. 11
The LORD hath David.
sworn in truth unto
Behold, how good
1 Psalm 135
Psalm 132 David; he will not turn
and how pleasant it is for
from it; Of the fruit of thy Praise ye the LORD.
1

1
A Song of degrees. brethren to dwell Praise ye the name of
bodyb will I set upon thy
LORD, remember David, togethera in unity! 2It is the LORD; praise him, O
throne. 12If thy children
and all his afflictions: like the precious ye servants of the
will keep my covenant
2
How he sware unto the ointment upon the head, LORD. 2Ye that stand in
and my testimony that I
LORD, and vowed unto that ran down upon the the house of the LORD,
shall teach them, their
the mighty God of Jacob; beard, even Aaron’s in the courts of the
children shall also sit
3
Surely I will not come beard: that went down to house of our God,
upon thy throne for
into the tabernacle of my the skirts of his 3
Praise the LORD; for
evermore. 13
For the
house, nor go up into my garments; As the dew of
3
the LORD is good: sing
LORD hath chosen Zion;
bed; 4I will not give sleep Hermon, and as the dew praises unto his name;
he hath desired it for his
to mine eyes, or slumber that descended upon the for it is pleasant. 4For
habitation. 14This is my
to mine eyelids, 5Until I mountains of Zion: for the LORD hath chosen
rest for ever: here will I
find out a place for the there the LORD Jacob unto himself, and
dwell; for I have desired
LORD, an habitationa for commanded the Israel for his peculiar
it. 15I will abundantlyc
the mighty God of Jacob. blessing, even life for treasure.
bless her provision: I will
6
Lo, we heard of it at evermore. 5
For I know that the
satisfy her poor with
Ephratah: we found it in bread. 16I will also clothe LORD is great, and that
the fields of the wood. her priests with
Psalm 134 our Lord is above all
7
We will go into his salvation: and her saints gods. 6Whatsoever the
A Song of degrees.
shall shout aloud for joy. LORD pleased, that did
a
exercise...: Heb. walk he in heaven, and in
b b d
myself: Heb. my soul body: Heb. belly lamp: or, candle
a c a a
an habitation: Heb. habitations abundantly: or, surely together...: Heb. even together the sanctuary: or, holiness
earth, in the seas, and mouths, but they speak his mercy endureth for for his mercy endureth
all deep places. 7He not; eyes have they, but ever. 6
To him that for ever. 16
To him
causeth the vapours to they see not; 17They stretched out the earth which led his people
ascend from the ends of have ears, but they hear above the waters: for his through the wilderness:
the earth; he maketh not; neither is there any mercy endureth for ever. for his mercy endureth
lightnings for the rain; he breath in their mouths. 7
To him that made great for ever. 17To him which
bringeth the wind out of 18
They that make them lights: for his mercy smote great kings: for
his treasuries. 8
Who are like unto them: so is endureth for ever: 8The his mercy endureth for
smote the firstborn of every one that trusteth sun to rulea by day: for ever: 18And slew famous
Egypt, both of man and in them. 19Bless the his mercy endureth for kings: for his mercy
beast. 9Who sent tokens LORD, O house of Israel: ever: 9
The moon and endureth for ever:
and wonders into the bless the LORD, O house stars to rule by night: for 19
Sihon king of the
midst of thee, O Egypt, of Aaron: 20Bless the his mercy endureth for Amorites: for his mercy
upon Pharaoh, and upon LORD, O house of Levi: ever. endureth for ever: 20And
all his servants. 10Who ye that fear the LORD, 10
To him that smote Og the king of Bashan:
smote great nations, and bless the LORD. Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endureth
slew mighty kings; 21
Blessed be the LORD for his mercy endureth for ever: 21And gave
11
Sihon king of the out of Zion, which for ever: 11And brought their land for an
Amorites, and Og king of dwelleth at Jerusalem. out Israel from among heritage: for his mercy
Bashan, and all the Praise ye the LORD. them: for his mercy endureth for ever:
kingdoms of Canaan: endureth for ever: 12With 22
Even an heritage unto
12
And gave their land for Psalm 136 a strong hand, and with Israel his servant: for
an heritage, an heritage a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for
unto Israel his people.
1
O give thanks unto his mercy endureth for ever.
13
Thy name, O LORD, the LORD; for he is good: ever. 13To him which 23
Who remembered
endureth for ever; and for his mercy endureth divided the Red sea into us in our low estate: for
thy memorial, O LORD, for ever. 2O give thanks parts: for his mercy his mercy endureth for
throughout all unto the God of gods: for endureth for ever: 14And ever: 24
And hath
generations. 14
For the his mercy endureth for made Israel to pass redeemed us from our
LORD will judge his ever. 3O give thanks to through the midst of it: enemies: for his mercy
people, and he will the Lord of lords: for his for his mercy endureth endureth for ever.
repent himself mercy endureth for ever. for ever: 15
But 25
Who giveth food to all
concerning his servants.
4
To him who alone doeth overthrew Pharaoh and
b
flesh: for his mercy
15
The idols of the great wonders: for his his host in the Red sea: endureth for ever. 26O
heathen are silver and mercy endureth for ever. give thanks unto the
a
gold, the work of men’s
5
To him that by wisdom to rule...: Heb. for the rulings God of heaven: for his
hands. 16
They have made the heavens: for by day mercy endureth for
b
overthrew: Heb. shaked off
ever. who said, Rase it, rase it, 5
Yea, they shall sing in and my lying down, and
even to the foundation the ways of the LORD: art acquainted with all
Psalm 137 thereof. 8O daughter of for great is the glory of my ways. 4For there is
Babylon, who art to be the LORD. not a word in my
1
By the rivers of destroyedd; happy shall 6
Though the LORD be tongue, but, lo, O
Babylon, there we sat he be, that rewardeth high, yet hath he respect LORD, thou knowest it
down, yea, we wept, thee as thou hast served unto the lowly: but the altogether. 5Thou hast
when we remembered us. 9Happy shall he be, proud he knoweth afar beset me behind and
Zion. 2We hanged our that taketh and dasheth off. 7Though I walk in the before, and laid thine
harps upon the willows thy little ones against midst of trouble, thou hand upon me. 6Such
in the midst thereof. 3For the stonese. wilt revive me: thou knowledge is too
there they that carried shalt stretch forth thine wonderful for me; it is
us away captive required Psalm 138 hand against the wrath high, I cannot attain
of us a songa; and they of mine enemies, and unto it.
that wasted us required A Psalm of David. thy right hand shall save 7
Whither shall I go
of us mirth, saying, Sing me. 8The LORD will from thy spirit? or
us one of the songs of I will praise thee
1
perfect that which whither shall I flee from
Zion. 4
How shall we with my whole heart:
concerneth me: thy thy presence? 8If I
sing the LORD’S song in before the gods will I
mercy, O LORD, ascend up into heaven,
a strangeb land? 5
If I sing praise unto thee. 2I
endureth for ever: thou art there: if I make
forget thee, O Jerusalem, will worship toward thy
forsake not the works of my bed in hell, behold,
let my right hand forget holy temple, and praise
thine own hands. thou art there. 9If I take
her cunning. 6If I do not thy name for thy
the wings of the
lovingkindness and for
remember thee, let my
thy truth: for thou hast
Psalm 139 morning, and dwell in
tongue cleave to the roof the uttermost parts of
of my mouth; if I prefer magnified thy word To the chief Musician, A the sea; 10Even there
not Jerusalem above my above all thy name. 3In Psalm of David. shall thy hand lead me,
chiefc joy. the day when I cried
and thy right hand shall
7
Remember, O LORD, thou answeredst me, O LORD, thou hast
1
hold me. 11If I say,
the children of Edom in and strengthenedst me searched me, and known
Surely the darkness
the day of Jerusalem; with strength in my soul. me. 2Thou knowest my
shall cover me; even
4
All the kings of the downsitting and mine
the night shall be light
a
a song: Heb. the words of a earth shall praise thee, O uprising, thou
about me. 12Yea, the
song LORD, when they hear understandest my
darkness hidethb not
b
strange...: Heb. land of a the words of thy mouth. thought afar off. 3Thou
from thee; but the night
stranger? compassesta my path
c d
shineth as the day: the
my chief...: Heb. the head of destroyed: Heb. wasted
e a b
my joy the stones: Heb. the rock compassest: or, winnowest hideth...: Heb. darkeneth not
darkness and the light depart from me together for war. 3They not up again. 11Let not
are both alike to thee. therefore, ye bloody have sharpened their an evil speaker be
13
For thou hast men. 20For they speak tongues like a serpent; established in the
possessed my reins: against thee wickedly, adders’ poison is under earth: evil shall hunt
thou hast covered me in and thine enemies take their lips. Selah. 4Keep the violent man to
my mother’s womb. 14I thy name in vain. 21Do me, O LORD, from the overthrow him. 12
I
will praise thee; for I am not I hate them, O LORD, hands of the wicked; know that the LORD will
fearfully and wonderfully that hate thee? and am preserve me from the maintain the cause of
made: marvellous are not I grieved with those violent man; who have the afflicted, and the
thy works; and that my that rise up against purposed to overthrow right of the poor.
soul knoweth right well. thee? 22I hate them with my goings. 5The proud 13
Surely the righteous
15
My substancec was not perfect hatred: I count have hid a snare for me, shall give thanks unto
hid from thee, when I them mine enemies. and cords; they have thy name: the upright
was made in secret, and 23
Search me, O God, and spread a net by the shall dwell in thy
curiously wrought in the know my heart: try me, wayside; they have set presence.
lowest parts of the earth. and know my thoughts: gins for me. Selah. 6I said
16
Thine eyes did see my 24
And see if there be any unto the LORD, Thou art Psalm 141
substance, yet being wickede way in me, and my God: hear the voice
unperfect; and in thy lead me in the way of my supplications, O A Psalm of David.
book all my members everlasting. LORD. 7O GOD the Lord, 1
LORD, I cry unto
were writtend, which in the strength of my
thee: make haste unto
continuance were Psalm 140 salvation, thou hast
me; give ear unto my
fashioned, when as yet covered my head in the
To the chief Musician, A voice, when I cry unto
there was none of them. day of battle.
Psalm of David. thee. 2Let my prayer be
17
How precious also 8
Grant not, O LORD,
set forth before thee as
are thy thoughts unto the desires of the
1
Deliver me, O LORD, incense; and the lifting
me, O God! how great is wicked: further not his
from the evil man: up of my hands as the
the sum of them! 18If I wicked device; lest they
preserve me from the evening sacrifice. 3Set
should count them, they exalt themselves. Selah.
violenta man; 2
Which a watch, O LORD,
are more in number than 9
As for the head of those
imagine mischiefs in before my mouth; keep
the sand: when I awake, that compass me about,
their heart; continually the door of my lips.
I am still with thee. let the mischief of their
are they gathered 4
Incline not my heart to
19
Surely thou wilt slay own lips cover them.
any evil thing, to
the wicked, O God: 10
Let burning coals fall
e
wicked...: Heb. way of pain, practise wicked works
upon them: let them be
c
substance: or, strength, or, or, grief with men that work
cast into the fire; into
body a
violent...: Heb. man of iniquity: and let me not
deep pits, that they rise
d
all...: Heb. all of them violences eat of their dainties.
5
Let the righteous Maschil of David; A that I may praise thy 7
Hear me speedily, O
smite me; it shall be a Prayer when he was in name: the righteous LORD: my spirit faileth:
kindnessa: and let him the cave. shall compass me about; hide not thy face from
reprove me; it shall be for thou shalt deal me, lest I be like unto
an excellent oil, which
1
I cried unto the bountifully with me. them that go down into
shall not break my head: LORD with my voice; the pit. 8Cause me to
for yet my prayer also with my voice unto the Psalm 143 hear thy lovingkindness
shall be in their LORD did I make my in the morning; for in
calamities. 6When their supplication. 2I poured A Psalm of David. thee do I trust: cause
judges are overthrown in out my complaint before me to know the way
him; I shewed before
1
Hear my prayer, O
stony places, they shall wherein I should walk;
him my trouble. 3When LORD, give ear to my
hear my words; for they for I lift up my soul unto
my spirit was supplications: in thy
are sweet. 7Our bones thee. 9Deliver me, O
overwhelmed within me, faithfulness answer me,
are scattered at the LORD, from mine
then thou knewest my and in thy righteousness.
grave’s mouth, as when enemies: I flee unto
path. In the way wherein
2
And enter not into
one cutteth and cleaveth thee to hide me.
I walked have they judgment with thy
wood upon the earth. 10
Teach me to do thy
privily laid a snare for servant: for in thy sight
8
But mine eyes are unto will; for thou art my
me. shall no man living be
thee, O GOD the Lord: in God: thy spirit is good;
4
I lookeda on my right justified. 3For the enemy
thee is my trust; leaveb lead me into the land of
hand, and beheld, but hath persecuted my
not my soul destitute. uprightness. 11Quicken
there was no man that soul; he hath smitten my
9
Keep me from the me, O LORD, for thy
would know me: refuge life down to the ground;
snares which they have name’s sake: for thy
failed me; no man cared he hath made me to
laid for me, and the gins righteousness’ sake
for my soul. 5
I cried dwell in darkness, as
of the workers of bring my soul out of
unto thee, O LORD: I those that have been
iniquity. Let the wicked
10
trouble. 12And of thy
said, Thou art my refuge long dead. 4Therefore is
fall into their own nets, mercy cut off mine
and my portion in the my spirit overwhelmed
whilst that I withal enemies, and destroy
land of the living. within me; my heart
escapec. all them that afflict my
6
Attend unto my cry; for I within me is desolate. 5I
soul: for I am thy
remember the days of
Psalm 142 am brought very low:
old; I meditate on all thy
servant.
deliver me from my
a
me: it shall be a...: or, me works; I muse on the
persecutors; for they are
work of thy hands. 6I
Psalm 144
kindly, and reprove me; let not stronger than I. 7Bring
their precious oil break, etc my soul out of prison, stretch forth my hands A Psalm of David.
b
leave...: Heb. make not my unto thee: my soul
soul bare a
I looked...: or, Look on the thirsteth after thee, as a 1
Blessed be the
c
escape: Heb. pass over right hand, and see thirsty land. Selah.
LORD my strengtha, unto thee, O God: upon a case: yea, happy is that and full of compassion;
which teacheth my psaltery and an people, whose God is the slow to anger, and of
hands to war, and my instrument of ten strings LORD. greatc mercy. 9
The
fingers to fight: 2
My will I sing praises unto LORD is good to all: and
goodness , b
and my thee. 10It is he that Psalm 145 his tender mercies are
fortress; my high tower, giveth salvationc unto over all his works.
and my deliverer; my kings: who delivereth David’s Psalm of praise. 10
All thy works shall
shield, and he in whom I David his servant from praise thee, O LORD;
I will extol thee, my
1
trust; who subdueth my the hurtful sword. 11Rid and thy saints shall
God, O king; and I will
people under me. me, and deliver me from bless thee. 11They shall
bless thy name for ever
3
LORD, what is man, that the hand of strange speak of the glory of
and ever. 2Every day will
thou takest knowledge of children, whose mouth thy kingdom, and talk
I bless thee; and I will
him! or the son of man, speaketh vanity, and of thy power; 12To make
praise thy name for ever
that thou makest their right hand is a right known to the sons of
and ever. 3Great is the
account of him! 4Man is hand of falsehood: 12That men his mighty acts,
LORD, and greatly to be
like to vanity: his days our sons may be as and the glorious
praised; and his
are as a shadow that plants grown up in their majesty of his kingdom.
greatness is
passeth away. 5Bow thy youth; that our 13
Thy kingdom is an
unsearchable. 4
One
heavens, O LORD, and daughters may be as everlasting kingdom,
generation shall praise
come down: touch the corner stones, polishedd and thy dominiond
thy works to another,
mountains, and they after the similitude of a endureth throughout all
and shall declare thy
shall smoke. Cast forth
6
palace: 13
That our generations. 14
The
mighty acts. 5I will speak
lightning, and scatter garners may be full, LORD upholdeth all that
of the glorious honour of
them: shoot out thine affording all manner of fall, and raiseth up all
thy majesty, and of thy
arrows, and destroy store: that our sheep those that be bowed
wondrous worksa. 6And
them. Send thine hand
7
may bring forth down. 15The eyes of all
men shall speak of the
from above; rid me, and thousands and ten waite upon thee; and
might of thy terrible
deliver me out of great thousands in our streets: thou givest them their
acts: and I will declareb
waters, from the hand of 14
That our oxen may be meat in due season.
thy greatness. 7
They
strange children; strong to labour; that 16
Thou openest thine
shall abundantly utter
8
Whose mouth speaketh there be no breaking in, hand, and satisfiest the
the memory of thy great
vanity, and their right nor going out; that there desire of every living
goodness, and shall sing
hand is a right hand of be no complaining in our
of thy righteousness. c
of great...: Heb. great in
falsehood. streets. 15Happy is that 8
The LORD is gracious, mercy
9
I will sing a new song people, that is in such a d
an...: Heb. a kingdom of all
a c a
strength: Heb. rock salvation: or, victory works: Heb. things, or, words ages
b d b e
My goodness: or, My mercy polished: Heb. cut declare: Heb. declare it wait...: or, look unto
thing. 17The LORD is day his thoughts perish. is comely. 2The LORD mercy.
righteous in all his ways, 5
Happy is he that doth build up Jerusalem: 12
Praise the LORD, O
and holyf in all his works. hath the God of Jacob for he gathereth together Jerusalem; praise thy
18
The LORD is nigh unto his help, whose hope is the outcasts of Israel. God, O Zion. 13For he
all them that call upon in the LORD his God: 3
He healeth the broken hath strengthened the
him, to all that call upon 6
Which made heaven, in heart, and bindeth up bars of thy gates; he
him in truth. 19He will and earth, the sea, and their woundsa. 4
He hath blessed thy
fulfil the desire of them all that therein is: which telleth the number of the children within thee.
that fear him: he also keepeth truth for ever: stars; he calleth them all 14
He maketh peace in
will hear their cry, and 7
Which executeth by their names. 5Great is thy borders, and filleth
will save them. 20The judgment for the our Lord, and of great thee with the finest of
LORD preserveth all oppressed: which giveth power: his the wheat. 15
He
them that love him: but food to the hungry. The understanding is infinite. sendeth forth his
all the wicked will he LORD looseth the 6
The LORD lifteth up the commandment upon
destroy. 21
My mouth prisoners: 8The LORD meek: he casteth the earth: his word runneth
shall speak the praise of openeth the eyes of the wicked down to the very swiftly. 16He giveth
the LORD: and let all blind: the LORD raiseth ground. 7Sing unto the snow like wool: he
flesh bless his holy name them that are bowed LORD with thanksgiving; scattereth the hoarfrost
for ever and ever. down: the LORD loveth sing praise upon the like ashes. 17He casteth
the righteous: 9The LORD harp unto our God: 8Who forth his ice like
Psalm 146 preserveth the covereth the heaven morsels: who can stand
strangers; he relieveth with clouds, who before his cold? 18He
Praise ye the LORD.
1
the fatherless and prepareth rain for the sendeth out his word,
Praise the LORD, O my widow: but the way of earth, who maketh grass and melteth them: he
soul. 2While I live will I the wicked he turneth to grow upon the causeth his wind to
praise the LORD: I will upside down. 10The LORD mountains. He giveth to
9
blow, and the waters
sing praises unto my shall reign for ever, even the beast his food, and flow. 19He sheweth his
God while I have any thy God, O Zion, unto all to the young ravens wordb unto Jacob, his
being. 3Put not your trust generations. Praise ye which cry. 10
He statutes and his
in princes, nor in the son the LORD. delighteth not in the judgments unto Israel.
of man, in whom there is strength of the horse: he 20
He hath not dealt so
no helpa. 4
His breath Psalm 147 taketh not pleasure in with any nation: and as
goeth forth, he returneth the legs of a man. 11The for his judgments, they
to his earth; in that very 1
Praise ye the LORD: LORD taketh pleasure in have not known them.
for it is good to sing them that fear him, in Praise ye the LORD.
f
holy: or, merciful, or, praises unto our God; for those that hope in his
bountiful it is pleasant; and praise
a a b
help: or, salvation wounds: Heb. griefs his word: Heb. his words
Psalm 148 Both young men, and aloud upon their beds. instruments and
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maidens; old men, and 6


Let the high praises organs. 5Praise him
Praise ye the LORD.
1
children: 13
Let them of God be in their upon the loud cymbals:
Praise ye the LORD from praise the name of the mouthb, and a twoedged praise him upon the
the heavens: praise him LORD: for his name sword in their hand; 7To high sounding cymbals.
in the heights. 2Praise alone is excellentb; his execute vengeance upon 6
Let every thing that
ye him, all his angels: glory is above the earth the heathen, and hath breath praise the
praise ye him, all his and heaven. 14He also punishments upon the LORD. Praise ye the
hosts. 3Praise ye him, exalteth the horn of his people; 8To bind their LORD.
sun and moon: praise people, the praise of all kings with chains, and
him, all ye stars of light. his saints; even of the their nobles with fetters Proverbs
4
Praise him, ye heavens children of Israel, a of iron; 9To execute upon
of heavens, and ye people near unto him. them the judgment Chapter 1
waters that be above the Praise ye the LORD. written: this honour have
heavens. 5
Let them all his saints. Praise ye The
1
proverbs of
praise the name of the Psalm 149 the LORD. Solomon the son of
LORD: for he David, king of Israel;
commanded, and they Praisea ye the LORD.
1
Psalm 150 2
To know wisdom and
were created. 6He hath Sing unto the LORD a instruction; to perceive
also stablished them for new song, and his praise 1
Praise ye the LORD. the words of
ever and ever: he hath in the congregation of Praise God in his understanding; 3
To
made a decree which saints. 2Let Israel rejoice sanctuary: praise him in receive the instruction
shall not pass. in him that made him: the firmament of his of wisdom, justice, and
7
Praise the LORD from let the children of Zion power. 2Praise him for judgment, and equitya;
the earth, ye dragons, be joyful in their King. his mighty acts: praise 4
To give subtilty to the
and all deeps: 8Fire, and
3
Let them praise his him according to his simple, to the young
hail; snow, and vapour; name in the dance: let excellent greatness. man knowledge and
stormy wind fulfilling his them sing praises unto 3
Praise him with the discretionb. 5
A wise
word: 9Mountains, and all him with the timbrel and sound of the trumpeta: man will hear, and will
hills; fruitful trees, and harp. 4
For the LORD praise him with the increase learning; and a
all cedars: 10Beasts, and taketh pleasure in his psaltery and harp. man of understanding
all cattle; creeping people: he will beautify 4
Praise him with the shall attain unto wise
things, and flyinga fowl: the meek with salvation. timbrel and danceb: counsels: 6
To
11
Kings of the earth, and
5
Let the saints be joyful praise him with stringed understand a proverb,
all people; princes, and in glory: let them sing
b
all judges of the earth: mouth: Heb. throat
b a a
excellent: Heb. exalted trumpet: or, cornet equity: Heb. equities
a a b b
flying...: Heb. birds of wing Praise...: Heb. Hallelujah dance: or, pipe discretion: or, advisement
and the interpretationc; with them; refrain thy have stretched out my Chapter 2
the words of the wise, foot from their path: hand, and no man
and their dark sayings. 16
For their feet run to regarded; 25But ye have 1
My son, if thou wilt
7
The fear of the LORD evil, and make haste to set at nought all my receive my words, and
is the beginningd of shed blood. 17Surely in counsel, and would none hide my
knowledge: but fools vain the net is spread in of my reproof: 26I also commandments with
despise wisdom and the sight of any bird. will laugh at your thee; 2So that thou
instruction. 8
My son, 18
And they lay wait for calamity; I will mock incline thine ear unto
hear the instruction of their own blood; they when your fear cometh; wisdom, and apply
thy father, and forsake lurk privily for their own 27
When your fear cometh thine heart to
not the law of thy lives. 19So are the ways as desolation, and your understanding; 3Yea, if
mother: 9For they shall of every one that is destruction cometh as a thou criest after
be an ornament of grace greedy of gain; which whirlwind; when distress knowledge, and liftest
unto thy head, and taketh away the life of and anguish cometh up thy voice for
chainse about thy neck. the owners thereof. upon you. 28Then shall understanding; 4If thou
10
My son, if sinners 20
Wisdomf crieth they call upon me, but I seekest her as silver,
entice thee, consent without; she uttereth her will not answer; they and searchest for her as
thou not. If they say,
11
voice in the streets: shall seek me early, but for hid treasures; 5Then
Come with us, let us lay 21
She crieth in the chief they shall not find me: shalt thou understand
wait for blood, let us lurk place of concourse, in 29
For that they hated the fear of the LORD,
privily for the innocent the openings of the knowledge, and did not and find the knowledge
without cause: 12Let us gates: in the city she choose the fear of the of God. 6For the LORD
swallow them up alive as uttereth her words, LORD: 30
They would giveth wisdom: out of
the grave; and whole, as saying, 22
How long, ye none of my counsel: they his mouth cometh
those that go down into simple ones, will ye love despised all my reproof. knowledge and
the pit: 13We shall find all simplicity? and the 31
Therefore shall they eat understanding. 7
He
precious substance, we scorners delight in their of the fruit of their own layeth up sound
shall fill our houses with scorning, and fools hate way, and be filled with wisdom for the
spoil: 14Cast in thy lot knowledge? 23Turn you their own devices. 32For righteous: he is a
among us; let us all have at my reproof: behold, I the turning away of the buckler to them that
one purse: 15My son, will pour out my spirit simple shall slay them, walk uprightly. 8
He
walk not thou in the way unto you, I will make and the prosperity of keepeth the paths of
c
known my words unto fools shall destroy them. judgment, and
the interpretation: or, an you. 24Because I have 33
But whoso hearkeneth preserveth the way of
eloquent speech called, and ye refused; I unto me shall dwell his saints. 9Then shalt
d
the beginning: or, the safely, and shall be quiet thou understand
f
principal part Wisdom: Heb. Wisdoms, that from fear of evil.
e righteousness, and
an...: Heb. an adding is, Excellent wisdom
judgment, and equity; mayest walk in the way paths. in her right hand; and in
yea, every good path. of good men, and keep 7
Be not wise in thine her left hand riches and
10
When wisdom the paths of the own eyes: fear the honour. 17Her ways are
entereth into thine heart, righteous. 21
For the LORD, and depart from ways of pleasantness,
and knowledge is upright shall dwell in the evil. 8It shall be healthc and all her paths are
pleasant unto thy soul; land, and the perfect to thy navel, and marrow peace. 18She is a tree of
11
Discretion shall shall remain in it. 22But to thy bones. 9
Honour life to them that lay
preserve thee, the wicked shall be cut the LORD with thy hold upon her: and
understanding shall keep off from the earth, and substance, and with the happy is every one that
thee: 12To deliver thee the transgressors shall firstfruits of all thine retaineth her. 19
The
from the way of the evil be rooted out of it. increase: 10So shall thy LORD by wisdom hath
man, from the man that barns be filled with founded the earth; by
speaketh froward things; Chapter 3 plenty, and thy presses understanding hath he
13
Who leave the paths of shall burst out with new establishedd the
uprightness, to walk in My son, forget not
1
wine. 11My son, despise heavens. 20
By his
the ways of darkness; my law; but let thine not the chastening of the knowledge the depths
14
Who rejoice to do evil, heart keep my LORD; neither be weary are broken up, and the
and delight in the commandments: 2
For of his correction: 12For clouds drop down the
frowardness of the length of days, and longa whom the LORD loveth dew.
wicked; 15Whose ways life, and peace, shall he correcteth; even as a 21
My son, let not
are crooked, and they they add to thee. 3Let father the son in whom them depart from thine
froward in their paths: not mercy and truth he delighteth. eyes: keep sound
16
To deliver thee from forsake thee: bind them 13
Happy is the man wisdom and discretion:
the strange woman, about thy neck; write that findeth wisdom, and 22
So shall they be life
even from the stranger them upon the table of the man that getteth unto thy soul, and
which flattereth with her thine heart: 4So shalt understanding. 14For the grace to thy neck.
words; 17Which forsaketh thou find favour and merchandise of it is 23
Then shalt thou walk
the guide of her youth, goodb understanding in better than the in thy way safely, and
and forgetteth the the sight of God and merchandise of silver, thy foot shall not
covenant of her God. man. 5Trust in the LORD and the gain thereof stumble. 24
When thou
18
For her house inclineth with all thine heart; and than fine gold. 15She is liest down, thou shalt
unto death, and her lean not unto thine own more precious than not be afraid: yea, thou
paths unto the dead. understanding. 6In all thy rubies: and all the things shalt lie down, and thy
19
None that go unto her ways acknowledge him, thou canst desire are not sleep shall be sweet.
return again, neither and he shall direct thy to be compared unto 25
Be not afraid of
take they hold of the a
her. 16Length of days is sudden fear, neither of
paths of life. 20That thou long...: Heb. years of life
b c d
good...: or, good success health: Heb. medicine established: or, prepared
the desolation of the grace unto the lowly. her. 9She shall give to is as the shining light,
wicked, when it cometh. 35
The wise shall inherit thine head an ornament that shineth more and
26
For the LORD shall be glory: but shame shall be of grace: a crowna of more unto the perfect
thy confidence, and shall the promotion of fools. glory shall she deliver to day. 19The way of the
keep thy foot from being thee. 10Hear, O my son, wicked is as darkness:
taken. Chapter 4 and receive my sayings; they know not at what
27
Withhold not good and the years of thy life they stumble.
from them to whom it is
1
Hear, ye children, the shall be many. 11I have 20
My son, attend to
due, when it is in the instruction of a father, taught thee in the way of my words; incline thine
power of thine hand to and attend to know wisdom; I have led thee ear unto my sayings.
do it. 28Say not unto thy understanding. 2For I in right paths. 12When 21
Let them not depart
neighbour, Go, and come give you good doctrine, thou goest, thy steps from thine eyes; keep
again, and to morrow I forsake ye not my law. shall not be straitened; them in the midst of
will give; when thou hast
3
For I was my father’s and when thou runnest, thine heart. 22For they
it by thee. 29Devisee not son, tender and only thou shalt not stumble. are life unto those that
evil against thy beloved in the sight of 13
Take fast hold of find them, and healthb
neighbour, seeing he my mother. 4He taught instruction; let her not to all their flesh. 23Keep
dwelleth securely by me also, and said unto go: keep her; for she is thy heart with all
thee. 30Strive not with a me, Let thine heart thy life. diligence; for out of it
man without cause, if he retain my words: keep 14
Enter not into the are the issues of life.
have done thee no harm. my commandments, and path of the wicked, and 24
Put away from thee a
31
Envy thou not the live. 5Get wisdom, get go not in the way of evil frowardc mouth, and
oppressorf, and choose understanding: forget it men. 15Avoid it, pass not perverse lips put far
none of his ways. 32For not; neither decline from by it, turn from it, and from thee. 25Let thine
the froward is the words of my mouth. pass away. 16For they eyes look right on, and
abomination to the
6
Forsake her not, and sleep not, except they let thine eyelids look
LORD: but his secret is she shall preserve thee: have done mischief; and straight before thee.
with the righteous. 33The love her, and she shall their sleep is taken 26
Ponder the path of thy
curse of the LORD is in keep thee. 7Wisdom is away, unless they cause feet, and let all thy
the house of the wicked: the principal thing; some to fall. 17For they ways be established.
but he blesseth the therefore get wisdom: eat the bread of 27
Turn not to the right
habitation of the just. and with all thy getting wickedness, and drink hand nor to the left:
34
Surely he scorneth the get understanding. 8Exalt the wine of violence. remove thy foot from
scorners: but he giveth her, and she shall 18
But the path of the just b
promote thee: she shall health: Heb. medicine
e a c
Devise...: or, Practise no evil bring thee to honour, a crown...: or, she shall a froward...: Heb.
f
the oppressor: Heb. a man of when thou dost embrace compass thee with a crown of frowardness of mouth and
violence glory perverseness of lips
evil. strangers be filled with ravished always with her slumber to thine
thy wealthb; and thy love. 20
And why wilt eyelids. Deliver thyself
5

Chapter 5 labours be in the house thou, my son, be as a roe from the hand
of a stranger; 11And thou ravished with a strange of the hunter, and as a
My son, attend unto
1
mourn at the last, when woman, and embrace bird from the hand of
my wisdom, and bow thy flesh and thy body the bosom of a stranger? the fowler.
thine ear to my are consumed, 12And 21
For the ways of man 6
Go to the ant, thou
understanding: 2
That say, How have I hated are before the eyes of sluggard; consider her
thou mayest regard instruction, and my heart the LORD, and he ways, and be wise:
discretion, and that thy despised reproof; 13And pondereth all his goings. 7
Which having no guide,
lips may keep have not obeyed the 22
His own iniquities shall overseer, or ruler,
knowledge. For the lips
3
voice of my teachers, take the wicked himself, 8
Provideth her meat in
of a strange woman drop nor inclined mine ear to and he shall be holden the summer, and
as an honeycomb, and them that instructed me! with the cords of his gathereth her food in
her moutha is smoother 14
I was almost in all evil sinsd. 23
He shall die the harvest. 9How long
than oil: 4But her end is in the midst of the without instruction; and wilt thou sleep, O
bitter as wormwood, congregation and in the greatness of his sluggard? when wilt
sharp as a twoedged assembly. folly he shall go astray. thou arise out of thy
sword. 5Her feet go down 15
Drink waters out of sleep? 10Yet a little
to death; her steps take thine own cistern, and Chapter 6 sleep, a little slumber, a
hold on hell. 6Lest thou running waters out of little folding of the
shouldest ponder the thine own well. 16Let thy My son, if thou be
1
hands to sleep: 11So
path of life, her ways are fountains be dispersed surety for thy friend, if shall thy poverty come
moveable, that thou abroad, and rivers of thou hast stricken thy as one that travelleth,
canst not know them. waters in the streets. hand with a stranger, and thy want as an
7
Hear me now therefore, 17
Let them be only thine
2
Thou art snared with the armed man.
O ye children, and own, and not strangers’ words of thy mouth, thou 12
A naughty person,
depart not from the with thee. 18Let thy art taken with the words a wicked man, walketh
words of my mouth. fountain be blessed: and of thy mouth. 3Do this with a froward mouth.
8
Remove thy way far rejoice with the wife of now, my son, and deliver 13
He winketh with his
from her, and come not thy youth. 19Let her be thyself, when thou art eyes, he speaketh with
nigh the door of her as the loving hind and come into the hand of his feet, he teacheth
house: 9Lest thou give pleasant roe; let her thy friend; go, humble with his fingers;
thine honour unto breasts satisfyc thee at thyself, and make sure 14
Frowardness is in his
others, and thy years all times; and be thou thy friend. 4
Give not heart, he deviseth
unto the cruel: 10Lest sleep to thine eyes, nor mischief continually; he
b
thy wealth: Heb. thy strength
a c d
mouth: Heb. palate satisfy...: Heb. water thee sins: Heb. sin
sowetha discord. lampc; and the law is all the substance of his strange woman, from
15
Therefore shall his light; and reproofs of house. 32
But whoso the stranger which
calamity come suddenly; instruction are the way committeth adultery with flattereth with her
suddenly shall he be of life: 24To keep thee a woman lacketh words.
broken without remedy. from the evil woman, understandinge: he that 6
For at the window of
16
These six things doth from the flattery of the doeth it destroyeth his my house I looked
the LORD hate: yea, tongue of a strange own soul. 33A wound and through my casement,
seven are an woman. 25Lust not after dishonour shall he get; 7
And beheld among the
abomination unto him: her beauty in thine and his reproach shall simple ones, I discerned
17
A proudb look, a lying heart; neither let her not be wiped away. 34For among the youthsa, a
tongue, and hands that take thee with her jealousy is the rage of a young man void of
shed innocent blood, eyelids. For by means
26
man: therefore he will understanding,
18
An heart that deviseth of a whorish woman a not spare in the day of 8
Passing through the
wicked imaginations, man is brought to a vengeance. 35He will not street near her corner;
feet that be swift in piece of bread: and the regard any ransom; and he went the way to
running to mischief, 19A adulteressd will hunt for neither will he rest her house, 9In the
false witness that the precious life. 27Can a content, though thou twilight, in the evening
speaketh lies, and he man take fire in his givest many gifts. b
, in the black and dark
that soweth discord bosom, and his clothes night: 10
And, behold,
among brethren. not be burned? 28Can Chapter 7 there met him a woman
20
My son, keep thy one go upon hot coals, with the attire of an
father’s commandment, and his feet not be My son, keep my
1
harlot, and subtil of
and forsake not the law burned? 29So he that words, and lay up my heart. 11(She is loud and
of thy mother: 21Bind goeth in to his commandments with stubborn; her feet abide
them continually upon neighbour’s wife; thee. 2
Keep my not in her house: 12Now
thine heart, and tie them whosoever toucheth her commandments, and is she without, now in
about thy neck. 22When shall not be innocent. live; and my law as the the streets, and lieth in
thou goest, it shall lead 30
Men do not despise a apple of thine eye. 3Bind wait at every corner.)
thee; when thou thief, if he steal to them upon thy fingers, 13
So she caught him,
sleepest, it shall keep satisfy his soul when he write them upon the and kissed him, and
thee; and when thou is hungry; 31But if he be table of thine heart. 4Say with an impudent face
awakest, it shall talk with found, he shall restore unto wisdom, Thou art said unto him, 14I have
thee. 23
For the sevenfold; he shall give my sister; and call peace offerings with
commandment is a understanding thy me; this day have I
c
lamp: or, candle kinswoman: 5That they payed my vows.
d
the adulteress: Heb. the may keep thee from the
a a
soweth: Heb. casteth forth woman of a man, or, a man’s the youths: Heb. the sons
b e b
A proud...: Heb. Haughty eyes wife understanding: Heb. heart in the evening of days
15
Therefore came I forth now therefore, O ye and wickednessa is an princes rule, and
to meet thee, diligently children, and attend to abomination to my lips. nobles, even all the
to seek thy face, and I the words of my mouth. 8
All the words of my judges of the earth. 17I
have found thee. 16I have 25
Let not thine heart mouth are in love them that love me;
decked my bed with decline to her ways, go righteousness; there is and those that seek me
coverings of tapestry, not astray in her paths. nothing frowardb or early shall find me.
with carved works, with 26
For she hath cast down perverse in them. 9They 18
Riches and honour are
fine linen of Egypt. 17I many wounded: yea, are all plain to him that with me; yea, durable
have perfumed my bed many strong men have understandeth, and right riches and
with myrrh, aloes, and been slain by her. 27Her to them that find righteousness. 19
My
cinnamon. 18Come, let us house is the way to hell, knowledge. 10Receive my fruit is better than gold,
take our fill of love until going down to the instruction, and not yea, than fine gold; and
the morning: let us chambers of death. silver; and knowledge my revenue than choice
solace ourselves with rather than choice gold. silver. 20I leadd in the
loves. 19For the goodman Chapter 8 11
For wisdom is better way of righteousness, in
is not at home, he is than rubies; and all the the midst of the paths
gone a long journey:
1
Doth not wisdom things that may be of judgment: 21That I
20
He hath taken a bag of cry? and understanding desired are not to be may cause those that
money with him, and will put forth her voice? 2She compared to it. love me to inherit
come home at the day standeth in the top of 12
I wisdom dwell with substance; and I will fill
appointed. 21
With her high places, by the way prudencec, and find out their treasures.
much fair speech she in the places of the knowledge of witty 22
The LORD
caused him to yield, with paths. 3She crieth at the inventions. 13The fear of possessed me in the
the flattering of her lips gates, at the entry of the the LORD is to hate evil: beginning of his way,
she forced him. 22He city, at the coming in at pride, and arrogancy, before his works of old.
goeth after her the doors. 4Unto you, O and the evil way, and the 23
I was set up from
straightwayc, as an ox men, I call; and my voice froward mouth, do I everlasting, from the
goeth to the slaughter, is to the sons of man. 5O hate. 14Counsel is mine, beginning, or ever the
or as a fool to the ye simple, understand and sound wisdom: I am earth was. 24
When
correction of the stocks; wisdom: and, ye fools, understanding; I have there were no depths, I
23
Till a dart strike be ye of an strength. 15By me kings was brought forth;
through his liver; as a understanding heart. reign, and princes when there were no
bird hasteth to the
6
Hear; for I will speak of decree justice. 16By me fountains abounding
snare, and knoweth not excellent things; and the with water. Before the
25
a
that it is for his life. opening of my lips shall an...: Heb. the abomination of mountains were settled,
24
Hearken unto me be right things. 7For my my lips before the hills was I
b
mouth shall speak truth; froward: Heb. wreathed
c c d
straightway: Heb. suddenly prudence: or, subtilty lead: or, walk
brought forth: 26While as not. 34Blessed is the man foolish, and live; and go passengers who go
yet he had not made the that heareth me, in the way of right on their ways:
earth, nor the fieldse, nor watching daily at my understanding. 7He that 16
Whoso is simple, let
the highest part of the gates, waiting at the reproveth a scorner him turn in hither: and
dust of the world. posts of my doors. 35For getteth to himself as for him that wanteth
27
When he prepared the whoso findeth me shame: and he that understanding, she
heavens, I was there: findeth life, and shall rebuketh a wicked man saith to him, 17Stolen
when he set a compassf obtaing favour of the getteth himself a blot. waters are sweet, and
upon the face of the LORD. 36
But he that 8
Reprove not a scorner, bread eaten in secret is
depth: 28
When he sinneth against me lest he hate thee: rebuke pleasant. 18
But he
established the clouds wrongeth his own soul: a wise man, and he will knoweth not that the
above: when he all they that hate me love thee. 9
Give dead are there; and
strengthened the love death. instruction to a wise that her guests are in
fountains of the deep: man, and he will be yet the depths of hell.
29
When he gave to the Chapter 9 wiser: teach a just man,
sea his decree, that the and he will increase in Chapter 10
waters should not pass Wisdom hath builded
1
learning. 10The fear of
his commandment: when her house, she hath the LORD is the
1
The proverbs of
he appointed the hewn out her seven beginning of wisdom: Solomon. A wise son
foundations of the earth: pillars: 2She hath killed and the knowledge of maketh a glad father:
30
Then I was by him, as her beastsa; she hath the holy is but a foolish son is the
one brought up with him: mingled her wine; she understanding. 11
For by heaviness of his
and I was daily his hath also furnished her me thy days shall be mother.
delight, rejoicing always table. 3
She hath sent multiplied, and the years
2
Treasures of
before him; 31Rejoicing in forth her maidens: she of thy life shall be wickedness profit
the habitable part of his crieth upon the highest increased. 12If thou be nothing: but
earth; and my delights places of the city, wise, thou shalt be wise righteousness
were with the sons of
4
Whoso is simple, let him for thyself: but if thou delivereth from death.
men. turn in hither: as for him scornest, thou alone
3
The LORD will not
32
Now therefore that wanteth shalt bear it. suffer the soul of the
hearken unto me, O ye understanding, she saith 13
A foolish woman is righteous to famish: but
children: for blessed are to him, 5Come, eat of my clamorous: she is simple, he casteth away the
they that keep my ways. bread, and drink of the and knoweth nothing. substancea of the
33
Hear instruction, and wine which I have 14
For she sitteth at the wicked.
be wise, and refuse it mingled. 6Forsake the door of her house, on a
4
He becometh poor
e g
seat in the high places of a
fields: or, open places obtain: Heb. bring forth the city, 15
To call the substance...: or, the
f a
a compass: or, a circle her beasts: Heb. her killing wicked for their wickedness
that dealeth with a slack all sins. is little worth. 21The lips The way of the
29

hand: but the hand of 13


In the lips of him of the righteous feed LORD is strength to the
the diligent maketh rich. that hath understanding many: but fools die for upright: but destruction
5
He that gathereth in wisdom is found: but a want of wisdomf. shall be to the workers
summer is a wise son: rod is for the back of him 22
The blessing of the of iniquity. 30
The
but he that sleepeth in that is void of LORD, it maketh rich, righteous shall never be
harvest is a son that understandingd. and he addeth no sorrow removed: but the
causeth shame. 14
Wise men lay up with it. wicked shall not inhabit
6
Blessings are upon knowledge: but the 23
It is as sport to a the earth.
the head of the just: but mouth of the foolish is fool to do mischief: but a 31
The mouth of the
violence covereth the near destruction. man of understanding just bringeth forth
mouth of the wicked. 15
The rich man’s hath wisdom. wisdom: but the
7
The memory of the wealth is his strong city: 24
The fear of the froward tongue shall be
just is blessed: but the the destruction of the wicked, it shall come cut out. 32The lips of the
name of the wicked shall poor is their poverty. upon him: but the desire righteous know what is
rot. 16
The labour of the of the righteous shall be acceptable: but the
8
The wise in heart will righteous tendeth to life: granted. 25
As the mouth of the wicked
receive commandments: the fruit of the wicked to whirlwind passeth, so is speaketh frowardnessh.
but a pratingb fool shall sin. the wicked no more: but
fall. 17
He is in the way of the righteous is an Chapter 11
9
He that walketh life that keepeth everlasting foundation.
uprightly walketh surely: instruction: but he that 26
As vinegar to the
1
A falsea balance is
but he that perverteth refuseth reproof errethe. teeth, and as smoke to abomination to the
his ways shall be known. 18
He that hideth the eyes, so is the LORD: but a just weight
10
He that winketh with hatred with lying lips, sluggard to them that is his delight.
the eye causeth sorrow: and he that uttereth a send him.
2
When pride cometh,
but a prating fool shall slander, is a fool. 27
The fear of the then cometh shame:
fallc. 19
In the multitude of LORD prolongethg days: but with the lowly is
11
The mouth of a words there wanteth not but the years of the wisdom.
righteous man is a well sin: but he that wicked shall be
3
The integrity of the
of life: but violence refraineth his lips is wise. shortened. 28The hope of upright shall guide
covereth the mouth of 20
The tongue of the the righteous shall be them: but the
the wicked. just is as choice silver: gladness: but the perverseness of
12
Hatred stirreth up the heart of the wicked expectation of the h
strifes: but love covereth wicked shall perish. frowardness: Heb.
d
of understanding: Heb. of frowardnesses
b f a
a prating...: Heb. a fool of lips heart of wisdom: Heb. of heart A false...: Heb. Balances of
c e g
fall: Heb. be beaten erreth: or, causeth to err prolongeth: Heb. addeth deceit
transgressors shall the city is exalted: but it tendeth to life: so he corn, the people shall
destroy them. is overthrown by the that pursueth evil curse him: but blessing
4
Riches profit not in mouth of the wicked. pursueth it to his own shall be upon the head
the day of wrath: but 12
He that is voidc of death. of him that selleth it.
righteousness delivereth wisdom despiseth his 20
They that are of a 27
He that diligently
from death. neighbour: but a man of froward heart are seeketh good procureth
5
The righteousness of understanding holdeth abomination to the favour: but he that
the perfect shall directb his peace. 13
A LORD: but such as are seeketh mischief, it
his way: but the wicked talebearer d
revealeth upright in their way are shall come unto him.
shall fall by his own secrets: but he that is of his delight. 28
He that trusteth in
wickedness. 6
The a faithful spirit 21
Though hand join in his riches shall fall: but
righteousness of the concealeth the matter. hand, the wicked shall the righteous shall
upright shall deliver 14
Where no counsel is, not be unpunished: but flourish as a branch.
them: but transgressors the people fall: but in the the seed of the righteous 29
He that troubleth
shall be taken in their multitude of counsellors shall be delivered. his own house shall
own naughtiness. there is safety. 22
As a jewel of gold in inherit the wind: and
7
When a wicked man 15
He that is surety for a swine’s snout, so is a the fool shall be servant
dieth, his expectation a stranger shall smarte fair woman which is to the wise of heart.
shall perish: and the for it: and he that hateth withoutf discretion. 30
The fruit of the
hope of unjust men suretiship is sure. 23
The desire of the righteous is a tree of
perisheth. 16
A gracious woman righteous is only good: life; and he that
8
The righteous is retaineth honour: and but the expectation of winneth souls is wise.
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delivered out of trouble, strong men retain riches. the wicked is wrath. 31
Behold, the
and the wicked cometh 17
The merciful man 24
There is that righteous shall be
in his stead. doeth good to his own scattereth, and yet recompensed in the
9
An hypocrite with his soul: but he that is cruel increaseth; and there is earth: much more the
mouth destroyeth his troubleth his own flesh. that withholdeth more wicked and the sinner.
neighbour: but through 18
The wicked worketh than is meet, but it
knowledge shall the just a deceitful work: but to tendeth to poverty. Chapter 12
be delivered. him that soweth 25
The liberalg soul
10
When it goeth well righteousness shall be a shall be made fat: and Whoso
1
loveth
with the righteous, the sure reward. he that watereth shall be instruction loveth
city rejoiceth: and when 19
As righteousness watered also himself. knowledge: but he that
the wicked perish, there 26
He that withholdeth hateth reproof is
c
is shouting. 11By the void...: Heb. destitute of heart brutish.
d f
blessing of the upright A talebearer: Heb. He that is without: Heb. departeth 2
A good man
walketh, being a talebearer from
b e g h
direct: Heb. rectify smart: Heb. be sore broken liberal...: Heb. soul of blessing winneth: Heb. taketh
obtaineth favour of the 10
A righteous man shame. heart of man maketh it
LORD: but a man of regardeth the life of his 17
He that speaketh stoop: but a good word
wicked devices will he beast: but the tender truth sheweth forth maketh it glad.
condemn. mercies of the wicked righteousness: but a 26
The righteous is
3
A man shall not be are cruel. false witness deceit. more excellente than his
established by 11
He that tilleth his 18
There is that neighbour: but the way
wickedness: but the root land shall be satisfied speaketh like the of the wicked seduceth
of the righteous shall not with bread: but he that piercings of a sword: but them.
be moved. followeth vain persons is the tongue of the wise is 27
The slothful man
4
A virtuous woman is void of understanding. health. roasteth not that which
a crown to her husband: 12
The wicked desireth 19
The lip of truth shall he took in hunting: but
but she that maketh the neta of evil men: but be established for ever: the substance of a
ashamed is as the root of the righteous but a lying tongue is but diligent man is
rottenness in his bones. yieldeth fruit. for a moment. precious.
5
The thoughts of the 13
The wickedb is 20
Deceit is in the heart 28
In the way of
righteous are right: but snared by the of them that imagine righteousness is life;
the counsels of the transgression of his lips: evil: but to the and in the pathway
wicked are deceit. but the just shall come counsellors of peace is thereof there is no
6
The words of the out of trouble. joy. death.
wicked are to lie in wait 14
A man shall be 21
There shall no evil
for blood: but the mouth satisfied with good by happen to the just: but Chapter 13
of the upright shall the fruit of his mouth: the wicked shall be filled
deliver them. and the recompence of a with mischief. A wise son heareth
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7
The wicked are man’s hands shall be 22
Lying lips are his father’s instruction:
overthrown, and are not: rendered unto him. abomination to the but a scorner heareth
but the house of the 15
The way of a fool is LORD: but they that deal not rebuke.
righteous shall stand. right in his own eyes: but truly are his delight.
2
A man shall eat
8
A man shall be he that hearkeneth unto 23
A prudent man good by the fruit of his
commended according counsel is wise. concealeth knowledge: mouth: but the soul of
to his wisdom: but he 16
A fool’s wrath is but the heart of fools the transgressors shall
that is of a perverse presentlyc known: but a proclaimeth foolishness. eat violence.
heart shall be despised. prudent man covereth 24
The hand of the
3
He that keepeth his
9
He that is despised, diligent shall bear rule: mouth keepeth his life:
a
and hath a servant, is the net: or, the fortress but the slothfuld shall be but he that openeth
b
better than he that The wicked...: Heb. The snare under tribute. wide his lips shall have
honoureth himself, and of the wicked is in the 25
Heaviness in the destruction.
lacketh bread. transgression of lips
c d e
presently: Heb. in that day slothful: or, deceitful excellent: or, abundant
The soul of the
4
diminished: but he that he that regardeth 1
Every wise woman
sluggard desireth, and gathereth by labourc reproof shall be buildeth her house: but
hath nothing: but the shall increase. honoured. the foolish plucketh it
soul of the diligent shall 12
Hope deferred 19
The desire down with her hands.
be made fat. maketh the heart sick: accomplished is sweet to 2
He that walketh in
5
A righteous man but when the desire the soul: but it is his uprightness feareth
hateth lying: but a cometh, it is a tree of abomination to fools to the LORD: but he that
wicked man is life. depart from evil. is perverse in his ways
loathsome, and cometh 13
Whoso despiseth the 20
He that walketh with despiseth him.
to shame. word shall be destroyed: wise men shall be wise: 3
In the mouth of the
6
Righteousness but he that feareth the but a companion of fools foolish is a rod of pride:
keepeth him that is commandment shall be shall be destroyedf. but the lips of the wise
upright in the way: but rewardedd. 21
Evil pursueth shall preserve them.
wickedness 14
The law of the wise sinners: but to the 4
Where no oxen are,
overthroweth the is a fountain of life, to righteous good shall be the crib is clean: but
sinner .
a
depart from the snares repayed. much increase is by the
7
There is that maketh of death. 22
A good man leaveth strength of the ox.
himself rich, yet hath 15
Good understanding an inheritance to his 5
A faithful witness
nothing: there is that giveth favour: but the children’s children: and will not lie: but a false
maketh himself poor, yet way of transgressors is the wealth of the sinner witness will utter lies.
hath great riches. hard. is laid up for the just. 6
A scorner seeketh
8
The ransom of a 16
Every prudent man 23
Much food is in the wisdom, and findeth it
man’s life are his riches: dealeth with knowledge: tillage of the poor: but not: but knowledge is
but the poor heareth not but a fool layeth open there is that is destroyed easy unto him that
rebuke. his folly. for want of judgment. understandeth.
9
The light of the 17
A wicked messenger 24
He that spareth his 7
Go from the
righteous rejoiceth: but falleth into mischief: but rod hateth his son: but presence of a foolish
the lampb of the wicked a faithfule ambassador is he that loveth him man, when thou
shall be put out. health. chasteneth him betimes. perceivest not in him
10
Only by pride 18
Poverty and shame 25
The righteous eateth the lips of knowledge.
cometh contention: but shall be to him that to the satisfying of his 8
The wisdom of the
with the well advised is refuseth instruction: but soul: but the belly of the prudent is to
wisdom. c
wicked shall want. understand his way: but
11
Wealth gotten by by labour: Heb. with the hand the folly of fools is
d
vanity shall be shall be rewarded: or, shall be Chapter 14 deceit.
in peace 9
Fools make a mock
a e
the sinner: Heb. sin a faithful...: Heb. an at sin: but among the
b f
lamp: or, candle ambassador of faithfulness destroyed: Heb. broken
righteous there is favour. 18
The simple inherit children shall have a people.
10
The heart knoweth folly: but the prudent are place of refuge. 27The 35
The king’s favour is
his owna bitterness; and crowned with fear of the LORD is a toward a wise servant:
a stranger doth not knowledge. fountain of life, to depart but his wrath is against
intermeddle with his joy. 19
The evil bow before from the snares of death. him that causeth
11
The house of the the good; and the wicked 28
In the multitude of shame.
wicked shall be at the gates of the people is the king’s
overthrown: but the righteous. honour: but in the want Chapter 15
tabernacle of the upright 20
The poor is hated of people is the
shall flourish. even of his own destruction of the prince.
1
A soft answer
12
There is a way which neighbour: but the richb 29
He that is slow to turneth away wrath: but
seemeth right unto a hath many friends. wrath is of great grievous words stir up
man, but the end thereof 21
He that despiseth understanding: but he anger.
are the ways of death. his neighbour sinneth: that is hastyc of spirit
2
The tongue of the
13
Even in laughter the but he that hath mercy exalteth folly. wise useth knowledge
heart is sorrowful; and on the poor, happy is he. 30
A sound heart is the aright: but the mouth of
the end of that mirth is 22
Do they not err that life of the flesh: but envy fools poureth out
heaviness. devise evil? but mercy the rottenness of the foolishness.
14
The backslider in and truth shall be to bones.
3
The eyes of the
heart shall be filled with them that devise good. 31
He that oppresseth LORD are in every
his own ways: and a 23
In all labour there is the poor reproacheth his place, beholding the
good man shall be profit: but the talk of the Maker: but he that evil and the good.
satisfied from himself. lips tendeth only to honoureth him hath
4
A wholesomea
15
The simple believeth penury. mercy on the poor. tongue is a tree of life:
every word: but the 24
The crown of the 32
The wicked is driven but perverseness
prudent man looketh wise is their riches: but away in his wickedness: therein is a breach in
well to his going. the foolishness of fools is but the righteous hath the spirit.
16
A wise man feareth, folly. hope in his death.
5
A fool despiseth his
and departeth from evil: 25
A true witness 33
Wisdom resteth in father’s instruction: but
but the fool rageth, and delivereth souls: but a the heart of him that he that regardeth
is confident. deceitful witness hath understanding: but reproof is prudent.
17
He that is soon speaketh lies. that which is in the midst
6
In the house of the
angry dealeth foolishly: 26
In the fear of the of fools is made known. righteous is much
and a man of wicked LORD is strong 34
Righteousness treasure: but in the
devices is hated. confidence: and his exalteth a nation: but sin revenues of the wicked
a b
is a reproach to any a
his own...: Heb. the bitterness the rich...: Heb. many are the A wholesome...: Heb. The
c
of his soul lovers of the rich hasty...: Heb. short of spirit healing of the tongue
is trouble. seeketh knowledge: but multitude of counsellors 30
The light of the
7
The lips of the wise the mouth of fools they are established. eyes rejoiceth the
disperse knowledge: but feedeth on foolishness. 23
A man hath joy by heart: and a good
the heart of the foolish 15
All the days of the the answer of his mouth: report maketh the
doeth not so. afflicted are evil: but he and a word spoken in bones fat.
8
The sacrifice of the that is of a merry heart due season, how good is 31
The ear that
wicked is an abomination hath a continual feast. it! heareth the reproof of
to the LORD: but the 16
Better is little with 24
The way of life is life abideth among the
prayer of the upright is the fear of the LORD above to the wise, that wise.
his delight. than great treasure and he may depart from hell 32
He that refuseth
9
The way of the trouble therewith. beneath. instructione despiseth
wicked is an abomination 17
Better is a dinner of 25
The LORD will his own soul: but he
unto the LORD: but he herbs where love is, than destroy the house of the that heareth reproof
loveth him that followeth a stalled ox and hatred proud: but he will getteth understanding.
after righteousness. therewith. establish the border of 33
The fear of the
10
Correctionb is 18
A wrathful man the widow. LORD is the instruction
grievous unto him that stirreth up strife: but he 26
The thoughts of the of wisdom; and before
forsaketh the way: and that is slow to anger wicked are an honour is humility.
he that hateth reproof appeaseth strife. abomination to the
shall die. 19
The way of the LORD: but the words of Chapter 16
11
Hell and destruction slothful man is as an the pure are pleasantd
are before the LORD: hedge of thorns: but the words.
1
The preparationsa of
how much more then the way of the righteous is 27
He that is greedy of the heart in man, and
hearts of the children of made plain. gain troubleth his own the answer of the
men? 20
A wise son maketh a house; but he that tongue, is from the
12
A scorner loveth not glad father: but a foolish hateth gifts shall live. LORD.
one that reproveth him: man despiseth his 28
The heart of the
2
All the ways of a
neither will he go unto mother. righteous studieth to man are clean in his
the wise. 21
Folly is joy to him answer: but the mouth of own eyes; but the LORD
13
A merry heart that is destitutec of the wicked poureth out weigheth the spirits.
maketh a cheerful wisdom: but a man of evil things.
3
Commitb thy works
countenance: but by understanding walketh 29
The LORD is far from unto the LORD, and thy
sorrow of the heart the uprightly. the wicked: but he thoughts shall be
spirit is broken. 22
Without counsel heareth the prayer of the established.
14
The heart of him purposes are righteous. e
that hath understanding disappointed: but in the instruction: or, correction
d a
pleasant...: Heb. words of preparations: or, disposings
b c b
Correction: or, Instruction destitute...: Heb. void of heart pleasantness Commit: Heb. Roll
4
The LORD hath made to kings to commit happy is he. A29
violent man
all things for himself: wickedness: for the 21
The wise in heart enticeth his neighbour,
yea, even the wicked for throne is established by shall be called prudent: and leadeth him into
the day of evil. righteousness. and the sweetness of the the way that is not
5
Every one that is 13
Righteous lips are lips increaseth learning. good. 30He shutteth his
proud in heart is an the delight of kings; and 22
Understanding is a eyes to devise froward
abomination to the they love him that wellspring of life unto things: moving his lips
LORD: though hand join speaketh right. him that hath it: but the he bringeth evil to pass.
in hand, he shall not be 14
The wrath of a king instruction of fools is 31
The hoary head is a
unpunishedc. is as messengers of folly. crown of glory, if it be
6
By mercy and truth death: but a wise man 23
The heart of the found in the way of
iniquity is purged: and will pacify it. 15In the wise teachethe his righteousness.
by the fear of the LORD light of the king’s mouth, and addeth 32
He that is slow to
men depart from evil. countenance is life; and learning to his lips. anger is better than the
7
When a man’s ways his favour is as a cloud 24
Pleasant words are mighty; and he that
please the LORD, he of the latter rain. as an honeycomb, sweet ruleth his spirit than he
maketh even his 16
How much better is to the soul, and health to that taketh a city.
enemies to be at peace it to get wisdom than the bones. 33
The lot is cast into
with him. gold! and to get 25
There is a way that the lap; but the whole
8
Better is a little with understanding rather to seemeth right unto a disposing thereof is of
righteousness than great be chosen than silver! man, but the end thereof the LORD.
revenues without right. 17
The highway of the are the ways of death.
9
A man’s heart upright is to depart from 26
Hef that laboureth Chapter 17
deviseth his way: but the evil: he that keepeth his laboureth for himself; for
LORD directeth his steps. way preserveth his soul. his mouth craveth it of Better is a dry
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10
A divine sentence is 18
Pride goeth before him. morsel, and quietness
in the lips of the king: his destruction, and an 27
An ungodly man therewith, than an
mouth transgresseth not haughty spirit before a diggeth up evil: and in house full of sacrificesa
in judgment. fall. his lips there is as a with strife.
11
A just weight and 19
Better it is to be of burning fire. 28A froward
2
A wise servant shall
balance are the LORD’S: an humble spirit with the man sowethg strife: and have rule over a son
all the weightsd of the lowly, than to divide the a whisperer separateth that causeth shame,
bag are his work. spoil with the proud. chief friends. and shall have part of
12
It is an abomination 20
He that handleth a the inheritance among
e
matter wisely shall find teacheth: Heb. maketh wise the brethren.
c f
unpunished: Heb. held good: and whoso He...: Heb. The soul of him 3
The fining pot is for
innocent trusteth in the LORD, that
d g a
the weights: Heb. the stones soweth: Heb. sendeth forth sacrifices: or, good cheer
silver, and the furnace separateth very friends. 17
A friend loveth at all ends of the earth.
for gold: but the LORD 10
A reproof enterethf times, and a brother is 25
A foolish son is a
trieth the hearts. more into a wise man born for adversity. grief to his father, and
4
A wicked doer giveth than an hundred stripes 18
A man void of bitterness to her that
heed to false lips; and a into a fool. understandingg striketh bare him.
liar giveth ear to a 11
An evil man seeketh hands, and becometh 26
Also to punish the
naughty tongue. only rebellion: therefore surety in the presence of just is not good, nor to
5
Whoso mocketh the a cruel messenger shall his friend. strike princes for
poor reproacheth his be sent against him. 19
He loveth equity.
Maker: and he that is 12
Let a bear robbed of transgression that loveth 27
He that hath
glad at calamities shall her whelps meet a man, strife: and he that knowledge spareth his
not be unpunishedb. rather than a fool in his exalteth his gate seeketh words: and a mani of
6
Children’s children folly. destruction. understanding is of an
are the crown of old 13
Whoso rewardeth 20
He that hath a excellent spirit. 28Even
men; and the glory of evil for good, evil shall frowardh heart findeth no a fool, when he holdeth
children are their not depart from his good: and he that hath a his peace, is counted
fathers. house. perverse tongue falleth wise: and he that
7
Excellentc speech 14
The beginning of into mischief. shutteth his lips is
becometh not a fool: strife is as when one 21
He that begetteth a esteemed a man of
much less do lying lips a letteth out water: fool doeth it to his understanding.
prince. therefore leave off sorrow: and the father of
8
A gift is as a contention, before it be a fool hath no joy. Chapter 18
preciousd stone in the meddled with. 22
A merry heart doeth
eyes of him that hath it: 15
He that justifieth the good like a medicine: but Through desire a
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whithersoever it turneth, wicked, and he that a broken spirit drieth the man, having separated
it prospereth. condemneth the just, bones. himself, seeketh and
9
He that covereth a even they both are 23
A wicked man intermeddleth with all
transgression seekethe abomination to the taketh a gift out of the wisdom.
love; but he that LORD. bosom to pervert the
2
A fool hath no
repeateth a matter 16
Wherefore is there a ways of judgment. delight in
price in the hand of a 24
Wisdom is before understanding, but that
b
unpunished: Heb. held fool to get wisdom, him that hath his heart may discover
innocent seeing he hath no heart understanding; but the itself.
c
Excellent...: Heb. A lip of to it? eyes of a fool are in the
3
When the wicked
excellency cometh, then cometh
d f g
a precious...: Heb. a stone of entereth...: or, aweth more a understanding: Heb. heart also contempt, and with
h
grace wise man, than to strike a fool He that hath a froward...: Heb.
e i
seeketh: or, procureth an hundred times The froward of heart an...: or, a cool
ignominy reproach. the heart of man is be satisfied with the fruit and his heart fretteth
4
The words of a man’s haughty, and before of his mouth; and with against the LORD.
mouth are as deep honour is humility. the increase of his lips 4
Wealth maketh
waters, and the 13
He that answerethc shall he be filled. many friends; but the
wellspring of wisdom as a matter before he 21
Death and life are in poor is separated from
a flowing brook. heareth it, it is folly and the power of the tongue: his neighbour.
5
It is not good to shame unto him. and they that love it 5
A false witness shall
accept the person of the 14
The spirit of a man shall eat the fruit not be unpunisheda,
wicked, to overthrow the will sustain his infirmity; thereof. and he that speaketh
righteous in judgment. but a wounded spirit who 22
Whoso findeth a lies shall not escape.
6
A fool’s lips enter can bear? wife findeth a good 6
Many will intreat the
into contention, and his 15
The heart of the thing, and obtaineth favour of the prince:
mouth calleth for prudent getteth favour of the LORD. and every man is a
strokes. A fool’s mouth
7
knowledge; and the ear 23
The poor useth friend to himb that
is his destruction, and of the wise seeketh intreaties; but the rich giveth gifts. 7
All the
his lips are the snare of knowledge. answereth roughly. brethren of the poor do
his soul. 16
A man’s gift maketh 24
A man that hath hate him: how much
8
The words of a room for him, and friends must shew more do his friends go
talebearera are as bringeth him before himself friendly: and far from him? he
wounds, and they go great men. there is a friend that pursueth them with
down into the innermost 17
He that is first in his sticketh closer than a words, yet they are
parts of the belly. own cause seemeth just; brother. wanting to him.
9
He also that is but his neighbour 8
He that getteth
slothful in his work is cometh and searcheth Chapter 19 wisdom loveth his own
c

brother to him that is a him. soul: he that keepeth


great waster. 18
The lot causeth
1
Better is the poor understanding shall find
10
The name of the contentions to cease, that walketh in his good.
LORD is a strong tower: and parteth between the integrity, than he that is 9
A false witness shall
the righteous runneth mighty. perverse in his lips, and not be unpunished, and
into it, and is safeb. 19
A brother offended is a fool. he that speaketh lies
11
The rich man’s is harder to be won than
2
Also, that the soul be shall perish.
wealth is his strong city, a strong city: and their without knowledge, it is 10
Delight is not
and as an high wall in his contentions are like the not good; and he that seemly for a fool; much
own conceit. bars of a castle. hasteth with his feet
a
12
Before destruction 20
A man’s belly shall sinneth. unpunished: Heb. held
3
The foolishness of innocent
a c b
talebearer: or, whisperer answereth...: Heb. returneth a man perverteth his way: him...: Heb. a man of gifts
b c
safe: Heb. set aloft word wisdom: Heb. an heart
less for a servant to have his crying. 26
He that wasteth his colda; therefore shall he
rule over princes. 19
A man of great father, and chaseth beg in harvest, and
11
The discretiond of a wrath shall suffer away his mother, is a have nothing.
man deferreth his anger; punishment: for if thou son that causeth shame, 5
Counsel in the heart
and it is his glory to pass deliver him, yet thou and bringeth reproach. of man is like deep
over a transgression. must do it again. 27
Cease, my son, to water; but a man of
12
The king’s wrath is 20
Hear counsel, and hear the instruction that understanding will draw
as the roaring of a lion; receive instruction, that causeth to err from the it out.
but his favour is as dew thou mayest be wise in words of knowledge. 6
Most men will
upon the grass. thy latter end. 28
An ungodly witness proclaim every one his
13
A foolish son is the 21
There are many scorneth judgment: and own goodnessb: but a
calamity of his father: devices in a man’s heart; the mouth of the wicked faithful man who can
and the contentions of a nevertheless the counsel devoureth iniquity. find?
wife are a continual of the LORD, that shall 29
Judgments are 7
The just man
dropping. stand. prepared for scorners, walketh in his integrity:
14
House and riches 22
The desire of a man and stripes for the back his children are blessed
are the inheritance of is his kindness: and a of fools. after him.
fathers: and a prudent poor man is better than 8
A king that sitteth in
wife is from the LORD. a liar. Chapter 20 the throne of judgment
15
Slothfulness casteth 23
The fear of the scattereth away all evil
into a deep sleep; and an LORD tendeth to life: and
1
Wine is a mocker, with his eyes.
idle soul shall suffer he that hath it shall strong drink is raging: 9
Who can say, I have
hunger. abide satisfied; he shall and whosoever is made my heart clean, I
16
He that keepeth the not be visited with evil. deceived thereby is not am pure from my sin?
commandment keepeth 24
A slothful man wise. 10
Divers weightsc,
his own soul; but he that hideth his hand in his
2
The fear of a king is and divers measures,
despiseth his ways shall bosom, and will not so as the roaring of a lion: both of them are alike
die. much as bring it to his whoso provoketh him to abomination to the
17
He that hath pity mouth again. anger sinneth against his LORD.
upon the poor lendeth 25
Smite a scorner, and own soul. 11
Even a child is
unto the LORD; and that the simple will bewaree:
3
It is an honour for a known by his doings,
which he hath given will and reprove one that man to cease from strife: whether his work be
he pay him again. hath understanding, and but every fool will be pure, and whether it be
18
Chasten thy son he will understand meddling.
a
while there is hope, and knowledge.
4
The sluggard will not cold: or, winter
b
let not thy soul spare for plow by reason of the goodness: or, bounty
e c
will beware: Heb. will be Divers weights: Heb. A stone
d
discretion: or, prudence cunning and a stone
right. meddle not with him that the candleh of the LORD, sin.
12
The hearing ear, and flatterethe with his lips. searching all the inward 5
The thoughts of the
the seeing eye, the 20
Whoso curseth his parts of the belly. diligent tend only to
LORD hath made even father or his mother, his 28
Mercy and truth plenteousness; but of
both of them. lampf shall be put out in preserve the king: and every one that is hasty
13
Love not sleep, lest obscure darkness. his throne is upholden by only to want.
thou come to poverty; 21
An inheritance may mercy. 6
The getting of
open thine eyes, and be gotten hastily at the 29
The glory of young treasures by a lying
thou shalt be satisfied beginning; but the end men is their strength: tongue is a vanity
with bread. thereof shall not be and the beauty of old tossed to and fro of
14
It is naught, it is blessed. men is the gray head. them that seek death.
naught, saith the buyer: 22
Say not thou, I will 30
The blueness of a 7
The robbery of the
but when he is gone his recompense evil; but wound cleansethi away wicked shall destroya
way, then he boasteth. wait on the LORD, and evil: so do stripes the them; because they
15
There is gold, and a he shall save thee. inward parts of the belly. refuse to do judgment.
multitude of rubies: but 23
Divers weights are 8
The way of man is
the lips of knowledge are an abomination unto the Chapter 21 froward and strange:
a precious jewel. LORD; and a falseg but as for the pure, his
16
Take his garment balance is not good.
1
The king’s heart is in work is right.
that is surety for a 24
Man’s goings are of the hand of the LORD, as 9
It is better to dwell
stranger: and take a the LORD; how can a the rivers of water: he in a corner of the
pledge of him for a man then understand his turneth it whithersoever housetop, than with a
strange woman. own way? he will. brawlingb woman in a
17
Bread of deceitd is 25
It is a snare to the
2
Every way of a man wide house.
sweet to a man; but man who devoureth that is right in his own eyes: 10
The soul of the
afterwards his mouth which is holy, and after but the LORD pondereth wicked desireth evil: his
shall be filled with vows to make enquiry. the hearts. neighbour findeth no
gravel. 26
A wise king
3
To do justice and favour in his eyes.
18
Every purpose is scattereth the wicked, judgment is more 11
When the scorner
established by counsel: and bringeth the wheel acceptable to the LORD is punished, the simple
and with good advice over them. than sacrifice. is made wise: and when
make war. 27
The spirit of man is
4
An high look, and a the wise is instructed,
19
He that goeth about proud heart, and the he receiveth
as a talebearer revealeth plowing of the wicked, is
e a
secrets: therefore flattereth: or, enticeth destroy...: Heb. saw them, or,
f h
lamp: or, candle candle: or, lamp dwell with them
d g i b
deceit: Heb. lying, or, a false...: Heb. balance of cleanseth...: Heb. is a purging a brawling...: Heb. a woman
falsehood deceit medicine against of contentions
knowledge. in the wilderness, than he bringeth it with a 4
Byb humility and the
12
The righteous man with a contentious and wicked mind? fear of the LORD are
wisely considereth the an angry woman. 28
A false witness shall riches, and honour, and
house of the wicked: but 20
There is treasure to perish: but the man that life.
God overthroweth the be desired and oil in the heareth speaketh 5
Thorns and snares
wicked for their dwelling of the wise; but constantly. are in the way of the
wickedness. a foolish man spendeth it 29
A wicked man froward: he that doth
13
Whoso stoppeth his up. hardeneth his face: but keep his soul shall be
ears at the cry of the 21
He that followeth as for the upright, he far from them.
poor, he also shall cry after righteousness and directethe his way. 6
Train up a child in
himself, but shall not be mercy findeth life, 30
There is no wisdom the way he should go:
heard. righteousness, and nor understanding nor and when he is old, he
14
A gift in secret honour. counsel against the will not depart from it.
pacifieth anger: and a 22
A wise man scaleth LORD. 31
The horse is 7
The rich ruleth over
reward in the bosom the city of the mighty, prepared against the day the poor, and the
strong wrath. and casteth down the of battle: but safetyf is of borrower is servant to
15
It is joy to the just to strength of the the LORD. the lenderc.
do judgment: but confidence thereof. 8
He that soweth
destruction shall be to 23
Whoso keepeth his Chapter 22 iniquity shall reap
the workers of iniquity. mouth and his tongue vanity: and the rodd of
16
The man that keepeth his soul from
1
A good name is his anger shall fail.
wandereth out of the troubles. rather to be chosen than 9
He that hath a
way of understanding 24
Proud and haughty great riches, and lovinga bountiful eye shall be
shall remain in the scorner is his name, who favour rather than silver blessed; for he giveth of
congregation of the dealeth in proudd wrath. and gold. his bread to the poor.
dead. 25
The desire of the
2
The rich and poor 10
Cast out the
17
He that loveth slothful killeth him; for meet together: the LORD scorner, and contention
pleasure shall be a poor
c
his hands refuse to is the maker of them all. shall go out; yea, strife
man: he that loveth wine labour. 26He coveteth
3
A prudent man and reproach shall
and oil shall not be rich. greedily all the day long: foreseeth the evil, and cease.
18
The wicked shall be but the righteous giveth hideth himself: but the
b
a ransom for the and spareth not. simple pass on, and are By...: or, The reward of
righteous, and the 27
The sacrifice of the punished. humility, etc
c
transgressor for the wicked is abomination: the lender: Heb. the man that
e
upright. how much more, when directeth: or, considereth lendeth
f d
19
It is better to dwell safety: or, victory the rod...: or, with the rod of
d a
in proud...: Heb. in the wrath loving...: or, favour is better his anger he shall be
c
pleasure: or, sport of pride than, etc consumed
He
11
that loveth they shall withal be 28
Remove not the meats: 7For as he
pureness of heart, for fitted in thy lips. 19That ancient landmark , which
g
thinketh in his heart, so
the grace of his lips the thy trust may be in the thy fathers have set. is he: Eat and drink,
king shall be his friend. LORD, I have made 29
Seest thou a man saith he to thee; but his
12
The eyes of the known to thee this day, diligent in his business? heart is not with thee.
LORD preserve even to thee. 20Have not he shall stand before 8
The morsel which thou
knowledge, and he I written to thee kings; he shall not stand hast eaten shalt thou
overthroweth the wordse excellent things in before meanh men. vomit up, and lose thy
of the transgressor. counsels and knowledge, sweet words.
13
The slothful man 21
That I might make thee Chapter 23 9
Speak not in the
saith, There is a lion know the certainty of the ears of a fool: for he will
without, I shall be slain words of truth; that thou
1
When thou sittest to despise the wisdom of
in the streets. mightest answer the eat with a ruler, consider thy words.
14
The mouth of words of truth to them diligently what is before 10
Remove not the old
strange women is a deep that send unto thee? thee: 2And put a knife to landmarkb; and enter
pit: he that is abhorred 22
Rob not the poor, thy throat, if thou be a not into the fields of the
of the LORD shall fall because he is poor: man given to appetite. fatherless: 11For their
therein. neither oppress the
3
Be not desirous of his redeemer is mighty; he
15
Foolishness is bound afflicted in the gate: dainties: for they are shall plead their cause
in the heart of a child; 23
For the LORD will plead deceitful meat. with thee.
but the rod of correction their cause, and spoil the
4
Labour not to be rich: 12
Apply thine heart
shall drive it far from soul of those that spoiled cease from thine own unto instruction, and
him. them. wisdom. 5Wilt thou seta thine ears to the words
16
He that oppresseth 24
Make no friendship thine eyes upon that of knowledge.
the poor to increase his with an angry man; and which is not? for riches 13
Withhold not
riches, and he that with a furious man thou certainly make correction from the
giveth to the rich, shall shalt not go: 25Lest thou themselves wings; they child: for if thou beatest
surely come to want. learn his ways, and get a fly away as an eagle him with the rod, he
17
Bow down thine ear, snare to thy soul. toward heaven. shall not die. 14Thou
and hear the words of 26
Be not thou one of
6
Eat thou not the shalt beat him with the
the wise, and apply thine them that strike hands, bread of him that hath rod, and shalt deliver
heart unto my or of them that are an evil eye, neither his soul from hell. 15My
knowledge. 18For it is a sureties for debts. 27If desire thou his dainty son, if thine heart be
pleasant thing if thou thou hast nothing to pay, g
wise, my heart shall
keep them withinf thee; why should he take away landmark: or, bound rejoice, even mine.
h
thy bed from under mean...: Heb. obscure men 16
Yea, my reins shall
e a
the words: or, the matters thee? set...: Heb. cause thine eyes to
f b
within...: Heb. in thy belly fly upon landmark: or, bound
rejoice, when thy lips shall rejoice. 26My son, of the sea, or as he that gate. 8He that deviseth
speak right things. give me thine heart, and lieth upon the top of a to do evil shall be called
17
Let not thine heart let thine eyes observe mast. 35
They have a mischievous person.
envy sinners: but be my ways. 27For a whore stricken me, shalt thou 9
The thought of
thou in the fear of the is a deep ditch; and a say, and I was not sick; foolishness is sin: and
LORD all the day long. strange woman is a they have beaten me, the scorner is an
18
For surely there is an narrow pit. 28She also and I feltg it not: when abomination to men.
endc; and thine lieth in wait as for a shall I awake? I will seek 10
If thou faint in the
expectation shall not be prey, and increaseth the it yet again. day of adversity, thy
cut off. transgressors among strength is smalla.
19
Hear thou, my son, men. Chapter 24 11
If thou forbear to
and be wise, and guide 29
Who hath woe? who deliver them that are
thine heart in the way. hath sorrow? who hath Be not thou envious
1
drawn unto death, and
20
Be not among contentions? (8675) who against evil men, neither those that are ready to
winebibbers; among hath babbling? who hath desire to be with them. be slain; 12
If thou
riotous eaters of fleshd: wounds without cause?
2
For their heart studieth sayest, Behold, we
21
For the drunkard and who hath redness of destruction, and their knew it not; doth not he
the glutton shall come to eyes? 30They that tarry lips talk of mischief. that pondereth the
poverty: and drowsiness long at the wine; they
3
Through wisdom is heart consider it? and
shall clothe a man with that go to seek mixed an house builded; and by he that keepeth thy
rags. 22Hearken unto thy wine. 31Look not thou understanding it is soul, doth not he know
father that begat thee, upon the wine when it is established: 4
And by it? and shall not he
and despise not thy red, when it giveth his knowledge shall the render to every man
mother when she is old. colour in the cup, when it chambers be filled with according to his works?
23
Buy the truth, and sell moveth itself aright. 32At all precious and pleasant 13
My son, eat thou
it not; also wisdom, and the last it biteth like a riches. 5A wise man is honey, because it is
instruction, and serpent, and stingethe strong; yea, a man of good; and the
understanding. 24
The like an adder. 33
Thine knowledge increaseth honeycomb, which is
father of the righteous eyes shall behold strength. 6
For by wise sweet to thy taste: 14So
shall greatly rejoice: and strange women, and counsel thou shalt make shall the knowledge of
he that begetteth a wise thine heart shall utter thy war: and in multitude wisdom be unto thy
child shall have joy of perverse things. 34Yea, of counsellors there is soul: when thou hast
him. 25Thy father and thy thou shalt be as he that safety. found it, then there
mother shall be glad, lieth down in the midstf
7
Wisdom is too high shall be a reward, and
and she that bare thee for a fool: he openeth thy expectation shall
e
an...: or, a cockatrice not his mouth in the not be cut off.
c f
end: or, reward the midst...: Heb. the heart of
d g a
of flesh: Heb. of their flesh the sea I felt...: Heb. I knew it not small: Heb. narrow
Lay not wait, O
15 23
These things also with thorns, and nettles vessel for the finer.
wicked man, against the belong to the wise. It is had covered the face 5
Take away the wicked
dwelling of the not good to have respect thereof, and the stone from before the king,
righteous; spoil not his of persons in judgment. wall thereof was broken and his throne shall be
resting place: 16For a just 24
He that saith unto the down. 32Then I saw, and established in
man falleth seven times, wicked, Thou art considered it welle: I righteousness.
and riseth up again: but righteous; him shall the looked upon it, and 6
Put not forth thyself
the wicked shall fall into people curse, nations received instruction. in the presence of the
mischief. shall abhor him: 25But to 33
Yet a little sleep, a little king, and stand not in
17
Rejoice not when them that rebuke him slumber, a little folding the place of great men:
thine enemy falleth, and shall be delight, and a of the hands to sleep: 7
For better it is that it
let not thine heart be goodd blessing shall 34
So shall thy poverty be said unto thee,
glad when he stumbleth: come upon them. come as one that Come up hither; than
18
Lest the LORD see it, 26
Every man shall kiss travelleth; and thy wantf that thou shouldest be
and it displease him, and his lips that giveth a as an armed man. put lower in the
he turn away his wrath right answer. presence of the prince
from him. 27
Prepare thy work Chapter 25 whom thine eyes have
19
Fretb not thyself without, and make it fit seen.
because of evil men, for thyself in the field;
1
These are also 8
Go not forth hastily
neither be thou envious and afterwards build proverbs of Solomon, to strive, lest thou
at the wicked; 20
For thine house. which the men of know not what to do in
there shall be no reward 28
Be not a witness Hezekiah king of Judah the end thereof, when
to the evil man; the against thy neighbour copied out. thy neighbour hath put
candlec of the wicked without cause; and
2
It is the glory of God thee to shame. 9Debate
shall be put out. deceive not with thy lips. to conceal a thing: but thy cause with thy
21
My son, fear thou 29
Say not, I will do so to the honour of kings is to neighbour himself; and
the LORD and the king: him as he hath done to search out a matter. discover not a secreta to
and meddle not with me: I will render to the
3
The heaven for height, another: 10Lest he that
them that are given to man according to his and the earth for depth, heareth it put thee to
change: 22
For their work. and the heart of kings is shame, and thine
calamity shall rise 30
I went by the field of unsearchable. infamy turn not away.
suddenly; and who the slothful, and by the
4
Take away the dross 11
A word fitlyb spoken
knoweth the ruin of them vineyard of the man void from the silver, and is like apples of gold in
both? of understanding; 31And, there shall come forth a pictures of silver. 12As
b
lo, it was all grown over e a
Fret...: or, Keep not company considered...: Heb. set my a secret...: or, the secret of
d b
with the wicked a good...: Heb. a blessing of heart fitly...: Heb. spoken upon his
c f
candle: or, lamp good an...: Heb. a man of shield wheels
an earring of gold, and trouble is like a broken to search their own glory mouth of fools. 8As he
an ornament of fine gold, tooth, and a foot out of is not glory. that bindethc a stone in
so is a wise reprover joint. 28
He that hath no rule a sling, so is he that
upon an obedient ear. 20
As he that taketh over his own spirit is like giveth honour to a fool.
13
As the cold of snow away a garment in cold a city that is broken 9
As a thorn goeth up
in the time of harvest, so weather, and as vinegar down, and without walls. into the hand of a
is a faithful messenger upon nitre, so is he that drunkard, so is a
to them that send him: singeth songs to an Chapter 26 parable in the mouth of
for he refresheth the heavy heart. fools.
soul of his masters. 21
If thine enemy be As snow in summer,
1 10
The greatd God that
14
Whoso boasteth hungry, give him bread and as rain in harvest, so formed all things both
himself of a false gift is to eat; and if he be honour is not seemly for rewardeth the fool, and
like clouds and wind thirsty, give him water to a fool. rewardeth
without rain. drink: 22For thou shalt
2
As the bird by transgressors.
15
By long forbearing is heap coals of fire upon wandering, as the 11
As a dog returneth
a prince persuaded, and his head, and the LORD swallow by flying, so the to his vomit, so a fool
a soft tongue breaketh shall reward thee. curse causeless shall not returneth to his follye.
the bone. 23
The north wind come. 12
Seest thou a man
16
Hast thou found driveth away rain: so
3
A whip for the horse, wise in his own conceit?
honey? eat so much as is doth an angry a bridle for the ass, and there is more hope of a
sufficient for thee, lest countenance a a rod for the fool’s back. fool than of him.
thou be filled therewith, backbiting tongue.
4
Answer not a fool 13
The slothful man
and vomit it. 24
It is better to dwell according to his folly, saith, There is a lion in
17
Withdrawc thy foot in the corner of the lest thou also be like the way; a lion is in the
from thy neighbour’s housetop, than with a unto him. 5Answer a fool streets.
house; lest he be weary brawling woman and in a according to his folly, 14
As the door turneth
of thee, and so hate wide house. lest he be wise in his upon his hinges, so
thee. 25
As cold waters to a own conceita. doth the slothful upon
18
A man that beareth thirsty soul, so is good
6
He that sendeth a
c
false witness against his news from a far country. message by the hand of bindeth...: or, putteth a
neighbour is a maul, and 26
A righteous man a fool cutteth off the precious stone in an heap of
a sword, and a sharp falling down before the feet, and drinketh stones
d
arrow. wicked is as a troubled damageb. 7The legs of The great...: or, A great man
19
Confidence in an fountain, and a corrupt the lame are not equal: grieveth all, and he hireth the
unfaithful man in time of spring. so is a parable in the fool, he hireth also
27
It is not good to eat transgressors
c a e
Withdraw...: or, Let thy foot much honey: so for men conceit: Heb. eyes returneth to his folly: Heb.
b
be seldom in damage: or, violence iterateth his folly
his bed. wounds, and they go may bring forth. place.
15
The slothful hideth down into the innermost 2
Let another man 9
Ointment and
his hand in his bosom; it parts of the belly. praise thee, and not perfume rejoice the
grievethf him to bring it 23
Burning lips and a thine own mouth; a heart: so doth the
again to his mouth. wicked heart are like a stranger, and not thine sweetness of a man’s
16
The sluggard is potsherd covered with own lips. friend by hearty
wiser in his own conceit silver dross. 3
A stone is heavya, counsel. 10
Thine own
than seven men that can 24
He that hateth and the sand weighty; friend, and thy father’s
render a reason. dissemblethj with his but a fool’s wrath is friend, forsake not;
17
He that passeth by, lips, and layeth up deceit heavier than them both. neither go into thy
and meddlethg with strife within him; 25When he 4
Wrathb is cruel, and brother’s house in the
belonging not to him, is speakethk fair, believe anger is outrageous; but day of thy calamity: for
like one that taketh a him not: for there are who is able to stand better is a neighbour
dog by the ears. seven abominations in before envy? that is near than a
18
As a mad man who his heart. 26
Whose 5
Open rebuke is brother far off.
casteth firebrandsh, hatred is covered by better than secret love. 11
My son, be wise,
arrows, and death, 19So deceit, his wickedness 6
Faithful are the wounds and make my heart
is the man that shall be shewed before of a friend; but the glad, that I may answer
deceiveth his neighbour, the whole congregation. kisses of an enemy are him that reproacheth
and saith, Am not I in 27
Whoso diggeth a pit deceitfulc. me.
sport? shall fall therein: and he 7
The full soul 12
A prudent man
20
Where noi wood is, that rolleth a stone, it loatheth an honeycomb;
d
foreseeth the evil, and
there the fire goeth out: will return upon him. but to the hungry soul hideth himself; but the
so where there is no 28
A lying tongue every bitter thing is simple pass on, and are
talebearer, the strife hateth those that are sweet. punished.
ceaseth. 21
As coals are afflicted by it; and a 8
As a bird that 13
Take his garment
to burning coals, and flattering mouth worketh wandereth from her that is surety for a
wood to fire; so is a ruin. nest, so is a man that stranger, and take a
contentious man to wandereth from his pledge of him for a
kindle strife. The words
22
Chapter 27 a
strange woman.
of a talebearer are as heavy: Heb. heaviness 14
He that blesseth
b
Boast not thyself of
1
Wrath...: Heb. Wrath is his friend with a loud
f
it grieveth...: or, he is weary to morrow; for thou cruelty, and anger an voice, rising early in the
g
meddleth: or, is enraged knowest not what a day overflowing morning, it shall be
h c
firebrands: Heb. flames, or, deceitful: or, earnest, or, counted a curse to him.
j
sparks dissembleth: or, is known frequent 15
A continual
i k d
Where no...: Heb. Without speaketh...: Heb. maketh his loatheth: Heb. treadeth under dropping in a very rainy
wood voice gracious foot
day and a contentious flocks, and lookf well to oppresseth the poor is have good things in
woman are alike. thy herds. 24For richesg like a sweeping rain possession.
16
Whosoever hideth her are not for ever: and which leaveth no food. 11
The rich man is
hideth the wind, and the doth the crown endure 4
They that forsake the wise in his own conceit;
ointment of his right to every generation? law praise the wicked: but the poor that hath
hand, which bewrayeth 25
The hay appeareth, but such as keep the law understanding
itself. and the tender grass contend with them. searcheth him out.
17
Iron sharpeneth sheweth itself, and herbs 5
Evil men understand 12
When righteous
iron; so a man of the mountains are not judgment: but they men do rejoice, there is
sharpeneth the gathered. 26The lambs that seek the LORD great glory: but when
countenance of his are for thy clothing, and understand all things. the wicked rise, a man
friend. the goats are the price of 6
Better is the poor is hiddenb.
18
Whoso keepeth the the field. 27And thou that walketh in his 13
He that covereth
fig tree shall eat the fruit shalt have goats’ milk uprightness, than he his sins shall not
thereof: so he that enough for thy food, for that is perverse in his prosper: but whoso
waiteth on his master the food of thy ways, though he be rich. confesseth and
shall be honoured. household, and for the 7
Whoso keepeth the forsaketh them shall
19
As in water face maintenanceh for thy law is a wise son: but he have mercy.
answereth to face, so maidens. that is a companiona of 14
Happy is the man
the heart of man to man. riotous men shameth his that feareth alway: but
20
Hell and destruction Chapter 28 father. he that hardeneth his
are nevere full; so the 8
He that by usury and heart shall fall into
eyes of man are never
1
The wicked flee when unjust gain increaseth mischief.
satisfied. no man pursueth: but his substance, he shall 15
As a roaring lion,
21
As the fining pot for the righteous are bold as gather it for him that will and a ranging bear; so
silver, and the furnace a lion. pity the poor. is a wicked ruler over
for gold; so is a man to
2
For the transgression 9
He that turneth away the poor people.
his praise. of a land many are the his ear from hearing the 16
The prince that
22
Though thou princes thereof: but by a law, even his prayer wanteth understanding
shouldest bray a fool in a man of understanding shall be abomination. is also a great
mortar among wheat and knowledge the state 10
Whoso causeth the oppressor: but he that
with a pestle, yet will not thereof shall be righteous to go astray in hateth covetousness
his foolishness depart prolonged. an evil way, he shall fall shall prolong his days.
from him.
3
A poor man that himself into his own pit: 17
A man that doeth
23
Be thou diligent to f
but the upright shall violence to the blood of
know the state of thy look...: Heb. set thy heart any person shall flee to
g a
riches: Heb. strength is a companion...: or, feedeth
e h b
never: Heb. not maintenance: Heb. life gluttons hidden: or, sought for
the pit; let no man stay saith, It is no people rejoice: but when hate the upright: but
him. transgression; the same the wicked beareth rule, the just seek his soul.
18
Whoso walketh is the companion of a the people mourn. 11
A fool uttereth all
uprightly shall be saved: destroyere. 3
Whoso loveth his mind: but a wise
but he that is perverse 25
He that is of a proud wisdom rejoiceth his man keepeth it in till
in his ways shall fall at heart stirreth up strife: father: but he that afterwards.
once. but he that putteth his keepeth company with 12
If a ruler hearken
19
He that tilleth his trust in the LORD shall harlots spendeth his to lies, all his servants
land shall have plenty of be made fat. substance. are wicked.
bread: but he that 26
He that trusteth in 4
The king by 13
The poor and the
followeth after vain his own heart is a fool: judgment establisheth deceitfule man meet
persons shall have but whoso walketh the land: but heb that together: the LORD
poverty enough. wisely, he shall be receiveth gifts lighteneth both their
20
A faithful man shall delivered. overthroweth it. eyes.
abound with blessings: 27
He that giveth unto 5
A man that flattereth 14
The king that
but he that maketh the poor shall not lack: his neighbour spreadeth faithfully judgeth the
haste to be rich shall not but he that hideth his a net for his feet. poor, his throne shall be
be innocentc. eyes shall have many a 6
In the transgression established for ever.
21
To have respect of curse. of an evil man there is a 15
The rod and
persons is not good: for 28
When the wicked snare: but the righteous reproof give wisdom:
for a piece of bread that rise, men hide doth sing and rejoice. but a child left to
man will transgress. themselves: but when 7
The righteous himself bringeth his
22
He that hastethd to they perish, the considereth the cause of mother to shame.
be rich hath an evil eye, righteous increase. the poor: but the wicked 16
When the wicked
and considereth not that regardeth not to know it. are multiplied,
poverty shall come upon Chapter 29 8
Scornful men bringc a transgression
him. city into a snare: but increaseth: but the
23
He that rebuketh a
1
Hea, that being often wise men turn away righteous shall see their
man afterwards shall reproved hardeneth his wrath. fall.
find more favour than he neck, shall suddenly be 9
If a wise man 17
Correct thy son,
that flattereth with the destroyed, and that contendeth with a foolish and he shall give thee
tongue. without remedy. man, whether he rage or rest; yea, he shall give
24
Whoso robbeth his
2
When the righteous laugh, there is no rest. delight unto thy soul.
father or his mother, and are in authority, the 10
The bloodthirstyd 18
Where there is no
c e b
vision, the people
innocent: or, unpunished a destroyer: Heb. a man he...: Heb. a man of oblations
d c
hasteth...: or, hath and evil eye destroying bring...: or, set a city on fire blood
a d e
hasteth to be rich He...: Heb. A man of reproofs The bloodthirsty: Heb. Men of the deceitful...: or, the usurer
perishf: but he that safeh. what is his name, and that curseth their
keepeth the law, happy 26
Many seek the what is his son’s name, if father, and doth not
is he. ruler’si favour; but every thou canst tell? 5Every bless their mother.
19
A servant will not be man’s judgment cometh word of God is pureb: he 12
There is a generation
corrected by words: for from the LORD. is a shield unto them that are pure in their
though he understand he 27
An unjust man is an that put their trust in own eyes, and yet is
will not answer. abomination to the just: him. 6Add thou not unto not washed from their
20
Seest thou a man and he that is upright in his words, lest he filthiness. 13There is a
that is hasty in his the way is abomination reprove thee, and thou generation, O how lofty
wordsg? there is more to the wicked. be found a liar. are their eyes! and their
hope of a fool than of 7
Two things have I eyelids are lifted up.
him. Chapter 30 required of thee; denyc 14
There is a generation,
21
He that delicately me them not before I whose teeth are as
bringeth up his servant
1
The words of Agur die: 8Remove far from swords, and their jaw
from a child shall have the son of Jakeh, even me vanity and lies: give teeth as knives, to
him become his son at the prophecy: the man me neither poverty nor devour the poor from
the length. spake unto Ithiel, even riches; feed me with off the earth, and the
22
An angry man unto Ithiel and Ucal, food convenientd for me: needy from among
stirreth up strife, and a
2
Surely I am more 9
Lest I be full, and denye men.
furious man aboundeth brutish than any man, thee, and say, Who is 15
The horseleach
in transgression. and have not the the LORD? or lest I be hath two daughters,
23
A man’s pride shall understanding of a man. poor, and steal, and take crying, Give, give.
bring him low: but
3
I neither learned the name of my God in There are three things
honour shall uphold the wisdom, nor havea the vain. that are never satisfied,
humble in spirit. knowledge of the holy. 10
Accusef not a yea, four things say not,
24
Whoso is partner
4
Who hath ascended up servant unto his master, It is enough: 16
The
with a thief hateth his into heaven, or lest he curse thee, and grave; and the barren
own soul: he heareth descended? who hath thou be found guilty. womb; the earth that is
cursing, and bewrayeth gathered the wind in his 11
There is a generation not filled with water;
it not. fists? who hath bound and the fire that saith
b
25
The fear of man the waters in a garment? pure: Heb. purified not, It is enough. 17The
c
bringeth a snare: but who hath established all deny...: Heb. withhold not eye that mocketh at his
whoso putteth his trust the ends of the earth? from me father, and despiseth to
d
in the LORD shall be convenient...: Heb. of my obey his mother, the
h
safe: Heb. set on high allowance ravens of the valleyg
i e
the ruler’s...: Heb. the face of a deny...: Heb. belie thee shall pick it out, and the
f f
perish: or, is made naked ruler Accuse...: Heb. Hurt not with
g a g
words: or, matters? have: Heb. know thy tongue the valley: or, the brook
young eagles shall eat it. their meat in the The words of king
1
far above rubies. 11The
18
There be three summer; 26
The conies Lemuel, the prophecy heart of her husband
things which are too are but a feeble folk, yet that his mother taught doth safely trust in her,
wonderful for me, yea, make they their houses him. 2What, my son? and so that he shall have no
four which I know not: in the rocks; 27
The what, the son of my need of spoil. 12She will
19
The way of an eagle in locusts have no king, yet womb? and what, the do him good and not
the air; the way of a go they forth all of them son of my vows? 3Give evil all the days of her
serpent upon a rock; the by bands; 28The spider not thy strength unto life. 13She seeketh wool,
way of a ship in the taketh hold with her women, nor thy ways to and flax, and worketh
midsth of the sea; and hands, and is in kings’ that which destroyeth willingly with her hands.
the way of a man with a palaces. kings. 4It is not for kings, 14
She is like the
maid. 20Such is the way 29
There be three O Lemuel, it is not for merchants’ ships; she
of an adulterous woman; things which go well, kings to drink wine; nor bringeth her food from
she eateth, and wipeth yea, four are comely in for princes strong drink: afar. 15She riseth also
her mouth, and saith, I going: 30A lion which is 5
Lest they drink, and while it is yet night, and
have done no strongest among beasts, forget the law, and giveth meat to her
wickedness. 21For three and turneth not away for pervert the judgment of household, and a
things the earth is any; 31A greyhoundj; an any of the afflicted. portion to her maidens.
disquieted, and for four he goat also; and a king, 6
Give strong drink unto 16
She considereth a
which it cannot bear: against whom there is no him that is ready to field, and buyetha it:
22
For a servant when he rising up. 32If thou hast perish, and wine unto with the fruit of her
reigneth; and a fool done foolishly in lifting those that be of heavy hands she planteth a
when he is filled with up thyself, or if thou hast hearts. 7Let him drink, vineyard. 17She girdeth
meat; 23For an odious thought evil, lay thine and forget his poverty, her loins with strength,
woman when she is hand upon thy mouth. and remember his and strengtheneth her
married; and an 33
Surely the churning of misery no more. Open 8
arms. 18She perceiveth
handmaid that is heir to milk bringeth forth thy mouth for the dumb that her merchandise is
her mistress. butter, and the wringing in the cause of all such good: her candle goeth
24
There be four things of the nose bringeth as are appointed to not out by night. 19She
which are little upon the forth blood: so the destruction. 9Open thy layeth her hands to the
earth, but they are forcing of wrath bringeth mouth, judge spindle, and her hands
exceedingi wise: 25The forth strife. righteously, and plead hold the distaff. 20She
ants are a people not the cause of the poor stretcheth out her hand
strong, yet they prepare Chapter 31 and needy. to the poor; yea, she
h
reacheth forth her
midst: Heb. heart Who can find a virtuous
10
hands to the needy.
i j
exceeding...: Heb. wise, made greyhound: or, horse: Heb. girt woman? for her price is
a
wise in the loins buyeth: Heb. taketh
21
She is not afraid of the praised. 31Give her of the not full; unto the place hath God given to the
snow for her household: fruit of her hands; and from whence the rivers sons of man to be
for all her household are let her own works praise come, thither they exercised therewith. 14I
clothed with scarletb. her in the gates. return again. All things
b 8
have seen all the works
22
She maketh herself are full of labour; man that are done under the
coverings of tapestry; Ecclesiastes cannot utter it: the eye is sun; and, behold, all is
her clothing is silk and not satisfied with seeing, vanity and vexation of
purple. 23Her husband is Chapter 1 nor the ear filled with spirit. 15That which is
known in the gates, hearing. crooked cannot be
when he sitteth among 1
The words of the 9
The thing that hath made straight: and that
the elders of the land. Preacher, the son of been, it is that which which is wantingc
24
She maketh fine linen, David, king in Jerusalem. shall be; and that which cannot be numbered.
and selleth it; and 2
Vanity of vanities, saith is done is that which 16
I communed with
delivereth girdles unto the Preacher, vanity of shall be done: and there mine own heart, saying,
the merchant. 25Strength vanities; all is vanity. is no new thing under Lo, I am come to great
and honour are her 3
What profit hath a man the sun. 10Is there any estate, and have gotten
clothing; and she shall of all his labour which he thing whereof it may be more wisdom than all
rejoice in time to come. taketh under the sun? said, See, this is new? it they that have been
26
She openeth her mouth 4
One generation hath been already of old before me in Jerusalem:
with wisdom; and in her passeth away, and time, which was before yea, my heart had great
tongue is the law of another generation us. 11
There is no experience of wisdom
kindness. 27She looketh cometh: but the earth remembrance of former and knowledge. 17And I
well to the ways of her abideth for ever. 5The things; neither shall gave my heart to know
household, and eateth sun also ariseth, and the there be any wisdom, and to know
not the bread of sun goeth down, and remembrance of things madness and folly: I
idleness. 28Her children hastetha to his place that are to come with perceived that this also
arise up, and call her where he arose. 6
The those that shall come is vexation of spirit.
blessed; her husband wind goeth toward the after. 18
For in much wisdom is
also, and he praiseth south, and turneth about 12
I the Preacher was much grief: and he that
her. 29Many daughters unto the north; it king over Israel in increaseth knowledge
have done virtuously, whirleth about Jerusalem. 13And I gave increaseth sorrow.
but thou excellest them continually, and the wind my heart to seek and
all. 30Favour is deceitful, returneth again search out by wisdom Chapter 2
and beauty is vain: but a according to his circuits. concerning all things
woman that feareth the 7
All the rivers run into that are done under
1
I said in mine heart,
LORD, she shall be the sea; yet the sea is heaven: this sore travail c
that which is wanting: Heb.
b a b
scarlet: or, double garments hasteth: Heb. panteth return...: Heb. return to go defect
Go to now, I will prove that were in Jerusalem king? even that which hated all my labour
thee with mirth, before me: 8I gathered hath been already done. which I had takend
therefore enjoy pleasure: me also silver and gold, 13
Then I saw thatc under the sun: because
and, behold, this also is and the peculiar treasure wisdom excelleth folly, I should leave it unto
vanity. 2
I said of of kings and of the as far as light excelleth the man that shall be
laughter, It is mad: and provinces: I gat me men darkness. 14
The wise after me. 19
And who
of mirth, What doeth it? singers and women man’s eyes are in his knoweth whether he
3
I sought in mine heart singers, and the delights head; but the fool shall be a wise man or a
to givea myself unto of the sons of men, as walketh in darkness: and fool? yet shall he have
wine, yet acquainting musical instruments, and I myself perceived also rule over all my labour
mine heart with wisdom; that of all sorts. 9So I that one event wherein I have
and to lay hold on folly, was great, and increased happeneth to them all. laboured, and wherein I
till I might see what was more than all that were 15
Then said I in my heart, have shewed myself
that good for the sons of before me in Jerusalem: As it happeneth to the wise under the sun.
men, which they should also my wisdom fool, so it happeneth This is also vanity.
do under the heaven all remained with me. 10And even to me; and why 20
Therefore I went
the days of their life. 4I whatsoever mine eyes was I then more wise? about to cause my
made me great works; I desired I kept not from Then I said in my heart, heart to despair of all
builded me houses; I them, I withheld not my that this also is vanity. the labour which I took
planted me vineyards: 5I heart from any joy; for 16
For there is no under the sun. 21For
made me gardens and my heart rejoiced in all remembrance of the there is a man whose
orchards, and I planted my labour: and this was wise more than of the labour is in wisdom, and
trees in them of all kind my portion of all my fool for ever; seeing that in knowledge, and in
of fruits: 6I made me labour. 11Then I looked which now is in the days equity; yet to a man
pools of water, to water on all the works that my to come shall all be that hath not laboured
therewith the wood that hands had wrought, and forgotten. And how dieth therein shall he leavee it
bringeth forth trees: 7I on the labour that I had the wise man? as the for his portion. This also
got me servants and laboured to do: and, fool. is vanity and a great
maidens, and had behold, all was vanity 17
Therefore I hated evil. 22
For what hath
servants born in my
b
and vexation of spirit, life; because the work man of all his labour,
house; also I had great and there was no profit that is wrought under and of the vexation of
possessions of great and under the sun. the sun is grievous unto his heart, wherein he
small cattle above all 12
And I turned myself me: for all is vanity and hath laboured under
a
to behold wisdom, and vexation of spirit. 18Yea, I the sun? 23For all his
to give...: Heb. to draw my madness, and folly: for days are sorrows, and
c
flesh with wine what can the man do that...: Heb. that there is an
b d
servants born...: Heb. sons of that cometh after the excellency in wisdom more taken: Heb. laboured
e
my house than in folly, etc leave: Heb. give
his travail grief; yea, his heal; a time to break beginning to the end. 12I estate of the sons of
heart taketh not rest in down, and a time to know that there is no men, that Godc might
the night. This is also build up; 4A time to good in them, but for a manifest them, and that
vanity. 24There is nothing weep, and a time to man to rejoice, and to do they might see that
better for a man, than laugh; a time to mourn, good in his life. 13And they themselves are
that he should eat and and a time to dance; 5A also that every man beasts. 19For that which
drink, and that he should time to cast away should eat and drink, befalleth the sons of
make his soul enjoy stones, and a time to and enjoy the good of all men befalleth beasts;
good in his labour. This gather stones together; his labour, it is the gift of even one thing
also I saw, that it was a time to embrace, and a God. 14I know that, befalleth them: as the
from the hand of God. time to refrain from whatsoever God doeth, it one dieth, so dieth the
25
For who can eat, or embracing; 6A time to shall be for ever: nothing other; yea, they have
who else can hasten geta, and a time to lose; can be put to it, nor any all one breath; so that a
hereunto, more than I? a time to keep, and a thing taken from it: and man hath no
26
For God giveth to a time to cast away; 7A God doeth it, that men preeminence above a
man that is good in his time to rend, and a time should fear before him. beast: for all is vanity.
sight wisdom, and to sew; a time to keep 15
That which hath been is 20
All go unto one place;
knowledge, and joy: but silence, and a time to now; and that which is to all are of the dust, and
to the sinner he giveth speak; 8A time to love, be hath already been; all turn to dust again.
travail, to gather and to and a time to hate; a and God requireth that 21
Who knoweth the
heap up, that he may time of war, and a time which is pastb. spirit of mand that
give to him that is good of peace. 9What profit 16
And moreover I saw goeth upward, and the
before God. This also is hath he that worketh in under the sun the place spirit of the beast that
vanity and vexation of that wherein he of judgment, that goeth downward to the
spirit. laboureth? 10I have seen wickedness was there; earth? 22
Wherefore I
the travail, which God and the place of perceive that there is
Chapter 3 hath given to the sons of righteousness, that nothing better, than
men to be exercised in iniquity was there. 17I that a man should
1
To every thing there it. said in mine heart, God rejoice in his own
is a season, and a time 11
He hath made every shall judge the righteous works; for that is his
to every purpose under thing beautiful in his and the wicked: for there portion: for who shall
the heaven: 2A time to time: also he hath set is a time there for every bring him to see what
be born, and a time to the world in their heart, purpose and for every shall be after him?
die; a time to plant, and so that no man can find work. 18I said in mine c
a time to pluck up that out the work that God heart concerning the that God...: or, that they
which is planted; 3
A maketh from the might clear God, and see, etc
b d
time to kill, and a time to that which is past: Heb. that of man: Heb. of the sons of
a
get: or, seek which is driven away man
Chapter 4 Then I returned, and whereas also he that is known by multitude of
7

I saw vanity under the born in his kingdom words.


So I returned, and
1
sun. 8There is one alone, becometh poor. 15
I 4
When thou vowest a
considered all the and there is not a considered all the living vow unto God, defer not
oppressions that are second; yea, he hath which walk under the to pay it; for he hath no
done under the sun: and neither child nor brother: sun, with the second pleasure in fools: pay
behold the tears of such yet is there no end of all child that shall stand up that which thou hast
as were oppressed, and his labour; neither is his in his stead. 16There is no vowed. 5Better is it that
they had no comforter; eye satisfied with riches; end of all the people, thou shouldest not vow,
and on the sidea of their neither saith he, For even of all that have than that thou
oppressors there was whom do I labour, and been before them: they shouldest vow and not
power; but they had no bereave my soul of also that come after pay. 6Suffer not thy
comforter. 2Wherefore I good? This is also vanity, shall not rejoice in him. mouth to cause thy
praised the dead which yea, it is a sore travail. Surely this also is vanity flesh to sin; neither say
are already dead more 9
Two are better than and vexation of spirit. thou before the angel,
than the living which are one; because they have that it was an error:
yet alive. 3Yea, better is a good reward for their Chapter 5 wherefore should God
he than both they, which labour. 10For if they fall, be angry at thy voice,
hath not yet been, who the one will lift up his Keep thy foot when
1
and destroy the work of
hath not seen the evil fellow: but woe to him thou goest to the house thine hands? 7For in the
work that is done under that is alone when he of God, and be more multitude of dreams
the sun. falleth; for he hath not ready to hear, than to and many words there
4
Again, I considered another to help him up. give the sacrifice of are also divers vanities:
all travail, and every 11
Again, if two lie fools: for they consider but fear thou God. 8If
right work, that for this a together, then they have not that they do evil. 2Be thou seest the
man is envied of his heat: but how can one not rash with thy mouth, oppression of the poor,
neighbour. This is also be warm alone? 12And if and let not thine heart and violent perverting
vanity and vexation of one prevail against him, be hasty to utter any of judgment and justice
spirit. 5The fool foldeth two shall withstand him; thinga before God: for in a province, marvel
his hands together, and and a threefold cord is God is in heaven, and not at the matter: for
eateth his own flesh. not quickly broken. thou upon earth: he that is higher than
6
Better is an handful 13
Better is a poor and therefore let thy words the highest regardeth;
with quietness, than a wise child than an old be few. 3For a dream and there be higher
both the hands full with and foolish king, who will cometh through the than they.
travail and vexation of no more be admonished. multitude of business; 9
Moreover the profit
spirit. 14
For out of prison he and a fool’s voice is of the earth is for all:
a
cometh to reign; a
the king himself is
side: Heb. hand thing: or, word
served by the field. 10He and what profit hath he given riches, wealth, and more than the fool?
that loveth silver shall that hath laboured for honour, so that he what hath the poor,
not be satisfied with the wind? 17All his days wanteth nothing for his that knoweth to walk
silver; nor he that loveth also he eateth in soul of all that he before the living?
abundance with darkness, and he hath desireth, yet God giveth 9
Better is the sight of
increase: this is also much sorrow and wrath him not power to eat the eyes than the
vanity. 11When goods with his sickness. thereof, but a stranger wandering of the
increase, they are 18
Behold that which I eateth it: this is vanity, desire: this is also
increased that eat them: have seen: it is good and and it is an evil disease. vanity and vexation of
and what good is there comely for one to eat 3
If a man beget an spirit. 10
That which
to the owners thereof, and to drink, and to hundred children, and hath been is named
saving the beholding of enjoy the good of all his live many years, so that already, and it is known
them with their eyes? labour that he taketh the days of his years be that it is man: neither
12
The sleep of a under the sun all the many, and his soul be may he contend with
labouring man is sweet, days of his life, which not filled with good, and him that is mightier
whether he eat little or God giveth him: for it is also that he have no than he.
much: but the his portion. 19Every man burial; I say, that an 11
Seeing there be
abundance of the rich also to whom God hath untimely birth is better many things that
will not suffer him to given riches and wealth, than he. 4For he cometh increase vanity, what is
sleep. 13There is a sore and hath given him in with vanity, and man the better? 12For
evil which I have seen power to eat thereof, departeth in darkness, who knoweth what is
under the sun, namely, and to take his portion, and his name shall be good for man in this
riches kept for the and to rejoice in his covered with darkness. life, allb the days of his
owners thereof to their labour; this is the gift of 5
Moreover he hath not vain life which he
hurt. 14But those riches God. 20For he shall not seen the sun, nor known spendeth as a shadow?
perish by evil travail: and much remember the any thing: this hath more for who can tell a man
he begetteth a son, and days of his life; because rest than the other. 6Yea, what shall be after him
there is nothing in his God answereth him in though he live a under the sun?
hand. 15As he came forth the joy of his heart. thousand years twice
of his mother’s womb, told, yet hath he seen no Chapter 7
naked shall he return to Chapter 6 good: do not all go to
go as he came, and shall one place? A good name is
1

take nothing of his There is an evil


1 7
All the labour of man better than precious
labour, which he may which I have seen under is for his mouth, and yet ointment; and the day
carry away in his hand. the sun, and it is the appetitea is not filled. of death than the day of
16
And this also is a sore common among men: 2A 8
For what hath the wise b
evil, that in all points as man to whom God hath all...: Heb. the number of the
a
he came, so shall he go: appetite: Heb. soul days of the life of his vanity
one’s birth. 2It is better bosom of fools. 10Say not is a wicked man that proved by wisdom: I
to go to the house of thou, What is the cause prolongeth his life in his said, I will be wise; but
mourning, than to go to that the former days wickedness. 16Be not it was far from me.
the house of feasting: for were better than these? righteous over much; 24
That which is far off,
that is the end of all for thou dost not enquire neither make thyself and exceeding deep,
men; and the living will wiselyc concerning this. over wise: why shouldest who can find it out? 25I
lay it to his heart. 11
Wisdom is goodd thou destroyg thyself? appliedi mine heart to
3
Sorrowa is better than with an inheritance: and 17
Be not over much know, and to search,
laughter: for by the by it there is profit to wicked, neither be thou and to seek out
sadness of the them that see the sun. foolish: why shouldest wisdom, and the reason
countenance the heart is 12
For wisdom is a thou die before thy time? of things, and to know
made better. 4The heart defence , and money is a
e 18
It is good that thou the wickedness of folly,
of the wise is in the defence: but the shouldest take hold of even of foolishness and
house of mourning; but excellency of knowledge this; yea, also from this madness: 26And I find
the heart of fools is in is, that wisdom giveth withdraw not thine hand: more bitter than death
the house of mirth. 5It is life to them that have it. for he that feareth God the woman, whose
better to hear the rebuke 13
Consider the work of shall come forth of them heart is snares and
of the wise, than for a God: for who can make all. 19
Wisdom nets, and her hands as
man to hear the song of that straight, which he strengtheneth the wise bands: whoso pleaseth
fools. 6
For as the hath made crooked? 14In more than ten mighty God shall escape from
cracklingb of thorns the day of prosperity be men which are in the her; but the sinner shall
under a pot, so is the joyful, but in the day of city. 20For there is not a be taken by her.
laughter of the fool: this adversity consider: God just man upon earth, 27
Behold, this have I
also is vanity. also hath setf the one that doeth good, and found, saith the
7
Surely oppression over against the other, sinneth not. 21Also takeh preacher, counting one
maketh a wise man mad; to the end that man no heed unto all words by one, to find out the
and a gift destroyeth the should find nothing after that are spoken; lest account: 28
Which yet
heart. 8Better is the end him. 15All things have I thou hear thy servant my soul seeketh, but I
of a thing than the seen in the days of my curse thee: 22
For find not: one man
beginning thereof: and vanity: there is a just oftentimes also thine among a thousand have
the patient in spirit is man that perisheth in his own heart knoweth that I found; but a woman
better than the proud in righteousness, and there thou thyself likewise among all those have I
spirit. 9Be not hasty in c
hast cursed others. not found. 29Lo, this
thy spirit to be angry: for wisely: Heb. out of wisdom 23
All this have I only have I found, that
d
anger resteth in the good...: or, as good as an God hath made man
g
inheritance, yea, better too destroy...: Heb. be desolate?
a e h i
Sorrow: or, Anger defence: Heb. shadow take...: Heb. give not thine I applied...: Heb. I and mine
b f
crackling: Heb. sound set: Heb. made heart heart compassed
upright; but they have knoweth not that which prolonged, yet surely I nor night seeth sleep
sought out many shall be: for who can tell know that it shall be well with his eyes:) 17Then I
inventions. him when it shall be? with them that fear God, beheld all the work of
8
There is no man that which fear before him: God, that a man cannot
Chapter 8 hath power over the 13
But it shall not be well find out the work that is
spirit to retain the spirit; with the wicked, neither done under the sun:
1
Who is as the wise neither hath he power in shall he prolong his because though a man
man? and who knoweth the day of death: and days, which are as a labour to seek it out,
the interpretation of a there is no dischargeb in shadow; because he yet he shall not find it;
thing? a man’s wisdom that war; neither shall feareth not before God. yea further; though a
maketh his face to shine, wickedness deliver those 14
There is a vanity wise man think to know
and the boldnessa of his that are given to it. which is done upon the it, yet shall he not be
face shall be changed. 2I 9
All this have I seen, earth; that there be just able to find it.
counsel thee to keep the and applied my heart men, unto whom it
king’s commandment, unto every work that is happeneth according to Chapter 9
and that in regard of the done under the sun: the work of the wicked;
oath of God. 3Be not there is a time wherein again, there be wicked For
1
all this I
hasty to go out of his one man ruleth over men, to whom it considered in my heart
a

sight: stand not in an evil another to his own hurt. happeneth according to even to declare all this,
thing; for he doeth 10
And so I saw the the work of the that the righteous, and
whatsoever pleaseth wicked buried, who had righteous: I said that this the wise, and their
him. Where the word of
4
come and gone from the also is vanity. 15Then I works, are in the hand
a king is, there is power: place of the holy, and commended mirth, of God: no man
and who may say unto they were forgotten in because a man hath no knoweth either love or
him, What doest thou? the city where they had better thing under the hatred by all that is
5
Whoso keepeth the so done: this is also sun, than to eat, and to before them. 2
All
commandment shall feel vanity. 11
Because drink, and to be merry: things come alike to all:
no evil thing: and a wise sentence against an evil for that shall abide with there is one event to
man’s heart discerneth work is not executed him of his labour the the righteous, and to
both time and judgment. speedily, therefore the days of his life, which the wicked; to the good
6
Because to every heart of the sons of men God giveth him under and to the clean, and to
purpose there is time is fully set in them to do the sun. 16When I applied the unclean; to him that
and judgment, therefore evil. 12Though a sinner mine heart to know sacrificeth, and to him
the misery of man is do evil an hundred wisdom, and to see the that sacrificeth not: as
great upon him. 7For he times, and his days be business that is done is the good, so is the
a b
upon the earth: (for also a
the boldness: Heb. the discharge: or, casting off there is that neither day I considered...: Heb. I gave,
strength weapons or, set to my heart
sinner; and he that 9
Liveb joyfully with the evil time, when it falleth a stinking savour: so
sweareth, as he that wife whom thou lovest suddenly upon them. doth a little folly him
feareth an oath. 3This is all the days of the life of 13
This wisdom have I that is in reputation for
an evil among all things thy vanity, which he hath seen also under the sun, wisdom and honour. 2A
that are done under the given thee under the and it seemed great unto wise man’s heart is at
sun, that there is one sun, all the days of thy me: 14There was a little his right hand; but a
event unto all: yea, also vanity: for that is thy city, and few men within fool’s heart at his left.
the heart of the sons of portion in this life, and in it; and there came a 3
Yea also, when he that
men is full of evil, and thy labour which thou great king against it, and is a fool walketh by the
madness is in their heart takest under the sun. besieged it, and built way, his wisdom faileth
while they live, and after 10
Whatsoever thy hand great bulwarks against him, and he saith to
that they go to the dead. findeth to do, do it with it: 15Now there was found every one that he is a
4
For to him that is thy might; for there is no in it a poor wise man, fool.
joined to all the living work, nor device, nor and he by his wisdom 4
If the spirit of the
there is hope: for a living knowledge, nor wisdom, delivered the city; yet no ruler rise up against
dog is better than a dead in the grave, whither man remembered that thee, leave not thy
lion. 5For the living know thou goest. same poor man. 16Then place; for yielding
that they shall die: but 11
I returned, and saw said I, Wisdom is better pacifieth great
the dead know not any under the sun, that the than strength: offences. 5There is an
thing, neither have they race is not to the swift, nevertheless the poor evil which I have seen
any more a reward; for nor the battle to the man’s wisdom is under the sun, as an
the memory of them is strong, neither yet bread despised, and his words error which proceedeth
forgotten. 6
Also their to the wise, nor yet are not heard. 17The fromb the ruler: 6Folly is
love, and their hatred, riches to men of words of wise men are set in greatc dignity,
and their envy, is now understanding, nor yet heard in quiet more than and the rich sit in low
perished; neither have favour to men of skill; the cry of him that ruleth place. 7
I have seen
they any more a portion but time and chance among fools. 18Wisdom servants upon horses,
for ever in any thing that happeneth to them all. is better than weapons and princes walking as
is done under the sun. 12
For man also knoweth of war: but one sinner servants upon the
7
Go thy way, eat thy not his time: as the destroyeth much good. earth. He that diggeth
8

bread with joy, and drink fishes that are taken in a pit shall fall into it;
thy wine with a merry an evil net, and as the Chapter 10 and whoso breaketh an
heart; for God now birds that are caught in hedge, a serpent shall
accepteth thy works. the snare; so are the Deada flies cause the
1
bite him. 9
Whoso
8
Let thy garments be sons of men snared in an ointment of the
b
always white; and let thy apothecary to send forth from: Heb. from before
b c
head lack no ointment. Live...: Heb. See, or, Enjoy in great...: Heb. in great
a
life Dead...: Heb. Flies of death heights
removeth stones shall be to the city. 2
Give a portion to seven, behold the sun: 8But if a
hurt therewith; and he 16
Woe to thee, O land, and also to eight; for man live many years,
that cleaveth wood shall when thy king is a child, thou knowest not what and rejoice in them all;
be endangered thereby. and thy princes eat in evil shall be upon the yet let him remember
10
If the iron be blunt, and the morning! 17Blessed earth. 3If the clouds be the days of darkness;
he do not whet the edge, art thou, O land, when full of rain, they empty for they shall be many.
then must he put to thy king is the son of themselves upon the All that cometh is
more strength: but nobles, and thy princes earth: and if the tree fall vanity. 9
Rejoice, O
wisdom is profitable to eat in due season, for toward the south, or young man, in thy
direct. 11
Surely the strength, and not for toward the north, in the youth; and let thy heart
serpent will bite without drunkenness! 18By much place where the tree cheer thee in the days
enchantment; and a slothfulness the building falleth, there it shall be. of thy youth, and walk
babblerd is no better. decayeth; and through 4
He that observeth the in the ways of thine
12
The words of a wise idleness of the hands the wind shall not sow; and heart, and in the sight
man’s mouth are house droppeth through. he that regardeth the of thine eyes: but know
gracious ; but the lips of
e 19
A feast is made for clouds shall not reap. 5As thou, that for all these
a fool will swallow up laughter, and wine thou knowest not what is things God will bring
himself. 13The beginning maketh merry: but the way of the spirit, nor thee into judgment.
of the words of his money answereth all how the bones do grow 10
Therefore remove
mouth is foolishness: things. 20Curse not the in the womb of her that sorrow from thy heart,
c

and the end of his talkf is king, no not in thy is with child: even so and put away evil from
mischievous madness. thoughth; and curse not thou knowest not the thy flesh: for childhood
14
A fool also is fullg of the rich in thy works of God who and youth are vanity.
words: a man cannot tell bedchamber: for a bird maketh all. 6
In the
what shall be; and what of the air shall carry the morning sow thy seed, Chapter 12
shall be after him, who voice, and that which and in the evening
can tell him? 15
The hath wings shall tell the withhold not thine hand: Remember now thy
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labour of the foolish matter. for thou knowest not Creator in the days of
wearieth every one of whether shall prosperb, thy youth, while the evil
them, because he Chapter 11 either this or that, or days come not, nor the
knoweth not how to go whether they both shall years draw nigh, when
Cast thy bread upona
1
be alike good. thou shalt say, I have
d
a babbler: Heb. the master of the waters: for thou shalt 7
Truly the light is no pleasure in them;
the tongue find it after many days. sweet, and a pleasant
2
While the sun, or the
e
gracious: Heb. grace thing it is for the eyes to light, or the moon, or
f h
his talk: Heb. his mouth thought: or, conscience the stars, be not
g a b
is full...: Heb. multiplieth upon...: Heb. upon the face of shall prosper: Heb. shall be
c
words the waters right sorrow: or, anger
darkened, nor the clouds or the wheel broken at 13
Let us hear the black, but comely, O ye
return after the rain: 3In the cistern. 7Then shall conclusion of the whole daughters of Jerusalem,
the day when the the dust return to the matter: Fear God, and as the tents of Kedar,
keepers of the house earth as it was: and the keep his as the curtains of
shall tremble, and the spirit shall return unto commandments: for this Solomon. 6
Look not
strong men shall bow God who gave it. is the whole duty of man. upon me, because I am
themselves, and the 8
Vanity of vanities, 14
For God shall bring black, because the sun
grinders cease because
a
saith the preacher; all is every work into hath looked upon me:
they are few, and those vanity. 9And moreoverb, judgment, with every my mother’s children
that look out of the because the preacher secret thing, whether it were angry with me;
windows be darkened, was wise, he still taught be good, or whether it they made me the
And the doors shall be the people knowledge; Song of keeper of the
4
be evil.
shut in the streets, when yea, he gave good heed, vineyards; but mine
the sound of the grinding and sought out, and set Solomon own vineyard have I not
is low, and he shall rise in order many proverbs. kept.
up at the voice of the 10
The preacher sought to Chapter 1 7
Tell me, O thou
bird, and all the find out acceptablec whom my soul loveth,
daughters of musick words: and that which The song of songs,
1
where thou feedest,
shall be brought low; was written was upright, which is Solomon’s. where thou makest thy
5
Also when they shall be even words of truth.
2
Let him kiss me with flock to rest at noon: for
afraid of that which is 11
The words of the wise the kisses of his mouth: why should I be as one
high, and fears shall be are as goads, and as for thy love is better that turneth aside by
in the way, and the nails fastened by the than wine. 3Because of the flocks of thy
almond tree shall masters of assemblies, the savour of thy good companions? 8
If thou
flourish, and the which are given from ointments thy name is know not, O thou fairest
grasshopper shall be a one shepherd. 12
And as ointment poured among women, go thy
burden, and desire shall further, by these, my forth, therefore do the way forth by the
fail: because man goeth son, be admonished: of virgins love thee. 4Draw footsteps of the flock,
to his long home, and making many books me, we will run after and feed thy kids
the mourners go about there is no end; and thee: the king hath beside the shepherds’
the streets: 6Or ever the much studyd is a brought me into his tents. 9I have compared
silver cord be loosed, or weariness of the flesh. chambers: we will be thee, O my love, to a
the golden bowl be glad and rejoice in thee, company of horses in
b
broken, or the pitcher be moreover...: or, the more wise we will remember thy Pharaoh’s chariots.
broken at the fountain, the preacher was, etc love more than wine: the 10
Thy cheeks are
c
acceptable...: Heb. words of uprighta love thee. 5I am comely with rows of
a
the grinders...: or, the grinders delight
d a
fail, because they grind little study: or, reading the upright...: or, they love thee uprightly
jewels, thy neck with among the trees of the wall, he looketh forth at the day break, and the
chains of gold. 11We will wood, so is my beloved the windows, shewinge shadows flee away,
make thee borders of among the sons. I sata himself through the turn, my beloved, and
gold with studs of silver. down under his shadow lattice. 10
My beloved be thou like a roe or a
12
While the king with great delight, and spake, and said unto me, young hart upon the
sitteth at his table, my his fruit was sweet to my Rise up, my love, my fair mountains of Betherf.
spikenard sendeth forth taste. 4
He brought me one, and come away.
the smell thereof. 13A to the banquetingb 11
For, lo, the winter is Chapter 3
bundle of myrrh is my house, and his banner past, the rain is over and
wellbeloved unto me; he over me was love. 5Stay gone; 12
The flowers By night on my bed
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shall lie all night betwixt me with flagons, appear on the earth; the I sought him whom my
my breasts. 14My beloved comfort me with apples:
c
time of the singing of soul loveth: I sought
is unto me as a cluster of for I am sick of love. 6His birds is come, and the him, but I found him
camphireb in the left hand is under my voice of the turtle is not. 2I will rise now, and
vineyards of Engedi. head, and his right hand heard in our land; 13The go about the city in the
15
Behold, thou art fair, doth embrace me. 7I fig tree putteth forth her streets, and in the
my lovec; behold, thou charged you, O ye green figs, and the vines broad ways I will seek
art fair; thou hast doves’ daughters of Jerusalem, with the tender grape him whom my soul
eyes. 16Behold, thou art by the roes, and by the give a good smell. Arise, loveth: I sought him,
fair, my beloved, yea, hinds of the field, that ye my love, my fair one, but I found him not.
pleasant: also our bed is stir not up, nor awake and come away.
3
The watchmen that go
green. 17The beams of my love, till he please. 14
O my dove, that art about the city found
our house are cedar, and 8
The voice of my in the clefts of the rock, me: to whom I said,
our raftersd of fir. beloved! behold, he in the secret places of Saw ye him whom my
cometh leaping upon the the stairs, let me see thy soul loveth? 4It was but
Chapter 2 mountains, skipping countenance, let me a little that I passed
upon the hills. 9
My hear thy voice; for sweet from them, but I found
1
I am the rose of beloved is like a roe or a is thy voice, and thy him whom my soul
Sharon, and the lily of young hart: behold, he countenance is comely. loveth: I held him, and
the valleys. 2As the lily standeth behind our 15
Take us the foxes, the would not let him go,
among thorns, so is my little foxes, that spoil the until I had brought him
a
love among the I sat...: Heb. I delighted and vines: for our vines have into my mother’s
daughters. sat down, etc tender grapes. 16
My house, and into the
b
3
As the apple tree banqueting...: Heb. house of beloved is mine, and I chamber of her that
wine am his: he feedeth conceived me. 5I charge
b c
camphire: or, cypress comfort...: Heb. straw me with among the lilies. 17Until you, O ye daughters of
c
my love: or, my companion apples
d d e f
rafters: or, galleries I charge...: Heb. I adjure you shewing...: Heb. flourishing of Bether: or, of division
Jerusalem, by the roes, crowned him in the day breaka, and the shadows sister, my spouse; a
and by the hinds of the of his espousals, and in flee away, I will get me spring shut up, a
field, that ye stir not up, the day of the gladness to the mountain of fountain sealed. 13Thy
nor awake my love, till of his heart. myrrh, and to the hill of plants are an orchard of
he please. frankincense. 7Thou art pomegranates, with
6
Who is this that Chapter 4 all fair, my love; there is pleasant fruits;
cometh out of the no spot in thee. camphirec, with
wilderness like pillars of
1
Behold, thou art fair, 8
Come with me from spikenard, 14
Spikenard
smoke, perfumed with my love; behold, thou Lebanon, my spouse, and saffron; calamus
myrrh and frankincense, art fair; thou hast doves’ with me from Lebanon: and cinnamon, with all
with all powders of the eyes within thy locks: look from the top of trees of frankincense;
merchant? thy hair is as a flock of Amana, from the top of myrrh and aloes, with
7
Behold his bed, goats, that appear from Shenir and Hermon, from all the chief spices:
which is Solomon’s; mount Gilead. 2
Thy the lions’ dens, from the 15
A fountain of
threescore valiant men teeth are like a flock of mountains of the gardens, a well of living
are about it, of the sheep that are even leopards. 9
Thou hast waters, and streams
valiant of Israel. 8They all shorn, which came up ravished my heart, my from Lebanon. 16Awake,
hold swords, being from the washing; sister, my spouse; thou O north wind; and
expert in war: every man whereof every one bear hast ravished my heart come, thou south; blow
hath his sword upon his twins, and none is barren with one of thine eyes, upon my garden, that
thigh because of fear in among them. 3Thy lips with one chain of thy the spices thereof may
the night. 9King Solomon are like a thread of neck. 10How fair is thy flow out. Let my
made himself a chariota scarlet, and thy speech love, my sister, my beloved come into his
of the wood of Lebanon. is comely: thy temples spouse! how much garden, and eat his
10
He made the pillars are like a piece of a better is thy love than pleasant fruits.
thereof of silver, the pomegranate within thy wine! and the smell of
bottom thereof of gold, locks. 4Thy neck is like thine ointments than all Chapter 5
the covering of it of the tower of David spices! 11Thy lips, O my
purple, the midst thereof builded for an armoury, spouse, drop as the I am come into my
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being paved with love, whereon there hang a honeycomb: honey and garden, my sister, my
for the daughters of thousand bucklers, all milk are under thy spouse: I have gathered
Jerusalem. 11Go forth, O shields of mighty men. tongue; and the smell of my myrrh with my
ye daughters of Zion,
5
Thy two breasts are like thy garments is like the spice; I have eaten my
and behold king Solomon two young roes that are smell of Lebanon. 12A honeycomb with my
with the crown twins, which feed among garden inclosedb is my honey; I have drunk my
wherewith his mother the lilies. 6Until the day wine with my milk: eat,
a
break: Heb. breathe
a b c
a chariot: or, a bed inclosed: Heb. barred camphire: or, cypress
O friends; drink, yea, called him, but he gave lilies, dropping sweet my love, as Tirzah,
drink abundantlya, O me no answer. 7The smelling myrrh. 14
His comely as Jerusalem,
beloved. watchmen that went hands are as gold rings terrible as an army with
2
I sleep, but my heart about the city found me, set with the beryl: his banners. 5Turn away
waketh: it is the voice of they smote me, they belly is as bright ivory thine eyes from me, for
my beloved that wounded me; the overlaid with sapphires. they have overcomea
knocketh, saying, Open keepers of the walls took 15
His legs are as pillars of me: thy hair is as a
to me, my sister, my away my veil from me. 8I marble, set upon sockets flock of goats that
love, my dove, my charge you, O daughters of fine gold: his appear from Gilead.
undefiled: for my head is of Jerusalem, if ye find countenance is as 6
Thy teeth are as a flock
filled with dew, and my my beloved, that ye tell Lebanon, excellent as of sheep which go up
locks with the drops of him, that I am sick of the cedars. 16His mouthf from the washing,
the night. 3I have put off love. is most sweet: yea, he is whereof every one
my coat; how shall I put 9
What is thy beloved altogether lovely. This is beareth twins, and
it on? I have washed my more than another my beloved, and this is there is not one barren
feet; how shall I defile beloved, O thou fairest my friend, O daughters among them. 7As a
them? 4My beloved put among women? what is of Jerusalem. piece of a pomegranate
in his hand by the hole thy beloved more than are thy temples within
of the door, and my another beloved, that Chapter 6 thy locks. 8There are
bowels were moved for thou dost so charge us? threescore queens, and
him. b 5I rose up to open 10
My beloved is white
1
Whither is thy fourscore concubines,
to my beloved; and my and ruddy, the chiefestc beloved gone, O thou and virgins without
hands dropped with among ten thousand. fairest among women? number. 9My dove, my
myrrh, and my fingers 11
His head is as the most whither is thy beloved undefiled is but one;
with sweet smelling fine gold, his locks are turned aside? that we she is the only one of
myrrh, upon the handles bushyd, and black as a may seek him with thee. her mother, she is the
of the lock. 6I opened to raven. 12His eyes are as
2
My beloved is gone choice one of her that
my beloved; but my the eyes of doves by the down into his garden, to bare her. The daughters
beloved had withdrawn rivers of waters, washed the beds of spices, to saw her, and blessed
himself, and was gone: with milk, and fitly set. feed in the gardens, and her; yea, the queens
my soul failed when he 13
His cheeks are as a bed to gather lilies. 3I am my and the concubines,
spake: I sought him, but of spices, as sweet beloved’s, and my and they praised her.
I could not find him; I flowerse: his lips like beloved is mine: he 10
Who is she that
feedeth among the lilies. looketh forth as the
a c
yea...: or, and be drunken with the chiefest: Heb. a standard 4
Thou art beautiful, O morning, fair as the
loves bearer
b d a
for him: or, (as some read) in bushy: or, curled perfumes overcome...: or, puffed me
e f
me sweet flowers: or, towers of mouth: Heb. palate up
moon, clear as the sun, young roes that are me. 11Come, my beloved, my head, and his right
and terrible as an army twins. 4Thy neck is as a let us go forth into the hand should embrace
with banners? tower of ivory; thine field; let us lodge in the me. 4I charge you, O
11
I went down into the eyes like the fishpools in villages. 12Let us get up daughters of Jerusalem,
garden of nuts to see the Heshbon, by the gate of early to the vineyards; that ye stir not up, nor
fruits of the valley, and Bathrabbim: thy nose is let us see if the vine awake my love, until he
to see whether the vine as the tower of Lebanon flourish, whether the please.
flourished, and the which looketh toward tender grape appeard, 5
Who is this that
pomegranates budded. Damascus. 5Thine head and the pomegranates cometh up from the
12
Or ever I was aware, upon thee is like bud forth: there will I wilderness, leaning
my soul made me like Carmelb, and the hair of give thee my loves. upon her beloved? I
the chariots of thine head like purple; 13
The mandrakes give a raised thee up under
Amminadib. 13
Return, the king is held in the smell, and at our gates the apple tree: there
return, O Shulamite; galleries. 6How fair and are all manner of thy mother brought
return, return, that we how pleasant art thou, O pleasant fruits, new and thee forth: there she
may look upon thee. love, for delights! 7This old, which I have laid up brought thee forth that
What will ye see in the thy stature is like to a for thee, O my beloved. bare thee. 6Set me as a
Shulamite? As it were palm tree, and thy seal upon thine heart,
the company of two breasts to clusters of Chapter 8 as a seal upon thine
armies. grapes. 8I said, I will go arm: for love is strong
up to the palm tree, I will O that thou wert as
1
as death; jealousy is
Chapter 7 take hold of the boughs my brother, that sucked cruela as the grave: the
thereof: now also thy the breasts of my coals thereof are coals
How beautiful are thy
1
breasts shall be as mother! when I should of fire, which hath a
feet with shoes, O clusters of the vine, and find thee without, I most vehement flame.
prince’s daughter! the the smell of thy nose like would kiss thee; yea, I 7
Many waters cannot
joints of thy thighs are apples; 9And the roof of should not be despised. quench love, neither
like jewels, the work of thy mouth like the best
2
I would lead thee, and can the floods drown it:
the hands of a cunning wine for my beloved, bring thee into my if a man would give all
workman. 2Thy navel is that goeth down mother’s house, who the substance of his
like a round goblet, sweetlyc, causing the lips would instruct me: I house for love, it would
which wanteth not of those that are asleep would cause thee to utterly be contemned.
liquora: thy belly is like to speak. drink of spiced wine of 8
We have a little
an heap of wheat set 10
I am my beloved’s, the juice of my sister, and she hath no
about with lilies. 3Thy and his desire is toward pomegranate. 3His left breasts: what shall we
two breasts are like two hand should be under do for our sister in the
b
Carmel: or, crimson
a c d a
liquor: Heb. mixture sweetly: Heb. straightly appear: Heb. open cruel: Heb. hard
day when she shall be Chapter 1 From the sole of the multitude of your
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spoken for? 9If she be a foot even unto the head sacrifices unto me?
wall, we will build upon 1
The vision of Isaiah there is no soundness in saith the LORD: I am
her a palace of silver: the son of Amoz, which it; but wounds, and full of the burnt
and if she be a door, we he saw concerning Judah bruises, and putrifying offerings of rams, and
will inclose her with and Jerusalem in the sores: they have not the fat of fed beasts;
boards of cedar. 10I am a days of Uzziah, Jotham, been closed, neither and I delight not in the
wall, and my breasts like Ahaz, and Hezekiah, bound up, neither blood of bullocks, or of
towers: then was I in his kings of Judah. mollified with ointmentc. lambs, or of he goatse.
eyes as one that found 2
Hear, O heavens, and 7
Your country is 12
When ye come to
favourb. 11Solomon had give ear, O earth: for the desolate, your cities are appearf before me, who
a vineyard at LORD hath spoken, I burned with fire: your hath required this at
Baalhamon; he let out have nourished and land, strangers devour it your hand, to tread my
the vineyard unto brought up children, and in your presence, and it courts? 13Bring no more
keepers; every one for they have rebelled is desolate, as vain oblations; incense
the fruit thereof was to against me. 3
The ox overthrown d
by is an abomination unto
bring a thousand pieces knoweth his owner, and strangers. 8
And the me; the new moons and
of silver. 12My vineyard, the ass his master’s crib: daughter of Zion is left sabbaths, the calling of
which is mine, is before but Israel doth not know, as a cottage in a assemblies, I cannot
me: thou, O Solomon, my people doth not vineyard, as a lodge in a away with; it is
must have a thousand, consider. 4
Ah sinful garden of cucumbers, as iniquityg, even the
and those that keep the nation, a people ladena a besieged city. 9Except solemn meeting. 14Your
fruit thereof two with iniquity, a seed of the LORD of hosts had new moons and your
hundred. evildoers, children that left unto us a very small appointed feasts my
are corrupters: they remnant, we should have soul hateth: they are a
13
Thou that dwellest in have forsaken the LORD, been as Sodom, and we trouble unto me; I am
the gardens, the they have provoked the should have been like weary to bear them.
companions hearken to Holy One of Israel unto unto Gomorrah. 15
And when ye spread
thy voice: cause me to anger, they are gone 10
Hear the word of the forth your hands, I will
hear it. 14Make haste, my away backward. 5
Why LORD, ye rulers of hide mine eyes from
beloved, and be thou like should ye be stricken Sodom; give ear unto the you: yea, when ye
to a roe or to a young any more? ye will revoltb law of our God, ye make many prayers, I
hart upon the mountains more and more: the people of Gomorrah. 11To will not hear: your
of spices. whole head is sick, and what purpose is the hands are full of blood.
the whole heart faint.
Isaiah a
c
d
ointment: or, oil e
f
he goats: Heb. great he goats
laden: Heb. of heaviness overthrown...: Heb. the to appear: Heb. to be seen
b b g
favour: Heb. peace revolt...: Heb. increase revolt overthrow of iniquity: or, grief
Wash you, make you
16
rewards: they judge not desired, and ye shall be ways, and we will walk
clean; put away the evil the fatherless, neither confounded for the in his paths: for out of
of your doings from doth the cause of the gardens that ye have Zion shall go forth the
before mine eyes; cease widow come unto them. chosen. 30For ye shall be law, and the word of
to do evil; 17Learn to do 24
Therefore saith the as an oak whose leaf the LORD from
well; seek judgment, Lord, the LORD of hosts, fadeth, and as a garden Jerusalem. And he shall
4

relieveh the oppressed, the mighty One of Israel, that hath no water. 31And judge among the
judge the fatherless, Ah, I will ease me of the strong shall be as nations, and shall
plead for the widow. mine adversaries, and tow, and the makerk of it rebuke many people:
18
Come now, and let us avenge me of mine as a spark, and they and they shall beat
reason together, saith enemies: 25And I will turn shall both burn together, their swords into
the LORD: though your my hand upon thee, and and none shall quench plowshares, and their
sins be as scarlet, they purelyi purge away thy them. spears into
shall be as white as dross, and take away all pruninghooks : b
nation
snow; though they be thy tin: 26
And I will Chapter 2 shall not lift up sword
red like crimson, they restore thy judges as at against nation, neither
shall be as wool. 19If ye the first, and thy The word that Isaiah
1
shall they learn war any
be willing and obedient, counsellors as at the the son of Amoz saw more. 5
O house of
ye shall eat the good of beginning: afterward concerning Judah and Jacob, come ye, and let
the land: 20But if ye thou shalt be called, The Jerusalem. 2And it shall us walk in the light of
refuse and rebel, ye shall city of righteousness, the come to pass in the last the LORD.
be devoured with the faithful city. 27Zion shall days, that the mountain 6
Therefore thou hast
sword: for the mouth of be redeemed with of the LORD’S house forsaken thy people the
the LORD hath spoken it. judgment, and her shall be establisheda in house of Jacob, because
21
How is the faithful converts with the top of the they be replenished
city become an harlot! it righteousness. 28And the mountains, and shall be from the east, and are
was full of judgment; destructionj of the exalted above the hills; soothsayers like the
righteousness lodged in transgressors and of the and all nations shall flow Philistines, and they
it; but now murderers. sinners shall be unto it. 3
And many please themselves in
22
Thy silver is become together, and they that people shall go and say, the children of
dross, thy wine mixed forsake the LORD shall Come ye, and let us go strangers. 7
Their land
with water: 23Thy princes be consumed. 29For they up to the mountain of also is full of silver and
are rebellious, and shall be ashamed of the the LORD, to the house gold, neither is there
companions of thieves: oaks which ye have of the God of Jacob; and any end of their
every one loveth gifts, he will teach us of his treasures; their land is
i
and followeth after purely: Heb. according to also full of horses,
k
pureness maker...: or, and his work
h j a b
relieve: or, righten destruction: Heb. breaking established: or, prepared pruninghooks: or, scythes
neither is there any end up, 15And upon every terribly the earth. the ancient, and the
of their chariots: 8Their high tower, and upon 22
Cease ye from man, base against the
land also is full of idols; every fenced wall, 16And whose breath is in his honourable. 6When a
they worship the work of upon all the ships of nostrils: for wherein is he man shall take hold of
their own hands, that Tarshish, and upon all to be accounted of? his brother of the house
which their own fingers pleasantc pictures. 17And of his father, saying,
have made: 9And the the loftiness of man shall Chapter 3 Thou hast clothing, be
mean man boweth down, be bowed down, and the thou our ruler, and let
and the great man haughtiness of men shall
1
For, behold, the Lord, this ruin be under thy
humbleth himself: be made low: and the the LORD of hosts, doth hand: 7In that day shall
therefore forgive them LORD alone shall be take away from he swearb, saying, I will
not. exalted in that day. Jerusalem and from not be an healer; for in
10
Enter into the rock, 18
And the idols he shall Judah the stay and the my house is neither
and hide thee in the utterly abolish. 19
And staff, the whole stay of bread nor clothing:
dust, for fear of the they shall go into the bread, and the whole make me not a ruler of
LORD, and for the glory holes of the rocks, and stay of water, 2The the people. 8
For
of his majesty. 11The into the caves of the mighty man, and the Jerusalem is ruined, and
lofty looks of man shall earthd, for fear of the man of war, the judge, Judah is fallen: because
be humbled, and the LORD, and for the glory and the prophet, and the their tongue and their
haughtiness of men shall of his majesty, when he prudent, and the doings are against the
be bowed down, and the ariseth to shake terribly ancient, 3The captain of LORD, to provoke the
LORD alone shall be the earth. 20In that day a fifty, and the eyes of his glory.
exalted in that day. 12For man shall cast his idols honourablea man, and 9
The shew of their
the day of the LORD of of silver, and his idols of the counsellor, and the countenance doth
hosts shall be upon gold, which they made cunning artificer, and the witness against them;
every one that is proud each one for himself to eloquent orator. 4And I and they declare their
and lofty, and upon worship, to the moles will give children to be sin as Sodom, they hide
every one that is lifted and to the bats; 21To go their princes, and babes it not. Woe unto their
up; and he shall be into the clefts of the shall rule over them. soul! for they have
brought low: 13And upon rocks, and into the tops
5
And the people shall be rewarded evil unto
all the cedars of of the ragged rocks, for oppressed, every one by themselves. 10Say ye to
Lebanon, that are high fear of the LORD, and for another, and every one the righteous, that it
and lifted up, and upon the glory of his majesty, by his neighbour: the shall be well with him:
all the oaks of Bashan, when he ariseth to shake child shall behave for they shall eat the
14
And upon all the high himself proudly against fruit of their doings.
c
mountains, and upon all pleasant...: Heb. pictures of 11
Woe unto the wicked!
a
the hills that are lifted desire the honourable...: Heb. a man
d b
of the earth: Heb. of the dust eminent in countenance swear: Heb. lift up the hand
it shall be ill with him: for tinkling with their feet: there shall be stink; and it shall come to pass,
the reward of his hands 17
Therefore the Lord will instead of a girdle a rent; that he that is left in
shall be givenc him. 12As smite with a scab the and instead of well set Zion, and he that
for my people, children crown of the head of the hair baldness; and remaineth in Jerusalem,
are their oppressors, and daughters of Zion, and instead of a stomacher a shall be called holy,
women rule over them. the LORD will discoverf girding of sackcloth; and even every one that is
O my people, they which their secret parts. 18In burning instead of written among the
leadd thee cause thee to that day the Lord will beauty. Thy men shall
25
living in Jerusalem:
err, and destroy the way take away the bravery of fall by the sword, and 4
When the Lord shall
of thy paths. 13
The their tinkling ornaments thy mightyj in the war. have washed away the
LORD standeth up to about their feet, and 26
And her gates shall filth of the daughters of
plead, and standeth to their caulsg, and their lament and mourn; and Zion, and shall have
judge the people. 14The round tires like the she being desolatek shall purged the blood of
LORD will enter into moon, 19
The chainsh, sit upon the ground. Jerusalem from the
judgment with the and the bracelets, and midst thereof by the
ancients of his people, the mufflers, 20
The Chapter 4 spirit of judgment, and
and the princes thereof: bonnets, and the by the spirit of burning.
for ye have eaten up the ornaments of the legs,
1
And in that day 5
And the LORD will
vineyard; the spoil of the and the headbands, and seven women shall take create upon every
poor is in your houses. the tabletsi, and the hold of one man, saying, dwelling place of mount
15
What mean ye that ye earrings, 21
The rings, We will eat our own Zion, and upon her
beat my people to and nose jewels, 22The bread, and wear our own assemblies, a cloud and
pieces, and grind the changeable suits of apparel: only let us be smoke by day, and the
faces of the poor? saith apparel, and the called by thy name, to shining of a flaming fire
the Lord GOD of hosts. mantles, and the take away our reproach. by night: for upon all
16
Moreover the LORD wimples, and the
2
In that day shall the the glory shall be a
saith, Because the crisping pins, 23
The branch of the LORD be defence. 6
And there
daughters of Zion are glasses, and the fine beautifula and glorious, shall be a tabernacle for
haughty, and walk with linen, and the hoods, and the fruit of the earth a shadow in the
stretched forth necks and the vails. 24And it shall be excellent and daytime from the heat,
and wantone eyes, shall come to pass, that comely for them that are and for a place of
walking and mincing as instead of sweet smell escaped of Israel. 3And refuge, and for a covert
they go, and making a f j
from storm and from
discover: Heb. make naked mighty: Heb. might rain.
c g k
given...: Heb. done to him cauls: or, networks desolate: or, emptied: Heb.
d h
lead...: or, call thee blessed chains: or, sweet balls cleansed Chapter 5
e i a
wanton...: Heb. deceiving with tablets: Heb. houses of the beautiful...: Heb. beauty and
their eyes soul glory
Now will I sing to my
1
down: 6And I will lay it wine inflameb them! shall be sanctified in
wellbeloved a song of waste: it shall not be 12
And the harp, and the righteousness. 17
Then
my beloved touching his pruned, nor digged; but viol, the tabret, and pipe, shall the lambs feed
vineyard. My wellbeloved there shall come up and wine, are in their after their manner, and
hath a vineyard in a very briers and thorns: I will feasts: but they regard the waste places of the
fruitful hill: 2
And he also command the not the work of the fat ones shall strangers
fenced it, and gathered
a
clouds that they rain no LORD, neither consider eat.
out the stones thereof, rain upon it. 7For the the operation of his 18
Woe unto them
and planted it with the vineyard of the LORD of hands. 13Therefore my that draw iniquity with
choicest vine, and built a hosts is the house of people are gone into cords of vanity, and sin
tower in the midst of it, Israel, and the men of captivity, because they as it were with a cart
and also made a Judah his pleasant plant: have no knowledge: and rope: 19That say, Let
winepress therein: and and he looked for their honourablec men him make speed, and
he looked that it should judgment, but behold are famished, and their hasten his work, that
bring forth grapes, and it oppression; for multitude dried up with we may see it: and let
brought forth wild righteousness, but thirst. 14
Therefore hell the counsel of the Holy
grapes. 3
And now, O behold a cry. hath enlarged herself, One of Israel draw nigh
inhabitants of Jerusalem, 8
Woe unto them that and opened her mouth and come, that we may
and men of Judah, judge, join house to house, that without measure: and know it! 20Woe unto
I pray you, betwixt me lay field to field, till there their glory, and their them that calle evil
and my vineyard. 4What be no place, that they multitude, and their good, and good evil;
could have been done may be placed alone in pomp, and he that that put darkness for
more to my vineyard, the midst of the earth! rejoiceth, shall descend light, and light for
that I have not done in 9
In mine ears said the into it. 15And the mean darkness; that put
it? wherefore, when I LORD of hosts, Of a truth man shall be brought bitter for sweet, and
looked that it should many houses shall be down, and the mighty sweet for bitter! 21Woe
bring forth grapes, desolate, even great and man shall be humbled, unto them that are wise
brought it forth wild fair, without inhabitant. and the eyes of the lofty in their own eyes, and
grapes? 5And now go to; 10
Yea, ten acres of shall be humbled: 16But prudent in their own
I will tell you what I will vineyard shall yield one the LORD of hosts shall sightf! 22
Woe unto
do to my vineyard: I will bath, and the seed of an be exalted in judgment, them that are mighty to
take away the hedge homer shall yield an and Godd that is holy drink wine, and men of
thereof, and it shall be ephah. 11Woe unto them b
strength to mingle
eaten up; and break that rise up early in the inflame: of, pursue
c e
down the wall thereof, morning, that they may honourable...: Heb. glory are call...: Heb. say concerning
and it shall be trodden follow strong drink; that men of famine evil, It is good, etc
d f
continue until night, till God...: or, the holy God: Heb. in their own sight: Heb.
a
fenced: or, made a wall about the God the holy before their face
strong drink: 23Which shall come with speed throne, high and lifted hath touched thy lips;
justify the wicked for swiftly: 27None shall be up, and his train filled and thine iniquity is
reward, and take away weary nor stumble the temple. 2
Above it taken away, and thy sin
the righteousness of the among them; none shall stood the seraphims: purged. 8Also I heard
righteous from him! slumber nor sleep; each one had six wings; the voice of the Lord,
24
Therefore as the fireg neither shall the girdle of with twain he covered saying, Whom shall I
devoureth the stubble, their loins be loosed, nor his face, and with twain send, and who will go
and the flame the latchet of their shoes he covered his feet, and for us? Then said I, Here
consumeth the chaff, so be broken: 28
Whose with twain he did fly. am I; sendc me.
their root shall be as arrows are sharp, and all 3
And one cried unto 9
And he said, Go,
rottenness, and their their bows bent, their another, and said, Holy, and tell this people,
blossom shall go up as horses’ hoofs shall be holy, holy, is the LORD of Hear ye indeed, but
dust: because they have counted like flint, and hosts: the whole earth is understandd not; and
cast away the law of the their wheels like a full of his glory. 4
And see ye indeed, but
LORD of hosts, and whirlwind: 29Their roaring the posts of the doora perceive not. 10
Make
despised the word of the shall be like a lion, they moved at the voice of the heart of this people
Holy One of Israel. shall roar like young him that cried, and the fat, and make their ears
25
Therefore is the anger lions: yea, they shall house was filled with heavy, and shut their
of the LORD kindled roar, and lay hold of the smoke. eyes; lest they see with
against his people, and prey, and shall carry it 5
Then said I, Woe is their eyes, and hear
he hath stretched forth away safe, and none me! for I am undoneb; with their ears, and
his hand against them, shall deliver it. 30And in because I am a man of understand with their
and hath smitten them: that day they shall roar unclean lips, and I dwell heart, and convert, and
and the hills did tremble, against them like the in the midst of a people be healed. 11Then said I,
and their carcases were roaring of the sea: and if of unclean lips: for mine Lord, how long? And he
tornh in the midst of the one look unto the land, eyes have seen the King, answered, Until the
streets. For all this his behold darkness and the LORD of hosts. cities be wasted without
anger is not turned sorrowi, and the light is 6
Then flew one of the inhabitant, and the
away, but his hand is darkened in the heavens seraphims unto me, houses without man,
stretched out still. 26And thereof. having a live coal in his and the land be utterlye
he will lift up an ensign hand, which he had desolate, 12
And the
to the nations from far, Chapter 6 taken with the tongs c
and will hiss unto them from off the altar: 7And Here...: Heb. behold me
d
from the end of the In the year that king
1
he laid it upon my indeed, but understand: or,
earth: and, behold, they Uzziah died I saw also mouth, and said, Lo, this without ceasing, etc: Heb. in
the Lord sitting upon a hearing, etc
g a e
fire: Heb. tongue of fire door: Heb. thresholds utterly...: Heb. desolate with
h i b
torn: or, as dung sorrow: or, distress undone: Heb. cut off desolation
LORD have removed 3
Then said the LORD Ephraim be broken, that abhorrest shall be
men far away, and there unto Isaiah, Go forth now it be not a people. 9And forsaken of both her
be a great forsaking in to meet Ahaz, thou, and the head of Ephraim is kings.
the midst of the land. Shearjashubb thy son, at Samaria, and the head of 17
The LORD shall
13
But yet in it shall be a the end of the conduit of Samaria is Remaliah’s bring upon thee, and
tenth, and it shall return, the upper pool in the son. If ye will not upon thy people, and
and shall be eaten: as a highway of the fuller’s believe, surely ye shall upon thy father’s
teil tree, and as an oak, field; 4
And say unto not be established. house, days that have
whose substance is in him, Take heed, and be 10
Moreover the LORD not come, from the day
them, when they cast quiet; fear not, neither spake again unto Ahaz, that Ephraim departed
their leaves: so the holy be fainthearted for the saying, 11Ask thee a sign from Judah; even the
seed shall be the two tails of these of the LORD thy God; ask king of Assyria. 18And it
substance thereof. smoking firebrands, for it either in the depth, or shall come to pass in
the fierce anger of Rezin in the height above. that day, that the LORD
Chapter 7 with Syria, and of the 12
But Ahaz said, I will not shall hiss for the fly that
son of Remaliah. ask, neither will I tempt is in the uttermost part
And it came to pass
1 5
Because Syria, Ephraim, the LORD. 13And he said, of the rivers of Egypt,
in the days of Ahaz the and the son of Remaliah, Hear ye now, O house of and for the bee that is
son of Jotham, the son of have taken evil counsel David; Is it a small thing in the land of Assyria.
Uzziah, king of Judah, against thee, saying, 6Let for you to weary men, 19
And they shall come,
that Rezin the king of us go up against Judah, but will ye weary my God and shall rest all of
Syria, and Pekah the son and vexc it, and let us also? 14Therefore the them in the desolate
of Remaliah, king of make a breach therein Lord himself shall give valleys, and in the holes
Israel, went up toward for us, and set a king in you a sign; Behold, a of the rocks, and upon
Jerusalem to war against the midst of it, even the virgin shall conceive, and all thorns, and upon all
it, but could not prevail son of Tabeal: 7
Thus bear a son, and shall bushese. 20In the same
against it. 2And it was saith the Lord GOD, It calld his name Immanuel. day shall the Lord
told the house of David, shall not stand, neither 15
Butter and honey shall shave with a razor that
saying, Syria is shall it come to pass. he eat, that he may is hired, namely, by
confederate a
with 8
For the head of Syria is know to refuse the evil, them beyond the river,
Ephraim. And his heart Damascus, and the head and choose the good. by the king of Assyria,
was moved, and the of Damascus is Rezin; 16
For before the child the head, and the hair
heart of his people, as and within threescore shall know to refuse the of the feet: and it shall
the trees of the wood are and five years shall evil, and choose the also consume the
moved with the wind. good, the land that thou beard. 21And it shall
b
Shearjashub: that is, The
a d e
is confederate...: Heb. resteth remnant shall return shall call: or, thou, O virgin, bushes: or, commendable
c
on vex: or, waken shalt call trees
come to pass in that day, said unto me, Take thee softly, and rejoice in should not walk in the
that a man shall nourish a great roll, and write in Rezin and Remaliah’s way of this people,
a young cow, and two it with a man’s pen son; 7
Now therefore, saying, 12Say ye not, A
sheep; 22And it shall concerning behold, the Lord confederacy, to all
come to pass, for the Mahershalalhashbaza. bringeth up upon them them to whom this
abundance of milk that 2
And I took unto me the waters of the river, people shall say, A
they shall give he shall faithful witnesses to strong and many, even confederacy; neither
eat butter: for butter and record, Uriah the priest, the king of Assyria, and fear ye their fear, nor
honey shall every one and Zechariah the son of all his glory: and he shall be afraid. 13Sanctify the
eat that is left in the Jeberechiah. 3And I wentb come up over all his LORD of hosts himself;
landf. 23And it shall come unto the prophetess; and channels, and go over all and let him be your
to pass in that day, that she conceived, and bare his banks: 8And he shall fear, and let him be
every place shall be, a son. Then said the pass through Judah; he your dread. 14And he
where there were a LORD to me, Call his shall overflow and go shall be for a sanctuary;
thousand vines at a name over, he shall reach but for a stone of
thousand silverlings, it Mahershalalhashbaz. even to the neck; and stumbling and for a
shall even be for briers 4
For before the child the stretching out of his rock of offence to both
and thorns. 24
With shall have knowledge to wings shall fill the the houses of Israel, for
arrows and with bows cry, My father, and my breadth of thy land, O a gin and for a snare to
shall men come thither; mother, the richesc of Immanuel. the inhabitants of
because all the land shall Damascus and the spoil 9
Associate yourselves, Jerusalem. 15And many
become briers and of Samaria shall be O ye people, and ye shall among them shall
thorns. 25And on all hills taken away before the be broken in pieces; and stumble, and fall, and
that shall be digged with king of Assyria. 5
The give ear, all ye of far be broken, and be
the mattock, there shall LORD spake also unto countries: gird snared, and be taken.
not come thither the fear me again, saying, yourselves, and ye shall 16
Bind up the
of briers and thorns: but 6
Forasmuch as this be broken in pieces; gird testimony, seal the law
it shall be for the people refuseth the yourselves, and ye shall among my disciples.
sending forth of oxen, waters of Shiloah that go be broken in pieces. 17
And I will wait upon
and for the treading of a
10
Take counsel together, the LORD, that hideth
lesser cattle. Mahershalalhashbaz: Heb. In and it shall come to his face from the house
making speed to the spoil he nought; speak the word, of Jacob, and I will look
Chapter 8 hasteneth the prey, or, Make and it shall not stand: for for him. 18Behold, I and
speed, etc God is with us. 11For the the children whom the
b
1
Moreover the LORD went: Heb. approached LORD spake thus to me LORD hath given me
c
the riches...: or, he that is with a strong hand, and are for signs and for
f
the land: Heb. the midst of the before the king of Assyria shall instructed me that I wonders in Israel from
land take away the riches, etc
the LORD of hosts, which vexation, when at the and the government against him, and joinb
dwelleth in mount Zion. first he lightly afflicted shall be upon his his enemies together;
19
And when they shall the land of Zebulun and shoulder: and his name 12
The Syrians before,
say unto you, Seek unto the land of Naphtali, and shall be called and the Philistines
them that have familiar afterward did more Wonderful, Counsellor, behind; and they shall
spirits, and unto wizards grievously afflict her by The mighty God, The devour Israel with open
that peep, and that the way of the sea, everlasting Father, The mouth. For all this his
mutter: should not a beyond Jordan, in Galilee Prince of Peace. 7Of the anger is not turned
people seek unto their of the nationsa. 2
The increase of his away, but his hand is
God? for the living to the people that walked in government and peace stretched out still. 13For
dead? 20To the law and darkness have seen a there shall be no end, the people turneth not
to the testimony: if they great light: they that upon the throne of unto him that smiteth
speak not according to dwell in the land of the David, and upon his them, neither do they
this wordd, it is because shadow of death, upon kingdom, to order it, and seek the LORD of hosts.
there is no light in them. them hath the light to establish it with 14
Therefore the LORD
21
And they shall pass shined. 3
Thou hast judgment and with will cut off from Israel
through it, hardly multiplied the nation, justice from henceforth head and tail, branch
bestead and hungry: and and not increased the even for ever. The zeal and rush, in one day.
it shall come to pass, joy: they joy before thee of the LORD of hosts will 15
The ancient and
that when they shall be according to the joy in perform this. honourable, he is the
hungry, they shall fret harvest, and as men 8
The Lord sent a word head; and the prophet
themselves, and curse rejoice when they divide into Jacob, and it hath that teacheth lies, he is
their king and their God, the spoil. 4For thou hast lighted upon Israel. 9And the tail. 16
For the
and look upward. 22And broken the yoke of his all the people shall leaders of this people
c

they shall look unto the burden, and the staff of know, even Ephraim and cause them to err; and
earth; and behold his shoulder, the rod of the inhabitant of they that are led of
trouble and darkness, his oppressor, as in the Samaria, that say in the them are destroyed.
dimness of anguish; and day of Midian. 5
For pride and stoutness of 17
Therefore the Lord
they shall be driven to every battle of the heart, 10The bricks are shall have no joy in
darkness. warrior is with confused fallen down, but we will their young men,
noise, and garments build with hewn stones: neither shall have
Chapter 9 rolled in blood; but this the sycomores are cut mercy on their
shall be with burning down, but we will change fatherless and widows:
Nevertheless
1
the and fuel of fire. 6
For them into cedars. for every one is an
dimness shall not be unto us a child is born, 11
Therefore the LORD b
such as was in her unto us a son is given: shall set up the join: Heb. mingle
c
adversaries of Rezin the leaders: or, they that call
d a
no...: Heb. no morning of the nations: or, populous them blessed
hypocrite and an hand is stretched out of mine anger, and the and on Jerusalem, I will
evildoer, and every still. staff in their hand is punishc the fruit of the
mouth speaketh follyd. mine indignation. 6I will stout heart of the king
For all this his anger is Chapter 10 send him against an of Assyria, and the
not turned away, but his hypocritical nation, and glory of his high looks.
hand is stretched out
1
Woe unto them that against the people of my 13
For he saith, By the
still. 18
For wickedness decree unrighteous wrath will I give him a strength of my hand I
burneth as the fire: it decrees, and that writea charge, to take the spoil, have done it, and by my
shall devour the briers grievousness which they and to take the prey, wisdom; for I am
and thorns, and shall have prescribed; 2
To and to tread them down prudent: and I have
kindle in the thickets of turn aside the needy like the mire of the removed the bounds of
the forest, and they shall from judgment, and to streets. 7
Howbeit he the people, and have
mount up like the lifting take away the right from meaneth not so, neither robbed their treasures,
up of smoke. 19Through the poor of my people, doth his heart think so; and I have put down
the wrath of the LORD of that widows may be their but it is in his heart to the inhabitants like a
hosts is the land prey, and that they may destroy and cut off valiantd man: 14And my
darkened, and the rob the fatherless! 3And nations not a few. 8For hand hath found as a
people shall be as the what will ye do in the he saith, Are not my nest the riches of the
fuele of the fire: no man day of visitation, and in princes altogether kings? people: and as one
shall spare his brother. the desolation which 9
Is not Calno as gathereth eggs that are
20
And he shall snatchf on shall come from far? to Carchemish? is not left, have I gathered all
the right hand, and be whom will ye flee for Hamath as Arpad? is not the earth; and there
hungry; and he shall eat help? and where will ye Samaria as Damascus? was none that moved
on the left hand, and leave your glory? 10
As my hand hath found the wing, or opened the
they shall not be
4
Without me they shall the kingdoms of the mouth, or peeped.
satisfied: they shall eat bow down under the idols, and whose graven 15
Shall the axe boast
every man the flesh of prisoners, and they shall images did excel them of itself against him that
his own arm: fall under the slain. For Jerusalem and of heweth therewith? or
21
Manasseh, Ephraim; all this his anger is not Samaria; 11Shall I not, as shall the saw magnify
and Ephraim, Manasseh: turned away, but his I have done unto itself against him that
and they together shall hand is stretched out Samaria and her idols, so shaketh it? as if the rode
be against Judah. For all still. do to Jerusalem and her should shake itself
this his anger is not O Assyrian, the rod
5 b
idols? 12
Wherefore it against them that lift it
turned away, but his a
shall come to pass, that c
that write...: or, to the writers when the Lord hath punish: Heb. visit upon
d d
folly: or, villany that write grievousness performed his whole a valiant...: or, many people
e b e
fuel: Heb. meat O...: or, Woe to the Assyrian: work upon mount Zion the rod...: or, a rod should
f
snatch: Heb cut Heb. Asshur shake them that lift it up
up, or as if the staff even the remnant of that his burden shall be the forest with iron, and
should lift up itself, as if Jacob, unto the mighty taken away from off thy Lebanon shall fall by a
it were no wood. God. 22For though thy shoulder, and his yoke mighty one.
16
Therefore shall the people Israel be as the from off thy neck, and
Lord, the Lord of hosts, sand of the sea, yet a the yoke shall be Chapter 11
send among his fat ones remnant of them shall destroyed because of
leanness; and under his return: the consumption the anointing. 28
He is And
1
there shall
glory he shall kindle a decreed shall overflow come to Aiath, he is come forth a rod out of
burning like the burning with righteousness. passed to Migron; at the stem of Jesse, and a
of a fire. 17And the light 23
For the Lord GOD of Michmash he hath laid Branch shall grow out of
of Israel shall be for a hosts shall make a up his carriages: 29They his roots: 2And the spirit
fire, and his Holy One for consumption, even are gone over the of the LORD shall rest
a flame: and it shall burn determined, in the midst passage: they have upon him, the spirit of
and devour his thorns of all the land. taken up their lodging at wisdom and
and his briers in one day; 24
Therefore thus saith Geba; Ramah is afraid; understanding, the
18
And shall consume the the Lord GOD of hosts, O Gibeah of Saul is fled. spirit of counsel and
glory of his forest, and of my people that dwellest 30
Lift up thy voice, O might, the spirit of
his fruitful field, both in Zion, be not afraid of daughter of Gallim: knowledge and of the
soul and body: and they the Assyrian: he shall cause it to be heard unto fear of the LORD; 3And
shall be as when a smite thee with a rod, Laish, O poor Anathoth. shall make him of quick
standardbearer fainteth. and shall lift up his staff 31
Madmenah is removed; understanding in the
19
And the rest of the against thee, after the the inhabitants of Gebim fear of the LORD: and
trees of his forest shall manner of Egypt. 25For gather themselves to he shall not judge after
be fewf, that a child may yet a very little while, flee. 32As yet shall he the sight of his eyes,
write them. and the indignation shall remain at Nob that day: neither reprove after
20
And it shall come to cease, and mine anger in he shall shake his hand the hearing of his ears:
pass in that day, that the their destruction. 26And against the mount of the
4
But with righteousness
remnant of Israel, and the LORD of hosts shall daughter of Zion, the hill shall he judge the poor,
such as are escaped of stir up a scourge for him of Jerusalem. 33Behold, and reprovea with
the house of Jacob, shall according to the the Lord, the LORD of equity for the meek of
no more again stay upon slaughter of Midian at hosts, shall lop the the earth: and he shall
him that smote them; the rock of Oreb: and as bough with terror: and smite the earth with the
but shall stay upon the his rod was upon the the high ones of stature rod of his mouth, and
LORD, the Holy One of sea, so shall he lift it up shall be hewn down, and with the breath of his
Israel, in truth. 21The after the manner of the haughty shall be lips shall he slay the
remnant shall return, Egypt. 27And it shall humbled. 34And he shall wicked. 5
And
f
come to pass in that day, cut down the thickets of a
few: Heb. number reprove: or, argue
righteousness shall be pass in that day, that the LORD shall utterly And in that day shall
4

the girdle of his loins, Lord shall set his hand destroy the tongue of ye say, Praise the
and faithfulness the again the second time to the Egyptian sea; and LORD, calla upon his
girdle of his reins. The
6
recover the remnant of with his mighty wind name, declare his
wolf also shall dwell with his people, which shall shall he shake his hand doings among the
the lamb, and the be left, from Assyria, and over the river, and shall people, make mention
leopard shall lie down from Egypt, and from smite it in the seven that his name is
with the kid; and the calf Pathros, and from Cush, streams, and make men exalted. Sing unto the
5

and the young lion and and from Elam, and from go over dryshodd. 16And LORD; for he hath done
the fatling together; and Shinar, and from there shall be an excellent things: this is
a little child shall lead Hamath, and from the highway for the remnant known in all the earth.
them. 7And the cow and islands of the sea. 12And of his people, which shall 6
Cry out and shout,
the bear shall feed; their he shall set up an ensign be left, from Assyria; like thou inhabitantb of Zion:
young ones shall lie for the nations, and shall as it was to Israel in the for great is the Holy
down together: and the assemble the outcasts of day that he came up out One of Israel in the
lion shall eat straw like Israel, and gather of the land of Egypt. midst of thee.
the ox. 8And the sucking together the dispersed of
child shall play on the Judah from the four Chapter 12 Chapter 13
hole of the asp, and the cornersc of the earth.
weaned child shall put 13
The envy also of And in that day thou
1
The
1
burden of
his hand on the Ephraim shall depart, shalt say, O LORD, I will Babylon, which Isaiah
cockatrice’ den. 9
They and the adversaries of praise thee: though thou the son of Amoz did
shall not hurt nor destroy Judah shall be cut off: wast angry with me, see. 2Lift ye up a
in all my holy mountain: Ephraim shall not envy thine anger is turned banner upon the high
for the earth shall be full Judah, and Judah shall away, and thou mountain, exalt the
of the knowledge of the not vex Ephraim. 14But comfortedst me. voice unto them, shake
LORD, as the waters they shall fly upon the
2
Behold, God is my the hand, that they may
cover the sea. shoulders of the salvation; I will trust, and go into the gates of the
10
And in that day Philistines toward the not be afraid: for the nobles. 3
I have
there shall be a root of west; they shall spoil LORD JEHOVAH is my commanded my
Jesse, which shall stand them of the east strength and my song; sanctified ones, I have
for an ensign of the together: they shall lay he also is become my also called my mighty
people; to it shall the their hand upon Edom salvation. 3
Therefore ones for mine anger,
Gentiles seek: and his and Moab; and the with joy shall ye draw even them that rejoice
rest shall be gloriousb. children of Ammon shall water out of the wells of in my highness. 4The
11
And it shall come to obey them. 15
And the salvation.
a
call...: or, proclaim
b c d b
glorious: Heb. glory corners: Heb. wings dryshod: Heb. in shoes inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
noise of a multitude in and he shall destroy the that is joined unto them owls shall dwell there,
the mountains, likea as of sinners thereof out of it. shall fall by the sword. and satyrs shall dance
a great people; a 10
For the stars of heaven 16
Their children also shall there. 22
And the wild
tumultuous noise of the and the constellations be dashed to pieces beasts of the islands
kingdoms of nations thereof shall not give before their eyes; their shall cry in their
gathered together: the their light: the sun shall houses shall be spoiled, desolate houses, and
LORD of hosts mustereth be darkened in his going and their wives ravished. dragons in their
the host of the battle. forth, and the moon shall 17
Behold, I will stir up the pleasant palaces: and
5
They come from a far not cause her light to Medes against them, her time is near to
country, from the end of shine. 11And I will punish which shall not regard come, and her days
heaven, even the LORD, the world for their evil, silver; and as for gold, shall not be prolonged.
and the weapons of his and the wicked for their they shall not delight in
indignation, to destroy iniquity; and I will cause it. 18Their bows also shall Chapter 14
the whole land. the arrogancy of the dash the young men to
6
Howl ye; for the day proud to cease, and will pieces; and they shall
1
For the LORD will
of the LORD is at hand; it lay low the haughtiness have no pity on the fruit have mercy on Jacob,
shall come as a of the terrible. 12I will of the womb; their eye and will yet choose
destruction from the make a man more shall not spare children. Israel, and set them in
Almighty. 7
Therefore precious than fine gold; 19
And Babylon, the their own land: and the
shall all hands be faintb, even a man than the glory of kingdoms, the strangers shall be
and every man’s heart golden wedge of Ophir. beauty of the Chaldees’ joined with them, and
shall melt: 8
And they 13
Therefore I will shake excellency, shall be as they shall cleave to the
shall be afraid: pangs the heavens, and the when God overthrew house of Jacob. 2And
and sorrows shall take earth shall remove out of Sodom and Gomorrah. the people shall take
hold of them; they shall her place, in the wrath of 20
It shall never be them, and bring them
be in pain as a woman the LORD of hosts, and inhabited, neither shall it to their place: and the
that travaileth: they shall in the day of his fierce be dwelt in from house of Israel shall
be amazedc one at anger. 14And it shall be generation to possess them in the
another; their faces shall as the chased roe, and generation: neither shall land of the LORD for
be as flames. 9
Behold, as a sheep that no man the Arabian pitch tent servants and
the day of the LORD taketh up: they shall there; neither shall the handmaids: and they
cometh, cruel both with every man turn to his shepherds make their shall take them
wrath and fierce anger, own people, and flee fold there. 21But wild captives, whose
to lay the land desolate: every one into his own beasts of the desert shall captives they were; and
land. 15Every one that is lie there; and their they shall rule over
a
like...: Heb. the likeness of found shall be thrust houses shall be full of their oppressors. 3And
b
be faint: or, fall down through; and every one doleful creatures; and it shall come to pass in
c
be amazed: Heb. wonder
the day that the LORD dead for thee, even all shall narrowly look upon possess the land, nor fill
shall give thee rest from the chief ones of the thee, and consider thee, the face of the world
thy sorrow, and from thy earth; it hath raised up saying, Is this the man with cities. 22For I will
fear, and from the hard from their thrones all the that made the earth to rise up against them,
bondage wherein thou kings of the nations. tremble, that did shake saith the LORD of hosts,
wast made to serve, 10
All they shall speak and kingdoms; 17That made and cut off from
4
That thou shalt take say unto thee, Art thou the world as a Babylon the name, and
up this proverba against also become weak as wilderness, and remnant, and son, and
the king of Babylon, and we? art thou become like destroyed the cities nephew, saith the
say, How hath the unto us? 11Thy pomp is thereof; that openede not LORD. I will also make
23

oppressor ceased! the brought down to the the house of his it a possession for the
golden city ceased! grave, and the noise of prisoners? All the kings
18
bittern, and pools of
5
The LORD hath broken thy viols: the worm is of the nations, even all water: and I will sweep
the staff of the wicked, spread under thee, and of them, lie in glory, it with the besom of
and the sceptre of the the worms cover thee. every one in his own destruction, saith the
rulers. 6He who smote 12
How art thou fallen house. 19But thou art LORD of hosts.
the people in wrath with from heaven, O Luciferd, cast out of thy grave like 24
The LORD of hosts
a continualb stroke, he son of the morning! how an abominable branch, hath sworn, saying,
that ruled the nations in art thou cut down to the and as the raiment of Surely as I have
anger, is persecuted, ground, which didst those that are slain, thought, so shall it
and none hindereth. weaken the nations! thrust through with a come to pass; and as I
7
The whole earth is at 13
For thou hast said in sword, that go down to have purposed, so shall
rest, and is quiet: they thine heart, I will ascend the stones of the pit; as it stand: 25That I will
break forth into singing. into heaven, I will exalt a carcase trodden under break the Assyrian in
8
Yea, the fir trees rejoice my throne above the feet. 20Thou shalt not be my land, and upon my
at thee, and the cedars stars of God: I will sit joined with them in mountains tread him
of Lebanon, saying, also upon the mount of burial, because thou hast under foot: then shall
Since thou art laid down, the congregation, in the destroyed thy land, and his yoke depart from off
no feller is come up sides of the north: 14I will slain thy people: the them, and his burden
against us. 9Hellc from ascend above the seed of evildoers shall depart from off their
beneath is moved for heights of the clouds; I never be renowned. shoulders. 26This is the
thee to meet thee at thy will be like the most 21
Prepare slaughter for purpose that is
coming: it stirreth up the High. 15Yet thou shalt be his children for the purposed upon the
a
brought down to hell, to iniquity of their fathers; whole earth: and this is
proverb: or, taunting speech the sides of the pit. that they do not rise, nor the hand that is
b
a continual...: Heb. a stroke 16
They that see thee stretched out upon all
e
without removing opened...: or, did not let his the nations. 27For the
c d
Hell: or, The grave O Lucifer: or, O day star prisoners loose homeward?
LORD of hosts hath people shall trusth in it. be grievous unto him. remnant of the land.
purposed, and who shall 5
My heart shall cry out
disannul it? and his hand Chapter 15 for Moab; his fugitives Chapter 16
is stretched out, and who shall flee unto Zoar, an
shall turn it back? 28In The burden of Moab.
1
heifer of three years old:
1
Send ye the lamb to
the year that king Ahaz Because in the night Ar for by the mounting up the ruler of the land
died was this burden. of Moab is laid waste, of Luhith with weeping from Selaa to the
29
Rejoice not thou, whole and brought to silence; shall they go it up; for in wilderness, unto the
Palestina, because the because in the night Kir the way of Horonaim mount of the daughter
rod of him that smote of Moab is laid waste, they shall raise up a cry of Zion. 2For it shall be,
thee is broken: for out of and brought to silence; of destruction. that, as a wandering
the serpent’s root shall
2
He is gone up to Bajith, 6
For the waters of bird cast out of the
come forth a cockatricef, and to Dibon, the high Nimrim shall be nest, so the daughters
and his fruit shall be a places, to weep: Moab desolate : for the hay is
b of Moab shall be at the
fiery flying serpent. shall howl over Nebo, withered away, the grass fords of Arnon. 3Takeb
30
And the firstborn of the and over Medeba: on all faileth, there is no green counsel, execute
poor shall feed, and the their heads shall be thing. 7
Therefore the judgment; make thy
needy shall lie down in baldness, and every abundance they have shadow as the night in
safety: and I will kill thy beard cut off. 3In their gotten, and that which the midst of the
root with famine, and he streets they shall gird they have laid up, shall noonday; hide the
shall slay thy remnant. themselves with they carry away to the outcasts; bewray not
31
Howl, O gate; cry, O sackcloth: on the tops of brookc of the willows. him that wandereth.
city; thou, whole their houses, and in their 8
For the cry is gone
4
Let mine outcasts
Palestina, art dissolved: streets, every one shall round about the borders dwell with thee, Moab;
for there shall come from howl, weepinga of Moab; the howling be thou a covert to
the north a smoke, and abundantly. 4
And thereof unto Eglaim, and them from the face of
none shall be aloneg in Heshbon shall cry, and the howling thereof unto the spoiler: for the
his appointed times. Elealeh: their voice shall Beerelim. 9For the waters extortionerc is at an
32
What shall one then be heard even unto of Dimon shall be full of end, the spoiler
answer the messengers Jahaz: therefore the blood: for I will bring ceaseth, the oppressors
of the nation? That the armed soldiers of Moab mored upon Dimon, lions are consumed out of
LORD hath founded Zion, shall cry out; his life shall upon him that escapeth the land. 5
And in
and the poor of his of Moab, and upon the mercy shall the throne
h
trust...: or, betake themselves
b
unto it desolate: Heb. desolations
f a c a
cockatrice: or, adder weeping...: Heb. descending brook...: or, valley of the Sela: or, Petra: Heb. A rock
g b
none...: or, he shall not be into weeping, or, coming down Arabians Take: Heb. Bring
d c
alone with weeping more: Heb. additions extortioner: Heb. wringer
be establishedd: and he Elealeh: for the shoutingf remnant shall be very shall be left in it, as the
shall sit upon it in truth for thy summer fruits small and feebleg. shaking of an olive tree,
in the tabernacle of and for thy harvest is two or three berries in
David, judging, and fallen. 10And gladness is Chapter 17 the top of the
seeking judgment, and taken away, and joy out uppermost bough, four
hasting righteousness. of the plentiful field; and The
1
burden of or five in the outmost
6
We have heard of the in the vineyards there Damascus. Behold, fruitful branches
pride of Moab; he is very shall be no singing, Damascus is taken away thereof, saith the LORD
proud: even of his neither shall there be from being a city, and it God of Israel. 7At that
haughtiness, and his shouting: the treaders shall be a ruinous heap. day shall a man look to
pride, and his wrath: but shall tread out no wine in
2
The cities of Aroer are his Maker, and his eyes
his lies shall not be so. their presses; I have forsaken: they shall be shall have respect to
7
Therefore shall Moab made their vintage for flocks, which shall lie the Holy One of Israel.
howl for Moab, every one shouting to cease. down, and none shall 8
And he shall not look
shall howl: for the 11
Wherefore my bowels make them afraid. 3The to the altars, the work
foundations of shall sound like an harp fortress also shall cease of his hands, neither
Kirhareseth shall ye for Moab, and mine from Ephraim, and the shall respect that which
mourne; surely they are inward parts for kingdom from his fingers have made,
stricken. 8For the fields Kirharesh. 12And it shall Damascus, and the either the groves, or
of Heshbon languish, come to pass, when it is remnant of Syria: they the imagesa.
and the vine of Sibmah: seen that Moab is weary shall be as the glory of 9
In that day shall his
the lords of the heathen on the high place, that the children of Israel, strong cities be as a
have broken down the he shall come to his saith the LORD of hosts. forsaken bough, and an
principal plants thereof, sanctuary to pray; but he
4
And in that day it shall uppermost branch,
they are come even unto shall not prevail. 13This is come to pass, that the which they left because
Jazer, they wandered the word that the LORD glory of Jacob shall be of the children of Israel:
through the wilderness: hath spoken concerning made thin, and the and there shall be
her branches are Moab since that time. fatness of his flesh shall desolation. 10
Because
stretched out, they are 14
But now the LORD hath wax lean. 5And it shall be thou hast forgotten the
gone over the sea. spoken, saying, Within as when the harvestman God of thy salvation,
9
Therefore I will bewail three years, as the years gathereth the corn, and and hast not been
with the weeping of Jazer of an hireling, and the reapeth the ears with his mindful of the rock of
the vine of Sibmah: I will glory of Moab shall be arm; and it shall be as thy strength, therefore
water thee with my contemned, with all that he that gathereth ears in shalt thou plant
tears, O Heshbon, and great multitude; and the the valley of Rephaim. pleasant plants, and
6
Yet gleaning grapes shalt set it with strange
d f
established: or, prepared the shouting...: or, the alarm is
e g a
mourn: or, mutter fallen upon, etc feeble: or, not many images: or, sun images
slips: 11In the day shalt Chapter 18 For afore the harvest, upon a swift cloud, and
5

thou make thy plant to when the bud is perfect, shall come into Egypt:
grow, and in the morning 1
Woe to the land and the sour grape is and the idols of Egypt
shalt thou make thy shadowing with wings, ripening in the flower, he shall be moved at his
seed to flourish: but the which is beyond the shall both cut off the presence, and the heart
harvest shall be a heapb rivers of Ethiopia: 2That sprigs with pruning of Egypt shall melt in
in the day of grief and of sendeth ambassadors by hooks, and take away the midst of it. 2And I
desperate sorrow. the sea, even in vessels and cut down the will seta the Egyptians
12
Woe to the of bulrushes upon the branches. 6They shall be against the Egyptians:
multitude c
of many waters, saying, Go, ye left together unto the and they shall fight
people, which make a swift messengers, to a fowls of the mountains, every one against his
noise like the noise of nation scattereda and and to the beasts of the brother, and every one
the seas; and to the peeled, to a people earth: and the fowls shall against his neighbour;
rushing of nations, that terrible from their summer upon them, and city against city, and
make a rushing like the beginning hitherto; a all the beasts of the kingdom against
rushing of mighty nation meted out and earth shall winter upon kingdom. 3
And the
waters! 13
The nations trodden down, whose them. 7In that time shall spirit of Egypt shall failb
shall rush like the land the rivers have the present be brought in the midst thereof;
rushing of many waters: spoiled! 3
All ye unto the LORD of hosts and I will destroy the
but God shall rebuke inhabitants of the world, of a people scatteredc counsel thereof: and
them, and they shall flee and dwellers on the and peeled, and from a they shall seek to the
far off, and shall be earth, see ye, when he people terrible from their idols, and to the
chased as the chaff of lifteth up an ensign on beginning hitherto; a charmers, and to them
the mountains before the mountains; and nation meted out and that have familiar
the wind, and like a when he bloweth a trodden under foot, spirits, and to the
rolling thing before the trumpet, hear ye. 4For so whose land the rivers wizards. 4
And the
whirlwind. 14And behold the LORD said unto me, I have spoiled, to the Egyptians will I give
at eveningtide trouble; will take my rest, and I place of the name of the over into the hand of a
and before the morning will considerb in my LORD of hosts, the cruel lord; and a fierce
he is not. This is the dwelling place like a mount Zion. king shall rule over
portion of them that clear heat upon herbs, them, saith the Lord,
spoil us, and the lot of and like a cloud of dew Chapter 19 the LORD of hosts.
them that rob us. in the heat of harvest. 5
And the waters shall
The burden of Egypt.
1
fail from the sea, and
b a
a heap...: or, removed in the scattered...: or, outspread and Behold, the LORD rideth the river shall be
day of inheritance, and there polished
b c a
shall be deadly sorrow consider...: or, regard my set scattered...: or, outspread and set: Heb. mingle
c b
multitude: or, noise dwelling polished fail: Heb. be emptied
wasted and dried up. are they? where are thy afraid in himself, perform it. 22And the
6
And they shall turn the wise men? and let them because of the counsel LORD shall smite Egypt:
rivers far away; and the tell thee now, and let of the LORD of hosts, he shall smite and heal
brooks of defence shall them know what the which he hath it: and they shall return
be emptied and dried up: LORD of hosts hath determined against it. even to the LORD, and
the reeds and flags shall purposed upon Egypt. 18
In that day shall five he shall be intreated of
wither. 7The paper reeds 13
The princes of Zoan are cities in the land of them, and shall heal
by the brooks, by the become fools, the Egypt speak the them. 23In that day shall
mouth of the brooks, and princes of Noph are languagef of Canaan, there be a highway out
every thing sown by the deceived; they have also and swear to the LORD of Egypt to Assyria, and
brooks, shall wither, be seduced Egypt, even of hosts; one shall be the Assyrian shall come
driven away, and be no they that are the stay of called, The city of into Egypt, and the
more. 8The fishers also the tribes thereof. 14The destruction. 19
In that Egyptian into Assyria,
shall mourn, and all they LORD hath mingled a day shall there be an and the Egyptians shall
that cast angle into the perversee spirit in the altar to the LORD in the serve with the
brooks shall lament, and midst thereof: and they midst of the land of Assyrians. In that day
24

they that spread nets have caused Egypt to err Egypt, and a pillar at the shall Israel be the third
upon the waters shall in every work thereof, as border thereof to the with Egypt and with
languish. 9Moreover they a drunken man LORD. 20And it shall be Assyria, even a blessing
that work in fine flax, staggereth in his vomit. for a sign and for a in the midst of the land:
and they that weave 15
Neither shall there be witness unto the LORD of 25
Whom the LORD of
networksc, shall be any work for Egypt, hosts in the land of hosts shall bless,
confounded. 10And they which the head or tail, Egypt: for they shall cry saying, Blessed be
shall be broken in the branch or rush, may do. unto the LORD because Egypt my people, and
purposesd thereof, all 16
In that day shall Egypt of the oppressors, and Assyria the work of my
that make sluices and be like unto women: and he shall send them a hands, and Israel mine
ponds for fish. 11Surely it shall be afraid and fear saviour, and a great one, inheritance.
the princes of Zoan are because of the shaking and he shall deliver
fools, the counsel of the of the hand of the LORD them. 21And the LORD Chapter 20
wise counsellors of of hosts, which he shall be known to Egypt,
Pharaoh is become shaketh over it. 17And and the Egyptians shall
1
In the year that
brutish: how say ye unto the land of Judah shall be know the LORD in that Tartan came unto
Pharaoh, I am the son of a terror unto Egypt, day, and shall do Ashdod, (when Sargon
the wise, the son of every one that maketh sacrifice and oblation; the king of Assyria sent
ancient kings? 12Where mention thereof shall be yea, they shall vow a him,) and fought
vow unto the LORD, and against Ashdod, and
c e
networks: or, white works a perverse...: Heb. a spirit of took it; 2At the same
d f
purposes: Heb. foundations perversities the language: Heb. the lip
time spake the LORD bya of Assyria: and how shall and anoint the shield. what of the night?
Isaiah the son of Amoz, we escape? 6
For thus hath the Lord Watchman, what of the
saying, Go and loose the said unto me, Go, set a night? 12The watchman
sackcloth from off thy Chapter 21 watchman, let him said, The morning
loins, and put off thy declare what he seeth. cometh, and also the
shoe from thy foot. And The burden of the
1 7
And he saw a chariot night: if ye will enquire,
he did so, walking naked desert of the sea. As with a couple of enquire ye: return,
and barefoot. 3And the whirlwinds in the south horsemen, a chariot of come.
LORD said, Like as my pass through; so it asses, and a chariot of 13
The burden upon
servant Isaiah hath cometh from the desert, camels; and he Arabia. In the forest in
walked naked and from a terrible land. 2A hearkened diligently with Arabia shall ye lodge, O
barefoot three years for grievousa vision is much heed: 8And he ye travelling companies
a sign and wonder upon declared unto me; the cried, A lion: My lord, I of Dedanim. 14
The
Egypt and upon Ethiopia; treacherous dealer stand continually upon inhabitants of the land
4
So shall the king of dealeth treacherously, the watchtower in the of Tema broughtd water
Assyria lead away the and the spoiler spoileth. daytime, and I am set in to him that was thirsty,
Egyptiansb prisoners, Go up, O Elam: besiege, my ward whole nights: they prevented with
and the Ethiopians O Media; all the sighing 9
And, behold, here their bread him that
captives, young and old, thereof have I made to cometh a chariot of men, fled. 15
For they fled
naked and barefoot, cease. 3
Therefore are with a couple of from the swordse, from
even with their buttocks my loins filled with pain: horsemen. And he the drawn sword, and
uncovered, to the shame pangs have taken hold answered and said, from the bent bow, and
of Egypt. 5
And they upon me, as the pangs Babylon is fallen, is from the grievousness
shall be afraid and of a woman that fallen; and all the graven of war. 16For thus hath
ashamed of Ethiopia travaileth: I was bowed images of her gods he the Lord said unto me,
their expectation, and of down at the hearing of it; hath broken unto the Within a year,
Egypt their glory. 6And I was dismayed at the ground. 10
O my according to the years
the inhabitant of this seeing of it. 4My heartb threshing, and the cornc of an hireling, and all
islec shall say in that panted, fearfulness of my floor: that which I the glory of Kedar shall
day, Behold, such is our affrighted me: the night have heard of the LORD fail: 17And the residue of
expectation, whither we of my pleasure hath he of hosts, the God of the number of archersf,
flee for help to be turned into fear unto me. Israel, have I declared the mighty men of the
delivered from the king
5
Prepare the table, watch unto you. children of Kedar, shall
in the watchtower, eat, 11
The burden of
a d
by: Heb. by the hand of drink: arise, ye princes, Dumah. He calleth to me brought: or, bring ye
b e
the Egyptians...: Heb. the out of Seir, Watchman, from the swords: or, for fear,
a
captivity of Egypt grievous: Heb. hard etc: Heb. from the face, etc
c b c f
isle: or, country heart...: or, mind wandered corn: Heb. son archers: Heb. bows
be diminished: for the 6
And Elam bare the weeping, and to a largec country: there
LORD God of Israel hath quiver with chariots of mourning, and to shalt thou die, and
spoken it. men and horsemen, and baldness, and to girding there the chariots of thy
Kir uncoveredb the with sackcloth: 13And glory shall be the
Chapter 22 shield. 7
And it shall behold joy and gladness, shame of thy lord’s
come to pass, that thy slaying oxen, and killing house. 19And I will drive
1
The burden of the choicest valleys shall be sheep, eating flesh, and thee from thy station,
valley of vision. What full of chariots, and the drinking wine: let us eat and from thy state shall
aileth thee now, that horsemen shall set and drink; for to morrow he pull thee down.
thou art wholly gone up themselves in array at we shall die. 14And it was 20
And it shall come to
to the housetops? 2Thou the gate. revealed in mine ears by pass in that day, that I
that art full of stirs, a 8
And he discovered the LORD of hosts, will call my servant
tumultuous city, a joyous the covering of Judah, Surely this iniquity shall Eliakim the son of
city: thy slain men are and thou didst look in not be purged from you Hilkiah: 21And I will
not slain with the sword, that day to the armour of till ye die, saith the Lord clothe him with thy
nor dead in battle. 3All the house of the forest. GOD of hosts. robe, and strengthen
thy rulers are fled 9
Ye have seen also the 15
Thus saith the Lord him with thy girdle, and
together, they are bound breaches of the city of GOD of hosts, Go, get I will commit thy
by the archers: all that David, that they are thee unto this treasurer, government into his
are found in thee are many: and ye gathered even unto Shebna, which hand: and he shall be a
bound together, which together the waters of is over the house, and father to the
have fled from far. the lower pool. 10And ye say, 16What hast thou inhabitants of
4
Therefore said I, Look have numbered the here? and whom hast Jerusalem, and to the
away from me; I will houses of Jerusalem, and thou here, that thou hast house of Judah. 22And
weepa bitterly, labour not the houses have ye hewed thee out a the key of the house of
to comfort me, because broken down to fortify sepulchre here, as he David will I lay upon his
of the spoiling of the the wall. 11Ye made also that heweth him out a shoulder; so he shall
daughter of my people. a ditch between the two sepulchre on high, and open, and none shall
5
For it is a day of trouble, walls for the water of the that graveth an shut; and he shall shut,
and of treading down, old pool: but ye have not habitation for himself in and none shall open.
and of perplexity by the looked unto the maker a rock? 17
Behold, the 23
And I will fasten him
Lord GOD of hosts in the thereof, neither had LORD will carry thee as a nail in a sure place;
valley of vision, breaking respect unto him that away with a mighty and he shall be for a
down the walls, and of fashioned it long ago. captivity, and will surely glorious throne to his
crying to the mountains. 12
And in that day did the cover thee. 18
He will father’s house. 24And
a
Lord GOD of hosts call to surely violently turn and they shall hang upon
weep...: Heb. be bitter in toss thee like a ball into
b c
weeping uncovered: Heb. made naked large: Heb. large of spaces
him all the glory of his the river, is her revenue; there is no more years shall Tyred sing as
father’s house, the and she is a mart of strength . He stretched
c 11
an harlot. 16
Take an
offspring and the issue, nations. 4
Be thou out his hand over the harp, go about the city,
all vessels of small ashamed, O Zidon: for sea, he shook the thou harlot that hast
quantity, from the the sea hath spoken, kingdoms: the LORD been forgotten; make
vessels of cups, even to even the strength of the hath given a sweet melody, sing
all the vessels of sea, saying, I travail not, commandment against many songs, that thou
flagons .
d 25
In that day, nor bring forth children, the merchant city, to mayest be
saith the LORD of hosts, neither do I nourish up destroy the strong holds remembered. 17And it
shall the nail that is young men, nor bring up thereof. 12
And he said, shall come to pass after
fastened in the sure virgins. 5As at the report Thou shalt no more the end of seventy
place be removed, and concerning Egypt, so rejoice, O thou years, that the LORD
be cut down, and fall; shall they be sorely oppressed virgin, will visit Tyre, and she
and the burden that was pained at the report of daughter of Zidon: arise, shall turn to her hire,
upon it shall be cut off: Tyre. 6Pass ye over to pass over to Chittim; and shall commit
for the LORD hath Tarshish; howl, ye there also shalt thou fornication with all the
spoken it. inhabitants of the isle. have no rest. 13Behold kingdoms of the world
7
Is this your joyous city, the land of the upon the face of the
Chapter 23 whose antiquity is of Chaldeans; this people earth. 18
And her
ancient days? her own was not, till the Assyrian merchandise and her
The burden of Tyre.
1
feet shall carry her afar founded it for them that hire shall be holiness to
Howl, ye ships of off to sojourn. 8
Who dwell in the wilderness: the LORD: it shall not
Tarshish; for it is laid hath taken this counsel they set up the towers be treasured nor laid
waste, so that there is no against Tyre, the thereof, they raised up up; for her merchandise
house, no entering in: crowning city, whose the palaces thereof; and shall be for them that
from the land of Chittim merchants are princes, he brought it to ruin. dwell before the LORD,
it is revealed to them. whose traffickers are the 14
Howl, ye ships of to eat sufficiently, and
2
Be stilla, ye inhabitants honourable of the earth? Tarshish: for your for durablee clothing.
of the isle; thou whom 9
The LORD of hosts hath strength is laid waste.
the merchants of Zidon, purposed it, to stainb the 15
And it shall come to Chapter 24
that pass over the sea, pride of all glory, and to pass in that day, that
have replenished. 3And bring into contempt all Tyre shall be forgotten Behold, the
1
LORD
by great waters the seed the honourable of the seventy years, according maketh the earth
of Sihor, the harvest of earth. 10
Pass through to the days of one king: d
thy land as a river, O after the end of seventy shall Tyre...: Heb. it shall be
d
vessels of flagons: or, daughter of Tarshish: unto Tyre as the song of an
instruments of viols harlot
a b c e
still: Heb. silent to stain: Heb. to pollute strength: Heb. girdle durable: Heb. old
empty, and maketh it changed the ordinance, shaking of an olive tree, from on high are open,
waste, and turnetha it broken the everlasting and as the gleaning and the foundations of
upside down, and covenant. 6
Therefore grapes when the vintage the earth do shake.
scattereth abroad the hath the curse devoured is done. 14They shall lift 19
The earth is utterly
inhabitants thereof. the earth, and they that up their voice, they shall broken down, the earth
2
And it shall be, as with dwell therein are sing for the majesty of is clean dissolved, the
the people, so with the desolate: therefore the the LORD, they shall cry earth is moved
priestb; as with the inhabitants of the earth aloud from the sea. exceedingly. 20
The
servant, so with his are burned, and few men 15
Wherefore glorify ye earth shall reel to and
master; as with the left. 7The new wine the LORD in the firesd, fro like a drunkard, and
maid, so with her mourneth, the vine even the name of the shall be removed like a
mistress; as with the languisheth, all the LORD God of Israel in the cottage; and the
buyer, so with the seller; merryhearted do sigh. isles of the sea. transgression thereof
as with the lender, so 8
The mirth of tabrets 16
From the uttermost shall be heavy upon it;
with the borrower; as ceaseth, the noise of part of the earth have and it shall fall, and not
with the taker of usury, them that rejoice we heard songs, even rise again. 21And it shall
so with the giver of endeth, the joy of the glory to the righteous. come to pass in that
usury to him. 3The land harp ceaseth. 9They shall But I said, My leanness, day, that the LORD
shall be utterly emptied, not drink wine with a my leanness, woe unto shall punishe the host of
and utterly spoiled: for song; strong drink shall me! the treacherous the high ones that are
the LORD hath spoken be bitter to them that dealers have dealt on high, and the kings
this word. 4The earth drink it. 10The city of treacherously; yea, the of the earth upon the
mourneth and fadeth confusion is broken treacherous dealers earth. 22And they shall
away, the world down: every house is have dealt very be gathered together,
languisheth and fadeth shut up, that no man treacherously. 17
Fear, as prisoners are
away, the haughtyc may come in. 11There is and the pit, and the gathered in the pit, and
people of the earth do a crying for wine in the snare, are upon thee, O shall be shut up in the
languish. 5The earth also streets; all joy is inhabitant of the earth. prison, and after many
is defiled under the darkened, the mirth of 18
And it shall come to days shall they be
inhabitants thereof; the land is gone. 12In the pass, that he who fleeth visited. 23
Then the
because they have city is left desolation, from the noise of the moon shall be
transgressed the laws, and the gate is smitten fear shall fall into the pit; confounded, and the
a
with destruction. and he that cometh up sun ashamed, when the
turneth...: Heb. perverteth the 13
When thus it shall out of the midst of the LORD of hosts shall
face thereof be in the midst of the pit shall be taken in the reign in mount Zion,
b
priest: or, prince land among the people, snare: for the windows and in Jerusalem, and
c
the haughty...: Heb. the height there shall be as the d e
of the people fires: or, valleys punish: Heb. visit upon
before his ancients low. even as straw is trodden is everlastingc strength:
gloriously. 6
And in this mountain down for the dunghill. 5
For he bringeth
shall the LORD of hosts 11
And he shall spread down them that dwell
Chapter 25 make unto all people a forth his hands in the on high; the lofty city,
feast of fat things, a midst of them, as he that he layeth it low; he
1
O LORD, thou art my feast of wines on the swimmeth spreadeth layeth it low, even to
God; I will exalt thee, I lees, of fat things full of forth his hands to swim: the ground; he bringeth
will praise thy name; for marrow, of wines on the and he shall bring down it even to the dust. 6The
thou hast done lees well refined. 7And he their pride together with foot shall tread it down,
wonderful things; thy will destroya in this the spoils of their hands. even the feet of the
counsels of old are mountain the face of the 12
And the fortress of the poor, and the steps of
faithfulness and truth. covering cast over all high fort of thy walls the needy. 7The way of
2
For thou hast made of a people, and the vail that shall he bring down, lay the just is uprightness:
city an heap; of a is spread over all low, and bring to the thou, most upright, dost
defenced city a ruin: a nations. 8
He will ground, even to the weigh the path of the
palace of strangers to be swallow up death in dust. just. 8Yea, in the way of
no city; it shall never be victory; and the Lord thy judgments, O LORD,
built. 3Therefore shall the GOD will wipe away Chapter 26 have we waited for
strong people glorify tears from off all faces; thee; the desire of our
thee, the city of the and the rebuke of his In that day shall this
1
soul is to thy name, and
terrible nations shall fear people shall he take song be sung in the land to the remembrance of
thee. 4For thou hast been away from off all the of Judah; We have a thee. 9With my soul
a strength to the poor, a earth: for the LORD hath strong city; salvation will have I desired thee in
strength to the needy in spoken it. God appoint for walls the night; yea, with my
his distress, a refuge 9
And it shall be said in and bulwarks. 2Open ye spirit within me will I
from the storm, a that day, Lo, this is our the gates, that the seek thee early: for
shadow from the heat, God; we have waited for righteous nation which when thy judgments
when the blast of the him, and he will save us: keepeth the trutha may are in the earth, the
terrible ones is as a this is the LORD; we enter in. 3Thou wilt keep inhabitants of the world
storm against the wall. have waited for him, we him in perfectb peace, will learn righteousness.
5
Thou shalt bring down will be glad and rejoice whose mind is stayed on 10
Let favour be shewed
the noise of strangers, as in his salvation. 10For in thee: because he to the wicked, yet will
the heat in a dry place; this mountain shall the trusteth in thee. 4Trust he not learn
even the heat with the hand of the LORD rest, ye in the LORD for ever: righteousness: in the
shadow of a cloud: the and Moab shall be for in the LORD JEHOVAH land of uprightness will
branch of the terrible trodden down under him, a c
ones shall be brought truth: Heb. truths everlasting...: Heb. the rock
a b
destroy: Heb. swallow up perfect...: Heb. peace, peace of ages
he deal unjustly, and will they poured out a of the earth for their with me. 6He shall
not behold the majesty prayer e
when thy iniquity: the earth also cause them that come
of the LORD. 11LORD, chastening was upon shall disclose her bloodf, of Jacob to take root:
when thy hand is lifted them. 17Like as a woman and shall no more cover Israel shall blossom and
up, they will not see: but with child, that draweth her slain. bud, and fill the face of
they shall see, and be near the time of her the world with fruit.
ashamed for their envy delivery, is in pain, and Chapter 27 7
Hath he smitten
at the people; yea, the crieth out in her pangs; him, as he smote those
fire of thine enemies so have we been in thy
1
In that day the LORD that smote him? or is
shall devour them. sight, O LORD. 18We with his sore and great he slain according to
12
LORD, thou wilt have been with child, we and strong sword shall the slaughter of them
ordain peace for us: for have been in pain, we punish leviathan the that are slain by him?
thou also hast wrought have as it were brought piercinga serpent, even 8
In measure, when it
all our works in us. d 13O forth wind; we have not leviathan that crooked shooteth forth, thou wilt
LORD our God, other wrought any deliverance serpent; and he shall debate with it: he
lords beside thee have in the earth; neither slay the dragon that is in stayeth his rough wind
had dominion over us: have the inhabitants of the sea. 2
In that day in the day of the east
but by thee only will we the world fallen. 19Thy sing ye unto her, A wind. 9
By this
make mention of thy dead men shall live, vineyard of red wine. 3I therefore shall the
name. 14They are dead, together with my dead the LORD do keep it; I iniquity of Jacob be
they shall not live; they body shall they arise. will water it every purged; and this is all
are deceased, they shall Awake and sing, ye that moment: lest any hurt it, the fruit to take away
not rise: therefore hast dwell in dust: for thy dew I will keep it night and his sin; when he
thou visited and is as the dew of herbs, day. 4Fury is not in me: maketh all the stones of
destroyed them, and and the earth shall cast who would set the briers the altar as chalkstones
made all their memory out the dead. and thorns against me in that are beaten in
to perish. 15Thou hast 20
Come, my people, battle? I would gob sunder, the groves and
increased the nation, O enter thou into thy through them, I would imagesc shall not stand
LORD, thou hast chambers, and shut thy burn them together. 5Or up. 10Yet the defenced
increased the nation: doors about thee: hide let him take hold of my city shall be desolate,
thou art glorified: thou thyself as it were for a strength, that he may and the habitation
hadst removed it far little moment, until the make peace with me; forsaken, and left like a
unto all the ends of the indignation be overpast. and he shall make peace wilderness: there shall
earth. 16LORD, in trouble 21
For, behold, the LORD f
the calf feed, and there
have they visited thee, cometh out of his place blood: Heb. bloods shall he lie down, and
a
to punish the inhabitants piercing: or, crossing like a consume the branches
bar
d e b c
in us: or, for us prayer: Heb. secret speech go...: or, march against images: or, sun images
thereof. 11
When the glorious beauty is a gate. 7But they also have the weary to rest; and
boughs thereof are fading flower, which are erred through wine, and this is the refreshing:
withered, they shall be on the head of the fat through strong drink are yet they would not
broken off: the women valleys of them that are out of the way; the priest hear. 13But the word of
come, and set them on overcomea with wine! and the prophet have the LORD was unto
fire: for it is a people of 2
Behold, the Lord hath a erred through strong them precept upon
no understanding: mighty and strong one, drink, they are precept, precept upon
therefore he that made which as a tempest of swallowed up of wine, precept; line upon line,
them will not have hail and a destroying they are out of the way line upon line; here a
mercy on them, and he storm, as a flood of through strong drink; little, and there a little;
that formed them will mighty waters they err in vision, they that they might go, and
shew them no favour. overflowing, shall cast stumble in judgment. fall backward, and be
12
And it shall come to down to the earth with 8
For all tables are full of broken, and snared,
pass in that day, that the the hand. 3The crown of vomit and filthiness, so and taken.
LORD shall beat off from pride, the drunkards of that there is no place 14
Wherefore hear the
the channel of the river Ephraim, shall be clean. word of the LORD, ye
unto the stream of trodden under feet: 9
Whom shall he teach scornful men, that rule
Egypt, and ye shall be 4
And the glorious beauty, knowledge? and whom this people which is in
gathered one by one, O which is on the head of shall he make to Jerusalem. 15Because ye
ye children of Israel. the fat valley, shall be a understand doctrineb? have said, We have
13
And it shall come to fading flower, and as the them that are weaned made a covenant with
pass in that day, that the hasty fruit before the from the milk, and drawn death, and with hell are
great trumpet shall be summer; which when he from the breasts. 10For we at agreement; when
blown, and they shall that looketh upon it precept must be upon the overflowing scourge
come which were ready seeth, while it is yet in precept, precept upon shall pass through, it
to perish in the land of his hand he eateth it up. precept; line upon line, shall not come unto us:
Assyria, and the outcasts 5
In that day shall the line upon line; here a for we have made lies
in the land of Egypt, and LORD of hosts be for a little, and there a little: our refuge, and under
shall worship the LORD crown of glory, and for a 11
For with stammeringc falsehood have we hid
in the holy mount at diadem of beauty, unto lips and another tongue ourselves: 16Therefore
Jerusalem. the residue of his people, will he speak to this thus saith the Lord
6
And for a spirit of people. 12
To whom he GOD, Behold, I lay in
Chapter 28 judgment to him that said, This is the rest Zion for a foundation a
sitteth in judgment, and wherewith ye may cause stone, a tried stone, a
1
Woe to the crown of for strength to them that precious corner stone, a
b
pride, to the drunkards turn the battle to the doctrine: Heb. the hearing? sure foundation: he that
c
of Ephraim, whose stammering...: Heb. believeth shall not
a
overcome: Heb. broken stammerings of lip
make haste. 17Judgment bands be made strong: be threshing it, nor whisperb out of the
also will I lay to the line, for I have heard from the break it with the wheel dust. 5
Moreover the
and righteousness to the Lord GOD of hosts a of his cart, nor bruise it multitude of thy
plummet: and the hail consumption, even with his horsemen. 29This strangers shall be like
shall sweep away the determined upon the also cometh forth from small dust, and the
refuge of lies, and the whole earth. the LORD of hosts, which multitude of the terrible
waters shall overflow the 23
Give ye ear, and is wonderful in counsel, ones shall be as chaff
hiding place. 18And your hear my voice; hearken, and excellent in working. that passeth away: yea,
covenant with death and hear my speech. it shall be at an instant
shall be disannulled, and 24
Doth the plowman plow Chapter 29 suddenly. 6Thou shalt
your agreement with hell all day to sow? doth he be visited of the LORD
shall not stand; when the open and break the clods Woea to Ariel, to
1
of hosts with thunder,
overflowing scourge of his ground? 25When he Ariel, the city where and with earthquake,
shall pass through, then hath made plain the face David dwelt! add ye year and great noise, with
ye shall be trodden down thereof, doth he not cast to year; let them kill storm and tempest, and
by it. 19From the time abroad the fitches, and sacrifices. 2
Yet I will the flame of devouring
that it goeth forth it shall scatter the cummin, and distress Ariel, and there fire. 7And the multitude
take you: for morning by cast in the principald shall be heaviness and of all the nations that
morning shall it pass wheat and the appointed sorrow: and it shall be fight against Ariel, even
over, by day and by barley and the rie in unto me as Ariel. 3And I all that fight against her
night: and it shall be a their place? 26
For his will camp against thee and her munition, and
vexation only to God doth instruct him to round about, and will lay that distress her, shall
understand the report. discretion, and doth siege against thee with a be as a dream of a
20
For the bed is shorter teach him. 27
For the mount, and I will raise night vision. 8It shall
than that a man can fitches are not threshed forts against thee. 4And even be as when an
stretch himself on it: and with a threshing thou shalt be brought hungry man dreameth,
the covering narrower instrument, neither is a down, and shalt speak and, behold, he eateth;
than that he can wrap cart wheel turned about out of the ground, and but he awaketh, and his
himself in it. 21For the upon the cummin; but thy speech shall be low soul is empty: or as
LORD shall rise up as in the fitches are beaten out of the dust, and thy when a thirsty man
mount Perazim, he shall out with a staff, and the voice shall be, as of one dreameth, and, behold,
be wroth as in the valley cummin with a rod. that hath a familiar he drinketh; but he
of Gibeon, that he may 28
Bread corn is bruised; spirit, out of the ground, awaketh, and, behold,
do his work, his strange because he will not ever and thy speech shall he is faint, and his soul
work; and bring to pass d
hath appetite: so shall
his act, his strange act. the principal...: or, the wheat the multitude of all the
a
22
Now therefore be ye in the principal place, and Woe...: or, O Ariel, that is, the
b
not mockers, lest your barley in the appointed place lion of God whisper: Heb. peep, or, chirp
nations be, that fight toward me is taught by the deaf hear the words God of Israel. 24They
against mount Zion. the precept of men: of the book, and the also that erred in spirit
9
Stay yourselves, and 14
Therefore, behold, I will eyes of the blind shall shall comeg to
wonder; cry ye out, and proceede to do a see out of obscurity, and understanding, and
cry: they are drunken, marvellous work among out of darkness. 19The they that murmured
but not with wine; they this people, even a meek also shall increasef shall learn doctrine.
stagger, but not with marvellous work and a their joy in the LORD,
strong drink. 10For the wonder: for the wisdom and the poor among Chapter 30
LORD hath poured out of their wise men shall men shall rejoice in the
upon you the spirit of perish, and the Holy One of Israel. 20For
1
Woe to the
deep sleep, and hath understanding of their the terrible one is rebellious children,
closed your eyes: the prudent men shall be brought to nought, and saith the LORD, that
prophets and your hid. 15
Woe unto them the scorner is consumed, take counsel, but not of
rulers , the seers hath he
c
that seek deep to hide and all that watch for me; and that cover with
covered. 11
And the their counsel from the iniquity are cut off: a covering, but not of
vision of all is become LORD, and their works 21
That make a man an my spirit, that they may
unto you as the words of are in the dark, and they offender for a word, and add sin to sin: 2That
a bookd that is sealed, say, Who seeth us? and lay a snare for him that walk to go down into
which men deliver to one who knoweth us? reproveth in the gate, Egypt, and have not
that is learned, saying, 16
Surely your turning of and turn aside the just asked at my mouth; to
Read this, I pray thee: things upside down shall for a thing of nought. strengthen themselves
and he saith, I cannot; be esteemed as the 22
Therefore thus saith in the strength of
for it is sealed: 12And the potter’s clay: for shall the LORD, who Pharaoh, and to trust in
book is delivered to him the work say of him that redeemed Abraham, the shadow of Egypt!
that is not learned, made it, He made me concerning the house of
3
Therefore shall the
saying, Read this, I pray not? or shall the thing Jacob, Jacob shall not strength of Pharaoh be
thee: and he saith, I am framed say of him that now be ashamed, your shame, and the
not learned. 13Wherefore framed it, He had no neither shall his face trust in the shadow of
the Lord said, Forasmuch understanding? now wax pale. 23But Egypt your confusion.
as this people draw near 17
Is it not yet a very when he seeth his
4
For his princes were at
me with their mouth, little while, and Lebanon children, the work of Zoan, and his
and with their lips do shall be turned into a mine hands, in the midst ambassadors came to
honour me, but have fruitful field, and the of him, they shall Hanes. 5They were all
removed their heart far fruitful field shall be sanctify my name, and ashamed of a people
from me, and their fear esteemed as a forest? sanctify the Holy One of that could not profit
c
18
And in that day shall Jacob, and shall fear the g
rulers: Heb. heads come...: Heb. know
d e f
book: or, letter proceed: Heb. add increase: Heb. add understanding
them, nor be an help nor us smooth things, not. 16But ye said, No; for afflictiond, yet shall not
profit, but a shame, and prophesy deceits: 11Get we will flee upon horses; thy teachers be
also a reproach. 6The you out of the way, turn therefore shall ye flee: removed into a corner
burden of the beasts of aside out of the path, and, We will ride upon any more, but thine
the south: into the land cause the Holy One of the swift; therefore shall eyes shall see thy
of trouble and anguish, Israel to cease from they that pursue you be teachers: 21
And thine
from whence come the before us. 12Wherefore swift. 17One thousand ears shall hear a word
young and old lion, the thus saith the Holy One shall flee at the rebuke behind thee, saying,
viper and fiery flying of Israel, Because ye of one; at the rebuke of This is the way, walk ye
serpent, they will carry despise this word, and five shall ye flee: till ye in it, when ye turn to
their riches upon the trust in oppressionb and be left as a beaconc upon the right hand, and
shoulders of young perverseness, and stay the top of a mountain, when ye turn to the left.
asses, and their thereon: 13Therefore this and as an ensign on an 22
Ye shall defile also the
treasures upon the iniquity shall be to you hill. covering of thy graven
bunches of camels, to a as a breach ready to fall, 18
And therefore will images of silver, and
people that shall not swelling out in a high the LORD wait, that he the ornament of thy
profit them. 7For the wall, whose breaking may be gracious unto molten images of gold:
Egyptians shall help in cometh suddenly at an you, and therefore will thou shalt cast them
vain, and to no purpose: instant. 14And he shall he be exalted, that he away as a menstruous
therefore have I cried break it as the breaking may have mercy upon cloth; thou shalt say
concerning this, Their of the potters’ vessel you: for the LORD is a unto it, Get thee hence.
strength is to sit still. that is broken in pieces; God of judgment: 23
Then shall he give the
8
Now go, write it he shall not spare: so blessed are all they that rain of thy seed, that
before them in a tablea, that there shall not be wait for him. 19For the thou shalt sow the
and note it in a book, found in the bursting of people shall dwell in Zion ground withal; and
that it may be for the it a sherd to take fire at Jerusalem: thou shalt bread of the increase of
time to come for ever from the hearth, or to weep no more: he will be the earth, and it shall
and ever: 9That this is a take water withal out of very gracious unto thee be fat and plenteous: in
rebellious people, lying the pit. 15For thus saith at the voice of thy cry; that day shall thy cattle
children, children that the Lord GOD, the Holy when he shall hear it, he feed in large pastures.
will not hear the law of One of Israel; In will answer thee. 20And 24
The oxen likewise and
the LORD: 10Which say to returning and rest shall though the Lord give you the young asses that
the seers, See not; and ye be saved; in the bread of adversity, ear the ground shall eat
to the prophets, quietness and in and the water of cleane provender, which
Prophesy not unto us confidence shall be your d
right things, speak unto strength: and ye would affliction: or, oppression
c e
a beacon: or, a tree bereft of clean: or, savoury: Heb.
a b
the...: Heb. the latter day oppression: or, fraud branches, or, boughs: or, a mast leavened
hath been winnowed bridle in the jaws of the the king it is prepared; hath the LORD spoken
with the shovel and with people, causing them to he hath made it deep unto me, Like as the
the fan. 25
And there err. 29Ye shall have a and large: the pile lion and the young lion
shall be upon every high song, as in the night thereof is fire and much roaring on his prey,
mountain, and upon when a holy solemnity is wood; the breath of the when a multitude of
every high hill , rivers
f
kept; and gladness of LORD, like a stream of shepherds is called
and streams of waters in heart, as when one brimstone, doth kindle it. forth against him, he
the day of the great goeth with a pipe to will not be afraid of
slaughter, when the come into the mountain Chapter 31 their voice, nor abase
towers fall. 26
Moreover of the LORD, to the himself for the noisea of
the light of the moon mighty One of Israel.
1
Woe to them that go them: so shall the LORD
shall be as the light of 30
And the LORD shall down to Egypt for help; of hosts come down to
the sun, and the light of cause his glorioush voice and stay on horses, and fight for mount Zion,
the sun shall be to be heard, and shall trust in chariots, because and for the hill thereof.
sevenfold, as the light of shew the lighting down they are many; and in 5
As birds flying, so will
seven days, in the day of his arm, with the horsemen, because they the LORD of hosts
that the LORD bindeth indignation of his anger, are very strong; but they defend Jerusalem;
up the breach of his and with the flame of a look not unto the Holy defending also he will
people, and healeth the devouring fire, with One of Israel, neither deliver it; and passing
stroke of their wound. scattering, and tempest, seek the LORD! 2Yet he over he will preserve it.
27
Behold, the name of and hailstones. 31
For also is wise, and will 6
Turn ye unto him
the LORD cometh from through the voice of the bring evil, and will not from whom the children
far, burning with his LORD shall the Assyrian call back his words: but of Israel have deeply
anger, and the burdeng be beaten down, which will arise against the revolted. 7For in that
thereof is heavy: his lips smote with a rod. 32And house of the evildoers, day every man shall
are full of indignation, in every place where the and against the help of cast away his idols of
and his tongue as a grounded staff shall them that work iniquity. silver, and his idols of
devouring fire: 28
And pass, which the LORD
3
Now the Egyptians are gold, which your own
his breath, as an shall lay upon him, it men, and not God; and hands have made unto
overflowing stream, shall shall be with tabrets and their horses flesh, and you for a sin. 8
Then
reach to the midst of the harps: and in battles of not spirit. When the shall the Assyrian fall
neck, to sift the nations shaking will he fight with LORD shall stretch out with the sword, not of a
with the sieve of vanity: it. 33
For Tophet is his hand, both he that mighty man; and the
and there shall be a ordained of oldi; yea, for helpeth shall fall, and he sword, not of a mean
that is holpen shall fall man, shall devour him:
f h
high hill: Heb. lifted up, etc his glorious...: Heb. the glory down, and they all shall
g
burden...: or, grievousness of of his voice fail together. 4For thus
i a
flame of old: Heb. from yesterday noise: or, multitude
but he shall flee fromb ready to speak plainly. 11
Tremble, ye women field. 17And the work of
the sword, and his young 5
The vile person shall be that are at ease; be righteousness shall be
men shall be no more called liberal, troubled, ye careless peace; and the effect of
discomfited. 9
And he nor the churl said to be ones: strip you, and righteousness quietness
shall pass over to his bountiful. 6For the vile make you bare, and gird and assurance for ever.
strong hold for fear, and person will speak villany, sackcloth upon your 18
And my people shall
his princes shall be and his heart will work loins. 12They shall lament dwell in a peaceable
afraid of the ensign, iniquity, to practise for the teats, for the habitation, and in sure
saith the LORD, whose hypocrisy, and to utter pleasante fields, for the dwellings, and in quiet
fire is in Zion, and his error against the LORD, fruitful vine. 13Upon the resting places; 19When
furnace in Jerusalem. to make empty the soul land of my people shall it shall hail, coming
of the hungry, and he come up thorns and down on the forest; and
Chapter 32 will cause the drink of briers; yea, upon all the the city shall be low in a
the thirsty to fail. 7The housesf of joy in the low place. 20
Blessed
Behold, a king shall
1
instruments also of the joyous city: 14
Because are ye that sow beside
reign in righteousness, churl are evil: he the palaces shall be all waters, that send
and princes shall rule in deviseth wicked devices forsaken; the multitude forth thither the feet of
judgment. 2And a man to destroy the poor with of the city shall be left; the ox and the ass.
shall be as an hiding lying words, even when the fortsg and towers
place from the wind, and the needyc speaketh shall be for dens for Chapter 33
a covert from the right. 8
But the liberal ever, a joy of wild asses,
tempest; as rivers of deviseth liberal things; a pasture of flocks;
1
Woe to thee that
water in a dry place, as and by liberal things 15
Until the spirit be spoilest, and thou wast
the shadow of a greata shall he standd. poured upon us from on not spoiled; and dealest
rock in a weary land. 9
Rise up, ye women high, and the wilderness treacherously, and they
3
And the eyes of them that are at ease; hear be a fruitful field, and dealt not treacherously
that see shall not be my voice, ye careless the fruitful field be with thee! when thou
dim, and the ears of daughters; give ear unto counted for a forest. shalt cease to spoil,
them that hear shall my speech. 10Many days 16
Then judgment shall thou shalt be spoiled;
hearken. 4The heart also and years shall ye be dwell in the wilderness, and when thou shalt
of the rashb shall troubled, ye careless and righteousness make an end to deal
understand knowledge, women: for the vintage remain in the fruitful treacherously, they
and the tongue of the shall fail, the gathering shall deal treacherously
e
stammerers shall be shall not come. pleasant...: Heb. fields of with thee. 2O LORD, be
desire gracious unto us; we
b c f
from: or, for fear of the needy...: or, he speaketh yea...: or, burning upon have waited for thee:
a g
great: Heb. heavy against the poor in judgment forts...: or, clifts and be thou their arm every
b d
rash: Heb. hasty stand: or, be established watchtowers
morning, our salvation wilderness; and Bashan seeing evil; 16
He shall 21
But there the glorious
also in the time of and Carmel shake off dwell on high : his place
c
LORD will be unto us a
trouble. 3At the noise of their fruits. 10Now will I of defence shall be the place of broad rivers
the tumult the people rise, saith the LORD; now munitions of rocks: and streams; wherein
fled; at the lifting up of will I be exalted; now will bread shall be given him; shall go no galley with
thyself the nations were I lift up myself. 11Ye shall his waters shall be sure. oars, neither shall
scattered. 4
And your conceive chaff, ye shall 17
Thine eyes shall see gallant ship pass
spoil shall be gathered bring forth stubble: your the king in his beauty: thereby. 22
For the
like the gathering of the breath, as fire, shall they shall behold the LORD is our judge, the
caterpiller: as the devour you. 12And the land that is very far off. LORD is our lawgiverf,
running to and fro of people shall be as the 18
Thine heart shall the LORD is our king;
locusts shall he run upon burnings of lime: as meditate terror. Where he will save us. 23Thy
them. 5The LORD is thorns cut up shall they is the scribe? where is tacklings are loosed;
exalted; for he dwelleth be burned in the fire. the receiverd? where is they could not well
on high: he hath filled 13
Hear, ye that are far he that counted the strengthen their mast,
Zion with judgment and off, what I have done; towers? 19Thou shalt not they could not spread
righteousness. 6
And and, ye that are near, see a fierce people, a the sail: then is the
wisdom and knowledge acknowledge my might. people of a deeper prey of a great spoil
shall be the stability of 14
The sinners in Zion are speech than thou canst divided; the lame take
thy times, and strength afraid; fearfulness hath perceive; of a the prey. 24
And the
of salvationa: the fear of surprised the hypocrites. stammeringe tongue, inhabitant shall not say,
the LORD is his treasure. Who among us shall that thou canst not I am sick: the people
7
Behold, their valiant dwell with the devouring understand. 20Look upon that dwell therein shall
ones shall cry without: fire? who among us shall Zion, the city of our be forgiven their
the ambassadors of dwell with everlasting solemnities: thine eyes iniquity.
peace shall weep burnings? 15
He that shall see Jerusalem a
bitterly. 8The highways walketh righteouslyb, and quiet habitation, a Chapter 34
lie waste, the wayfaring speaketh uprightly; he tabernacle that shall not
man ceaseth: he hath that despiseth the gain be taken down; not one Come
1
near, ye
broken the covenant, he of oppressions, that of the stakes thereof nations, to hear; and
hath despised the cities, shaketh his hands from shall ever be removed, hearken, ye people: let
he regardeth no man. holding of bribes, that neither shall any of the the earth hear, and all
9
The earth mourneth and stoppeth his ears from cords thereof be broken. that is therein; the
languisheth: Lebanon is hearing of blood, and world, and all things
c
ashamed and hewn shutteth his eyes from high: Heb. heights, or, high that come forth of it.
down: Sharon is like a places 2
For the indignation of
b d
righteously: Heb. in receiver: Heb. weigher?
a e f
salvation: Heb. salvations righteousnesses stammering: or, ridiculous lawgiver: Heb. statutemaker
the LORD is upon all unicornsa shall come kingdom, but none shall them by line: they shall
nations, and his fury down with them, and the be there, and all her possess it for ever, from
upon all their armies: he bullocks with the bulls; princes shall be nothing. generation to
hath utterly destroyed and their land shall be 13
And thorns shall come generation shall they
them, he hath delivered soaked with blood, and up in her palaces, nettles dwell therein.
them to the slaughter. their dust made fat with and brambles in the
3
Their slain also shall be fatness. 8
For it is the fortresses thereof: and it Chapter 35
cast out, and their stink day of the LORD’S shall be an habitation of
shall come up out of vengeance, and the year dragons, and a court for The wilderness and
1

their carcases, and the of recompences for the owlsc. 14The wild beasts the solitary place shall
mountains shall be controversy of Zion. of the desert shall also be glad for them; and
melted with their blood. 9
And the streams meet with the wild the desert shall rejoice,
4
And all the host of thereof shall be turned beasts of the island, and and blossom as the
heaven shall be into pitch, and the dust the satyr shall cry to his rose. 2It shall blossom
dissolved, and the thereof into brimstone, fellow; the screech owl abundantly, and rejoice
heavens shall be rolled and the land thereof also shall rest there, and even with joy and
together as a scroll: and shall become burning find for herself a place of singing: the glory of
all their host shall fall pitch. 10It shall not be rest. 15
There shall the Lebanon shall be given
down, as the leaf falleth quenched night nor day; great owl make her nest, unto it, the excellency
off from the vine, and as the smoke thereof shall and lay, and hatch, and of Carmel and Sharon,
a falling fig from the fig go up for ever: from gather under her they shall see the glory
tree. 5For my sword shall generation to generation shadow: there shall the of the LORD, and the
be bathed in heaven: it shall lie waste; none vultures also be excellency of our God.
behold, it shall come shall pass through it for gathered, every one with
3
Strengthen ye the
down upon Idumea, and ever and ever. 11But the her mate. 16Seek ye out weak hands, and
upon the people of my cormorantb and the of the book of the LORD, confirm the feeble
curse, to judgment. 6The bittern shall possess it; and read: no one of knees. 4Say to them
sword of the LORD is the owl also and the these shall fail, none that are of a fearfula
filled with blood, it is raven shall dwell in it: shall want her mate: for heart, Be strong, fear
made fat with fatness, and he shall stretch out my mouth it hath not: behold, your God
and with the blood of upon it the line of commanded, and his will come with
lambs and goats, with confusion, and the spirit it hath gathered vengeance, even God
the fat of the kidneys of stones of emptiness. them. 17And he hath cast with a recompence; he
rams: for the LORD hath 12
They shall call the the lot for them, and his will come and save you.
a sacrifice in Bozrah, and nobles thereof to the hand hath divided it unto
5
Then the eyes of
a great slaughter in the the blind shall be
a c
land of Idumea. 7And the unicorns: or, rhinocerots owls: or, ostriches: Heb.
b a
cormorant: or, pelican daughters of the owl fearful: Heb. hasty
opened, and the ears of their heads: they shall thou, (but they are but horsemen? 10And am I
the deaf shall be obtain joy and gladness, vain words) I have now come up without
unstopped. 6Then shall and sorrow and sighing counsel and strength for the LORD against this
the lame man leap as an shall flee away. war: now on whom dost land to destroy it? the
hart, and the tongue of thou trust, that thou LORD said unto me, Go
the dumb sing: for in the Chapter 36 rebellest against me? up against this land,
wilderness shall waters 6
Lo, thou trustest in the and destroy it.
break out, and streams Now it came to pass
1
staff of this broken reed, 11
Then said Eliakim
in the desert. 7And the in the fourteenth year of on Egypt; whereon if a and Shebna and Joah
parched ground shall king Hezekiah, that man lean, it will go into unto Rabshakeh, Speak,
become a pool, and the Sennacherib king of his hand, and pierce it: I pray thee, unto thy
thirsty land springs of Assyria came up against so is Pharaoh king of servants in the Syrian
water: in the habitation all the defenced cities of Egypt to all that trust in language; for we
of dragons, where each Judah, and took them. him. 7But if thou say to understand it: and
lay, shall be grassb with
2
And the king of Assyria me, We trust in the speak not to us in the
reeds and rushes. 8And sent Rabshakeh from LORD our God: is it not Jews’ language, in the
an highway shall be Lachish to Jerusalem he, whose high places ears of the people that
there, and a way, and it unto king Hezekiah with and whose altars are on the wall. 12But
shall be called The way a great army. And he Hezekiah hath taken Rabshakeh said, Hath
of holiness; the unclean stood by the conduit of away, and said to Judah my master sent me to
shall not pass over it; but the upper pool in the and to Jerusalem, Ye thy master and to thee
it shall be for those: the highway of the fuller’s shall worship before this to speak these words?
wayfaring men, though field. 3Then came forth altar? 8Now therefore hath he not sent me to
fools, shall not err unto him Eliakim, give pledgesb, I pray the men that sit upon
therein. 9No lion shall be Hilkiah’s son, which was thee, to my master the the wall, that they may
there, nor any ravenous over the house, and king of Assyria, and I will eat their own dung, and
beast shall go up Shebna the scribea, and give thee two thousand drink their own piss
thereon, it shall not be Joah, Asaph’s son, the horses, if thou be able with you? 13
Then
found there; but the recorder. 4
And on thy part to set riders Rabshakeh stood, and
redeemed shall walk Rabshakeh said unto upon them. 9How then cried with a loud voice
there: 10
And the them, Say ye now to wilt thou turn away the in the Jews’ language,
ransomed of the LORD Hezekiah, Thus saith the face of one captain of and said, Hear ye the
shall return, and come to great king, the king of the least of my master’s words of the great king,
Zion with songs and Assyria, What confidence servants, and put thy the king of Assyria.
everlasting joy upon is this wherein thou trust on Egypt for 14
Thus saith the king,
trustest? 5I say, sayest chariots and for Let not Hezekiah
b
grass...: or, a court for reeds, deceive you: for he
a b
etc scribe: or, secretary pledges: or, hostages
shall not be able to Sepharvaim? and have Shebna the scribe, and have blasphemed me.
deliver you. 15Neither let they delivered Samaria the elders of the priests 7
Behold, I will sendc a
Hezekiah make you trust out of my hand? 20Who covered with sackcloth, blast upon him, and he
in the LORD, saying, The are they among all the unto Isaiah the prophet shall hear a rumour,
LORD will surely deliver gods of these lands, that the son of Amoz. 3And and return to his own
us: this city shall not be have delivered their land they said unto him, Thus land; and I will cause
delivered into the hand out of my hand, that the saith Hezekiah, This day him to fall by the sword
of the king of Assyria. LORD should deliver is a day of trouble, and in his own land.
16
Hearken not to Jerusalem out of my of rebuke, and of 8
So Rabshakeh
Hezekiah: for thus saith hand? 21But they held blasphemy : a
for the returned, and found the
the king of Assyria, their peace, and children are come to the king of Assyria warring
Makec an agreement answered him not a birth, and there is not against Libnah: for he
with me by a present, word: for the king’s strength to bring forth. had heard that he was
and come out to me: and commandment was, 4
It may be the LORD thy departed from Lachish.
eat ye every one of his saying, Answer him not. God will hear the words 9
And he heard say
vine, and every one of 22
Then came Eliakim, the of Rabshakeh, whom the concerning Tirhakah
his fig tree, and drink ye son of Hilkiah, that was king of Assyria his king of Ethiopia, He is
every one the waters of over the household, and master hath sent to come forth to make war
his own cistern; 17Until I Shebna the scribe, and reproach the living God, with thee. And when he
come and take you away Joah, the son of Asaph, and will reprove the heard it, he sent
to a land like your own the recorder, to words which the LORD messengers to
land, a land of corn and Hezekiah with their thy God hath heard: Hezekiah, saying,
wine, a land of bread clothes rent, and told wherefore lift up thy 10
Thus shall ye speak to
and vineyards. 18Beware him the words of prayer for the remnant Hezekiah king of Judah,
lest Hezekiah persuade Rabshakeh. that is leftb. 5
So the saying, Let not thy God,
you, saying, The LORD servants of king in whom thou trustest,
will deliver us. Hath any Chapter 37 Hezekiah came to Isaiah. deceive thee, saying,
of the gods of the 6
And Isaiah said unto Jerusalem shall not be
nations delivered his
1
And it came to pass, them, Thus shall ye say given into the hand of
land out of the hand of when king Hezekiah unto your master, Thus the king of Assyria.
the king of Assyria? heard it, that he rent his saith the LORD, Be not 11
Behold, thou hast
19
Where are the gods of clothes, and covered afraid of the words that heard what the kings of
Hamath and Arphad? himself with sackcloth, thou hast heard, Assyria have done to all
where are the gods of and went into the house wherewith the servants lands by destroying
of the LORD. 2And he of the king of Assyria them utterly; and shalt
c
Make...: or, Seek my favour sent Eliakim, who was
a c
by a present: Heb. Make with over the household, and blasphemy: or, provocation send...: or, put a spirit into
b
me a blessing left: Heb. found him
thou be delivered? Assyria have laid waste blasphemed? and dismayed and
12
Have the gods of the all the nationsd, and their against whom hast thou confounded: they were
nations delivered them countries, 19
And have exalted thy voice, and as the grass of the field,
which my fathers have cast their gods into the
e
lifted up thine eyes on and as the green herb,
destroyed, as Gozan, fire: for they were no high? even against the as the grass on the
and Haran, and Rezeph, gods, but the work of Holy One of Israel. 24By housetops, and as corn
and the children of Eden men’s hands, wood and thy servants hast thou blasted before it be
which were in Telassar? stone: therefore they reproached the Lord, and grown up. 28But I know
13
Where is the king of have destroyed them. hast said, By the thy abodeg, and thy
Hamath, and the king of 20
Now therefore, O LORD multitude of my chariots going out, and thy
Arphad, and the king of our God, save us from am I come up to the coming in, and thy rage
the city of Sepharvaim, his hand, that all the height of the mountains, against me. 29Because
Hena, and Ivah? 14And kingdoms of the earth to the sides of Lebanon; thy rage against me,
Hezekiah received the may know that thou art and I will cut down the and thy tumult, is come
letter from the hand of the LORD, even thou tall cedars thereof, and up into mine ears,
the messengers, and only. the choice fir trees therefore will I put my
read it: and Hezekiah 21
Then Isaiah the son thereof: and I will enter hook in thy nose, and
went up unto the house of Amoz sent unto into the height of his my bridle in thy lips,
of the LORD, and spread Hezekiah, saying, Thus border, and the forest of and I will turn thee back
it before the LORD. 15And saith the LORD God of his Carmel. 25
I have by the way by which
Hezekiah prayed unto Israel, Whereas thou digged, and drunk water; thou camest. 30And this
the LORD, saying, 16O hast prayed to me and with the sole of my shall be a sign unto
LORD of hosts, God of against Sennacherib king feet have I dried up all thee, Ye shall eat this
Israel, that dwellest of Assyria: 22This is the the rivers of the year such as groweth of
between the cherubims, word which the LORD besieged places. 26Hast itself; and the second
thou art the God, even hath spoken concerning thou not heard long ago, year that which
thou alone, of all the him; The virgin, the how I have done it; and springeth of the same:
kingdoms of the earth: daughter of Zion, hath of ancient times, that I and in the third year
thou hast made heaven despised thee, and have formed it? now sow ye, and reap, and
and earth. 17Incline thine laughed thee to scorn; have I brought it to pass, plant vineyards, and
ear, O LORD, and hear; the daughter of that thou shouldest be to eat the fruit thereof.
open thine eyes, O Jerusalem hath shaken lay waste defenced cities 31
And the remnanth that
LORD, and see: and hear her head at thee. into ruinous heaps. is escaped of the house
all the words of 23
Whom hast thou 27
Therefore their g
Sennacherib, which hath reproached and inhabitants were of abode: or, sitting
h
sent to reproach the small power, they were
f the remnant...: Heb. the
d
living God. 18Of a truth, nations: Heb. lands escaping of the house of
e f
LORD, the kings of cast: Heb. given of small...: Heb. short of hand Judah that remaineth
of Judah shall again take it came to pass, as he saying, 5Go, and say to see the LORD, even the
root downward, and bear was worshipping in the Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, in the land of the
fruit upward: 32For out of house of Nisroch his god, LORD, the God of David living: I shall behold
Jerusalem shall go forth that Adrammelech and thy father, I have heard man no more with the
a remnant, and they that Sharezer his sons smote thy prayer, I have seen inhabitants of the
escape out of mount him with the sword; and thy tears: behold, I will world. 12
Mine age is
Zion: the zeal of the they escaped into the add unto thy days fifteen departed, and is
LORD of hosts shall do land of Armeniai: and years. 6And I will deliver removed from me as a
this. 33
Therefore thus Esarhaddon his son thee and this city out of shepherd’s tent: I have
saith the LORD reigned in his stead. the hand of the king of cut off like a weaver my
concerning the king of Assyria: and I will defend life: he will cut me off
Assyria, He shall not Chapter 38 this city. 7And this shall with pining sickness:
come into this city, nor be a sign unto thee from from day even to night
shoot an arrow there, In those days was
1
the LORD, that the LORD wilt thou make an end
nor come before it with Hezekiah sick unto will do this thing that he of me. 13I reckoned till
shields, nor cast a bank death. And Isaiah the hath spoken; 8Behold, I morning, that, as a lion,
against it. 34By the way prophet the son of Amoz will bring again the so will he break all my
that he came, by the came unto him, and said shadow of the degrees, bones: from day even
same shall he return, unto him, Thus saith the which is gone down in to night wilt thou make
and shall not come into LORD, Set thine house in the sun dialb of Ahaz, ten an end of me. 14Like a
this city, saith the LORD. order: for thou shalt die, degrees backward. So crane or a swallow, so
35
For I will defend this and not live. 2
Then the sun returned ten did I chatter: I did
city to save it for mine Hezekiah turned his face degrees, by which mourn as a dove: mine
own sake, and for my toward the wall, and degrees it was gone eyes fail with looking
servant David’s sake. prayed unto the LORD, down. upward: O LORD, I am
36
Then the angel of the
3
And said, Remember 9
The writing of oppressed; undertakec
LORD went forth, and now, O LORD, I beseech Hezekiah king of Judah, for me. 15What shall I
smote in the camp of the thee, how I have walked when he had been sick, say? he hath both
Assyrians a hundred and before thee in truth and and was recovered of his spoken unto me, and
fourscore and five with a perfect heart, and sickness: 10I said in the himself hath done it: I
thousand: and when have done that which is cutting off of my days, I shall go softly all my
they arose early in the good in thy sight. And shall go to the gates of years in the bitterness
morning, behold, they Hezekiah wept sorea. the grave: I am deprived of my soul. 16O Lord, by
were all dead corpses.
4
Then came the word of of the residue of my these things men live,
37
So Sennacherib king of the LORD to Isaiah, years. 11I said, I shall not and in all these things
Assyria departed, and i b
is the life of my spirit:
went and returned, and Armenia: Heb. Ararat sun dial: Heb. degrees by, or,
a c
dwelt at Nineveh. 38And sore: Heb. with great weeping with the sun undertake...: or, ease me
so wilt thou recover me, Chapter 39 that is in mine house comfortablya to
and make me to live. have they seen: there is Jerusalem, and cry unto
17
Behold, for peaced I had At
1
that time nothing among my her, that her warfare is
great bitterness: but Merodachbaladan, the treasures that I have not accomplished, that her
thou hast in love to my son of Baladan, king of shewed them. iniquity is pardoned: for
soul delivered it from the Babylon, sent letters and 5
Then said Isaiah to she hath received of
pit of corruption: for thou a present to Hezekiah: Hezekiah, Hear the word the LORD’S hand
hast cast all my sins for he had heard that he of the LORD of hosts: double for all her sins.
behind thy back. 18
For had been sick, and was 6
Behold, the days come, 3
The voice of him
the grave cannot praise recovered. 2
And that all that is in thine that crieth in the
thee, death can not Hezekiah was glad of house, and that which wilderness, Prepare ye
celebrate thee: they that them, and shewed them thy fathers have laid up the way of the LORD,
go down into the pit the house of his precious in store until this day, make straight in the
cannot hope for thy thingsa, the silver, and shall be carried to desert a highway for
truth. 19The living, the the gold, and the spices, Babylon: nothing shall be our God. 4Every valley
living, he shall praise and the precious left, saith the LORD. shall be exalted, and
thee, as I do this day: ointment, and all the 7
And of thy sons that every mountain and hill
the father to the children house of his armour, and shall issue from thee, shall be made low: and
shall make known thy all that was found in his which thou shalt beget, the crooked shall be
truth. 20The LORD was treasures: there was shall they take away; made straightb, and the
ready to save me: nothing in his house, nor and they shall be rough places plain:
therefore we will sing my in all his dominion, that eunuchs in the palace of 5
And the glory of the
songs to the stringed Hezekiah shewed them the king of Babylon. LORD shall be revealed,
instruments all the days not. 3Then came Isaiah 8
Then said Hezekiah to and all flesh shall see it
of our life in the house of the prophet unto king Isaiah, Good is the word together: for the mouth
the LORD. 21For Isaiah Hezekiah, and said unto of the LORD which thou of the LORD hath
had said, Let them take him, What said these hast spoken. He said spoken it. 6The voice
a lump of figs, and lay it men? and from whence moreover, For there shall said, Cry. And he said,
for a plaister upon the came they unto thee? be peace and truth in my What shall I cry? All
boil, and he shall And Hezekiah said, They days. flesh is grass, and all
recover. 22Hezekiah also are come from a far the goodliness thereof
had said, What is the country unto me, even Chapter 40 is as the flower of the
sign that I shall go up to from Babylon. 4Then said field: 7
The grass
the house of the LORD? he, What have they seen
1
Comfort ye, comfort withereth, the flower
in thine house? And ye my people, saith your
a
Hezekiah answered, All God. 2
Speak ye comfortably: Heb. to the
d
for peace...: or, on my peace heart
a b
came great bitterness precious things: or, spicery straight: or, a straight place
fadeth: because the of his hand, and meted nothing, and vanity. earth as vanity. 24Yea,
spirit of the LORD out heaven with the 18
To whom then will they shall not be
bloweth upon it: surely span, and ye liken God? or what planted; yea, they shall
the people is grass. 8The comprehended the dust likeness will ye compare not be sown: yea, their
grass withereth, the of the earth in a unto him? 19
The stock shall not take root
flower fadeth: but the measuree, and weighed workman melteth a in the earth: and he
word of our God shall the mountains in scales, graven image, and the shall also blow upon
stand for ever. and the hills in a goldsmith spreadeth it them, and they shall
9
O Zionc, that bringest balance? 13
Who hath over with gold, and wither, and the
good tidings, get thee up directed the Spirit of the casteth silver chains. whirlwind shall take
into the high mountain; LORD, or being his 20
He that is so them away as stubble.
O Jerusalem, that counsellor hath taught impoverished that he 25
To whom then will ye
bringest good tidings, lift him? 14With whom took hath no oblation liken me, or shall I be
up thy voice with he counsel, and who chooseth a tree that will equal? saith the Holy
strength; lift it up, be not instructedf him, and not rot; he seeketh unto One. 26Lift up your eyes
afraid; say unto the taught him in the path of him a cunning workman on high, and behold
cities of Judah, Behold judgment, and taught to prepare a graven who hath created these
your God! 10Behold, the him knowledge, and image, that shall not be things, that bringeth
Lord GOD will come with shewed to him the way moved. 21Have ye not out their host by
strongd hand, and his of understanding? known? have ye not number: he calleth
arm shall rule for him: 15
Behold, the nations are heard? hath it not been them all by names by
behold, his reward is as a drop of a bucket, told you from the the greatness of his
with him, and his work and are counted as the beginning? have ye not might, for that he is
before him. 11
He shall small dust of the understood from the strong in power; not
feed his flock like a balance: behold, he foundations of the earth? one faileth.
shepherd: he shall taketh up the isles as a 22
It is he that sitteth 27
Why sayest thou, O
gather the lambs with very little thing. 16And upon the circle of the Jacob, and speakest, O
his arm, and carry them Lebanon is not sufficient earth, and the Israel, My way is hid
in his bosom, and shall to burn, nor the beasts inhabitants thereof are from the LORD, and my
gently lead those that thereof sufficient for a as grasshoppers; that judgment is passed
are with young. burnt offering. 17
All stretcheth out the over from my God?
12
Who hath measured nations before him are heavens as a curtain, 28
Hast thou not known?
the waters in the hollow as nothing; and they are and spreadeth them out hast thou not heard,
c
counted to him less than as a tent to dwell in: that the everlasting
O Zion...: or, O thou that 23
That bringeth the God, the LORD, the
e
tellest good tidings to Zion a measure: Heb. a tierce princes to nothing; he Creator of the ends of
d f
with strong...: or, against the instructed...: Heb. made him maketh the judges of the the earth, fainteth not,
strong understand
neither is weary? there him rule over kings? he 9
Thou whom I have thou worm Jacob, and
is no searching of his gave them as the dust to taken from the ends of ye mene of Israel; I will
understanding. 29
He his sword, and as driven the earth, and called help thee, saith the
giveth power to the stubble to his bow. 3He thee from the chief men LORD, and thy
faint; and to them that pursued them, and thereof, and said unto redeemer, the Holy One
have no might he passed safely ; even by
b
thee, Thou art my of Israel. 15Behold, I will
increaseth strength. the way that he had not servant; I have chosen make thee a new sharp
30
Even the youths shall gone with his feet. 4Who thee, and not cast thee threshing instrument
faint and be weary, and hath wrought and done away. having teethf: thou
the young men shall it, calling the 10
Fear thou not; for I shalt thresh the
utterly fall: 31But they generations from the am with thee: be not mountains, and beat
that wait upon the LORD beginning? I the LORD, dismayed; for I am thy them small, and shalt
shall renewg their the first, and with the God: I will strengthen make the hills as chaff.
strength; they shall last; I am he. 5The isles thee; yea, I will help 16
Thou shalt fan them,
mount up with wings as saw it, and feared; the thee; yea, I will uphold and the wind shall carry
eagles; they shall run, ends of the earth were thee with the right hand them away, and the
and not be weary; and afraid, drew near, and of my righteousness. whirlwind shall scatter
they shall walk, and not came. 6
They helped 11
Behold, all they that them: and thou shalt
faint. every one his neighbour; were incensed against rejoice in the LORD,
and every one said to his thee shall be ashamed and shalt glory in the
Chapter 41 brother, Be of good and confounded: they Holy One of Israel.
courage. 7
So the shall be as nothing; and 17
When the poor and
Keep silence before
1
carpenter encouraged they that strived with needy seek water, and
me, O islands; and let the goldsmithc, and he thee shall perish. 12Thou there is none, and their
the people renew their that smootheth with the shalt seek them, and tongue faileth for thirst,
strength: let them come hammer him that smote shalt not find them, even I the LORD will hear
near; then let them the anvil, saying, It is them that contended them, I the God of Israel
speak: let us come near ready for the sodering: with thee: they that war will not forsake them.
together to judgment. and he fastened it with against thee shall be as 18
I will open rivers in
2
Who raised up the nails, that it should not nothing, and as a thing high places, and
righteousa man from the be moved. 8
But thou, of nought. 13
For I the fountains in the midst
east, called him to his Israel, art my servant, LORD thy God will hold of the valleys: I will
foot, gave the nations Jacob whom I have thy right hand, saying make the wilderness a
before him, and made chosen, the seed of unto thee, Fear not; I will pool of water, and the
g
Abraham my friend. help thee. 14Fear not, dry land springs of
renew: Heb. change
a b d e
the righteous...: Heb. safely: Heb. in peace they that strive...: Heb. the men: or, few men
c f
righteousness goldsmith: or, founder men of thy strife teeth: Heb. mouths
water. 19I will plant in the good, or do evil, that we when I asked of them, that spread forth the
wilderness the cedar, the may be dismayed, and could answerj a word. earth, and that which
shittah tree, and the behold it together. 29
Behold, they are all cometh out of it; he
myrtle, and the oil tree; I 24
Behold, ye are of vanity; their works are that giveth breath unto
will set in the desert the nothingi, and your work nothing: their molten the people upon it, and
fir tree, and the pine, of nought: an images are wind and spirit to them that walk
and the box tree abomination is he that confusion. therein: 6I the LORD
together: 20
That they chooseth you. 25
I have have called thee in
may see, and know, and raised up one from the Chapter 42 righteousness, and will
consider, and north, and he shall hold thine hand, and
understand together, come: from the rising of
1
Behold my servant, will keep thee, and give
that the hand of the the sun shall he call whom I uphold; mine thee for a covenant of
LORD hath done this, upon my name: and he elect, in whom my soul the people, for a light of
and the Holy One of shall come upon princes delighteth; I have put my the Gentiles; 7To open
Israel hath created it. as upon morter, and as spirit upon him: he shall the blind eyes, to bring
21
Produceg your the potter treadeth clay. bring forth judgment to out the prisoners from
cause, saith the LORD; 26
Who hath declared the Gentiles. 2He shall the prison, and them
bring forth your strong from the beginning, that not cry, nor lift up, nor that sit in darkness out
reasons, saith the King we may know? and cause his voice to be of the prison house. 8I
of Jacob. 22
Let them beforetime, that we may heard in the street. 3A am the LORD: that is
bring them forth, and say, He is righteous? bruised reed shall he not my name: and my glory
shew us what shall yea, there is none that break, and the smokinga will I not give to
happen: let them shew sheweth, yea, there is flax shall he not quench: another, neither my
the former things, what none that declareth, yea, he shall bring forth praise to graven
they be, that we may there is none that judgment unto truth. images. 9Behold, the
considerh them, and heareth your words.
4
He shall not fail nor be former things are come
know the latter end of 27
The first shall say to discouragedb, till he have to pass, and new things
them; or declare us Zion, Behold, behold set judgment in the do I declare: before
things for to come. them: and I will give to earth: and the isles shall they spring forth I tell
23
Shew the things that Jerusalem one that wait for his law. you of them. 10Sing unto
are to come hereafter, bringeth good tidings.
5
Thus saith God the the LORD a new song,
that we may know that 28
For I beheld, and there LORD, he that created and his praise from the
ye are gods: yea, do was no man; even the heavens, and end of the earth, ye
among them, and there stretched them out; he that go down to the
g
Produce: Heb. Cause to come was no counsellor, that, sea, and all that is
j
near answer: Heb. return therein; the isles, and
h i a
consider...: Heb. set our heart of nothing: or, worse than smoking: or, dimly burning the inhabitants thereof.
b
upon them nothing discouraged: Heb. broken
11
Let the wilderness and they have not known: I and none saith, Restore. shall not overflow thee:
the cities thereof lift up will make darkness light 23
Who among you will when thou walkest
their voice, the villages before them, and give ear to this? who will through the fire, thou
that Kedar doth inhabit: crooked things straighte. hearken and hear for the shalt not be burned;
let the inhabitants of the These things will I do time to come? 24
Who neither shall the flame
rock sing, let them shout unto them, and not gave Jacob for a spoil, kindle upon thee. 3For I
from the top of the forsake them. 17
They and Israel to the am the LORD thy God,
mountains. 12Let them shall be turned back, robbers? did not the the Holy One of Israel,
give glory unto the they shall be greatly LORD, he against whom thy Saviour: I gave
LORD, and declare his ashamed, that trust in we have sinned? for they Egypt for thy ransom,
praise in the islands. graven images, that say would not walk in his Ethiopia and Seba for
13
The LORD shall go to the molten images, Ye ways, neither were they thee. 4Since thou wast
forth as a mighty man, are our gods. obedient unto his law. precious in my sight,
he shall stir up jealousy 18
Hear, ye deaf; and 25
Therefore he hath thou hast been
like a man of war: he look, ye blind, that ye poured upon him the honourable, and I have
shall cry, yea, roar; he may see. 19Who is blind, fury of his anger, and the loved thee: therefore
shall prevailc against his but my servant? or deaf, strength of battle: and it will I give men for thee,
enemies. 14I have long as my messenger that I hath set him on fire and people for thy lifea.
time holden my peace; I sent? who is blind as he round about, yet he 5
Fear not: for I am with
have been still, and that is perfect, and blind knew not; and it burned thee: I will bring thy
refrained myself: now as the LORD’S servant? him, yet he laid it not to seed from the east, and
will I cry like a travailing 20
Seeing many things, heart. gather thee from the
woman; I will destroy but thou observest not; west; 6I will say to the
and devourd at once. 15I opening the ears, but he Chapter 43 north, Give up; and to
will make waste heareth not. 21The LORD the south, Keep not
mountains and hills, and is well pleased for his
1
But now thus saith back: bring my sons
dry up all their herbs; righteousness’ sake; he the LORD that created from far, and my
and I will make the rivers will magnify the law, and thee, O Jacob, and he daughters from the
islands, and I will dry up make it honourable. that formed thee, O ends of the earth;
the pools. 16And I will 22
But this is a people Israel, Fear not: for I 7
Even every one that is
bring the blind by a way robbed and spoiled; they have redeemed thee, I called by my name: for I
that they knew not; I will are all of them snared in have called thee by thy have created him for
lead them in paths that holes, and they are hid name; thou art mine. my glory, I have formed
in prison houses: they
2
When thou passest him; yea, I have made
c
prevail: or, behave himself are for a prey, and none through the waters, I will him.
mightily delivereth; for a spoil, be with thee; and 8
Bring forth the blind
d
devour: Heb. swallow, or, sup through the rivers, they
e a
up straight: Heb. into straightness life: or, person
people that have eyes, it? b
dragons and the owlsd: transgressions for mine
and the deaf that have Thus
14
saith the because I give waters in own sake, and will not
ears. 9Let all the nations LORD, your redeemer, the wilderness, and remember thy sins.
be gathered together, the Holy One of Israel; rivers in the desert, to 26
Put me in
and let the people be For your sake I have sent give drink to my people, remembrance: let us
assembled: who among to Babylon, and have my chosen. 21
This plead together: declare
them can declare this, brought down all their people have I formed for thou, that thou mayest
and shew us former noblesc, and the myself; they shall shew be justified. 27Thy first
things? let them bring Chaldeans, whose cry is forth my praise. father hath sinned, and
forth their witnesses, in the ships. 15I am the 22
But thou hast not thy teachersf have
that they may be LORD, your Holy One, called upon me, O Jacob; transgressed against
justified: or let them the creator of Israel, but thou hast been me. 28Therefore I have
hear, and say, It is truth. your King. 16Thus saith weary of me, O Israel. profaned the princesg of
10
Ye are my witnesses, the LORD, which maketh 23
Thou hast not brought the sanctuary, and have
saith the LORD, and my a way in the sea, and a me the small cattle of given Jacob to the
servant whom I have path in the mighty thy burnt offerings; curse, and Israel to
chosen: that ye may waters; 17Which bringeth neither hast thou reproaches.
know and believe me, forth the chariot and honoured me with thy
and understand that I horse, the army and the sacrifices. I have not Chapter 44
am he: before me there power; they shall lie caused thee to serve
was no God formed, down together, they with an offering, nor Yet now hear, O
1

neither shall there be shall not rise: they are wearied thee with Jacob my servant; and
after me. 11I, even I, am extinct, they are incense. 24
Thou hast Israel, whom I have
the LORD; and beside quenched as tow. bought me no sweet chosen: 2Thus saith the
me there is no saviour. 18
Remember ye not the cane with money, LORD that made thee,
12
I have declared, and former things, neither neither hast thou fillede and formed thee from
have saved, and I have consider the things of me with the fat of thy the womb, which will
shewed, when there was old. 19Behold, I will do a sacrifices: but thou hast help thee; Fear not, O
no strange god among new thing; now it shall made me to serve with Jacob, my servant; and
you: therefore ye are my spring forth; shall ye not thy sins, thou hast thou, Jesurun, whom I
witnesses, saith the know it? I will even make wearied me with thine have chosen. 3For I will
LORD, that I am God. a way in the wilderness, iniquities. 25I, even I, am pour water upon him
13
Yea, before the day and rivers in the desert. he that blotteth out thy that is thirsty, and
was I am he; and there 20
The beast of the field floods upon the dry
d
is none that can deliver shall honour me, the owls: or, ostriches: Heb. ground: I will pour my
out of my hand: I will daughters of the owl
b e f
work, and who shall let let it: Heb. turn it back? filled...: Heb. made me drunk, teachers: Heb. interpreters
c g
nobles: Heb. bars or, abundantly moistened princes...: or, holy princes
spirit upon thy seed, and They that make a
9
figure of a man, prayeth unto it, and
my blessing upon thine graven image are all of according to the beauty saith, Deliver me; for
offspring: 4And they shall them vanity; and their of a man; that it may thou art my god. 18They
spring up as among the delectable things shall remain in the house. have not known nor
grass, as willows by the not profit; and they are 14
He heweth him down understood: for he hath
water courses. 5One shall their own witnesses; cedars, and taketh the shutd their eyes, that
say, I am the LORD’S; they see not, nor know; cypress and the oak, they cannot see; and
and another shall call that they may be which he strengthenethc their hearts, that they
himself by the name of ashamed. 10
Who hath for himself among the cannot understand.
Jacob; and another shall formed a god, or molten trees of the forest: he 19
And none considerethe
subscribe with his hand a graven image that is planteth an ash, and the in his heart, neither is
unto the LORD, and profitable for nothing? rain doth nourish it. there knowledge nor
surname himself by the 11
Behold, all his fellows 15
Then shall it be for a understanding to say, I
name of Israel. 6Thus shall be ashamed: and man to burn: for he will have burned part of it in
saith the LORD the King the workmen, they are of take thereof, and warm the fire; yea, also I have
of Israel, and his men: let them all be himself; yea, he kindleth baked bread upon the
redeemer the LORD of gathered together, let it, and baketh bread; coals thereof; I have
hosts; I am the first, and them stand up; yet they yea, he maketh a god, roasted flesh, and
I am the last; and beside shall fear, and they shall and worshippeth it; he eaten it: and shall I
me there is no God. 7And be ashamed together. maketh it a graven make the residue
who, as I, shall call, and 12
The smith with the image, and falleth down thereof an
shall declare it, and set it tongsb both worketh in thereto. 16He burneth abomination? shall I fall
in order for me, since I the coals, and fashioneth part thereof in the fire; down to the stock of a
appointed the ancient it with hammers, and with part thereof he tree? 20He feedeth on
people? and the things worketh it with the eateth flesh; he roasteth ashes: a deceived heart
that are coming, and strength of his arms: roast, and is satisfied: hath turned him aside,
shall come, let them yea, he is hungry, and yea, he warmeth that he cannot deliver
shew unto them. 8Fear his strength faileth: he himself, and saith, Aha, I his soul, nor say, Is
ye not, neither be afraid: drinketh no water, and is am warm, I have seen there not a lie in my
have not I told thee from faint. 13
The carpenter the fire: 17
And the right hand?
that time, and have stretcheth out his rule; residue thereof he 21
Remember these,
declared it? ye are even he marketh it out with a maketh a god, even his O Jacob and Israel; for
my witnesses. Is there a line; he fitteth it with graven image: he falleth thou art my servant: I
God beside me? yea, planes, and he marketh down unto it, and have formed thee; thou
there is no Goda; I know it out with the compass, worshippeth it, and d
not any. and maketh it after the shut: Heb. daubed
c e
strengtheneth: or, taketh considereth...: Heb. setteth to
a b
God; I: Heb. rock, etc with the tongs: or, with an axe courage his heart
art my servant: O Israel, saith to Jerusalem, Thou treasures of darkness, have created it. 9Woe
thou shalt not be shalt be inhabited; and and hidden riches of unto him that striveth
forgotten of me. 22I have to the cities of Judah, Ye secret places, that thou with his Maker! Let the
blotted out, as a thick shall be built, and I will mayest know that I, the potsherd strive with the
cloud, thy raise up the decayed LORD, which call thee by potsherds of the earth.
transgressions, and, as a places thereof: 27
That thy name, am the God of Shall the clay say to
cloud, thy sins: return saith to the deep, Be dry, Israel. 4For Jacob my him that fashioneth it,
unto me; for I have and I will dry up thy servant’s sake, and What makest thou? or
redeemed thee. 23Sing, O rivers: 28That saith of Israel mine elect, I have thy work, He hath no
ye heavens; for the Cyrus, He is my even called thee by thy hands? 10Woe unto him
LORD hath done it: shepherd, and shall name: I have surnamed that saith unto his
shout, ye lower parts of perform all my pleasure: thee, though thou hast father, What begettest
the earth: break forth even saying to not known me. thou? or to the woman,
into singing, ye Jerusalem, Thou shalt be 5
I am the LORD, and What hast thou brought
mountains, O forest, and built; and to the temple, there is none else, there forth?
every tree therein: for Thy foundation shall be is no God beside me: I 11
Thus saith the
the LORD hath laid. girded thee, though thou LORD, the Holy One of
redeemed Jacob, and hast not known me: Israel, and his Maker,
glorified himself in Israel. Chapter 45 6
That they may know Ask me of things to
24
Thus saith the LORD, from the rising of the come concerning my
thy redeemer, and he
1
Thus saith the LORD sun, and from the west, sons, and concerning
that formed thee from to his anointed, to Cyrus, that there is none beside the work of my hands
the womb, I am the whose right hand I have me. I am the LORD, and command ye me. 12I
LORD that maketh all holden, to subdue there is none else. 7I have made the earth,
things; that stretcheth nations before him; and I form the light, and and created man upon
forth the heavens alone; will loose the loins of create darkness: I make it: I, even my hands,
that spreadeth abroad kings, to open before peace, and create evil: I have stretched out the
the earth by myself; him the two leaved the LORD do all these heavens, and all their
25
That frustrateth the gates; and the gates things. 8Drop down, ye host have I
tokens of the liars, and shall not be shut; 2I will heavens, from above, commanded. 13
I have
maketh diviners mad; go before thee, and and let the skies pour raised him up in
that turneth wise men make the crooked places down righteousness: let righteousness, and I will
backward, and maketh straight: I will break in the earth open, and let directa all his ways: he
their knowledge foolish; pieces the gates of them bring forth shall build my city, and
26
That confirmeth the brass, and cut in sunder salvation, and let he shall let go my
word of his servant, and the bars of iron: 3And I righteousness spring up captives, not for price
performeth the counsel will give thee the together; I the LORD a
of his messengers; that direct: or, make straight
nor reward, saith the he formed it to be my mouth in Jacob, and all the
LORD of hosts. 14Thus inhabited: I am the righteousness, and shall remnant of the house of
saith the LORD, The LORD; and there is none not return, That unto me Israel, which are borne
labour of Egypt, and else. 19I have not spoken every knee shall bow, by me from the belly,
merchandise of Ethiopia in secret, in a dark place every tongue shall which are carried from
and of the Sabeans, men of the earth: I said not swear. Surely, shall one
24
the womb: 4And even to
of stature, shall come unto the seed of Jacob, sayb, in the LORD have I your old age I am he;
over unto thee, and they Seek ye me in vain: I the righteousness and and even to hoar hairs
shall be thine: they shall LORD speak strength: even to him will I carry you: I have
come after thee; in righteousness, I declare shall men come; and all made, and I will bear;
chains they shall come things that are right. that are incensed even I will carry, and
over, and they shall fall 20
Assemble against him shall be will deliver you.
down unto thee, they yourselves and come; ashamed. 25In the LORD 5
To whom will ye
shall make supplication draw near together, ye shall all the seed of liken me, and make me
unto thee, saying, Surely that are escaped of the Israel be justified, and equal, and compare
God is in thee; and there nations: they have no shall glory. me, that we may be
is none else, there is no knowledge that set up like? 6They lavish gold
God. 15Verily thou art a the wood of their graven Chapter 46 out of the bag, and
God that hidest thyself, image, and pray unto a weigh silver in the
O God of Israel, the god that cannot save. Bel boweth down,
1
balance, and hire a
Saviour. 16They shall be 21
Tell ye, and bring them Nebo stoopeth, their goldsmith; and he
ashamed, and also near; yea, let them take idols were upon the maketh it a god: they
confounded, all of them: counsel together: who beasts, and upon the fall down, yea, they
they shall go to hath declared this from cattle: your carriages worship. 7They bear him
confusion together that ancient time? who hath were heavy loaden; they upon the shoulder, they
are makers of idols. told it from that time? are a burden to the carry him, and set him
17
But Israel shall be have not I the LORD? weary beast. 2
They in his place, and he
saved in the LORD with and there is no God else stoop, they bow down standeth; from his place
an everlasting salvation: beside me; a just God together; they could not shall he not remove:
ye shall not be ashamed and a Saviour; there is deliver the burden, but yea, one shall cry unto
nor confounded world none beside me. 22Look themselvesa are gone him, yet can he not
without end. 18For thus unto me, and be ye into captivity. 3Hearken answer, nor save him
saith the LORD that saved, all the ends of the unto me, O house of out of his trouble.
created the heavens; earth: for I am God, and b
8
Remember this, and
God himself that formed there is none else. 23I Surely...: or, Surely he shall shew yourselves men:
the earth and made it; have sworn by myself, say of me, In the LORD is all bring it again to mind,
he hath established it, the word is gone out of righteousness and strength O ye transgressors.
a
he created it not in vain, themselves: Heb. their soul
9
Remember the former the Chaldeans: for thou of it. 8Therefore hear able to put it off: and
things of old: for I am shalt no more be called now this, thou that art desolation shall come
God, and there is none tender and delicate. given to pleasures, that upon thee suddenly,
else; I am God, and 2
Take the millstones, and dwellest carelessly, that which thou shalt not
there is none like me, grind meal: uncover thy sayest in thine heart, I know. 12
Stand now
10
Declaring the end from locks, make bare the leg, am, and none else with thine
the beginning, and from uncover the thigh, pass beside me; I shall not sit enchantments, and with
ancient times the things over the rivers. 3Thy as a widow, neither shall the multitude of thy
that are not yet done, nakedness shall be I know the loss of sorceries, wherein thou
saying, My counsel shall uncovered, yea, thy children: 9But these two hast laboured from thy
stand, and I will do all shame shall be seen: I things shall come to thee youth; if so be thou
my pleasure: 11Calling a will take vengeance, and in a moment in one day, shalt be able to profit, if
ravenous bird from the I will not meet thee as a the loss of children, and so be thou mayest
east, the man that man. 4
As for our widowhood: they shall prevail. 13
Thou art
executeth my counsel redeemer, the LORD of come upon thee in their wearied in the
from a far country: yea, I hosts is his name, the perfection for the multitude of thy
have spoken it, I will also Holy One of Israel. 5Sit multitude of thy counsels. Let now the
bring it to pass; I have thou silent, and get thee sorceries, and for the astrologersb, the
purposed it, I will also do into darkness, O great abundance of thine stargazers, the monthly
it. 12Hearken unto me, daughter of the enchantments. 10
For prognosticators, stand
ye stouthearted, that are Chaldeans: for thou shalt thou hast trusted in thy up, and save thee from
far from righteousness: no more be called, The wickedness: thou hast these things that shall
13
I bring near my lady of kingdoms. 6I was said, None seeth me. come upon thee.
righteousness; it shall wroth with my people, I Thy wisdom and thy 14
Behold, they shall be
not be far off, and my have polluted mine knowledge, it hath as stubble; the fire shall
salvation shall not tarry: inheritance, and given perverted a
thee; and burn them; they shall
and I will place salvation them into thine hand: thou hast said in thine not deliver themselvesc
in Zion for Israel my thou didst shew them no heart, I am, and none from the power of the
glory. mercy; upon the ancient else beside me. flame: there shall not
hast thou very heavily 11
Therefore shall evil be a coal to warm at,
Chapter 47 laid thy yoke. come upon thee; thou nor fire to sit before it.
7
And thou saidst, I shalt not know from 15
Thus shall they be
Come down, and sit
1
shall be a lady for ever: whence it riseth: and unto thee with whom
in the dust, O virgin so that thou didst not lay mischief shall fall upon thou hast laboured,
daughter of Babylon, sit these things to thy thee; thou shalt not be b
on the ground: there is heart, neither didst astrologers: Heb. viewers of
a
no throne, O daughter of remember the latter end perverted...: or, caused thee to the heavens
c
turn away themselves: Heb. their souls
even thy merchants, the beginning declared it thee, but not with silver; from the beginning;
from thy youth: they to thee; before it came I have chosen thee in the from the time that it
shall wander every one to pass I shewed it thee: furnace of affliction. was, there am I: and
to his quarter; none shall lest thou shouldest say, 11
For mine own sake, now the Lord GOD, and
save thee. Mine idol hath done even for mine own sake, his Spirit, hath sent me.
them, and my graven will I do it: for how 17
Thus saith the LORD,
Chapter 48 image, and my molten should my name be thy Redeemer, the Holy
image, hath commanded polluted? and I will not One of Israel; I am the
Hear ye this, O house
1
them. 6Thou hast heard, give my glory unto LORD thy God which
of Jacob, which are see all this; and will not another. 12Hearken unto teacheth thee to profit,
called by the name of ye declare it? I have me, O Jacob and Israel, which leadeth thee by
Israel, and are come shewed thee new things my called; I am he; I am the way that thou
forth out of the waters of from this time, even the first, I also am the shouldest go. 18O that
Judah, which swear by hidden things, and thou last. 13Mine hand also thou hadst hearkened
the name of the LORD, didst not know them. hath laid the foundation to my commandments!
and make mention of the 7
They are created now, of the earth, and my then had thy peace
God of Israel, but not in and not from the right hand hath spanned been as a river, and thy
truth, nor in beginning; even before the heavens: when I call righteousness as the
righteousness. 2For they the day when thou unto them, they stand waves of the sea: 19Thy
call themselves of the heardest them not; lest up together. 14
All ye, seed also had been as
holy city, and stay thou shouldest say, assemble yourselves, the sand, and the
themselves upon the Behold, I knew them. and hear; which among offspring of thy bowels
God of Israel; The LORD 8
Yea, thou heardest not; them hath declared like the gravel thereof;
of hosts is his name. 3I yea, thou knewest not; these things? The LORD his name should not
have declared the yea, from that time that hath loved him: he will have been cut off nor
former things from the thine ear was not do his pleasure on destroyed from before
beginning; and they opened: for I knew that Babylon, and his arm me. 20Go ye forth of
went forth out of my thou wouldest deal very shall be on the Babylon, flee ye from
mouth, and I shewed treacherously, and wast Chaldeans. 15I, even I, the Chaldeans, with a
them; I did them called a transgressor have spoken; yea, I have voice of singing declare
suddenly, and they came from the womb. called him: I have ye, tell this, utter it
to pass. 4Because I knew 9
For my name’s sake brought him, and he even to the end of the
that thou art obstinatea, will I defer mine anger, shall make his way earth; say ye, The LORD
and thy neck is an iron and for my praise will I prosperous. hath redeemed his
sinew, and thy brow refrain for thee, that I 16
Come ye near unto servant Jacob. 21And
brass; 5I have even from cut thee not off. me, hear ye this; I have they thirsted not when
a
10
Behold, I have refined not spoken in secret he led them through
obstinate: Heb. hard
the deserts: he caused formed me from the of salvation have I the LORD hath
the waters to flow out of womb to be his servant, helped thee: and I will comforted his people,
the rock for them: he to bring Jacob again to preserve thee, and give and will have mercy
clave the rock also, and him, Though Israel be thee for a covenant of upon his afflicted. 14But
the waters gushed out. not gathered, yet shall I the people, to establishc Zion said, The LORD
22
There is no peace, saith be glorious in the eyes of the earth, to cause to hath forsaken me, and
the LORD, unto the the LORD, and my God inherit the desolate my Lord hath forgotten
wicked. shall be my strength. heritages; 9
That thou me. 15Can a woman
6
And he said, It is a light mayest say to the forget her sucking child,
Chapter 49 thing that thou shouldest prisoners, Go forth; to that she should not
be my servant to raise them that are in have compassion on
Listen, O isles, unto
1
up the tribes of Jacob, darkness, Shew the son of her womb?
me; and hearken, ye and to restore the yourselves. They shall yea, they may forget,
people, from far; The preserved of Israel: I will feed in the ways, and yet will I not forget
LORD hath called me also give thee for a light their pastures shall be in thee. 16Behold, I have
from the womb; from the to the Gentiles, that thou all high places. 10They graven thee upon the
bowels of my mother mayest be my salvation shall not hunger nor palms of my hands; thy
hath he made mention of unto the end of the thirst; neither shall the walls are continually
my name. 2And he hath earth. heat nor sun smite them: before me. 17
Thy
made my mouth like a 7
Thus saith the LORD, for he that hath mercy children shall make
sharp sword; in the the Redeemer of Israel, on them shall lead them, haste; thy destroyers
shadow of his hand hath and his Holy One, to him even by the springs of and they that made
he hid me, and made me whom manb despiseth, water shall he guide thee waste shall go
a polished shaft; in his to him whom the nation them. 11And I will make forth of thee.
quiver hath he hid me; abhorreth, to a servant all my mountains a way, 18
Lift up thine eyes
3
And said unto me, Thou of rulers, Kings shall see and my highways shall round about, and
art my servant, O Israel, and arise, princes also be exalted. 12Behold, behold: all these gather
in whom I will be shall worship, because of these shall come from themselves together,
glorified. 4Then I said, I the LORD that is faithful, far: and, lo, these from and come to thee. As I
have laboured in vain, I and the Holy One of the north and from the live, saith the LORD,
have spent my strength Israel, and he shall west; and these from the thou shalt surely clothe
for nought, and in vain: choose thee. 8Thus saith land of Sinim. thee with them all, as
yet surely my judgment the LORD, In an 13
Sing, O heavens; with an ornament, and
is with the LORD, and my acceptable time have I and be joyful, O earth; bind them on thee, as a
worka with my God. 5And heard thee, and in a day and break forth into bride doeth. 19For thy
now, saith the LORD that singing, O mountains: for waste and thy desolate
b
whom man...: or, that is places, and the land of
a c
my work: or, my reward despised in soul establish: or, raise up
thy destruction, shall their queens thy nursing Chapter 50 morning, he wakeneth
even now be too narrow mothers: they shall bow mine ear to hear as the
by reason of the down to thee with their 1
Thus saith the LORD, learned. 5The Lord GOD
inhabitants, and they face toward the earth, Where is the bill of your hath opened mine ear,
that swallowed thee up and lick up the dust of mother’s divorcement, and I was not
shall be far away. 20The thy feet; and thou shalt whom I have put away? rebellious, neither
children which thou shalt know that I am the or which of my creditors turned away back. 6I
have, after thou hast lost LORD: for they shall not is it to whom I have sold gave my back to the
the other, shall say again be ashamed that wait for you? Behold, for your smiters, and my cheeks
in thine ears, The place me. iniquities have ye sold to them that plucked off
is too strait for me: give 24
Shall the prey be yourselves, and for your the hair: I hid not my
place to me that I may taken from the mighty, transgressions is your face from shame and
dwell. 21Then shalt thou or the lawfulf captive mother put away. spitting. 7For the Lord
say in thine heart, Who delivered? 25
But thus 2
Wherefore, when I GOD will help me;
hath begotten me these, saith the LORD, Even the came, was there no therefore shall I not be
seeing I have lost my captivesg of the mighty man? when I called, was confounded: therefore
children, and am shall be taken away, and there none to answer? Is have I set my face like
desolate, a captive, and the prey of the terrible my hand shortened at a flint, and I know that I
removing to and fro? and shall be delivered: for I all, that it cannot shall not be ashamed.
who hath brought up will contend with him redeem? or have I no 8
He is near that
these? Behold, I was left that contendeth with power to deliver? behold, justifieth me; who will
alone; these, where had thee, and I will save thy at my rebuke I dry up contend with me? let us
they been? 22Thus saith children. 26
And I will the sea, I make the stand together: who is
the Lord GOD, Behold, I feed them that oppress rivers a wilderness: their mine adversary? let him
will lift up mine hand to thee with their own fish stinketh, because come near to me.
the Gentiles, and set up flesh; and they shall be there is no water, and 9
Behold, the Lord GOD
my standard to the drunken with their own dieth for thirst. 3I clothe will help me; who is he
people: and they shall blood, as with sweet the heavens with that shall condemn me?
bring thy sons in their wine: and all flesh shall blackness, and I make lo, they all shall wax old
armsd, and thy daughters know that I the LORD am sackcloth their covering. as a garment; the moth
shall be carried upon thy Saviour and thy 4
The Lord GOD hath shall eat them up.
their shoulders. 23
And Redeemer, the mighty given me the tongue of 10
Who is among you
kings shall be thy One of Jacob. the learned, that I should that feareth the LORD,
nursing fathers , ande
know how to speak a that obeyeth the voice
d f word in season to him of his servant, that
arms: Heb. bosom lawful...: Heb. captivity of the that is weary: he walketh in darkness,
e
nursing fathers: Heb. just and hath no light? let
g wakeneth morning by
nourishers captives: Heb. captivity
him trust in the name of voice of melody. shall eat them like wool: that hath stretched
the LORD, and stay upon 4
Hearken unto me, but my righteousness forth the heavens, and
his God. 11Behold, all ye my people; and give ear shall be for ever, and my laid the foundations of
that kindle a fire, that unto me, O my nation: salvation from the earth; and hast
compass yourselves for a law shall proceed generation to feared continually every
about with sparks: walk from me, and I will make generation. day because of the fury
in the light of your fire, my judgment to rest for 9
Awake, awake, put of the oppressor, as if
and in the sparks that ye a light of the people. 5My on strength, O arm of he were ready to
have kindled. This shall righteousness is near; the LORD; awake, as in destroy? and where is
ye have of mine hand; my salvation is gone the ancient days, in the the fury of the
ye shall lie down in forth, and mine arms generations of old. Art oppressor? 14
The
sorrow. shall judge the people; thou not it that hath cut captive exile hasteneth
the isles shall wait upon Rahab, and wounded the that he may be loosed,
Chapter 51 me, and on mine arm dragon? 10Art thou not it and that he should not
shall they trust. 6Lift up which hath dried the sea, die in the pit, nor that
1
Hearken to me, ye your eyes to the the waters of the great his bread should fail.
that follow after heavens, and look upon deep; that hath made 15
But I am the LORD thy
righteousness, ye that the earth beneath: for the depths of the sea a God, that divided the
seek the LORD: look unto the heavens shall vanish way for the ransomed to sea, whose waves
the rock whence ye are away like smoke, and pass over? 11Therefore roared: The LORD of
hewn, and to the hole of the earth shall wax old the redeemed of the hosts is his name. 16And
the pit whence ye are like a garment, and they LORD shall return, and I have put my words in
digged. 2
Look unto that dwell therein shall come with singing unto thy mouth, and I have
Abraham your father, die in like manner: but Zion; and everlasting joy covered thee in the
and unto Sarah that bare my salvation shall be for shall be upon their head: shadow of mine hand,
you: for I called him ever, and my they shall obtain that I may plant the
alone, and blessed him, righteousness shall not gladness and joy; and heavens, and lay the
and increased him. 3For be abolished. 7Hearken sorrow and mourning foundations of the
the LORD shall comfort unto me, ye that know shall flee away. 12I, even earth, and say unto
Zion: he will comfort all righteousness, the I, am he that comforteth Zion, Thou art my
her waste places; and he people in whose heart is you: who art thou, that people.
will make her wilderness my law; fear ye not the thou shouldest be afraid 17
Awake, awake,
like Eden, and her desert reproach of men, neither of a man that shall die, stand up, O Jerusalem,
like the garden of the be ye afraid of their and of the son of man which hast drunk at the
LORD; joy and gladness revilings. 8For the moth which shall be made as hand of the LORD the
shall be found therein, shall eat them up like a grass; 13And forgettest cup of his fury; thou
thanksgiving, and the garment, and the worm the LORD thy maker, hast drunken the dregs
of the cup of trembling, have said to thy soul, people is taken away for and all the ends of the
and wrung them out. Bow down, that we may nought? they that rule earth shall see the
18
There is none to guide go over: and thou hast over them make them to salvation of our God.
her among all the sons laid thy body as the howl, saith the LORD; 11
Depart ye, depart ye,
whom she hath brought ground, and as the and my name continually go ye out from thence,
forth; neither is there street, to them that went every day is touch no unclean thing;
any that taketh her by over. blasphemed. 6Therefore go ye out of the midst
the hand of all the sons my people shall know of her; be ye clean, that
that she hath brought Chapter 52 my name: therefore they bear the vessels of the
up. 19These two things shall know in that day LORD. 12For ye shall not
are come unto thee; who
1
Awake, awake; put that I am he that doth go out with haste, nor
shall be sorry for thee? on thy strength, O Zion; speak: behold, it is I. go by flight: for the
desolation, and put on thy beautiful 7
How beautiful upon LORD will go before
destruction, and the garments, O Jerusalem, the mountains are the you; and the God of
famine, and the sword: the holy city: for feet of him that bringeth Israel will be your
by whom shall I comfort henceforth there shall no good tidings, that rereward.
thee? 20
Thy sons have more come into thee the publisheth peace; that 13
Behold, my servant
fainted, they lie at the uncircumcised and the bringeth good tidings of shall deal prudently, he
head of all the streets, unclean. 2Shake thyself good, that publisheth shall be exalted and
as a wild bull in a net: from the dust; arise, and salvation; that saith unto extolled, and be very
they are full of the fury sit down, O Jerusalem: Zion, Thy God reigneth! high. 14As many were
of the LORD, the rebuke loose thyself from the 8
Thy watchmen shall lift astonied at thee; his
of thy God. 21Therefore bands of thy neck, O up the voice; with the visage was so marred
hear now this, thou captive daughter of Zion. voice together shall they more than any man,
afflicted, and drunken,
3
For thus saith the LORD, sing: for they shall see and his form more than
but not with wine: 22Thus Ye have sold yourselves eye to eye, when the the sons of men: 15So
saith thy Lord the LORD, for nought; and ye shall LORD shall bring again shall he sprinkle many
and thy God that be redeemed without Zion. 9Break forth into nations; the kings shall
pleadeth the cause of his money. 4For thus saith joy, sing together, ye shut their mouths at
people, Behold, I have the Lord GOD, My people waste places of him: for that which had
taken out of thine hand went down aforetime Jerusalem: for the LORD not been told them
the cup of trembling, into Egypt to sojourn hath comforted his shall they see; and that
even the dregs of the there; and the Assyrian people, he hath which they had not
cup of my fury; thou oppressed them without redeemed Jerusalem. heard shall they
shalt no more drink it cause. 5Now therefore, 10
The LORD hath made consider.
again: 23But I will put it what have I here, saith bare his holy arm in the
into the hand of them the LORD, that my eyes of all the nations; Chapter 53
that afflict thee; which
1
Who hath believed we have turned every sin, he shall see his of thy tent, and let
our reporta? and to one to his own way; and seed, he shall prolong them stretch forth the
whom is the arm of the the LORD hath laidc on his days, and the curtains of thine
LORD revealed? 2For he him the iniquity of us all. pleasure of the LORD habitations: spare not,
shall grow up before him 7
He was oppressed, and shall prosper in his hand. lengthen thy cords, and
as a tender plant, and as he was afflicted, yet he 11
He shall see of the strengthen thy stakes;
a root out of a dry opened not his mouth: travail of his soul, and 3
For thou shalt break
ground: he hath no form he is brought as a lamb shall be satisfied: by his forth on the right hand
nor comeliness; and to the slaughter, and as knowledge shall my and on the left; and thy
when we shall see him, a sheep before her righteous servant justify seed shall inherit the
there is no beauty that shearers is dumb, so he many; for he shall bear Gentiles, and make the
we should desire him. openeth not his mouth. their iniquities. desolate cities to be
3
He is despised and 8
He was taken from 12
Therefore will I divide inhabited. 4Fear not; for
rejected of men; a man prisond and from him a portion with the thou shalt not be
of sorrows, and judgment: and who shall great, and he shall divide ashamed: neither be
acquainted with grief: declare his generation? the spoil with the strong; thou confounded; for
and we hid as it were for he was cut off out of because he hath poured thou shalt not be put to
our faces from him; he the land of the living: for out his soul unto death: shame: for thou shalt
was despised, and we the transgression of my and he was numbered forget the shame of thy
esteemed him not. people was he stricken. with the transgressors; youth, and shalt not
4
Surely he hath borne 9
And he made his grave and he bare the sin of remember the reproach
our griefs, and carried with the wicked, and many, and made of thy widowhood any
our sorrows: yet we did with the rich in his intercession for the more. 5For thy Maker is
esteem him stricken, deathe; because he had transgressors. thine husband; the
smitten of God, and done no violence, LORD of hosts is his
afflicted. 5But he was neither was any deceit in Chapter 54 name; and thy
woundedb for our his mouth. Redeemer the Holy One
transgressions, he was 10
Yet it pleased the
1
Sing, O barren, thou of Israel; The God of the
bruised for our iniquities: LORD to bruise him; he that didst not bear; whole earth shall he be
the chastisement of our hath put him to grief: break forth into singing, called.
peace was upon him; when thou shalt make and cry aloud, thou that 6
For the LORD hath
and with his stripes we his soul an offering for didst not travail with called thee as a woman
are healed. 6All we like child: for more are the forsaken and grieved in
c
sheep have gone astray; laid...: Heb. made the iniquity children of the desolate spirit, and a wife of
of us all to meet on him than the children of the youth, when thou wast
a d
report: or, doctrine?: Heb. from prison...: or, away my married wife, saith the refused, saith thy God.
hearing? distress and judgment: but, etc LORD. 2Enlarge the place 7
For a small moment
b e
wounded: or, tormented death: Heb. deaths
have I forsaken thee; but borders of pleasant Chapter 55 One of Israel; for he
with great mercies will I stones. 13
And all thy hath glorified thee.
gather thee. 8In a little children shall be taught Ho, every one that
1 6
Seek ye the LORD
wrath I hid my face from of the LORD; and great thirsteth, come ye to the while he may be found,
thee for a moment; but shall be the peace of thy waters, and he that hath call ye upon him while
with everlasting children. 14
In no money; come ye, buy, he is near: 7Let the
kindness will I have righteousness shalt thou and eat; yea, come, buy wicked forsake his way,
mercy on thee, saith the be established: thou wine and milk without and the unrighteousb
LORD thy Redeemer. shalt be far from money and without man his thoughts: and
9
For this is as the waters oppression; for thou price. Wherefore do ye
2
let him return unto the
of Noah unto me: for as I shalt not fear: and from spenda money for that LORD, and he will have
have sworn that the terror; for it shall not which is not bread? and mercy upon him; and to
waters of Noah should come near thee. your labour for that our God, for he will
no more go over the 15
Behold, they shall which satisfieth not? abundantly pardon.
earth; so have I sworn surely gather together, hearken diligently unto 8
For my thoughts are
that I would not be wroth but not by me: me, and eat ye that not your thoughts,
with thee, nor rebuke whosoever shall gather which is good, and let neither are your ways
thee. 10
For the together against thee your soul delight itself in my ways, saith the
mountains shall depart, shall fall for thy sake. fatness. 3
Incline your LORD. 9For as the
and the hills be 16
Behold, I have created ear, and come unto me: heavens are higher
removed; but my the smith that bloweth hear, and your soul shall than the earth, so are
kindness shall not depart the coals in the fire, and live; and I will make an my ways higher than
from thee, neither shall that bringeth forth an everlasting covenant your ways, and my
the covenant of my instrument for his work; with you, even the sure thoughts than your
peace be removed, saith and I have created the mercies of David. thoughts. 10For as the
the LORD that hath waster to destroy. 17No 4
Behold, I have given rain cometh down, and
mercy on thee. weapon that is formed him for a witness to the the snow from heaven,
11
O thou afflicted, against thee shall people, a leader and and returneth not
tossed with tempest, prosper; and every commander to the thither, but watereth
and not comforted, tongue that shall rise people. 5
Behold, thou the earth, and maketh
behold, I will lay thy against thee in judgment shalt call a nation that it bring forth and bud,
stones with fair colours, thou shalt condemn. This thou knowest not, and that it may give seed to
and lay thy foundations is the heritage of the nations that knew not the sower, and bread to
with sapphires. 12And I servants of the LORD, thee shall run unto thee the eater: 11So shall my
will make thy windows of and their righteousness because of the LORD thy word be that goeth
agates, and thy gates of is of me, saith the LORD. God, and for the Holy b
carbuncles, and all thy the unrighteous...: Heb. the
a
spend: Heb. weigh man of iniquity
forth out of my mouth: it keepeth the sabbath mountain, and make will fetch wine, and we
shall not return unto me from polluting it, and them joyful in my house will fill ourselves with
void, but it shall keepeth his hand from of prayer: their burnt strong drink; and to
accomplish that which I doing any evil. offerings and their morrow shall be as this
please, and it shall 3
Neither let the son of sacrifices shall be day, and much more
prosper in the thing the stranger, that hath accepted upon mine abundant.
whereto I sent it. 12For ye joined himself to the altar; for mine house
shall go out with joy, and LORD, speak, saying, shall be called an house Chapter 57
be led forth with peace: The LORD hath utterly of prayer for all people.
the mountains and the separated me from his 8
The Lord GOD which
1
The righteous
hills shall break forth people: neither let the gathereth the outcasts of perisheth, and no man
before you into singing, eunuch say, Behold, I Israel saith, Yet will I layeth it to heart: and
and all the trees of the am a dry tree. 4For thus gather others to him, mercifula men are taken
field shall clap their saith the LORD unto the beside those that are away, none considering
hands. 13Instead of the eunuchs that keep my gathered unto him. that the righteous is
thorn shall come up the sabbaths, and choose 9
All ye beasts of the taken away from the
fir tree, and instead of the things that please field, come to devour, evil to come. 2He shall
the brier shall come up me, and take hold of my yea, all ye beasts in the enter into peace: they
the myrtle tree: and it covenant; 5Even unto forest. 10His watchmen shall rest in their beds,
shall be to the LORD for them will I give in mine are blind: they are all each one walking in his
a name, for an house and within my ignorant, they are all uprightness.
everlasting sign that walls a place and a name dumb dogs, they cannot
3
But draw near
shall not be cut off. better than of sons and bark; sleepingb, lying hither, ye sons of the
of daughters: I will give down, loving to slumber. sorceress, the seed of
Chapter 56 them an everlasting 11
Yea, they are greedyc the adulterer and the
name, that shall not be dogs which can never whore. 4Against whom
Thus saith the LORD,
1
cut off. 6Also the sons of have enough, and they do ye sport yourselves?
Keep ye judgmenta, and the stranger, that join are shepherds that against whom make ye
do justice: for my themselves to the LORD, cannot understand: they a wide mouth, and draw
salvation is near to to serve him, and to love all look to their own way, out the tongue? are ye
come, and my the name of the LORD, every one for his gain, not children of
righteousness to be to be his servants, every from his quarter. transgression, a seed of
revealed. 2Blessed is the one that keepeth the 12
Come ye, say they, I falsehood, 5
Enflaming
man that doeth this, and sabbath from polluting it, yourselves with idols
b
the son of man that and taketh hold of my sleeping: or, dreaming, or, under every green tree,
layeth hold on it; that covenant; 7Even them talking in their sleep
c a
will I bring to my holy greedy: Heb. strong of merciful...: Heb. men of
a
judgment: or, equity appetite kindness, or, godliness
slaying the children in greatness of thy way; whose name is Holy; I saith my God, to the
the valleys under the yet saidst thou not, dwell in the high and wicked.
clifts of the rocks? There is no hope: thou holy place, with him also
6
Among the smooth hast found the lifec of that is of a contrite and Chapter 58
stones of the stream is thine hand; therefore humble spirit, to revive
thy portion; they, they thou wast not grieved. the spirit of the humble,
1
Cry alouda, spare
are thy lot: even to them 11
And of whom hast thou and to revive the heart not, lift up thy voice like
hast thou poured a drink been afraid or feared, of the contrite ones. a trumpet, and shew
offering, thou hast that thou hast lied, and 16
For I will not contend my people their
offered a meat offering. hast not remembered for ever, neither will I be transgression, and the
Should I receive comfort me, nor laid it to thy always wroth: for the house of Jacob their
in these? 7Upon a lofty heart? have not I held spirit should fail before sins. 2Yet they seek me
and high mountain hast my peace even of old, me, and the souls which daily, and delight to
thou set thy bed: even and thou fearest me not? I have made. know my ways, as a
thither wentest thou up 12
I will declare thy 17
For the iniquity of nation that did
to offer sacrifice. 8Behind righteousness, and thy his covetousness was I righteousness, and
the doors also and the works; for they shall not wroth, and smote him: I forsook not the
posts hast thou set up profit thee. hid me, and was wroth, ordinance of their God:
thy remembrance: for 13
When thou criest, let and he went on they ask of me the
thou hast discovered thy companies deliver frowardly in the way of
d ordinances of justice;
thyself to another than thee; but the wind shall his heart. 18I have seen they take delight in
me, and art gone up; carry them all away; his ways, and will heal approaching to God.
thou hast enlarged thy vanity shall take them: him: I will lead him also,
3
Wherefore have we
bed, and madeb thee a but he that putteth his and restore comforts fasted, say they, and
covenant with them; trust in me shall possess unto him and to his thou seest not?
thou lovedst their bed the land, and shall mourners. 19I create the wherefore have we
where thou sawest it. inherit my holy fruit of the lips; Peace, afflicted our soul, and
9
And thou wentest to the mountain; 14
And shall peace to him that is far thou takest no
king with ointment, and say, Cast ye up, cast ye off, and to him that is knowledge? Behold, in
didst increase thy up, prepare the way, near, saith the LORD; the day of your fast ye
perfumes, and didst take up the and I will heal him. 20But find pleasure, and exact
send thy messengers far stumblingblock out of the wicked are like the all your laboursb.
off, and didst debase the way of my people. troubled sea, when it
4
Behold, ye fast for
thyself even unto hell. 15
For thus saith the high cannot rest, whose strife and debate, and
10
Thou art wearied in the and lofty One that waters cast up mire and a
inhabiteth eternity, dirt. 21There is no peace, aloud: Heb. with the throat
b b
made...: or, hewed it for labours: or, things wherewith
c d
thyself larger than theirs life: or, living frowardly: Heb. turning away ye grieve others: Heb. griefs
to smite with the fist of morning, and thine thou shalt be called, The from you, that he will
wickedness: ye shall not health shall spring forth repairer of the breach, not hear. 3
For your
fast as ye do this day, to speedily: and thy The restorer of paths to hands are defiled with
make your voice to be righteousness shall go dwell in. blood, and your fingers
heard on high. 5
Is it before thee; the glory of 13
If thou turn away with iniquity; your lips
such a fast that I have the LORD shall be thy thy foot from the have spoken lies, your
chosen? a dayc for a man rereward. 9
Then shalt sabbath, from doing thy tongue hath muttered
to afflict his soul? is it to thou call, and the LORD pleasure on my holy day; perverseness. 4
None
bow down his head as a shall answer; thou shalt and call the sabbath a calleth for justice, nor
bulrush, and to spread cry, and he shall say, delight, the holy of the any pleadeth for truth:
sackcloth and ashes Here I am. If thou take LORD, honourable; and they trust in vanity, and
under him? wilt thou call away from the midst of shalt honour him, not speak lies; they
this a fast, and an thee the yoke, the doing thine own ways, conceive mischief, and
acceptable day to the putting forth of the nor finding thine own bring forth iniquity.
LORD? 6Is not this the finger, and speaking pleasure, nor speaking 5
They hatch cockatrice’
fast that I have chosen? vanity; 10
And if thou thine own words: 14Then eggs, and weave the
to loose the bands of draw out thy soul to the shalt thou delight thyself spider’s web: he that
wickedness, to undo the hungry, and satisfy the in the LORD; and I will eateth of their eggs
heavyd burdens, and to afflicted soul; then shall cause thee to ride upon dieth, and that which is
let the oppressed go thy light rise in the high places of the crushed breaketh out
free, and that ye break obscurity, and thy earth, and feed thee with into a viper. 6
Their
every yoke? 7Is it not to darkness be as the the heritage of Jacob thy webs shall not become
deal thy bread to the noonday: 11
And the father: for the mouth of garments, neither shall
hungry, and that thou LORD shall guide thee the LORD hath spoken it. they cover themselves
bring the poor that are continually, and satisfy with their works: their
cast out to thy house? thy soul in droughte, and Chapter 59 works are works of
when thou seest the make fat thy bones: and iniquity, and the act of
naked, that thou cover thou shalt be like a Behold, the LORD’S
1
violence is in their
him; and that thou hide watered garden, and like hand is not shortened, hands. 7Their feet run to
not thyself from thine a spring of water, whose that it cannot save; evil, and they make
own flesh? waters fail not. 12
And neither his ear heavy, haste to shed innocent
8
Then shall thy light they that shall be of thee that it cannot hear: 2But blood: their thoughts
break forth as the shall build the old waste your iniquities have are thoughts of iniquity;
places: thou shalt raise separated between you wasting and
c
a day...: or, to afflict his soul up the foundations of and your God, and your destructionb are in their
for a day? many generations; and sins have hida his face
d
the heavy...: Heb. the bundles hide
e a b
of the yoke drought: Heb. droughts have hid: or, have made him destruction: Heb. breaking
paths. 8
The way of LORD, and departing adversaries, recompence glory of the LORD is
peace they know not; away from our God, to his enemies; to the risen upon thee. 2For,
and there is no speaking oppression and islands he will repay behold, the darkness
judgment c
in their revolt, conceiving and recompence. 19So shall shall cover the earth,
goings: they have made uttering from the heart they fear the name of and gross darkness the
them crooked paths: words of falsehood. the LORD from the west, people: but the LORD
whosoever goeth therein 14
And judgment is turned and his glory from the shall arise upon thee,
shall not know peace. away backward, and rising of the sun. When and his glory shall be
9
Therefore is justice standeth afar off: the enemy shall come in seen upon thee. 3And
judgment far from us, for truth is fallen in the like a flood, the Spirit of the Gentiles shall come
neither doth justice street, and equity cannot the LORD shall lift up a to thy light, and kings
overtake us: we wait for enter. 15
Yea, truth standard against him. to the brightness of thy
light, but behold faileth; and he that 20
And the Redeemer rising. 4Lift up thine
obscurity; for brightness, departeth from evil shall come to Zion, and eyes round about, and
but we walk in darkness. maketh himself a prey: unto them that turn from see: all they gather
10
We grope for the wall and the LORD saw it, and transgression in Jacob, themselves together,
like the blind, and we it displeased him that saith the LORD. 21As for they come to thee: thy
grope as if we had no there was no judgment. me, this is my covenant sons shall come from
eyes: we stumble at 16
And he saw that with them, saith the far, and thy daughters
noonday as in the night; there was no man, and LORD; My spirit that is shall be nursed at thy
we are in desolate places wondered that there was upon thee, and my side. 5Then thou shalt
as dead men. 11We roar no intercessor: therefore words which I have put see, and flow together,
all like bears, and mourn his arm brought in thy mouth, shall not and thine heart shall
sore like doves: we look salvation unto him; and depart out of thy mouth, fear, and be enlarged;
for judgment, but there his righteousness, it nor out of the mouth of because the
is none; for salvation, sustained him. For he
17
thy seed, nor out of the abundance of the sea
b

but it is far off from us. put on righteousness as mouth of thy seed’s shall be converted unto
12
For our transgressions a breastplate, and an seed, saith the LORD, thee, the forces of the
are multiplied before helmet of salvation upon from henceforth and for Gentiles shall come
thee, and our sins testify his head; and he put on ever. unto thee. 6
The
against us: for our the garments of multitude of camels
transgressions are with vengeance for clothing, Chapter 60 shall cover thee, the
us; and as for our and was clad with zeal dromedaries of Midian
iniquities, we know as a cloke. 18According to Arise, shinea; for thy
1
and Ephah; all they
them; 13In transgressing their deedsd, accordingly light is come, and the
b
and lying against the he will repay, fury to his abundance...: or, noise of the
a
shine...: or, be enlightened; for sea shall be turned toward
c d
judgment: or, right deeds: Heb. recompences thy light cometh thee
from Sheba shall come: not be shut day nor 16
Thou shalt also suck righteous: they shall
they shall bring gold and night; that men may the milk of the Gentiles, inherit the land for
incense; and they shall bring unto thee the and shalt suck the breast ever, the branch of my
shew forth the praises of forcesc of the Gentiles, of kings: and thou shalt planting, the work of
the LORD. 7All the flocks and that their kings may know that I the LORD am my hands, that I may
of Kedar shall be be brought. 12
For the thy Saviour and thy be glorified. 22A little
gathered together unto nation and kingdom that Redeemer, the mighty one shall become a
thee, the rams of will not serve thee shall One of Jacob. 17For brass thousand, and a small
Nebaioth shall minister perish; yea, those I will bring gold, and for one a strong nation: I
unto thee: they shall nations shall be utterly iron I will bring silver, the LORD will hasten it
come up with wasted. 13The glory of and for wood brass, and in his time.
acceptance on mine Lebanon shall come unto for stones iron: I will also
altar, and I will glorify thee, the fir tree, the make thy officers peace, Chapter 61
the house of my glory. pine tree, and the box and thine exactors
8
Who are these that fly together, to beautify the righteousness. 18Violence
1
The Spirit of the
as a cloud, and as the place of my sanctuary; shall no more be heard Lord GOD is upon me;
doves to their windows? and I will make the place in thy land, wasting nor because the LORD hath
9
Surely the isles shall of my feet glorious. 14The destruction within thy anointed me to preach
wait for me, and the sons also of them that borders; but thou shalt good tidings unto the
ships of Tarshish first, to afflicted thee shall come call thy walls Salvation, meek; he hath sent me
bring thy sons from far, bending unto thee; and and thy gates Praise. to bind up the
their silver and their gold all they that despised 19
The sun shall be no brokenhearted, to
with them, unto the thee shall bow more thy light by day; proclaim liberty to the
name of the LORD thy themselves down at the neither for brightness captives, and the
God, and to the Holy One soles of thy feet; and shall the moon give light opening of the prison to
of Israel, because he they shall call thee, The unto thee: but the LORD them that are bound;
hath glorified thee. 10And city of the LORD, The shall be unto thee an
2
To proclaim the
the sons of strangers Zion of the Holy One of everlasting light, and thy acceptable year of the
shall build up thy walls, Israel. God thy glory. 20Thy sun LORD, and the day of
and their kings shall 15
Whereas thou hast shall no more go down; vengeance of our God;
minister unto thee: for in been forsaken and neither shall thy moon to comfort all that
my wrath I smote thee, hated, so that no man withdraw itself: for the mourn; 3
To appoint
but in my favour have I went through thee, I will LORD shall be thine unto them that mourn
had mercy on thee. make thee an eternal everlasting light, and the in Zion, to give unto
11
Therefore thy gates excellency, a joy of days of thy mourning them beauty for ashes,
shall be open many generations. shall be ended. 21Thy the oil of joy for
continually; they shall people also shall be all mourning, the garment
c
forces: or, wealth
of praise for the spirit of offering; and I will direct Chapter 62 over the bride, so shall
heaviness; that they their work in truth, and I thy God rejoice over
might be called trees of will make an everlasting 1
For Zion’s sake will I thee.
righteousness, the covenant with them. not hold my peace, and 6
I have set
planting of the LORD, 9
And their seed shall be for Jerusalem’s sake I will watchmen upon thy
that he might be known among the not rest, until the walls, O Jerusalem,
glorified. Gentiles, and their righteousness thereof go which shall never hold
4
And they shall build offspring among the forth as brightness, and their peace day nor
the old wastes, they people: all that see them the salvation thereof as night: ye that make
shall raise up the former shall acknowledge them, a lamp that burneth. mention of the LORD,
desolations, and they that they are the seed 2
And the Gentiles shall keep not silence, 7And
shall repair the waste which the LORD hath see thy righteousness, give him no restb, till he
cities, the desolations of blessed. and all kings thy glory: establish, and till he
many generations. 5And 10
I will greatly rejoice and thou shalt be called make Jerusalem a
strangers shall stand and in the LORD, my soul by a new name, which praise in the earth.
feed your flocks, and the shall be joyful in my God; the mouth of the LORD 8
The LORD hath sworn
sons of the alien shall be for he hath clothed me shall name. 3Thou shalt by his right hand, and
your plowmen and your with the garments of also be a crown of glory by the arm of his
vinedressers. 6But ye salvation, he hath in the hand of the LORD, strength, Surely I will no
shall be named the covered me with the and a royal diadem in more give thy corn to
Priests of the LORD: men robe of righteousness, as the hand of thy God. be meat for thine
shall call you the a bridegroom decketha 4
Thou shalt no more be enemies; and the sons
Ministers of our God: ye himself with ornaments, termed Forsaken; of the stranger shall not
shall eat the riches of and as a bride adorneth neither shall thy land drink thy wine, for the
the Gentiles, and in their herself with her jewels. any more be termed which thou hast
glory shall ye boast 11
For as the earth Desolate: but thou shalt laboured: 9
But they
yourselves. 7For your bringeth forth her bud, be called Hephzibaha, that have gathered it
shame ye shall have and as the garden and thy land Beulah: for shall eat it, and praise
double; and for causeth the things that the LORD delighteth in the LORD; and they that
confusion they shall are sown in it to spring thee, and thy land shall have brought it
rejoice in their portion: forth; so the Lord GOD be married. 5
For as a together shall drink it in
therefore in their land will cause righteousness young man marrieth a the courts of my
they shall possess the and praise to spring forth virgin, so shall thy sons holiness.
double: everlasting joy before all the nations. marry thee: and as the 10
Go through, go
shall be unto them. 8For I bridegroom rejoiceth through the gates;
the LORD love judgment, a a
prepare ye the way of
I hate robbery for burnt decketh: Heb. decketh as a Hephzibah: that is, My delight
b
priest is in her rest: Heb. silence
the people; cast up, cast 3
I have trodden the on them according to his deep, as an horse in the
up the highway; gather winepress alone; and of mercies, and according wilderness, that they
out the stones; lift up a the people there was to the multitude of his should not stumble?
standard for the people. none with me: for I will lovingkindnesses. 8
For 14
As a beast goeth down
11
Behold, the LORD hath tread them in mine he said, Surely they are into the valley, the
proclaimed unto the end anger, and trample them my people, children that Spirit of the LORD
of the world, Say ye to in my fury; and their will not lie: so he was caused him to rest: so
the daughter of Zion, blood shall be sprinkled their Saviour. 9In all their didst thou lead thy
Behold, thy salvation upon my garments, and I affliction he was people, to make thyself
cometh; behold, his will stain all my raiment. afflicted, and the angel a glorious name.
reward is with him, and 4
For the day of of his presence saved 15
Look down from
his workc before him. vengeance is in mine them: in his love and in heaven, and behold
12
And they shall call heart, and the year of his pity he redeemed from the habitation of
them, The holy people, my redeemed is come. them; and he bare them, thy holiness and of thy
The redeemed of the 5
And I looked, and there and carried them all the glory: where is thy zeal
LORD: and thou shalt be was none to help; and I days of old. 10But they and thy strength, the
called, Sought out, A city wondered that there was rebelled, and vexed his soundingc of thy bowels
not forsaken. none to uphold: holy Spirit: therefore he and of thy mercies
therefore mine own arm was turned to be their toward me? are they
Chapter 63 brought salvation unto enemy, and he fought restrained? 16Doubtless
me; and my fury, it against them. 11Then he thou art our father,
Who is this that
1
upheld me. 6And I will remembered the days of though Abraham be
cometh from Edom, with tread down the people in old, Moses, and his ignorant of us, and
dyed garments from mine anger, and make people, saying, Where is Israel acknowledge us
Bozrah? this that is them drunk in my fury, he that brought them up not: thou, O LORD, art
gloriousa in his apparel, and I will bring down out of the sea with the our father, our
travelling in the their strength to the shepherdb of his flock? redeemerd; thy name is
greatness of his earth. where is he that put his from everlasting. 17
O
strength? I that speak in 7
I will mention the holy Spirit within him? LORD, why hast thou
righteousness, mighty to lovingkindnesses of the 12
That led them by the made us to err from thy
save. 2
Wherefore art LORD, and the praises of right hand of Moses with ways, and hardened our
thou red in thine the LORD, according to his glorious arm, dividing heart from thy fear?
apparel, and thy all that the LORD hath the water before them, c
garments like him that bestowed on us, and the to make himself an the sounding: or, the
treadeth in the winefat? great goodness toward everlasting name? 13That multitude
d
the house of Israel, led them through the our redeemer...: or, our
c
work: or, recompense which he hath bestowed redeemer from everlasting is
a b
glorious: Heb. decked shepherd: or, shepherds thy name
Return for thy servants’ the world men have not clay, and thou our own thoughts; 3
A
sake, the tribes of thine heard, nor perceived by potter; and we all are the people that provoketh
inheritance. 18The people the ear, neither hath the work of thy hand. 9Be not me to anger continually
of thy holiness have eye seenb, O God, beside wroth very sore, O LORD, to my face; that
possessed it but a little thee, what he hath neither remember sacrificeth in gardens,
while: our adversaries prepared for him that iniquity for ever: behold, and burneth incense
have trodden down thy waiteth for him. 5Thou see, we beseech thee, upon altars of brick;
sanctuary. 19
We are meetest him that we are all thy people. 4
Which remain among
thine: thou never barest rejoiceth and worketh 10
Thy holy cities are a the graves, and lodge in
rule over them; they righteousness, those wilderness, Zion is a the monuments, which
were not called by thy that remember thee in wilderness, Jerusalem a eat swine’s flesh, and
name. thy ways: behold, thou desolation. 11Our holy brotha of abominable
art wroth; for we have and our beautiful house, things is in their
Chapter 64 sinned: in those is where our fathers vessels; 5
Which say,
continuance, and we praised thee, is burned Stand by thyself, come
Oh
1
that thou shall be saved. up with fire: and all our not near to me; for I am
wouldest rend the 6
But we are all as an pleasant things are laid holier than thou. These
heavens, that thou unclean thing, and all waste. 12Wilt thou refrain are a smoke in my
wouldest come down, our righteousnesses are thyself for these things, noseb, a fire that
that the mountains as filthy rags; and we all O LORD? wilt thou hold burneth all the day.
might flow down at thy do fade as a leaf; and thy peace, and afflict us 6
Behold, it is written
presence, 2As when the our iniquities, like the very sore? before me: I will not
meltinga fire burneth, the wind, have taken us keep silence, but will
fire causeth the waters away. 7And there is none Chapter 65 recompense, even
to boil, to make thy that calleth upon thy recompense into their
name known to thine name, that stirreth up
1
I am sought of them bosom, 7Your iniquities,
adversaries, that the himself to take hold of that asked not for me; I and the iniquities of
nations may tremble at thee: for thou hast hid am found of them that your fathers together,
thy presence! 3
When thy face from us, and sought me not: I said, saith the LORD, which
thou didst terrible things hast consumedc us, Behold me, behold me, have burned incense
which we looked not for, because of our iniquities. unto a nation that was upon the mountains,
thou camest down, the 8
But now, O LORD, thou not called by my name. and blasphemed me
mountains flowed down art our father; we are the
2
I have spread out my upon the hills: therefore
at thy presence. 4For hands all the day unto a will I measure their
b
since the beginning of seen...: or, seen a God beside rebellious people, which former work into their
thee, which doeth so for him, walketh in a way that
a a
the melting...: Heb. the fire of etc was not good, after their broth: or, pieces
c b
meltings consumed: Heb. melted nose: or, anger
bosom. did choose that wherein I shall not be hands. 23They shall not
8
Thus saith the LORD, delighted not. remembered, nor comee labour in vain, nor bring
As the new wine is found 13
Therefore thus saith into mind. 18But be ye forth for trouble; for
in the cluster, and one the Lord GOD, Behold, glad and rejoice for ever they are the seed of the
saith, Destroy it not; for my servants shall eat, in that which I create: blessed of the LORD,
a blessing is in it: so will but ye shall be hungry: for, behold, I create and their offspring with
I do for my servants’ behold, my servants Jerusalem a rejoicing, them. 24And it shall
sakes, that I may not shall drink, but ye shall and her people a joy. come to pass, that
destroy them all. 9And I be thirsty: behold, my 19
And I will rejoice in before they call, I will
will bring forth a seed servants shall rejoice, Jerusalem, and joy in my answer; and while they
out of Jacob, and out of but ye shall be ashamed: people: and the voice of are yet speaking, I will
Judah an inheritor of my 14
Behold, my servants weeping shall be no hear. 25The wolf and the
mountains: and mine shall sing for joy of more heard in her, nor lamb shall feed
elect shall inherit it, and heart, but ye shall cry for the voice of crying. together, and the lion
my servants shall dwell sorrow of heart, and 20
There shall be no more shall eat straw like the
there. 10And Sharon shall shall howl for vexationd thence an infant of days, bullock: and dust shall
be a fold of flocks, and of spirit. 15And ye shall nor an old man that hath be the serpent’s meat.
the valley of Achor a leave your name for a not filled his days: for They shall not hurt nor
place for the herds to lie curse unto my chosen: the child shall die an destroy in all my holy
down in, for my people for the Lord GOD shall hundred years old; but mountain, saith the
that have sought me. slay thee, and call his the sinner being an LORD.
11
But ye are they that servants by another hundred years old shall
forsake the LORD, that name: 16That he who be accursed. 21And they Chapter 66
forget my holy mountain, blesseth himself in the shall build houses, and
that prepare a table for earth shall bless himself inhabit them; and they
1
Thus saith the
that troopc, and that in the God of truth; and shall plant vineyards, LORD, The heaven is
furnish the drink offering he that sweareth in the and eat the fruit of them. my throne, and the
unto that number. earth shall swear by the 22
They shall not build, earth is my footstool:
12
Therefore will I number God of truth; because and another inhabit; where is the house that
you to the sword, and ye the former troubles are they shall not plant, and ye build unto me? and
shall all bow down to the forgotten, and because another eat: for as the where is the place of
slaughter: because when they are hid from mine days of a tree are the my rest? 2For all those
I called, ye did not eyes. days of my people, and things hath mine hand
answer; when I spake, ye 17
For, behold, I create mine elect shall long made, and all those
did not hear; but did evil new heavens and a new enjoy the work of their things have been, saith
before mine eyes, and earth: and the former the LORD: but to this
e
come...: Heb. come upon the man will I look, even to
c d
troop: or, Gad vexation: Heb. breaking heart
him that is poor and of a 6
A voice of noise from 12
For thus saith the the gardens behindd
contrite spirit, and the city, a voice from the LORD, Behold, I will one tree in the midst,
trembleth at my word. temple, a voice of the extend peace to her like eating swine’s flesh,
3
He that killeth an ox is LORD that rendereth a river, and the glory of and the abomination,
as if he slew a man; he recompence to his the Gentiles like a and the mouse, shall be
that sacrificeth a lamba, enemies. 7
Before she flowing stream: then consumed together,
as if he cut off a dog’s travailed, she brought shall ye suck, ye shall be saith the LORD. 18For I
neck; he that offereth an forth; before her pain borne upon her sides, know their works and
oblation, as if he offered came, she was delivered and be dandled upon her their thoughts: it shall
swine’s blood; he that of a man child. 8Who knees. 13As one whom come, that I will gather
burneth incense, as if he hath heard such a thing? his mother comforteth, all nations and tongues;
blessed an idol. Yea, who hath seen such so will I comfort you; and and they shall come,
they have chosen their things? Shall the earth ye shall be comforted in and see my glory. 19And
own ways, and their soul be made to bring forth in Jerusalem. 14And when I will set a sign among
delighteth in their one day? or shall a ye see this, your heart them, and I will send
abominations. 4
I also nation be born at once? shall rejoice, and your those that escape of
will choose their for as soon as Zion bones shall flourish like them unto the nations,
delusions , and will bring
b
travailed, she brought an herb: and the hand of to Tarshish, Pul, and
their fears upon them; forth her children. 9Shall the LORD shall be known Lud, that draw the bow,
because when I called, I bring to the birth, and toward his servants, and to Tubal, and Javan, to
none did answer; when I not cause to bring forth? his indignation toward the isles afar off, that
spake, they did not hear: saith the LORD: shall I his enemies. have not heard my
but they did evil before cause to bring forth, and fame, neither have
mine eyes, and chose shut the womb? saith thy
15
For, behold, the LORD seen my glory; and they
that in which I delighted God. 10Rejoice ye with will come with fire, and shall declare my glory
not. Jerusalem, and be glad with his chariots like a among the Gentiles.
5
Hear the word of the with her, all ye that love whirlwind, to render his 20
And they shall bring
LORD, ye that tremble at her: rejoice for joy with anger with fury, and his all your brethren for an
his word; Your brethren her, all ye that mourn for rebuke with flames of offering unto the LORD
that hated you, that cast her: 11That ye may suck, fire. 16For by fire and by out of all nations upon
you out for my name’s and be satisfied with the his sword will the LORD horses, and in chariots,
sake, said, Let the LORD breasts of her plead with all flesh: and and in litterse, and upon
be glorified: but he shall consolations; that ye the slain of the LORD mules, and upon swift
appear to your joy, and may milk out, and be shall be many. 17They beasts, to my holy
they shall be ashamed. delighted with the that sanctify themselves,
d
abundance of her glory.
c and purify themselves in behind...: or, one after
a
lamb: or, kid another
b c e
delusions: or, devices abundance: or, brightness litters: or, coaches
mountain Jerusalem, The
1
words of and whatsoever I the north. 14Then the
saith the LORD, as the Jeremiah the son of command thee thou LORD said unto me, Out
children of Israel bring Hilkiah, of the priests shalt speak. 8Be not of the north an evil
an offering in a clean that were in Anathoth in afraid of their faces: for I shall break forth upon
vessel into the house of the land of Benjamin: 2To am with thee to deliver all the inhabitants of
the LORD. 21And I will whom the word of the thee, saith the LORD. the land. 15For, lo, I will
also take of them for LORD came in the days 9
Then the LORD put forth call all the families of
priests and for Levites, of Josiah the son of his hand, and touched the kingdoms of the
saith the LORD. 22For as Amon king of Judah, in my mouth. And the north, saith the LORD;
the new heavens and the the thirteenth year of his LORD said unto me, and they shall come,
new earth, which I will reign. 3It came also in Behold, I have put my and they shall set every
make, shall remain the days of Jehoiakim words in thy mouth. one his throne at the
before me, saith the the son of Josiah king of 10
See, I have this day set entering of the gates of
LORD, so shall your seed Judah, unto the end of thee over the nations Jerusalem, and against
and your name remain. the eleventh year of and over the kingdoms, all the walls thereof
23
And it shall come to Zedekiah the son of to root out, and to pull round about, and
pass, that from one new Josiah king of Judah, unto down, and to destroy, against all the cities of
moon to another, and the carrying away of and to throw down, to Judah. 16And I will utter
from one sabbath to Jerusalem captive in the build, and to plant. my judgments against
another, shall all flesh fifth month. 11
Moreover the word them touching all their
come to worship before 4
Then the word of the of the LORD came unto wickedness, who have
me, saith the LORD. LORD came unto me, me, saying, Jeremiah, forsaken me, and have
24
And they shall go forth, saying, 5Before I formed what seest thou? And I burned incense unto
and look upon the thee in the belly I knew said, I see a rod of an other gods, and
carcases of the men that thee; and before thou almond tree. 12Then said worshipped the works
have transgressed camest forth out of the the LORD unto me, Thou of their own hands.
against me: for their womb I sanctified thee, hast well seen: for I will 17
Thou therefore gird up
worm shall not die, and I ordaineda thee a hasten my word to thy loins, and arise, and
neither shall their fire be prophet unto the perform it. 13And the speak unto them all
quenched; and they shall nations. 6
Then said I, word of the LORD came that I command thee:
be an abhorring unto all Ah, Lord GOD! behold, I unto me the second be not dismayed at
flesh. cannot speak: for I am a time, saying, What seest their faces, lest I
child. 7But the LORD said thou? And I said, I see a confoundc thee before
Jeremiah unto me, Say not, I am a seething pot; and the them. 18For, behold, I
child: for thou shalt go to face thereof is towardb have made thee this
Chapter 1 all that I shall send thee, b
toward...: Heb. from the face
day a defenced city,
a c
ordained: Heb. gave of the north confound: or, break to pieces
and an iron pillar, and and all the families of me, and the prophets upon him, and yellede,
brasen walls against the the house of Israel: 5Thus prophesied by Baal, and and they made his land
whole land, against the saith the LORD, What walked after things that waste: his cities are
kings of Judah, against iniquity have your do not profit. burned without
the princes thereof, fathers found in me, that 9
Wherefore I will yet inhabitant. 16
Also the
against the priests they are gone far from plead with you, saith the children of Noph and
thereof, and against the me, and have walked LORD, and with your Tahapanes have broken
people of the land. 19And after vanity, and are children’s children will I the crown of thy head.
they shall fight against become vain? 6Neither plead. 10For pass overc 17
Hast thou not
thee; but they shall not said they, Where is the the isles of Chittim, and procured this unto
prevail against thee; for I LORD that brought us up see; and send unto thyself, in that thou
am with thee, saith the out of the land of Egypt, Kedar, and consider hast forsaken the LORD
LORD, to deliver thee. that led us through the diligently, and see if thy God, when he led
wilderness, through a there be such a thing. thee by the way? 18And
Chapter 2 land of deserts and of 11
Hath a nation changed now what hast thou to
pits, through a land of their gods, which are yet do in the way of Egypt,
Moreover the word of
1
drought, and of the no gods? but my people to drink the waters of
the LORD came to me, shadow of death, have changed their glory Sihor? or what hast
saying, 2Go and cry in through a land that no for that which doth not thou to do in the way of
the ears of Jerusalem, man passed through, profit. 12Be astonished, O Assyria, to drink the
saying, Thus saith the and where no man ye heavens, at this, and waters of the river?
LORD; I remember thee, dwelt? 7And I brought be horribly afraid, be ye 19
Thine own wickedness
the kindnessa of thy you into a plentifulb very desolate, saith the shall correct thee, and
youth, the love of thine country, to eat the fruit LORD. 13For my people thy backslidings shall
espousals, when thou thereof and the have committed two reprove thee: know
wentest after me in the goodness thereof; but evils; they have forsaken therefore and see that
wilderness, in a land that when ye entered, ye me the fountain of living it is an evil thing and
was not sown. 3
Israel defiled my land, and waters, and hewed them bitter, that thou hast
was holiness unto the made mine heritage an out cisterns, broken forsaken the LORD thy
LORD, and the firstfruits abomination. 8
The cisterns, that can hold no God, and that my fear
of his increase: all that priests said not, Where water. is not in thee, saith the
devour him shall offend; is the LORD? and they 14
Is Israel a servant? Lord GOD of hosts.
evil shall come upon that handle the law knew is he a homeborn slave? 20
For of old time I
them, saith the LORD. me not: the pastors also why is he spoiledd? have broken thy yoke,
4
Hear ye the word of the transgressed against 15
The young lions roared and burst thy bands;
LORD, O house of Jacob,
b c e
a plentiful...: or, the land of over: or, over to yelled: Heb. gave out their
a d
thee: or, for thy sake Carmel spoiled: Heb. become a spoil? voice
and thou saidst, I will not thirst: but thou saidst, sword hath devoured thou wast ashamed of
transgressf; when upon There is no hope: no; for your prophets, like a Assyria. 37
Yea, thou
every high hill and under I have loved strangers, destroying lion. 31
O shalt go forth from him,
every green tree thou and after them will I go. generation, see ye the and thine hands upon
wanderest, playing the 26
As the thief is ashamed word of the LORD. Have I thine head: for the
harlot. 21
Yet I had when he is found, so is been a wilderness unto LORD hath rejected thy
planted thee a noble the house of Israel Israel? a land of confidences, and thou
vine, wholly a right seed: ashamed; they, their darkness? wherefore say shalt not prosper in
how then art thou turned kings, their princes, and my people, We are lords; them.
into the degenerate their priests, and their we will come no more
plant of a strange vine prophets, 27Saying to a unto thee? 32Can a maid Chapter 3
unto me? 22For though stock, Thou art my forget her ornaments, or
thou wash thee with father; and to a stone, a bride her attire? yet They saya, If a man
1

nitre, and take thee Thou hast brought me my people have put away his wife, and
much soap, yet thine forth: for they have forgotten me days she go from him, and
iniquity is marked before turned their back unto without number. 33
Why become another man’s,
me, saith the Lord GOD. me, and not their face: trimmest thou thy way to shall he return unto her
23
How canst thou say, I but in the time of their seek love? therefore hast again? shall not that
am not polluted, I have trouble they will say, thou also taught the land be greatly
not gone after Baalim? Arise, and save us. wicked ones thy ways. polluted? but thou hast
see thy way in the 28
But where are thy gods 34
Also in thy skirts is played the harlot with
valley, know what thou that thou hast made found the blood of the many lovers; yet return
hast done: thou art a thee? let them arise, if souls of the poor again to me, saith the
swift dromedary they can save thee in innocents: I have not LORD. 2
Lift up thine
traversing her ways; 24A the time of thy troubleg: found it by secret eyes unto the high
wild ass used to the for according to the search, but upon all places, and see where
wilderness, that snuffeth number of thy cities are these. 35Yet thou sayest, thou hast not been lien
up the wind at her thy gods, O Judah. Because I am innocent, with. In the ways hast
pleasure; in her occasion 29
Wherefore will ye surely his anger shall thou sat for them, as
who can turn her away? plead with me? ye all turn from me. Behold, I the Arabian in the
all they that seek her will have transgressed will plead with thee, wilderness; and thou
not weary themselves; in against me, saith the because thou sayest, I hast polluted the land
her month they shall find LORD. 30In vain have I have not sinned. 36Why with thy whoredoms
her. 25
Withhold thy smitten your children; gaddest thou about so and with thy
foot from being unshod, they received no much to change thy wickedness. 3Therefore
and thy throat from correction: your own way? thou also shalt be the showers have been
f g
ashamed of Egypt, as a
transgress: or, serve trouble: Heb. evil They say: Heb. Saying
withholden, and there her treacherous sister the strangers under shall they walk any
hath been no latter rain; Judah feared not, but every green tree, and ye more after the
and thou hadst a went and played the have not obeyed my imaginatione of their
whore’s forehead, thou harlot also. 9And it came voice, saith the LORD. evil heart. 18
In those
refusedst to be to pass through the 14
Turn, O backsliding days the house of Judah
ashamed. Wilt thou not
4
lightnessb of her children, saith the LORD; shall walk with the
from this time cry unto whoredom, that she for I am married unto house of Israel, and
me, My father, thou art defiled the land, and you: and I will take you they shall come
the guide of my youth? committed adultery with one of a city, and two of together out of the land
5
Will he reserve his stones and with stocks. a family, and I will bring of the north to the land
anger for ever? will he 10
And yet for all this her you to Zion: 15And I will that I have given for an
keep it to the end? treacherous sister Judah give you pastors inheritance unto your
Behold, thou hast hath not turned unto me according to mine heart, fathers. 19
But I said,
spoken and done evil with her whole heart, but which shall feed you with How shall I put thee
things as thou couldest. feignedlyc, saith the knowledge and among the children,
6
The LORD said also LORD. 11
And the LORD understanding. 16
And it and give thee a
unto me in the days of said unto me, The shall come to pass, when pleasantf land, a goodly
Josiah the king, Hast backsliding Israel hath ye be multiplied and heritage of the hosts of
thou seen that which justified herself more increased in the land, in nations? and I said,
backsliding Israel hath than treacherous Judah. those days, saith the Thou shalt call me, My
done? she is gone up 12
Go and proclaim LORD, they shall say no father; and shalt not
upon every high these words toward the more, The ark of the turn away from me.
mountain and under north, and say, Return, covenant of the LORD: 20
Surely as a wife
every green tree, and thou backsliding Israel, neither shall it come to treacherously departeth
there hath played the saith the LORD; and I will mindd: neither shall they from her husbandg, so
harlot. 7And I said after not cause mine anger to remember it; neither have ye dealt
she had done all these fall upon you: for I am shall they visit it; neither treacherously with me,
things, Turn thou unto merciful, saith the LORD, shall that be done any O house of Israel, saith
me. But she returned and I will not keep anger more. 17
At that time the LORD. 21
A voice
not. And her treacherous for ever. 13
Only they shall call Jerusalem was heard upon the
sister Judah saw it. 8And I acknowledge thine the throne of the LORD; high places, weeping
saw, when for all the iniquity, that thou hast and all the nations shall and supplications of the
causes whereby transgressed against the be gathered unto it, to e
backsliding Israel LORD thy God, and hast the name of the LORD, imagination: or,
committed adultery I had scattered thy ways to to Jerusalem: neither stubbornness
f
put her away, and given pleasant...: Heb. land of
b d
her a bill of divorce; yet lightness: or, fame come to mind: Heb. come desire
c g
feignedly: Heb. in falsehood upon the heart husband: Heb. friend
children of Israel: for return unto me: and if toward Zion: retirea, stay the high places in the
they have perverted thou wilt put away thine not: for I will bring evil wilderness toward the
their way, and they have abominations out of my from the north, and a daughter of my people,
forgotten the LORD their sight, then shalt thou not great destruction. 7The not to fan, nor to
God. 22
Return, ye remove. 2And thou shalt lion is come up from his cleanse, 12Even a fullb
backsliding children, and swear, The LORD liveth, thicket, and the wind from those places
I will heal your in truth, in judgment, destroyer of the Gentiles shall come unto me:
backslidings. Behold, we and in righteousness; is on his way; he is gone now also will I give
come unto thee; for thou and the nations shall forth from his place to sentence against them.
art the LORD our God. bless themselves in him, make thy land desolate; 13
Behold, he shall come
23
Truly in vain is and in him shall they and thy cities shall be up as clouds, and his
salvation hoped for from glory. laid waste, without an chariots shall be as a
the hills, and from the 3
For thus saith the inhabitant. 8For this gird whirlwind: his horses
multitude of mountains: LORD to the men of you with sackcloth, are swifter than eagles.
truly in the LORD our Judah and Jerusalem, lament and howl: for the Woe unto us! for we are
God is the salvation of Break up your fallow fierce anger of the LORD spoiled. 14O Jerusalem,
Israel. 24For shame hath ground, and sow not is not turned back from wash thine heart from
devoured the labour of among thorns. us. 9And it shall come to wickedness, that thou
our fathers from our 4
Circumcise yourselves pass at that day, saith mayest be saved. How
youth; their flocks and to the LORD, and take the LORD, that the heart long shall thy vain
their herds, their sons away the foreskins of of the king shall perish, thoughts lodge within
and their daughters. your heart, ye men of and the heart of the thee? 15For a voice
25
We lie down in our Judah and inhabitants of princes; and the priests declareth from Dan,
shame, and our Jerusalem: lest my fury shall be astonished, and and publisheth affliction
confusion covereth us: come forth like fire, and the prophets shall from mount Ephraim.
for we have sinned burn that none can wonder. 10
Then said I, 16
Make ye mention to
against the LORD our quench it, because of Ah, Lord GOD! surely the nations; behold,
God, we and our fathers, the evil of your doings. thou hast greatly publish against
from our youth even 5
Declare ye in Judah, deceived this people and Jerusalem, that
unto this day, and have and publish in Jerusalem; Jerusalem, saying, Ye watchers come from a
not obeyed the voice of and say, Blow ye the shall have peace; far country, and give
the LORD our God. trumpet in the land: cry, whereas the sword out their voice against
gather together, and reacheth unto the soul. the cities of Judah. 17As
Chapter 4 say, Assemble 11
At that time shall it be keepers of a field, are
yourselves, and let us go said to this people and to they against her round
1
If thou wilt return, O into the defenced cities. Jerusalem, A dry wind of b
Israel, saith the LORD, 6
Set up the standard a full...: or, a fuller wind
a
retire: or, strengthen than those
about; because she hath knowledge. 23I beheld dwell therein. 30
And that seeketh the truth;
been rebellious against the earth, and, lo, it was when thou art spoiled, and I will pardon it.
me, saith the LORD. without form, and void; what wilt thou do? 2
And though they say,
18
Thy way and thy doings and the heavens, and Though thou clothest The LORD liveth; surely
have procured these they had no light. 24I thyself with crimson, they swear falsely. 3O
things unto thee; this is beheld the mountains, though thou deckest LORD, are not thine
thy wickedness, because and, lo, they trembled, thee with ornaments of eyes upon the truth?
it is bitter, because it and all the hills moved gold, though thou thou hast stricken
reacheth unto thine lightly. 25I beheld, and, rentest thy faced with them, but they have not
heart. lo, there was no man, painting, in vain shalt grieved; thou hast
19
My bowels, my and all the birds of the thou make thyself fair; consumed them, but
bowels! I am pained at heavens were fled. 26I thy lovers will despise they have refused to
my veryc heart; my heart beheld, and, lo, the thee, they will seek thy receive correction: they
maketh a noise in me; I fruitful place was a life. 31For I have heard a have made their faces
cannot hold my peace, wilderness, and all the voice as of a woman in harder than a rock; they
because thou hast cities thereof were travail, and the anguish have refused to return.
heard, O my soul, the broken down at the as of her that bringeth 4
Therefore I said, Surely
sound of the trumpet, presence of the LORD, forth her first child, the these are poor; they are
the alarm of war. and by his fierce anger. voice of the daughter of foolish: for they know
20
Destruction upon 27
For thus hath the LORD Zion, that bewaileth not the way of the
destruction is cried; for said, The whole land herself, that spreadeth LORD, nor the judgment
the whole land is spoiled: shall be desolate; yet will her hands, saying, Woe of their God. 5I will get
suddenly are my tents I not make a full end. is me now! for my soul is me unto the great men,
spoiled, and my curtains 28
For this shall the earth wearied because of and will speak unto
in a moment. 21How long mourn, and the heavens murderers. them; for they have
shall I see the standard, above be black: because known the way of the
and hear the sound of I have spoken it, I have Chapter 5 LORD, and the
the trumpet? 22For my purposed it, and will not judgment of their God:
people is foolish, they repent, neither will I turn Run ye to and fro
1
but these have
have not known me; back from it. 29The whole through the streets of altogether broken the
they are sottish children, city shall flee for the Jerusalem, and see now, yoke, and burst the
and they have none noise of the horsemen and know, and seek in bonds. 6Wherefore a
understanding: they are and bowmen; they shall the broad places thereof, lion out of the forest
wise to do evil, but to do go into thickets, and if ye can find a man, if shall slay them, and a
good they have no climb up upon the rocks: there be any that wolf of the eveningsa
every city shall be executeth judgment, shall spoil them, a
c
my very...: Heb. the walls of forsaken, and not a man d a
my heart face: Heb. eyes evenings: or, deserts
leopard shall watch over 12
They have belied the trees: they shall waves thereof toss
their cities: every one LORD, and said, It is not impoverish thy fenced themselves, yet can
that goeth out thence he; neither shall evil cities, wherein thou they not prevail; though
shall be torn in pieces: come upon us; neither trustedst, with the they roar, yet can they
because their shall we see sword nor sword. 18Nevertheless in not pass over it? 23But
transgressions are many, famine: 13
And the those days, saith the this people hath a
and their backslidings prophets shall become LORD, I will not make a revolting and a
are increased. 7
How wind, and the word is not full end with you. 19And it rebellious heart; they
shall I pardon thee for in them: thus shall it be shall come to pass, when are revolted and gone.
this? thy children have done unto them. ye shall say, Wherefore 24
Neither say they in
forsaken me, and sworn 14
Wherefore thus saith doeth the LORD our God their heart, Let us now
by them that are no the LORD God of hosts, all these things unto us? fear the LORD our God,
gods: when I had fed Because ye speak this then shalt thou answer that giveth rain, both
them to the full, they word, behold, I will make them, Like as ye have the former and the
then committed my words in thy mouth forsaken me, and served latter, in his season: he
adultery, and assembled fire, and this people strange gods in your reserveth unto us the
themselves by troops in wood, and it shall devour land, so shall ye serve appointed weeks of the
the harlots’ houses. them. 15Lo, I will bring a strangers in a land that harvest.
8
They were as fed horses nation upon you from is not yours. 25
Your iniquities have
in the morning: every far, O house of Israel, 20
Declare this in the turned away these
one neighed after his saith the LORD: it is a house of Jacob, and things, and your sins
neighbour’s wife. 9Shall I mighty nation, it is an publish it in Judah, have withholden good
not visit for these ancient nation, a nation saying, 21Hear now this, things from you. 26For
things? saith the LORD: whose language thou O foolish people, and among my people are
and shall not my soul be knowest not, neither without understandingb; found wicked men: they
avenged on such a understandest what they which have eyes, and lay wait, as he that
nation as this? say. 16Their quiver is as see not; which have setteth snares; they set
10
Go ye up upon her an open sepulchre, they ears, and hear not: a trap, they catch men.
walls, and destroy; but are all mighty men. 22
Fear ye not me? saith 27
As a cagec is full of
make not a full end: take 17
And they shall eat up the LORD: will ye not birds, so are their
away her battlements; thine harvest, and thy tremble at my presence, houses full of deceit:
for they are not the bread, which thy sons which have placed the therefore they are
LORD’S. 11For the house and thy daughters sand for the bound of become great, and
of Israel and the house should eat: they shall eat the sea by a perpetual waxen rich. 28They are
of Judah have dealt very up thy flocks and thine decree, that it cannot waxen fat, they shine:
treacherously against herds: they shall eat up pass it: and though the yea, they overpass the
me, saith the LORD. thy vines and thy fig b c
understanding: Heb. heart cage: or, coop
deeds of the wicked: Zion to a comelya and thee; lest I make thee the land, saith the
they judge not the delicate woman. 3
The desolate, a land not LORD. 13For from the
cause, the cause of the shepherds with their inhabited. least of them even unto
fatherless, yet they flocks shall come unto 9
Thus saith the LORD the greatest of them
prosper; and the right of her; they shall pitch their of hosts, They shall every one is given to
the needy do they not tents against her round throughly glean the covetousness; and from
judge. 29Shall I not visit about; they shall feed remnant of Israel as a the prophet even unto
for these things? saith every one in his place. vine: turn back thine the priest every one
the LORD: shall not my 4
Prepare ye war against hand as a grapegatherer dealeth falsely. 14They
soul be avenged on such her; arise, and let us go into the baskets. 10To have healed also the
a nation as this? 30A up at noon. Woe unto us! whom shall I speak, and hurtd of the daughter of
wonderfuld and horrible for the day goeth away, give warning, that they my people slightly,
thing is committed in the for the shadows of the may hear? behold, their saying, Peace, peace;
land; 31
The prophets evening are stretched ear is uncircumcised, when there is no peace.
prophesy falsely, and the out. 5Arise, and let us go and they cannot 15
Were they ashamed
priests bear rule by their by night, and let us hearken: behold, the when they had
means; and my people destroy her palaces. 6For word of the LORD is unto committed
love to have it so: and thus hath the LORD of them a reproach; they abomination? nay, they
what will ye do in the hosts said, Hew ye down have no delight in it. were not at all
end thereof? trees, and castb a mount 11
Therefore I am full of ashamed, neither could
against Jerusalem: this is the fury of the LORD; I they blush: therefore
Chapter 6 the city to be visited; she am weary with holding they shall fall among
is wholly oppression in in: I will pour it out upon them that fall: at the
O ye children of
1
the midst of her. 7As a the children abroad, and time that I visit them
Benjamin, gather fountain casteth out her upon the assembly of they shall be cast down,
yourselves to flee out of waters, so she casteth young men together: for saith the LORD. 16Thus
the midst of Jerusalem, out her wickedness: even the husband with saith the LORD, Stand
and blow the trumpet in violence and spoil is the wife shall be taken, ye in the ways, and see,
Tekoa, and set up a sign heard in her; before me the aged with him that is and ask for the old
of fire in Bethhaccerem: continually is grief and full of days. 12And their paths, where is the
for evil appeareth out of wounds. 8
Be thou houses shall be turned good way, and walk
the north, and great instructed, O Jerusalem, unto others, with their therein, and ye shall
destruction. 2
I have lest my soul departc from fields and wives find rest for your souls.
likened the daughter of together: for I will But they said, We will
a
comely: or, dwelling at home stretch out my hand not walk therein. 17Also
b
cast...: or, pour out the engine upon the inhabitants of I set watchmen over
d
A wonderful...: or, of shot
c d
Astonishment and filthiness depart: Heb. be loosed, or, disjointed hurt: Heb. bruise, or, breach
you, saying, Hearken to spear; they are cruel, founder melteth in vain: neighbour; 6
If ye
the sound of the and have no mercy; their for the wicked are not oppress not the
trumpet. But they said, voice roareth like the plucked away. stranger, the fatherless,
We will not hearken. sea; and they ride upon 30
Reprobate silver shall
e
and the widow, and
18
Therefore hear, ye horses, set in array as men call them, because shed not innocent blood
nations, and know, O men for war against the LORD hath rejected in this place, neither
congregation, what is thee, O daughter of Zion. them. walk after other gods to
among them. 19Hear, O 24
We have heard the your hurt: 7Then will I
earth: behold, I will bring fame thereof: our hands Chapter 7 cause you to dwell in
evil upon this people, wax feeble: anguish hath this place, in the land
even the fruit of their taken hold of us, and The word that came
1
that I gave to your
thoughts, because they pain, as of a woman in to Jeremiah from the fathers, for ever and
have not hearkened unto travail. 25Go not forth LORD, saying, 2Stand in ever. 8Behold, ye trust
my words, nor to my law, into the field, nor walk the gate of the LORD’S in lying words, that
but rejected it. 20To what by the way; for the house, and proclaim cannot profit. 9Will ye
purpose cometh there to sword of the enemy and there this word, and say, steal, murder, and
me incense from Sheba, fear is on every side. 26O Hear the word of the commit adultery, and
and the sweet cane from daughter of my people, LORD, all ye of Judah, swear falsely, and burn
a far country? your burnt gird thee with sackcloth, that enter in at these incense unto Baal, and
offerings are not and wallow thyself in gates to worship the walk after other gods
acceptable, nor your ashes: make thee LORD. 3Thus saith the whom ye know not;
sacrifices sweet unto mourning, as for an only LORD of hosts, the God 10
And come and stand
me. 21
Therefore thus son, most bitter of Israel, Amend your before me in this house,
saith the LORD, Behold, I lamentation: for the ways and your doings, which is called by my
will lay stumblingblocks spoiler shall suddenly and I will cause you to name, and say, We are
before this people, and come upon us. 27I have dwell in this place. 4Trust delivered to do all these
the fathers and the sons set thee for a tower and ye not in lying words, abominations? 11Is this
together shall fall upon a fortress among my saying, The temple of house, which is called
them; the neighbour and people, that thou mayest the LORD, The temple of by my name, become a
his friend shall perish. know and try their way. the LORD, The temple of den of robbers in your
22
Thus saith the LORD, 28
They are all grievous the LORD, are these. 5For eyes? Behold, even I
Behold, a people cometh revolters, walking with if ye throughly amend have seen it, saith the
from the north country, slanders: they are brass your ways and your LORD. 12But go ye now
and a great nation shall and iron; they are all doings; if ye throughly unto my place which
be raised from the sides corrupters. 29The bellows execute judgment was in Shiloh, where I
of the earth. 23They shall are burned, the lead is between a man and his set my name at the
lay hold on bow and consumed of the fire; the e
first, and see what I did
Reprobate...: or, Refuse silver
to it for the wickedness make cakes to the offerings or sacrifices: answer thee. 28But thou
of my people Israel. queena of heaven, and to 23
But this thing shalt say unto them,
13
And now, because ye pour out drink offerings commanded I them, This is a nation that
have done all these unto other gods, that saying, Obey my voice, obeyeth not the voice
works, saith the LORD, they may provoke me to and I will be your God, of the LORD their God,
and I spake unto you, anger. 19
Do they and ye shall be my nor receiveth
rising up early and provoke me to anger? people: and walk ye in correctiond: truth is
speaking, but ye heard saith the LORD: do they all the ways that I have perished, and is cut off
not; and I called you, but not provoke themselves commanded you, that it from their mouth.
ye answered not; to the confusion of their may be well unto you. 29
Cut off thine hair,
14
Therefore will I do unto own faces? 20Therefore 24
But they hearkened O Jerusalem, and cast it
this house, which is thus saith the Lord GOD; not, nor inclined their away, and take up a
called by my name, Behold, mine anger and ear, but walked in the lamentation on high
wherein ye trust, and my fury shall be poured counsels and in the places; for the LORD
unto the place which I out upon this place, imaginationc of their evil hath rejected and
gave to you and to your upon man, and upon heart, and went forsaken the generation
fathers, as I have done beast, and upon the backward, and not of his wrath. 30For the
to Shiloh. 15And I will cast trees of the field, and forward. 25
Since the day children of Judah have
you out of my sight, as I upon the fruit of the that your fathers came done evil in my sight,
have cast out all your ground; and it shall burn, forth out of the land of saith the LORD: they
brethren, even the whole and shall not be Egypt unto this day I have set their
seed of Ephraim. quenched. have even sent unto you abominations in the
16
Therefore pray not 21
Thus saith the LORD all my servants the house which is called by
thou for this people, of hosts, the God of prophets, daily rising up my name, to pollute it.
neither lift up cry nor Israel; Put your burnt early and sending them: 31
And they have built
prayer for them, neither offerings unto your 26
Yet they hearkened not the high places of
make intercession to me: sacrifices, and eat flesh. unto me, nor inclined Tophet, which is in the
for I will not hear thee. 22
For I spake not unto their ear, but hardened valley of the son of
17
Seest thou not what your fathers, nor their neck: they did Hinnom, to burn their
they do in the cities of commanded them in the worse than their fathers. sons and their
Judah and in the streets day that I brought them 27
Therefore thou shalt daughters in the fire;
of Jerusalem? 18
The out of the land of Egypt, speak all these words which I commanded
children gather wood, concerningb burnt unto them; but they will them not, neither
and the fathers kindle a
not hearken to thee: came it into my heart.
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the fire, and the women queen...: or, frame, or, thou shalt also call unto d
knead their dough, to workmanship of heaven them; but they will not correction: or, instruction
b e
concerning: Heb. concerning came...: Heb. came it upon
c
the matter of imagination: or, stubbornness my heart
32
Therefore, behold, the of Jerusalem, out of their aright: no man repented given to covetousness,
days come, saith the graves: 2And they shall him of his wickedness, from the prophet even
LORD, that it shall no spread them before the saying, What have I unto the priest every
more be called Tophet, sun, and the moon, and done? every one turned one dealeth falsely.
nor the valley of the son all the host of heaven, to his course, as the 11
For they have healed
of Hinnom, but the valley whom they have loved, horse rusheth into the the hurt of the daughter
of slaughter: for they and whom they have battle. 7Yea, the stork in of my people slightly,
shall bury in Tophet, till served, and after whom the heaven knoweth her saying, Peace, peace;
there be no place. 33And they have walked, and appointed times; and the when there is no peace.
the carcases of this whom they have sought, turtle and the crane and 12
Were they ashamed
people shall be meat for and whom they have the swallow observe the when they had
the fowls of the heaven, worshipped: they shall time of their coming; but committed
and for the beasts of the not be gathered, nor be my people know not the abomination? nay, they
earth; and none shall buried; they shall be for judgment of the LORD. were not at all
fray them away. 34Then dung upon the face of 8
How do ye say, We are ashamed, neither could
will I cause to cease from the earth. 3And death wise, and the law of the they blush: therefore
the cities of Judah, and shall be chosen rather LORD is with us? Lo, shall they fall among
from the streets of than life by all the certainly in vain madea them that fall: in the
Jerusalem, the voice of residue of them that he it; the pen of the time of their visitation
mirth, and the voice of remain of this evil scribes is in vain. 9The they shall be cast down,
gladness, the voice of family, which remain in wiseb men are ashamed, saith the LORD.
the bridegroom, and the all the places whither I they are dismayed and 13
I will surely
voice of the bride: for have driven them, saith taken: lo, they have consume them, saith
the land shall be the LORD of hosts. rejected the word of the the LORD: there shall
desolate. 4
Moreover thou shalt LORD; and what wisdom be no grapes on the
say unto them, Thus is in them? 10Therefore vine, nor figs on the fig
Chapter 8 saith the LORD; Shall will I give their wives tree, and the leaf shall
they fall, and not arise? unto others, and their fade; and the things
At that time, saith
1
shall he turn away, and fields to them that shall that I have given them
the LORD, they shall not return? 5Why then is inherit them: for every shall pass away from
bring out the bones of this people of Jerusalem one from the least even them. 14Why do we sit
the kings of Judah, and slidden back by a unto the greatest is still? assemble
the bones of his princes, perpetual backsliding? yourselves, and let us
a
and the bones of the they hold fast deceit, in vain made...: or, the false enter into the defenced
priests, and the bones of they refuse to return. 6I pen of the scribes worketh for cities, and let us be
the prophets, and the hearkened and heard, falsehood silent there: for the
b
bones of the inhabitants but they spake not The wise...: or, Have they LORD our God hath put
been ashamed, etc
us to silence, and given with their graven valiant for the truth upon layeth his wait. 9Shall I
us water of gallc to drink, images, and with strange the earth; for they not visit them for these
because we have sinned vanities? 20The harvest proceed from evil to evil, things? saith the LORD:
against the LORD. 15We is past, the summer is and they know not me, shall not my soul be
looked for peace, but no ended, and we are not saith the LORD. 4Take ye avenged on such a
good came; and for a saved. 21For the hurt of heed every one of his nation as this? 10For the
time of health, and the daughter of my neighboura, and trust ye mountains will I take up
behold trouble! 16The people am I hurt; I am not in any brother: for a weeping and wailing,
snorting of his horses black; astonishment hath every brother will utterly and for the habitationsd
was heard from Dan: the taken hold on me. 22Is supplant, and every of the wilderness a
whole land trembled at there no balm in Gilead; neighbour will walk with lamentation, because
the sound of the is there no physician slanders. 5And they will they are burned up, so
neighing of his strong there? why then is not deceiveb every one his that none can pass
ones; for they are come, the health of the neighbour, and will not through them; neither
and have devoured the daughter of my people speak the truth: they can men hear the voice
land, and alld that is in it; recoverede? have taught their tongue of the cattle; both the
the city, and those that to speak lies, and weary fowl of the heavens and
dwell therein. 17
For, Chapter 9 themselves to commit the beast are fled; they
behold, I will send iniquity. 6
Thine are gone. 11
And I will
serpents, cockatrices, Oh that my head
1
habitation is in the midst make Jerusalem heaps,
among you, which will were waters, and mine of deceit; through deceit and a den of dragons;
not be charmed, and eyes a fountain of tears, they refuse to know me, and I will make the
they shall bite you, saith that I might weep day saith the LORD. cities of Judah
the LORD. 18When I and night for the slain of 7
Therefore thus saith the desolate , without an
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would comfort myself the daughter of my LORD of hosts, Behold, I inhabitant.


against sorrow, my heart people! 2Oh that I had in will melt them, and try 12
Who is the wise
is faint in me. 19Behold the wilderness a lodging them; for how shall I do man, that may
the voice of the cry of place of wayfaring men; for the daughter of my understand this? and
the daughter of my that I might leave my people? 8Their tongue is who is he to whom the
people because of them people, and go from as an arrow shot out; it mouth of the LORD hath
that dwell in a far them! for they be all speaketh deceit: one spoken, that he may
country: Is not the LORD adulterers, an assembly speaketh peaceably to declare it, for what the
in Zion? is not her king in of treacherous men. his neighbour with his land perisheth and is
her? Why have they
3
And they bend their mouth, but in heartc he burned up like a
provoked me to anger tongues like their bow
a
for lies: but they are not neighbour: or, friend him
c b d
gall: or, poison deceive: or, mock habitations: or, pastures
d e c e
all...: Heb. the fulness thereof recovered: Heb. gone up? in heart: Heb. in the midst of desolate: Heb. desolation
wilderness, that none eyes may run down with let not the rich man speaketh unto you, O
passeth through? 13And tears, and our eyelids glory in his riches: 24But house of Israel: 2Thus
the LORD saith, Because gush out with waters. let him that glorieth saith the LORD, Learn
they have forsaken my 19
For a voice of wailing is glory in this, that he not the way of the
law which I set before heard out of Zion, How understandeth and heathen, and be not
them, and have not are we spoiled! we are knoweth me, that I am dismayed at the signs
obeyed my voice, greatly confounded, the LORD which exercise of heaven; for the
neither walked therein; because we have lovingkindness, heathen are dismayed
14
But have walked after forsaken the land, judgment, and at them. 3
For the
the imaginationf of their because our dwellings righteousness, in the customs of the people
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own heart, and after have cast us out. 20Yet earth: for in these things are vain: for one
Baalim, which their hear the word of the I delight, saith the LORD. cutteth a tree out of the
fathers taught them: LORD, O ye women, and 25
Behold, the days come, forest, the work of the
15
Therefore thus saith let your ear receive the saith the LORD, that I hands of the workman,
the LORD of hosts, the word of his mouth, and will punishg all them with the axe. 4
They
God of Israel; Behold, I teach your daughters which are circumcised deck it with silver and
will feed them, even this wailing, and every one with the uncircumcised; with gold; they fasten it
people, with wormwood, her neighbour 26
Egypt, and Judah, and with nails and with
and give them water of lamentation. 21For death Edom, and the children hammers, that it move
gall to drink. 16I will is come up into our of Ammon, and Moab, not. 5They are upright
scatter them also among windows, and is entered and all that are in the as the palm tree, but
the heathen, whom into our palaces, to cut utmosth corners, that speak not: they must
neither they nor their off the children from dwell in the wilderness: needs be borne,
fathers have known: and without, and the young for all these nations are because they cannot
I will send a sword after men from the streets. uncircumcised, and all go. Be not afraid of
them, till I have 22
Speak, Thus saith the the house of Israel are them; for they cannot
consumed them. 17Thus LORD, Even the carcases uncircumcised in the do evil, neither also is it
saith the LORD of hosts, of men shall fall as dung heart. in them to do good.
Consider ye, and call for upon the open field, and 6
Forasmuch as there is
the mourning women, as the handful after the Chapter 10 none like unto thee, O
that they may come; and harvestman, and none LORD; thou art great,
send for cunning women, shall gather them. Hear
1
ye the word and thy name is great
that they may come: 23
Thus saith the which the LORD in might. 7Who would
18
And let them make LORD, Let not the wise g
not fear thee, O King of
haste, and take up a man glory in his wisdom, punish: Heb. visit upon nations? for to thee
h
wailing for us, that our neither let the mighty in the utmost...: Heb. cut off
a
man glory in his might, into corners, or, having the customs...: Heb. statutes, or,
f
imagination: or, stubbornness corners of their hair polled ordinances are vanity
doth it appertain: he hath established the the LORD, Behold, I will not in thine anger, lest
forasmuch as among all world by his wisdom, and sling out the inhabitants thou bring me to
the wise men of the hath stretched out the of the land at this once, nothing. 25Pour out thy
nations, and in all their heavens by his and will distress them, fury upon the heathen
kingdoms, there is none discretion. 13When he that they may find it so. that know thee not, and
like unto thee. 8But they uttereth his voice, there 19
Woe is me for my hurt! upon the families that
are altogetherb brutish is a multituded of waters my wound is grievous: call not on thy name:
and foolish: the stock is in the heavens, and he but I said, Truly this is a for they have eaten up
a doctrine of vanities. causeth the vapours to grief, and I must bear it. Jacob, and devoured
9
Silver spread into plates ascend from the ends of 20
My tabernacle is him, and consumed
is brought from Tarshish, the earth; he maketh spoiled, and all my cords him, and have made his
and gold from Uphaz, lightnings with rain, and are broken: my children habitation desolate.
the work of the bringeth forth the wind are gone forth of me,
workman, and of the out of his treasures. and they are not: there Chapter 11
hands of the founder: 14
Every man is brutish in is none to stretch forth
blue and purple is their his knowledge: every my tent any more, and
1
The word that came
clothing: they are all the founder is confounded to set up my curtains. to Jeremiah from the
work of cunning men. by the graven image: for 21
For the pastors are LORD, saying, 2Hear ye
10
But the LORD is the his molten image is become brutish, and the words of this
truec God, he is the living falsehood, and there is have not sought the covenant, and speak
God, and an everlasting no breath in them. LORD: therefore they unto the men of Judah,
king: at his wrath the 15
They are vanity, and shall not prosper, and all and to the inhabitants
earth shall tremble, and the work of errors: in the their flocks shall be of Jerusalem; 3And say
the nations shall not be time of their visitation scattered. 22Behold, the thou unto them, Thus
able to abide his they shall perish. 16The noise of the bruit is saith the LORD God of
indignation. 11
Thus shall portion of Jacob is not come, and a great Israel; Cursed be the
ye say unto them, The like them: for he is the commotion out of the man that obeyeth not
gods that have not made former of all things; and north country, to make the words of this
the heavens and the Israel is the rod of his the cities of Judah covenant, 4
Which I
earth, even they shall inheritance: The LORD of desolate, and a den of commanded your
perish from the earth, hosts is his name. dragons. 23O LORD, I fathers in the day that I
and from under these 17
Gather up thy wares know that the way of brought them forth out
heavens. 12He hath made out of the land, O man is not in himself: it of the land of Egypt,
the earth by his power, inhabitante of the is not in man that from the iron furnace,
fortress. 18For thus saith walketh to direct his saying, Obey my voice,
b
altogether: Heb. in one, or, at steps. 24O LORD, correct and do them, according
d
once multitude: or, noise me, but with judgment; to all which I command
c e
true...: Heb. God of truth inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
you: so shall ye be my conspiracy is found number of the streets of Baal.
people, and I will be your among the men of Judah, Jerusalem have ye set up 18
And the LORD hath
God: 5That I may perform and among the altars to that shameful given me knowledge of
the oath which I have inhabitants of Jerusalem. thing, even altars to it, and I know it: then
sworn unto your fathers, 10
They are turned back burn incense unto Baal. thou shewedst me their
to give them a land to the iniquities of their 14
Therefore pray not thou doings. 19But I was like
flowing with milk and forefathers, which for this people, neither a lamb or an ox that is
honey, as it is this day. refused to hear my lift up a cry or prayer for brought to the
Then answered I, and words; and they went them: for I will not hear slaughter; and I knew
said, So be it, O LORD. after other gods to serve them in the time that not that they had
6
Then the LORD said them: the house of Israel they cry unto me for devised devices against
unto me, Proclaim all and the house of Judah their troubled. 15
What me, saying, Let us
these words in the cities have broken my hath my beloved to do in destroy the treee with
of Judah, and in the covenant which I made mine house, seeing she the fruit thereof, and let
streets of Jerusalem, with their fathers. hath wrought lewdness us cut him off from the
saying, Hear ye the 11
Therefore thus saith with many, and the holy land of the living, that
words of this covenant, the LORD, Behold, I will flesh is passed from his name may be no
and do them. 7For I bring evil upon them, thee? when thou doest more remembered.
earnestly protested unto which they shall not be evil, then thou rejoicest. 20
But, O LORD of hosts,
your fathers in the day able to escapeb; and 16
The LORD called thy that judgest
that I brought them up though they shall cry name, A green olive tree, righteously, that triest
out of the land of Egypt, unto me, I will not fair, and of goodly fruit: the reins and the heart,
even unto this day, rising hearken unto them. with the noise of a great let me see thy
early and protesting, 12
Then shall the cities of tumult he hath kindled vengeance on them: for
saying, Obey my voice. Judah and inhabitants of fire upon it, and the unto thee have I
8
Yet they obeyed not, Jerusalem go, and cry branches of it are revealed my cause.
nor inclined their ear, unto the gods unto broken. 17For the LORD 21
Therefore thus saith
but walked every one in whom they offer of hosts, that planted the LORD of the men of
the imaginationa of their incense: but they shall thee, hath pronounced Anathoth, that seek thy
evil heart: therefore I will not save them at all in evil against thee, for the life, saying, Prophesy
bring upon them all the the time of their troublec. evil of the house of Israel not in the name of the
words of this covenant, 13
For according to the and of the house of LORD, that thou die not
which I commanded number of thy cities Judah, which they have by our hand:
them to do; but they did were thy gods, O Judah; done against themselves 22
Therefore thus saith
them not. 9
And the and according to the to provoke me to anger the LORD of hosts,
LORD said unto me, A b
in offering incense unto e
to escape: Heb. to go forth of the tree...: Heb. the stalk with
a c d
imagination: or, stubbornness trouble: Heb. evil trouble: Heb. evil his bread
Behold, I will punishf toward thee: pull them the dearly beloved of my have peace. 13
They
them: the young men out like sheep for the soul into the hand of her have sown wheat, but
shall die by the sword; slaughter, and prepare enemies. 8Mine heritage shall reap thorns: they
their sons and their them for the day of is unto me as a lion in have put themselves to
daughters shall die by slaughter. 4
How long the forest; it crieth out pain, but shall not
famine: 23
And there shall the land mourn, against me: therefore profit: and they shall be
shall be no remnant of and the herbs of every have I hated it. 9Mine ashamed of your
them: for I will bring evil field wither, for the heritage is unto me as a revenues because of
upon the men of wickedness of them that speckledd bird, the birds the fierce anger of the
Anathoth, even the year dwell therein? the beasts round about are against LORD.
of their visitation. are consumed, and the her; come ye, assemble 14
Thus saith the
birds; because they said, all the beasts of the LORD against all mine
Chapter 12 He shall not see our last field, come to devour. evil neighbours, that
end. 5If thou hast run 10
Many pastors have touch the inheritance
Righteous art thou, O
1
with the footmen, and destroyed my vineyard, which I have caused my
LORD, when I plead with they have wearied thee, they have trodden my people Israel to inherit;
thee: yet let me talka then how canst thou portion under foot, they Behold, I will pluck
with thee of thy contend with horses? have made my pleasante them out of their land,
judgments: Wherefore and if in the land of portion a desolate and pluck out the house
doth the way of the peace, wherein thou wilderness. 11
They have of Judah from among
wicked prosper? trustedst, they wearied made it desolate, and them. 15And it shall
wherefore are all they thee, then how wilt thou being desolate it come to pass, after that
happy that deal very do in the swelling of mourneth unto me; the I have plucked them out
treacherously? 2
Thou Jordan? 6For even thy whole land is made I will return, and have
hast planted them, yea, brethren, and the house desolate, because no compassion on them,
they have taken root: of thy father, even they man layeth it to heart. and will bring them
they growb, yea, they have dealt treacherously 12
The spoilers are come again, every man to his
bring forth fruit: thou art with thee; yea, they upon all high places heritage, and every
near in their mouth, and have calledc a multitude through the wilderness: man to his land. 16And it
far from their reins. 3But after thee: believe them for the sword of the shall come to pass, if
thou, O LORD, knowest not, though they speak LORD shall devour from they will diligently learn
me: thou hast seen me, fair words unto thee. the one end of the land the ways of my people,
and tried mine heart 7
I have forsaken mine even to the other end of to swear by my name,
f
house, I have left mine the land: no flesh shall The LORD liveth; as
punish: Heb. visit upon heritage; I have given they taught my people
a d
talk...: or, reason the case with speckled: or, taloned to swear by Baal; then
c e
thee they have called...: or, they pleasant...: Heb. portion of shall they be built in the
b
they grow: Heb. they go on cried after thee fully desire
midst of my people. the place where I had hid filled with wine: and they not hear it, my soul
17
But if they will not it: and, behold, the girdle shall say unto thee, Do shall weep in secret
obey, I will utterly pluck was marred, it was we not certainly know places for your pride;
up and destroy that profitable for nothing. that every bottle shall be and mine eye shall
nation, saith the LORD. 8
Then the word of the filled with wine? 13Then weep sore, and run
LORD came unto me, shalt thou say unto down with tears,
Chapter 13 saying, 9Thus saith the them, Thus saith the because the LORD’S
LORD, After this manner LORD, Behold, I will fill flock is carried away
1
Thus saith the LORD will I mar the pride of all the inhabitants of this captive. 18Say unto the
unto me, Go and get Judah, and the great land, even the kings that king and to the queen,
thee a linen girdle, and pride of Jerusalem. 10This sit upon David’s throne, Humble yourselves, sit
put it upon thy loins, and evil people, which refuse and the priests, and the down: for your
put it not in water. 2So I to hear my words, which prophets, and all the principalitiesc shall
got a girdle according to walk in the imaginationa inhabitants of Jerusalem, come down, even the
the word of the LORD, of their heart, and walk with drunkenness. 14And crown of your glory.
and put it on my loins. after other gods, to I will dash them oneb 19
The cities of the south
3
And the word of the serve them, and to against another, even shall be shut up, and
LORD came unto me the worship them, shall even the fathers and the sons none shall open them:
second time, saying, be as this girdle, which is together, saith the Judah shall be carried
4
Take the girdle that good for nothing. 11For LORD: I will not pity, nor away captive all of it, it
thou hast got, which is as the girdle cleaveth to spare, nor have mercy, shall be wholly carried
upon thy loins, and arise, the loins of a man, so but destroy them. away captive. 20Lift up
go to Euphrates, and have I caused to cleave 15
Hear ye, and give ear; your eyes, and behold
hide it there in a hole of unto me the whole house be not proud: for the them that come from
the rock. 5So I went, and of Israel and the whole LORD hath spoken. the north: where is the
hid it by Euphrates, as house of Judah, saith the 16
Give glory to the LORD flock that was given
the LORD commanded LORD; that they might your God, before he thee, thy beautiful
me. 6And it came to pass be unto me for a people, cause darkness, and flock? What wilt thou
21

after many days, that and for a name, and for before your feet stumble say when he shall
the LORD said unto me, a praise, and for a glory: upon the dark punishd thee? for thou
Arise, go to Euphrates, but they would not hear. mountains, and, while ye hast taught them to be
and take the girdle from 12
Therefore thou shalt look for light, he turn it captains, and as chief
thence, which I speak unto them this into the shadow of over thee: shall not
commanded thee to hide word; Thus saith the death, and make it gross sorrows take thee, as a
there. 7Then I went to LORD God of Israel, darkness. 17But if ye will woman in travail?
Euphrates, and digged, Every bottle shall be b c
and took the girdle from one...: Heb. a man against his principalities: or, head tires
a d
imagination: or, stubbornness brother punish: Heb visit upon
And if thou say in Chapter 14 though our iniquities burnt offering and an
22

thine heart, Wherefore testify against us, do oblation, I will not


come these things upon 1
The word of the thou it for thy name’s accept them: but I will
me? For the greatness of LORD that came to sake: for our consume them by the
thine iniquity are thy Jeremiah concerning the backslidings are many; sword, and by the
skirts discovered, and deartha. 2
Judah we have sinned against famine, and by the
thy heels made bare. mourneth, and the gates thee. 8O the hope of pestilence. 13Then said
23
Can the Ethiopian thereof languish; they Israel, the saviour I, Ah, Lord GOD! behold,
change his skin, or the are black unto the thereof in time of the prophets say unto
leopard his spots? then ground; and the cry of trouble, why shouldest them, Ye shall not see
may ye also do good, Jerusalem is gone up. thou be as a stranger in the sword, neither shall
that are accustomede to 3
And their nobles have the land, and as a ye have famine; but I
do evil. 24Therefore will I sent their little ones to wayfaring man that will give you assuredb
scatter them as the the waters: they came to turneth aside to tarry for peace in this place.
stubble that passeth the pits, and found no a night? 9Why shouldest 14
Then the LORD said
away by the wind of the water; they returned thou be as a man unto me, The prophets
wilderness. 25This is thy with their vessels empty; astonied, as a mighty prophesy lies in my
lot, the portion of thy they were ashamed and man that cannot save? name: I sent them not,
measures from me, saith confounded, and yet thou, O LORD, art in neither have I
the LORD; because thou covered their heads. the midst of us, and we commanded them,
hast forgotten me, and 4
Because the ground is are called by thy name; neither spake unto
trusted in falsehood. chapt, for there was no leave us not. them: they prophesy
26
Therefore will I discover rain in the earth, the 10
Thus saith the LORD unto you a false vision
thy skirts upon thy face, plowmen were ashamed, unto this people, Thus and divination, and a
that thy shame may they covered their have they loved to thing of nought, and the
appear. 27I have seen heads. Yea, the hind
5
wander, they have not deceit of their heart.
thine adulteries, and thy also calved in the field, refrained their feet, 15
Therefore thus saith
neighings, the lewdness and forsook it, because therefore the LORD doth the LORD concerning
of thy whoredom, and there was no grass. 6And not accept them; he will the prophets that
thine abominations on the wild asses did stand now remember their prophesy in my name,
the hills in the fields. in the high places, they iniquity, and visit their and I sent them not, yet
Woe unto thee, O snuffed up the wind like sins. 11Then said the they say, Sword and
Jerusalem! wilt thou not dragons; their eyes did LORD unto me, Pray not famine shall not be in
be made clean? when fail, because there was for this people for their this land; By sword and
shall it oncef be? no grass. 7O LORD, good. 12When they fast, I famine shall those
e a
will not hear their cry; b
accustomed: Heb. taught the dearth: Heb. the words of and when they offer assured...: Heb. peace of
f
when...: Heb. after when yet? the dearths, or, restraints truth
prophets be consumed. hast thou smitten us, come to pass, if they say gone backward:
16
And the people to and there is no healing unto thee, Whither shall therefore will I stretch
whom they prophesy for us? we looked for we go forth? then thou out my hand against
shall be cast out in the peace, and there is no shalt tell them, Thus thee, and destroy thee;
streets of Jerusalem good; and for the time of saith the LORD; Such as I am weary with
because of the famine healing, and behold are for death, to death; repenting. And I will
7

and the sword; and they trouble! 20


We and such as are for the fan them with a fan in
shall have none to bury acknowledge, O LORD, sword, to the sword; and the gates of the land; I
them, them, their wives, our wickedness, and the such as are for the will bereave them of
nor their sons, nor their iniquity of our fathers: famine, to the famine; children, I will destroyc
daughters: for I will pour for we have sinned and such as are for the my people, since they
their wickedness upon against thee. 21Do not captivity, to the return not from their
them. abhor us, for thy name’s captivity. 3And I will ways. 8
Their widows
17
Therefore thou shalt sake, do not disgrace the appoint over them four are increased to me
say this word unto them; throne of thy glory: kindsa, saith the LORD: above the sand of the
Let mine eyes run down remember, break not thy the sword to slay, and seas: I have brought
with tears night and day, covenant with us. 22Are the dogs to tear, and the upon them against the
and let them not cease: there any among the fowls of the heaven, and motherd of the young
for the virgin daughter of vanities of the Gentiles the beasts of the earth, men a spoiler at
my people is broken with that can cause rain? or to devour and destroy. noonday: I have caused
a great breach, with a can the heavens give 4
And I will causeb them him to fall upon it
very grievous blow. 18If I showers? art not thou to be removed into all suddenly, and terrors
go forth into the field, he, O LORD our God? kingdoms of the earth, upon the city. 9She that
then behold the slain therefore we will wait because of Manasseh hath borne seven
with the sword! and if I upon thee: for thou hast the son of Hezekiah king languisheth: she hath
enter into the city, then made all these things. of Judah, for that which given up the ghost; her
behold them that are he did in Jerusalem. 5For sun is gone down while
sick with famine! yea, Chapter 15 who shall have pity upon it was yet day: she hath
both the prophet and the thee, O Jerusalem? or been ashamed and
priest go aboutc into a
1
Then said the LORD who shall bemoan thee? confounded: and the
land that they know not. unto me, Though Moses or who shall go aside to residue of them will I
19
Hast thou utterly and Samuel stood before ask how thou doest? c
rejected Judah? hath thy me, yet my mind could 6
Thou hast forsaken me, children: or, whatsoever is
soul lothed Zion? why not be toward this saith the LORD, thou art dear
d
people: cast them out of the mother...: or, the mother
c a
go about...: or, make my sight, and let them kinds: Heb. families city a young man spoiling,
b
merchandise against a land, and go forth. 2And it shall cause...: Heb. give them for a etc, or, the mother and the
men acknowledge it not removing young men
deliver to the sword revenge me of my will make thee unto this the earth: and they
before their enemies, persecutors; take me not people a fenced brasen shall be consumed by
saith the LORD. away in thy wall: and they shall fight the sword, and by
10
Woe is me, my longsuffering: know that against thee, but they famine; and their
mother, that thou hast for thy sake I have shall not prevail against carcases shall be meat
borne me a man of strife suffered rebuke. 16Thy thee: for I am with thee for the fowls of heaven,
and a man of contention words were found, and I to save thee and to and for the beasts of
to the whole earth! I did eat them; and thy deliver thee, saith the the earth. 5For thus
have neither lent on word was unto me the LORD. 21And I will deliver saith the LORD, Enter
usury, nor men have lent joy and rejoicing of mine thee out of the hand of not into the house of
to me on usury; yet heart: for I am called by the wicked, and I will mourninga, neither go
every one of them doth thy name, O LORD God redeem thee out of the to lament nor bemoan
curse me. 11The LORD of hosts. 17I sat not in hand of the terrible. them: for I have taken
said, Verily it shall be the assembly of the away my peace from
well with thy remnant; mockers, nor rejoiced; I Chapter 16 this people, saith the
verily I will cause the sat alone because of thy LORD, even
enemy to entreat thee hand: for thou hast filled
1
The word of the lovingkindness and
well in the time of evil me with indignation. LORD came also unto mercies. 6
Both the
and in the time of 18
Why is my pain me, saying, 2Thou shalt great and the small
affliction. 12
Shall iron perpetual, and my not take thee a wife, shall die in this land:
break the northern iron wound incurable, which neither shalt thou have they shall not be
and the steel? 13Thy refuseth to be healed? sons or daughters in this buried, neither shall
substance and thy wilt thou be altogether place. 3For thus saith the men lament for them,
treasures will I give to unto me as a liar, and as LORD concerning the nor cut themselves, nor
the spoil without price, waters that faile? sons and concerning the make themselves bald
and that for all thy sins, 19
Therefore thus saith daughters that are born for them: 7Neither shall
even in all thy borders. the LORD, If thou return, in this place, and men tearb themselves
14
And I will make thee to then will I bring thee concerning their mothers for them in mourning,
pass with thine enemies again, and thou shalt that bare them, and to comfort them for the
into a land which thou stand before me: and if concerning their fathers dead; neither shall men
knowest not: for a fire is thou take forth the that begat them in this give them the cup of
kindled in mine anger, precious from the vile, land; 4They shall die of consolation to drink for
which shall burn upon thou shalt be as my grievous deaths; they their father or for their
you. mouth: let them return shall not be lamented; mother. 8Thou shalt not
15
O LORD, thou unto thee; but return not neither shall they be
a
knowest: remember me, thou unto them. 20And I buried; but they shall be mourning: or, mourning feast
b
and visit me, and as dung upon the face of tear...: or, break bread for
e
fail: Heb. be not sure? them
also go into the house of for, behold, ye walk every mountain, and The LORDd.
feasting, to sit with them every one after the from every hill, and out
to eat and to drink. 9For imaginationc of his evil of the holes of the rocks. Chapter 17
thus saith the LORD of heart, that they may not 17
For mine eyes are upon
hosts, the God of Israel; hearken unto me: all their ways: they are The sin of Judah is
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Behold, I will cause to 13


Therefore will I cast you not hid from my face, written with a pen of
cease out of this place in out of this land into a neither is their iniquity iron, and with the pointa
your eyes, and in your land that ye know not, hid from mine eyes. of a diamond: it is
days, the voice of mirth, neither ye nor your 18
And first I will graven upon the table
and the voice of fathers; and there shall recompense their of their heart, and upon
gladness, the voice of ye serve other gods day iniquity and their sin the horns of your altars;
the bridegroom, and the and night; where I will double; because they
2
Whilst their children
voice of the bride. not shew you favour. have defiled my land, remember their altars
10
And it shall come to 14
Therefore, behold, they have filled mine and their groves by the
pass, when thou shalt the days come, saith the inheritance with the green trees upon the
shew this people all LORD, that it shall no carcases of their high hills. 3
O my
these words, and they more be said, The LORD detestable and mountain in the field, I
shall say unto thee, liveth, that brought up abominable things. 19O will give thy substance
Wherefore hath the the children of Israel out LORD, my strength, and and all thy treasures to
LORD pronounced all this of the land of Egypt; my fortress, and my the spoil, and thy high
great evil against us? or 15
But, The LORD liveth, refuge in the day of places for sin,
what is our iniquity? or that brought up the affliction, the Gentiles throughout all thy
what is our sin that we children of Israel from shall come unto thee borders. 4
And thou,
have committed against the land of the north, from the ends of the even thyself, shalt
the LORD our God? and from all the lands earth, and shall say, discontinueb from thine
11
Then shalt thou say whither he had driven Surely our fathers have heritage that I gave
unto them, Because your them: and I will bring inherited lies, vanity, thee; and I will cause
fathers have forsaken them again into their and things wherein there thee to serve thine
me, saith the LORD, and land that I gave unto is no profit. 20Shall a man enemies in the land
have walked after other their fathers. 16Behold, I make gods unto himself, which thou knowest
gods, and have served will send for many and they are no gods? not: for ye have kindled
them, and have fishers, saith the LORD, 21
Therefore, behold, I will a fire in mine anger,
worshipped them, and and they shall fish them; this once cause them to which shall burn for
have forsaken me, and and after will I send for know, I will cause them ever.
have not kept my law; many hunters, and they to know mine hand and d
12
And ye have done shall hunt them from my might; and they shall The LORD: or, JEHOVAH
a
worse than your fathers; know that my name is point: Heb. nail
c b
imagination: or, stubbornness thyself: Heb. in thyself
Thus saith the LORD;
5 11
As the partridge right before thee. 17Be burden out of your
Cursed be the man that sitteth on eggs, and
d
not a terror unto me: houses on the sabbath
trusteth in man, and hatcheth them not; so he thou art my hope in the day, neither do ye any
maketh flesh his arm, that getteth riches, and day of evil. 18Let them be work, but hallow ye the
and whose heart not by right, shall leave confounded that sabbath day, as I
departeth from the them in the midst of his persecute me, but let commanded your
LORD. 6For he shall be days, and at his end not me be confounded: fathers. 23
But they
like the heath in the shall be a fool. let them be dismayed, obeyed not, neither
desert, and shall not see 12
A glorious high but let not me be inclined their ear, but
when good cometh; but throne from the dismayed: bring upon made their neck stiff,
shall inhabit the parched beginning is the place of them the day of evil, and that they might not
places in the wilderness, our sanctuary. 13O LORD, destroye them with hear, nor receive
in a salt land and not the hope of Israel, all double destruction. instruction. 24
And it
inhabited. 7Blessed is the that forsake thee shall 19
Thus said the LORD shall come to pass, if ye
man that trusteth in the be ashamed, and they unto me; Go and stand diligently hearken unto
LORD, and whose hope that depart from me in the gate of the me, saith the LORD, to
the LORD is. 8For he shall shall be written in the children of the people, bring in no burden
be as a tree planted by earth, because they whereby the kings of through the gates of
the waters, and that have forsaken the LORD, Judah come in, and by this city on the sabbath
spreadeth out her roots the fountain of living the which they go out, day, but hallow the
by the river, and shall waters. 14Heal me, O and in all the gates of sabbath day, to do no
not see when heat LORD, and I shall be Jerusalem; 20
And say work therein; 25Then
cometh, but her leaf healed; save me, and I unto them, Hear ye the shall there enter into
shall be green; and shall shall be saved: for thou word of the LORD, ye the gates of this city
not be careful in the year art my praise. 15Behold, kings of Judah, and all kings and princes
of droughtc, neither shall they say unto me, Where Judah, and all the sitting upon the throne
cease from yielding fruit. is the word of the LORD? inhabitants of Jerusalem, of David, riding in
9
The heart is deceitful let it come now. 16As for that enter in by these chariots and on horses,
above all things, and me, I have not hastened gates: 21Thus saith the they, and their princes,
desperately wicked: who from being a pastor to LORD; Take heed to the men of Judah, and
can know it? 10I the LORD follow thee: neither have yourselves, and bear no the inhabitants of
search the heart, I try I desired the woeful day; burden on the sabbath Jerusalem: and this city
the reins, even to give thou knowest: that which day, nor bring it in by shall remain for ever.
every man according to came out of my lips was the gates of Jerusalem; 26
And they shall come
his ways, and according d
22
Neither carry forth a from the cities of Judah,
to the fruit of his doings. sitteth...: or, gathereth young and from the places
e
which she hath not brought destroy...: Heb. break them about Jerusalem, and
c
drought: or, restraint forth with a double breach
from the land of that he made of clayb benefit them. people hath forgotten
Benjamin, and from the was marred in the hand 11
Now therefore go to, me, they have burned
plain, and from the of the potter: so he speak to the men of incense to vanity, and
mountains, and from the made it again another Judah, and to the they have caused them
south, bringing burnt vessel, as seemed good inhabitants of Jerusalem, to stumble in their ways
offerings, and sacrifices, to the potter to make it. saying, Thus saith the from the ancient paths,
and meat offerings, and 5
Then the word of the LORD; Behold, I frame to walk in paths, in a
incense, and bringing LORD came to me, evil against you, and way not cast up; 16To
sacrifices of praise, unto saying, 6O house of devise a device against make their land
the house of the LORD. Israel, cannot I do with you: return ye now every desolate, and a
27
But if ye will not you as this potter? saith one from his evil way, perpetual hissing; every
hearken unto me to the LORD. Behold, as the and make your ways and one that passeth
hallow the sabbath day, clay is in the potter’s your doings good. 12And thereby shall be
and not to bear a hand, so are ye in mine they said, There is no astonished, and wag his
burden, even entering in hand, O house of Israel. hope: but we will walk head. 17I will scatter
at the gates of Jerusalem 7
At what instant I shall after our own devices, them as with an east
on the sabbath day; then speak concerning a and we will every one do wind before the enemy;
will I kindle a fire in the nation, and concerning a the imagination of his I will shew them the
gates thereof, and it kingdom, to pluck up, evil heart. 13Therefore back, and not the face,
shall devour the palaces and to pull down, and to thus saith the LORD; Ask in the day of their
of Jerusalem, and it shall destroy it; 8If that nation, ye now among the calamity.
not be quenched. against whom I have heathen, who hath heard 18
Then said they,
pronounced, turn from such things: the virgin of Come, and let us devise
Chapter 18 their evil, I will repent of Israel hath done a very devices against
the evil that I thought to horrible thing. 14Will a Jeremiah; for the law
The
1
word which do unto them. 9And at man leave the snowc of shall not perish from
came to Jeremiah from what instant I shall Lebanon which cometh the priest, nor counsel
the LORD, saying, 2Arise, speak concerning a from the rock of the from the wise, nor the
and go down to the nation, and concerning a field? or shall the cold word from the prophet.
potter’s house, and there kingdom, to build and to flowing waters that come Come, and let us smite
I will cause thee to hear plant it; 10If it do evil in from another place be him with the tongue,
my words. 3Then I went my sight, that it obey not forsaken? 15Because my and let us not give heed
down to the potter’s my voice, then I will to any of his words.
c
house, and, behold, he repent of the good, the snow...: or, my fields for a 19
Give heed to me, O
wrought a work on the wherewith I said I would rock, or for the snow of LORD, and hearken to
wheelsa. 4And the vessel Lebanon? shall the running the voice of them that
b
of clay...: or, was marred, as waters be forsaken for the contend with me.
a
wheels: or, frames, or, seats clay in the hand of the potter strange cold waters?
20
Shall evil be anger. of innocents; 5They have daughters, and they
recompensed for good? built also the high places shall eat every one the
for they have digged a Chapter 19 of Baal, to burn their flesh of his friend in the
pit for my soul. sons with fire for burnt siege and straitness,
Remember that I stood Thus saith the LORD,
1
offerings unto Baal, wherewith their
before thee to speak Go and get a potter’s which I commanded not, enemies, and they that
good for them, and to earthen bottle, and take nor spake it, neither seek their lives, shall
turn away thy wrath of the ancients of the came it into my mind: straiten them.
from them. 21Therefore people, and of the 6
Therefore, behold, the 10
Then shalt thou
deliver up their children ancients of the priests; days come, saith the break the bottle in the
to the famine, and pour
2
And go forth unto the LORD, that this place sight of the men that go
out their blood by the valley of the son of shall no more be called with thee, 11And shalt
force of the sword; and Hinnom, which is by the Tophet, nor The valley of say unto them, Thus
let their wives be entry of the easta gate, the son of Hinnom, but saith the LORD of hosts;
bereaved of their and proclaim there the The valley of slaughter. Even so will I break this
children, and be widows; words that I shall tell 7
And I will make void the people and this city, as
and let their men be put thee, 3And say, Hear ye counsel of Judah and one breaketh a potter’s
to death; let their young the word of the LORD, O Jerusalem in this place; vessel, that cannot be
men be slain by the kings of Judah, and and I will cause them to made whole again: and
sword in battle. 22Let a inhabitants of Jerusalem; fall by the sword before they shall bury them in
cry be heard from their Thus saith the LORD of their enemies, and by Tophet, till there be no
houses, when thou shalt hosts, the God of Israel; the hands of them that place to bury. 12Thus
bring a troop suddenly Behold, I will bring evil seek their lives: and will I do unto this place,
upon them: for they upon this place, the their carcases will I give saith the LORD, and to
have digged a pit to take which whosoever to be meat for the fowls the inhabitants thereof,
me, and hid snares for heareth, his ears shall of the heaven, and for and even make this city
my feet. 23Yet, LORD, tingle. 4Because they the beasts of the earth. as Tophet: 13And the
thou knowest all their have forsaken me, and 8
And I will make this city houses of Jerusalem,
counsel against me to have estranged this desolate, and an hissing; and the houses of the
slayd me: forgive not place, and have burned every one that passeth kings of Judah, shall be
their iniquity, neither incense in it unto other thereby shall be defiled as the place of
blot out their sin from gods, whom neither they astonished and hiss Tophet, because of all
thy sight, but let them nor their fathers have because of all the the houses upon whose
be overthrown before known, nor the kings of plagues thereof. And I
9
roofs they have burned
thee; deal thus with Judah, and have filled will cause them to eat incense unto all the
them in the time of thine this place with the blood the flesh of their sons host of heaven, and
d a
and the flesh of their have poured out drink
to slay...: Heb. for death the east...: Heb. the sun gate
offerings unto other brought forth Jeremiah Babylon, and there thou shall prevail against
gods. 14
Then came out of the stocks. Then shalt die, and shalt be him, and we shall take
Jeremiah from Tophet, said Jeremiah unto him, buried there, thou, and our revenge on him.
whither the LORD had The LORD hath not all thy friends, to whom 11
But the LORD is with
sent him to prophesy; called thy name Pashur, thou hast prophesied me as a mighty terrible
and he stood in the court but Magormissabiba. lies. one: therefore my
of the LORD’S house; 4
For thus saith the LORD, 7
O LORD, thou hast persecutors shall
and said to all the Behold, I will make thee deceived me, and I was stumble, and they shall
people, 15Thus saith the a terror to thyself, and to deceivedb: thou art not prevail: they shall
LORD of hosts, the God all thy friends: and they stronger than I, and hast be greatly ashamed; for
of Israel; Behold, I will shall fall by the sword of prevailed: I am in they shall not prosper:
bring upon this city and their enemies, and thine derision daily, every one their everlasting
upon all her towns all the eyes shall behold it: and mocketh me. 8For since I confusion shall never
evil that I have I will give all Judah into spake, I cried out, I cried be forgotten. 12But, O
pronounced against it, the hand of the king of violence and spoil; LORD of hosts, that
because they have Babylon, and he shall because the word of the triest the righteous,
hardened their necks, carry them captive into LORD was made a and seest the reins and
that they might not hear Babylon, and shall slay reproach unto me, and a the heart, let me see
my words. them with the sword. derision, daily. 9Then I thy vengeance on
5
Moreover I will deliver said, I will not make them: for unto thee
Chapter 20 all the strength of this mention of him, nor have I opened my
city, and all the labours speak any more in his cause. 13Sing unto the
1
Now Pashur the son thereof, and all the name. But his word was LORD, praise ye the
of Immer the priest, who precious things thereof, in mine heart as a LORD: for he hath
was also chief governor and all the treasures of burning fire shut up in delivered the soul of
in the house of the the kings of Judah will I my bones, and I was the poor from the hand
LORD, heard that give into the hand of weary with forbearing, of evildoers.
Jeremiah prophesied their enemies, which and I could not stay. 14
Cursed be the day
these things. 2
Then shall spoil them, and 10
For I heard the wherein I was born: let
Pashur smote Jeremiah take them, and carry defaming of many, fear not the day wherein my
the prophet, and put him them to Babylon. 6And on every side. Report, mother bare me be
in the stocks that were in thou, Pashur, and all that say they, and we will blessed. 15Cursed be
the high gate of dwell in thine house shall report it. All my familiars the man who brought
Benjamin, which was by go into captivity: and watched for my halting, tidings to my father,
the house of the LORD. thou shalt come to saying, Peradventure he saying, A man child is
3
And it came to pass on will be enticed, and we born unto thee; making
a
the morrow, that Pashur Magormissabib: that is, Fear him very glad. 16And let
b
round about was deceived: or, was enticed
that man be as the cities 3
Then said Jeremiah unto and into the hand of morning, and deliver
which the LORD them, Thus shall ye say those that seek their life: him that is spoiled out
overthrew, and repented to Zedekiah: 4Thus saith and he shall smite them of the hand of the
not: and let him hear the the LORD God of Israel; with the edge of the oppressor, lest my fury
cry in the morning, and Behold, I will turn back sword; he shall not spare go out like fire, and
the shouting at noontide; the weapons of war that them, neither have pity, burn that none can
17
Because he slew me are in your hands, nor have mercy. quench it, because of
not from the womb; or wherewith ye fight 8
And unto this people the evil of your doings.
that my mother might against the king of thou shalt say, Thus 13
Behold, I am against
have been my grave, Babylon, and against the saith the LORD; Behold, I thee, O inhabitantb of
and her womb to be Chaldeans, which set before you the way the valley, and rock of
always great with me. besiege you without the of life, and the way of the plain, saith the
18
Wherefore came I forth walls, and I will assemble death. 9He that abideth LORD; which say, Who
out of the womb to see them into the midst of in this city shall die by shall come down
labour and sorrow, that this city. 5And I myself the sword, and by the against us? or who shall
my days should be will fight against you famine, and by the enter into our
consumed with shame? with an outstretched pestilence: but he that habitations? 14But I will
hand and with a strong goeth out, and falleth to punishc you according
Chapter 21 arm, even in anger, and the Chaldeans that to the fruit of your
in fury, and in great besiege you, he shall doings, saith the LORD:
1
The word which wrath. 6And I will smite live, and his life shall be and I will kindle a fire in
came unto Jeremiah the inhabitants of this unto him for a prey. 10For the forest thereof, and
from the LORD, when city, both man and I have set my face it shall devour all things
king Zedekiah sent unto beast: they shall die of a against this city for evil, round about it.
him Pashur the son of great pestilence. 7And and not for good, saith
Melchiah, and Zephaniah afterward, saith the the LORD: it shall be Chapter 22
the son of Maaseiah the LORD, I will deliver given into the hand of
priest, saying, 2Enquire, I Zedekiah king of Judah, the king of Babylon, and Thus
1
saith the
pray thee, of the LORD and his servants, and the he shall burn it with fire. LORD; Go down to the
for us; for people, and such as are 11
And touching the house house of the king of
Nebuchadrezzar king of left in this city from the of the king of Judah, say, Judah, and speak there
Babylon maketh war pestilence, from the Hear ye the word of the this word, 2And say,
against us; if so be that sword, and from the LORD; 12O house of Hear the word of the
the LORD will deal with famine, into the hand of David, thus saith the LORD, O king of Judah,
us according to all his Nebuchadrezzar king of LORD; Executea that sittest upon the
wondrous works, that he Babylon, and into the judgment in the b
may go up from us. hand of their enemies, inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
a c
Execute: Heb. Judge punish: Heb. visit upon
throne of David, thou, against thee, every one buildeth his house by They shall not lament
and thy servants, and with his weapons: and unrighteousness, and his for him, saying, Ah my
thy people that enter in they shall cut down thy chambers by wrong; that brother! or, Ah sister!
by these gates: 3Thus choice cedars, and cast useth his neighbour’s they shall not lament
saith the LORD; Execute them into the fire. 8And service without wages, for him, saying, Ah lord!
ye judgment and many nations shall pass and giveth him not for or, Ah his glory! 19He
righteousness, and by this city, and they his work; 14That saith, I shall be buried with the
deliver the spoiled out of shall say every man to will build me a wide burial of an ass, drawn
the hand of the his neighbour, Wherefore house and largea and cast forth beyond
oppressor: and do no hath the LORD done thus chambers, and cutteth the gates of Jerusalem.
wrong, do no violence to unto this great city? him out windows; and it 20
Go up to Lebanon,
the stranger, the 9
Then they shall answer, is cieled with cedar, and and cry; and lift up thy
fatherless, nor the Because they have painted with vermilion. voice in Bashan, and
widow, neither shed forsaken the covenant of 15
Shalt thou reign, cry from the passages:
innocent blood in this the LORD their God, and because thou closest for all thy lovers are
place. 4For if ye do this worshipped other gods, thyself in cedar? did not destroyed. 21I spake
thing indeed, then shall and served them. thy father eat and drink, unto thee in thy
there enter in by the 10
Weep ye not for the and do judgment and prosperity ; but thou
c

gates of this house kings dead, neither bemoan justice, and then it was saidst, I will not hear.
sitting upon the throne him: but weep sore for well with him? 16He This hath been thy
of David, riding in him that goeth away: for judged the cause of the manner from thy youth,
chariots and on horses, he shall return no more, poor and needy; then it that thou obeyedst not
he, and his servants, and nor see his native was well with him: was my voice. 22The wind
his people. 5But if ye will country. For thus saith
11
not this to know me? shall eat up all thy
not hear these words, I the LORD touching saith the LORD. 17But pastors, and thy lovers
swear by myself, saith Shallum the son of Josiah thine eyes and thine shall go into captivity:
the LORD, that this king of Judah, which heart are not but for thy surely then shalt thou
house shall become a reigned instead of Josiah covetousness, and for to be ashamed and
desolation. 6
For thus his father, which went shed innocent blood, and confounded for all thy
saith the LORD unto the forth out of this place; for oppression, and for wickedness. 23
O
king’s house of Judah; He shall not return violenceb, to do it. inhabitant of Lebanon,
d

Thou art Gilead unto me, thither any more: 12But 18


Therefore thus saith that makest thy nest in
and the head of he shall die in the place the LORD concerning the cedars, how
Lebanon: yet surely I will whither they have led Jehoiakim the son of gracious shalt thou be
make thee a wilderness, him captive, and shall Josiah king of Judah; when pangs come upon
and cities which are not see this land no more. a c
inhabited. 7And I will 13
Woe unto him that large: Heb. through-aired prosperity: Heb. prosperities
b d
prepare destroyers violence: or, incursion inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
thee, the pain as of a the LORD, Write ye this neither shall they be drunken man, and like a
woman in travail! 24As I man childless, a man lacking, saith the LORD. man whom wine hath
live, saith the LORD, that shall not prosper in 5
Behold, the days come, overcome, because of
though Coniah the son of his days: for no man of saith the LORD, that I the LORD, and because
Jehoiakim king of Judah his seed shall prosper, will raise unto David a of the words of his
were the signet upon my sitting upon the throne righteous Branch, and a holiness. 10For the land
right hand, yet would I of David, and ruling any King shall reign and is full of adulterers; for
pluck thee thence; 25And more in Judah. prosper, and shall because of swearinga
I will give thee into the execute judgment and the land mourneth; the
hand of them that seek Chapter 23 justice in the earth. 6In pleasant places of the
thy life, and into the his days Judah shall be wilderness are dried up,
hand of them whose face
1
Woe be unto the saved, and Israel shall and their course is evil,
thou fearest, even into pastors that destroy and dwell safely: and this is and their force is not
the hand of scatter the sheep of my his name whereby he right. 11
For both
Nebuchadrezzar king of pasture! saith the LORD. shall be called, THE prophet and priest are
Babylon, and into the
2
Therefore thus saith the LORD OUR profane; yea, in my
hand of the Chaldeans. LORD God of Israel RIGHTEOUSNESS. house have I found
26
And I will cast thee out, against the pastors that 7
Therefore, behold, the their wickedness, saith
and thy mother that bare feed my people; Ye have days come, saith the the LORD. 12Wherefore
thee, into another scattered my flock, and LORD, that they shall no their way shall be unto
country, where ye were driven them away, and more say, The LORD them as slippery ways
not born; and there shall have not visited them: liveth, which brought up in the darkness: they
ye die. 27But to the land behold, I will visit upon the children of Israel out shall be driven on, and
whereunto they desiree you the evil of your of the land of Egypt; fall therein: for I will
to return, thither shall doings, saith the LORD. 8
But, The LORD liveth, bring evil upon them,
they not return. 28Is this
3
And I will gather the which brought up and even the year of their
man Coniah a despised remnant of my flock out which led the seed of the visitation, saith the
broken idol? is he a of all countries whither I house of Israel out of the LORD. 13
And I have
vessel wherein is no have driven them, and north country, and from seen follyb in the
pleasure? wherefore are will bring them again to all countries whither I prophets of Samaria;
they cast out, he and his their folds; and they had driven them; and they prophesied in Baal,
seed, and are cast into a shall be fruitful and they shall dwell in their and caused my people
land which they know increase. 4And I will set own land. Israel to err. 14I have
not? 29O earth, earth, up shepherds over them 9
Mine heart within me seen also in the
earth, hear the word of which shall feed them: is broken because of the a
the LORD. 30Thus saith and they shall fear no prophets; all my bones swearing: or, cursing
b
more, nor be dismayed, shake; I am like a folly: or, an absurd thing:
e
desire: Heb. lift up their mind Heb. unsavoury
prophets of Jerusalem an imaginationd of his own a God afar off? 24Can any pieces? 30
Therefore,
horrible thing: they heart, No evil shall come hide himself in secret behold, I am against
commit adultery, and upon you. 18
For who places that I shall not the prophets, saith the
walk in lies: they hath stood in the see him? saith the LORD. LORD, that steal my
strengthen also the counsele of the LORD, Do not I fill heaven and words every one from
hands of evildoers, that and hath perceived and earth? saith the LORD. 25I his neighbour. 31Behold,
none doth return from heard his word? who have heard what the I am against the
his wickedness: they are hath marked his word, prophets said, that prophets, saith the
all of them unto me as and heard it? 19Behold, a prophesy lies in my LORD, that use their
Sodom, and the whirlwind of the LORD is name, saying, I have tongues, and say, He
inhabitants thereof as gone forth in fury, even dreamed, I have saith. 32
Behold, I am
Gomorrah. 15
Therefore a grievous whirlwind: it dreamed. 26
How long against them that
thus saith the LORD of shall fall grievously upon shall this be in the heart prophesy false dreams,
hosts concerning the the head of the wicked. of the prophets that saith the LORD, and do
prophets; Behold, I will 20
The anger of the LORD prophesy lies? yea, they tell them, and cause my
feed them with shall not return, until he are prophets of the people to err by their
wormwood, and make have executed, and till deceit of their own heart; lies, and by their
them drink the water of he have performed the 27
Which think to cause lightness; yet I sent
gall: for from the thoughts of his heart: in my people to forget my them not, nor
prophets of Jerusalem is the latter days ye shall name by their dreams commanded them:
profanenessc gone forth consider it perfectly. 21I which they tell every therefore they shall not
into all the land. 16Thus have not sent these man to his neighbour, as profit this people at all,
saith the LORD of hosts, prophets, yet they ran: I their fathers have saith the LORD.
Hearken not unto the have not spoken to forgotten my name for 33
And when this
words of the prophets them, yet they Baal. 28The prophet that people, or the prophet,
that prophesy unto you: prophesied. But if they
22
hath a dreamf, let him or a priest, shall ask
they make you vain: had stood in my counsel, tell a dream; and he that thee, saying, What is
they speak a vision of and had caused my hath my word, let him the burden of the
their own heart, and not people to hear my speak my word faithfully. LORD? thou shalt then
out of the mouth of the words, then they should What is the chaff to the say unto them, What
LORD. 17They say still have turned them from wheat? saith the LORD. burden? I will even
unto them that despise their evil way, and from 29
Is not my word like as a forsake you, saith the
me, The LORD hath said, the evil of their doings. fire? saith the LORD; and LORD. 34And as for the
Ye shall have peace; and 23
Am I a God at hand, like a hammer that prophet, and the priest,
they say unto every one saith the LORD, and not breaketh the rock in and the people, that
that walketh after the d f
shall say, The burden of
imagination: or, stubbornness that hath a dream: Heb. with the LORD, I will even
c e
profaneness: or, hypocrisy counsel: or, secret whom is, etc
punishg that man and his And I will bring an
40
LORD came unto me, them to be removeda
house. 35Thus shall ye everlasting reproach saying, 5Thus saith the into all the kingdoms of
say every one to his upon you, and a LORD, the God of Israel; the earth for their hurt,
neighbour, and every perpetual shame, which Like these good figs, so to be a reproach and a
one to his brother, What shall not be forgotten. will I acknowledge them proverb, a taunt and a
hath the LORD that are carried away curse, in all places
answered? and, What Chapter 24 captive of Judah, whom I whither I shall drive
hath the LORD spoken? have sent out of this them. 10And I will send
36
And the burden of the The LORD shewed
1
place into the land of the the sword, the famine,
LORD shall ye mention me, and, behold, two Chaldeans for their good. and the pestilence,
no more: for every man’s baskets of figs were set 6
For I will set mine eyes among them, till they
word shall be his burden; before the temple of the upon them for good, and be consumed from off
for ye have perverted LORD, after that I will bring them again to the land that I gave
the words of the living Nebuchadrezzar king of this land: and I will build unto them and to their
God, of the LORD of Babylon had carried them, and not pull them fathers.
hosts our God. 37Thus away captive Jeconiah down; and I will plant
shalt thou say to the the son of Jehoiakim king them, and not pluck Chapter 25
prophet, What hath the of Judah, and the princes them up. 7And I will give
LORD answered thee? of Judah, with the them an heart to know
1
The word that came
and, What hath the carpenters and smiths, me, that I am the LORD: to Jeremiah concerning
LORD spoken? 38
But from Jerusalem, and had and they shall be my all the people of Judah
since ye say, The burden brought them to people, and I will be their in the fourth year of
of the LORD; therefore Babylon. 2One basket God: for they shall return Jehoiakim the son of
thus saith the LORD; had very good figs, even unto me with their whole Josiah king of Judah,
Because ye say this like the figs that are first heart. 8And as the evil that was the first year
word, The burden of the ripe: and the other figs, which cannot be of Nebuchadrezzar king
LORD, and I have sent basket had very naughty eaten, they are so evil; of Babylon; 2The which
unto you, saying, Ye figs, which could not be surely thus saith the Jeremiah the prophet
shall not say, The burden eaten, they were so bad. LORD, So will I give spake unto all the
of the LORD; 39Therefore,
3
Then said the LORD Zedekiah the king of people of Judah, and to
behold, I, even I, will unto me, What seest Judah, and his princes, all the inhabitants of
utterly forget you, and I thou, Jeremiah? And I and the residue of Jerusalem, saying,
will forsake you, and the said, Figs; the good figs, Jerusalem, that remain in
3
From the thirteenth
city that I gave you and very good; and the evil, this land, and them that year of Josiah the son of
your fathers, and cast very evil, that cannot be dwell in the land of Amon king of Judah,
you out of my presence: eaten, they are so evil. Egypt: 9And I will deliver a
4
Again the word of the to be removed: Heb. for
g
punish: Heb. visit upon removing, or, vexation
even unto this day, that Because ye have not punisha the king of all the nations to drink,
is the three and heard my words, Babylon, and that nation, unto whom the LORD
twentieth year, the word 9
Behold, I will send and saith the LORD, for their had sent me: 18To wit,
of the LORD hath come take all the families of iniquity, and the land of Jerusalem, and the
unto me, and I have the north, saith the the Chaldeans, and will cities of Judah, and the
spoken unto you, rising LORD, and make it perpetual kings thereof, and the
early and speaking; but Nebuchadrezzar the king desolations. 13And I will princes thereof, to
ye have not hearkened. of Babylon, my servant, bring upon that land all make them a
4
And the LORD hath sent and will bring them my words which I have desolation, an
unto you all his servants against this land, and pronounced against it, astonishment, an
the prophets, rising early against the inhabitants even all that is written in hissing, and a curse; as
and sending them; but thereof, and against all this book, which it is this day; 19Pharaoh
ye have not hearkened, these nations round Jeremiah hath king of Egypt, and his
nor inclined your ear to about, and will utterly prophesied against all servants, and his
hear. 5They said, Turn ye destroy them, and make the nations. 14For many princes, and all his
again now every one them an astonishment, nations and great kings people; 20And all the
from his evil way, and and an hissing, and shall serve themselves mingled people, and all
from the evil of your perpetual desolations. of them also: and I will the kings of the land of
doings, and dwell in the 10
Moreover I will take recompense them Uz, and all the kings of
land that the LORD hath from them the voice of according to their deeds, the land of the
given unto you and to mirth, and the voice of and according to the Philistines, and
your fathers for ever and gladness, the voice of works of their own Ashkelon, and Azzah,
ever: 6And go not after the bridegroom, and the hands. and Ekron, and the
other gods to serve voice of the bride, the 15
For thus saith the remnant of Ashdod,
them, and to worship sound of the millstones, LORD God of Israel unto 21
Edom, and Moab, and
them, and provoke me and the light of the me; Take the wine cup of the children of Ammon,
not to anger with the candle. 11And this whole this fury at my hand, and 22
And all the kings of
works of your hands; and land shall be a cause all the nations, to Tyrus, and all the kings
I will do you no hurt. 7Yet desolation, and an whom I send thee, to of Zidon, and the kings
ye have not hearkened astonishment; and these drink it. 16And they shall of the islesb which are
unto me, saith the LORD; nations shall serve the drink, and be moved, beyond the sea,
that ye might provoke king of Babylon seventy and be mad, because of 23
Dedan, and Tema, and
me to anger with the years. 12And it shall the sword that I will send Buz, and all that are in
works of your hands to come to pass, when among them. 17
Then the utmost corners,
your own hurt. seventy years are took I the cup at the 24
And all the kings of
8
Therefore thus saith accomplished, that I will LORD’S hand, and made b
the LORD of hosts; isles: or, region by the sea
a
punish: Heb. visit upon side
Arabia, and all the kings the inhabitants of the lamented, neither oppressor, and because
of the mingled people earth, saith the LORD of gathered, nor buried; of his fierce anger.
that dwell in the desert, hosts. they shall be dung upon
25
And all the kings of 30
Therefore prophesy the ground. 34Howl, ye Chapter 26
Zimri, and all the kings thou against them all shepherds, and cry; and
of Elam, and all the kings these words, and say wallow yourselves in the
1
In the beginning of
of the Medes, 26And all unto them, The LORD ashes, ye principal of the the reign of Jehoiakim
the kings of the north, shall roar from on high, flock: for the daysc of the son of Josiah king of
far and near, one with and utter his voice from your slaughter and of Judah came this word
another, and all the his holy habitation; he your dispersions are from the LORD, saying,
kingdoms of the world, shall mightily roar upon accomplished; and ye
2
Thus saith the LORD;
which are upon the face his habitation; he shall shall fall like a pleasant Stand in the court of
of the earth: and the give a shout, as they vessel. 35
And the the LORD’S house, and
king of Sheshach shall that tread the grapes, shepherds shall have no
d speak unto all the cities
drink after them. against all the way to flee, nor the of Judah, which come to
27
Therefore thou shalt inhabitants of the earth. principal of the flock to worship in the LORD’S
say unto them, Thus 31
A noise shall come escape. 36A voice of the house, all the words
saith the LORD of hosts, even to the ends of the cry of the shepherds, that I command thee to
the God of Israel; Drink earth; for the LORD hath and an howling of the speak unto them;
ye, and be drunken, and a controversy with the principal of the flock, diminish not a word: 3If
spue, and fall, and rise nations, he will plead shall be heard: for the so be they will hearken,
no more, because of the with all flesh; he will give LORD hath spoiled their and turn every man
sword which I will send them that are wicked to pasture. 37
And the from his evil way, that I
among you. 28And it shall the sword, saith the peaceable habitations may repent me of the
be, if they refuse to take LORD. 32Thus saith the are cut down because of evil, which I purpose to
the cup at thine hand to LORD of hosts, Behold, the fierce anger of the do unto them because
drink, then shalt thou evil shall go forth from LORD. 38
He hath of the evil of their
say unto them, Thus nation to nation, and a forsaken his covert, as doings. 4And thou shalt
saith the LORD of hosts; great whirlwind shall be the lion: for their land is say unto them, Thus
Ye shall certainly drink. raised up from the desolatee because of the saith the LORD; If ye
29
For, lo, I begin to bring coasts of the earth. fierceness of the will not hearken to me,
evil on the city which is 33
And the slain of the to walk in my law,
c
called by my name, and LORD shall be at that the days...: Heb. your days for which I have set before
should ye be utterly day from one end of the slaughter you, 5To hearken to the
d
unpunished? Ye shall not earth even unto the the shepherds...: Heb. flight words of my servants
be unpunished: for I will other end of the earth: shall perish from the shepherds, the prophets, whom I
call for a sword upon all they shall not be and escaping from, etc sent unto you, both
e
desolate: Heb. a desolation
rising up early, and unto the house of the shall surely bring besought the LORD,
sending them, but ye LORD, and sat down in innocent blood upon and the LORD repented
have not hearkened; the entry of the new yourselves, and upon him of the evil which he
6
Then will I make this gate of the LORD’S this city, and upon the had pronounced against
house like Shiloh, and house. 11Then spake the inhabitants thereof: for them? Thus might we
will make this city a priests and the prophets of a truth the LORD hath procure great evil
curse to all the nations unto the princes and to sent me unto you to against our souls. 20And
of the earth. all the people, saying, speak all these words in there was also a man
7
So the priests and This mana is worthy to your ears. that prophesied in the
the prophets and all the die; for he hath 16
Then said the name of the LORD,
people heard Jeremiah prophesied against this princes and all the Urijah the son of
speaking these words in city, as ye have heard people unto the priests Shemaiah of
the house of the LORD. with your ears. 12Then and to the prophets; This Kirjathjearim, who
8
Now it came to pass, spake Jeremiah unto all man is not worthy to die: prophesied against this
when Jeremiah had the princes and to all the for he hath spoken to us city and against this
made an end of speaking people, saying, The in the name of the LORD land according to all the
all that the LORD had LORD sent me to our God. 17Then rose up words of Jeremiah:
commanded him to prophesy against this certain of the elders of 21
And when Jehoiakim
speak unto all the house and against this the land, and spake to all the king, with all his
people, that the priests city all the words that ye the assembly of the mighty men, and all the
and the prophets and all have heard. 13Therefore people, saying, 18Micah princes, heard his
the people took him, now amend your ways the Morasthite words, the king sought
saying, Thou shalt surely and your doings, and prophesied in the days of to put him to death: but
die. 9Why hast thou obey the voice of the Hezekiah king of Judah, when Urijah heard it, he
prophesied in the name LORD your God; and the and spake to all the was afraid, and fled,
of the LORD, saying, This LORD will repent him of people of Judah, saying, and went into Egypt;
house shall be like the evil that he hath Thus saith the LORD of 22
And Jehoiakim the
Shiloh, and this city shall pronounced against you. hosts; Zion shall be king sent men into
be desolate without an 14
As for me, behold, I am plowed like a field, and Egypt, namely,
inhabitant? And all the in your hand: do with me Jerusalem shall become Elnathan the son of
people were gathered as seemeth good and heaps, and the mountain Achbor, and certain
against Jeremiah in the meet unto you. 15
But of the house as the high men with him into
house of the LORD. know ye for certain, that places of a forest. 19Did Egypt. 23
And they
10
When the princes of if ye put me to death, ye Hezekiah king of Judah fetched forth Urijah out
Judah heard these a
and all Judah put him at of Egypt, and brought
things, then they came This man...: Heb. The all to death? did he not him unto Jehoiakim the
up from the king’s house judgment of death is for this fear the LORD, and king; who slew him with
man
the sword, and cast his them to sayb unto their the king of Babylon, that yoke of the king of
dead body into the masters, Thus saith the nation will I punish, saith Babylon, and serve him
graves of the commonb LORD of hosts, the God the LORD, with the and his people, and
people. 24
Nevertheless of Israel; Thus shall ye sword, and with the live. 13Why will ye die,
the hand of Ahikam the say unto your masters; famine, and with the thou and thy people, by
son of Shaphan was with 5
I have made the earth, pestilence, until I have the sword, by the
Jeremiah, that they the man and the beast consumed them by his famine, and by the
should not give him into that are upon the hand. 9
Therefore pestilence, as the LORD
the hand of the people to ground, by my great hearken not ye to your hath spoken against the
put him to death. power and by my prophets, nor to your nation that will not
outstretched arm, and diviners, nor to your serve the king of
Chapter 27 have given it unto whom dreamersc, nor to your Babylon? 14
Therefore
it seemed meet unto me. enchanters, nor to your hearken not unto the
In the beginning of
1 6
And now have I given all sorcerers, which speak words of the prophets
the reign of Jehoiakim these lands into the unto you, saying, Ye that speak unto you,
the son of Josiah king of hand of Nebuchadnezzar shall not serve the king saying, Ye shall not
Judah came this word the king of Babylon, my of Babylon: 10For they serve the king of
unto Jeremiah from the servant; and the beasts prophesy a lie unto you, Babylon: for they
LORD, saying, 2
Thus of the field have I given to remove you far from prophesy a lie unto you.
saith the LORD to me;
a
him also to serve him. your land; and that I 15
For I have not sent
Make thee bonds and 7
And all nations shall should drive you out, them, saith the LORD,
yokes, and put them serve him, and his son, and ye should perish. yet they prophesy a lied
upon thy neck, 3
And and his son’s son, until 11
But the nations that in my name; that I
send them to the king of the very time of his land bring their neck under might drive you out,
Edom, and to the king of come: and then many the yoke of the king of and that ye might
Moab, and to the king of nations and great kings Babylon, and serve him, perish, ye, and the
the Ammonites, and to shall serve themselves those will I let remain prophets that prophesy
the king of Tyrus, and to of him. 8And it shall still in their own land, unto you. 16Also I spake
the king of Zidon, by the come to pass, that the saith the LORD; and they to the priests and to all
hand of the messengers nation and kingdom shall till it, and dwell this people, saying,
which come to Jerusalem which will not serve the therein. Thus saith the LORD;
unto Zedekiah king of same Nebuchadnezzar 12
I spake also to Hearken not to the
Judah; 4And command the king of Babylon, and Zedekiah king of Judah words of your prophets
b
that will not put their according to all these that prophesy unto you,
common...: Heb. sons of the neck under the yoke of words, saying, Bring saying, Behold, the
people your necks under the
a b d
saith...: or, hath the LORD to say...: or, concerning their a lie: Heb. in a lie, or,
c
said masters, saying dreamers: Heb. dreams lyingly
vessels of the LORD’S Jerusalem; 21Yea, thus years will I bring again in the ears of all the
house shall now shortly saith the LORD of hosts, into this place all the people; 8The prophets
be brought again from the God of Israel, vessels of the LORD’S that have been before
Babylon: for they concerning the vessels house, that me and before thee of
prophesy a lie unto you. that remain in the house Nebuchadnezzar king of old prophesied both
17
Hearken not unto of the LORD, and in the Babylon took away from against many countries,
them; serve the king of house of the king of this place, and carried and against great
Babylon, and live: Judah and of Jerusalem; them to Babylon: 4And I kingdoms, of war, and
wherefore should this 22
They shall be carried to will bring again to this of evil, and of
city be laid waste? 18But Babylon, and there shall place Jeconiah the son of pestilence. 9
The
if they be prophets, and they be until the day Jehoiakim king of Judah, prophet which
if the word of the LORD that I visit them, saith with all the captivesa of prophesieth of peace,
be with them, let them the LORD; then will I Judah, that went into when the word of the
now make intercession bring them up, and Babylon, saith the LORD: prophet shall come to
to the LORD of hosts, restore them to this for I will break the yoke pass, then shall the
that the vessels which place. of the king of Babylon. prophet be known, that
are left in the house of 5
Then the prophet the LORD hath truly
the LORD, and in the Chapter 28 Jeremiah said unto the sent him.
house of the king of prophet Hananiah in the 10
Then Hananiah the
Judah, and at Jerusalem,
1
And it came to pass presence of the priests, prophet took the yoke
go not to Babylon. 19For the same year, in the and in the presence of from off the prophet
thus saith the LORD of beginning of the reign of all the people that stood Jeremiah’s neck, and
hosts concerning the Zedekiah king of Judah, in the house of the brake it. 11
And
pillars, and concerning in the fourth year, and in LORD, 6Even the prophet Hananiah spake in the
the sea, and concerning the fifth month, that Jeremiah said, Amen: the presence of all the
the bases, and Hananiah the son of Azur LORD do so: the LORD people, saying, Thus
concerning the residue the prophet, which was perform thy words which saith the LORD; Even so
of the vessels that of Gibeon, spake unto thou hast prophesied, to will I break the yoke of
remain in this city, me in the house of the bring again the vessels Nebuchadnezzar king of
20
Which Nebuchadnezzar LORD, in the presence of of the LORD’S house, Babylon from the neck
king of Babylon took not, the priests and of all the and all that is carried of all nations within the
when he carried away people, saying, 2Thus away captive, from space of two full years.
captive Jeconiah the son speaketh the LORD of Babylon into this place. And the prophet
of Jehoiakim king of hosts, the God of Israel, 7
Nevertheless hear thou Jeremiah went his way.
Judah from Jerusalem to saying, I have broken the now this word that I 12
Then the word of the
Babylon, and all the yoke of the king of speak in thine ears, and LORD came unto
nobles of Judah and Babylon. 3Within two full Jeremiah the prophet,
a
captives: Heb. captivity
after that Hananiah the Hananiah the prophet that are carried away name: I have not sent
prophet had broken the died the same year in captives, whom I have them, saith the LORD.
yoke from off the neck of the seventh month. caused to be carried 10
For thus saith the
the prophet Jeremiah, away from Jerusalem LORD, That after
saying, 13Go and tell Chapter 29 unto Babylon; 5Build ye seventy years be
Hananiah, saying, Thus houses, and dwell in accomplished at
saith the LORD; Thou
1
Now these are the them; and plant gardens, Babylon I will visit you,
hast broken the yokes of words of the letter that and eat the fruit of them; and perform my good
wood; but thou shalt Jeremiah the prophet 6
Take ye wives, and word toward you, in
make for them yokes of sent from Jerusalem unto beget sons and causing you to return to
iron. 14For thus saith the the residue of the elders daughters; and take this place. 11For I know
LORD of hosts, the God which were carried away wives for your sons, and the thoughts that I
of Israel; I have put a captives, and to the give your daughters to think toward you, saith
yoke of iron upon the priests, and to the husbands, that they may the LORD, thoughts of
neck of all these nations, prophets, and to all the bear sons and peace, and not of evil,
that they may serve people whom daughters; that ye may to give you an
Nebuchadnezzar king of Nebuchadnezzar had be increased there, and expectedb end. 12Then
Babylon; and they shall carried away captive not diminished. 7
And shall ye call upon me,
serve him: and I have from Jerusalem to seek the peace of the and ye shall go and
given him the beasts of Babylon; 2
(After that city whither I have pray unto me, and I will
the field also. 15Then said Jeconiah the king, and caused you to be carried hearken unto you. 13And
the prophet Jeremiah the queen, and the away captives, and pray ye shall seek me, and
unto Hananiah the eunuchs, the princes of unto the LORD for it: for find me, when ye shall
prophet, Hear now, Judah and Jerusalem, in the peace thereof search for me with all
Hananiah; The LORD and the carpenters, and shall ye have peace. your heart. 14And I will
hath not sent thee; but the smiths, were 8
For thus saith the be found of you, saith
thou makest this people departed from LORD of hosts, the God the LORD: and I will
to trust in a lie. Jerusalem;) 3
By the of Israel; Let not your turn away your
16
Therefore thus saith hand of Elasah the son of prophets and your captivity, and I will
the LORD; Behold, I will Shaphan, and Gemariah diviners, that be in the gather you from all the
cast thee from off the the son of Hilkiah, midst of you, deceive nations, and from all
face of the earth: this (whom Zedekiah king of you, neither hearken to the places whither I
year thou shalt die, Judah sent unto Babylon your dreams which ye have driven you, saith
because thou hast to Nebuchadnezzar king cause to be dreamed. the LORD; and I will
taught rebellionb against of Babylon) saying, 4Thus 9
For they prophesy bring you again into the
the LORD. 17
So saith the LORD of hosts, falsely unto you in my
a
b
the God of Israel, unto all expected...: Heb. end and
b a
rebellion: Heb. revolt falsely: Heb. in a lie expectation
place whence I caused have not hearkened to their neighbours’ wives, sent unto us in Babylon,
you to be carried away my words, saith the and have spoken lying saying, This captivity is
captive. LORD, which I sent unto words in my name, long: build ye houses,
15
Because ye have them by my servants the which I have not and dwell in them; and
said, The LORD hath prophets, rising up early commanded them; even plant gardens, and eat
raised us up prophets in and sending them; but I know, and am a the fruit of them. 29And
Babylon; 16Know that ye would not hear, saith witness, saith the LORD. Zephaniah the priest
thus saith the LORD of the LORD. 20Hear ye 24
Thus shalt thou also read this letter in the
the king that sitteth therefore the word of the speak to Shemaiah the ears of Jeremiah the
upon the throne of LORD, all ye of the Nehelamited, saying, prophet. 30Then came
David, and of all the captivity, whom I have 25
Thus speaketh the the word of the LORD
people that dwelleth in sent from Jerusalem to LORD of hosts, the God unto Jeremiah, saying,
this city, and of your Babylon: 21Thus saith the of Israel, saying, 31
Send to all them of
brethren that are not LORD of hosts, the God Because thou hast sent the captivity, saying,
gone forth with you into of Israel, of Ahab the son letters in thy name unto Thus saith the LORD
captivity; 17Thus saith of Kolaiah, and of all the people that are at concerning Shemaiah
the LORD of hosts; Zedekiah the son of Jerusalem, and to the Nehelamite;
Behold, I will send upon Maaseiah, which Zephaniah the son of Because that Shemaiah
them the sword, the prophesy a lie unto you Maaseiah the priest, and hath prophesied unto
famine, and the in my name; Behold, I to all the priests, saying, you, and I sent him not,
pestilence, and will make will deliver them into the 26
The LORD hath made and he caused you to
them like vile figs, that hand of Nebuchadrezzar thee priest in the stead trust in a lie:
cannot be eaten, they king of Babylon; and he of Jehoiada the priest, 32
Therefore thus saith
are so evil. 18And I will shall slay them before that ye should be the LORD; Behold, I will
persecute them with the your eyes; 22And of them officers in the house of punish Shemaiah the
sword, with the famine, shall be taken up a curse the LORD, for every man Nehelamite, and his
and with the pestilence, by all the captivity of that is mad, and maketh seed: he shall not have
and will deliver them to Judah which are in himself a prophet, that a man to dwell among
be removed to all the Babylon, saying, The thou shouldest put him this people; neither
kingdoms of the earth, to LORD make thee like in prison, and in the shall he behold the
be a cursec, and an Zedekiah and like Ahab, stocks. 27Now therefore good that I will do for
astonishment, and an whom the king of why hast thou not my people, saith the
hissing, and a reproach, Babylon roasted in the reproved Jeremiah of LORD; because he hath
among all the nations fire; 23Because they have Anathoth, which maketh taught rebellione
whither I have driven committed villany in himself a prophet to against the LORD.
them: 19
Because they Israel, and have you? 28For therefore he
c
committed adultery with d e
to be a curse: Heb. for a curse Nehelamite: or, dreamer rebellion: Heb. revolt
Chapter 30 paleness? 7Alas! for that thee in measure, and will for a prey. 17For I will
day is great, so that not leave thee restore health unto
The word that came
1
none is like it: it is even altogether unpunished. thee, and I will heal
to Jeremiah from the the time of Jacob’s 12
For thus saith the thee of thy wounds,
LORD, saying, 2
Thus trouble; but he shall be LORD, Thy bruise is saith the LORD;
speaketh the LORD God saved out of it. 8For it incurable, and thy because they called
of Israel, saying, Write shall come to pass in wound is grievous. thee an Outcast,
thee all the words that I that day, saith the LORD 13
There is none to plead saying, This is Zion,
have spoken unto thee of hosts, that I will break thy cause, that thou whom no man seeketh
in a book. 3For, lo, the his yoke from off thy mayest be bound up: after.
days come, saith the neck, and will burst thy thou hast no healing 18
Thus saith the
LORD, that I will bring bonds, and strangers medicines. 14
All thy LORD; Behold, I will
again the captivity of my shall no more serve lovers have forgotten bring again the
people Israel and Judah, themselves of him: 9But thee; they seek thee not; captivity of Jacob’s
saith the LORD: and I will they shall serve the for I have wounded thee tents, and have mercy
cause them to return to LORD their God, and with the wound of an on his dwellingplaces;
the land that I gave to David their king, whom I enemy, with the and the city shall be
their fathers, and they will raise up unto them. chastisement of a cruel builded upon her own
shall possess it. 4And 10
Therefore fear thou one, for the multitude of heapc, and the palace
these are the words that not, O my servant Jacob, thine iniquity; because shall remain after the
the LORD spake saith the LORD; neither thy sins were increased. manner thereof. 19And
concerning Israel and be dismayed, O Israel: 15
Why criest thou for out of them shall
concerning Judah. 5For for, lo, I will save thee thine affliction? thy proceed thanksgiving
thus saith the LORD; We from afar, and thy seed sorrow is incurable for and the voice of them
have heard a voice of from the land of their the multitude of thine that make merry: and I
trembling, of feara, and captivity; and Jacob shall iniquity: because thy will multiply them, and
not of peace. 6Ask ye return, and shall be in sins were increased, I they shall not be few; I
now, and see whether a rest, and be quiet, and have done these things will also glorify them,
manb doth travail with none shall make him unto thee. 16Therefore all and they shall not be
child? wherefore do I see afraid. 11For I am with they that devour thee small. 20Their children
every man with his thee, saith the LORD, to shall be devoured; and also shall be as
hands on his loins, as a save thee: though I all thine adversaries, aforetime, and their
woman in travail, and all make a full end of all every one of them, shall congregation shall be
faces are turned into nations whither I have go into captivity; and established before me,
a
scattered thee, yet will I they that spoil thee shall and I will punish all that
of fear...: or, there is fear, and not make a full end of be a spoil, and all that oppress them. 21And
not peace thee: but I will correct prey upon thee will I give
b c
a man: Heb. a male heap: or, little hill
their nobles shall be of grace in the wilderness; thy people, the remnant height of Zion, and shall
themselves, and their even Israel, when I went of Israel. 8Behold, I will flow together to the
governor shall proceed to cause him to rest. bring them from the goodness of the LORD,
from the midst of them; 3
The LORD hath north country, and for wheat, and for wine,
and I will cause him to appeared of old unto me, gather them from the and for oil, and for the
draw near, and he shall saying, Yea, I have loved coasts of the earth, and young of the flock and
approach unto me: for thee with an everlasting with them the blind and of the herd: and their
who is this that engaged love: therefore with the lame, the woman soul shall be as a
his heart to approach lovingkindness have I with child and her that watered garden; and
unto me? saith the drawn thee. 4
Again I travaileth with child they shall not sorrow
LORD. 22And ye shall be will build thee, and thou together: a great any more at all. 13Then
my people, and I will be shalt be built, O virgin of company shall return shall the virgin rejoice
your God. 23Behold, the Israel: thou shalt again thither. 9They shall come in the dance, both
whirlwind of the LORD be adorned with thy with weeping, and with young men and old
goeth forth with fury, a tabretsa, and shalt go supplicationsc will I lead together: for I will turn
continuingd whirlwind: it forth in the dances of them: I will cause them their mourning into joy,
shall fall with pain upon them that make merry. to walk by the rivers of and will comfort them,
the head of the wicked. 5
Thou shalt yet plant waters in a straight way, and make them rejoice
24
The fierce anger of the vines upon the wherein they shall not from their sorrow. 14And
LORD shall not return, mountains of Samaria: stumble: for I am a I will satiate the soul of
until he have done it, the planters shall plant, father to Israel, and the priests with fatness,
and until he have and shall eat them as Ephraim is my firstborn. and my people shall be
performed the intents of common thingsb. 6
For 10
Hear the word of the satisfied with my
his heart: in the latter there shall be a day, that LORD, O ye nations, and goodness, saith the
days ye shall consider it. the watchmen upon the declare it in the isles afar LORD. 15Thus saith the
mount Ephraim shall cry, off, and say, He that LORD; A voice was
Chapter 31 Arise ye, and let us go scattered Israel will heard in Ramah,
up to Zion unto the gather him, and keep lamentation, and bitter
At the same time,
1
LORD our God. 7For thus him, as a shepherd doth weeping; Rahel
saith the LORD, will I be saith the LORD; Sing his flock. 11For the LORD weeping for her
the God of all the with gladness for Jacob, hath redeemed Jacob, children refused to be
families of Israel, and and shout among the and ransomed him from comforted for her
they shall be my people. chief of the nations: the hand of him that was children, because they
2
Thus saith the LORD, publish ye, praise ye, stronger than he. were not. 16Thus saith
The people which were and say, O LORD, save 12
Therefore they shall the LORD; Refrain thy
left of the sword found come and sing in the voice from weeping,
a
tabrets: or, timbrels and thine eyes from
d b c
continuing: Heb. cutting eat...: Heb. profane them supplications: or, favours
tears: for thy work shall waymarks, make thee come, saith the LORD, brake, although I was
be rewarded, saith the high heaps: set thine that I will sow the house an husband unto them,
LORD; and they shall heart toward the of Israel and the house saith the LORD: 33But
come again from the highway, even the way of Judah with the seed of this shall be the
land of the enemy. 17And which thou wentest: turn man, and with the seed covenant that I will
there is hope in thine again, O virgin of Israel, of beast. 28And it shall make with the house of
end, saith the LORD, that turn again to these thy come to pass, that like Israel; After those days,
thy children shall come cities. 22How long wilt as I have watched over saith the LORD, I will
again to their own thou go about, O thou them, to pluck up, and to put my law in their
border. backsliding daughter? for break down, and to inward parts, and write
18
I have surely heard the LORD hath created a throw down, and to it in their hearts; and
Ephraim bemoaning new thing in the earth, A destroy, and to afflict; so will be their God, and
himself thus; Thou hast woman shall compass a will I watch over them, to they shall be my
chastised me, and I was man. 23Thus saith the build, and to plant, saith people. And they shall
34

chastised, as a bullock LORD of hosts, the God the LORD. 29In those teach no more every
unaccustomed to the of Israel; As yet they days they shall say no man his neighbour, and
yoke: turn thou me, and shall use this speech in more, The fathers have every man his brother,
I shall be turned; for the land of Judah and in eaten a sour grape, and saying, Know the LORD:
thou art the LORD my the cities thereof, when I the children’s teeth are for they shall all know
God. 19Surely after that I shall bring again their set on edge. 30But every me, from the least of
was turned, I repented; captivity; The LORD one shall die for his own them unto the greatest
and after that I was bless thee, O habitation iniquity: every man that of them, saith the
instructed, I smote upon of justice, and mountain eateth the sour grape, LORD: for I will forgive
my thigh: I was of holiness. 24And there his teeth shall be set on their iniquity, and I will
ashamed, yea, even shall dwell in Judah itself, edge. 31Behold, the days remember their sin no
confounded, because I and in all the cities come, saith the LORD, more.
did bear the reproach of thereof together, that I will make a new 35
Thus saith the
my youth. 20Is Ephraim husbandmen, and they covenant with the house LORD, which giveth the
my dear son? is he a that go forth with flocks. of Israel, and with the sun for a light by day,
pleasant child? for since I 25
For I have satiated the house of Judah: 32Not and the ordinances of
spake against him, I do weary soul, and I have according to the the moon and of the
earnestly remember him replenished every covenant that I made stars for a light by
still: therefore my bowels sorrowful soul. 26Upon with their fathers in the night, which divideth
are troubled for him; I this I awaked, and day that I took them by the sea when the waves
will surely have mercy beheld; and my sleep the hand to bring them thereof roar; The LORD
upon him, saith the was sweet unto me. out of the land of Egypt; of hosts is his name: 36If
LORD. 21
Set thee up 27
Behold, the days which my covenant they those ordinances
depart from before me, 1
The word that came LORD: though ye fight subscribedb the
saith the LORD, then the to Jeremiah from the with the Chaldeans, ye evidence, and sealed it,
seed of Israel also shall LORD in the tenth year shall not prosper. 6And and took witnesses, and
cease from being a of Zedekiah king of Jeremiah said, The word weighed him the money
nation before me for Judah, which was the of the LORD came unto in the balances. 11So I
ever. 37Thus saith the eighteenth year of me, saying, 7
Behold, took the evidence of
LORD; If heaven above Nebuchadrezzar. 2
For Hanameel the son of the purchase, both that
can be measured, and then the king of Shallum thine uncle shall which was sealed
the foundations of the Babylon’s army besieged come unto thee, saying, according to the law
earth searched out Jerusalem: and Jeremiah Buy thee my field that is and custom, and that
beneath, I will also cast the prophet was shut up in Anathoth: for the right which was open: 12And I
off all the seed of Israel in the court of the of redemption is thine to gave the evidence of
for all that they have prison, which was in the buy it. 8So Hanameel the purchase unto
done, saith the LORD. king of Judah’s house. mine uncle’s son came Baruch the son of
38
Behold, the days come, 3
For Zedekiah king of to me in the court of the Neriah, the son of
saith the LORD, that the Judah had shut him up, prison according to the Maaseiah, in the sight
city shall be built to the saying, Wherefore dost word of the LORD, and of Hanameel mine
LORD from the tower of thou prophesy, and say, said unto me, Buy my uncle’s son, and in the
Hananeel unto the gate Thus saith the LORD, field, I pray thee, that is presence of the
of the corner. 39And the Behold, I will give this in Anathoth, which is in witnesses that
measuring line shall yet city into the hand of the the country of Benjamin: subscribed the book of
go forth over against it king of Babylon, and he for the right of the purchase, before all
upon the hill Gareb, and shall take it; 4
And inheritance is thine, and the Jews that sat in the
shall compass about to Zedekiah king of Judah the redemption is thine; court of the prison.
Goath. 40And the whole shall not escape out of buy it for thyself. Then I 13
And I charged Baruch
valley of the dead the hand of the knew that this was the before them, saying,
bodies, and of the ashes, Chaldeans, but shall word of the LORD. 9And I 14
Thus saith the LORD
and all the fields unto surely be delivered into bought the field of of hosts, the God of
the brook of Kidron, unto the hand of the king of Hanameel my uncle’s Israel; Take these
the corner of the horse Babylon, and shall speak son, that was in evidences, this
gate toward the east, with him mouth to Anathoth, and weighed evidence of the
shall be holy unto the mouth, and his eyes him the money, even purchase, both which is
LORD; it shall not be shall behold his eyes; seventeena shekels of sealed, and this
plucked up, nor thrown 5
And he shall lead silver. 10
And I evidence which is open;
down any more for ever. Zedekiah to Babylon, and put them in an
and there shall he be a b
Chapter 32 until I visit him, saith the seventeen...: or, seven shekels subscribed...: Heb. wrote in
and ten pieces of silver the book
earthen vessel, that they to the fruit of his doings: because of the sword, of Israel and the
may continue many 20
Which hast set signs and of the famine, and of children of Judah have
days. 15For thus saith the and wonders in the land the pestilence: and what only done evil before
LORD of hosts, the God of Egypt, even unto this thou hast spoken is me from their youth: for
of Israel; Houses and day, and in Israel, and come to pass; and, the children of Israel
fields and vineyards shall among other men; and behold, thou seest it. have only provoked me
be possessed again in hast made thee a name, 25
And thou hast said unto to anger with the work
this land. as at this day; 21And hast me, O Lord GOD, Buy of their hands, saith the
16
Now when I had brought forth thy people thee the field for money, LORD. 31For this city
delivered the evidence Israel out of the land of and take witnesses; for hath been to me as a
of the purchase unto Egypt with signs, and the city is given into the provocation of mine
Baruch the son of with wonders, and with a hand of the Chaldeans. anger and of my fury
Neriah, I prayed unto the strong hand, and with a 26
Then came the word from the day that they
LORD, saying, 17Ah Lord stretched out arm, and of the LORD unto built it even unto this
GOD! behold, thou hast with great terror; 22And Jeremiah, saying, day; that I should
made the heaven and hast given them this 27
Behold, I am the LORD, remove it from before
the earth by thy great land, which thou didst the God of all flesh: is my face, 32Because of
power and stretched out swear to their fathers to there any thing too hard all the evil of the
arm, and there is give them, a land flowing for me? 28Therefore thus children of Israel and of
nothing too hard for with milk and honey; saith the LORD; Behold, I the children of Judah,
thee: 18
Thou shewest 23
And they came in, and will give this city into the which they have done
lovingkindness unto possessed it; but they hand of the Chaldeans, to provoke me to anger,
thousands, and obeyed not thy voice, and into the hand of they, their kings, their
recompensest the neither walked in thy Nebuchadrezzar king of princes, their priests,
iniquity of the fathers law; they have done Babylon, and he shall and their prophets, and
into the bosom of their nothing of all that thou take it: 29
And the the men of Judah, and
children after them: the commandedst them to Chaldeans, that fight the inhabitants of
Great, the Mighty God, do: therefore thou hast against this city, shall Jerusalem. 33
And they
the LORD of hosts, is his caused all this evil to come and set fire on this have turned unto me
name, 19Great in counsel, come upon them: city, and burn it with the the backe, and not the
and mighty in workc: for 24
Behold the mountsd, houses, upon whose face: though I taught
thine eyes are open they are come unto the roofs they have offered them, rising up early
upon all the ways of the city to take it; and the incense unto Baal, and and teaching them, yet
sons of men: to give city is given into the poured out drink they have not
every one according to hand of the Chaldeans, offerings unto other hearkened to receive
his ways, and according that fight against it, gods, to provoke me to instruction. 34But they
c d
anger. 30For the children e
work: Heb. doing mounts: or, engines of shot back: Heb. neck
set their abominations in them one heart, and one money, and subscribe Judah, which are thrown
the house, which is way, that they may fear evidences, and seal down by the mounts,
called by my name, to me for everf, for the them, and take and by the sword; 5They
defile it. 35And they built good of them, and of witnesses in the land of come to fight with the
the high places of Baal, their children after them: Benjamin, and in the Chaldeans, but it is to
which are in the valley of 40
And I will make an places about Jerusalem, fill them with the dead
the son of Hinnom, to everlasting covenant and in the cities of bodies of men, whom I
cause their sons and with them, that I will not Judah, and in the cities have slain in mine
their daughters to pass turn away from themg, to of the mountains, and in anger and in my fury,
through the fire unto do them good; but I will the cities of the valley, and for all whose
Molech; which I put my fear in their and in the cities of the wickedness I have hid
commanded them not, hearts, that they shall south: for I will cause my face from this city.
neither came it into my not depart from me. their captivity to return, 6
Behold, I will bring it
mind, that they should 41
Yea, I will rejoice over saith the LORD. health and cure, and I
do this abomination, to them to do them good, will cure them, and will
cause Judah to sin. 36And and I will plant them in Chapter 33 reveal unto them the
now therefore thus saith this land assuredlyh with abundance of peace
the LORD, the God of my whole heart and with
1
Moreover the word of and truth. 7And I will
Israel, concerning this my whole soul. 42
For the LORD came unto cause the captivity of
city, whereof ye say, It thus saith the LORD; Like Jeremiah the second Judah and the captivity
shall be delivered into as I have brought all this time, while he was yet of Israel to return, and
the hand of the king of great evil upon this shut up in the court of will build them, as at
Babylon by the sword, people, so will I bring the prison, saying, 2Thus the first. 8And I will
and by the famine, and upon them all the good saith the LORD the cleanse them from all
by the pestilence; that I have promised maker thereof, the LORD their iniquity, whereby
37
Behold, I will gather them. 43And fields shall that formed it, to they have sinned
them out of all countries, be bought in this land, establish it; the LORD is against me; and I will
whither I have driven whereof ye say, It is his name; 3Call unto me, pardon all their
them in mine anger, and desolate without man or and I will answer thee, iniquities, whereby they
in my fury, and in great beast; it is given into the and shew thee great and have sinned, and
wrath; and I will bring hand of the Chaldeans. mighty things, which whereby they have
them again unto this 44
Men shall buy fields for thou knowest not. 4For transgressed against
place, and I will cause thus saith the LORD, the me. 9And it shall be to
f
them to dwell safely: for ever: Heb. all days God of Israel, concerning me a name of joy, a
g
38
And they shall be my from them: Heb. from after the houses of this city, praise and an honour
people, and I will be their them and concerning the before all the nations of
h
God: 39And I will give assuredly: Heb. in truth, or, houses of the kings of the earth, which shall
stability
hear all the good that I desolate without man LORD our righteousness. unto me. 23Moreover
do unto them: and they and without beast, and 17
For thus saith the the word of the LORD
shall fear and tremble in all the cities thereof, LORD; Davida shall never came to Jeremiah,
for all the goodness and shall be an habitation of want a man to sit upon saying, 24
Considerest
for all the prosperity that shepherds causing their the throne of the house thou not what this
I procure unto it. flocks to lie down. 13In of Israel; 18Neither shall people have spoken,
10
Thus saith the the cities of the the priests the Levites saying, The two families
LORD; Again there shall mountains, in the cities want a man before me to which the LORD hath
be heard in this place, of the vale, and in the offer burnt offerings, and chosen, he hath even
which ye say shall be cities of the south, and in to kindle meat offerings, cast them off? thus
desolate without man the land of Benjamin, and to do sacrifice they have despised my
and without beast, even and in the places about continually. 19And the people, that they
in the cities of Judah, Jerusalem, and in the word of the LORD came should be no more a
and in the streets of cities of Judah, shall the unto Jeremiah, saying, nation before them.
Jerusalem, that are flocks pass again under 20
Thus saith the LORD; If 25
Thus saith the LORD;
desolate, without man, the hands of him that ye can break my If my covenant be not
and without inhabitant, telleth them, saith the covenant of the day, and with day and night, and
and without beast, 11The LORD. 14Behold, the days my covenant of the if I have not appointed
voice of joy, and the come, saith the LORD, night, and that there the ordinances of
voice of gladness, the that I will perform that should not be day and heaven and earth;
voice of the bridegroom, good thing which I have night in their season; 26
Then will I cast away
and the voice of the promised unto the house 21
Then may also my the seed of Jacob, and
bride, the voice of them of Israel and to the covenant be broken with David my servant, so
that shall say, Praise the house of Judah. 15In David my servant, that that I will not take any
LORD of hosts: for the those days, and at that he should not have a son of his seed to be rulers
LORD is good; for his time, will I cause the to reign upon his throne; over the seed of
mercy endureth for ever: Branch of righteousness and with the Levites the Abraham, Isaac, and
and of them that shall to grow up unto David; priests, my ministers. Jacob: for I will cause
bring the sacrifice of and he shall execute 22
As the host of heaven their captivity to return,
praise into the house of judgment and cannot be numbered, and have mercy on
the LORD. For I will righteousness in the neither the sand of the them.
cause to return the land. 16
In those days sea measured: so will I
captivity of the land, as shall Judah be saved, multiply the seed of Chapter 34
at the first, saith the and Jerusalem shall dwell David my servant, and
LORD. 12Thus saith the safely: and this is the the Levites that minister
1
The word which
LORD of hosts; Again in name wherewith she came unto Jeremiah
a
this place, which is shall be called, The David...: Heb. There shall not from the LORD, when
be cut off from David
Nebuchadnezzar king of shall they burn odours 10
Now when all the years, thou shalt let
Babylon, and all his for thee; and they will princes, and all the him go free from thee:
army, and all the lament thee, saying, Ah people, which had but your fathers
kingdoms of the earth of lord! for I have entered into the hearkened not unto me,
his dominion, and all the pronounced the word, covenant, heard that neither inclined their
people, fought against saith the LORD. 6Then every one should let his ear. 15
And ye were
Jerusalem, and against Jeremiah the prophet manservant, and every now turned, and had
a

all the cities thereof, spake all these words one his maidservant, go done right in my sight,
saying, 2Thus saith the unto Zedekiah king of free, that none should in proclaiming liberty
LORD, the God of Israel; Judah in Jerusalem, serve themselves of every man to his
Go and speak to 7
When the king of them any more, then neighbour; and ye had
Zedekiah king of Judah, Babylon’s army fought they obeyed, and let made a covenant
and tell him, Thus saith against Jerusalem, and them go. 11But afterward before me in the house
the LORD; Behold, I will against all the cities of they turned, and caused which is called by my
give this city into the Judah that were left, the servants and the name: 16But ye turned
hand of the king of against Lachish, and handmaids, whom they and polluted my name,
Babylon, and he shall against Azekah: for had let go free, to return, and caused every man
burn it with fire: 3And these defenced cities and brought them into his servant, and every
thou shalt not escape remained of the cities of subjection for servants man his handmaid,
out of his hand, but shalt Judah. and for handmaids. whom ye had set at
surely be taken, and 8
This is the word that 12
Therefore the word of liberty at their pleasure,
delivered into his hand; came unto Jeremiah the LORD came to to return, and brought
and thine eyes shall from the LORD, after Jeremiah from the LORD, them into subjection, to
behold the eyes of the that the king Zedekiah saying, 13Thus saith the be unto you for
king of Babylon, and he had made a covenant LORD, the God of Israel; I servants and for
shall speak with thee with all the people which made a covenant with handmaids. 17Therefore
mouth to mouth, and were at Jerusalem, to your fathers in the day thus saith the LORD; Ye
thou shalt go to Babylon. proclaim liberty unto that I brought them forth have not hearkened
4
Yet hear the word of the them; 9That every man out of the land of Egypt, unto me, in proclaiming
LORD, O Zedekiah king should let his out of the house of liberty, every one to his
of Judah; Thus saith the manservant, and every bondmen, saying, 14At brother, and every man
LORD of thee, Thou shalt man his maidservant, the end of seven years to his neighbour:
not die by the sword: being an Hebrew or an let ye go every man his behold, I proclaim a
5
But thou shalt die in Hebrewess, go free; that brother an Hebrew, liberty for you, saith the
peace: and with the none should serve which hath been sold LORD, to the sword, to
burnings of thy fathers, himself of them, to wit, unto thee; and when he the pestilence, and to
the former kings which of a Jew his brother. hath served thee six a
were before thee, so now: Heb. to day
the famine; and I will are gone up from you. God, which was by the dwell in: neither have
make you to be removed 22
Behold, I will command, chamber of the princes, we vineyard, nor field,
into all the kingdoms of saith the LORD, and which was above the nor seed: 10But we have
the earth. 18And I will cause them to return to chamber of Maaseiah the dwelt in tents, and have
give the men that have this city; and they shall son of Shallum, the obeyed, and done
transgressed my fight against it, and take keeper of the doora: according to all that
covenant, which have it, and burn it with fire: 5
And I set before the Jonadab our father
not performed the words and I will make the cities sons of the house of the commanded us. But it
11

of the covenant which of Judah a desolation Rechabites pots full of came to pass, when
they had made before without an inhabitant. wine, and cups, and I Nebuchadrezzar king of
me, when they cut the said unto them, Drink ye Babylon came up into
calf in twain, and passed Chapter 35 wine. 6But they said, We the land, that we said,
between the parts will drink no wine: for Come, and let us go to
thereof, The princes of
19 1
The word which Jonadab the son of Jerusalem for fear of the
Judah, and the princes of came unto Jeremiah Rechab our father army of the Chaldeans,
Jerusalem, the eunuchs, from the LORD in the commanded us, saying, and for fear of the army
and the priests, and all days of Jehoiakim the Ye shall drink no wine, of the Syrians: so we
the people of the land, son of Josiah king of neither ye, nor your sons dwell at Jerusalem.
which passed between Judah, saying, 2Go unto for ever: 7Neither shall 12
Then came the
the parts of the calf; 20I the house of the ye build house, nor sow word of the LORD unto
will even give them into Rechabites, and speak seed, nor plant vineyard, Jeremiah, saying, 13Thus
the hand of their unto them, and bring nor have any: but all saith the LORD of hosts,
enemies, and into the them into the house of your days ye shall dwell the God of Israel; Go
hand of them that seek the LORD, into one of the in tents; that ye may live and tell the men of
their life: and their dead chambers, and give many days in the land Judah and the
bodies shall be for meat them wine to drink. where ye be strangers. inhabitants of
unto the fowls of the
3
Then I took Jaazaniah 8
Thus have we obeyed Jerusalem, Will ye not
heaven, and to the the son of Jeremiah, the the voice of Jonadab the receive instruction to
beasts of the earth. son of Habaziniah, and son of Rechab our father hearken to my words?
21
And Zedekiah king of his brethren, and all his in all that he hath saith the LORD. 14The
Judah and his princes will sons, and the whole charged us, to drink no words of Jonadab the
I give into the hand of house of the Rechabites; wine all our days, we, son of Rechab, that he
their enemies, and into
4
And I brought them into our wives, our sons, nor commanded his sons
the hand of them that the house of the LORD, our daughters; 9Nor to not to drink wine, are
seek their life, and into into the chamber of the build houses for us to performed; for unto this
the hand of the king of sons of Hanan, the son day they drink none,
a
Babylon’s army, which of Igdaliah, a man of door: Heb. threshold, or, but obey their father’s
vessel
commandment: they have not heard; and I have spoken unto thee of their cities. 7It may
notwithstanding I have I have called unto them, against Israel, and be they will present
spoken unto you, rising but they have not against Judah, and their supplication
early and speaking; but answered. 18
And against all the nations, before the LORD, and
ye hearkened not unto Jeremiah said unto the from the day I spake will return every one
me. 15I have sent also house of the Rechabites, unto thee, from the days from his evil way: for
unto you all my servants Thus saith the LORD of of Josiah, even unto this great is the anger and
the prophets, rising up hosts, the God of Israel; day. 3It may be that the the fury that the LORD
early and sending them, Because ye have obeyed house of Judah will hear hath pronounced
saying, Return ye now the commandment of all the evil which I against this people.
every man from his evil Jonadab your father, and purpose to do unto 8
And Baruch the son of
way, and amend your kept all his precepts, and them; that they may Neriah did according to
doings, and go not after done according unto all return every man from all that Jeremiah the
other gods to serve that he hath commanded his evil way; that I may prophet commanded
them, and ye shall dwell you: 19Therefore thus forgive their iniquity and him, reading in the
in the land which I have saith the LORD of hosts, their sin. 4Then Jeremiah book the words of the
given to you and to your the God of Israel; called Baruch the son of LORD in the LORD’S
fathers: but ye have not Jonadab b
the son of Neriah: and Baruch house.
inclined your ear, nor Rechab shall not want a wrote from the mouth of 9
And it came to pass
hearkened unto me. man to stand before me Jeremiah all the words of in the fifth year of
16
Because the sons of for ever. the LORD, which he had Jehoiakim the son of
Jonadab the son of spoken unto him, upon a Josiah king of Judah, in
Rechab have performed Chapter 36 roll of a book. 5And the ninth month, that
the commandment of Jeremiah commanded they proclaimed a fast
their father, which he And it came to pass
1
Baruch, saying, I am before the LORD to all
commanded them; but in the fourth year of shut up; I cannot go into the people in Jerusalem,
this people hath not Jehoiakim the son of the house of the LORD: and to all the people
hearkened unto me: Josiah king of Judah, that 6
Therefore go thou, and that came from the
17
Therefore thus saith this word came unto read in the roll, which cities of Judah unto
the LORD God of hosts, Jeremiah from the LORD, thou hast written from Jerusalem. 10Then read
the God of Israel; Behold, saying, 2Take thee a roll my mouth, the words of Baruch in the book the
I will bring upon Judah of a book, and write the LORD in the ears of words of Jeremiah in
and upon all the therein all the words that the people in the LORD’S the house of the LORD,
inhabitants of Jerusalem b
house upon the fasting in the chamber of
all the evil that I have Jonadab...: Heb. There shall day: and also thou shalt Gemariah the son of
pronounced against not a man be cut off from read them in the ears of Shaphan the scribe, in
them: because I have Jonadab the son of Rechab to all Judah that come out the higher court, at the
spoken unto them, but stand, etc
entrya of the new gate of of Neriah took the roll in out of Elishama the Azriel, and Shelemiah
the LORD’S house, in the his hand, and came unto scribe’s chamber. And the son of Abdeel, to
ears of all the people. them. 15And they said Jehudi read it in the ears take Baruch the scribe
11
When Michaiah the son unto him, Sit down now, of the king, and in the and Jeremiah the
of Gemariah, the son of and read it in our ears. ears of all the princes prophet: but the LORD
Shaphan, had heard out So Baruch read it in their which stood beside the hid them. 27Then the
of the book all the words ears. 16Now it came to king. 22Now the king sat word of the LORD came
of the LORD, 12Then he pass, when they had in the winterhouse in the to Jeremiah, after that
went down into the heard all the words, they ninth month: and there the king had burned the
king’s house, into the were afraid both one and was a fire on the hearth roll, and the words
scribe’s chamber: and, other, and said unto burning before him. which Baruch wrote at
lo, all the princes sat Baruch, We will surely 23
And it came to pass, the mouth of Jeremiah,
there, even Elishama the tell the king of all these that when Jehudi had saying, 28
Take thee
scribe, and Delaiah the words. 17And they asked read three or four again another roll, and
son of Shemaiah, and Baruch, saying, Tell us leaves, he cut it with the write in it all the former
Elnathan the son of now, How didst thou penknife, and cast it into words that were in the
Achbor, and Gemariah write all these words at the fire that was on the first roll, which
the son of Shaphan, and his mouth? 18
Then hearth, until all the roll Jehoiakim the king of
Zedekiah the son of Baruch answered them, was consumed in the fire Judah hath burned.
Hananiah, and all the He pronounced all these that was on the hearth. 29
And thou shalt say to
princes. 13Then Michaiah words unto me with his 24
Yet they were not Jehoiakim king of Judah,
declared unto them all mouth, and I wrote them afraid, nor rent their Thus saith the LORD;
the words that he had with ink in the book. garments, neither the Thou hast burned this
heard, when Baruch read 19
Then said the princes king, nor any of his roll, saying, Why hast
the book in the ears of unto Baruch, Go, hide servants that heard all thou written therein,
the people. 14Therefore thee, thou and Jeremiah; these words. saying, The king of
all the princes sent and let no man know 25
Nevertheless Elnathan Babylon shall certainly
Jehudi the son of where ye be. and Delaiah and come and destroy this
Nethaniah, the son of 20
And they went in to Gemariah had made land, and shall cause to
Shelemiah, the son of the king into the court, intercession to the king cease from thence man
Cushi, unto Baruch, but they laid up the roll that he would not burn and beast? 30Therefore
saying, Take in thine in the chamber of the roll: but he would not thus saith the LORD of
hand the roll wherein Elishama the scribe, and hear them. 26But the king Jehoiakim king of Judah;
thou hast read in the told all the words in the commanded Jerahmeel He shall have none to
ears of the people, and ears of the king. 21So the the son of Hammelechb, sit upon the throne of
come. So Baruch the son king sent Jehudi to fetch and Seraiah the son of David: and his dead
a
the roll: and he took it b
body shall be cast out
entry: or, door of Hammelech: or, of the king
in the day to the heat, neither he, nor his shall return to Egypt into people. 13And when he
and in the night to the servants, nor the people their own land. 8And the was in the gate of
frost. 31And I will punishc of the land, did hearken Chaldeans shall come Benjamin, a captain of
him and his seed and his unto the words of the again, and fight against the ward was there,
servants for their LORD, which he spake this city, and take it, and whose name was Irijah,
iniquity; and I will bring bya the prophet burn it with fire. 9Thus the son of Shelemiah,
upon them, and upon Jeremiah. 3And Zedekiah saith the LORD; Deceive the son of Hananiah;
the inhabitants of the king sent Jehucal the not yourselvesb, saying, and he took Jeremiah
Jerusalem, and upon the son of Shelemiah and The Chaldeans shall the prophet, saying,
men of Judah, all the evil Zephaniah the son of surely depart from us: Thou fallest away to the
that I have pronounced Maaseiah the priest to for they shall not depart. Chaldeans. 14Then said
against them; but they the prophet Jeremiah, 10
For though ye had Jeremiah, It is falsee; I
hearkened not. 32Then saying, Pray now unto smitten the whole army fall not away to the
took Jeremiah another the LORD our God for us. of the Chaldeans that Chaldeans. But he
roll, and gave it to 4
Now Jeremiah came in fight against you, and hearkened not to him:
Baruch the scribe, the and went out among the there remained but so Irijah took Jeremiah,
son of Neriah; who wrote people: for they had not woundedc men among and brought him to the
therein from the mouth put him into prison. them, yet should they princes. 15
Wherefore
of Jeremiah all the words 5
Then Pharaoh’s army rise up every man in his the princes were wroth
of the book which was come forth out of tent, and burn this city with Jeremiah, and
Jehoiakim king of Judah Egypt: and when the with fire. smote him, and put him
had burned in the fire: Chaldeans that besieged 11
And it came to pass, in prison in the house of
and there were added Jerusalem heard tidings that when the army of Jonathan the scribe: for
besides unto them many of them, they departed the Chaldeans was they had made that the
liked words. from Jerusalem. 6Then broken up from prison. 16When Jeremiah
came the word of the Jerusalem for fear of was entered into the
Chapter 37 LORD unto the prophet Pharaoh’s army, 12Then dungeon, and into the
Jeremiah, saying, 7Thus Jeremiah went forth out cabinsf, and Jeremiah
And king Zedekiah
1
saith the LORD, the God of Jerusalem to go into had remained there
the son of Josiah reigned of Israel; Thus shall ye the land of Benjamin, to many days; 17
Then
instead of Coniah the say to the king of Judah, separated himself thence Zedekiah the king sent,
son of Jehoiakim, whom that sent you unto me to in the midst of the and took him out: and
Nebuchadrezzar king of enquire of me; Behold, the king asked him
b
Babylon made king in Pharaoh’s army, which is yourselves: Heb. your souls secretly in his house,
c
the land of Judah. 2But come forth to help you, wounded: Heb. thrust through
d e
separate...: or, to slip away false: Heb. falsehood, or, a
c a
punish: Heb. visit upon by...: Heb. by the hand of the from thence in the midst of the lie
d f
like: Heb. as they prophet people cabins: or, cells
and said, Is there any were spent. Thus and the hands of all the evil in all that they have
word from the LORD? Jeremiah remained in the people, in speaking such done to Jeremiah the
And Jeremiah said, There court of the prison. words unto them: for this prophet, whom they
is: for, said he, thou shalt man seeketh not the have cast into the
be delivered into the Chapter 38 welfarea of this people, dungeon; and he is like
hand of the king of but the hurt. 5
Then to die for hunger in the
Babylon. 18
Moreover
1
Then Shephatiah the Zedekiah the king said, place where he is: for
Jeremiah said unto king son of Mattan, and Behold, he is in your there is no more bread
Zedekiah, What have I Gedaliah the son of hand: for the king is not in the city. 10Then the
offended against thee, or Pashur, and Jucal the son he that can do any thing king commanded
against thy servants, or of Shelemiah, and against you. 6Then took Ebedmelech the
against this people, that Pashur the son of they Jeremiah, and cast Ethiopian, saying, Take
ye have put me in Malchiah, heard the him into the dungeon of from hence thirty men
prison? 19Where are now words that Jeremiah had Malchiah the son of with theec, and take up
your prophets which spoken unto all the Hammelechb, that was in Jeremiah the prophet
prophesied unto you, people, saying, 2Thus the court of the prison: out of the dungeon,
saying, The king of saith the LORD, He that and they let down before he die. 11
So
Babylon shall not come remaineth in this city Jeremiah with cords. And Ebedmelech took the
against you, nor against shall die by the sword, in the dungeon there men with him, and went
this land? 20Therefore by the famine, and by was no water, but mire: into the house of the
hear now, I pray thee, O the pestilence: but he so Jeremiah sunk in the king under the treasury,
my lord the king: let my that goeth forth to the mire. 7
Now when and took thence old
supplication, I pray thee, Chaldeans shall live; for Ebedmelech the cast clouts and old
be accepted before thee; he shall have his life for Ethiopian, one of the rotten rags, and let
that thou cause me not a prey, and shall live. eunuchs which was in them down by cords
to return to the house of
3
Thus saith the LORD, the king’s house, heard into the dungeon to
Jonathan the scribe, lest This city shall surely be that they had put Jeremiah. 12
And
I die there. 21
Then given into the hand of Jeremiah in the dungeon; Ebedmelech the
Zedekiah the king the king of Babylon’s the king then sitting in Ethiopian said unto
commanded that they army, which shall take it. the gate of Benjamin; Jeremiah, Put now
should commit Jeremiah
4
Therefore the princes 8
Ebedmelech went forth these old cast clouts
into the court of the said unto the king, We out of the king’s house, and rotten rags under
prison, and that they beseech thee, let this and spake to the king, thine armholes under
should give him daily a man be put to death: for saying, 9My lord the king, the cords. And Jeremiah
piece of bread out of the thus he weakeneth the these men have done did so. 13So they drew
bakers’ street, until all hands of the men of war up Jeremiah with cords,
a
the bread in the city that remain in this city, welfare: Heb. peace
b c
of Hammelech: or, of the king with thee: Heb. in thine hand
and took him up out of shall live, and this city Thy friendse have set not cause me to return
the dungeon: and shall not be burned with thee on, and have to Jonathan’s house, to
Jeremiah remained in the fire; and thou shalt live, prevailed against thee: die there. 27Then came
court of the prison. and thine house: 18But if thy feet are sunk in the all the princes unto
14
Then Zedekiah the thou wilt not go forth to mire, and they are Jeremiah, and asked
king sent, and took the king of Babylon’s turned away back. 23So him: and he told them
Jeremiah the prophet princes, then shall this they shall bring out all according to all these
unto him into the thirdd city be given into the thy wives and thy words that the king had
entry that is in the house hand of the Chaldeans, children to the commanded. So they
of the LORD: and the and they shall burn it Chaldeans: and thou left off speaking with
king said unto Jeremiah, with fire, and thou shalt shalt not escape out of him; for the matter was
I will ask thee a thing; not escape out of their their hand, but shalt be not perceived. 28
So
hide nothing from me. hand. 19And Zedekiah taken by the hand of the Jeremiah abode in the
15
Then Jeremiah said the king said unto king of Babylon: and court of the prison until
unto Zedekiah, If I Jeremiah, I am afraid of thou shalt cause this city the day that Jerusalem
declare it unto thee, wilt the Jews that are fallen to be burned with fire. was taken: and he was
thou not surely put me to the Chaldeans, lest 24
Then said Zedekiah there when Jerusalem
to death? and if I give they deliver me into unto Jeremiah, Let no was taken.
thee counsel, wilt thou their hand, and they man know of these
not hearken unto me? mock me. 20But Jeremiah words, and thou shalt Chapter 39
16
So Zedekiah the king said, They shall not not die. 25But if the
sware secretly unto deliver thee. Obey, I princes hear that I have
1
In the ninth year of
Jeremiah, saying, As the beseech thee, the voice talked with thee, and Zedekiah king of Judah,
LORD liveth, that made of the LORD, which I they come unto thee, in the tenth month,
us this soul, I will not put speak unto thee: so it and say unto thee, came Nebuchadrezzar
thee to death, neither shall be well unto thee, Declare unto us now king of Babylon and all
will I give thee into the and thy soul shall live. what thou hast said unto his army against
hand of these men that 21
But if thou refuse to go the king, hide it not from Jerusalem, and they
seek thy life. 17Then said forth, this is the word us, and we will not put besieged it. 2And in the
Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, that the LORD hath thee to death; also what eleventh year of
Thus saith the LORD, the shewed me: 22
And, the king said unto thee: Zedekiah, in the fourth
God of hosts, the God of behold, all the women 26
Then thou shalt say month, the ninth day of
Israel; If thou wilt that are left in the king unto them, I presented the month, the city was
assuredly go forth unto of Judah’s house shall be my supplication before broken up. 3And all the
the king of Babylon’s brought forth to the king the king, that he would princes of the king of
princes, then thy soul of Babylon’s princes, and Babylon came in, and
e
those women shall say, Thy friends: Heb. Men of thy sat in the middle gate,
d
third: or, principal peace
even Nergalsharezer, 7
Moreover he put out of the guard, saying, deliver thee in that day,
Samgarnebo, Sarsechim, Zedekiah’s eyes, and 12
Take him, and look well saith the LORD: and
Rabsaris, bound him with chains, to him, and do him no thou shalt not be given
Nergalsharezer, to carry him to Babylon. harm; but do unto him into the hand of the
Rabmag, with all the 8
And the Chaldeans even as he shall say unto men of whom thou art
residue of the princes of burned the king’s house, thee. 13So Nebuzaradan afraid. 18For I will surely
the king of Babylon. 4And and the houses of the the captain of the guard deliver thee, and thou
it came to pass, that people, with fire, and sent, and Nebushasban, shalt not fall by the
when Zedekiah the king brake down the walls of Rabsaris, and sword, but thy life shall
of Judah saw them, and Jerusalem. 9
Then Nergalsharezer, be for a prey unto thee:
all the men of war, then Nebuzaradan the Rabmag, and all the king because thou hast put
they fled, and went forth captain of the guard
b
of Babylon’s princes; thy trust in me, saith
out of the city by night, carried away captive into 14
Even they sent, and the LORD.
by the way of the king’s Babylon the remnant of took Jeremiah out of the
garden, by the gate the people that court of the prison, and Chapter 40
betwixt the two walls: remained in the city, and committed him unto
and he went out the way those that fell away, that Gedaliah the son of The word that came
1

of the plain. 5But the fell to him, with the rest Ahikam the son of to Jeremiah from the
Chaldeans’ army of the people that Shaphan, that he should LORD, after that
pursued after them, and remained. 10
But carry him home: so he Nebuzaradan the
overtook Zedekiah in the Nebuzaradan the captain dwelt among the people. captain of the guard
plains of Jericho: and of the guard left of the 15
Now the word of the had let him go from
when they had taken poor of the people, LORD came unto Ramah, when he had
him, they brought him which had nothing, in Jeremiah, while he was taken him being bound
up to Nebuchadnezzar the land of Judah, and shut up in the court of in chainsa among all
king of Babylon to Riblah gave them vineyards the prison, saying, 16Go that were carried away
in the land of Hamath, and fields at the same and speak to captive of Jerusalem
where he gavea time. Ebedmelech the and Judah, which were
judgment upon him. 11
Now Ethiopian, saying, Thus carried away captive
6
Then the king of Nebuchadrezzar king of saith the LORD of hosts, unto Babylon. 2And the
Babylon slew the sons of Babylon gave charge the God of Israel; Behold, captain of the guard
Zedekiah in Riblah concerning Jeremiah toc I will bring my words took Jeremiah, and said
before his eyes: also the Nebuzaradan the captain upon this city for evil, unto him, The LORD thy
king of Babylon slew all and not for good; and God hath pronounced
b
the nobles of Judah. captain...: or, chief marshal: they shall be this evil upon this place.
Heb. chief of the executioners, accomplished in that day
3
Now the LORD hath
a
gave...: Heb. spake with him or, slaughtermen before thee. 17But I will
c a
judgments to: Heb. by the hand of chains: or, manicles
brought it, and done Jeremiah unto Gedaliah dwell in the land, and that were in the fields,
according as he hath the son of Ahikam to serve the king of came to Gedaliah to
said: because ye have Mizpah; and dwelt with Babylon, and it shall be Mizpah, 14And said unto
sinned against the LORD, him among the people well with you. 10As for him, Dost thou certainly
and have not obeyed his that were left in the land. me, behold, I will dwell know that Baalis the
voice, therefore this 7
Now when all the at Mizpah to serveb the king of the Ammonites
thing is come upon you. captains of the forces Chaldeans, which will hath sent Ishmael the
4
And now, behold, I loose which were in the fields, come unto us: but ye, son of Nethaniah to
thee this day from the even they and their men, gather ye wine, and slayc thee? But
chains which were upon heard that the king of summer fruits, and oil, Gedaliah the son of
thine hand. If it seem Babylon had made and put them in your Ahikam believed them
good unto thee to come Gedaliah the son of vessels, and dwell in not. 15Then Johanan the
with me into Babylon, Ahikam governor in the your cities that ye have son of Kareah spake to
come; and I will look well land, and had committed taken. 11Likewise when Gedaliah in Mizpah
unto thee: but if it seem unto him men, and all the Jews that were in secretly, saying, Let me
ill unto thee to come women, and children, Moab, and among the go, I pray thee, and I
with me into Babylon, and of the poor of the Ammonites, and in will slay Ishmael the
forbear: behold, all the land, of them that were Edom, and that were in son of Nethaniah, and
land is before thee: not carried away captive all the countries, heard no man shall know it:
whither it seemeth good to Babylon; 8Then they that the king of Babylon wherefore should he
and convenient for thee came to Gedaliah to had left a remnant of slay thee, that all the
to go, thither go. 5Now Mizpah, even Ishmael Judah, and that he had Jews which are
while he was not yet the son of Nethaniah, set over them Gedaliah gathered unto thee
gone back, he said, Go and Johanan and the son of Ahikam the should be scattered,
back also to Gedaliah Jonathan the sons of son of Shaphan; 12Even and the remnant in
the son of Ahikam the Kareah, and Seraiah the all the Jews returned out Judah perish? 16
But
son of Shaphan, whom son of Tanhumeth, and of all places whither they Gedaliah the son of
the king of Babylon hath the sons of Ephai the were driven, and came Ahikam said unto
made governor over the Netophathite, and to the land of Judah, to Johanan the son of
cities of Judah, and dwell Jezaniah the son of a Gedaliah, unto Mizpah, Kareah, Thou shalt not
with him among the Maachathite, they and and gathered wine and do this thing: for thou
people: or go their men. 9And Gedaliah summer fruits very speakest falsely of
wheresoever it seemeth the son of Ahikam the much. 13
Moreover Ishmael.
convenient unto thee to son of Shaphan sware Johanan the son of
go. So the captain of the unto them and to their Kareah, and all the Chapter 41
guard gave him victuals men, saying, Fear not to captains of the forces c
and a reward, and let serve the Chaldeans: to slay...: Heb. to strike thee
b
him go. 6Then went to serve: Heb. to stand before in soul?
1
Now it came to pass their beards shaven, and brethren. 9Now the pit Nethaniah had done,
in the seventh month, their clothes rent, and wherein Ishmael had 12
Then they took all the
that Ishmael the son of having cut themselves, cast all the dead bodies men, and went to fight
Nethaniah the son of with offerings and of the men, whom he with Ishmael the son of
Elishama, of the seed incense in their hand, to had slain becauseb of Nethaniah, and found
royal, and the princes of bring them to the house Gedaliah, was it which him by the great waters
the king, even ten men of the LORD. 6
And Asa the king had made that are in Gibeon.
with him, came unto Ishmael the son of for fear of Baasha king of 13
Now it came to pass,
Gedaliah the son of Nethaniah went forth Israel: and Ishmael the that when all the people
Ahikam to Mizpah; and from Mizpah to meet son of Nethaniah filled it which were with
there they did eat bread them, weepinga all along with them that were Ishmael saw Johanan
together in Mizpah. as he went: and it came slain. 10
Then Ishmael the son of Kareah, and
2
Then arose Ishmael the to pass, as he met them, carried away captive all all the captains of the
son of Nethaniah, and he said unto them, Come the residue of the people forces that were with
the ten men that were to Gedaliah the son of that were in Mizpah, him, then they were
with him, and smote Ahikam. 7And it was so, even the king’s glad. 14So all the people
Gedaliah the son of when they came into the daughters, and all the that Ishmael had
Ahikam the son of midst of the city, that people that remained in carried away captive
Shaphan with the sword, Ishmael the son of Mizpah, whom from Mizpah cast about
and slew him, whom the Nethaniah slew them, Nebuzaradan the captain and returned, and went
king of Babylon had and cast them into the of the guard had unto Johanan the son of
made governor over the midst of the pit, he, and committed to Gedaliah Kareah. 15But Ishmael
land. 3Ishmael also slew the men that were with the son of Ahikam: and the son of Nethaniah
all the Jews that were him. 8But ten men were Ishmael the son of escaped from Johanan
with him, even with found among them that Nethaniah carried them with eight men, and
Gedaliah, at Mizpah, and said unto Ishmael, Slay away captive, and went to the Ammonites.
the Chaldeans that were us not: for we have departed to go over to 16
Then took Johanan the
found there, and the treasures in the field, of the Ammonites. son of Kareah, and all
men of war. 4And it came wheat, and of barley, 11
But when Johanan the captains of the
to pass the second day and of oil, and of honey. the son of Kareah, and forces that were with
after he had slain So he forbare, and slew all the captains of the him, all the remnant of
Gedaliah, and no man them not among their forces that were with the people whom he
knew it, 5That there him, heard of all the evil had recovered from
came certain from that Ishmael the son of Ishmael the son of
Shechem, from Shiloh, b
Nethaniah, from
and from Samaria, even because...: or, near Gedaliah: Mizpah, after that he
a
fourscore men, having weeping...: Heb. in going and Heb. by the hand, or, by the had slain Gedaliah the
weeping side of Gedaliah
son of Ahikam, even be accepted before thee, our God. will not dwell in this
mighty men of war, and and pray for us unto the 7
And it came to pass land, neither obey the
the women, and the LORD thy God, even for after ten days, that the voice of the LORD your
children, and the all this remnant; (for we word of the LORD came God, 14Saying, No; but
eunuchs, whom he had are left but a few of unto Jeremiah. 8Then we will go into the land
brought again from many, as thine eyes do called he Johanan the of Egypt, where we
Gibeon: 17
And they behold us:) 3
That the son of Kareah, and all shall see no war, nor
departed, and dwelt in LORD thy God may shew the captains of the hear the sound of the
the habitation of us the way wherein we forces which were with trumpet, nor have
Chimham, which is by may walk, and the thing him, and all the people hunger of bread; and
Bethlehem, to go to that we may do. 4Then from the least even to there will we dwell:
enter into Egypt, Jeremiah the prophet the greatest, 9And said 15
And now therefore
18
Because of the said unto them, I have unto them, Thus saith hear the word of the
Chaldeans: for they were heard you; behold, I will the LORD, the God of LORD, ye remnant of
afraid of them, because pray unto the LORD your Israel, unto whom ye Judah; Thus saith the
Ishmael the son of God according to your sent me to present your LORD of hosts, the God
Nethaniah had slain words; and it shall come supplication before him; of Israel; If ye wholly
Gedaliah the son of to pass, that whatsoever 10
If ye will still abide in set your faces to enter
Ahikam, whom the king thing the LORD shall this land, then will I build into Egypt, and go to
of Babylon made answer you, I will declare you, and not pull you sojourn there; 16Then it
governor in the land. it unto you; I will keep down, and I will plant shall come to pass, that
nothing back from you. you, and not pluck you the sword, which ye
Chapter 42 5
Then they said to up: for I repent me of the feared, shall overtake
Jeremiah, The LORD be a evil that I have done you there in the land of
Then all the captains
1
true and faithful witness unto you. 11Be not afraid Egypt, and the famine,
of the forces, and between us, if we do not of the king of Babylon, of whereof ye were afraid,
Johanan the son of even according to all whom ye are afraid; be shall follow close after
Kareah, and Jezaniah the things for the which the not afraid of him, saith you there in Egypt; and
son of Hoshaiah, and all LORD thy God shall send the LORD: for I am with there ye shall die. 17So
the people from the least thee to us. 6Whether it you to save you, and to shall it be with all the
even unto the greatest, be good, or whether it deliver you from his men that set their faces
came near, 2And said be evil, we will obey the hand. 12And I will shew to go into Egypt to
unto Jeremiah the voice of the LORD our mercies unto you, that sojourn there; they
prophet, Let, we beseech God, to whom we send he may have mercy shall die by the sword,
thee, our supplicationa thee; that it may be well upon you, and cause you by the famine, and by
a
with us, when we obey to return to your own the pestilence: and
Let...: or, Let our supplication the voice of the LORD land. 13But if ye say, We none of them shall
fall before thee
remain or escape from now I have this day son of Neriah setteth obeyed not the voice of
the evil that I will bring declared it to you; but ye thee on against us, for to the LORD: thus came
upon them. 18For thus have not obeyed the deliver us into the hand they even to
saith the LORD of hosts, voice of the LORD your of the Chaldeans, that Tahpanhes.
the God of Israel; As God, nor any thing for they might put us to 8
Then came the word
mine anger and my fury the which he hath sent death, and carry us away of the LORD unto
hath been poured forth me unto you. 22Now captives into Babylon. Jeremiah in Tahpanhes,
upon the inhabitants of therefore know certainly 4
So Johanan the son of saying, 9
Take great
Jerusalem; so shall my that ye shall die by the Kareah, and all the stones in thine hand,
fury be poured forth sword, by the famine, captains of the forces, and hide them in the
upon you, when ye shall and by the pestilence, in and all the people, clay in the brickkiln,
enter into Egypt: and ye the place whither ye obeyed not the voice of which is at the entry of
shall be an execration, desire to god and to the LORD, to dwell in the Pharaoh’s house in
and an astonishment, sojourn. land of Judah. 5But Tahpanhes, in the sight
and a curse, and a Johanan the son of of the men of Judah;
reproach; and ye shall Chapter 43 Kareah, and all the 10
And say unto them,
see this place no more. captains of the forces, Thus saith the LORD of
19
The LORD hath said And it came to pass,
1
took all the remnant of hosts, the God of Israel;
concerning you, O ye that when Jeremiah had Judah, that were Behold, I will send and
remnant of Judah; Go ye made an end of speaking returned from all take Nebuchadrezzar
not into Egypt: know unto all the people all nations, whither they the king of Babylon, my
certainly that I have the words of the LORD had been driven, to servant, and will set his
admonishedb you this their God, for which the dwell in the land of throne upon these
day. 20
For ye LORD their God had sent Judah; 6Even men, and stones that I have hid;
dissembled c
in your him to them, even all women, and children, and he shall spread his
hearts, when ye sent me these words, 2
Then and the king’s royal pavilion over
unto the LORD your God, spake Azariah the son of daughters, and every them. 11And when he
saying, Pray for us unto Hoshaiah, and Johanan person that cometh, he shall smite
the LORD our God; and the son of Kareah, and Nebuzaradan the captain the land of Egypt, and
according unto all that all the proud men, of the guard had left deliver such as are for
the LORD our God shall saying unto Jeremiah, with Gedaliah the son of death to death; and
say, so declare unto us, Thou speakest falsely: Ahikam the son of such as are for captivity
and we will do it. 21And the LORD our God hath Shaphan, and Jeremiah to captivity; and such
not sent thee to say, Go the prophet, and Baruch as are for the sword to
b
admonished...: Heb. testified not into Egypt to sojourn the son of Neriah. 7So the sword. 12And I will
against you there: 3But Baruch the they came into the land kindle a fire in the
c
ye dissembled...: or, ye have of Egypt: for they houses of the gods of
d
used deceit against your souls to go...: or, to go to sojourn
Egypt; and he shall burn dwelleth therein, suckling, outa of Judah, statutes, that I set
them, and carry them 3
Because of their to leave you none to before you and before
away captives: and he wickedness which they remain; 8
In that ye your fathers.
shall array himself with have committed to provoke me unto wrath 11
Therefore thus saith
the land of Egypt, as a provoke me to anger, in with the works of your the LORD of hosts, the
shepherd putteth on his that they went to burn hands, burning incense God of Israel; Behold, I
garment; and he shall go incense, and to serve unto other gods in the will set my face against
forth from thence in other gods, whom they land of Egypt, whither ye you for evil, and to cut
peace. 13He shall break knew not, neither they, be gone to dwell, that ye off all Judah. 12And I will
also the imagesa of ye, nor your fathers. might cut yourselves off, take the remnant of
Bethshemesh, that is in 4
Howbeit I sent unto you and that ye might be a Judah, that have set
the land of Egypt; and all my servants the curse and a reproach their faces to go into
the houses of the gods of prophets, rising early among all the nations of the land of Egypt to
the Egyptians shall he and sending them, the earth? 9Have ye sojourn there, and they
burn with fire. saying, Oh, do not this forgotten the shall all be consumed,
abominable thing that I wickedness b
of your and fall in the land of
Chapter 44 hate. 5
But they fathers, and the Egypt; they shall even
hearkened not, nor wickedness of the kings be consumed by the
The word that came
1
inclined their ear to turn of Judah, and the sword and by the
to Jeremiah concerning from their wickedness, to wickedness of their famine: they shall die,
all the Jews which dwell burn no incense unto wives, and your own from the least even
in the land of Egypt, other gods. 6Wherefore wickedness, and the unto the greatest, by
which dwell at Migdol, my fury and mine anger wickedness of your the sword and by the
and at Tahpanhes, and was poured forth, and wives, which they have famine: and they shall
at Noph, and in the was kindled in the cities committed in the land of be an execration, and
country of Pathros, of Judah and in the Judah, and in the streets an astonishment, and a
saying, 2Thus saith the streets of Jerusalem; and of Jerusalem? 10They are curse, and a reproach.
LORD of hosts, the God they are wasted and not humbledc even unto 13
For I will punish them
of Israel; Ye have seen desolate, as at this day. this day, neither have that dwell in the land of
all the evil that I have 7
Therefore now thus they feared, nor walked Egypt, as I have
brought upon Jerusalem, saith the LORD, the God in my law, nor in my punished Jerusalem, by
and upon all the cities of of hosts, the God of the sword, by the
a
Judah; and, behold, this Israel; Wherefore commit out...: Heb. out of the midst of famine, and by the
day they are a ye this great evil against Judah pestilence: 14So that
b
desolation, and no man your souls, to cut off wickedness...: Heb. none of the remnant of
from you man and wickednesses, or, punishments, Judah, which are gone
a
images: Heb. statues, or, woman, child and etc into the land of Egypt to
c
standing images humbled: Heb. contrite
sojourn there, shall in the streets of came it not into his vows that we have
escape or remain, that Jerusalem: for then had mind? 22So that the vowed, to burn incense
they should return into we plenty of victuals, LORD could no longer to the queen of heaven,
the land of Judah, to the and were well, and saw bear, because of the evil and to pour out drink
which they haved a no evil. 18But since we of your doings, and offerings unto her: ye
desire to return to dwell left off to burn incense to because of the will surely accomplish
there: for none shall the queen of heaven, abominations which ye your vows, and surely
return but such as shall and to pour out drink have committed; perform your vows.
escape. offerings unto her, we therefore is your land a 26
Therefore hear ye the
15
Then all the men have wanted all things, desolation, and an word of the LORD, all
which knew that their and have been astonishment, and a Judah that dwell in the
wives had burned consumed by the sword curse, without an land of Egypt; Behold, I
incense unto other gods, and by the famine. 19And inhabitant, as at this have sworn by my great
and all the women that when we burned incense day. 23Because ye have name, saith the LORD,
stood by, a great to the queen of heaven, burned incense, and that my name shall no
multitude, even all the and poured out drink because ye have sinned more be named in the
people that dwelt in the offerings unto her, did against the LORD, and mouth of any man of
land of Egypt, in Pathros, we make her cakes to have not obeyed the Judah in all the land of
answered Jeremiah, worship her, and pour voice of the LORD, nor Egypt, saying, The Lord
saying, As for the word
16
out drink offerings unto walked in his law, nor in GOD liveth. 27Behold, I
that thou hast spoken her, without our menf? his statutes, nor in his will watch over them for
unto us in the name of 20
Then Jeremiah said testimonies; therefore evil, and not for good:
the LORD, we will not unto all the people, to this evil is happened and all the men of
hearken unto thee. 17But the men, and to the unto you, as at this day. Judah that are in the
we will certainly do women, and to all the 24
Moreover Jeremiah said land of Egypt shall be
whatsoever thing goeth people which had given unto all the people, and consumed by the sword
forth out of our own him that answer, saying, to all the women, Hear and by the famine, until
mouth, to burn incense 21
The incense that ye the word of the LORD, all there be an end of
unto the queene of burned in the cities of Judah that are in the them. 28Yet a small
heaven, and to pour out Judah, and in the streets land of Egypt: 25Thus number that escape the
drink offerings unto her, of Jerusalem, ye, and saith the LORD of hosts, sword shall return out
as we have done, we, your fathers, your kings, the God of Israel, saying; of the land of Egypt into
and our fathers, our and your princes, and Ye and your wives have the land of Judah, and
kings, and our princes, in the people of the land, both spoken with your all the remnant of
the cities of Judah, and did not the LORD mouths, and fulfilled with Judah, that are gone
d
remember them, and your hand, saying, We into the land of Egypt to
have...: Heb. lift up their soul will surely perform our sojourn there, shall
e f
queen...: or, frame of heaven men: or, husbands?
know whose words shall of Israel, unto thee, O fourth year of Jehoiakim and let the mighty men
stand, mine, or theirs. g Baruch; 3Thou didst say, the son of Josiah king of come forth; the
29
And this shall be a sign Woe is me now! for the Judah. 3Order ye the Ethiopiansa and the
unto you, saith the LORD hath added grief buckler and shield, and Libyans, that handle the
LORD, that I will punish to my sorrow; I fainted in draw near to battle. shield; and the Lydians,
you in this place, that ye my sighing, and I find no 4
Harness the horses; and that handle and bend
may know that my words rest. 4Thus shalt thou say get up, ye horsemen, the bow. 10
For this is
shall surely stand unto him, The LORD and stand forth with the day of the Lord
against you for evil: saith thus; Behold, that your helmets; furbish the GOD of hosts, a day of
30
Thus saith the LORD; which I have built will I spears, and put on the vengeance, that he
Behold, I will give break down, and that brigandines. 5Wherefore may avenge him of his
Pharaohhophra king of which I have planted I have I seen them adversaries: and the
Egypt into the hand of will pluck up, even this dismayed and turned sword shall devour, and
his enemies, and into the whole land. 5And seekest away back? and their it shall be satiate and
hand of them that seek thou great things for mighty ones are beaten made drunk with their
his life; as I gave thyself? seek them not: down, and are fled blood: for the Lord GOD
Zedekiah king of Judah for, behold, I will bring apace, and look not of hosts hath a sacrifice
into the hand of evil upon all flesh, saith back: for fear was round in the north country by
Nebuchadrezzar king of the LORD: but thy life about, saith the LORD. the river Euphrates.
Babylon, his enemy, and will I give unto thee for a 6
Let not the swift flee 11
Go up into Gilead, and
that sought his life. prey in all places whither away, nor the mighty take balm, O virgin, the
thou goest. man escape; they shall daughter of Egypt: in
Chapter 45 stumble, and fall toward vain shalt thou use
Chapter 46 the north by the river many medicines; for
The
1
word that Euphrates. 7Who is this thou shalt not be cured.
Jeremiah the prophet 1
The word of the that cometh up as a 12
The nations have
spake unto Baruch the LORD which came to flood, whose waters are heard of thy shame,
son of Neriah, when he Jeremiah the prophet moved as the rivers? and thy cry hath filled
had written these words against the Gentiles; 8
Egypt riseth up like a the land: for the mighty
in a book at the mouth of 2
Against Egypt, against flood, and his waters are man hath stumbled
Jeremiah, in the fourth the army of moved like the rivers; against the mighty, and
year of Jehoiakim the Pharaohnecho king of and he saith, I will go up, they are fallen both
son of Josiah king of Egypt, which was by the and will cover the earth; together. 13The word
Judah, saying, 2
Thus river Euphrates in I will destroy the city and that the LORD spake to
saith the LORD, the God Carchemish, which the inhabitants thereof. Jeremiah the prophet,
Nebuchadrezzar king of 9
Come up, ye horses; how Nebuchadrezzar
g
mine...: Heb. from me, or, Babylon smote in the and rage, ye chariots; a
from them the Ethiopians: Heb. Cush
king of Babylon should captivity: for Noph shall saith; Behold, I will yet will I not leave thee
come and smite the land be waste and desolate punish the multituded of wholly unpunished.
of Egypt. 14Declare ye in without an inhabitant. No, and Pharaoh, and
Egypt, and publish in 20
Egypt is like a very fair Egypt, with their gods, Chapter 47
Migdol, and publish in heifer, but destruction and their kings; even
Noph and in Tahpanhes: cometh; it cometh out of Pharaoh, and all them The word of the
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say ye, Stand fast, and the north. 21Also her that trust in him: 26And I LORD that came to
prepare thee; for the hired men are in the will deliver them into the Jeremiah the prophet
sword shall devour round midst of her like fattedc hand of those that seek against the Philistines,
about thee. 15Why are bullocks; for they also their lives, and into the before that Pharaoh
thy valiant men swept are turned back, and are hand of Nebuchadrezzar smote Gazaa. 2
Thus
away? they stood not, fled away together: they king of Babylon, and into saith the LORD; Behold,
because the LORD did did not stand, because the hand of his servants: waters rise up out of
drive them. 16He made the day of their calamity and afterward it shall be the north, and shall be
many to fall, yea, one was come upon them, inhabited, as in the days an overflowing flood,
fell upon another: and and the time of their of old, saith the LORD. and shall overflow the
they said, Arise, and let visitation. 22
The voice 27
But fear not thou, O my land, and all that is
us go again to our own thereof shall go like a servant Jacob, and be therein; the city, and
people, and to the land serpent; for they shall not dismayed, O Israel: them that dwell therein:
of our nativity, from the march with an army, and for, behold, I will save then the men shall cry,
oppressing sword. come against her with thee from afar off, and and all the inhabitants
17
They did cry there, axes, as hewers of wood. thy seed from the land of of the land shall howl.
Pharaoh king of Egypt is 23
They shall cut down her their captivity; and Jacob
3
At the noise of the
but a noise; he hath forest, saith the LORD, shall return, and be in stamping of the hoofs
passed the time though it cannot be rest and at ease, and of his strong horses, at
appointed. 18
As I live, searched; because they none shall make him the rushing of his
saith the King, whose are more than the afraid. 28Fear thou not, O chariots, and at the
name is the LORD of grasshoppers, and are Jacob my servant, saith rumbling of his wheels,
hosts, Surely as Tabor is innumerable. 24
The the LORD: for I am with the fathers shall not
among the mountains, daughter of Egypt shall thee; for I will make a look back to their
and as Carmel by the be confounded; she shall full end of all the nations children for feebleness
sea, so shall he come. be delivered into the whither I have driven of hands; 4Because of
19
O thou daughter hand of the people of the thee: but I will not make the day that cometh to
dwelling in Egypt, north. 25The LORD of a full end of thee, but spoil all the Philistines,
furnishb thyself to go into hosts, the God of Israel, correct thee in measure; and to cut off from
Tyrus and Zidon every
b c d
furnish...: Heb. make thee fatted...: Heb. bullocks of the multitude: or, nourisher: Heb.
a
instruments of captivity stall Amon Gaza: Heb. Azzah
helper that remaineth: against it; come, and let the LORD hath spoken. mighty and strong men
for the LORD will spoil us cut it off from being a 9
Give wings unto Moab, for the war? 15Moab is
the Philistines, the nation. Also thou shalt that it may flee and get spoiled, and gone up
remnant of the countryb be cut down, O Madmen; away: for the cities out of her cities, and his
of Caphtor. 5Baldness is the sword shall pursue thereof shall be chosen young men are
come upon Gaza; thee. 3A voice of crying desolate, without any to gone down to the
Ashkelon is cut off with shall be from Horonaim, dwell therein. 10Cursed slaughter, saith the
the remnant of their spoiling and great be he that doeth the King, whose name is
valley: how long wilt destruction. 4Moab is work of the LORD the LORD of hosts.
thou cut thyself? 6O thou destroyed; her little ones deceitfully , and cursed
d 16
The calamity of Moab
sword of the LORD, how have caused a cry to be be he that keepeth back is near to come, and his
long will it be ere thou heard. 5For in the going his sword from blood. affliction hasteth fast.
be quiet? put up thyself up of Luhith continualb 11
Moab hath been at 17
All ye that are about
into thy scabbard, rest, weeping shall go up; for ease from his youth, and him, bemoan him; and
and be still. 7How can it in the going down of he hath settled on his all ye that know his
be quiet, seeing the Horonaim the enemies lees, and hath not been name, say, How is the
LORD hath given it a have heard a cry of emptied from vessel to strong staff broken, and
charge against Ashkelon, destruction. 6Flee, save vessel, neither hath he the beautiful rod!
and against the sea your lives, and be like gone into captivity: 18
Thou daughter that
shore? there hath he the heathc in the therefore his taste dost inhabit Dibon,
appointed it. wilderness. 7For because remainede in him, and come down from thy
thou hast trusted in thy his scent is not changed. glory, and sit in thirst;
Chapter 48 works and in thy 12
Therefore, behold, the for the spoiler of Moab
treasures, thou shalt also days come, saith the shall come upon thee,
Against Moab thus
1
be taken: and Chemosh LORD, that I will send and he shall destroy thy
saith the LORD of hosts, shall go forth into unto him wanderers, that strong holds. 19
O
the God of Israel; Woe captivity with his priests shall cause him to inhabitant f
of Aroer,
unto Nebo! for it is and his princes together. wander, and shall empty stand by the way, and
spoiled: Kiriathaim is 8
And the spoiler shall his vessels, and break espy; ask him that
confounded and taken: come upon every city, their bottles. 13And Moab fleeth, and her that
Misgaba is confounded and no city shall escape: shall be ashamed of escapeth, and say,
and dismayed. 2
There the valley also shall Chemosh, as the house What is done? 20
Moab
shall be no more praise perish, and the plain of Israel was ashamed of is confounded; for it is
of Moab: in Heshbon shall be destroyed, as Bethel their confidence. broken down: howl and
they have devised evil 14
How say ye, We are cry; tell ye it in Arnon,
b
continual...: Heb. weeping that Moab is spoiled,
b d
the country: Heb. the isle with weeping deceitfully: or, negligently
a c e f
Misgab: or, the high place the heath: or, a naked tree remained: Heb. stood inhabitant: Heb. inhabitress
21
And judgment is come mouth. 29We have heard unto Jahaz, have they down! how hath Moab
upon the plain country; the pride of Moab, (he is uttered their voice, from turned the backk with
upon Holon, and upon exceeding proud) his Zoar even unto shame! so shall Moab
Jahazah, and upon loftiness, and his Horonaim, as an heifer of be a derision and a
Mephaath, 22And upon arrogancy, and his pride, three years old: for the dismaying to all them
Dibon, and upon Nebo, and the haughtiness of waters also of Nimrim about him. 40For thus
and upon his heart. 30I know his shall be desolatei. saith the LORD; Behold,
Bethdiblathaim, 23
And wrath, saith the LORD; 35
Moreover I will cause to he shall fly as an eagle,
upon Kiriathaim, and but it shall not be so; his cease in Moab, saith the and shall spread his
upon Bethgamul, and liesh shall not so effect it. LORD, him that offereth wings over Moab.
upon Bethmeon, 24And 31
Therefore will I howl for in the high places, and 41
Keriothl is taken, and
upon Kerioth, and upon Moab, and I will cry out him that burneth incense the strong holds are
Bozrah, and upon all the for all Moab; mine heart to his gods. 36Therefore surprised, and the
cities of the land of shall mourn for the men mine heart shall sound mighty men’s hearts in
Moab, far or near. 25The of Kirheres. 32O vine of for Moab like pipes, and Moab at that day shall
horn of Moab is cut off, Sibmah, I will weep for mine heart shall sound be as the heart of a
and his arm is broken, thee with the weeping of like pipes for the men of woman in her pangs.
saith the LORD. 26Make Jazer: thy plants are Kirheres: because the 42
And Moab shall be
ye him drunken: for he gone over the sea, they riches that he hath destroyed from being a
magnified himself reach even to the sea of gotten are perished. people, because he
against the LORD: Moab Jazer: the spoiler is fallen 37
For every head shall be hath magnified himself
also shall wallow in his upon thy summer fruits bald, and every beard against the LORD.
vomit, and he also shall and upon thy vintage. clippedj: upon all the 43
Fear, and the pit, and
be in derision. 27For was 33
And joy and gladness is hands shall be cuttings, the snare, shall be upon
not Israel a derision unto taken from the plentiful and upon the loins thee, O inhabitant of
thee? was he found field, and from the land sackcloth. 38There shall Moab, saith the LORD.
among thieves? for since of Moab; and I have be lamentation generally 44
He that fleeth from
thou spakest of him, caused wine to fail from upon all the housetops of the fear shall fall into
thou skippedstg for joy. the winepresses: none Moab, and in the streets the pit; and he that
28
O ye that dwell in shall tread with shouting; thereof: for I have getteth up out of the pit
Moab, leave the cities, their shouting shall be broken Moab like a shall be taken in the
and dwell in the rock, no shouting. 34From the vessel wherein is no snare: for I will bring
and be like the dove that cry of Heshbon even pleasure, saith the upon it, even upon
maketh her nest in the unto Elealeh, and even LORD. They shall howl,
39
Moab, the year of their
sides of the hole’s h
saying, How is it broken visitation, saith the
his lies...: or, those on whom
g i k
skippedst...: or, movedst he stayeth (Heb. his bars) do desolate: Heb. desolations back: Heb. neck
j l
thyself not right clipped: Heb. diminished Kerioth: or, The cities
LORD. 45They that fled will cause an alarm of again the captivity of the to drink of the cup have
stood under the shadow war to be heard in children of Ammon, saith assuredly drunken; and
of Heshbon because of Rabbah of the the LORD. art thou he that shall
the force: but a fire shall Ammonites; and it shall 7
Concerning Edom, altogether go
come forth out of be a desolate heap, and thus saith the LORD of unpunished? thou shalt
Heshbon, and a flame her daughters shall be hosts; Is wisdom no not go unpunished, but
from the midst of Sihon, burned with fire: then more in Teman? is thou shalt surely drink
and shall devour the shall Israel be heir unto counsel perished from of it. 13For I have sworn
corner of Moab, and the them that were his heirs, the prudent? is their by myself, saith the
crown of the head of the saith the LORD. 3Howl, O wisdom vanished? 8Flee LORD, that Bozrah shall
tumultuousm ones. Heshbon, for Ai is ye, turn back, dwell become a desolation, a
46
Woe be unto thee, O spoiled: cry, ye deep, O inhabitants of reproach, a waste, and
Moab! the people of daughters of Rabbah, Dedan; for I will bring the a curse; and all the
Chemosh perisheth: for gird you with sackcloth; calamity of Esau upon cities thereof shall be
thy sons are taken lament, and run to and him, the time that I will perpetual wastes. 14I
captives, and thy fro by the hedges; for visit him. 9
If have heard a rumour
daughters captives. their kinga shall go into grapegatherers come to from the LORD, and an
47
Yet will I bring again captivity, and his priests thee, would they not ambassador is sent
the captivity of Moab in and his princes together. leave some gleaning unto the heathen,
the latter days, saith the 4
Wherefore gloriest thou grapes? if thieves by saying, Gather ye
LORD. Thus far is the in the valleys, thy night, they will destroy together, and come
judgment of Moab. flowing valley, O till they have enough. against her, and rise up
backsliding daughter? 10
But I have made Esau to the battle. 15For, lo, I
Chapter 49 that trusted in her bare, I have uncovered will make thee small
treasures, saying, Who his secret places, and he among the heathen,
1
Concerning the shall come unto me? shall not be able to hide and despised among
Ammonites, thus saith 5
Behold, I will bring a himself: his seed is men. 16Thy terribleness
the LORD; Hath Israel no fear upon thee, saith the spoiled, and his hath deceived thee,
sons? hath he no heir? Lord GOD of hosts, from brethren, and his and the pride of thine
why then doth their king all those that be about neighbours, and he is heart, O thou that
inherit Gad, and his thee; and ye shall be not. 11
Leave thy dwellest in the clefts of
people dwell in his driven out every man fatherless children, I will the rock, that holdest
cities? 2
Therefore, right forth; and none preserve them alive; and the height of the hill:
behold, the days come, shall gather up him that let thy widows trust in though thou shouldest
saith the LORD, that I wandereth. 6
And me. 12For thus saith the make thy nest as high
m
afterward I will bring LORD; Behold, they as the eagle, I will bring
tumultuous...: Heb. children whose judgment was not thee down from thence,
a
of noise their king: or, Melcom
saith the LORD. 17Also desolate with them. of hosts. 27And I will bars, which dwell alone.
Edom shall be a 21
The earth is moved at kindle a fire in the wall of 32
And their camels shall
desolation: every one the noise of their fall, at Damascus, and it shall be a booty, and the
that goeth by it shall be the cry the noise thereof consume the palaces of multitude of their cattle
astonished, and shall was heard in the Red Benhadad. a spoil: and I will scatter
hiss at all the plagues seab. 22Behold, he shall 28
Concerning Kedar, into all winds them that
thereof. 18As in the come up and fly as the and concerning the are in the utmost
overthrow of Sodom and eagle, and spread his kingdoms of Hazor, corners; and I will bring
Gomorrah and the wings over Bozrah: and which Nebuchadrezzar their calamity from all
neighbour cities thereof, at that day shall the king of Babylon shall sides thereof, saith the
saith the LORD, no man heart of the mighty men smite, thus saith the LORD. 33
And Hazor
shall abide there, neither of Edom be as the heart LORD; Arise ye, go up to shall be a dwelling for
shall a son of man dwell of a woman in her pangs. Kedar, and spoil the men dragons, and a
in it. 19Behold, he shall 23
Concerning of the east. 29Their tents desolation for ever:
come up like a lion from Damascus. Hamath is and their flocks shall there shall no man
the swelling of Jordan confounded, and Arpad: they take away: they abide there, nor any
against the habitation of for they have heard evil shall take to themselves son of man dwell in it.
the strong: but I will tidings: they are their curtains, and all 34
The word of the
suddenly make him run faintheartedc; there is their vessels, and their LORD that came to
away from her: and who sorrow on the sea; it camels; and they shall Jeremiah the prophet
is a chosen man, that I cannot be quiet. cry unto them, Fear is on against Elam in the
may appoint over her? 24
Damascus is waxed every side. 30Flee, getd beginning of the reign
for who is like me? and feeble, and turneth you far off, dwell deep, O of Zedekiah king of
who will appoint me the herself to flee, and fear ye inhabitants of Hazor, Judah, saying, 35Thus
time? and who is that hath seized on her: saith the LORD; for saith the LORD of hosts;
shepherd that will stand anguish and sorrows Nebuchadrezzar king of Behold, I will break the
before me? 20Therefore have taken her, as a Babylon hath taken bow of Elam, the chief
hear the counsel of the woman in travail. 25How counsel against you, and of their might. 36And
LORD, that he hath is the city of praise not hath conceived a upon Elam will I bring
taken against Edom; and left, the city of my joy! purpose against you. the four winds from the
his purposes, that he 26
Therefore her young 31
Arise, get you up unto four quarters of heaven,
hath purposed against men shall fall in her the wealthye nation, that and will scatter them
the inhabitants of streets, and all the men dwelleth without care, toward all those winds;
Teman: Surely the least of war shall be cut off in saith the LORD, which and there shall be no
of the flock shall draw that day, saith the LORD have neither gates nor nation whither the
them out: surely he shall b d
outcasts of Elam shall
make their habitations Red sea: Heb. Weedy sea get...: Heb. flit greatly not come. 37For I will
c e
fainthearted: Heb. melted wealthy: or, that is at ease
cause Elam to be broken in pieces; her that found them have grass, and bellow as
dismayed before their idols are confounded, devoured them: and bulls; 12
Your mother
enemies, and before her images are broken in their adversaries said, shall be sore
them that seek their life: pieces. 3For out of the We offend not, because confounded; she that
and I will bring evil upon north there cometh up a they have sinned against bare you shall be
them, even my fierce nation against her, which the LORD, the habitation ashamed: behold, the
anger, saith the LORD; shall make her land of justice, even the hindermost of the
and I will send the sword desolate, and none shall LORD, the hope of their nations shall be a
after them, till I have dwell therein: they shall fathers. 8Remove out of wilderness, a dry land,
consumed them: 38And I remove, they shall the midst of Babylon, and a desert. 13Because
will set my throne in depart, both man and and go forth out of the of the wrath of the
Elam, and will destroy beast. 4In those days, land of the Chaldeans, LORD it shall not be
from thence the king and and in that time, saith and be as the he goats inhabited, but it shall be
the princes, saith the the LORD, the children of before the flocks. wholly desolate: every
LORD. 39But it shall come Israel shall come, they 9
For, lo, I will raise one that goeth by
to pass in the latter and the children of Judah and cause to come up Babylon shall be
days, that I will bring together, going and against Babylon an astonished, and hiss at
again the captivity of weeping: they shall go, assembly of great all her plagues. 14Put
Elam, saith the LORD. and seek the LORD their nations from the north yourselves in array
God. 5They shall ask the country: and they shall against Babylon round
Chapter 50 way to Zion with their set themselves in array about: all ye that bend
faces thitherward, against her; from thence the bow, shoot at her,
The word that the
1
saying, Come, and let us she shall be taken: their spare no arrows: for she
LORD spake against join ourselves to the arrows shall be as of a hath sinned against the
Babylon and against the LORD in a perpetual mighty expert man; LORD. 15Shout against
land of the Chaldeans covenant that shall not none shall return in vain. her round about: she
bya Jeremiah the be forgotten. 6My people 10
And Chaldea shall be a hath given her hand:
prophet. 2
Declare ye hath been lost sheep: spoil: all that spoil her her foundations are
among the nations, and their shepherds have shall be satisfied, saith fallen, her walls are
publish, and set upb a caused them to go the LORD. 11Because ye thrown down: for it is
standard; publish, and astray, they have turned were glad, because ye the vengeance of the
conceal not: say, them away on the rejoiced, O ye destroyers LORD: take vengeance
Babylon is taken, Bel is mountains: they have of mine heritage, upon her; as she hath
confounded, Merodach is gone from mountain to because ye are grown done, do unto her. 16Cut
a
hill, they have forgotten fatd as the heifer at off the sower from
by...: Heb. by the hand of their restingplacec. 7All Babylon, and him that
Jeremiah down in
b c d
set up: Heb. lift up restingplace: Heb. place to lie fat: Heb. big, or, corpulent
handleth the sicklee in them whom I reserve. her up as heaps, and visit thee. 32
And the
the time of harvest: for 21
Go up against the destroy her utterly: let most proud shall
fear of the oppressing land of Merathaimf, even nothing of her be left. stumble and fall, and
sword they shall turn against it, and against 27
Slay all her bullocks; let none shall raise him up:
every one to his people, the inhabitants of Pekod: them go down to the and I will kindle a fire in
and they shall flee every waste and utterly slaughter: woe unto his cities, and it shall
one to his own land. destroy after them, saith them! for their day is devour all round about
17
Israel is a scattered the LORD, and do come, the time of their him.
sheep; the lions have according to all that I visitation. 28The voice of 33
Thus saith the
driven him away: first have commanded thee. them that flee and LORD of hosts; The
the king of Assyria hath 22
A sound of battle is in escape out of the land of children of Israel and
devoured him; and last the land, and of great Babylon, to declare in the children of Judah
this Nebuchadrezzar destruction. 23How is the Zion the vengeance of were oppressed
king of Babylon hath hammer of the whole the LORD our God, the together: and all that
broken his bones. earth cut asunder and vengeance of his temple. took them captives held
18
Therefore thus saith broken! how is Babylon 29
Call together the them fast; they refused
the LORD of hosts, the become a desolation archers against Babylon: to let them go. 34Their
God of Israel; Behold, I among the nations! 24I all ye that bend the bow, Redeemer is strong; the
will punish the king of have laid a snare for camp against it round LORD of hosts is his
Babylon and his land, as thee, and thou art also about; let none thereof name: he shall
I have punished the king taken, O Babylon, and escape: recompense her throughly plead their
of Assyria. 19And I will thou wast not aware: according to her work; cause, that he may give
bring Israel again to his thou art found, and also according to all that she rest to the land, and
habitation, and he shall caught, because thou hath done, do unto her: disquiet the inhabitants
feed on Carmel and hast striven against the for she hath been proud of Babylon. 35A sword is
Bashan, and his soul LORD. 25The LORD hath against the LORD, upon the Chaldeans,
shall be satisfied upon opened his armoury, and against the Holy One of saith the LORD, and
mount Ephraim and hath brought forth the Israel. 30Therefore shall upon the inhabitants of
Gilead. 20In those days, weapons of his her young men fall in the Babylon, and upon her
and in that time, saith indignation: for this is streets, and all her men princes, and upon her
the LORD, the iniquity of the work of the Lord of war shall be cut off in wise men. 36A sword is
Israel shall be sought for, GOD of hosts in the land that day, saith the LORD. upon the liarsg; and
and there shall be none; of the Chaldeans. 31
Behold, I am against they shall dote: a sword
and the sins of Judah, 26
Come against her from thee, O thou most proud, is upon her mighty
and they shall not be the utmost border, open saith the Lord GOD of men; and they shall be
found: for I will pardon her storehouses: cast hosts: for thy day is g
come, the time that I will liars: or, chief stays: Heb.
e f
sickle; or, scythe of Merathaim: or, of the rebels bars
dismayed. 37A sword is 42
They shall hold the bow least of the flock shall that are thrust through
upon their horses, and and the lance: they are draw them out: surely he in her streets. 5For
upon their chariots, and cruel, and will not shew shall make their Israel hath not been
upon all the mingled mercy: their voice shall habitation desolate with forsaken, nor Judah of
people that are in the roar like the sea, and them. 46At the noise of his God, of the LORD of
midst of her; and they they shall ride upon the taking of Babylon the hosts; though their land
shall become as women: horses, every one put in earth is moved, and the was filled with sin
a sword is upon her array, like a man to the cry is heard among the against the Holy One of
treasures; and they shall battle, against thee, O nations. Israel. 6Flee out of the
be robbed. 38A drought is daughter of Babylon. midst of Babylon, and
upon her waters; and 43
The king of Babylon Chapter 51 deliver every man his
they shall be dried up: hath heard the report of soul: be not cut off in
for it is the land of them, and his hands Thus saith the LORD;
1
her iniquity; for this is
graven images, and they waxed feeble: anguish Behold, I will raise up the time of the LORD’S
are mad upon their idols. took hold of him, and against Babylon, and vengeance; he will
39
Therefore the wild pangs as of a woman in against them that dwell render unto her a
beasts of the desert with travail. 44Behold, he shall in the midsta of them recompence. 7Babylon
the wild beasts of the come up like a lion from that rise up against me, hath been a golden cup
islands shall dwell there, the swelling of Jordan a destroying wind; 2And in the LORD’S hand,
and the owls shall dwell unto the habitation of will send unto Babylon that made all the earth
therein: and it shall be the strong: but I will fanners, that shall fan drunken: the nations
no more inhabited for make them suddenly run her, and shall empty her have drunken of her
ever; neither shall it be away from her: and who land: for in the day of wine; therefore the
dwelt in from generation is a chosen man, that I trouble they shall be nations are mad.
to generation. 40As God may appoint over her? against her round about. 8
Babylon is suddenly
overthrew Sodom and for who is like me? and
3
Against him that fallen and destroyed:
Gomorrah and the who will appoint me the bendeth let the archer howl for her; take balm
neighbour cities thereof, time? and who is that bend his bow, and for her pain, if so be she
saith the LORD; so shall shepherd that will stand against him that lifteth may be healed. 9We
no man abide there, before me? 45Therefore himself up in his would have healed
neither shall any son of hear ye the counsel of brigandine: and spare ye Babylon, but she is not
man dwell therein. the LORD, that he hath not her young men; healed: forsake her,
41
Behold, a people shall taken against Babylon; destroy ye utterly all her and let us go every one
come from the north, and his purposes, that host. 4Thus the slain into his own country:
and a great nation, and he hath purposed shall fall in the land of for her judgment
many kings shall be against the land of the the Chaldeans, and they reacheth unto heaven,
raised up from the Chaldeans: Surely the a
and is lifted up even to
coasts of the earth. midst: Heb. heart
the skies. 10The LORD thee with men, as with Israel is the rod of his against thee, O
hath brought forth our caterpillers; and they inheritance: the LORD of destroying mountain,
righteousness: come, shall lift up a shout hosts is his name. 20Thou saith the LORD, which
and let us declare in Zion against thee. 15He hath art my battle axe and destroyest all the earth:
the work of the LORD our made the earth by his weapons of war: for with and I will stretch out
God. 11Make brightb the power, he hath thee will I break in mine hand upon thee,
arrows; gather the established the world by pieces the nations, and and roll thee down from
shields: the LORD hath his wisdom, and hath with thee will I destroy the rocks, and will
raised up the spirit of the stretched out the heaven kingdoms; 21
And with make thee a burnt
kings of the Medes: for by his understanding. thee will I break in mountain. 26And they
his device is against 16
When he uttereth his pieces the horse and his shall not take of thee a
Babylon, to destroy it; voice, there is a rider; and with thee will I stone for a corner, nor a
because it is the multitudee of waters in break in pieces the stone for foundations;
vengeance of the LORD, the heavens; and he chariot and his rider; but thou shalt be
the vengeance of his causeth the vapours to 22
With thee also will I desolateg for ever, saith
temple. 12
Set up the ascend from the ends of break in pieces man and the LORD. 27Set ye up a
standard upon the walls the earth: he maketh woman; and with thee standard in the land,
of Babylon, make the lightnings with rain, and will I break in pieces old blow the trumpet
watch strong, set up the bringeth forth the wind and young; and with among the nations,
watchmen, prepare the out of his treasures. thee will I break in prepare the nations
ambushesc: for the LORD 17
Every man is brutishf pieces the young man against her, call
hath both devised and by his knowledge; every and the maid; 23I will also together against her
done that which he founder is confounded break in pieces with thee the kingdoms of Ararat,
spake against the by the graven image: for the shepherd and his Minni, and Ashchenaz;
inhabitants of Babylon. his molten image is flock; and with thee will I appoint a captain
13
O thou that dwellest falsehood, and there is break in pieces the against her; cause the
upon many waters, no breath in them. husbandman and his horses to come up as
abundant in treasures, 18
They are vanity, the yoke of oxen; and with the rough caterpillers.
thine end is come, and work of errors: in the thee will I break in 28
Prepare against her
the measure of thy time of their visitation pieces captains and the nations with the
covetousness. 14
The they shall perish. 19The rulers. 24And I will render kings of the Medes, the
LORD of hosts hath portion of Jacob is not unto Babylon and to all captains thereof, and all
sworn by himselfd, like them; for he is the the inhabitants of the rulers thereof, and
saying, Surely I will fill former of all things: and Chaldea all their evil that all the land of his
b e
they have done in Zion dominion. 29And the
bright: Heb. pure multitude: or, noise in your sight, saith the
c f g
ambushes: Heb. liers in wait is brutish...: or, is more brutish LORD. 25Behold, I am desolate...: Heb. everlasting
d
by himself: Heb. by his soul than to know desolations
land shall tremble and devoured me, he hath rejoice, and sleep a fear for the rumour that
sorrow: for every crushed me, he hath perpetual sleep, and not shall be heard in the
purpose of the LORD made me an empty wake, saith the LORD. 40I land; a rumour shall
shall be performed vessel, he hath will bring them down like both come one year,
against Babylon, to swallowed me up like a lambs to the slaughter, and after that in
make the land of dragon, he hath filled his like rams with he goats. another year shall
Babylon a desolation belly with my delicates, 41
How is Sheshach taken! come a rumour, and
without an inhabitant. he hath cast me out. and how is the praise of violence in the land,
30
The mighty men of 35
The violenceh done to the whole earth ruler against ruler.
Babylon have forborn to me and to my flesh be surprised! how is 47
Therefore, behold, the
fight, they have upon Babylon, shall the Babylon become an days come, that I will
remained in their holds: inhabitant of Zion say; astonishment among the do judgment upon the
their might hath failed; and my blood upon the nations! 42The sea is graven images of
they became as women: inhabitants of Chaldea, come up upon Babylon: Babylon: and her whole
they have burned her shall Jerusalem say. she is covered with the land shall be
dwellingplaces; her bars 36
Therefore thus saith multitude of the waves confounded, and all her
are broken. 31One post the LORD; Behold, I will thereof. 43Her cities are a slain shall fall in the
shall run to meet plead thy cause, and desolation, a dry land, midst of her. 48
Then
another, and one take vengeance for thee; and a wilderness, a land the heaven and the
messenger to meet and I will dry up her sea, wherein no man earth, and all that is
another, to shew the and make her springs dwelleth, neither doth therein, shall sing for
king of Babylon that his dry. 37And Babylon shall any son of man pass Babylon: for the
city is taken at one end, become heaps, a thereby. 44And I will spoilers shall come unto
32
And that the passages dwellingplace for punish Bel in Babylon, her from the north,
are stopped, and the dragons, an and I will bring forth out saith the LORD. 49Asj
reeds they have burned astonishment, and an of his mouth that which Babylon hath caused
with fire, and the men of hissing, without an he hath swallowed up: the slain of Israel to fall,
war are affrighted. 33For inhabitant. 38
They shall and the nations shall not so at Babylon shall fall
thus saith the LORD of roar together like lions: flow together any more the slain of all the
hosts, the God of Israel; they shall yelli as lions’ unto him: yea, the wall earth. 50
Ye that have
The daughter of Babylon whelps. 39In their heat I of Babylon shall fall. 45My escaped the sword, go
is like a threshingfloor, it will make their feasts, people, go ye out of the away, stand not still:
is time to thresh her: yet and I will make them midst of her, and deliver remember the LORD
a little while, and the drunken, that they may ye every man his soul afar off, and let
time of her harvest shall h
from the fierce anger of j
come. 34Nebuchadrezzar The violence...: Heb. My the LORD. 46And lest As...: or, Both Babylon is to
the king of Babylon hath violence your heart faint, and ye fall, O ye slain of Israel, and
i
yell: or, shake themselves with Babylon, etc
Jerusalem come into mighty men are taken, all the evil that should and he reigned eleven
your mind. 51
We are every one of their bows come upon Babylon, years in Jerusalem. And
confounded, because we is broken: for the LORD even all these words that his mother’s name was
have heard reproach: God of recompences are written against Hamutal the daughter
shame hath covered our shall surely requite. Babylon. 61And Jeremiah of Jeremiah of Libnah.
faces: for strangers are 57
And I will make drunk said to Seraiah, When 2
And he did that which
come into the her princes, and her wise thou comest to Babylon, was evil in the eyes of
sanctuaries of the men, her captains, and and shalt see, and shalt the LORD, according to
LORD’S house. her rulers, and her read all these words; all that Jehoiakim had
52
Wherefore, behold, the mighty men: and they 62
Then shalt thou say, O done. 3For through the
days come, saith the shall sleep a perpetual LORD, thou hast spoken anger of the LORD it
LORD, that I will do sleep, and not wake, against this place, to cut came to pass in
judgment upon her saith the King, whose it off, that none shall Jerusalem and Judah, till
graven images: and name is the LORD of remain in it, neither man he had cast them out
through all her land the hosts. 58Thus saith the nor beast, but that it from his presence, that
wounded shall groan. LORD of hosts; The shall be desolatel for Zedekiah rebelled
53
Though Babylon should broadk walls of Babylon ever. 63And it shall be, against the king of
mount up to heaven, and shall be utterly broken, when thou hast made an Babylon. 4And it came
though she should fortify and her high gates shall end of reading this book, to pass in the ninth
the height of her be burned with fire; and that thou shalt bind a year of his reign, in the
strength, yet from me the people shall labour in stone to it, and cast it tenth month, in the
shall spoilers come unto vain, and the folk in the into the midst of tenth day of the month,
her, saith the LORD. 54A fire, and they shall be Euphrates: 64And thou that Nebuchadrezzar
sound of a cry cometh weary. shalt say, Thus shall king of Babylon came,
from Babylon, and great 59
The word which Babylon sink, and shall he and all his army,
destruction from the Jeremiah the prophet not rise from the evil against Jerusalem, and
land of the Chaldeans: commanded Seraiah the that I will bring upon her: pitched against it, and
55
Because the LORD hath son of Neriah, the son of and they shall be weary. built forts against it
spoiled Babylon, and Maaseiah, when he went Thus far are the words of round about. 5So the
destroyed out of her the with Zedekiah the king Jeremiah. city was besieged unto
great voice; when her of Judah into Babylon in the eleventh year of
waves do roar like great the fourth year of his Chapter 52 king Zedekiah. 6And in
waters, a noise of their reign. And this Seraiah the fourth month, in the
voice is uttered: was a quiet prince. 60So Zedekiah was one
1
ninth day of the month,
56
Because the spoiler is Jeremiah wrote in a book and twenty years old the famine was sore in
come upon her, even when he began to reign, the city, so that there
k
upon Babylon, and her The broad...: or, The walls of was no bread for the
l
broad Babylon desolate: Heb. desolations
people of the land. 7Then in prison till the day of rest of the multitude. under the bases, which
the city was broken up, his death. 16
But Nebuzaradan the king Solomon had made
and all the men of war 12
Now in the fifth captain of the guard left in the house of the
fled, and went forth out month, in the tenth day certain of the poor of the LORD: the brasse of all
of the city by night by of the month, which was land for vinedressers and these vessels was
the way of the gate the nineteenth year of for husbandmen. 17Also without weight. 21
And
between the two walls, Nebuchadrezzar king of the pillars of brass that concerning the pillars,
which was by the king’s Babylon, came were in the house of the the height of one pillar
garden; (now the Nebuzaradan, captainb of LORD, and the bases, was eighteen cubits;
Chaldeans were by the the guard, which served and the brasen sea that and a filletf of twelve
city round about:) and the king of Babylon, into was in the house of the cubits did compass it;
they went by the way of Jerusalem, 13
And LORD, the Chaldeans and the thickness
the plain. 8But the army burned the house of the brake, and carried all the thereof was four
of the Chaldeans LORD, and the king’s brass of them to fingers: it was hollow.
pursued after the king, house; and all the Babylon. 18The caldrons 22
And a chapiter of
and overtook Zedekiah houses of Jerusalem, and also, and the shovelsc, brass was upon it; and
in the plains of Jericho; all the houses of the and the snuffers, and the the height of one
and all his army was great men, burned he bowls, and the spoons, chapiter was five cubits,
scattered from him. with fire: 14And all the and all the vessels of with network and
9
Then they took the king, army of the Chaldeans, brass wherewith they pomegranates upon the
and carried him up unto that were with the ministered, took they chapiters round about,
the king of Babylon to captain of the guard, away. 19And the basons, all of brass. The second
Riblah in the land of brake down all the walls and the firepansd, and pillar also and the
Hamath; where he gave of Jerusalem round the bowls, and the pomegranates were like
judgment upon him. about. 15
Then caldrons, and the unto these. 23And there
10
And the king of Babylon Nebuzaradan the captain candlesticks, and the were ninety and six
slew the sons of of the guard carried spoons, and the cups; pomegranates on a
Zedekiah before his away captive certain of that which was of gold in side; and all the
eyes: he slew also all the the poor of the people, gold, and that which was pomegranates upon the
princes of Judah in and the residue of the of silver in silver, took network were an
Riblah. 11Then he put people that remained in the captain of the guard hundred round about.
outa the eyes of the city, and those that away. 20The two pillars, 24
And the captain of
Zedekiah; and the king fell away, that fell to the one sea, and twelve the guard took Seraiah
of Babylon bound him in king of Babylon, and the brasen bulls that were the chief priest, and
chains, and carried him b c
Zephaniah the second
to Babylon, and put him captain...: or, chief marshal: shovels: or, instruments to
e
Heb. chief of the executioners, remove the ashes the brass: Heb. their brass
a d f
put out: Heb. blinded or, slaughtermen firepans: or, censers fillet: Heb. thread
priest, and the three Nebuchadrezzar he changed his prison because of greata
keepers of the doorg: carried away captive garments: and he did servitude: she dwelleth
25
He took also out of the from Jerusalem eight continually eat bread among the heathen,
city an eunuch, which hundred thirty and two before him all the days she findeth no rest: all
had the charge of the personsi: 30In the three of his life. 34And for his her persecutors
men of war; and seven and twentieth year of diet, there was a overtook her between
men of them that were Nebuchadrezzar continual diet given him the straits. 4The ways
nearh the king’s person, Nebuzaradan the captain of the king of Babylon, of Zion do mourn,
which were found in the of the guard carried everyk day a portion until because none come to
city; and the principal away captive of the Jews the day of his death, all the solemn feasts: all
scribe of the host, who seven hundred forty and the days of his life. her gates are desolate:
mustered the people of five persons: all the her priests sigh, her
the land; and threescore persons were four Lamentations virgins are afflicted, and
men of the people of the thousand and six she is in bitterness.
land, that were found in hundred. Chapter 1 5
Her adversaries are the
the midst of the city. chief, her enemies
26
So Nebuzaradan the
31
And it came to pass in How doth the city sit
1
prosper; for the LORD
captain of the guard took the seven and thirtieth solitary, that was full of hath afflicted her for
them, and brought them year of the captivity of people! how is she the multitude of her
to the king of Babylon to Jehoiachin king of Judah, become as a widow! she transgressions: her
Riblah. 27And the king of in the twelfth month, in that was great among children are gone into
Babylon smote them, the five and twentieth the nations, and princess captivity before the
and put them to death in day of the month, that among the provinces, enemy. 6And from the
Riblah in the land of Evilmerodach king of how is she become daughter of Zion all her
Hamath. Thus Judah was Babylon in the first year tributary! 2She weepeth beauty is departed: her
carried away captive out of his reign lifted up the sore in the night, and her princes are become like
of his own land. 28This is head of Jehoiachin king tears are on her cheeks: harts that find no
the people whom of Judah, and brought among all her lovers she pasture, and they are
Nebuchadrezzar carried him forth out of prison, hath none to comfort gone without strength
away captive: in the
32
And spake kindlyj unto her: all her friends have before the pursuer.
seventh year three him, and set his throne dealt treacherously with 7
Jerusalem remembered
thousand Jews and three above the throne of the her, they are become in the days of her
and twenty: 29In the kings that were with him her enemies. 3Judah is affliction and of her
eighteenth year of in Babylon, 33And gone into captivity miseries all her
g i
because of affliction, and pleasant things that she
door: Heb. threshold persons: Heb. souls
h j k a
were near...: Heb. saw the face kindly...: Heb. good things every...: Heb. the matter of the because of great...: Heb. for
of the king with him day in his day the greatness of servitude
had in the days of old, see, O LORD, and the daughter of Judah, meat to relieve their
when her people fell into consider; for I am as in a winepress. 16For souls. 20
Behold, O
the hand of the enemy, become vile. these things I weep; LORD; for I am in
and none did help her: 12
Is it nothing to you, mine eye, mine eye distress: my bowels are
the adversaries saw her, all ye that pass by? runneth down with troubled; mine heart is
and did mock at her behold, and see if there water, because the turned within me; for I
sabbaths. 8
Jerusalem be any sorrow like unto comforter that should have grievously
hath grievously sinned; my sorrow, which is done relievec my soul is far rebelled: abroad the
therefore she is unto me, wherewith the from me: my children sword bereaveth, at
removed: all that LORD hath afflicted me are desolate, because home there is as death.
honoured her despise in the day of his fierce the enemy prevailed. 21
They have heard that I
her, because they have anger. 13
From above 17
Zion spreadeth forth sigh: there is none to
seen her nakedness: hath he sent fire into my her hands, and there is comfort me: all mine
yea, she sigheth, and bones, and it prevaileth none to comfort her: the enemies have heard of
turneth backward. 9Her against them: he hath LORD hath commanded my trouble; they are
filthiness is in her skirts; spread a net for my feet, concerning Jacob, that glad that thou hast
she remembereth not he hath turned me back: his adversaries should done it: thou wilt bring
her last end; therefore he hath made me be round about him: the day that thou hast
she came down desolate and faint all the Jerusalem is as a callede, and they shall
wonderfully: she had no day. 14The yoke of my menstruous woman be like unto me. 22Let
comforter. O LORD, transgressions is bound among them. 18
The all their wickedness
behold my affliction: for by his hand: they are LORD is righteous; for I come before thee; and
the enemy hath wreathed, and come up have rebelled against his do unto them, as thou
magnified himself. The 10
upon my neck: he hath commandmentd: hear, I hast done unto me for
adversary hath spread made my strength to pray you, all people, and all my transgressions:
out his hand upon all her fall, the Lord hath behold my sorrow: my for my sighs are many,
pleasant things: for she delivered me into their virgins and my young and my heart is faint.
hath seen that the hands, from whom I am men are gone into
heathen entered into her not able to rise up. 15The captivity. 19I called for Chapter 2
sanctuary, whom thou Lord hath trodden under my lovers, but they
didst command that they foot all my mighty men deceived me: my priests How hath the Lord
1

should not enter into thy in the midst of me: he and mine elders gave up covered the daughter of
congregation. 11All her hath called an assembly the ghost in the city, Zion with a cloud in his
people sigh, they seek against me to crush my while they sought their anger, and cast down
bread; they have given young men: the Lord from heaven unto the
their pleasant things for hath trodden the virginb, of the virgin, etc earth the beauty of
c
meat to relieve the soul: relieve: Heb. bring back
b d e
the virgin...: or, the winepress commandment: Heb. mouth called: or, proclaimed
Israel, and remembered hath swallowed up all his hand from 12
They say to their
not his footstool in the her palaces: he hath destroying : therefore he
e
mothers, Where is corn
day of his anger! 2The destroyed his strong made the rampart and and wine? when they
Lord hath swallowed up holds, and hath the wall to lament; they swooned as the
all the habitations of increased in the languished together. wounded in the streets
Jacob, and hath not daughter of Judah 9
Her gates are sunk into of the city, when their
pitied: he hath thrown mourning and the ground; he hath soul was poured out
down in his wrath the lamentation. 6
And he destroyed and broken into their mothers’
strong holds of the hath violently taken her bars: her king and bosom. 13What thing
daughter of Judah; he away his tabernaclec, as her princes are among shall I take to witness
hath brought them if it were of a garden: he the Gentiles: the law is for thee? what thing
down to the ground: he
a
hath destroyed his no more; her prophets shall I liken to thee, O
hath polluted the places of the assembly: also find no vision from daughter of Jerusalem?
kingdom and the princes the LORD hath caused the LORD. what shall I equal to
thereof. 3He hath cut off the solemn feasts and 10
The elders of the thee, that I may
in his fierce anger all the sabbaths to be forgotten daughter of Zion sit upon comfort thee, O virgin
horn of Israel: he hath in Zion, and hath the ground, and keep daughter of Zion? for
drawn back his right despised in the silence: they have cast thy breach is great like
hand from before the indignation of his anger up dust upon their the sea: who can heal
enemy, and he burned the king and the priest. heads; they have girded thee? 14Thy prophets
against Jacob like a 7
The Lord hath cast off themselves with have seen vain and
flaming fire, which his altar, he hath sackcloth: the virgins of foolish things for thee:
devoureth round about. abhorred his sanctuary, Jerusalem hang down and they have not
4
He hath bent his bow he hath given upd into their heads to the discovered thine
like an enemy: he stood the hand of the enemy ground. 11Mine eyes do iniquity, to turn away
with his right hand as an the walls of her palaces; fail with tears, my thy captivity; but have
adversary, and slew all they have made a noise bowels are troubled, my seen for thee false
that were pleasantb to in the house of the liver is poured upon the burdens and causes of
the eye in the tabernacle LORD, as in the day of a earth, for the destruction banishment. 15All that
of the daughter of Zion: solemn feast. 8
The of the daughter of my pass by clap their
he poured out his fury LORD hath purposed to people; because the hands at thee; they hiss
like fire. 5The Lord was destroy the wall of the children and the and wag their head at
as an enemy: he hath daughter of Zion: he sucklings swoonf in the the daughter of
swallowed up Israel, he hath stretched out a line, streets of the city. Jerusalem, saying, Is
a
he hath not withdrawn e
this the city that men
brought...: Heb. made to touch destroying: Heb. swallowing call The perfection of
b c
all...: Heb. all the desirable of tabernacle: or, hedge up beauty, The joy of the
d f
the eye given up: Heb. shut up swoon: or, faint
whole earth? 16All thine hunger in the top of is he turned; he turneth with bitternessb, he
enemies have opened every street. 20Behold, O his hand against me all hath made me drunken
their mouth against LORD, and consider to the day. 4My flesh and with wormwood. 16He
thee: they hiss and whom thou hast done my skin hath he made hath also broken my
gnash the teeth: they this. Shall the women old; he hath broken my teeth with gravel
say, We have swallowed eat their fruit, and bones. 5He hath builded stones, he hath
her up: certainly this is children of a span long? against me, and coveredc me with
the day that we looked shall the priest and the compassed me with gall ashes. 17
And thou hast
for; we have found, we prophet be slain in the and travail. 6He hath set removed my soul far off
have seen it. 17The LORD sanctuary of the Lord? me in dark places, as from peace: I forgat
hath done that which he 21
The young and the old they that be dead of old. prosperityd. 18
And I
had devised; he hath lie on the ground in the 7
He hath hedged me said, My strength and
fulfilled his word that he streets: my virgins and about, that I cannot get my hope is perished
had commanded in the my young men are fallen out: he hath made my from the LORD:
days of old: he hath by the sword; thou hast chain heavy. 8Also when 19
Rememberinge mine
thrown down, and hath slain them in the day of I cry and shout, he affliction and my
not pitied: and he hath thine anger; thou hast shutteth out my prayer. misery, the wormwood
caused thine enemy to killed, and not pitied. 9
He hath inclosed my and the gall. 20My soul
rejoice over thee, he 22
Thou hast called as in a ways with hewn stone, hath them still in
hath set up the horn of solemn day my terrors he hath made my paths remembrance, and is
thine adversaries. 18Their round about, so that in crooked. 10He was unto humbledf in me.
heart cried unto the the day of the LORD’S me as a bear lying in 21
This I recallg to my
Lord, O wall of the anger none escaped nor wait, and as a lion in mind, therefore have I
daughter of Zion, let remained: those that I secret places. 11He hath hope. 22
It is of the
tears run down like a have swaddled and turned aside my ways, LORD’S mercies that we
river day and night: give brought up hath mine and pulled me in pieces: are not consumed,
thyself no rest; let not enemy consumed. he hath made me because his
the apple of thine eye desolate. He hath bent
12
compassions fail not.
cease. 19Arise, cry out in Chapter 3 his bow, and set me as a b
the night: in the mark for the arrow. 13He bitterness: Heb. bitternesses
c
beginning of the watches
1
I am the man that hath caused the arrowsa covered...: or, rolled me in
pour out thine heart like hath seen affliction by of his quiver to enter into the ashes
d
water before the face of the rod of his wrath. 2He my reins. 14
I was a prosperity: Heb. good
e
the Lord: lift up thy hath led me, and derision to all my people; Remembering: or,
hands toward him for the brought me into and their song all the Remember
f
life of thy young darkness, but not into day. 15He hath filled me humbled: Heb. bowed
g
children, that faint for light. 3Surely against me recall...: Heb. make to return
a
arrows: Heb. sons to my heart
23
They are new every aside the right of a man refuse in the midst of the the day that I called
morning: great is thy before the face of the people. 46All our enemies upon thee: thou saidst,
faithfulness. 24The LORD most Highi, 36To subvert have opened their Fear not. 58O Lord, thou
is my portion, saith my a man in his cause, the mouths against us. hast pleaded the
soul; therefore will I Lord approveth not. j 47
Fear and a snare is causes of my soul; thou
hope in him. 25The LORD 37
Who is he that saith, come upon us, hast redeemed my life.
is good unto them that and it cometh to pass, desolation and 59
O LORD, thou hast
wait for him, to the soul when the Lord destruction. 48Mine eye seen my wrong: judge
that seeketh him. 26It is commandeth it not? runneth down with rivers thou my cause. 60Thou
good that a man should 38
Out of the mouth of the of water for the hast seen all their
both hope and quietly most High proceedeth destruction of the vengeance and all their
wait for the salvation of not evil and good? daughter of my people. imaginations against
the LORD. 27It is good for 39
Wherefore doth a living 49
Mine eye trickleth me. 61Thou hast heard
a man that he bear the man complaink, a man down, and ceaseth not, their reproach, O LORD,
yoke in his youth. 28He for the punishment of his without any intermission, and all their
sitteth alone and sins? 40
Let us search 50
Till the LORD look imaginations against
keepeth silence, because and try our ways, and down, and behold from me; 62The lips of those
he hath borne it upon turn again to the LORD. heaven. 51
Mine eye that rose up against
him. 29He putteth his 41
Let us lift up our heart affecteth mine heartl me, and their device
mouth in the dust; if so with our hands unto God because of all the against me all the day.
be there may be hope. in the heavens. daughters of my city. 63
Behold their sitting
30
He giveth his cheek to 42
We have 52
Mine enemies chased down, and their rising
him that smiteth him: he transgressed and have me sore, like a bird, up; I am their musick.
is filled full with rebelled: thou hast not without cause. 53They 64
Render unto them a
reproach. 31For the Lord pardoned. 43Thou hast have cut off my life in recompence, O LORD,
will not cast off for ever: covered with anger, and the dungeon, and cast a according to the work
32
But though he cause persecuted us: thou hast stone upon me. 54Waters of their hands. 65Give
grief, yet will he have slain, thou hast not flowed over mine head; them sorrowm of heart,
compassion according to pitied. 44
Thou hast then I said, I am cut off. thy curse unto them.
the multitude of his covered thyself with a 55
I called upon thy 66
Persecute and destroy
mercies. 33For he doth cloud, that our prayer name, O LORD, out of them in anger from
not afflict willinglyh nor should not pass through. the low dungeon. 56Thou under the heavens of
grieve the children of 45
Thou hast made us as hast heard my voice: the LORD.
men. 34To crush under the offscouring and hide not thine ear at my
his feet all the prisoners i
breathing, at my cry. Chapter 4
of the earth, 35To turn the most High: or, a superior 57
Thou drewest near in
j m
approveth not: or, seeth not sorrow...: or, obstinacy of
h k l
willingly: Heb. from his heart complain: or, murmur mine heart: Heb. my soul heart
How is the gold
1
than the punishment of kindled a fire in Zion, they favoured not the
become dim! how is the the sin of Sodom, that and it hath devoured the elders. 17As for us, our
most fine gold changed! was overthrown as in a foundations thereof. eyes as yet failed for
the stones of the moment, and no hands 12
The kings of the earth, our vain help: in our
sanctuary are poured out stayed on her. 7
Her and all the inhabitants of watching we have
in the top of every Nazarites were purer the world, would not watched for a nation
street. 2The precious than snow, they were have believed that the that could not save us.
sons of Zion, comparable whiter than milk, they adversary and the 18
They hunt our steps,
to fine gold, how are were more ruddy in body enemy should have that we cannot go in
they esteemed as than rubies, their entered into the gates of our streets: our end is
earthen pitchers, the polishing was of Jerusalem. near, our days are
work of the hands of the sapphire: Their visage is
8 13
For the sins of her fulfilled; for our end is
potter! 3Even the sea blackerb than a coal; prophets, and the come. 19Our persecutors
monsters draw out the they are not known in iniquities of her priests, are swifter than the
breast, they give suck to the streets: their skin that have shed the blood eagles of the heaven:
their young ones: the cleaveth to their bones; of the just in the midst of they pursued us upon
daughter of my people is it is withered, it is her, 14
They have the mountains, they
become cruel, like the become like a stick. wandered as blind men laid wait for us in the
ostriches in the 9
They that be slain with in the streets, they have wilderness. 20The breath
wilderness. The tongue
4
the sword are better polluted themselves with of our nostrils, the
of the sucking child than they that be slain blood, so that men could anointed of the LORD,
cleaveth to the roof of with hunger: for these not touch their was taken in their pits,
his mouth for thirst: the pine away, stricken garments. 15They cried of whom we said, Under
young children ask through for want of the unto them, Depart ye; it his shadow we shall live
bread, and no man fruits of the field. 10The is unclean; depart, among the heathen.
breaketh it unto them. hands of the pitiful depart, touch not: when 21
Rejoice and be
5
They that did feed women have sodden they fled away and glad, O daughter of
delicately are desolate in their own children: they wandered, they said Edom, that dwellest in
the streets: they that were their meat in the among the heathen, the land of Uz; the cup
were brought up in destruction of the They shall no more also shall pass through
scarlet embrace daughter of my people. sojourn there. 16
The unto thee: thou shalt be
dunghills. 6
For the 11
The LORD hath anger of the LORD hath
c
drunken, and shalt
punishment of the accomplished his fury; divided them; he will no make thyself naked.
iniquitya of the daughter he hath poured out his more regard them: they 22
The punishment of
of my people is greater fierce anger, and hath respected not the thine iniquity is
a b
persons of the priests, accomplished, O
punishment of the iniquity: or, blacker...: Heb. darker than daughter of Zion; he
c
iniquity blackness anger: or, face
will no more carry thee skin was black like an long time? 21Turn thou came out of the north, a
away into captivity: he oven because of the us unto thee, O LORD, great cloud, and a fire
will visit thine iniquity, O terriblea famine. 11They and we shall be turned; infoldingc itself, and a
daughter of Edom; he ravished the women in renew our days as of old. brightness was about it,
will discover thy sins. Zion, and the maids in 22
But thou hast utterly and out of the midst
the cities of Judah. rejected us; thou art thereof as the colour of
Chapter 5 12
Princes are hanged up very wroth against us. amber, out of the midst
by their hand: the faces of the fire. 5Also out of
Remember, O LORD, Ezekiel
1
of elders were not the midst thereof came
what is come upon us: honoured. 13
They took the likeness of four
consider, and behold our the young men to grind, Chapter 1 living creatures. And
reproach. 2
Our and the children fell this was their
inheritance is turned to under the wood. 14The Now it came to pass
1
appearance; they had
strangers, our houses to elders have ceased from in the thirtieth year, in the likeness of a man.
aliens. 3We are orphans the gate, the young men the fourth month, in the 6
And every one had four
and fatherless, our from their musick. 15The fifth day of the month, as faces, and every one
mothers are as widows. joy of our heart is I was among the had four wings. 7And
4
We have drunken our ceased; our dance is captives by the river of
a
their feet were straightd
water for money; our turned into mourning. Chebar, that the feet; and the sole of
wood is sold unto us. 16
The crown is fallen heavens were opened, their feet was like the
5
Our necks are under from our head: woe unto and I saw visions of God. sole of a calf’s foot: and
persecution: we labour, us, that we have sinned! 2
In the fifth day of the they sparkled like the
and have no rest. 6We month, which was the colour of burnished
have given the hand to 17
For this our heart is fifth year of king brass. 8
And they had
the Egyptians, and to the faint; for these things Jehoiachin’s captivity, the hands of a man
Assyrians, to be satisfied our eyes are dim. 3
The word of the LORD under their wings on
with bread. 7Our fathers 18
Because of the came expressly unto their four sides; and
have sinned, and are mountain of Zion, which Ezekielb the priest, the they four had their
not; and we have borne is desolate, the foxes son of Buzi, in the land faces and their wings.
their iniquities. 8Servants walk upon it. 19Thou, O of the Chaldeans by the 9
Their wings were
have ruled over us: LORD, remainest for river Chebar; and the joined one to another;
there is none that doth ever; thy throne from hand of the LORD was they turned not when
deliver us out of their generation to there upon him. they went; they went
hand. 9We gat our bread generation. 20Wherefore 4
And I looked, and, c
with the peril of our lives dost thou forget us for behold, a whirlwind infolding...: Heb. catching
because of the sword of ever, and forsake us so itself
a d
the wilderness. 10Our captives: Heb. captivity straight...: Heb. a straight
a b
terrible: or, terrors, or, storms Ezekiel: Heb. Jehezkel foot
every one straight lightning. wheels were lifted up stood, they let down
forward. 10
As for the 15
Now as I beheld the over against them: for their wings. 25And there
likeness of their faces, living creatures, behold the spirit of the living was a voice from the
they four had the face of one wheel upon the creature was in the firmament that was
a man, and the face of a earth by the living wheels. 21
When those over their heads, when
lion, on the right side: creatures, with his four went, these went; and they stood, and had let
and they four had the faces. 16The appearance when those stood, these down their wings.
face of an ox on the left of the wheels and their stood; and when those 26
And above the
side; they four also had work was like unto the were lifted up from the firmament that was
the face of an eagle. colour of a beryl: and earth, the wheels were over their heads was
11
Thus were their faces: they four had one lifted up over against the likeness of a throne,
and their wings were likeness: and their them: for the spirit of the as the appearance of a
stretchede upward; two appearance and their living creatures was in sapphire stone: and
wings of every one were work was as it were a the wheels. 22And the upon the likeness of the
joined one to another, wheel in the middle of a likeness of the throne was the likeness
and two covered their wheel. 17
When they firmament upon the as the appearance of a
bodies. 12And they went went, they went upon heads of the living man above upon it.
every one straight their four sides: and they creature was as the 27
And I saw as the
forward: whither the turned not when they colour of the terrible colour of amber, as the
spirit was to go, they went. 18As for their rings, crystal, stretched forth appearance of fire
went; and they turned they were so high that over their heads above. round about within it,
not when they went. 13As they were dreadful; and 23
And under the from the appearance of
for the likeness of the their ringsf were full of firmament were their his loins even upward,
living creatures, their eyes round about them wings straight, the one and from the
appearance was like four. 19
And when the toward the other: every appearance of his loins
burning coals of fire, and living creatures went, one had two, which even downward, I saw
like the appearance of the wheels went by covered on this side, and as it were the
lamps: it went up and them: and when the every one had two, appearance of fire, and
down among the living living creatures were which covered on that it had brightness round
creatures; and the fire lifted up from the earth, side, their bodies. 24And about. 28
As the
was bright, and out of the wheels were lifted when they went, I heard appearance of the bow
the fire went forth up. 20Whithersoever the the noise of their wings, that is in the cloud in
lightning. 14And the living spirit was to go, they like the noise of great the day of rain, so was
creatures ran and went, thither was their waters, as the voice of the appearance of the
returned as the spirit to go; and the the Almighty, the voice brightness round about.
appearance of a flash of f
of speech, as the noise This was the
and their rings: or, and their of an host: when they appearance of the
e
stretched...: or, divided above strakes
likeness of the glory of rebellious house,) yet mourning, and woe. not understand. Surely,
the LORD. And when I shall know that there had I sent thee to them,
saw it, I fell upon my hath been a prophet Chapter 3 they would have
face, and I heard a voice among them. hearkened unto thee.
of one that spake. 6
And thou, son of
1
Moreover he said 7
But the house of Israel
man, be not afraid of unto me, Son of man, will not hearken unto
Chapter 2 them, neither be afraid eat that thou findest; eat thee; for they will not
of their words, though this roll, and go speak hearken unto me: for all
And he said unto me,
1
briersc and thorns be unto the house of Israel. the house of Israel are
Son of man, stand upon with thee, and thou dost
2
So I opened my mouth, impudentc and
thy feet, and I will speak dwell among scorpions: and he caused me to eat hardhearted. 8Behold, I
unto thee. 2And the spirit be not afraid of their that roll. 3And he said have made thy face
entered into me when he words, nor be dismayed unto me, Son of man, strong against their
spake unto me, and set at their looks, though cause thy belly to eat, faces, and thy forehead
me upon my feet, that I they be a rebellious and fill thy bowels with strong against their
heard him that spake house. 7And thou shalt this roll that I give thee. foreheads. 9
As an
unto me. 3And he said speak my words unto Then did I eat it; and it adamant harder than
unto me, Son of man, I them, whether they will was in my mouth as flint have I made thy
send thee to the children hear, or whether they honey for sweetness. forehead: fear them
of Israel, to a rebellious will forbear: for they are
4
And he said unto me, not, neither be
nationa that hath most rebellious. 8
But Son of man, go, get thee dismayed at their looks,
rebelled against me: thou, son of man, hear unto the house of Israel, though they be a
they and their fathers what I say unto thee; Be and speak with my rebellious house.
have transgressed not thou rebellious like words unto them. 5For 10
Moreover he said unto
against me, even unto that rebellious house: thou art not sent to a me, Son of man, all my
this very day. 4For they open thy mouth, and eat people of a strange words that I shall speak
are impudentb children that I give thee. 9And speech and of an harda unto thee receive in
and stiffhearted. I do when I looked, behold, language, but to the thine heart, and hear
send thee unto them; an hand was sent unto house of Israel; 6Not to with thine ears. 11And
and thou shalt say unto me; and, lo, a roll of a many people of a go, get thee to them of
them, Thus saith the book was therein; 10And strange speech and of the captivity, unto the
Lord GOD. 5
And they, he spread it before me; an hardb language, children of thy people,
whether they will hear, and it was written within whose words thou canst and speak unto them,
or whether they will and without: and there and tell them, Thus
a
forbear, (for they are a was written therein of a...: Heb. deep of lip, and saith the Lord GOD;
lamentations, and heavy of tongue
a b c
nation: Heb. nations of a...: Heb. deep of lip, and impudent...: Heb. stiff of
b c
impudent: Heb. hard of face briers...: or, rebels heavy of language forehead, and hard of heart
whether they will hear, watchman unto the warn the righteous man, reproverf: for they are a
or whether they will house of Israel: therefore that the righteous sin rebellious house. 27But
forbear. 12Then the spirit hear the word at my not, and he doth not sin, when I speak with thee,
took me up, and I heard mouth, and give them he shall surely live, I will open thy mouth,
behind me a voice of a warning from me. because he is warned; and thou shalt say unto
great rushing, saying, 18
When I say unto the also thou hast delivered them, Thus saith the
Blessed be the glory of wicked, Thou shalt surely thy soul. Lord GOD; He that
the LORD from his place. die; and thou givest him 22
And the hand of the heareth, let him hear;
13
I heard also the noise not warning, nor LORD was there upon and he that forbeareth,
of the wings of the living speakest to warn the me; and he said unto let him forbear: for they
creatures that touchedd wicked from his wicked me, Arise, go forth into are a rebellious house.
one another, and the way, to save his life; the the plain, and I will there
noise of the wheels over same wicked man shall talk with thee. 23Then I Chapter 4
against them, and a die in his iniquity; but his arose, and went forth
noise of a great rushing. blood will I require at into the plain: and, Thou also, son of
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14
So the spirit lifted me thine hand. 19Yet if thou behold, the glory of the man, take thee a tile,
up, and took me away, warn the wicked, and he LORD stood there, as the and lay it before thee,
and I went in bitternesse, turn not from his glory which I saw by the and pourtray upon it
in the heat of my spirit; wickedness, nor from his river of Chebar: and I fell the city, even
but the hand of the wicked way, he shall die on my face. 24Then the Jerusalem: 2
And lay
LORD was strong upon in his iniquity; but thou spirit entered into me, siege against it, and
me. 15
Then I came to hast delivered thy soul. and set me upon my build a fort against it,
them of the captivity at 20
Again, When a feet, and spake with me, and cast a mount
Telabib, that dwelt by righteous man doth turn and said unto me, Go, against it; set the camp
the river of Chebar, and I from his righteousness, shut thyself within thine also against it, and set
sat where they sat, and and commit iniquity, and house. 25But thou, O son battering rams against
remained there I lay a stumblingblock of man, behold, they it round about.
astonished among them before him, he shall die: shall put bands upon
3
Moreover take thou
seven days. because thou hast not thee, and shall bind thee unto thee an irona pan,
16
And it came to pass given him warning, he with them, and thou and set it for a wall of
at the end of seven days, shall die in his sin, and shalt not go out among iron between thee and
that the word of the his righteousness which them: 26And I will make the city: and set thy
LORD came unto me, he hath done shall not thy tongue cleave to the face against it, and it
saying, 17Son of man, I be remembered; but his roof of thy mouth, that f
have made thee a blood will I require at thou shalt be dumb, and a reprover: Heb. a man
thine hand. shalt not be to them a reproving
d a
touched: Heb. kissed 21
Nevertheless if thou an iron...: or, a flat plate, or,
e
in bitterness: Heb. bitter slice
shall be besieged, and ended the days of thy polluted: for from my divide the hair. 2Thou
thou shalt lay siege siege. youth up even till now shalt burn with fire a
against it. This shall be a 9
Take thou also unto have I not eaten of that third part in the midst
sign to the house of thee wheat, and barley, which dieth of itself, or is of the city, when the
Israel. 4
Lie thou also and beans, and lentiles, torn in pieces; neither days of the siege are
upon thy left side, and and millet, and fitchesb, came there abominable fulfilled: and thou shalt
lay the iniquity of the and put them in one flesh into my mouth. take a third part, and
house of Israel upon it: vessel, and make thee 15
Then he said unto me, smite about it with a
according to the number bread thereof, according Lo, I have given thee knife: and a third part
of the days that thou to the number of the cow’s dung for man’s thou shalt scatter in the
shalt lie upon it thou days that thou shalt lie dung, and thou shalt wind; and I will draw
shalt bear their iniquity. upon thy side, three prepare thy bread out a sword after them.
5
For I have laid upon hundred and ninety days therewith. 16Moreover he 3
Thou shalt also take
thee the years of their shalt thou eat thereof. said unto me, Son of thereof a few in
iniquity, according to the 10
And thy meat which man, behold, I will break number, and bind them
number of the days, thou shalt eat shall be by the staff of bread in in thy skirtsa. 4
Then
three hundred and weight, twenty shekels a Jerusalem: and they shall take of them again, and
ninety days: so shalt day: from time to time eat bread by weight, and cast them into the
thou bear the iniquity of shalt thou eat it. 11Thou with care; and they shall midst of the fire, and
the house of Israel. 6And shalt drink also water by drink water by measure, burn them in the fire;
when thou hast measure, the sixth part and with astonishment: for thereof shall a fire
accomplished them, lie of an hin: from time to 17
That they may want come forth into all the
again on thy right side, time shalt thou drink. bread and water, and be house of Israel.
and thou shalt bear the 12
And thou shalt eat it as astonied one with 5
Thus saith the Lord
iniquity of the house of barley cakes, and thou another, and consume GOD; This is Jerusalem:
Judah forty days: I have shalt bake it with dung away for their iniquity. I have set it in the
appointed thee each day that cometh out of man, midst of the nations
for a year. 7
Therefore in their sight. 13And the Chapter 5 and countries that are
thou shalt set thy face LORD said, Even thus round about her. 6And
toward the siege of shall the children of
1
And thou, son of she hath changed my
Jerusalem, and thine arm Israel eat their defiled man, take thee a sharp judgments into
shall be uncovered, and bread among the knife, take thee a wickedness more than
thou shalt prophesy Gentiles, whither I will barber’s razor, and the nations, and my
against it. And, behold, I
8
drive them. 14Then said I, cause it to pass upon statutes more than the
will lay bands upon thee, Ah Lord GOD! behold, thine head and upon thy countries that are round
and thou shalt not turn my soul hath not been beard: then take thee about her: for they
thee from one side to balances to weigh, and
b a
another, till thou hast fitches: or, spelt skirts: Heb. wings
have refused my saith the Lord GOD; shall be a reproach and of Israel, hear the word
judgments and my Surely, because thou a taunt, an instruction of the Lord GOD; Thus
statutes, they have not hast defiled my and an astonishment saith the Lord GOD to
walked in them. sanctuary with all thy unto the nations that are the mountains, and to
7
Therefore thus saith the detestable things, and round about thee, when I the hills, to the rivers,
Lord GOD; Because ye with all thine shall execute judgments and to the valleys;
multiplied more than the abominations, therefore in thee in anger and in Behold, I, even I, will
nations that are round will I also diminish thee; fury and in furious bring a sword upon you,
about you, and have not neither shall mine eye rebukes. I the LORD and I will destroy your
walked in my statutes, spare, neither will I have have spoken it. 16When I high places. 4And your
neither have kept my any pity. 12A third part of shall send upon them altars shall be desolate,
judgments, neither have thee shall die with the the evil arrows of and your imagesa shall
done according to the pestilence, and with famine, which shall be be broken: and I will
judgments of the nations famine shall they be for their destruction, and cast down your slain
that are round about consumed in the midst which I will send to men before your idols.
you; 8
Therefore thus of thee: and a third part destroy you: and I will 5
And I will layb the dead
saith the Lord GOD; shall fall by the sword increase the famine carcases of the children
Behold, I, even I, am round about thee; and I upon you, and will break of Israel before their
against thee, and will will scatter a third part your staff of bread: 17So idols; and I will scatter
execute judgments in into all the winds, and I will I send upon you your bones round about
the midst of thee in the will draw out a sword famine and evil beasts, your altars. 6In all your
sight of the nations. 9And after them. 13Thus shall and they shall bereave dwellingplaces the
I will do in thee that mine anger be thee; and pestilence and cities shall be laid
which I have not done, accomplished, and I will blood shall pass through waste, and the high
and whereunto I will not cause my fury to rest thee; and I will bring the places shall be
do any more the like, upon them, and I will be sword upon thee. I the desolate; that your
because of all thine comforted: and they LORD have spoken it. altars may be laid
abominations. shall know that I the waste and made
10
Therefore the fathers LORD have spoken it in Chapter 6 desolate, and your idols
shall eat the sons in the my zeal, when I have may be broken and
midst of thee, and the accomplished my fury in
1
And the word of the cease, and your images
sons shall eat their them. 14Moreover I will LORD came unto me, may be cut down, and
fathers; and I will make thee waste, and a saying, 2Son of man, set your works may be
execute judgments in reproach among the thy face toward the abolished. 7
And the
thee, and the whole nations that are round mountains of Israel, and slain shall fall in the
remnant of thee will I about thee, in the sight prophesy against them,
a
scatter into all the winds. of all that pass by. 15So it
3
And say, Ye mountains images: or, sun images
b
11
Wherefore, as I live, lay: Heb. give
midst of you, and ye house of Israel! for they Moreover the word of
1
the sounding again of
shall know that I am the shall fall by the sword, the LORD came unto me, the mountains. 8
Now
LORD. by the famine, and by saying, 2Also, thou son of will I shortly pour out
8
Yet will I leave a the pestilence. 12He that man, thus saith the Lord my fury upon thee, and
remnant, that ye may is far off shall die of the GOD unto the land of accomplish mine anger
have some that shall pestilence; and he that is Israel; An end, the end is upon thee: and I will
escape the sword among near shall fall by the come upon the four judge thee according to
the nations, when ye sword; and he that corners of the land. 3Now thy ways, and will
shall be scattered remaineth and is is the end come upon recompense thee for all
through the countries. besieged shall die by the thee, and I will send thine abominations.
9
And they that escape of famine: thus will I mine anger upon thee, 9
And mine eye shall not
you shall remember me accomplish my fury upon and will judge thee spare, neither will I
among the nations them. 13Then shall ye according to thy ways, have pity: I will
whither they shall be know that I am the and will recompensea recompense thee
carried captives, LORD, when their slain upon thee all thine according to thy ways
because I am broken men shall be among abominations. 4
And and thine abominations
with their whorish heart, their idols round about mine eye shall not spare that are in the midst of
which hath departed their altars, upon every thee, neither will I have thee; and ye shall know
from me, and with their high hill, in all the tops of pity: but I will that I am the LORD that
eyes, which go a whoring the mountains, and recompense thy ways smiteth. 10Behold the
after their idols: and under every green tree, upon thee, and thine day, behold, it is come:
they shall lothe and under every thick abominations shall be in the morning is gone
themselves for the evils oak, the place where the midst of thee: and ye forth; the rod hath
which they have they did offer sweet shall know that I am the blossomed, pride hath
committed in all their savour to all their idols. LORD. 5Thus saith the budded. 11Violence is
abominations. 10And they 14
So will I stretch out my Lord GOD; An evil, an risen up into a rod of
shall know that I am the hand upon them, and only evil, behold, is wickedness: none of
LORD, and that I have make the land desolate, come. 6An end is come, them shall remain, nor
not said in vain that I yea, more desolate than the end is come: it of their multitude, nor
would do this evil unto the wilderness toward watcheth for thee; of any of theirs: neither
them. Diblath, in all their behold, it is come. 7The shall there be wailingb
11
Thus saith the Lord habitations: and they morning is come unto for them. 12The time is
GOD; Smite with thine shall know that I am the thee, O thou that come, the day draweth
hand, and stamp with LORD. dwellest in the land: the near: let not the buyer
thy foot, and say, Alas time is come, the day of rejoice, nor the seller
for all the evil Chapter 7 trouble is near, and not b
abominations of the theirs: or, their tumultuous
a
recompense: Heb. give persons: Heb. tumult
mourn: for wrath is upon sackcloth, and horror pollute my secret place: their deserts will I judge
all the multitude thereof. shall cover them; and for the robbersf shall them; and they shall
13
For the seller shall not shame shall be upon all enter into it, and defile know that I am the
return to that which is faces, and baldness it. LORD.
sold, although they were upon all their heads. 23
Make a chain: for
yet alive: for the vision is 19
They shall cast their the land is full of bloody Chapter 8
touching the whole silver in the streets, and crimes, and the city is
multitude thereof, which their gold shall be full of violence.
1
And it came to pass
shall not return; neither removedd: their silver 24
Wherefore I will bring in the sixth year, in the
shall any strengthen and their gold shall not the worst of the heathen, sixth month, in the fifth
himself in the iniquity of be able to deliver them and they shall possess day of the month, as I
his life. 14
They have in the day of the wrath of their houses: I will also sat in mine house, and
blown the trumpet, even the LORD: they shall not make the pomp of the the elders of Judah sat
to make all ready; but satisfy their souls, strong to cease; and before me, that the
none goeth to the battle: neither fill their bowels: their holy places shall be hand of the Lord GOD
for my wrath is upon all because it is the defiled. 25
Destructiong fell there upon me.
the multitude thereof. stumblingblock of their cometh; and they shall
2
Then I beheld, and lo a
15
The sword is without, iniquity. 20
As for the seek peace, and there likeness as the
and the pestilence and beauty of his ornament, shall be none. 26Mischief appearance of fire: from
the famine within: he he set it in majesty: but shall come upon the appearance of his
that is in the field shall they made the images of mischief, and rumour loins even downward,
die with the sword; and their abominations and shall be upon rumour; fire; and from his loins
he that is in the city, of their detestable things then shall they seek a even upward, as the
famine and pestilence therein: therefore have I vision of the prophet; but appearance of
shall devour him. set it fare from them. the law shall perish from brightness, as the
16
But they that escape 21
And I will give it into the priest, and counsel colour of amber. 3And
of them shall escape, the hands of the from the ancients. 27The he put forth the form of
and shall be on the strangers for a prey, and king shall mourn, and an hand, and took me
mountains like doves of to the wicked of the the prince shall be by a lock of mine head;
the valleys, all of them earth for a spoil; and clothed with desolation, and the spirit lifted me
mourning, every one for they shall pollute it. 22My and the hands of the up between the earth
his iniquity. 17All hands face will I turn also from people of the land shall and the heaven, and
shall be feeble, and all them, and they shall be troubled: I will do brought me in the
knees shall be weakc as unto them after their visions of God to
d
water. 18They shall also removed: Heb. for a way, and according to Jerusalem, to the door
gird themselves with separation, or, uncleanness of the inner gate that
e f
set it far...: or, made it unto robbers: or, buglers looketh toward the
c g
be weak...: Heb. go into water them an unclean thing Destruction: Heb. Cutting off
north; where was the behold a door. 9And he brought me to the door put the branch to their
seat of the image of said unto me, Go in, and of the gate of the nose. 18Therefore will I
jealousy, which behold the wicked LORD’S house which was also deal in fury: mine
provoketh to jealousy. abominations that they toward the north; and, eye shall not spare,
4
And, behold, the glory do here. 10So I went in behold, there sat women neither will I have pity:
of the God of Israel was and saw; and behold weeping for Tammuz. and though they cry in
there, according to the every form of creeping 15
Then said he unto me, mine ears with a loud
vision that I saw in the things, and abominable Hast thou seen this, O voice, yet will I not hear
plain. 5Then said he unto beasts, and all the idols son of man? turn thee them.
me, Son of man, lift up of the house of Israel, yet again, and thou shalt
thine eyes now the way pourtrayed upon the wall see greater Chapter 9
toward the north. So I round about. 11And there abominations than
lifted up mine eyes the stood before them these. 16And he brought He cried also in
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way toward the north, seventy men of the me into the inner court mine ears with a loud
and behold northward at ancients of the house of of the LORD’S house, voice, saying, Cause
the gate of the altar this Israel, and in the midst and, behold, at the door them that have charge
image of jealousy in the of them stood Jaazaniah of the temple of the over the city to draw
entry. 6
He said the son of Shaphan, with LORD, between the near, even every man
furthermore unto me, every man his censer in porch and the altar, with his destroying
Son of man, seest thou his hand; and a thick were about five and weapon in his hand.
what they do? even the cloud of incense went twenty men, with their
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And, behold, six men
great abominations that up. 12Then said he unto backs toward the temple came from the way of
the house of Israel me, Son of man, hast of the LORD, and their the higher gate, which
committeth here, that I thou seen what the faces toward the east; lietha toward the north,
should go far off from ancients of the house of and they worshipped the and every man a
my sanctuary? but turn Israel do in the dark, sun toward the east. slaughter weapon in his
thee yet again, and thou every man in the 17
Then he said unto me, hand; and one man
shalt see greater chambers of his Hast thou seen this, O among them was
abominations. imagery? for they say, son of man? Is it a light clothed with linen, with
7
And he brought me The LORD seeth us not; thing to the house of a writer’s inkhorn by his
to the door of the court; the LORD hath forsaken Judah that they commit side: and they went in,
and when I looked, the earth. the abominations which and stood beside the
behold a hole in the wall. 13
He said also unto they commit here? for brasen altar. 3And the
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Then said he unto me, me, Turn thee yet again, they have filled the land glory of the God of
Son of man, dig now in and thou shalt see with violence, and have Israel was gone up from
the wall: and when I had greater abominations returned to provoke me a
digged in the wall, that they do. 14Then he to anger: and, lo, they which lieth: Heb. which is
turned
the cherub, whereupon house, and fill the courts done as thou hast and the court was full of
he was, to the threshold with the slain: go ye commanded me. the brightness of the
of the house. And he forth. And they went LORD’S glory. 5And the
called to the man forth, and slew in the Chapter 10 sound of the cherubims’
clothed with linen, which city. 8And it came to wings was heard even
had the writer’s inkhorn pass, while they were Then I looked, and,
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to the outer court, as
by his side; 4And the slaying them, and I was behold, in the firmament the voice of the
LORD said unto him, Go left, that I fell upon my that was above the head Almighty God when he
through the midst of the face, and cried, and said, of the cherubims there speaketh. 6And it came
city, through the midst Ah Lord GOD! wilt thou appeared over them as it to pass, that when he
of Jerusalem, and set a destroy all the residue of were a sapphire stone, had commanded the
markb upon the Israel in thy pouring out as the appearance of the man clothed with linen,
foreheads of the men of thy fury upon likeness of a throne. saying, Take fire from
that sigh and that cry for Jerusalem? Then said he
9 2
And he spake unto the between the wheels,
all the abominations that unto me, The iniquity of man clothed with linen, from between the
be done in the midst the house of Israel and and said, Go in between cherubims; then he
thereof. Judah is exceeding great, the wheels, even under went in, and stood
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And to the others he and the land is full of the cherub, and fill thine beside the wheels. 7And
said in mine hearingc, Go bloode, and the city full handa with coals of fire one cherub stretched
ye after him through the of perverseness: for they from between the forthc his hand from
city, and smite: let not say, The LORD hath cherubims, and scatter between the cherubims
your eye spare, neither forsaken the earth, and them over the city. And unto the fire that was
have ye pity: 6
Slay the LORD seeth not. he went in in my sight. between the cherubims,
utterly old and young,
d 10
And as for me also,
3
Now the cherubims and took thereof, and
both maids, and little mine eye shall not spare, stood on the right side of put it into the hands of
children, and women: neither will I have pity, the house, when the him that was clothed
but come not near any but I will recompense man went in; and the with linen: who took it,
man upon whom is the their way upon their cloud filled the inner and went out.
mark; and begin at my head. 11And, behold, the court. 4Then the glory of 8
And there appeared
sanctuary. Then they man clothed with linen, the LORD went upb from in the cherubims the
began at the ancient which had the inkhorn by the cherub, and stood form of a man’s hand
men which were before his side, reportedf the over the threshold of the under their wings. 9And
the house. 7And he said matter, saying, I have house; and the house when I looked, behold
unto them, Defile the was filled with the cloud, the four wheels by the
e
full of blood: Heb. filled with, cherubims, one wheel
b a
set a mark: Heb. mark a mark etc thine hand: Heb. the hollow of
c f c
mine hearing: Heb. mine ears reported...: Heb. returned the thine hand stretched forth: Heb. sent
d b
utterly: Heb. to destruction word went up: Heb. was lifted up forth
by one cherub, and cherubims were lifted the God of Israel by the city: 3Which say, It is
another wheel by up. This is the living river of Chebar; and I not near; let us build
another cherub: and the creature that I saw by knew that they were the houses: this city is the
appearance of the the river of Chebar. cherubims. 21Every one caldron, and we be the
wheels was as the colour 16
And when the had four faces apiece, flesh. 4
Therefore
of a beryl stone. 10And as cherubims went, the and every one four prophesy against them,
for their appearances, wheels went by them: wings; and the likeness prophesy, O son of
they four had one and when the cherubims of the hands of a man man. 5And the Spirit of
likeness, as if a wheel lifted up their wings to was under their wings. the LORD fell upon me,
had been in the midst of mount up from the 22
And the likeness of and said unto me,
a wheel. 11When they earth, the same wheels their faces was the same Speak; Thus saith the
went, they went upon also turned not from faces which I saw by the LORD; Thus have ye
their four sides; they beside them. 17When river of Chebar, their said, O house of Israel:
turned not as they went, they stood, these stood; appearances and for I know the things
but to the place whither and when they were themselves: they went that come into your
the head looked they lifted up, these lifted up every one straight mind, every one of
followed it; they turned themselves also: for the forward. them. 6
Ye have
not as they went. 12And spirit of the living multiplied your slain in
their whole bodyd, and creature was in them. Chapter 11 this city, and ye have
their backs, and their 18
Then the glory of the filled the streets thereof
hands, and their wings, LORD departed from off
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Moreover the spirit with the slain.
and the wheels, were full the threshold of the lifted me up, and 7
Therefore thus saith
of eyes round about, house, and stood over brought me unto the the Lord GOD; Your
even the wheels that the cherubims. 19And the east gate of the LORD’S slain whom ye have laid
they four had. 13As for cherubims lifted up their house, which looketh in the midst of it, they
the wheels, it was cried wings, and mounted up eastward: and behold at are the flesh, and this
unto them in my from the earth in my the door of the gate five city is the caldron: but I
hearing, O wheel. 14
And sight: when they went and twenty men; among will bring you forth out
every one had four out, the wheels also whom I saw Jaazaniah of the midst of it. 8Ye
faces: the first face was were beside them, and the son of Azur, and have feared the sword;
the face of a cherub, and every one stood at the Pelatiah the son of and I will bring a sword
the second face was the door of the east gate of Benaiah, princes of the upon you, saith the
face of a man, and the the LORD’S house; and people. 2Then said he Lord GOD. 9And I will
third the face of a lion, the glory of the God of unto me, Son of man, bring you out of the
and the fourth the face Israel was over them these are the men that midst thereof, and
of an eagle. 15And the above. 20This is the living devise mischief, and give deliver you into the
creature that I saw under wicked counsel in this hands of strangers, and
d
body: Heb. flesh
will execute judgments inhabitants of Jerusalem statutes, and keep mine Chapter 12
among you. 10Ye shall fall have said, Get you far ordinances, and do
by the sword; I will judge from the LORD: unto us them: and they shall be The word of the
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you in the border of is this land given in my people, and I will be LORD also came unto
Israel; and ye shall know possession. 16Therefore their God. 21But as for me, saying, 2Son of
that I am the LORD. say, Thus saith the Lord them whose heart man, thou dwellest in
11
This city shall not be GOD; Although I have walketh after the heart the midst of a rebellious
your caldron, neither cast them far off among of their detestable things house, which have eyes
shall ye be the flesh in the heathen, and and their abominations, I to see, and see not;
the midst thereof; but I although I have will recompense their they have ears to hear,
will judge you in the scattered them among way upon their own and hear not: for they
border of Israel: 12And ye the countries, yet will I heads, saith the Lord are a rebellious house.
shall know that I am the be to them as a little GOD. 3
Therefore, thou son of
LORD: for ye have not sanctuary in the 22
Then did the man, prepare thee
walked in my statutes, countries where they cherubims lift up their stuffa for removing, and
neither executed my shall come. 17Therefore wings, and the wheels remove by day in their
judgments, but have say, Thus saith the Lord beside them; and the sight; and thou shalt
done after the manners GOD; I will even gather glory of the God of Israel remove from thy place
of the heathen that are you from the people, and was over them above. to another place in their
round about you. 13And assemble you out of the 23
And the glory of the sight: it may be they
it came to pass, when I countries where ye have LORD went up from the will consider, though
prophesied, that Pelatiah been scattered, and I will midst of the city, and they be a rebellious
the son of Benaiah died. give you the land of stood upon the mountain house. 4Then shalt thou
Then fell I down upon my Israel. 18And they shall which is on the east side bring forth thy stuff by
face, and cried with a come thither, and they of the city. 24Afterwards day in their sight, as
loud voice, and said, Ah shall take away all the the spirit took me up, stuff for removing: and
Lord GOD! wilt thou detestable things thereof and brought me in a thou shalt go forth at
make a full end of the and all the abominations vision by the Spirit of even in their sight, as
remnant of Israel? thereof from thence. God into Chaldea, to they that go forth into
14
Again the word of 19
And I will give them them of the captivity. So captivity. 5
Digb thou
the LORD came unto me, one heart, and I will put the vision that I had seen through the wall in their
saying, 15Son of man, thy a new spirit within you; went up from me. 25Then sight, and carry out
brethren, even thy and I will take the stony I spake unto them of the thereby. 6In their sight
brethren, the men of thy heart out of their flesh, captivity all the things shalt thou bear it upon
kindred, and all the and will give them an that the LORD had thy shoulders, and
house of Israel wholly, heart of flesh: 20That shewed me. a
are they unto whom the they may walk in my stuff: or, instruments
b
Dig...: Heb. Dig for thee
carry it forth in the upon his shoulder in the am the LORD. this proverb to cease,
twilight: thou shalt cover twilight, and shall go 17
Moreover the word and they shall no more
thy face, that thou see forth: they shall dig of the LORD came to me, use it as a proverb in
not the ground: for I through the wall to carry saying, 18Son of man, eat Israel; but say unto
have set thee for a sign out thereby: he shall thy bread with quaking, them, The days are at
unto the house of Israel. cover his face, that he and drink thy water with hand, and the effect of
7
And I did so as I was see not the ground with trembling and with every vision. 24For there
commanded: I brought his eyes. 13My net also carefulness; 19
And say shall be no more any
forth my stuff by day, as will I spread upon him, unto the people of the vain vision nor
stuff for captivity, and in and he shall be taken in land, Thus saith the Lord flattering divination
the even I diggedc my snare: and I will bring GOD of the inhabitants within the house of
through the wall with him to Babylon to the of Jerusalem, and of the Israel. 25For I am the
mine hand; I brought it land of the Chaldeans; land of Israel; They shall LORD: I will speak, and
forth in the twilight, and I yet shall he not see it, eat their bread with the word that I shall
bare it upon my shoulder though he shall die carefulness, and drink speak shall come to
in their sight. 8And in there. 14And I will scatter their water with pass; it shall be no
the morning came the toward every wind all astonishment, that her more prolonged: for in
word of the LORD unto that are about him to land may be desolate your days, O rebellious
me, saying, 9Son of man, help him, and all his from all that is therein, house, will I say the
hath not the house of bands; and I will draw because of the violence word, and will perform
Israel, the rebellious out the sword after of all them that dwell it, saith the Lord GOD.
house, said unto thee, them. 15And they shall therein. 20And the cities 26
Again the word of the
What doest thou? 10Say know that I am the that are inhabited shall LORD came to me,
thou unto them, Thus LORD, when I shall be laid waste, and the saying, 27Son of man,
saith the Lord GOD; This scatter them among the land shall be desolate; behold, they of the
burden concerneth the nations, and disperse and ye shall know that I house of Israel say, The
prince in Jerusalem, and them in the countries. am the LORD. vision that he seeth is
all the house of Israel 16
But I will leave a fewd 21
And the word of the for many days to come,
that are among them. men of them from the LORD came unto me, and he prophesieth of
11
Say, I am your sign: sword, from the famine, saying, 22Son of man, the times that are far
like as I have done, so and from the pestilence; what is that proverb that off. 28Therefore say unto
shall it be done unto that they may declare all ye have in the land of them, Thus saith the
them: they shall remove their abominations Israel, saying, The days Lord GOD; There shall
and go into captivity. among the heathen are prolonged, and every none of my words be
12
And the prince that is whither they come; and vision faileth? 23Tell them prolonged any more,
among them shall bear they shall know that I therefore, Thus saith the but the word which I
c d
Lord GOD; I will make have spoken shall be
digged: Heb. digged for me a few...: Heb. men of number
done, saith the Lord the word. 7Have ye not daub it with untempered morter, and will say
GOD. seen a vain vision, and morter, that it shall fall: unto you, The wall is no
have ye not spoken a there shall be an more, neither they that
Chapter 13 lying divination, whereas overflowing shower; and daubed it; 16To wit, the
ye say, The LORD saith ye, O great hailstones, prophets of Israel which
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And the word of the it; albeit I have not shall fall; and a stormy prophesy concerning
LORD came unto me, spoken? 8Therefore thus wind shall rend it. 12Lo, Jerusalem, and which
saying, 2Son of man, saith the Lord GOD; when the wall is fallen, see visions of peace for
prophesy against the Because ye have spoken shall it not be said unto her, and there is no
prophets of Israel that vanity, and seen lies, you, Where is the peace, saith the Lord
prophesy, and say thou therefore, behold, I am daubing wherewith ye GOD.
unto them that prophesy against you, saith the have daubed it? 17
Likewise, thou son
out of their own hearts, Lord GOD. 9And mine 13
Therefore thus saith of man, set thy face
Hear ye the word of the hand shall be upon the the Lord GOD; I will even against the daughters
LORD; 3Thus saith the prophets that see vanity, rend it with a stormy of thy people, which
Lord GOD; Woe unto the and that divine lies: they wind in my fury; and prophesy out of their
foolish prophets, that shall not be in the there shall be an own heart; and
followa their own spirit, assemblyc of my people, overflowing shower in prophesy thou against
and have seen nothing! neither shall they be mine anger, and great them, 18And say, Thus
4
O Israel, thy prophets written in the writing of hailstones in my fury to saith the Lord GOD;
are like the foxes in the the house of Israel, consume it. 14So will I Woe to the women that
deserts. 5Ye have not neither shall they enter break down the wall that sew pillows to all
gone up into the gapsb, into the land of Israel; ye have daubed with armholese, and make
neither made up the and ye shall know that I untempered morter, and kerchiefs upon the head
hedge for the house of am the Lord GOD. bring it down to the of every stature to hunt
Israel to stand in the 10
Because, even ground, so that the souls! Will ye hunt the
battle in the day of the because they have foundation thereof shall souls of my people, and
LORD. 6They have seen seduced my people, be discovered, and it will ye save the souls
vanity and lying saying, Peace; and there shall fall, and ye shall be alive that come unto
divination, saying, The was no peace; and one consumed in the midst you? 19
And will ye
LORD saith: and the built up a walld, and, lo, thereof: and ye shall pollute me among my
LORD hath not sent others daubed it with know that I am the people for handfuls of
them: and they have untempered morter: LORD. 15
Thus will I barley and for pieces of
made others to hope 11
Say unto them which accomplish my wrath bread, to slay the souls
that they would confirm upon the wall, and upon that should not die, and
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assembly: or, secret, or, them that have daubed to save the souls alive
a
follow: Heb. walk after counsel it with untempered
b d e
gaps: or, breaches a wall: or, a slight wall armholes: or, elbows
that should not live, by Chapter 14 Repent, and turn their iniquity: the
your lying to my people yourselves from your punishment of the
that hear your lies? 1
Then came certain of idols; and turn away prophet shall be even
20
Wherefore thus saith the elders of Israel unto your faces from all your as the punishment of
the Lord GOD; Behold, I me, and sat before me. abominations. 7
For him that seeketh unto
am against your pillows, 2
And the word of the every one of the house him; 11That the house of
wherewith ye there hunt LORD came unto me, of Israel, or of the Israel may go no more
the souls to make them saying, 3Son of man, stranger that sojourneth astray from me, neither
flyf, and I will tear them these men have set up in Israel, which be polluted any more
from your arms, and will their idols in their heart, separateth himself from with all their
let the souls go, even the and put the me, and setteth up his transgressions; but that
souls that ye hunt to stumblingblock of their idols in his heart, and they may be my people,
make them fly. 21Your iniquity before their face: putteth the and I may be their God,
kerchiefs also will I tear, should I be enquired of stumblingblock of his saith the Lord GOD.
and deliver my people at all by them? iniquity before his face, 12
The word of the
out of your hand, and 4
Therefore speak unto and cometh to a prophet LORD came again to
they shall be no more in them, and say unto to enquire of him me, saying, 13Son of
your hand to be hunted; them, Thus saith the concerning me; I the man, when the land
and ye shall know that I Lord GOD; Every man of LORD will answer him by sinneth against me by
am the LORD. 22Because the house of Israel that myself: 8And I will set my trespassing grievously,
with lies ye have made setteth up his idols in his face against that man, then will I stretch out
the heart of the heart, and putteth the and will make him a sign mine hand upon it, and
righteous sad, whom I stumblingblock of his and a proverb, and I will will break the staff of
have not made sad; and iniquity before his face, cut him off from the the bread thereof, and
strengthened the hands and cometh to the midst of my people; and will send famine upon
of the wicked, that he prophet; I the LORD will ye shall know that I am it, and will cut off man
should not return from answer him that cometh the LORD. 9And if the and beast from it:
his wicked way, by according to the prophet be deceived 14
Though these three
promising him life: multitude of his idols; when he hath spoken a men, Noah, Daniel, and
23
Therefore ye shall see 5
That I may take the thing, I the LORD have Job, were in it, they
no more vanity, nor house of Israel in their deceived that prophet, should deliver but their
divine divinations: for I own heart, because they and I will stretch out my own souls by their
will deliver my people are all estranged from hand upon him, and will righteousness, saith the
out of your hand: and ye me through their idols. destroy him from the Lord GOD. 15If I cause
shall know that I am the 6
Therefore say unto the midst of my people noisome beasts to pass
LORD. house of Israel, Thus Israel. 10And they shall through the land, and
f saith the Lord GOD; bear the punishment of
to make...: or, into gardens
they spoila it, so that it 21
For thus saith the Lord What is the vine tree desolate, because they
be desolate, that no man GOD; How much more more than any tree, or have committedb a
may pass through when I send my four sore than a branch which is trespass, saith the Lord
because of the beasts: judgments upon among the trees of the GOD.
16
Though these three Jerusalem, the sword, forest? 3Shall wood be
men were in itb, as I live, and the famine, and the taken thereof to do any Chapter 16
saith the Lord GOD, they noisome beast, and the work? or will men take a
shall deliver neither sons pestilence, to cut off pin of it to hang any Again the word of
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nor daughters; they only from it man and beast? vessel thereon? 4Behold, the LORD came unto
shall be delivered, but 22
Yet, behold, therein it is cast into the fire for me, saying, 2Son of
the land shall be shall be left a remnant fuel; the fire devoureth man, cause Jerusalem
desolate. Or if I bring a
17
that shall be brought both the ends of it, and to know her
sword upon that land, forth, both sons and the midst of it is burned. abominations, 3And say,
and say, Sword, go daughters: behold, they Is it meet for any work? Thus saith the Lord
through the land; so that shall come forth unto 5
Behold, when it was GOD unto Jerusalem;
I cut off man and beast you, and ye shall see whole, it was meeta for Thy birtha and thy
from it: 18Though these their way and their no work: how much less nativity is of the land of
three men were in it, as I doings: and ye shall be shall it be meet yet for Canaan; thy father was
live, saith the Lord GOD, comforted concerning any work, when the fire an Amorite, and thy
they shall deliver neither the evil that I have hath devoured it, and it mother an Hittite. 4And
sons nor daughters, but brought upon Jerusalem, is burned? 6
Therefore as for thy nativity, in
they only shall be even concerning all that thus saith the Lord GOD; the day thou wast born
delivered themselves. I have brought upon it. As the vine tree among thy navel was not cut,
19
Or if I send a pestilence 23
And they shall comfort the trees of the forest, neither wast thou
into that land, and pour you, when ye see their which I have given to the washed in water to
out my fury upon it in ways and their doings: fire for fuel, so will I give suppleb thee; thou wast
blood, to cut off from it and ye shall know that I the inhabitants of not salted at all, nor
man and beast: 20Though have not done without Jerusalem. And I will set
7 swaddled at all. 5None
Noah, Daniel, and Job, cause all that I have my face against them; eye pitied thee, to do
were in it, as I live, saith done in it, saith the Lord they shall go out from any of these unto thee,
the Lord GOD, they shall GOD. one fire, and another fire to have compassion
deliver neither son nor shall devour them; and b
daughter; they shall but Chapter 15 ye shall know that I am committed...: Heb.
deliver their own souls the LORD, when I set my trespassed a trespass
a
by their righteousness. And the word of the
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face against them. 8And I birth: Heb. cutting out, or,
LORD came unto me, will make the land habitation
a b
spoil: or, bereave saying, 2Son of man, to supple...: or, when I
b a
in it: Heb. in the midst of it meet: Heb. made fit looked upon thee
upon thee; but thou wast GOD, and thou becamest comeliness, which I had before them for a
cast out in the open mine. 9Then washed I put upon thee, saith the sweeth savour: and thus
field, to the lothing of thee with water; yea, I Lord GOD. it was, saith the Lord
thy person, in the day throughly washed away 15
But thou didst trust GOD. 20Moreover thou
that thou wast born. thy bloode from thee, in thine own beauty, and hast taken thy sons and
6
And when I passed and I anointed thee with playedst the harlot thy daughters, whom
by thee, and saw thee oil. 10I clothed thee also because of thy renown, thou hast borne unto
pollutedc in thine own with broidered work, and and pouredst out thy me, and these hast
blood, I said unto thee shod thee with badgers’ fornications on every thou sacrificed unto
when thou wast in thy skin, and I girded thee one that passed by; his it them to be devoured. Is
blood, Live; yea, I said about with fine linen, was. 16
And of thy this of thy whoredoms a
unto thee when thou and I covered thee with garments thou didst small matter, 21
That
wast in thy blood, Live. silk. 11I decked thee also take, and deckedst thy thou hast slain my
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I have causedd thee to with ornaments, and I high places with divers children, and delivered
multiply as the bud of put bracelets upon thy colours, and playedst the them to cause them to
the field, and thou hast hands, and a chain on harlot thereupon: the pass through the fire for
increased and waxen thy neck. 12And I put a like things shall not them? 22And in all thine
great, and thou art come jewel on thy foreheadf, come, neither shall it be abominations and thy
to excellent ornaments: and earrings in thine so. 17Thou hast also whoredoms thou hast
thy breasts are ears, and a beautiful taken thy fair jewels of not remembered the
fashioned, and thine hair crown upon thine head. my gold and of my silver, days of thy youth, when
is grown, whereas thou 13
Thus wast thou decked which I had given thee, thou wast naked and
wast naked and bare. with gold and silver; and and madest to thyself bare, and wast polluted
8
Now when I passed by thy raiment was of fine images of meng, and in thy blood. 23And it
thee, and looked upon linen, and silk, and didst commit whoredom came to pass after all
thee, behold, thy time broidered work; thou with them, 18And tookest thy wickedness, (woe,
was the time of love; and didst eat fine flour, and thy broidered garments, woe unto thee! saith
I spread my skirt over honey, and oil: and thou and coveredst them: and the Lord GOD;) 24That
thee, and covered thy wast exceeding thou hast set mine oil thou hast also built
nakedness: yea, I sware beautiful, and thou didst and mine incense before unto thee an eminent
unto thee, and entered prosper into a kingdom. them. 19My meat also place, and hast made
into a covenant with 14
And thy renown went which I gave thee, fine thee an high place in
thee, saith the Lord forth among the heathen flour, and oil, and honey, every street. 25
Thou
c
for thy beauty: for it was wherewith I fed thee, hast built thy high place
polluted: or, trodden under perfect through my thou hast even set it at every head of the
foot
d e h
caused...: Heb. made thee a blood: Heb. bloods a sweet...: Heb. a savour of
f g
million forehead: Heb. nose of men: Heb. of a male rest
way, and hast made thy thine heart, saith the hear the word of the thee also of thy clothes,
beauty to be abhorred, Lord GOD, seeing thou LORD: 36Thus saith the and shall take thy fairl
and hast opened thy feet doest all these things, Lord GOD; Because thy jewels, and leave thee
to every one that passed the work of an imperious filthiness was poured naked and bare. 40They
by, and multiplied thy whorish woman; 31In that out, and thy nakedness shall also bring up a
whoredoms. 26Thou hast thou buildestj thine discovered through thy company against thee,
also committed eminent place in the whoredoms with thy and they shall stone
fornication with the head of every way, and lovers, and with all the thee with stones, and
Egyptians thy makest thine high place idols of thy thrust thee through
neighbours, great of in every street; and hast abominations, and by with their swords. 41And
flesh; and hast increased not been as an harlot, in the blood of thy children, they shall burn thine
thy whoredoms, to that thou scornest hire; which thou didst give houses with fire, and
provoke me to anger. 32
But as a wife that unto them; 37
Behold, execute judgments
27
Behold, therefore I committeth adultery, therefore I will gather all upon thee in the sight
have stretched out my which taketh strangers thy lovers, with whom of many women: and I
hand over thee, and instead of her husband! thou hast taken will cause thee to cease
have diminished thine 33
They give gifts to all pleasure, and all them from playing the harlot,
ordinary food, and whores: but thou givest that thou hast loved, and thou also shalt give
delivered thee unto the thy gifts to all thy lovers, with all them that thou no hire any more. 42So
will of them that hate and hirestk them, that hast hated; I will even will I make my fury
thee, the daughtersi of they may come unto gather them round about toward thee to rest, and
the Philistines, which are thee on every side for against thee, and will my jealousy shall
ashamed of thy lewd thy whoredom. 34
And discover thy nakedness depart from thee, and I
way. 28Thou hast played the contrary is in thee unto them, that they will be quiet, and will be
the whore also with the from other women in thy may see all thy no more angry.
Assyrians, because thou whoredoms, whereas nakedness. 38
And I will 43
Because thou hast not
wast unsatiable; yea, none followeth thee to judge thee, as women remembered the days
thou hast played the commit whoredoms: and that break wedlock and of thy youth, but hast
harlot with them, and yet in that thou givest a shed blood are judged; fretted me in all these
couldest not be satisfied. reward, and no reward is and I will give thee blood things; behold,
29
Thou hast moreover given unto thee, in fury and jealousy. therefore I also will
multiplied thy fornication therefore thou art 39
And I will also give thee recompense thy way
in the land of Canaan contrary. into their hand, and they upon thine head, saith
unto Chaldea; and yet 35
Wherefore, O harlot, shall throw down thine the Lord GOD: and thou
thou wast not satisfied j
eminent place, and shall shalt not commit this
herewith. 30How weak is In that thou buildest...: or, In break down thy high l
thy daughters is thine, etc places: they shall strip thy fair...: Heb. instruments
i k
daughters: or, cities hirest: Heb. bribest of thine ornament
lewdness above all thine her daughters, as thou Sodom and her about. 58
Thou hast
abominations. hast done, thou and thy daughters, and the borne p
thy lewdness
44
Behold, every one daughters. 49Behold, this captivity of Samaria and and thine abominations,
that useth proverbs shall was the iniquity of thy her daughters, then will I saith the LORD. 59For
use this proverb against sister Sodom, pride, bring again the captivity thus saith the Lord
thee, saying, As is the fulness of bread, and of thy captives in the GOD; I will even deal
mother, so is her abundance of idleness midst of them: 54That with thee as thou hast
daughter. Thou art thy
45
was in her and in her thou mayest bear thine done, which hast
mother’s daughter, that daughters, neither did own shame, and mayest despised the oath in
lotheth her husband and she strengthen the hand be confounded in all that breaking the covenant.
her children; and thou of the poor and needy. thou hast done, in that 60
Nevertheless I will
art the sister of thy 50
And they were thou art a comfort unto remember my covenant
sisters, which lothed haughty, and committed them. 55When thy sisters, with thee in the days of
their husbands and their abomination before me: Sodom and her thy youth, and I will
children: your mother therefore I took them daughters, shall return establish unto thee an
was an Hittite, and your away as I saw good. to their former estate, everlasting covenant.
father an Amorite. 46And 51
Neither hath Samaria and Samaria and her 61
Then thou shalt
thine elder sister is committed half of thy daughters shall return to remember thy ways,
Samaria, she and her sins; but thou hast their former estate, then and be ashamed, when
daughters that dwell at multiplied thine thou and thy daughters thou shalt receive thy
thy left hand: and thy abominations more than shall return to your sisters, thine elder and
youngerm sister, that they, and hast justified former estate. 56For thy thy younger: and I will
dwelleth at thy right thy sisters in all thine sister Sodom was not give them unto thee for
hand, is Sodom and her abominations which thou mentionedn by thy daughters, but not by
daughters. 47
Yet hast hast done. 52Thou also, mouth in the day of thy thy covenant. 62And I
thou not walked after which hast judged thy pride, 57
Before thy will establish my
their ways, nor done sisters, bear thine own wickedness was covenant with thee; and
after their abominations: shame for thy sins that discovered, as at the thou shalt know that I
but, as if that were a thou hast committed time of thy reproach of am the LORD: 63That
very little thing, thou more abominable than the daughters of Syriao, thou mayest remember,
wast corrupted more they: they are more and all that are round and be confounded, and
than they in all thy ways. righteous than thou: yea, about her, the daughters never open thy mouth
48
As I live, saith the Lord be thou confounded also, of the Philistines, which any more because of
GOD, Sodom thy sister and bear thy shame, in despise thee round thy shame, when I am
hath not done, she nor that thou hast justified n
pacified toward thee for
thy sisters. 53When I shall mentioned: Heb. for a report, all that thou hast done,
m
thy younger: Heb. lesser than bring again their or, hearing
o p
thou captivity, the captivity of Syria: Heb. Aram borne: Heb. borne them
saith the Lord GOD. branches, and shot forth saying, 12Say now to the and whose covenant he
sprigs. 7There was also rebellious house, Know brake, even with him in
Chapter 17 another great eagle with ye not what these things the midst of Babylon he
great wings and many mean? tell them, Behold, shall die. 17Neither shall
1
And the word of the feathers: and, behold, the king of Babylon is Pharaoh with his mighty
LORD came unto me, this vine did bend her come to Jerusalem, and army and great
saying, 2Son of man, put roots toward him, and hath taken the king company make for him
forth a riddle, and speak shot forth her branches thereof, and the princes in the war, by casting
a parable unto the house toward him, that he thereof, and led them up mounts, and building
of Israel; 3And say, Thus might water it by the with him to Babylon; forts, to cut off many
saith the Lord GOD; A furrows of her plantation. 13
And hath taken of the persons: 18Seeing he
great eagle with great 8
It was planted in a good king’s seed, and made a despised the oath by
wings, longwinged, full soilb by great waters, covenant with him, and breaking the covenant,
of feathers, which had that it might bring forth hath taken an oath of when, lo, he had given
divers colours, came branches, and that it him: he hath also taken his hand, and hath done
unto Lebanon, and took might bear fruit, that it the mighty of the land: all these things, he shall
the highest branch of the might be a goodly vine. 14
That the kingdom not escape. 19Therefore
cedar: 4He cropped off 9
Say thou, Thus saith the might be base, that it thus saith the Lord
the top of his young Lord GOD; Shall it might not lift itself up, GOD; As I live, surely
twigs, and carried it into prosper? shall he not pull but that by keeping of mine oath that he hath
a land of traffick; he set up the roots thereof, and his covenant it might despised, and my
it in a city of merchants. cut off the fruit thereof, stand. 15But he rebelled covenant that he hath
5
He took also of the seed that it wither? it shall against him in sending broken, even it will I
of the land, and planteda wither in all the leaves of his ambassadors into recompense upon his
it in a fruitful field; he her spring, even without Egypt, that they might own head. 20And I will
placed it by great great power or many give him horses and spread my net upon
waters, and set it as a people to pluck it up by much people. Shall he him, and he shall be
willow tree. 6
And it the roots thereof. 10Yea, prosper? shall he escape taken in my snare, and I
grew, and became a behold, being planted, that doeth such things? will bring him to
spreading vine of low shall it prosper? shall it or shall he break the Babylon, and will plead
stature, whose branches not utterly wither, when covenant, and be with him there for his
turned toward him, and the east wind toucheth delivered? 16
As I live, trespass that he hath
the roots thereof were it? it shall wither in the saith the Lord GOD, trespassed against me.
under him: so it became furrows where it grew. surely in the place 21
And all his fugitives
a vine, and brought forth 11
Moreover the word of where the king dwelleth with all his bands shall
a
the LORD came unto me, that made him king, fall by the sword, and
planted...: Heb. put it in a field whose oath he despised, they that remain shall
b
of seed soil: Heb. field
be scattered toward all LORD came unto me a garment; 8He that hath hath done all these
winds: and ye shall know again, saying, 2
What not given forth upon abominations; he shall
that I the LORD have mean ye, that ye use usury, neither hath surely die; his bloodb
spoken it. this proverb concerning taken any increase, that shall be upon him.
22
Thus saith the Lord the land of Israel, saying, hath withdrawn his hand 14
Now, lo, if he beget a
GOD; I will also take of The fathers have eaten from iniquity, hath son, that seeth all his
the highest branch of the sour grapes, and the executed true judgment father’s sins which he
high cedar, and will set children’s teeth are set between man and man, hath done, and
it; I will crop off from the on edge? 3As I live, saith 9
Hath walked in my considereth, and doeth
top of his young twigs a the Lord GOD, ye shall statutes, and hath kept not such like, 15That
tender one, and will not have occasion any my judgments, to deal hath not eaten upon
plant it upon an high more to use this proverb truly; he is just, he shall the mountains, neither
mountain and eminent: in Israel. 4Behold, all surely live, saith the Lord hath lifted up his eyes
23
In the mountain of the souls are mine; as the GOD. to the idols of the house
height of Israel will I soul of the father, so also 10
If he beget a son of Israel, hath not
plant it: and it shall bring the soul of the son is that is a robbera, a defiled his neighbour’s
forth boughs, and bear mine: the soul that shedder of blood, and wife, 16
Neither hath
fruit, and be a goodly sinneth, it shall die. 5But that doeth the like to oppressed any, hath
cedar: and under it shall if a man be just, and do any one of these things, not withholden the
dwell all fowl of every that which is lawful and 11
And that doeth not any pledge, neither hath
wing; in the shadow of right, 6
And hath not of those duties, but even spoiled by violence, but
the branches thereof eaten upon the hath eaten upon the hath given his bread to
shall they dwell. 24And all mountains, neither hath mountains, and defiled the hungry, and hath
the trees of the field lifted up his eyes to the his neighbour’s wife, covered the naked with
shall know that I the idols of the house of 12
Hath oppressed the a garment, 17That hath
LORD have brought Israel, neither hath poor and needy, hath taken off his hand from
down the high tree, have defiled his neighbour’s spoiled by violence, hath the poor, that hath not
exalted the low tree, wife, neither hath come not restored the pledge, received usury nor
have dried up the green near to a menstruous and hath lifted up his increase, hath executed
tree, and have made the woman, 7And hath not eyes to the idols, hath my judgments, hath
dry tree to flourish: I the oppressed any, but hath committed abomination, walked in my statutes;
LORD have spoken and restored to the debtor 13
Hath given forth upon he shall not die for the
have done it. his pledge, hath spoiled usury, and hath taken iniquity of his father, he
none by violence, hath increase: shall he then shall surely live. 18As for
Chapter 18 given his bread to the live? he shall not live: he his father, because he
hungry, and hath a
cruelly oppressed,
1
The word of the covered the naked with robber: or, breaker up of an
b
house blood: Heb. bloods
spoiled his brother by hath done he shall live. hath committed, and yourselves, and live ye.
violence, and did that 23
Have I any pleasure at doeth that which is
which is not good among all that the wicked lawful and right, he shall Chapter 19
his people, lo, even he should die? saith the save his soul alive.
shall die in his iniquity. Lord GOD: and not that 28
Because he
1
Moreover take thou
19
Yet say ye, Why? doth he should return from his considereth, and turneth up a lamentation for the
not the son bear the ways, and live? 24But away from all his princes of Israel, 2And
iniquity of the father? when the righteous transgressions that he say, What is thy
When the son hath done turneth away from his hath committed, he shall mother? A lioness: she
that which is lawful and righteousness, and surely live, he shall not lay down among lions,
right, and hath kept all committeth iniquity, and die. 29Yet saith the house she nourished her
my statutes, and hath doeth according to all of Israel, The way of the whelps among young
done them, he shall the abominations that Lord is not equal. O lions. 3And she brought
surely live. 20The soul the wicked man doeth, house of Israel, are not up one of her whelps: it
that sinneth, it shall die. shall he live? All his my ways equal? are not became a young lion,
The son shall not bear righteousness that he your ways unequal? and it learned to catch
the iniquity of the father, hath done shall not be 30
Therefore I will the prey; it devoured
neither shall the father mentioned: in his judge you, O house of men. 4The nations also
bear the iniquity of the trespass that he hath Israel, every one heard of him; he was
son: the righteousness of trespassed, and in his sin according to his ways, taken in their pit, and
the righteous shall be that he hath sinned, in saith the Lord GOD. they brought him with
upon him, and the them shall he die. 25Yet Repent, and turn chains unto the land of
wickedness of the ye say, The way of the yourselves from all your Egypt. 5Now when she
wicked shall be upon Lord is not equal. Hear transgressions; so saw that she had
him. now, O house of Israel; Is iniquity shall not be your waited, and her hope
21
But if the wicked will not my way equal? are ruin. 31Cast away from was lost, then she took
turn from all his sins that not your ways unequal? you all your another of her whelps,
he hath committed, and 26
When a righteous man transgressions, whereby and made him a young
keep all my statutes, and turneth away from his ye have transgressed; lion. 6And he went up
do that which is lawful righteousness, and and make you a new and down among the
and right, he shall surely committeth iniquity, and heart and a new spirit: lions, he became a
live, he shall not die. 22All dieth in them; for his for why will ye die, O young lion, and learned
his transgressions that iniquity that he hath house of Israel? 32For I to catch the prey, and
he hath committed, they done shall he die. have no pleasure in the devoured men. 7And he
shall not be mentioned 27
Again, when the wicked death of him that dieth, knew their desolate
unto him: in his man turneth away from saith the Lord GOD: palaces, and he laid
righteousness that he his wickedness that he wherefore turn waste their cities; and
the land was desolate, her strong rods were them? cause them to forsake the idols of
and the fulness thereof, broken and withered; the know the abominations Egypt: then I said, I will
by the noise of his fire consumed them. of their fathers: pour out my fury upon
roaring. 8
Then the 13
And now she is planted 5
And say unto them, them, to accomplish my
nations set against him in the wilderness, in a Thus saith the Lord GOD; anger against them in
on every side from the dry and thirsty ground. In the day when I chose the midst of the land of
provinces, and spread 14
And fire is gone out of Israel, and lifted up mine Egypt. 9But I wrought
their net over him: he a rod of her branches, hand unto the seed of for my name’s sake,
was taken in their pit. which hath devoured her the house of Jacob, and that it should not be
9
And they put him in fruit, so that she hath no made myself known unto polluted before the
ward in chainsa, and strong rod to be a them in the land of heathen, among whom
brought him to the king sceptre to rule. This is a Egypt, when I lifteda up they were, in whose
of Babylon: they brought lamentation, and shall mine hand unto them, sight I made myself
him into holds, that his be for a lamentation. saying, I am the LORD known unto them, in
voice should no more be your God; 6In the day bringing them forth out
heard upon the Chapter 20 that I lifted up mine of the land of Egypt.
mountains of Israel. hand unto them, to bring 10
Wherefore I caused
10
Thy mother is like a
1
And it came to pass them forth of the land of them to go forth out of
vine in thy blood, in the seventh year, in Egypt into a land that I the land of Egypt, and
planted by the waters: the fifth month, the had espied for them, brought them into the
she was fruitful and full tenth day of the month, flowing with milk and wilderness. 11And I gave
of branches by reason of that certain of the elders honey, which is the glory them my statutes, and
many waters. 11And she of Israel came to enquire of all lands: 7Then said I shewedb them my
had strong rods for the of the LORD, and sat unto them, Cast ye away judgments, which if a
sceptres of them that before me. 2Then came every man the man do, he shall even
bare rule, and her the word of the LORD abominations of his live in them.
stature was exalted unto me, saying, 3Son of eyes, and defile not 12
Moreover also I gave
among the thick man, speak unto the yourselves with the idols them my sabbaths, to
branches, and she elders of Israel, and say of Egypt: I am the LORD be a sign between me
appeared in her height unto them, Thus saith your God. 8But they and them, that they
with the multitude of her the Lord GOD; Are ye rebelled against me, and might know that I am
branches. 12But she was come to enquire of me? would not hearken unto the LORD that sanctify
plucked up in fury, she As I live, saith the Lord me: they did not every them. 13But the house
was cast down to the GOD, I will not be man cast away the of Israel rebelled
ground, and the east enquired of by you. 4Wilt abominations of their against me in the
wind dried up her fruit: thou judge them, son of eyes, neither did they b
man, wilt thou judge shewed...: Heb. made them
a a
in chains: or, in hooks lifted...: or, sware to know
wilderness: they walked in the statutes of your also in the wilderness, them into the land, for
not in my statutes, and fathers, neither observe that I would scatter them the which I lifted up
they despised my their judgments, nor among the heathen, and mine hand to give it to
judgments, which if a defile yourselves with disperse them through them, then they saw
man do, he shall even their idols: 19I am the the countries; 24Because every high hill, and all
live in them; and my LORD your God; walk in they had not executed the thick trees, and
sabbaths they greatly my statutes, and keep my judgments, but had they offered there their
polluted: then I said, I my judgments, and do despised my statutes, sacrifices, and there
would pour out my fury them; 20And hallow my and had polluted my they presented the
upon them in the sabbaths; and they shall sabbaths, and their eyes provocation of their
wilderness, to consume be a sign between me were after their fathers’ offering: there also they
them. 14But I wrought for and you, that ye may idols. 25Wherefore I gave made their sweet
my name’s sake, that it know that I am the LORD them also statutes that savour, and poured out
should not be polluted your God. were not good, and there their drink
before the heathen, in 21
Notwithstanding the judgments whereby they offerings. 29Then I saidd
whose sight I brought children rebelled against should not live; 26And I unto them, What is the
them out. 15Yet also I me: they walked not in polluted them in their high place whereunto
lifted up my hand unto my statutes, neither kept own gifts, in that they ye go? And the name
them in the wilderness, my judgments to do caused to pass through thereof is called Bamah
that I would not bring them, which if a man do, the fire all that openeth unto this day.
them into the land which he shall even live in the womb, that I might 30
Wherefore say unto
I had given them, flowing them; they polluted my make them desolate, to the house of Israel,
with milk and honey, sabbaths: then I said, I the end that they might Thus saith the Lord
which is the glory of all would pour out my fury know that I am the GOD; Are ye polluted
lands; 16Because they upon them, to LORD. after the manner of
despised my judgments, accomplish my anger 27
Therefore, son of your fathers? and
and walked not in my against them in the man, speak unto the commit ye whoredom
statutes, but polluted my wilderness. house of Israel, and say after their
sabbaths: for their heart 22
Nevertheless I unto them, Thus saith abominations? 31
For
went after their idols. withdrew mine hand, the Lord GOD; Yet in this when ye offer your
17
Nevertheless mine eye and wrought for my your fathers have gifts, when ye make
spared them from name’s sake, that it blasphemed me, in that your sons to pass
destroying them, neither should not be polluted in they have committedc a through the fire, ye
did I make an end of the sight of the heathen, trespass against me. pollute yourselves with
them in the wilderness. in whose sight I brought 28
For when I had brought all your idols, even unto
18
But I said unto their them forth. 23I lifted up c d
children in the mine hand unto them committed...: Heb. trespassed I said...: or, I told them what
wilderness, Walk ye not a trespass the high place was, or, Bamah
this day: and shall I be rod, and I will bring you sweetg savour, when I the south, and drop thy
enquired of by you, O into the bonde of the bring you out from the word toward the south,
house of Israel? As I live, covenant: 38
And I will people, and gather you and prophesy against
saith the Lord GOD, I will purge out from among out of the countries the forest of the south
not be enquired of by you the rebels, and them wherein ye have been field; 47And say to the
you. 32And that which that transgress against scattered; and I will be forest of the south,
cometh into your mind me: I will bring them sanctified in you before Hear the word of the
shall not be at all, that forth out of the country the heathen. 42And ye LORD; Thus saith the
ye say, We will be as the where they sojourn, and shall know that I am the Lord GOD; Behold, I will
heathen, as the families they shall not enter into LORD, when I shall bring kindle a fire in thee,
of the countries, to serve the land of Israel: and ye you into the land of and it shall devour
wood and stone. shall know that I am the Israel, into the country every green tree in
33
As I live, saith the LORD. 39As for you, O for the which I lifted up thee, and every dry
Lord GOD, surely with a house of Israel, thus mine hand to give it to tree: the flaming flame
mighty hand, and with a saith the Lord GOD; Go your fathers. 43And there shall not be quenched,
stretched out arm, and ye, serve ye every one shall ye remember your and all faces from the
with fury poured out, will his idols, and hereafter ways, and all your south to the north shall
I rule over you: 34And I also, if ye will not doings, wherein ye have be burned therein.
will bring you out from hearken unto me: but been defiled; and ye 48
And all flesh shall see
the people, and will pollute ye my holy name shall lothe yourselves in that I the LORD have
gather you out of the no more with your gifts, your own sight for all kindled it: it shall not be
countries wherein ye are and with your idols. 40For your evils that ye have quenched. 49Then said I,
scattered, with a mighty in mine holy mountain, committed. 44
And ye Ah Lord GOD! they say
hand, and with a in the mountain of the shall know that I am the of me, Doth he not
stretched out arm, and height of Israel, saith the LORD, when I have speak parables?
with fury poured out. Lord GOD, there shall all wrought with you for my
35
And I will bring you into the house of Israel, all of name’s sake, not Chapter 21
the wilderness of the them in the land, serve according to your wicked
people, and there will I me: there will I accept ways, nor according to
1
And the word of the
plead with you face to them, and there will I your corrupt doings, O LORD came unto me,
face. 36Like as I pleaded require your offerings, ye house of Israel, saith saying, 2Son of man, set
with your fathers in the and the firstfruitsf of the Lord GOD. thy face toward
wilderness of the land of your oblations, with all 45
Moreover the word Jerusalem, and drop thy
Egypt, so will I plead your holy things. 41I will of the LORD came unto word toward the holy
with you, saith the Lord accept you with your me, saying, 46Son of places, and prophesy
GOD. 37And I will cause man, set thy face toward against the land of
e
you to pass under the bond: or, delivering Israel, 3And say to the
f g
firstfruits: or, chief sweet...: Heb. savour of rest
land of Israel, Thus saith behold, it cometh, and therefore upon thy thigh. said it.
the LORD; Behold, I am shall be brought to pass, 13
Because it is a triald, 18
The word of the
against thee, and will saith the Lord GOD. and what if the sword LORD came unto me
draw forth my sword out 8
Again the word of the contemn even the rod? it again, saying, 19Also,
of his sheath, and will LORD came unto me, shall be no more, saith thou son of man,
cut off from thee the saying, 9Son of man, the Lord GOD. 14
Thou appoint thee two ways,
righteous and the prophesy, and say, Thus therefore, son of man, that the sword of the
wicked. 4
Seeing then saith the LORD; Say, A prophesy, and smite king of Babylon may
that I will cut off from sword, a sword is thine handse together, come: both twain shall
thee the righteous and sharpened, and also and let the sword be come forth out of one
the wicked, therefore furbished: 10
It is doubled the third time, land: and choose thou a
shall my sword go forth sharpened to make a the sword of the slain: it place, choose it at the
out of his sheath against sore slaughter; it is is the sword of the great head of the way to the
all flesh from the south furbished that it may men that are slain, which city. 20Appoint a way,
to the north: 5That all glitter: should we then entereth into their privy that the sword may
flesh may know that I make mirth? it chambers. 15I have set come to Rabbath of the
the LORD have drawn contemnethb the rod of the pointf of the sword Ammonites, and to
forth my sword out of his my son, as every tree. against all their gates, Judah in Jerusalem the
sheath: it shall not return 11
And he hath given it to that their heart may defenced. 21For the king
any more. 6
Sigh be furbished, that it may faint, and their ruins be of Babylon stood at the
therefore, thou son of be handled: this sword is multiplied: ah! it is made parting of the way, at
man, with the breaking sharpened, and it is bright, it is wrapped up the head of the two
of thy loins; and with furbished, to give it into for the slaughter. 16
Go ways, to use divination:
bitterness sigh before the hand of the slayer. thee one way or other, he made his arrows
their eyes. 7And it shall 12
Cry and howl, son of either on the right hand, bright, he consulted
be, when they say unto man: for it shall be upon or on the left, with images, he looked
thee, Wherefore sighest my people, it shall be whithersoever thy face is in the liver. 22
At his
thou? that thou shalt upon all the princes of set. 17I will also smite right hand was the
answer, For the tidings; Israel: terrorsc by reason mine hands together, divination for
because it cometh: and of the sword shall be and I will cause my fury Jerusalem, to appoint
every heart shall melt, upon my people: smite to rest: I the LORD have captainsg, to open the
and all hands shall be b d
mouth in the slaughter,
feeble, and every spirit it contemneth...: or, it is the Because...: or, When the trial to lift up the voice with
shall faint, and all knees rod of my son, it despiseth hath been, what then? shall shouting, to appoint
shall be weaka as water: every tree they not also belong to the battering rams against
c
terrors...: or, they are thrust despising rod?
a e g
shall be weak...: Heb. shall go down to the sword with my hands...: Heb. hand to hand captains: or, battering rams:
f
into water people point: or, glittering, or, fear Heb. rams
the gates, to cast a be no more, until he 32
Thou shalt be for fuel heathen, and a mocking
mount, and to build a come whose right it is; to the fire; thy blood to all countries. 5Those
fort. 23
And it shall be and I will give it him. shall be in the midst of that be near, and those
unto them as a false 28
And thou, son of the land; thou shalt be that be far from thee,
divination in their sight, man, prophesy and say, no more remembered: shall mock thee, which
to them that have sworn Thus saith the Lord GOD for I the LORD have art infamousb and much
oaths: but he will call to concerning the spoken it. vexed. 6
Behold, the
remembrance the Ammonites, and princes of Israel, every
iniquity, that they may concerning their Chapter 22 one were in thee to
be taken. 24
Therefore reproach; even say thou, their powerc to shed
thus saith the Lord GOD; The sword, the sword is Moreover the word of
1
blood. 7
In thee have
Because ye have made drawn: for the slaughter the LORD came unto me, they set light by father
your iniquity to be it is furbished, to saying, 2Now, thou son of and mother: in the
remembered, in that consume because of the man, wilt thou judgea, midst of thee have they
your transgressions are glittering: 29Whiles they wilt thou judge the dealt by oppressiond
discovered, so that in all see vanity unto thee, bloody city? yea, thou with the stranger: in
your doings your sins do whiles they divine a lie shalt shew her all her thee have they vexed
appear; because, I say, unto thee, to bring thee abominations. 3
Then the fatherless and the
that ye are come to upon the necks of them say thou, Thus saith the widow. 8
Thou hast
remembrance, ye shall that are slain, of the Lord GOD, The city despised mine holy
be taken with the hand. wicked, whose day is sheddeth blood in the things, and hast
25
And thou, profane come, when their midst of it, that her time profaned my sabbaths.
wicked prince of Israel, iniquity shall have an may come, and maketh 9
In thee are men that
whose day is come, end. 30Shall I cause it to idols against herself to carry tales to shed
when iniquity shall have return into his sheath? I defile herself. 4Thou art blood: and in thee they
an end, 26Thus saith the will judge thee in the become guilty in thy eat upon the
Lord GOD; Remove the place where thou wast blood that thou hast mountains: in the midst
diadem, and take off the created, in the land of shed; and hast defiled of thee they commit
crown: this shall not be thy nativity. 31And I will thyself in thine idols lewdness. 10
In thee
the same: exalt him that pour out mine which thou hast made; have they discovered
is low, and abase him indignation upon thee, I and thou hast caused their fathers’
that is high. 27I will will blow against thee in thy days to draw near, nakedness: in thee
overturnh, overturn, the fire of my wrath, and and art come even unto have they humbled her
overturn, it: and it shall deliver thee into the thy years: therefore
b
hand of brutishi men, have I made thee a infamous...: Heb. polluted of
h
I will overturn...: Heb. and skilful to destroy. reproach unto the name, much in vexation
c
Perverted, perverted, perverted, power: Heb. arm
i a d
will I make it brutish: or, burning judge: or, plead for oppression: or, deceit
that was set apart for 16
And thou shalt take midst thereof. 22As silver hid their eyes from my
pollution. 11
And onee thine inheritance in is melted in the midst of sabbaths, and I am
hath committed thyself in the sight of the the furnace, so shall ye profaned among them.
abomination with his heathen, and thou shalt be melted in the midst 27
Her princes in the
neighbour’s wife; and know that I am the thereof; and ye shall midst thereof are like
another hath lewdly LORD. know that I the LORD wolves ravening the
defiled his daughter in 17
And the word of the have poured out my fury prey, to shed blood,
law; and another in thee LORD came unto me, upon you. and to destroy souls, to
hath humbled his sister, saying, 18Son of man, the 23
And the word of the get dishonest gain.
his father’s daughter. house of Israel is to me LORD came unto me, 28
And her prophets
12
In thee have they taken become dross: all they saying, 24Son of man, say have daubed them with
gifts to shed blood; thou are brass, and tin, and unto her, Thou art the untempered morter,
hast taken usury and iron, and lead, in the land that is not cleansed, seeing vanity, and
increase, and thou hast midst of the furnace; nor rained upon in the divining lies unto them,
greedily gained of thy they are even the dross day of indignation. saying, Thus saith the
neighbours by extortion, of silverf. 19
Therefore 25
There is a conspiracy of Lord GOD, when the
and hast forgotten me, thus saith the Lord GOD; her prophets in the midst LORD hath not spoken.
saith the Lord GOD. Because ye are all thereof, like a roaring 29
The people of the land
13
Behold, therefore I become dross, behold, lion ravening the prey; have used oppressionh,
have smitten mine hand therefore I will gather they have devoured and exercised robbery,
at thy dishonest gain you into the midst of souls; they have taken and have vexed the
which thou hast made, Jerusalem. 20
As they the treasure and poor and needy: yea,
and at thy blood which gather silver, and brass, precious things; they they have oppressed
hath been in the midst of and iron, and lead, and have made her many the stranger wrongfully.
thee. 14Can thine heart tin, into the midst of the widows in the midst 30
And I sought for a
endure, or can thine furnace, to blow the fire thereof. 26Her priests man among them, that
hands be strong, in the upon it, to melt it; so will have violatedg my law, should make up the
days that I shall deal I gather you in mine and have profaned mine hedge, and stand in the
with thee? I the LORD anger and in my fury, holy things: they have gap before me for the
have spoken it, and will and I will leave you put no difference land, that I should not
do it. 15And I will scatter there, and melt you. between the holy and destroy it: but I found
thee among the 21
Yea, I will gather you, profane, neither have none. 31Therefore have I
heathen, and disperse and blow upon you in the they shewed difference poured out mine
thee in the countries, fire of my wrath, and ye between the unclean indignation upon them;
and will consume thy shall be melted in the and the clean, and have I have consumed them
filthiness out of thee. f g
with the fire of my
dross of silver: Heb. drosses, violated: Heb. offered
e h
one: or, every one etc violence to oppression: or, deceit
wrath: their own way captains and rulers, all of Aholibah saw this, she Babyloniansd came to
have I recompensed them desirable young was more corrupt in her her into the bed of love,
upon their heads, saith men, horsemen riding inordinate love than she, and they defiled her
the Lord GOD. upon horses. 7Thus she and in her whoredoms with their whoredom,
committedb her more than her sister in and she was polluted
Chapter 23 whoredoms with them, her whoredoms. 12
She with them, and her
with all them that were doted upon the mind was alienated
The word of the
1
the chosen men of Assyrians her from them. 18
So she
LORD came again unto Assyria, and with all on neighbours, captains and discovered her
me, saying, 2Son of man, whom she doted: with all rulers clothed most whoredoms, and
there were two women, their idols she defiled gorgeously, horsemen discovered her
the daughters of one herself. 8
Neither left riding upon horses, all of nakedness: then my
mother: 3
And they she her whoredoms them desirable young mind was alienated
committed whoredoms brought from Egypt: for men. 13Then I saw that from her, like as my
in Egypt; they committed in her youth they lay she was defiled, that mind was alienated
whoredoms in their with her, and they they took both one way, from her sister. 19Yet
youth: there were their bruised the breasts of 14
And that she increased she multiplied her
breasts pressed, and her virginity, and poured her whoredoms: for whoredoms, in calling
there they bruised the their whoredom upon when she saw men to remembrance the
teats of their virginity. her. 9Wherefore I have pourtrayed upon the days of her youth,
4
And the names of them delivered her into the wall, the images of the wherein she had played
were Aholaha the elder, hand of her lovers, into Chaldeans pourtrayed the harlot in the land of
and Aholibah her sister: the hand of the with vermilion, 15Girded Egypt. 20For she doted
and they were mine, and Assyrians, upon whom with girdles upon their upon their paramours,
they bare sons and she doted. 10
These loins, exceeding in dyed whose flesh is as the
daughters. Thus were discovered her attire upon their heads, flesh of asses, and
their names; Samaria is nakedness: they took her all of them princes to whose issue is like the
Aholah, and Jerusalem sons and her daughters, look to, after the manner issue of horses. 21Thus
Aholibah. 5
And Aholah and slew her with the of the Babylonians of thou calledst to
played the harlot when sword: and she became Chaldea, the land of remembrance the
she was mine; and she famousc among women; their nativity: 16And as lewdness of thy youth,
doted on her lovers, on for they had executed soon as she saw them in bruising thy teats by
the Assyrians her judgment upon her. with her eyes, she doted the Egyptians for the
neighbours, Which were
6 11
And when her sister upon them, and sent paps of thy youth.
clothed with blue, messengers unto them 22
Therefore, O
b
committed...: Heb. bestowed into Chaldea. 17And the
a d
Aholah: that is, His tent, or, her whoredoms upon them Babylonians: Heb. children
c
tabernacle famous: Heb. a name of Babel
Aholibah, thus saith the residue shall be their idols. 31Thou hast their abominations;
Lord GOD; Behold, I will devoured by the fire. walked in the way of thy 37
That they have
raise up thy lovers 26
They shall also strip sister; therefore will I committed adultery,
against thee, from whom thee out of thy clothes, give her cup into thine and blood is in their
thy mind is alienated, and take away thy faire hand. 32Thus saith the hands, and with their
and I will bring them jewels. 27
Thus will I Lord GOD; Thou shalt idols have they
against thee on every make thy lewdness to drink of thy sister’s cup committed adultery,
side; 23The Babylonians, cease from thee, and thy deep and large: thou and have also caused
and all the Chaldeans, whoredom brought from shalt be laughed to scorn their sons, whom they
Pekod, and Shoa, and the land of Egypt: so that and had in derision; it bare unto me, to pass
Koa, and all the thou shalt not lift up containeth much. 33Thou for them through the
Assyrians with them: all thine eyes unto them, shalt be filled with fire, to devour them.
of them desirable young nor remember Egypt any drunkenness and sorrow, 38
Moreover this they
men, captains and more. 28For thus saith with the cup of have done unto me:
rulers, great lords and the Lord GOD; Behold, I astonishment and they have defiled my
renowned, all of them will deliver thee into the desolation, with the cup sanctuary in the same
riding upon horses. 24And hand of them whom thou of thy sister Samaria. day, and have profaned
they shall come against hatest, into the hand of 34
Thou shalt even drink it my sabbaths. 39
For
thee with chariots, them from whom thy and suck it out, and thou when they had slain
wagons, and wheels, and mind is alienated: 29And shalt break the sherds their children to their
with an assembly of they shall deal with thee thereof, and pluck off idols, then they came
people, which shall set hatefully, and shall take thine own breasts: for I the same day into my
against thee buckler and away all thy labour, and have spoken it, saith the sanctuary to profane it;
shield and helmet round shall leave thee naked Lord GOD. 35Therefore and, lo, thus have they
about: and I will set and bare: and the thus saith the Lord GOD; done in the midst of
judgment before them, nakedness of thy Because thou hast mine house. 40
And
and they shall judge whoredoms shall be forgotten me, and cast furthermore, that ye
thee according to their discovered, both thy me behind thy back, have sent for men to
judgments. 25And I will lewdness and thy therefore bear thou also comeg from far, unto
set my jealousy against whoredoms. 30
I will do thy lewdness and thy whom a messenger was
thee, and they shall deal these things unto thee, whoredoms. sent; and, lo, they
furiously with thee: they because thou hast gone 36
The LORD said came: for whom thou
shall take away thy nose a whoring after the moreover unto me; Son didst wash thyself,
and thine ears; and thy heathen, and because of man, wilt thou judgef paintedst thy eyes, and
remnant shall fall by the thou art polluted with Aholah and Aholibah? deckedst thyself with
sword: they shall take e
yea, declare unto them ornaments, 41
And
thy sons and thy fair...: Heb. instruments of thy
f g
daughters; and thy decking judge: or, plead for to come: Heb. coming
satest upon a statelyh and blood is in their the day, even of this cause fury to come up
bed, and a table hands. 46For thus saith same day: the king of to take vengeance; I
prepared before it, the Lord GOD; I will bring Babylon set himself have set her blood upon
whereupon thou hast set up a company upon against Jerusalem this the top of a rock, that it
mine incense and mine them, and will give them same day. 3And utter a should not be covered.
oil. 42And a voice of a to be removed and parable unto the 9
Therefore thus saith
multitude being at ease spoiled. 47
And the rebellious house, and the Lord GOD; Woe to
was with her: and with company shall stone say unto them, Thus the bloody city! I will
the men of the common them with stones, and saith the Lord GOD; Set even make the pile for
sort were brought dispatchj them with their on a pot, set it on, and fire great. 10Heap on
Sabeans from the swords; they shall slay also pour water into it: wood, kindle the fire,
wilderness, which put their sons and their 4
Gather the pieces consume the flesh, and
bracelets upon their daughters, and burn up thereof into it, even spice it well, and let the
hands, and beautiful their houses with fire. every good piece, the bones be burned.
crowns upon their heads. 48
Thus will I cause thigh, and the shoulder; 11
Then set it empty
43
Then said I unto her lewdness to cease out of fill it with the choice upon the coals thereof,
that was old in the land, that all women bones. 5Take the choice that the brass of it may
adulteries, Will they now may be taught not to do of the flock, and burna be hot, and may burn,
commit whoredomsi with after your lewdness. also the bones under it, and that the filthiness
her, and she with them? 49
And they shall and make it boil well, of it may be molten in
44
Yet they went in unto recompense your and let them seethe the it, that the scum of it
her, as they go in unto a lewdness upon you, and bones of it therein. may be consumed.
woman that playeth the ye shall bear the sins of 6
Wherefore thus saith 12
She hath wearied
harlot: so went they in your idols: and ye shall the Lord GOD; Woe to herself with lies, and
unto Aholah and unto know that I am the Lord the bloody city, to the her great scum went
Aholibah, the lewd GOD. pot whose scum is not forth out of her: her
women. 45
And the therein, and whose scum scum shall be in the
righteous men, they Chapter 24 is not gone out of it! fire. 13In thy filthiness is
shall judge them after bring it out piece by lewdness: because I
the manner of Again in the ninth
1
piece; let no lot fall upon have purged thee, and
adulteresses, and after year, in the tenth month, it. 7For her blood is in the thou wast not purged,
the manner of women in the tenth day of the midst of her; she set it thou shalt not be
that shed blood; because month, the word of the upon the top of a rock; purged from thy
they are adulteresses, LORD came unto me, she poured it not upon filthiness any more, till I
saying, 2Son of man, the ground, to cover it have caused my fury to
h
stately: Heb. honourable write thee the name of with dust; 8That it might rest upon thee. 14I the
i
whoredoms...: Heb. her LORD have spoken it: it
j a
whoredoms dispatch...: or, single them out burn: or, heap
shall come to pass, and I 20
Then I answered them, desire of their eyes, and Judah, when they went
will do it; I will not go The word of the LORD that whereupon they set into captivity; 4Behold,
back, neither will I spare, came unto me, saying, their minds, their sons therefore I will deliver
neither will I repent; 21
Speak unto the house and their daughters, thee to the mena of the
according to thy ways, of Israel, Thus saith the 26
That he that escapeth east for a possession,
and according to thy Lord GOD; Behold, I will in that day shall come and they shall set their
doings, shall they judge profane my sanctuary, unto thee, to cause thee palaces in thee, and
thee, saith the Lord the excellency of your to hear it with thine make their dwellings in
GOD. strength, the desire of ears? 27In that day shall thee: they shall eat thy
15
Also the word of the your eyes, and that thy mouth be opened to fruit, and they shall
LORD came unto me, which your soul pitieth; him which is escaped, drink thy milk. 5And I
saying, 16Son of man, and your sons and your and thou shalt speak, will make Rabbah a
behold, I take away from daughters whom ye have and be no more dumb: stable for camels, and
thee the desire of thine left shall fall by the and thou shalt be a sign the Ammonites a
eyes with a stroke: yet sword. 22And ye shall do unto them; and they couchingplace for
neither shalt thou mourn as I have done: ye shall shall know that I am the flocks: and ye shall
nor weep, neither shall not cover your lips, nor LORD. know that I am the
thy tears run downb. eat the bread of men. LORD. 6For thus saith
17
Forbearc to cry, make 23
And your tires shall be Chapter 25 the Lord GOD; Because
no mourning for the upon your heads, and thou hast clapped thine
dead, bind the tire of your shoes upon your
1
The word of the handsb, and stamped
thine head upon thee, feet: ye shall not mourn LORD came again unto with the feet, and
and put on thy shoes nor weep; but ye shall me, saying, 2Son of man, rejoiced in heart with all
upon thy feet, and cover pine away for your set thy face against the thy despite against the
not thy lips, and eat not iniquities, and mourn Ammonites, and land of Israel;
the bread of men. 18So I one toward another. prophesy against them; 7
Behold, therefore I will
spake unto the people in 24
Thus Ezekiel is unto
3
And say unto the stretch out mine hand
the morning: and at you a sign: according to Ammonites, Hear the upon thee, and will
even my wife died; and I all that he hath done word of the Lord GOD; deliver thee for a spoilc
did in the morning as I shall ye do: and when Thus saith the Lord GOD; to the heathen; and I
was commanded. 19And this cometh, ye shall Because thou saidst, will cut thee off from
the people said unto me, know that I am the Lord Aha, against my the people, and I will
Wilt thou not tell us what GOD. 25Also, thou son of sanctuary, when it was cause thee to perish out
these things are to us, man, shall it not be in profaned; and against of the countries: I will
that thou doest so? the day when I take from the land of Israel, when
a
them their strength, the it was desolate; and men: Heb. children
b b
run down: Heb. go joy of their glory, the against the house of hands: Heb. hand
c c
Forbear: Heb. Be silent a spoil: or, meat
destroy thee; and thou and will cut off man and shall lay my vengeance become a spoil to the
shalt know that I am the beast from it; and I will upon them. nations. 6
And her
LORD. make it desolate from daughters which are in
8
Thus saith the Lord Teman; and they of Chapter 26 the field shall be slain
GOD; Because that Moab Dedan shall fall by the by the sword; and they
and Seir do say, Behold, sword. 14And I will lay
1
And it came to pass shall know that I am the
the house of Judah is like my vengeance upon in the eleventh year, in LORD. 7For thus saith
unto all the heathen; Edom by the hand of my the first day of the the Lord GOD; Behold, I
9
Therefore, behold, I will people Israel: and they month, that the word of will bring upon Tyrus
open the sided of Moab shall do in Edom the LORD came unto me, Nebuchadrezzar king of
from the cities, from his according to mine anger saying, 2Son of man, Babylon, a king of
cities which are on his and according to my because that Tyrus hath kings, from the north,
frontiers, the glory of the fury; and they shall know said against Jerusalem, with horses, and with
country, Bethjeshimoth, my vengeance, saith the Aha, she is broken that chariots, and with
Baalmeon, and Lord GOD. 15Thus saith was the gates of the horsemen, and
Kiriathaim, 10
Unto the the Lord GOD; Because people: she is turned companies, and much
men of the east with the the Philistines have dealt unto me: I shall be people. 8He shall slay
Ammonites, and will give by revenge, and have replenished, now she is with the sword thy
them in possession, that taken vengeance with a laid waste: 3Therefore daughters in the field:
the Ammonites may not despiteful heart, to thus saith the Lord GOD; and he shall make a fort
be remembered among destroy it for the old Behold, I am against against thee, and casta
the nations. 11And I will hatred; 16Therefore thus thee, O Tyrus, and will a mount against thee,
execute judgments upon saith the Lord GOD; cause many nations to and lift up the buckler
Moab; and they shall Behold, I will stretch out come up against thee, as against thee. 9And he
know that I am the mine hand upon the the sea causeth his shall set engines of war
LORD. 12Thus saith the Philistines, and I will cut waves to come up. 4And against thy walls, and
Lord GOD; Because that off the Cherethims, and they shall destroy the with his axes he shall
Edom hath dealt against destroy the remnant of walls of Tyrus, and break break down thy towers.
the house of Judah by the sea coaste. 17And I down her towers: I will 10
By reason of the
taking vengeance, and will execute great also scrape her dust abundance of his
hath greatly offended, vengeancef upon them from her, and make her horses their dust shall
and revenged himself with furious rebukes; and like the top of a rock. 5It cover thee: thy walls
upon them; 13Therefore they shall know that I shall be a place for the shall shake at the noise
thus saith the Lord GOD; am the LORD, when I spreading of nets in the of the horsemen, and of
I will also stretch out midst of the sea: for I the wheels, and of the
e
mine hand upon Edom, sea coast: or, haven of the sea have spoken it, saith the
f a
great vengeance: Heb. great Lord GOD: and it shall cast...: or, pour out the
d
side...: Heb. shoulder of Moab vengeances engine of shot
chariots, when he shall the isles shake at the desolate city, like the the people for many
enter into thy gates, as sound of thy fall, when cities that are not isles, Thus saith the
men enter into a city the wounded cry, when inhabited; when I shall Lord GOD; O Tyrus,
wherein is made a the slaughter is made in bring up the deep upon thou hast said, I am of
breach. 11With the hoofs the midst of thee? 16Then thee, and great waters perfecta beauty. 4
Thy
of his horses shall he all the princes of the sea shall cover thee; 20When borders are in the
tread down all thy shall come down from I shall bring thee down midstb of the seas, thy
streets: he shall slay thy their thrones, and lay with them that descend builders have perfected
people by the sword, and away their robes, and into the pit, with the thy beauty. 5They have
thy strong garrisons shall put off their broidered people of old time, and madec all thy ship
go down to the ground. garments: they shall shall set thee in the low boards of fir trees of
12
And they shall make a clothe themselves with parts of the earth, in Senir: they have taken
spoil of thy riches, and tremblingc; they shall sit places desolate of old, cedars from Lebanon to
make a prey of thy upon the ground, and with them that go down make masts for thee.
merchandise: and they shall tremble at every to the pit, that thou be 6
Of the oaks of Bashan
shall break down thy moment, and be not inhabited; and I shall have they made thine
walls, and destroy thy astonished at thee. set glory in the land of oars; the companyd of
pleasantb houses: and 17
And they shall take up the living; 21I will make the Ashurites have
they shall lay thy stones a lamentation for thee, thee a terrord, and thou made thy benches of
and thy timber and thy and say to thee, How art shalt be no more: though ivory, brought out of
dust in the midst of the thou destroyed, that thou be sought for, yet the isles of Chittim.
water. 13And I will cause wast inhabited of shalt thou never be 7
Fine linen with
the noise of thy songs to seafaring men, the found again, saith the broidered work from
cease; and the sound of renowned city, which Lord GOD. Egypt was that which
thy harps shall be no wast strong in the sea, thou spreadest forth to
more heard. 14And I will she and her inhabitants, Chapter 27 be thy sail; bluee and
make thee like the top of which cause their terror purple from the isles of
a rock: thou shalt be a to be on all that haunt it! The word of the
1
Elishah was that which
place to spread nets 18
Now shall the isles LORD came again unto covered thee. 8
The
upon; thou shalt be built tremble in the day of thy me, saying, 2Now, thou
a
no more: for I the LORD fall; yea, the isles that son of man, take up a of perfect...: Heb. perfect of
have spoken it, saith the are in the sea shall be lamentation for Tyrus; beauty
b
Lord GOD. troubled at thy
3
And say unto Tyrus, O midst: Heb. heart
c
15
Thus saith the Lord departure. 19
For thus thou that art situate at made: Heb. built
d
GOD to Tyrus; Shall not saith the Lord GOD; the entry of the sea, the company...: or, they have
When I shall make thee a which art a merchant of made thy hatches of ivory
b
thy pleasant...: Heb. houses of well trodden
c d e
thy desire trembling: Heb. tremblings a terror: Heb. terrors blue...: or, purple and scarlet
inhabitants of Zidon and merchants: they traded white wool. 19Dan also merchandise. 25
The
Arvad were thy the persons of men and and Javan going to and ships of Tarshish did
mariners: thy wise men, vessels of brass in thy fro occupied in thy fairs: sing of thee in thy
O Tyrus, that were in marketg. 14They of the bright iron, cassia, and market: and thou wast
thee, were thy pilots. house of Togarmah calamus, were in thy replenished, and made
9
The ancients of Gebal traded in thy fairs with market. 20Dedan was thy very glorious in the
and the wise men horses and horsemen merchant in preciousi midst of the seas.
thereof were in thee thy and mules. 15The men of clothes for chariots. 26
Thy rowers have
calkersf: all the ships of Dedan were thy 21
Arabia, and all the brought thee into great
the sea with their merchants; many isles princes of Kedar, they waters: the east wind
mariners were in thee to were the merchandise of occupiedj with thee in hath broken thee in the
occupy thy merchandise. thine hand: they brought lambs, and rams, and midstk of the seas.
10
They of Persia and of thee for a present horns goats: in these were 27
Thy riches, and thy
Lud and of Phut were in of ivory and ebony. they thy merchants. fairs, thy merchandise,
thine army, thy men of 16
Syria was thy merchant 22
The merchants of thy mariners, and thy
war: they hanged the by reason of the Sheba and Raamah, they pilots, thy calkers, and
shield and helmet in multitude of the wares of were thy merchants: the occupiers of thy
thee; they set forth thy thy making: they they occupied in thy fairs merchandise, and all
comeliness. 11The men of occupied in thy fairs with with chief of all spices, thy men of war, that
Arvad with thine army emeralds, purple, and and with all precious are in thee, and in all
were upon thy walls broidered work, and fine stones, and gold. thy company which is in
round about, and the linen, and coral, and 23
Haran, and Canneh, the midst of thee, shall
Gammadims were in thy agate. 17Judah, and the and Eden, the merchants fall into the midst of the
towers: they hanged land of Israel, they were of Sheba, Asshur, and seas in the day of thy
their shields upon thy thy merchants: they Chilmad, were thy ruin. 28
The suburbsl
walls round about; they traded in thy market merchants. These were
24
shall shake at the
have made thy beauty wheat of Minnith, and thy merchants in all sound of the cry of thy
perfect. 12Tarshish was Pannag, and honey, and sorts of things, in blue pilots. 29
And all that
thy merchant by reason oil, and balmh. clothes, and broidered handle the oar, the
of the multitude of all 18
Damascus was thy work, and in chests of mariners, and all the
kind of riches; with merchant in the rich apparel, bound with pilots of the sea, shall
silver, iron, tin, and lead, multitude of the wares of cords, and made of come down from their
they traded in thy fairs. thy making, for the cedar, among thy ships, they shall stand
13
Javan, Tubal, and multitude of all riches; in i
upon the land; 30And
Meshech, they were thy the wine of Helbon, and precious...: Heb. clothes of shall cause their voice
freedom
f g j k
calkers: or, stoppers of chinks: market: or, merchandise they occupied...: Heb. they midst: Heb. heart
h l
Heb. strengtheners, etc balm: or, rosin were the merchants of thy hand suburbs: or, waves
to be heard against thee, troubled in their and by thy traffick hast of the LORD came unto
and shall cry bitterly, countenance. 36
The thou increased thy me, saying, 12Son of
and shall cast up dust merchants among the riches, and thine heart is man, take up a
upon their heads, they people shall hiss at thee; lifted up because of thy lamentation upon the
shall wallow themselves thou shalt be a terrorm, riches: 6Therefore thus king of Tyrus, and say
in the ashes: 31And they and never shalt be any saith the Lord GOD; unto him, Thus saith
shall make themselves more. Because thou hast set the Lord GOD; Thou
utterly bald for thee, and thine heart as the heart sealest up the sum, full
gird them with sackcloth, Chapter 28 of God; 7
Behold, of wisdom, and perfect
and they shall weep for therefore I will bring in beauty. 13Thou hast
thee with bitterness of The word of the
1
strangers upon thee, the been in Eden the
heart and bitter wailing. LORD came again unto terrible of the nations: garden of God; every
32
And in their wailing me, saying, 2Son of man, and they shall draw their precious stone was thy
they shall take up a say unto the prince of swords against the covering, the sardiusd,
lamentation for thee, Tyrus, Thus saith the beauty of thy wisdom, topaz, and the
and lament over thee, Lord GOD; Because thine and they shall defile thy diamond, the beryl, the
saying, What city is like heart is lifted up, and brightness. 8They shall onyx, and the jasper,
Tyrus, like the destroyed thou hast said, I am a bring thee down to the the sapphire, the
in the midst of the sea? God, I sit in the seat of pit, and thou shalt die emerald, and the
33
When thy wares went God, in the midsta of the the deaths of them that carbuncle, and gold:
forth out of the seas, seas; yet thou art a man, are slain in the midst of the workmanship of thy
thou filledst many and not God, though the seas. 9Wilt thou yet tabrets and of thy pipes
people; thou didst enrich thou set thine heart as say before him that was prepared in thee in
the kings of the earth the heart of God: slayeth thee, I am God? the day that thou wast
with the multitude of thy
3
Behold, thou art wiser but thou shalt be a man, created. 14
Thou art
riches and of thy than Daniel; there is no and no God, in the hand the anointed cherub
merchandise. 34In the secret that they can hide of him that slayethc thee. that covereth; and I
time when thou shalt be from thee: 4With thy 10
Thou shalt die the have set thee so: thou
broken by the seas in wisdom and with thine deaths of the wast upon the holy
the depths of the waters understanding thou hast uncircumcised by the mountain of God; thou
thy merchandise and all gotten thee riches, and hand of strangers: for I hast walked up and
thy company in the hast gotten gold and have spoken it, saith the down in the midst of
midst of thee shall fall. silver into thy treasures: Lord GOD. the stones of fire.
35
All the inhabitants of
5
By thy greatb wisdom 11
Moreover the word 15
Thou wast perfect in
the isles shall be m
thy ways from the day
astonished at thee, and a terror: Heb. terrors of thy wisdom that thou wast created,
a c
their kings shall be sore midst: Heb. heart of him that slayeth: or, of him
b d
afraid, they shall be thy great...: Heb. the greatness that woundeth sardius: or, ruby
till iniquity was found in shalt be a terrore, and shall have gathered the saith the Lord GOD;
thee. 16By the multitude never shalt thou be any house of Israel from the Behold, I am against
of thy merchandise they more. people among whom thee, Pharaoh king of
have filled the midst of 20
Again the word of they are scattered, and Egypt, the great dragon
thee with violence, and the LORD came unto me, shall be sanctified in that lieth in the midst of
thou hast sinned: saying, 21Son of man, set them in the sight of the his rivers, which hath
therefore I will cast thee thy face against Zidon, heathen, then shall they said, My river is mine
as profane out of the and prophesy against it, dwell in their land that I own, and I have made it
mountain of God: and I 22
And say, Thus saith the have given to my for myself. 4But I will
will destroy thee, O Lord GOD; Behold, I am servant Jacob. And they
26
put hooks in thy jaws,
covering cherub, from against thee, O Zidon; shall dwell safelyf and I will cause the fish
the midst of the stones and I will be glorified in therein, and shall build of thy rivers to stick
of fire. 17Thine heart was the midst of thee: and houses, and plant unto thy scales, and I
lifted up because of thy they shall know that I vineyards; yea, they will bring thee up out of
beauty, thou hast am the LORD, when I shall dwell with the midst of thy rivers,
corrupted thy wisdom by shall have executed confidence, when I have and all the fish of thy
reason of thy brightness: judgments in her, and executed judgments rivers shall stick unto
I will cast thee to the shall be sanctified in her. upon all those that thy scales. 5And I will
ground, I will lay thee 23
For I will send into her despise them round leave thee thrown into
before kings, that they pestilence, and blood about them; and they the wilderness, thee
may behold thee. 18Thou into her streets; and the shall know that I am the and all the fish of thy
hast defiled thy wounded shall be judged LORD their God. rivers: thou shalt fall
sanctuaries by the in the midst of her by upon the opena fields;
multitude of thine the sword upon her on Chapter 29 thou shalt not be
iniquities, by the iniquity every side; and they brought together, nor
of thy traffick; therefore shall know that I am the In the tenth year, in
1
gathered: I have given
will I bring forth a fire LORD. 24And there shall the tenth month, in the thee for meat to the
from the midst of thee, it be no more a pricking twelfth day of the beasts of the field and
shall devour thee, and I brier unto the house of month, the word of the to the fowls of the
will bring thee to ashes Israel, nor any grieving LORD came unto me, heaven. 6
And all the
upon the earth in the thorn of all that are saying, 2Son of man, set inhabitants of Egypt
sight of all them that round about them, that thy face against Pharaoh shall know that I am the
behold thee. 19All they despised them; and they king of Egypt, and LORD, because they
that know thee among shall know that I am the prophesy against him, have been a staff of
the people shall be Lord GOD. 25Thus saith and against all Egypt: reed to the house of
astonished at thee: thou the Lord GOD; When I
3
Speak, and say, Thus Israel. 7When they took
e f a
a terror: Heb. terrors safely: or, with confidence open...: Heb. face of the field
hold of thee by thy hand, countries that are they shall look after because they wrought
thou didst break, and desolate, and her cities them: but they shall for me, saith the Lord
rend all their shoulder: among the cities that know that I am the Lord GOD. 21In that day will I
and when they leaned are laid waste shall be GOD. cause the horn of the
upon thee, thou brakest, desolate forty years: and 17
And it came to pass house of Israel to bud
and madest all their loins I will scatter the in the seven and forth, and I will give
to be at a stand. Egyptians among the twentieth year, in the thee the opening of the
8
Therefore thus saith nations, and will disperse first month, in the first mouth in the midst of
the Lord GOD; Behold, I them through the day of the month, the them; and they shall
will bring a sword upon countries. 13
Yet thus word of the LORD came know that I am the
thee, and cut off man saith the Lord GOD; At unto me, saying, 18Son of LORD.
and beast out of thee. the end of forty years man, Nebuchadrezzar
9
And the land of Egypt will I gather the king of Babylon caused Chapter 30
shall be desolate and Egyptians from the his army to serve a great
waste; and they shall people whither they service against Tyrus: The word of the
1

know that I am the were scattered: 14And I every head was made LORD came again unto
LORD: because he hath will bring again the bald, and every shoulder me, saying, 2Son of
said, The river is mine, captivity of Egypt, and was peeled: yet had he man, prophesy and say,
and I have made it. will cause them to return no wages, nor his army, Thus saith the Lord
10
Behold, therefore I am into the land of Pathros, for Tyrus, for the service GOD; Howl ye, Woe
against thee, and into the land of their that he had served worth the day! 3For the
against thy rivers, and I habitationc; and they against it: 19Therefore day is near, even the
will make the land of shall be there a base thus saith the Lord GOD; day of the LORD is
Egypt utterlyb waste and kingdom. 15
It shall be Behold, I will give the near, a cloudy day; it
desolate, from the tower the basest of the land of Egypt unto shall be the time of the
of Syene even unto the kingdoms; neither shall it Nebuchadrezzar king of heathen. 4
And the
border of Ethiopia. 11No exalt itself any more Babylon; and he shall sword shall come upon
foot of man shall pass above the nations: for I take her multitude, and Egypt, and great paina
through it, nor foot of will diminish them, that take her spoild, and take shall be in Ethiopia,
beast shall pass through they shall no more rule her prey; and it shall be when the slain shall fall
it, neither shall it be over the nations. 16And it the wages for his army. in Egypt, and they shall
inhabited forty years. shall be no more the 20
I have given him the take away her
12
And I will make the confidence of the house land of Egypt for his multitude, and her
land of Egypt desolate in of Israel, which bringeth labour wherewith he foundations shall be
the midst of the their iniquity to served against it, broken down.
b
remembrance, when d
utterly...: Heb. wastes of take her spoil...: Heb. spoil her
c a
waste habitation: or, birth spoil, and prey her prey pain: or, fear
5
Ethiopia, and Libyab, Lord GOD; I will also fury upon Sinf, the have broken the arm of
and Lydia, and all the make the multitude of strength of Egypt; and I Pharaoh king of Egypt;
mingled people, and Egypt to cease by the will cut off the multitude and, lo, it shall not be
Chub, and the men of hand of Nebuchadrezzar of No. 16And I will set fire bound up to be healed,
the land that is in king of Babylon. 11He and in Egypt: Sin shall have to put a roller to bind it,
league, shall fall with his people with him, the great pain, and No shall to make it strong to
them by the sword. terrible of the nations, be rent asunder, and hold the sword.
6
Thus saith the LORD; shall be brought to Noph shall have 22
Therefore thus saith
They also that uphold destroy the land: and distresses daily. 17The the Lord GOD; Behold, I
Egypt shall fall; and the they shall draw their young men of Aveng and am against Pharaoh
pride of her power shall swords against Egypt, of Pibeseth shall fall by king of Egypt, and will
come down: from the and fill the land with the the sword: and these break his arms, the
tower of Syene shall they slain. 12And I will make cities shall go into strong, and that which
fall in it by the sword, the rivers dryd, and sell captivity. 18
At was broken; and I will
saith the Lord GOD. the land into the hand of Tehaphnehes also the cause the sword to fall
7
And they shall be the wicked: and I will day shall be darkenedh, out of his hand. 23And I
desolate in the midst of make the land waste, when I shall break there will scatter the
the countries that are and all that is therein, by the yokes of Egypt: and Egyptians among the
desolate, and her cities the hand of strangers: I the pomp of her strength nations, and will
shall be in the midst of the LORD have spoken shall cease in her: as for disperse them through
the cities that are it. 13Thus saith the Lord her, a cloud shall cover the countries. 24And I
wasted. And they shall
8
GOD; I will also destroy her, and her daughters will strengthen the
know that I am the the idols, and I will cause shall go into captivity. arms of the king of
LORD, when I have set a their images to cease 19
Thus will I execute Babylon, and put my
fire in Egypt, and when out of Noph; and there judgments in Egypt: and sword in his hand: but I
all her helpers shall be shall be no more a they shall know that I will break Pharaoh’s
destroyedc. 9In that day prince of the land of am the LORD. arms, and he shall
shall messengers go Egypt: and I will put a 20
And it came to pass groan before him with
forth from me in ships to fear in the land of Egypt. in the eleventh year, in the groanings of a
make the careless 14
And I will make Pathros the first month, in the deadly wounded man.
Ethiopians afraid, and desolate, and will set fire seventh day of the 25
But I will strengthen
great pain shall come in Zoane, and will month, that the word of the arms of the king of
upon them, as in the day execute judgments in the LORD came unto me, Babylon, and the arms
of Egypt: for, lo, it No. 15And I will pour my saying, 21Son of man, I of Pharaoh shall fall
cometh. 10Thus saith the f
down; and they shall
Sin: or, Pelusium know that I am the
b d g
Libya: Heb. Phut dry: Heb. drought Aven: or, Heliopolis LORD, when I shall put
c e h
destroyed: Heb. broken Zoan: or, Tanis darkened: or, restrained
my sword into the hand plants, and sent out her of God, envied him. their top among the
of the king of Babylon, little rivers unto all the 10
Therefore thus saith thick boughs, neither
and he shall stretch it trees of the field. the Lord GOD; Because their treesa stand up in
out upon the land of 5
Therefore his height thou hast lifted up their height, all that
Egypt. 26And I will scatter was exalted above all thyself in height, and he drink water: for they
the Egyptians among the the trees of the field, and hath shot up his top are all delivered unto
nations, and disperse his boughs were among the thick boughs, death, to the nether
them among the multiplied, and his and his heart is lifted up parts of the earth, in
countries; and they shall branches became long in his height; 11I have the midst of the
know that I am the because of the multitude therefore delivered him children of men, with
LORD. of waters, when he shot into the hand of the them that go down to
forth. 6All the fowls of mighty one of the the pit. 15Thus saith the
Chapter 31 heaven made their nests heathen; he shall surely Lord GOD; In the day
in his boughs, and under deal with him: I have when he went down to
1
And it came to pass his branches did all the driven him out for his the grave I caused a
in the eleventh year, in beasts of the field bring wickedness. 12
And mourning: I covered the
the third month, in the forth their young, and strangers, the terrible of deep for him, and I
first day of the month, under his shadow dwelt the nations, have cut restrained the floods
that the word of the all great nations. 7Thus him off, and have left thereof, and the great
LORD came unto me, was he fair in his him: upon the mountains waters were stayed:
saying, 2Son of man, greatness, in the length and in all the valleys his and I caused Lebanon
speak unto Pharaoh king of his branches: for his branches are fallen, and to mournb for him, and
of Egypt, and to his root was by great his boughs are broken by all the trees of the field
multitude; Whom art waters. The cedars in
8
all the rivers of the land; fainted for him. 16
I
thou like in thy the garden of God could and all the people of the made the nations to
greatness? Behold, the
3
not hide him: the fir earth are gone down shake at the sound of
Assyrian was a cedar in trees were not like his from his shadow, and his fall, when I cast him
Lebanon with fair boughs, and the chesnut have left him. 13Upon his down to hell with them
branches, and with a trees were not like his ruin shall all the fowls of that descend into the
shadowing shroud, and branches; nor any tree in the heaven remain, and pit: and all the trees of
of an high stature; and the garden of God was all the beasts of the field Eden, the choice and
his top was among the like unto him in his shall be upon his best of Lebanon, all
thick boughs. 4
The beauty. 9I have made branches: 14To the end that drink water, shall
waters made him great, him fair by the multitude that none of all the trees be comforted in the
the deep set him up on of his branches: so that by the waters exalt a
high with her rivers all the trees of Eden, themselves for their their trees...: or, stand upon
running round about his that were in the garden height, neither shoot up themselves for their height
b
to mourn: Heb. to be black
nether parts of the earth. thou art as a whalea in light. 8
All the brightb destroyed. 13
I will
17
They also went down the seas: and thou lights of heaven will I destroy also all the
into hell with him unto camest forth with thy make dark over thee, beasts thereof from
them that be slain with rivers, and troubledst the and set darkness upon beside the great
the sword; and they that waters with thy feet, and thy land, saith the Lord waters; neither shall the
were his arm, that dwelt fouledst their rivers. GOD. 9
I will also vexc foot of man trouble
under his shadow in the 3
Thus saith the Lord the hearts of many them any more, nor the
midst of the heathen. GOD; I will therefore people, when I shall hoofs of beasts trouble
18
To whom art thou thus spread out my net over bring thy destruction them. 14Then will I make
like in glory and in thee with a company of among the nations, into their waters deep, and
greatness among the many people; and they the countries which thou cause their rivers to run
trees of Eden? yet shalt shall bring thee up in my hast not known. 10Yea, I like oil, saith the Lord
thou be brought down net. 4Then will I leave will make many people GOD. 15When I shall
with the trees of Eden thee upon the land, I will amazed at thee, and make the land of Egypt
unto the nether parts of cast thee forth upon the their kings shall be desolate, and the
the earth: thou shalt lie open field, and will cause horribly afraid for thee, country shall be
in the midst of the all the fowls of the when I shall brandish my destituted of that
uncircumcised with them heaven to remain upon sword before them; and whereof it was full,
that be slain by the thee, and I will fill the they shall tremble at when I shall smite all
sword. This is Pharaoh beasts of the whole every moment, every them that dwell therein,
and all his multitude, earth with thee. 5And I man for his own life, in then shall they know
saith the Lord GOD. will lay thy flesh upon the day of thy fall. 11For that I am the LORD.
the mountains, and fill thus saith the Lord GOD; 16
This is the
Chapter 32 the valleys with thy The sword of the king of lamentation wherewith
height. 6I will also water Babylon shall come upon they shall lament her:
1
And it came to pass with thy blood the land thee. 12By the swords of the daughters of the
in the twelfth year, in the wherein thou swimmest, the mighty will I cause nations shall lament
twelfth month, in the even to the mountains; thy multitude to fall, the her: they shall lament
first day of the month, and the rivers shall be terrible of the nations, all for her, even for Egypt,
that the word of the full of thee. 7And when I of them: and they shall and for all her
LORD came unto me, shall put thee out, I will spoil the pomp of Egypt, multitude, saith the
saying, 2Son of man, cover the heaven, and and all the multitude Lord GOD.
take up a lamentation make the stars thereof thereof shall be 17
It came to pass
for Pharaoh king of dark; I will cover the sun also in the twelfth year,
b
Egypt, and say unto him, with a cloud, and the bright...: Heb. lights of the in the fifteenth day of
Thou art like a young moon shall not give her light in heaven
c d
lion of the nations, and vex: Heb. provoke to anger, destitute...: Heb. desolate
a
whale: or, dragon or, grief from the fulness thereof
the month, that the word by the sword, which caused their terror in the that be slain by the
of the LORD came unto caused terrore in the land of the living. 27And sword, and bear their
me, saying, 18Son of land of the living. they shall not lie with the shame with them that
man, wail for the 24
There is Elam and all mighty that are fallen of go down to the pit.
multitude of Egypt, and her multitude round the uncircumcised, 31
Pharaoh shall see
cast them down, even about her grave, all of which are gone down to them, and shall be
her, and the daughters them slain, fallen by the hell with their weapons comforted over all his
of the famous nations, sword, which are gone of war: and they have multitude, even
unto the nether parts of down uncircumcised into laid their swords under Pharaoh and all his
the earth, with them that the nether parts of the their heads, but their army slain by the
go down into the pit. earth, which caused their iniquities shall be upon sword, saith the Lord
19
Whom dost thou pass terror in the land of the their bones, though they GOD. 32For I have
in beauty? go down, and living; yet have they were the terror of the caused my terror in the
be thou laid with the borne their shame with mighty in the land of the land of the living: and
uncircumcised. 20
They them that go down to living. 28Yea, thou shalt he shall be laid in the
shall fall in the midst of the pit. 25They have set be broken in the midst of midst of the
them that are slain by her a bed in the midst of the uncircumcised, and uncircumcised with
the sword: she is the slain with all her shalt lie with them that them that are slain with
delivered to the sword: multitude: her graves are slain with the sword. the sword, even
draw her and all her are round about him: all 29
There is Edom, her Pharaoh and all his
multitudes. 21The strong of them uncircumcised, kings, and all her multitude, saith the
among the mighty shall slain by the sword: princes, which with their Lord GOD.
speak to him out of the though their terror was might are laidf by them
midst of hell with them caused in the land of the that were slain by the Chapter 33
that help him: they are living, yet have they sword: they shall lie with
gone down, they lie borne their shame with the uncircumcised, and
1
Again the word of
uncircumcised, slain by them that go down to with them that go down the LORD came unto
the sword. 22Asshur is the pit: he is put in the to the pit. 30There be the me, saying, 2Son of
there and all her midst of them that be princes of the north, all man, speak to the
company: his graves are slain. 26
There is of them, and all the children of thy people,
about him: all of them Meshech, Tubal, and all Zidonians, which are and say unto them,
slain, fallen by the her multitude: her gone down with the When I bring the sword
sword: 23Whose graves graves are round about slain; with their terror upon a land, if the
are set in the sides of him: all of them they are ashamed of people of the land take
the pit, and her company uncircumcised, slain by their might; and they lie a man of their coasts,
is round about her grave: the sword, though they uncircumcised with them and set him for their
all of them slain, fallen watchman: 3If when he
e f
terror: or, dismaying laid: Heb. given, or, put
seeth the sword come wicked man, thou shalt deliver him in the day of lawful and right; he
upon the land, he blow surely die; if thou dost his transgression: as for shall surely live. 17Yet
the trumpet, and warn not speak to warn the the wickedness of the the children of thy
the people; 4
Then wicked from his way, wicked, he shall not fall people say, The way of
whosoever heareth the
a
that wicked man shall thereby in the day that the Lord is not equal:
sound of the trumpet, die in his iniquity; but his he turneth from his but as for them, their
and taketh not warning; blood will I require at wickedness; neither shall way is not equal.
if the sword come, and thine hand. the righteous be able to 18
When the righteous
take him away, his blood 9
Nevertheless, if thou live for his righteousness turneth from his
shall be upon his own warn the wicked of his in the day that he righteousness, and
head. 5
He heard the way to turn from it; if he sinneth. 13When I shall committeth iniquity, he
sound of the trumpet, do not turn from his way, say to the righteous, shall even die thereby.
and took not warning; he shall die in his that he shall surely live; 19
But if the wicked turn
his blood shall be upon iniquity; but thou hast if he trust to his own from his wickedness,
him. But he that taketh delivered thy soul. righteousness, and and do that which is
warning shall deliver his 10
Therefore, O thou commit iniquity, all his lawful and right, he
soul. 6
But if the son of man, speak unto righteousnesses shall shall live thereby. 20Yet
watchman see the sword the house of Israel; Thus not be remembered; but ye say, The way of the
come, and blow not the ye speak, saying, If our for his iniquity that he Lord is not equal. O ye
trumpet, and the people transgressions and our hath committed, he shall house of Israel, I will
be not warned; if the sins be upon us, and we die for it. 14Again, when I judge you every one
sword come, and take pine away in them, how say unto the wicked, after his ways.
any person from among should we then live? Thou shalt surely die; if 21
And it came to pass
them, he is taken away 11
Say unto them, As I he turn from his sin, and in the twelfth year of
in his iniquity; but his live, saith the Lord GOD, do that which is lawful our captivity, in the
blood will I require at the I have no pleasure in the and right; 15If the wicked tenth month, in the fifth
watchman’s hand. 7So death of the wicked; but restore the pledge, give day of the month, that
thou, O son of man, I that the wicked turn again that he had one that had escaped
have set thee a from his way and live: robbed, walk in the out of Jerusalem came
watchman unto the turn ye, turn ye from statutes of life, without unto me, saying, The
house of Israel; therefore your evil ways; for why committing iniquity; he city is smitten. 22Now
thou shalt hear the word will ye die, O house of shall surely live, he shall the hand of the LORD
at my mouth, and warn Israel? 12Therefore, thou not die. 16None of his was upon me in the
them from me. 8When I son of man, say unto the sins that he hath evening, afore he that
say unto the wicked, O children of thy people, committed shall be was escaped came; and
a
The righteousness of the mentioned unto him: he had opened my mouth,
whosoever...: Heb. he that righteous shall not hath done that which is until he came to me in
hearing heareth
the morning; and my pestilence. 28
For I will heart goeth after their have ye healed that
mouth was opened, and I lay the land mostb covetousness. 32
And, which was sick, neither
was no more dumb. desolate, and the pomp lo, thou art unto them as have ye bound up that
23
Then the word of the of her strength shall a very lovely song of one which was broken,
LORD came unto me, cease; and the that hath a pleasant neither have ye brought
saying, 24Son of man, mountains of Israel shall voice, and can play well again that which was
they that inhabit those be desolate, that none on an instrument: for driven away, neither
wastes of the land of shall pass through. they hear thy words, but have ye sought that
Israel speak, saying, 29
Then shall they know they do them not. 33And which was lost; but with
Abraham was one, and that I am the LORD, when this cometh to force and with cruelty
he inherited the land: when I have laid the land pass, (lo, it will come,) have ye ruled them.
but we are many; the most desolate because then shall they know 5
And they were
land is given us for of all their abominations that a prophet hath been scattered, because
inheritance. 25Wherefore which they have among them. there is no shepherda:
say unto them, Thus committed. and they became meat
saith the Lord GOD; Ye 30
Also, thou son of Chapter 34 to all the beasts of the
eat with the blood, and man, the children of thy field, when they were
lift up your eyes toward people still are talking
1
And the word of the scattered. 6
My sheep
your idols, and shed against thee by the walls LORD came unto me, wandered through all
blood: and shall ye and in the doors of the saying, 2Son of man, the mountains, and
possess the land? 26Ye houses, and speak one prophesy against the upon every high hill:
stand upon your sword, to another, every one to shepherds of Israel, yea, my flock was
ye work abomination, his brother, saying, prophesy, and say unto scattered upon all the
and ye defile every one Come, I pray you, and them, Thus saith the face of the earth, and
his neighbour’s wife: and hear what is the word Lord GOD unto the none did search or seek
shall ye possess the that cometh forth from shepherds; Woe be to after them.
land? 27Say thou thus the LORD. 31
And they the shepherds of Israel 7
Therefore, ye
unto them, Thus saith come unto thee as the that do feed themselves! shepherds, hear the
the Lord GOD; As I live, people cometh, and they should not the word of the LORD; 8As I
surely they that are in sit before thee as my shepherds feed the live, saith the Lord
the wastes shall fall by people, and they hear flocks? 3Ye eat the fat, GOD, surely because
the sword, and him that thy words, but they will and ye clothe you with my flock became a
is in the open field will I not do them: for with the wool, ye kill them prey, and my flock
give to the beasts to be their mouth they shew that are fed: but ye feed became meat to every
devoured, and they that much love, but their not the flock. 4
The beast of the field,
be in the forts and in the diseased have ye not
b a
caves shall die of the most...: Heb. desolation and strengthened, neither because...: or, without a
desolation shepherd
because there was no them to their own land, thing unto you to have I the LORD will be their
shepherd, neither did my and feed them upon the eaten up the good God, and my servant
shepherds search for my mountains of Israel by pasture, but ye must David a prince among
flock, but the shepherds the rivers, and in all the tread down with your them; I the LORD have
fed themselves, and fed inhabited places of the feet the residue of your spoken it. 25And I will
not my flock; 9Therefore, country. 14I will feed pastures? and to have make with them a
O ye shepherds, hear the them in a good pasture, drunk of the deep covenant of peace, and
word of the LORD; 10Thus and upon the high waters, but ye must foul will cause the evil
saith the Lord GOD; mountains of Israel shall the residue with your beasts to cease out of
Behold, I am against the their fold be: there shall feet? 19And as for my the land: and they shall
shepherds; and I will they lie in a good fold, flock, they eat that dwell safely in the
require my flock at their and in a fat pasture shall which ye have trodden wilderness, and sleep in
hand, and cause them to they feed upon the with your feet; and they the woods. 26And I will
cease from feeding the mountains of Israel. 15I drink that which ye have make them and the
flock; neither shall the will feed my flock, and I fouled with your feet. places round about my
shepherds feed will cause them to lie 20
Therefore thus saith hill a blessing; and I will
themselves any more; down, saith the Lord the Lord GOD unto them; cause the shower to
for I will deliver my flock GOD. 16I will seek that Behold, I, even I, will come down in his
from their mouth, that which was lost, and bring judge between the fat season; there shall be
they may not be meat again that which was cattle and between the showers of blessing.
for them. 11For thus saith driven away, and will lean cattle. 21Because ye 27
And the tree of the
the Lord GOD; Behold, I, bind up that which was have thrust with side field shall yield her fruit,
even I, will both search broken, and will and with shoulder, and and the earth shall yield
my sheep, and seek strengthen that which pushed all the diseased her increase, and they
them out. 12
As a was sick: but I will with your horns, till ye shall be safe in their
shepherd seeketh out his destroy the fat and the have scattered them land, and shall know
flock in the day that he strong; I will feed them abroad; 22Therefore will I that I am the LORD,
is among his sheep that with judgment. save my flock, and they when I have broken the
are scattered; so will I 17
And as for you, O shall no more be a prey; bands of their yoke, and
seek out my sheep, and my flock, thus saith the and I will judge between delivered them out of
will deliver them out of Lord GOD; Behold, I cattle and cattle. 23And I the hand of those that
all places where they judge between cattleb will set up one shepherd served themselves of
have been scattered in and cattle, between the over them, and he shall them. 28And they shall
the cloudy and dark day. rams and the he goats. feed them, even my no more be a prey to
13
And I will bring them 18
Seemeth it a small servant David; he shall the heathen, neither
out from the people, and b
feed them, and he shall shall the beast of the
gather them from the cattle: Heb. small cattle of be their shepherd. 24And land devour them; but
countries, and will bring lambs and kids
they shall dwell safely, mosta desolate. 4I will thee perpetual heard them. 14
Thus
and none shall make lay thy cities waste, and desolations, and thy saith the Lord GOD;
them afraid. 29And I will thou shalt be desolate, cities shall not return: When the whole earth
raise up for them a plant and thou shalt know that and ye shall know that I rejoiceth, I will make
of renownc, and they I am the LORD. 5Because am the LORD. thee desolate. 15As thou
shall be no more thou hast had a 10
Because thou hast didst rejoice at the
consumed with hunger in perpetualb hatred, and said, These two nations inheritance of the
the land, neither bear hast shed the blood of and these two countries house of Israel, because
the shame of the the children of Israel by shall be mine, and we it was desolate, so will I
heathen any more. the force of the sword in will possess it; whereas do unto thee: thou shalt
30
Thus shall they know the time of their the LORD was there: be desolate, O mount
that I the LORD their God calamity, in the time 11
Therefore, as I live, Seir, and all Idumea,
am with them, and that that their iniquity had an saith the Lord GOD, I will even all of it: and they
they, even the house of end: 6
Therefore, as I even do according to shall know that I am the
Israel, are my people, live, saith the Lord GOD, thine anger, and LORD.
saith the Lord GOD. I will prepare thee unto according to thine envy
31
And ye my flock, the blood, and blood shall which thou hast used out Chapter 36
flock of my pasture, are pursue thee: sith thou of thy hatred against
men, and I am your God, hast not hated blood, them; and I will make
1
Also, thou son of
saith the Lord GOD. even blood shall pursue myself known among man, prophesy unto the
thee. 7Thus will I make them, when I have mountains of Israel, and
Chapter 35 mount Seir mostc judged thee. 12And thou say, Ye mountains of
desolate, and cut off shalt know that I am the Israel, hear the word of
Moreover the word of
1
from it him that passeth LORD, and that I have the LORD: 2Thus saith
the LORD came unto me, out and him that heard all thy the Lord GOD; Because
saying, 2Son of man, set returneth. And I will fill
8
blasphemies which thou the enemy hath said
thy face against mount his mountains with his hast spoken against the against you, Aha, even
Seir, and prophesy slain men: in thy hills, mountains of Israel, the ancient high places
against it, 3And say unto and in thy valleys, and in saying, They are laid are ours in possession:
it, Thus saith the Lord all thy rivers, shall they desolate, they are given
3
Therefore prophesy
GOD; Behold, O mount fall that are slain with us to consumed. 13Thus and say, Thus saith the
Seir, I am against thee, the sword. 9I will make with your mouth ye have Lord GOD; Because
and I will stretch out boastede against me, they have made you
a
mine hand against thee, most...: Heb. desolation and and have multiplied your desolate, and
and I will make thee desolation words against me: I have swallowed you up on
b
perpetual...: or, hatred of old every side, that ye
c d
most...: Heb. desolation and to consume: Heb. to devour might be a possession
c e
of renown: or, for renown desolation boasted: Heb. magnified
unto the residue of the the Lord GOD; Behold, I men to walk upon you, was before me as the
heathen, and ye are have spoken in my even my people Israel; uncleanness of a
taken up in the lips of jealousy and in my fury, and they shall possess removed woman.
talkers, and are an because ye have borne thee, and thou shalt be 18
Wherefore I poured
infamy of the people: the shame of the their inheritance, and my fury upon them for
4
Therefore, ye mountains heathen: Therefore thus
7
thou shalt no more the blood that they had
of Israel, hear the word saith the Lord GOD; I henceforth bereave shed upon the land, and
of the Lord GOD; Thus have lifted up mine them of men. 13Thus for their idols
saith the Lord GOD to hand, Surely the heathen saith the Lord GOD; wherewith they had
the mountains, and to that are about you, they Because they say unto polluted it: 19And I
the hills, to the riversa, shall bear their shame. you, Thou land scattered them among
and to the valleys, to the 8
But ye, O mountains of devourest up men, and the heathen, and they
desolate wastes, and to Israel, ye shall shoot hast bereaved thy were dispersed through
the cities that are forth your branches, and nations; Therefore thou
14
the countries: according
forsaken, which became yield your fruit to my shalt devour men no to their way and
a prey and derision to people of Israel; for they more, neither bereaveb according to their
the residue of the are at hand to come. thy nations any more, doings I judged them.
heathen that are round 9
For, behold, I am for saith the Lord GOD. 20
And when they
about; 5Therefore thus you, and I will turn unto 15
Neither will I cause entered unto the
saith the Lord GOD; you, and ye shall be men to hear in thee the heathen, whither they
Surely in the fire of my tilled and sown: 10And I shame of the heathen went, they profaned my
jealousy have I spoken will multiply men upon any more, neither shalt holy name, when they
against the residue of you, all the house of thou bear the reproach said to them, These are
the heathen, and against Israel, even all of it: and of the people any more, the people of the LORD,
all Idumea, which have the cities shall be neither shalt thou cause and are gone forth out
appointed my land into inhabited, and the thy nations to fall any of his land. 21But I had
their possession with the wastes shall be builded: more, saith the Lord pity for mine holy
joy of all their heart, with 11
And I will multiply upon GOD. name, which the house
despiteful minds, to cast you man and beast; and 16
Moreover the word of Israel had profaned
it out for a prey. they shall increase and of the LORD came unto among the heathen,
6
Prophesy therefore bring fruit: and I will me, saying, 17Son of whither they went.
concerning the land of settle you after your old man, when the house of 22
Therefore say unto the
Israel, and say unto the estates, and will do Israel dwelt in their own house of Israel, Thus
mountains, and to the better unto you than at land, they defiled it by saith the Lord GOD; I do
hills, to the rivers, and to your beginnings: and ye their own way and by not this for your sakes,
the valleys, Thus saith shall know that I am the their doings: their way O house of Israel, but
a
LORD. 12Yea, I will cause b
for mine holy name’s
rivers: or, bottoms, or, dales bereave: or, cause to fall
sake, which ye have dwell in the land that I desolate land shall be The hand of the
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profaned among the gave to your fathers; and tilled, whereas it lay LORD was upon me,
heathen, whither ye ye shall be my people, desolate in the sight of and carried me out in
went. And I will sanctify
23
and I will be your God. 29I all that passed by. 35And the spirit of the LORD,
my great name, which will also save you from they shall say, This land and set me down in the
was profaned among the all your uncleannesses: that was desolate is midst of the valley
heathen, which ye have and I will call for the become like the garden which was full of bones,
profaned in the midst of corn, and will increase it, of Eden; and the waste 2
And caused me to pass
them; and the heathen and lay no famine upon and desolate and ruined by them round about:
shall know that I am the you. 30And I will multiply cities are become and, behold, there were
LORD, saith the Lord the fruit of the tree, and fenced, and are very many in the open
GOD, when I shall be the increase of the field, inhabited. 36
Then the valleya; and, lo, they
sanctified in you before that ye shall receive no heathen that are left were very dry. 3And he
their eyes. 24For I will more reproach of famine round about you shall said unto me, Son of
take you from among among the heathen. know that I the LORD man, can these bones
the heathen, and gather 31
Then shall ye build the ruined places, live? And I answered, O
you out of all countries, remember your own evil and plant that that was Lord GOD, thou
and will bring you into ways, and your doings desolate: I the LORD knowest. Again he said
4

your own land. that were not good, and have spoken it, and I will unto me, Prophesy
25
Then will I sprinkle shall lothe yourselves in do it. 37Thus saith the upon these bones, and
clean water upon you, your own sight for your Lord GOD; I will yet for say unto them, O ye dry
and ye shall be clean: iniquities and for your this be enquired of by bones, hear the word of
from all your filthiness, abominations. 32Not for the house of Israel, to do the LORD. 5Thus saith
and from all your idols, your sakes do I this, it for them; I will the Lord GOD unto
will I cleanse you. 26A saith the Lord GOD, be it increase them with men these bones; Behold, I
new heart also will I give known unto you: be like a flock. 38As the holyc will cause breath to
you, and a new spirit will ashamed and flock, as the flock of enter into you, and ye
I put within you: and I confounded for your own Jerusalem in her solemn shall live: 6And I will lay
will take away the stony ways, O house of Israel. feasts; so shall the waste sinews upon you, and
heart out of your flesh, 33
Thus saith the Lord cities be filled with flocks will bring up flesh upon
and I will give you an GOD; In the day that I of men: and they shall you, and cover you with
heart of flesh. 27And I will shall have cleansed you know that I am the skin, and put breath in
put my spirit within you, from all your iniquities I LORD. you, and ye shall live;
and cause you to walk in will also cause you to and ye shall know that I
my statutes, and ye shall dwell in the cities, and Chapter 37 am the LORD. 7So I
keep my judgments, and the wastes shall be c
prophesied as I was
do them. 28And ye shall builded. 34
And the holy...: Heb. flock of holy
a
things valley: or, champaign
commanded: and as I saith the Lord GOD; the children of thy kingdoms any more at
prophesied, there was a Behold, O my people, I people shall speak unto all: 23Neither shall they
noise, and behold a will open your graves, thee, saying, Wilt thou defile themselves any
shaking, and the bones and cause you to come not shew us what thou more with their idols,
came together, bone to up out of your graves, meanest by these? 19Say nor with their
his bone. 8And when I and bring you into the unto them, Thus saith detestable things, nor
beheld, lo, the sinews land of Israel. 13And ye the Lord GOD; Behold, I with any of their
and the flesh came up shall know that I am the will take the stick of transgressions: but I
upon them, and the skin LORD, when I have Joseph, which is in the will save them out of all
covered them above: but opened your graves, O hand of Ephraim, and their dwellingplaces,
there was no breath in my people, and brought the tribes of Israel his wherein they have
them. 9Then said he unto you up out of your fellows, and will put sinned, and will cleanse
me, Prophesy unto the graves, 14And shall put them with him, even them: so shall they be
windb, prophesy, son of my spirit in you, and ye with the stick of Judah, my people, and I will be
man, and say to the shall live, and I shall and make them one their God. 24And David
wind, Thus saith the Lord place you in your own stick, and they shall be my servant shall be
GOD; Come from the land: then shall ye know one in mine hand. 20And king over them; and
four winds, O breath, that I the LORD have the sticks whereon thou they all shall have one
and breathe upon these spoken it, and performed writest shall be in thine shepherd: they shall
slain, that they may live. it, saith the LORD. hand before their eyes. also walk in my
10
So I prophesied as he 15
The word of the 21
And say unto them, judgments, and observe
commanded me, and the LORD came again unto Thus saith the Lord GOD; my statutes, and do
breath came into them, me, saying, 16Moreover, Behold, I will take the them. 25And they shall
and they lived, and thou son of man, take children of Israel from dwell in the land that I
stood up upon their feet, thee one stick, and write among the heathen, have given unto Jacob
an exceeding great upon it, For Judah, and whither they be gone, my servant, wherein
army. 11Then he said for the children of Israel and will gather them on your fathers have
unto me, Son of man, his companions: then every side, and bring dwelt; and they shall
these bones are the take another stick, and them into their own land: dwell therein, even
whole house of Israel: write upon it, For Joseph, 22
And I will make them they, and their children,
behold, they say, Our the stick of Ephraim, and one nation in the land and their children’s
bones are dried, and our for all the house of Israel upon the mountains of children for ever: and
hope is lost: we are cut his companions: 17And Israel; and one king shall my servant David shall
off for our parts. join them one to another be king to them all: and be their prince for ever.
12
Therefore prophesy into one stick; and they they shall be no more 26
Moreover I will make a
and say unto them, Thus shall become one in two nations, neither shall covenant of peace with
b
thine hand. 18And when they be divided into two them; it shall be an
wind: or, breath
everlasting covenant thine army, horses and come like a storm, thou with all the young lions
with them: and I will horsemen, all of them shalt be like a cloud to thereof, shall say unto
place them, and multiply clothed with all sorts of cover the land, thou, and thee, Art thou come to
them, and will set my armour, even a great all thy bands, and many take a spoil? hast thou
sanctuary in the midst of company with bucklers people with thee. 10Thus gathered thy company
them for evermore. 27My and shields, all of them saith the Lord GOD; It to take a prey? to carry
tabernacle also shall be handling swords: 5Persia, shall also come to pass, away silver and gold, to
with them: yea, I will be Ethiopia, and Libyab with that at the same time take away cattle and
their God, and they shall them; all of them with shall things come into goods, to take a great
be my people. 28And the shield and helmet: thy mind, and thou shalt spoil?
heathen shall know that I 6
Gomer, and all his thinkc an evil thought: 14
Therefore, son of
the LORD do sanctify bands; the house of 11
And thou shalt say, I man, prophesy and say
Israel, when my Togarmah of the north will go up to the land of unto Gog, Thus saith
sanctuary shall be in the quarters, and all his unwalled villages; I will the Lord GOD; In that
midst of them for bands: and many people go to them that are at day when my people of
evermore. with thee. 7Be thou rest, that dwell safelyd, Israel dwelleth safely,
prepared, and prepare all of them dwelling shalt thou not know it?
Chapter 38 for thyself, thou, and all without walls, and 15
And thou shalt come
thy company that are having neither bars nor from thy place out of
And the word of the
1
assembled unto thee, gates, 12To takee a spoil, the north parts, thou,
LORD came unto me, and be thou a guard and to take a prey; to and many people with
saying, 2Son of man, set unto them. 8After many turn thine hand upon the thee, all of them riding
thy face against Gog, the days thou shalt be desolate places that are upon horses, a great
land of Magog, the chiefa visited: in the latter now inhabited, and upon company, and a mighty
prince of Meshech and years thou shalt come the people that are army: 16And thou shalt
Tubal, and prophesy into the land that is gathered out of the come up against my
against him, 3And say, brought back from the nations, which have people of Israel, as a
Thus saith the Lord GOD; sword, and is gathered gotten cattle and goods, cloud to cover the land;
Behold, I am against out of many people, that dwell in the midst of it shall be in the latter
thee, O Gog, the chief against the mountains of the land. 13
Sheba, and days, and I will bring
prince of Meshech and Israel, which have been Dedan, and the thee against my land,
Tubal: 4And I will turn always waste: but it is merchants of Tarshish, that the heathen may
thee back, and put hooks brought forth out of the know me, when I shall
c
into thy jaws, and I will nations, and they shall think...: or, conceive a be sanctified in thee, O
bring thee forth, and all dwell safely all of them. mischievous purpose Gog, before their eyes.
d
9
Thou shalt ascend and safely: or, confidently 17
Thus saith the Lord
a e
the chief...: or, prince of the To take...: Heb. To spoil the GOD; Art thou he of
b
chief Libya: or, Phut spoil, and to prey the prey
whom I have spoken in all my mountains, saith Israel: 3And I will smite Lord GOD; this is the
old time byf my servants the Lord GOD: every thy bow out of thy left day whereof I have
the prophets of Israel, man’s sword shall be hand, and will cause spoken. 9And they that
which prophesied in against his brother. thine arrows to fall out of dwell in the cities of
those days many years 22
And I will plead against thy right hand. 4Thou Israel shall go forth, and
that I would bring thee him with pestilence and shalt fall upon the shall set on fire and
against them? 18And it with blood; and I will rain mountains of Israel, burn the weapons, both
shall come to pass at the upon him, and upon his thou, and all thy bands, the shields and the
same time when Gog bands, and upon the and the people that is bucklers, the bows and
shall come against the many people that are with thee: I will give thee the arrows, and the
land of Israel, saith the with him, an overflowing unto the ravenous birds handstavesd, and the
Lord GOD, that my fury rain, and great of every sorta, and to the spears, and they shall
shall come up in my hailstones, fire, and beasts of the field to be burn them with fire
face. 19For in my jealousy brimstone. 23
Thus will I devoured. 5
Thou shalt seven years: 10So that
and in the fire of my magnify myself, and fall upon the openb field: they shall take no wood
wrath have I spoken, sanctify myself; and I will for I have spoken it, saith out of the field, neither
Surely in that day there be known in the eyes of the Lord GOD. 6And I will cut down any out of the
shall be a great shaking many nations, and they send a fire on Magog, forests; for they shall
in the land of Israel; 20So shall know that I am the and among them that burn the weapons with
that the fishes of the LORD. dwell carelesslyc in the fire: and they shall spoil
sea, and the fowls of the isles: and they shall those that spoiled
heaven, and the beasts Chapter 39 know that I am the them, and rob those
of the field, and all LORD. 7So will I make that robbed them, saith
creeping things that
1
Therefore, thou son my holy name known in the Lord GOD. 11And it
creep upon the earth, of man, prophesy the midst of my people shall come to pass in
and all the men that are against Gog, and say, Israel; and I will not let that day, that I will give
upon the face of the Thus saith the Lord GOD; them pollute my holy unto Gog a place there
earth, shall shake at my Behold, I am against name any more: and the of graves in Israel, the
presence, and the thee, O Gog, the chief heathen shall know that I valley of the
mountains shall be prince of Meshech and am the LORD, the Holy passengers on the east
thrown down, and the Tubal: 2And I will turn One in Israel. of the sea: and it shall
steep places shall fall, thee back, and leave but 8
Behold, it is come, stop the noses of the
and every wall shall fall the sixth part of thee, and it is done, saith the passengers: and there
to the ground. 21And I and will cause thee to shall they bury Gog and
a
will call for a sword come up from the north sort: Heb. wing all his multitude: and
b
against him throughout parts, and will bring thee the open...: Heb. the face of they shall call it The
upon the mountains of the field
f c d
by: Heb. by the hand of carelessly: or, confidently handstaves: or, javelins
valley of Hamongog. they cleanse the land. executed, and my hand none made them afraid.
12
And seven months shall 17
And, thou son of man, that I have laid upon 27
When I have brought
the house of Israel be thus saith the Lord GOD; them. 22So the house of them again from the
burying of them, that Speak unto every Israel shall know that I people, and gathered
they may cleanse the feathered fowl, and to am the LORD their God them out of their
land. 13
Yea, all the every beast of the field, from that day and enemies’ lands, and am
people of the land shall Assemble yourselves, forward. sanctified in them in
bury them; and it shall and come; gather 23
And the heathen the sight of many
be to them a renown the yourselves on every side shall know that the nations; 28Then shall
day that I shall be to my sacrifice that I do house of Israel went into they know that I am the
glorified, saith the Lord sacrifice for you, even a captivity for their LORD their God, which
GOD. 14And they shall great sacrifice upon the iniquity: because they caused them to be led
sever out mene of mountains of Israel, that trespassed against me, into captivity among
continual employment, ye may eat flesh, and therefore hid I my face the heathen: but I have
passing through the land drink blood. 18
Ye shall from them, and gave gathered them unto
to bury with the eat the flesh of the them into the hand of their own land, and
passengers those that mighty, and drink the their enemies: so fell have left none of them
remain upon the face of blood of the princes of they all by the sword. any more there.
the earth, to cleanse it: the earth, of rams, of 24
According to their 29
Neither will I hide my
after the end of seven lambs, and of goatsh, of uncleanness and face any more from
months shall they bullocks, all of them according to their them: for I have poured
search. 15
And the fatlings of Bashan. 19And transgressions have I out my spirit upon the
passengers that pass ye shall eat fat till ye be done unto them, and hid house of Israel, saith
through the land, when full, and drink blood till my face from them. the Lord GOD.
any seeth a man’s bone, ye be drunken, of my 25
Therefore thus saith
then shall he set upf a sacrifice which I have the Lord GOD; Now will I Chapter 40
sign by it, till the buriers sacrificed for you. 20Thus bring again the captivity
have buried it in the ye shall be filled at my of Jacob, and have mercy
1
In the five and
valley of Hamongog. table with horses and upon the whole house of twentieth year of our
16
And also the name of chariots, with mighty Israel, and will be jealous captivity, in the
the city shall be men, and with all men of for my holy name; 26After beginning of the year,
Hamonah . Thus shall
g
war, saith the Lord GOD. that they have borne in the tenth day of the
21
And I will set my glory their shame, and all their month, in the
e
men...: Heb. men of among the heathen, and trespasses whereby they fourteenth year after
continuance all the heathen shall see have trespassed against that the city was
f
set up: Heb. build my judgment that I have me, when they dwelt smitten, in the selfsame
g
Hamonah: that is, The safely in their land, and day the hand of the
h
multitude goats: Heb. great goats
LORD was upon me, and the breadth of the three were of one their posts within the
brought me thither. 2In building, one reed; and measure: and the posts gate round about, and
the visions of God the height, one reed. had one measure on this likewise to the arches:
brought he me into the 6
Then came he unto the side and on that side. and windows were
land of Israel, and set gate which lookethb 11
And he measured the round about inward:
me upon a very high toward the east, and breadth of the entry of and upon each post
mountain, by which was went up the stairs the gate, ten cubits; and were palm trees.
as the framea of a city on thereof, and measured the length of the gate, 17
Then brought he me
the south. 3
And he the threshold of the thirteen cubits. 12The into the outward court,
brought me thither, and, gate, which was one spacec also before the and, lo, there were
behold, there was a reed broad; and the little chambers was one chambers, and a
man, whose appearance other threshold of the cubit on this side, and pavement made for the
was like the appearance gate, which was one the space was one cubit court round about:
of brass, with a line of reed broad. 7And every on that side: and the thirty chambers were
flax in his hand, and a little chamber was one little chambers were six upon the pavement.
measuring reed; and he reed long, and one reed cubits on this side, and 18
And the pavement by
stood in the gate. 4And broad; and between the six cubits on that side. the side of the gates
the man said unto me, little chambers were five 13
He measured then the over against the length
Son of man, behold with cubits; and the threshold gate from the roof of one of the gates was the
thine eyes, and hear of the gate by the porch little chamber to the roof lower pavement. 19Then
with thine ears, and set of the gate within was of another: the breadth he measured the
thine heart upon all that one reed. 8He measured was five and twenty breadth from the
I shall shew thee; for to also the porch of the cubits, door against forefront of the lower
the intent that I might gate within, one reed. door. 14
He made also gate unto the forefront
shew them unto thee art 9
Then measured he the posts of threescore of the inner court
thou brought hither: porch of the gate, eight cubits, even unto the withoute, an hundred
declare all that thou cubits; and the posts post of the court round cubits eastward and
seest to the house of thereof, two cubits; and about the gate. 15And northward. 20
And the
Israel. the porch of the gate from the face of the gate gate of the outward
5
And behold a wall on was inward. 10And the of the entrance unto the court that lookedf
the outside of the house little chambers of the face of the porch of the toward the north, he
round about, and in the gate eastward were inner gate were fifty measured the length
man’s hand a measuring three on this side, and cubits. 16And there were thereof, and the
reed of six cubits long by three on that side; they narrowd windows to the breadth thereof. 21
And
the cubit and an hand b
little chambers, and to e
breadth: so he measured which looketh...: Heb. whose without: or, from without
c f
face was the way toward the space: Heb. limit, or, bound that looked: Heb. whose face
a d
by which: or, upon which east narrow: Heb. closed was
the little chambers and in the arches thereof five cubits broadh. 31And arches thereof, and the
thereof were three on round about, like those the arches thereof were windows to it round
this side and three on windows: the length was toward the utter court; about: the length was
that side; and the posts fifty cubits, and the and palm trees were fifty cubits, and the
thereof and the archesg breadth five and twenty upon the posts thereof: breadth five and twenty
thereof were after the cubits. 26And there were and the going up to it cubits. 37And the posts
measure of the first seven steps to go up to had eight steps. 32And he thereof were toward the
gate: the length thereof it, and the arches brought me into the utter court; and palm
was fifty cubits, and the thereof were before inner court toward the trees were upon the
breadth five and twenty them: and it had palm east: and he measured posts thereof, on this
cubits. 22
And their trees, one on this side, the gate according to side, and on that side:
windows, and their and another on that side, these measures. 33And and the going up to it
arches, and their palm upon the posts thereof. the little chambers had eight steps. 38And
trees, were after the 27
And there was a thereof, and the posts the chambers and the
measure of the gate that gate in the inner court thereof, and the arches entries thereof were by
looketh toward the east; toward the south: and he thereof, were according the posts of the gates,
and they went up unto it measured from gate to to these measures: and where they washed the
by seven steps; and the gate toward the south an there were windows burnt offering.
arches thereof were hundred cubits. 28And he therein and in the arches 39
And in the porch of
before them. And the
23
brought me to the inner thereof round about: it the gate were two
gate of the inner court court by the south gate: was fifty cubits long, and tables on this side, and
was over against the and he measured the five and twenty cubits two tables on that side,
gate toward the north, south gate according to broad. 34And the arches to slay thereon the
and toward the east; and these measures; 29And thereof were toward the burnt offering and the
he measured from gate the little chambers outward court; and palm sin offering and the
to gate an hundred thereof, and the posts trees were upon the trespass offering. 40And
cubits. 24After that he thereof, and the arches posts thereof, on this at the side without, as
brought me toward the thereof, according to side, and on that side: one goeth up to the
south, and behold a gate these measures: and and the going up to it entry of the north gate,
toward the south: and he there were windows in it had eight steps. 35And he were two tables; and on
measured the posts and in the arches thereof brought me to the north the other side, which
thereof and the arches round about: it was fifty gate, and measured it was at the porch of the
thereof according to cubits long, and five and according to these gate, were two tables.
these measures. 25
And twenty cubits broad. measures; 36
The little 41
Four tables were on
there were windows in it 30
And the arches round chambers thereof, the this side, and four
g
about were five and posts thereof, and the tables on that side, by
arches: or, galleries, or, twenty cubits long, and the side of the gate;
h
porches broad: Heb. breadth
eight tables, whereupon chargej of the house. Chapter 41 four cubits, round about
they slew their 46
And the chamber the house on every
sacrifices. 42And the four whose prospect is Afterward he brought
1
side. 6And the side
tables were of hewn toward the north is for me to the temple, and chambers were three,
stone for the burnt the priests, the keepers measured the posts, six one over another, and
offering, of a cubit and of the charge of the cubits broad on the one thirty in order; and they
an half long, and a cubit altar: these are the sons side, and six cubits entered into the wall
and an half broad, and of Zadok among the broad on the other side, which was of the house
one cubit high: sons of Levi, which come which was the breadth of for the side chambers
whereupon also they laid near to the LORD to the tabernacle. 2And the round about, that they
the instruments minister unto him. 47So breadth of the doora was might have hold, but
wherewith they slew the he measured the court, ten cubits; and the sides they had not hold in the
burnt offering and the an hundred cubits long, of the door were five wall of the house.
sacrifice. 43And within and an hundred cubits cubits on the one side, 7
And there was an
were hooksi, an hand broad, foursquare; and and five cubits on the enlarging, and a
broad, fastened round the altar that was before other side: and he winding about still
about: and upon the the house. 48And he measured the length upward to the side
tables was the flesh of brought me to the porch thereof, forty cubits: and chambers: for the
the offering. 44
And of the house, and the breadth, twenty winding about of the
without the inner gate measured each post of cubits. 3
Then went he house went still upward
were the chambers of the porch, five cubits on inward, and measured round about the house:
the singers in the inner this side, and five cubits the post of the door, two therefore the breadth of
court, which was at the on that side: and the cubits; and the door, six the house was still
side of the north gate; breadth of the gate was cubits; and the breadth upward, and so
and their prospect was three cubits on this side, of the door, seven increased from the
toward the south: one at and three cubits on that cubits. So he measured
4
lowest chamber to the
the side of the east gate side. 49The length of the the length thereof, highest by the midst. 8I
having the prospect porch was twenty cubits, twenty cubits; and the saw also the height of
toward the north. 45And and the breadth eleven breadth, twenty cubits, the house round about:
he said unto me, This cubits; and he brought before the temple: and the foundations of the
chamber, whose me by the steps whereby he said unto me, This is side chambers were a
prospect is toward the they went up to it: and the most holy place. full reed of six great
south, is for the priests, there were pillars by the 5
After he measured the cubits. 9The thickness of
the keepers of the posts, one on this side, wall of the house, six the wall, which was for
and another on that side. cubits; and the breadth the side chamber
i of every side chamber, without, was five cubits:
hooks: or, and irons, or, the and that which was left
j a
two hearthstones charge: or, ward, or, ordinance door: or, entrance
was the place of the side cubits. 15
And he face of a man was door. 25And there were
chambers that were measured the length of toward the palm tree on made on them, on the
within. 10And between the building over against the one side, and the doors of the temple,
the chambers was the the separate place which face of a young lion cherubims and palm
wideness of twenty was behind it, and the toward the palm tree on trees, like as were
cubits round about the galleriesb thereof on the the other side: it was made upon the walls;
house on every side. one side and on the made through all the and there were thick
11
And the doors of the other side, an hundred house round about. planks upon the face of
side chambers were cubits, with the inner 20
From the ground unto the porch without. 26And
toward the place that temple, and the porches above the door were there were narrow
was left, one door of the court; 16The door cherubims and palm windows and palm trees
toward the north, and posts, and the narrow trees made, and on the on the one side and on
another door toward the windows, and the wall of the temple. 21The the other side, on the
south: and the breadth galleries round about on postse of the temple sides of the porch, and
of the place that was left their three stories, over were squared, and the upon the side chambers
was five cubits round against the door, cieledc face of the sanctuary; of the house, and thick
about. with wood round about, the appearance of the planks.
12
Now the building and from the ground up one as the appearance
that was before the to the windows, and the of the other. 22The altar Chapter 42
separate place at the windows were covered; of wood was three cubits
end toward the west was 17
To that above the door, high, and the length
1
Then he brought me
seventy cubits broad; even unto the inner thereof two cubits; and forth into the utter
and the wall of the house, and without, and the corners thereof, and court, the way toward
building was five cubits by all the wall round the length thereof, and the north: and he
thick round about, and about within and the walls thereof, were brought me into the
the length thereof ninety without, by measured. of wood: and he said chamber that was over
cubits. 13So he measured 18
And it was made with unto me, This is the against the separate
the house, an hundred cherubims and palm table that is before the place, and which was
cubits long; and the trees, so that a palm LORD. 23And the temple before the building
separate place, and the tree was between a and the sanctuary had toward the north.
building, with the walls cherub and a cherub; two doors. 24And the
2
Before the length of an
thereof, an hundred and every cherub had doors had two leaves hundred cubits was the
cubits long; 14Also the two faces; 19So that the apiece, two turning north door, and the
breadth of the face of leaves; two leaves for breadth was fifty cubits.
b
the house, and of the galleries: or, several walks, or, the one door, and two
3
Over against the
separate place toward walks with pillars leaves for the other twenty cubits which
c
the east, an hundred cieled...: Heb. cieling of wood were for the inner
d e
measure: Heb. measures posts: Heb. post
court, and over against the temple were an chambers, where the the north side, five
the pavement which was hundred cubits. 9And priests that approach hundred reeds, with the
for the utter court, was from under these unto the LORD shall eat measuring reed round
gallery against gallery in chambers was the entry the most holy things: about. 18He measured
three stories. 4
And on the east side, as one there shall they lay the the south side, five
before the chambers goeth into them from the most holy things, and hundred reeds, with the
was a walk of ten cubits utter court. 10
The the meat offering, and measuring reed. 19He
breadth inward, a way of chambers were in the the sin offering, and the turned about to the
one cubit; and their thickness of the wall of trespass offering; for the west side, and
doors toward the north. the court toward the place is holy. 14When the measured five hundred
5
Now the upper east, over against the priests enter therein, reeds with the
chambers were shorter: separate place, and over then shall they not go measuring reed. 20
He
for the galleries were against the building. out of the holy place into measured it by the four
highera than these, than 11
And the way before the utter court, but there sides: it had a wall
the lower, and than the them was like the they shall lay their round about, five
middlemost of the appearance of the garments wherein they hundred reeds long,
building. 6For they were chambers which were minister; for they are and five hundred broad,
in three stories, but had toward the north, as long holy; and shall put on to make a separation
not pillars as the pillars as they, and as broad as other garments, and between the sanctuary
of the courts: therefore they: and all their goings shall approach to those and the profane place.
the building was out were both according things which are for the
straitened more than the to their fashions, and people. Chapter 43
lowest and the according to their doors. 15
Now when he had
middlemost from the 12
And according to the made an end of
1
Afterward he
ground. 7And the wall doors of the chambers measuring the inner brought me to the gate,
that was without over that were toward the house, he brought me even the gate that
against the chambers, south was a door in the forth toward the gate looketh toward the
toward the utter court on head of the way, even whose prospect is east: And, behold, the
2

the forepart of the the way directly before toward the east, and glory of the God of
chambers, the length the wall toward the east, measured it round Israel came from the
thereof was fifty cubits. as one entereth into about. 16He measured way of the east: and his
8
For the length of the them. 13Then said he the east sideb with the voice was like a noise of
chambers that were in unto me, The north measuring reed, five many waters: and the
the utter court was fifty chambers and the south hundred reeds, with the earth shined with his
cubits: and, lo, before chambers, which are measuring reed round glory. 3And it was
before the separate about. 17
He measured according to the
a
were higher...: or, did eat of place, they be holy appearance of the
b
these side: Heb. wind
vision which I saw, even thresholds, and their thereof: and write it in altar and upward shall
according to the vision post by my posts, and their sight, that they be four horns. 16
And
that I saw when I came the wall between me and may keep the whole the altar shall be twelve
to destroy the city: and them, they have even form thereof, and all the cubits long, twelve
the visions were like the defileda my holy name ordinances thereof, and broad, square in the
vision that I saw by the by their abominations do them. 12This is the law four squares thereof.
river Chebar; and I fell that they have of the house; Upon the 17
And the settle shall be
upon my face. 4And the committed: wherefore I top of the mountain the fourteen cubits long
glory of the LORD came have consumed them in whole limit thereof round and fourteen broad in
into the house by the mine anger. 9
Now let about shall be most holy. the four squares
way of the gate whose them put away their Behold, this is the law of thereof; and the border
prospect is toward the whoredom, and the the house. about it shall be half a
east. 5So the spirit took carcases of their kings, 13
And these are the cubit; and the bottom
me up, and brought me far from me, and I will measures of the altar thereof shall be a cubit
into the inner court; and, dwell in the midst of after the cubits: The about; and his stairs
behold, the glory of the them for ever. 10Thou cubit is a cubit and an shall look toward the
LORD filled the house. son of man, shew the hand breadth; even the east. 18And he said unto
6
And I heard him house to the house of bottomc shall be a cubit, me, Son of man, thus
speaking unto me out of Israel, that they may be and the breadth a cubit, saith the Lord GOD;
the house; and the man ashamed of their and the border thereof These are the
stood by me. iniquities: and let them by the edge thereof ordinances of the altar
7
And he said unto me, measure the patternb. round about shall be a in the day when they
Son of man, the place of 11
And if they be ashamed span: and this shall be shall make it, to offer
my throne, and the place of all that they have the higher place of the burnt offerings thereon,
of the soles of my feet, done, shew them the altar. 14
And from the and to sprinkle blood
where I will dwell in the form of the house, and bottom upon the ground thereon. 19
And thou
midst of the children of the fashion thereof, and even to the lower settle shalt give to the priests
Israel for ever, and my the goings out thereof, shall be two cubits, and the Levites that be of
holy name, shall the and the comings in the breadth one cubit; the seed of Zadok,
house of Israel no more thereof, and all the and from the lesser which approach unto
defile, neither they, nor forms thereof, and all settle even to the me, to minister unto
their kings, by their the ordinances thereof, greater settle shall be me, saith the Lord GOD,
whoredom, nor by the and all the forms four cubits, and the a young bullock for a
carcases of their kings in thereof, and all the laws breadth one cubit. 15So sin offering. 20And thou
their high places. 8In a
the altar shall be four shalt take of the blood
their setting of their and the...: or, for there was but cubits; and from the thereof, and put it on
threshold by my a wall between me and them the four horns of it, and
b c
pattern: or, sum, or, number bottom: Heb. bosom
on the four corners of days shall they purge out by the way of the flesh, to be in my
the settle, and upon the the altar and purify it; same. sanctuary, to pollute it,
border round about: thus and they shall 4
Then brought he me even my house, when
shalt thou cleanse and consecrate themselves. the way of the north ye offer my bread, the
purge it. 21Thou shalt 27
And when these days gate before the house: fat and the blood, and
take the bullock also of are expired, it shall be, and I looked, and, they have broken my
the sin offering, and he that upon the eighth behold, the glory of the covenant because of all
shall burn it in the day, and so forward, the LORD filled the house of your abominations.
appointed place of the priests shall make your the LORD: and I fell upon 8
And ye have not kept
house, without the burnt offerings upon the my face. 5And the LORD the charge of mine holy
sanctuary. 22And on the altar, and your peace said unto me, Son of things: but ye have set
second day thou shalt offerings; and I will man, mark wella, and keepers of my chargec
offer a kid of the goats accept you, saith the behold with thine eyes, in my sanctuary for
without blemish for a sin Lord GOD. and hear with thine ears yourselves. 9Thus saith
offering; and they shall all that I say unto thee the Lord GOD; No
cleanse the altar, as they Chapter 44 concerning all the stranger, uncircumcised
did cleanse it with the ordinances of the house in heart, nor
bullock. 23
When thou
1
Then he brought me of the LORD, and all the uncircumcised in flesh,
hast made an end of back the way of the gate laws thereof; and mark shall enter into my
cleansing it, thou shalt of the outward sanctuary well the entering in of sanctuary, of any
offer a young bullock which looketh toward the the house, with every stranger that is among
without blemish, and a east; and it was shut. going forth of the the children of Israel.
ram out of the flock
2
Then said the LORD sanctuary. 6
And thou 10
And the Levites
without blemish. 24And unto me; This gate shall shalt say to the that are gone away far
thou shalt offer them be shut, it shall not be rebellious, even to the from me, when Israel
before the LORD, and opened, and no man house of Israel, Thus went astray, which
the priests shall cast salt shall enter in by it; saith the Lord GOD; O ye went astray away from
upon them, and they because the LORD, the house of Israel, let it me after their idols;
shall offer them up for a God of Israel, hath suffice you of all your they shall even bear
burnt offering unto the entered in by it, abominations, 7In that ye their iniquity. 11Yet they
LORD. 25Seven days shalt therefore it shall be shut. have brought into my shall be ministers in my
thou prepare every day
3
It is for the prince; the sanctuary strangersb, sanctuary, having
a goat for a sin offering: prince, he shall sit in it to uncircumcised in heart, charge at the gates of
they shall also prepare a eat bread before the and uncircumcised in the house, and
young bullock, and a LORD; he shall enter by ministering to the
a
ram out of the flock, the way of the porch of mark well: Heb. set thine heart
b c
without blemish. 26Seven that gate, and shall go strangers: Heb. children of a my charge: or, my ward, or,
stranger ordinance
house: they shall slay unto me, and they shall they shall not sanctify father, or for mother, or
the burnt offering and stand before me to offer the people with their for son, or for daughter,
the sacrifice for the unto me the fat and the garments. 20Neither shall for brother, or for sister
people, and they shall blood, saith the Lord they shave their heads, that hath had no
stand before them to GOD: 16They shall enter nor suffer their locks to husband, they may
minister unto them. into my sanctuary, and grow long; they shall defile themselves. 26And
12
Because they they shall come near to only poll their heads. after he is cleansed,
ministered unto them my table, to minister 21
Neither shall any priest they shall reckon unto
before their idols, and unto me, and they shall drink wine, when they him seven days. 27And
caused the house of keep my charge. enter into the inner in the day that he goeth
Israel to fall into iniquity; 17
And it shall come to court. 22
Neither shall into the sanctuary, unto
therefore have I lifted up pass, that when they they take for their wives the inner court, to
mine hand against them, enter in at the gates of a widow, nor her that is minister in the
saith the Lord GOD, and the inner court, they put away: but they shall sanctuary, he shall offer
they shall bear their shall be clothed with take maidens of the seed his sin offering, saith
iniquity. 13And they shall linen garments; and no of the house of Israel, or the Lord GOD. 28And it
not come near unto me, wool shall come upon a widow that had a priest shall be unto them for
to do the office of a them, whiles they before. 23And they shall an inheritance: I am
priest unto me, nor to minister in the gates of teach my people the their inheritance: and
come near to any of my the inner court, and difference between the ye shall give them no
holy things, in the most within. 18They shall have holy and profane, and possession in Israel: I
holy place: but they shall linen bonnets upon their cause them to discern am their possession.
bear their shame, and heads, and shall have between the unclean 29
They shall eat the
their abominations which linen breeches upon and the clean. 24And in meat offering, and the
they have committed. their loins; they shall not controversy they shall sin offering, and the
14
But I will make them gird themselves with any stand in judgment; and trespass offering; and
keepers of the charge of thing that causeth they shall judge it every dedicated thing
the house, for all the sweat. 19
And when they according to my in Israel shall be theirs.
service thereof, and for go forth into the utter judgments: and they 30
And the firstd of all the
all that shall be done court, even into the utter shall keep my laws and firstfruits of all things,
therein. 15But the priests court to the people, they my statutes in all mine and every oblation of
the Levites, the sons of shall put off their assemblies; and they all, of every sort of your
Zadok, that kept the garments wherein they shall hallow my oblations, shall be the
charge of my sanctuary ministered, and lay them sabbaths. 25
And they priest’s: ye shall also
when the children of in the holy chambers, shall come at no dead give unto the priest the
Israel went astray from and they shall put on person to defile d
me, they shall come other garments; and themselves: but for And the first: or, And the
near to me to minister chief
first of your dough, that and in it shall be the before the possession of after the homer. 12And
he may cause the sanctuary and the most the city, from the west the shekel shall be
blessing to rest in thine holy place. 4The holy side westward, and from twenty gerahs: twenty
house. 31
The priests portion of the land shall the east side eastward: shekels, five and twenty
shall not eat of any thing be for the priests the and the length shall be shekels, fifteen shekels,
that is dead of itself, or ministers of the over against one of the shall be your maneh.
torn, whether it be fowl sanctuary, which shall portions, from the west 13
This is the oblation
or beast. come near to minister border unto the east that ye shall offer; the
unto the LORD: and it border. 8In the land shall sixth part of an ephah
Chapter 45 shall be a place for their be his possession in of an homer of wheat,
houses, and an holy Israel: and my princes and ye shall give the
Moreover, when ye
1
place for the sanctuary. shall no more oppress sixth part of an ephah
shall divide by lot the 5
And the five and twenty my people; and the rest of an homer of barley:
land for inheritance, ye thousand of length, and of the land shall they 14
Concerning the
shall offer an oblation the ten thousand of give to the house of ordinance of oil, the
unto the LORD, an holy breadth, shall also the Israel according to their bath of oil, ye shall
portion of the land: the Levites, the ministers of tribes. offer the tenth part of a
length shall be the the house, have for 9
Thus saith the Lord bath out of the cor,
length of five and twenty themselves, for a GOD; Let it suffice you, O which is an homer of
thousand reeds, and the possession for twenty princes of Israel: remove ten baths; for ten baths
breadth shall be ten chambers. 6And ye shall violence and spoil, and are an homer: 15And
thousand. This shall be appoint the possession execute judgment and one lambc out of the
holy in all the borders of the city five thousand justice, take away your flock, out of two
thereof round about. broad, and five and exactionsb from my hundred, out of the fat
2
Of this there shall be for twenty thousand long, people, saith the Lord pastures of Israel; for a
the sanctuary five over against the oblation GOD. 10
Ye shall have meat offering, and for a
hundred in length, with of the holy portion: it just balances, and a just burnt offering, and for
five hundred in breadth, shall be for the whole ephah, and a just bath. peace offerings, to
square round about; and house of Israel. 7And a 11
The ephah and the make reconciliation for
fifty cubits round about portion shall be for the bath shall be of one them, saith the Lord
for the suburbsa thereof. prince on the one side measure, that the bath GOD. 16
All the people
3
And of this measure and on the other side of may contain the tenth of the land shall give
shalt thou measure the the oblation of the holy part of an homer, and this oblation for the
length of five and twenty portion, and of the the ephah the tenth part prince in Israel. 17And
thousand, and the possession of the city, of an homer: the it shall be the prince’s
breadth of ten thousand: before the oblation of measure thereof shall be part to give burnt
a
the holy portion, and b c
suburbs: or, void places exactions: Heb. expulsions lamb: or, kid
offerings, and meat seven days; unleavened toward the east shall be day of the new moon it
offerings, and drink bread shall be eaten. shut the six working shall be a young bullock
offerings, in the feasts, 22
And upon that day shall days; but on the sabbath without blemish, and
and in the new moons, the prince prepare for it shall be opened, and in six lambs, and a ram:
and in the sabbaths, in himself and for all the the day of the new moon they shall be without
all solemnities of the people of the land a it shall be opened. 2And blemish. 7And he shall
house of Israel: he shall bullock for a sin offering. the prince shall enter by prepare a meat
prepare the sin offering, 23
And seven days of the the way of the porch of offering, an ephah for a
and the meat offering, feast he shall prepare a that gate without, and bullock, and an ephah
and the burnt offering, burnt offering to the shall stand by the post of for a ram, and for the
and the peace offerings, LORD, seven bullocks the gate, and the priests lambs according as his
to make reconciliation and seven rams without shall prepare his burnt hand shall attain unto,
for the house of Israel. blemish daily the seven offering and his peace and an hin of oil to an
18
Thus saith the Lord days; and a kid of the offerings, and he shall ephah. 8And when the
GOD; In the first month, goats daily for a sin worship at the threshold prince shall enter, he
in the first day of the offering. 24And he shall of the gate: then he shall shall go in by the way
month, thou shalt take a prepare a meat offering go forth; but the gate of the porch of that
young bullock without of an ephah for a shall not be shut until gate, and he shall go
blemish, and cleanse the bullock, and an ephah the evening. 3Likewise forth by the way
sanctuary: 19
And the for a ram, and an hin of the people of the land thereof. But when the
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priest shall take of the oil for an ephah. 25In the shall worship at the door people of the land shall
blood of the sin offering, seventh month, in the of this gate before the come before the LORD
and put it upon the posts fifteenth day of the LORD in the sabbaths in the solemn feasts, he
of the house, and upon month, shall he do the and in the new moons. that entereth in by the
the four corners of the like in the feast of the 4
And the burnt offering way of the north gate to
settle of the altar, and seven days, according to that the prince shall offer worship shall go out by
upon the posts of the the sin offering, unto the LORD in the the way of the south
gate of the inner court. according to the burnt sabbath day shall be six gate; and he that
20
And so thou shalt do offering, and according lambs without blemish, entereth by the way of
the seventh day of the to the meat offering, and and a ram without the south gate shall go
month for every one that according to the oil. blemish. 5And the meat forth by the way of the
erreth, and for him that offering shall be an north gate: he shall not
is simple: so shall ye Chapter 46 ephah for a ram, and the return by the way of the
reconcile the house. 21In meat offering for the gate whereby he came
the first month, in the
1
Thus saith the Lord lambs as he shall be able in, but shall go forth
fourteenth day of the GOD; The gate of the to give, and an hin of oil over against it. 10And
month, ye shall have the inner court that looketh to an ephah. 6And in the the prince in the midst
passover, a feast of
of them, when they go to temper with the fine After he brought me
19 23
And there was a row
in, shall go in; and when flour; a meat offering through the entry, which of building round about
they go forth, shall go continually by a was at the side of the in them, round about
forth. 11And in the feasts perpetual ordinance unto gate, into the holy them four, and it was
and in the solemnities the LORD. 15Thus shall chambers of the priests, made with boiling
the meat offering shall they prepare the lamb, which looked toward the places under the rows
be an ephah to a bullock, and the meat offering, north: and, behold, there round about. 24Then
and an ephah to a ram, and the oil, every was a place on the two said he unto me, These
and to the lambs as he is morning for a continual sides westward. 20Then are the places of them
able to give, and an hin burnt offering. said he unto me, This is that boil, where the
of oil to an ephah. 12Now 16
Thus saith the Lord the place where the ministers of the house
when the prince shall GOD; If the prince give a priests shall boil the shall boil the sacrifice of
prepare a voluntary gift unto any of his sons, trespass offering and the the people.
burnt offering or peace the inheritance thereof sin offering, where they
offerings voluntarily unto shall be his sons’; it shall shall bake the meat Chapter 47
the LORD, one shall then be their possession by offering; that they bear
open him the gate that inheritance. 17But if he them not out into the Afterward
1
he
looketh toward the east, give a gift of his utter court, to sanctify brought me again unto
and he shall prepare his inheritance to one of his the people. 21Then he the door of the house;
burnt offering and his servants, then it shall be brought me forth into and, behold, waters
peace offerings, as he his to the year of liberty; the utter court, and issued out from under
did on the sabbath day: after it shall return to the caused me to pass by the threshold of the
then he shall go forth; prince: but his the four corners of the house eastward: for the
and after his going forth inheritance shall be his court; and, behold, in forefront of the house
one shall shut the gate. sons’ for them. everya corner of the stood toward the east,
13
Thou shalt daily 18
Moreover the prince court there was a court. and the waters came
prepare a burnt offering shall not take of the 22
In the four corners of down from under from
unto the LORD of a lamb people’s inheritance by the court there were the right side of the
of the first year without oppression, to thrust courts joinedb of forty house, at the south side
blemish: thou shalt them out of their cubits long and thirty of the altar. 2Then
prepare it every possession; but he shall broad: these four corners brought he me out of
morning. 14
And thou give his sons inheritance were of one measure. the way of the gate
shalt prepare a meat out of his own northward, and led me
a
offering for it every possession: that my in every...: Heb. a court in a about the way without
morning, the sixth part people be not scattered corner of a court, and a court in unto the utter gate by
of an ephah, and the every man from his a corner of a court the way that looketh
b
third part of an hin of oil, possession. joined: or, made with eastward; and, behold,
chimneys
there ran out waters on unto me, These waters the river upon the bank Berothah, Sibraim,
the right side. 3And when issue out toward the east thereof, on this side and which is between the
the man that had the country, and go down on that side, shall growd border of Damascus
line in his hand went into the desertb, and go all trees for meat, whose and the border of
forth eastward, he into the sea: which being leaf shall not fade, Hamath;
measured a thousand brought forth into the neither shall the fruit Hazarhatticone, which is
cubits, and he brought sea, the waters shall be thereof be consumed: it by the coast of Hauran.
me through the waters; healed. 9
And it shall shall bring forth new fruit 17
And the border from
the waters were to the come to pass, that every according to his months, the sea shall be
ankles. 4
Again he thing that liveth, which because their waters Hazarenan, the border
measured a thousand, moveth, whithersoever they issued out of the of Damascus, and the
and brought me through the riversc shall come, sanctuary: and the fruit north northward, and
the waters; the waters shall live: and there shall thereof shall be for the border of Hamath.
were to the knees. Again be a very great meat, and the leaf And this is the north
he measured a multitude of fish, thereof for medicine. side. 18And the east side
thousand, and brought because these waters 13
Thus saith the Lord ye shall measure from
me through; the waters shall come thither: for GOD; This shall be the Hauran, and from
were to the loins. they shall be healed; and border, whereby ye shall Damascus, and from
5
Afterward he measured every thing shall live inherit the land Gilead, and from the
a thousand; and it was a whither the river according to the twelve land of Israel by Jordan,
river that I could not cometh. 10And it shall tribes of Israel: Joseph from the border unto
pass over: for the waters come to pass, that the shall have two portions. the east sea. And this is
were risen, waters to fishers shall stand upon 14
And ye shall inherit it, the east side. 19And the
swim in, a river that it from Engedi even unto one as well as another: south side southward,
could not be passed Eneglaim; they shall be a concerning the which I from Tamar even to the
over. 6And he said unto place to spread forth lifted up mine hand to waters of strifef in
me, Son of man, hast nets; their fish shall be give it unto your fathers: Kadesh, the river to the
thou seen this? Then he according to their kinds, and this land shall fall great sea. And this is
brought me, and caused as the fish of the great unto you for inheritance. the south side
me to return to the brink sea, exceeding many. 15
And this shall be the southward. 20
The west
of the river. 7Now when I 11
But the miry places border of the land side also shall be the
had returned, behold, at thereof and the marishes toward the north side, great sea from the
the banka of the river thereof shall not be from the great sea, the border, till a man come
were very many trees on healed; they shall be way of Hethlon, as men over against Hamath.
the one side and on the given to salt. 12And by go to Zedad; 16Hamath, e
other. 8
Then said he Hazarhatticon: or, the middle
b d
desert: or, plain shall grow: Heb. shall come village
a c f
bank: Heb. lip rivers: Heb. two rivers up strife: or, Meribah
This is the west side. his sides east and west; midst of it. 9The oblation thousand in length, and
21
So shall ye divide this a portion for Dan. 2And that ye shall offer unto ten thousand in
land unto you according by the border of Dan, the LORD shall be of five breadth: all the length
to the tribes of Israel. from the east side unto and twenty thousand in shall be five and twenty
22
And it shall come to the west side, a portion length, and of ten thousand, and the
pass, that ye shall divide for Asher. 3And by the thousand in breadth. breadth ten thousand.
it by lot for an border of Asher, from the 10
And for them, even for 14
And they shall not sell
inheritance unto you, east side even unto the the priests, shall be this of it, neither exchange,
and to the strangers that west side, a portion for holy oblation; toward the nor alienate the
sojourn among you, Naphtali. 4And by the north five and twenty firstfruits of the land:
which shall beget border of Naphtali, from thousand in length, and for it is holy unto the
children among you: and the east side unto the toward the west ten LORD. 15And the five
they shall be unto you as west side, a portion for thousand in breadth, and thousand, that are left
born in the country Manasseh. 5And by the toward the east ten in the breadth over
among the children of border of Manasseh, thousand in breadth, and against the five and
Israel; they shall have from the east side unto toward the south five twenty thousand, shall
inheritance with you the west side, a portion and twenty thousand in be a profane place for
among the tribes of for Ephraim. 6And by the length: and the the city, for dwelling,
Israel. 23And it shall border of Ephraim, from sanctuary of the LORD and for suburbs: and
come to pass, that in the east side even unto shall be in the midst the city shall be in the
what tribe the stranger the west side, a portion thereof. 11It shall be for midst thereof. 16And
sojourneth, there shall for Reuben. 7And by the the priests that are these shall be the
ye give him his border of Reuben, from sanctified of the sons of measures thereof; the
inheritance, saith the the east side unto the Zadok; which have kept north side four
Lord GOD. west side, a portion for my charge, which went thousand and five
Judah. 8And by the not astray when the hundred, and the south
Chapter 48 border of Judah, from the children of Israel went side four thousand and
east side unto the west astray, as the Levites five hundred, and on
1
Now these are the side, shall be the offering went astray. 12And this the east side four
names of the tribes. which ye shall offer of oblation of the land that thousand and five
From the north end to five and twenty is offered shall be unto hundred, and the west
the coast of the way of thousand reeds in them a thing most holy side four thousand and
Hethlon, as one goeth to breadth, and in length as by the border of the five hundred. 17And the
Hamath, Hazarenan, the one of the other parts, Levites. 13
And over suburbs of the city shall
border of Damascus from the east side unto against the border of the be toward the north two
northward, to the coast the west side: and the priests the Levites shall hundred and fifty, and
of Hamath; for these are sanctuary shall be in the have five and twenty toward the south two
hundred and fifty, and twenty thousand toward west side, Gad a portion. and three gates; one
toward the east two the west border, over 28
And by the border of gate of Simeon, one
hundred and fifty, and against the portions for Gad, at the south side gate of Issachar, one
toward the west two the prince: and it shall southward, the border gate of Zebulun. 34At
hundred and fifty. 18And be the holy oblation; and shall be even from the west side four
the residue in length the sanctuary of the Tamar unto the waters of thousand and five
over against the oblation house shall be in the strifea in Kadesh, and to hundred, with their
of the holy portion shall midst thereof. the river toward the three gates; one gate of
be ten thousand 22
Moreover from the great sea. 29This is the Gad, one gate of Asher,
eastward, and ten possession of the land which ye shall one gate of Naphtali.
thousand westward: and Levites, and from the divide by lot unto the 35
It was round about
it shall be over against possession of the city, tribes of Israel for eighteen thousand
the oblation of the holy being in the midst of inheritance, and these measures: and the
portion; and the increase that which is the are their portions, saith name of the city from
thereof shall be for food prince’s, between the the Lord GOD. 30And that day shall be, The
unto them that serve the border of Judah and the these are the goings out LORD is thereb.
city. 19And they that border of Benjamin, shall of the city on the north
serve the city shall serve be for the prince. 23As for side, four thousand and Daniel
it out of all the tribes of the rest of the tribes, five hundred measures.
Israel. 20All the oblation from the east side unto 31
And the gates of the
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shall be five and twenty the west side, Benjamin
thousand by five and shall have a portion. city shall be after the In the third year of
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twenty thousand: ye 24
And by the border of names of the tribes of the reign of Jehoiakim
shall offer the holy Benjamin, from the east Israel: three gates king of Judah came
oblation foursquare, with side unto the west side, northward; one gate of Nebuchadnezzar king of
the possession of the Simeon shall have a Reuben, one gate of Babylon unto
city. 21And the residue portion. 25And by the Judah, one gate of Levi. Jerusalem, and
shall be for the prince, border of Simeon, from
32
And at the east side besieged it. And the
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on the one side and on the east side unto the four thousand and five Lord gave Jehoiakim
the other of the holy west side, Issachar a hundred: and three king of Judah into his
oblation, and of the portion. 26And by the gates; and one gate of hand, with part of the
possession of the city, border of Issachar, from Joseph, one gate of vessels of the house of
over against the five and the east side unto the Benjamin, one gate of God: which he carried
twenty thousand of the west side, Zebulun a Dan. 33And at the south into the land of Shinar
oblation toward the east portion. 27And by the side four thousand and to the house of his god;
border, and westward border of Zebulun, from five hundred measures:
b
over against the five and the east side unto the The LORD...: Heb.
a
strife...: or, Meribahkadesh Jehovahshammah
and he brought the gave names: for he gave Mishael, and Azariah, visions and dreams.
vessels into the treasure unto Daniel the name of 12
Prove thy servants, I 18
Now at the end of the
house of his god. 3And Belteshazzar; and to beseech thee, ten days; days that the king had
the king spake unto Hananiah, of Shadrach; and let them give us said he should bring
Ashpenaz the master of and to Mishael, of pulsec to eat, and water them in, then the prince
his eunuchs, that he Meshach; and to Azariah, to drink. 13Then let our of the eunuchs brought
should bring certain of of Abednego. countenances be looked them in before
the children of Israel, 8
But Daniel purposed upon before thee, and Nebuchadnezzar. 19And
and of the king’s seed, in his heart that he the countenance of the the king communed
and of the princes; would not defile himself children that eat of the with them; and among
4
Children in whom was with the portion of the portion of the king’s them all was found
no blemish, but well king’s meat, nor with the meat: and as thou seest, none like Daniel,
favoured, and skilful in wine which he drank: deal with thy servants. Hananiah, Mishael, and
all wisdom, and cunning therefore he requested 14
So he consented to Azariah: therefore stood
in knowledge, and of the prince of the them in this matter, and they before the king.
understanding science, eunuchs that he might proved them ten days. 20
And in all matters of
and such as had ability not defile himself. 9Now 15
And at the end of ten wisdome and
in them to stand in the God had brought Daniel days their countenances understanding, that the
king’s palace, and whom into favour and tender appeared fairer and king enquired of them,
they might teach the love with the prince of fatter in flesh than all he found them ten
learning and the tongue the eunuchs. 10And the the children which did times better than all the
of the Chaldeans. 5And prince of the eunuchs eat the portion of the magicians and
the king appointed them said unto Daniel, I fear king’s meat. 16
Thus astrologers that were in
a daily provision of the my lord the king, who Melzar took away the all his realm. 21
And
king’s meat, and of the hath appointed your portion of their meat, Daniel continued even
winea which he drank: so meat and your drink: for and the wine that they unto the first year of
nourishing them three why should he see your should drink; and gave king Cyrus.
years, that at the end faces worse liking than them pulse.
thereof they might stand the children which are of 17
As for these four Chapter 2
before the king. 6Now your sort? then shall ye children, God gave them
among these were of the make me endanger my knowledge and skill in all And in the second
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children of Judah, Daniel, head to the king. 11Then learning and wisdom: year of the reign of
Hananiah, Mishael, and said Daniel to Melzarb, and Danield had Nebuchadnezzar
Azariah: 7Unto whom the whom the prince of the understanding in all Nebuchadnezzar
prince of the eunuchs eunuchs had set over dreamed dreams,
c
Daniel, Hananiah, pulse: Heb. of pulse
a d e
the wine...: Heb. the wine of Daniel...: or, he made Daniel wisdom...: Heb. wisdom of
b
his drink Melzar: or, the steward understand understanding
wherewith his spirit was and great honour: Chaldean. 11And it is a Daniel went to his
troubled, and his sleep therefore shew me the rare thing that the king house, and made the
brake from him. 2Then dream, and the requireth, and there is thing known to
the king commanded to interpretation thereof. none other that can Hananiah, Mishael, and
call the magicians, and 7
They answered again shew it before the king, Azariah, his
the astrologers, and the and said, Let the king tell except the gods, whose companions: 18
That
sorcerers, and the his servants the dream, dwelling is not with flesh. they would desire
Chaldeans, for to shew and we will shew the 12
For this cause the king mercies of the Gode of
the king his dreams. So interpretation of it. 8The was angry and very heaven concerning this
they came and stood king answered and said, furious, and commanded secret; that Daniel and
before the king. 3And the I know of certainty that to destroy all the wise his fellows should not
king said unto them, I ye would gainc the time, men of Babylon. 13And perish with the rest of
have dreamed a dream, because ye see the thing the decree went forth the wise men of
and my spirit was is gone from me. 9But if that the wise men should Babylon. 19
Then was
troubled to know the ye will not make known be slain; and they sought the secret revealed
dream. 4Then spake the unto me the dream, Daniel and his fellows to unto Daniel in a night
Chaldeans to the king in there is but one decree be slain. vision. Then Daniel
Syriack, O king, live for for you: for ye have 14
Then Daniel blessed the God of
ever: tell thy servants prepared lying and answeredd with counsel heaven. 20
Daniel
the dream, and we will corrupt words to speak and wisdom to Arioch answered and said,
shew the interpretation. before me, till the time the captain of the king’s Blessed be the name of
5
The king answered and be changed: therefore guard, which was gone God for ever and ever:
said to the Chaldeans, tell me the dream, and I forth to slay the wise for wisdom and might
The thing is gone from shall know that ye can men of Babylon: 15
He are his: 21
And he
me: if ye will not make shew me the answered and said to changeth the times and
known unto me the interpretation thereof. Arioch the king’s the seasons: he
dream, with the 10
The Chaldeans captain, Why is the removeth kings, and
interpretation thereof, ye answered before the decree so hasty from the setteth up kings: he
shall be cuta in pieces, king, and said, There is king? Then Arioch made giveth wisdom unto the
and your houses shall be not a man upon the the thing known to wise, and knowledge to
made a dunghill. 6But if earth that can shew the Daniel. 16Then Daniel them that know
ye shew the dream, and king’s matter: therefore went in, and desired of understanding: 22
He
the interpretation there is no king, lord, nor the king that he would revealeth the deep and
thereof, ye shall receive ruler, that asked such give him time, and that secret things: he
of me gifts and rewardsb things at any magician, he would shew the king knoweth what is in the
a
or astrologer, or the interpretation. 17Then e
cut...: Chaldee made pieces of the God: Chaldee from
b c d
rewards: or, fee gain: Chaldee buy answered...: Chaldee returned before God
darkness, and the light which I have seen, and known the interpretation threshingfloors; and the
dwelleth with him. 23I the interpretation to the king, and that wind carried them
thank thee, and praise thereof? 27
Daniel thou mightest know the away, that no place was
thee, O thou God of my answered in the thoughts of thy heart. found for them: and the
fathers, who hast given presence of the king, 31
Thou, O king, stone that smote the
me wisdom and might, and said, The secret sawest , and behold a
h
image became a great
and hast made known which the king hath great image. This great mountain, and filled the
unto me now what we demanded cannot the image, whose brightness whole earth. 36This is
desired of thee: for thou wise men, the was excellent, stood the dream; and we will
hast now made known astrologers, the before thee; and the tell the interpretation
unto us the king’s magicians, the form thereof was thereof before the king.
matter. soothsayers, shew unto terrible. 32
This image’s 37
Thou, O king, art a
24
Therefore Daniel the king; 28But there is a head was of fine gold, king of kings: for the
went in unto Arioch, God in heaven that his breast and his arms God of heaven hath
whom the king had revealeth secrets, and of silver, his belly and his given thee a kingdom,
ordained to destroy the maketh known to the thighsi of brass, 33
His power, and strength,
wise men of Babylon: he king Nebuchadnezzar legs of iron, his feet part and glory. 38
And
went and said thus unto what shall be in the of iron and part of clay. wheresoever the
him; Destroy not the latter days. Thy dream, 34
Thou sawest till that a children of men dwell,
wise men of Babylon: and the visions of thy stone was cut out the beasts of the field
bring me in before the head upon thy bed, are withoutj hands, which and the fowls of the
king, and I will shew unto these; 29As for thee, O smote the image upon heaven hath he given
the king the king, thy thoughts camef his feet that were of iron into thine hand, and
interpretation. 25
Then into thy mind upon thy and clay, and brake hath made thee ruler
Arioch brought in Daniel bed, what should come them to pieces. 35Then over them all. Thou art
before the king in haste, to pass hereafter: and he was the iron, the clay, this head of gold. 39And
and said thus unto him, I that revealeth secrets the brass, the silver, and after thee shall arise
have found a man of the maketh known to thee the gold, broken to another kingdom
captives of Judah, that what shall come to pass. pieces together, and inferior to thee, and
will make known unto 30
But as for me, this became like the chaff of another third kingdom
the king the secret is not revealed to the summer of brass, which shall
interpretation. 26
The me for any wisdom that I bear rule over all the
king answered and said have more than any that the interpretation may be earth. 40And the fourth
to Daniel, whose name living, but for their made known to the king kingdom shall be strong
h
was Belteshazzar, Art sakesg that shall make sawest: Chaldee wast seeing as iron: forasmuch as
i
thou able to make known thighs: or, sides iron breaketh in pieces
f j
unto me the dream came: Chaldee came up without...: or, which was not and subdueth all things:
g
but for...: or, but for the intent in hands
and as iron that breaketh and consume all these many great gifts, and the princes, the
all these, shall it break in kingdoms, and it shall made him ruler over the governors, and
pieces and bruise. 41And stand for ever. whole province of captains, the judges,
whereas thou sawest the 45
Forasmuch as thou Babylon, and chief of the the treasurers, the
feet and toes, part of sawest that the stone governors over all the counsellors, the
potters’ clay, and part of was cut out of the wise men of Babylon. sheriffs, and all the
iron, the kingdom shall mountain withoutn 49
Then Daniel requested rulers of the provinces,
be divided; but there hands, and that it brake of the king, and he set were gathered together
shall be in it of the in pieces the iron, the Shadrach, Meshach, and unto the dedication of
strength of the iron, brass, the clay, the Abednego, over the the image that
forasmuch as thou silver, and the gold; the affairs of the province of Nebuchadnezzar the
sawest the iron mixed great God hath made Babylon: but Daniel sat king had set up; and
with miry clay. 42And as known to the king what in the gate of the king. they stood before the
the toes of the feet were shall come to pass image that
part of iron, and part of hereafter: and the dream Chapter 3 Nebuchadnezzar had
clay, so the kingdom is certain, and the set up. Then an herald
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shall be partly strong, interpretation thereof


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Nebuchadnezzar the cried alouda, To you it is
and partly brokenk. sure. king made an image of commanded, O people,
43
And whereas thou 46
Then the king gold, whose height was nations, and languages,
sawest iron mixed with Nebuchadnezzar fell threescore cubits, and 5
That at what time ye
miry clay, they shall upon his face, and the breadth thereof six hear the sound of the
mingle themselves with worshipped Daniel, and cubits: he set it up in the cornet, flute, harp,
the seed of men: but commanded that they plain of Dura, in the sackbut, psaltery,
they shall not cleave should offer an oblation province of Babylon. dulcimerb, and all kinds
onel to another, even as and sweet odours unto
2
Then Nebuchadnezzar of musick, ye fall down
iron is not mixed with him. 47The king answered the king sent to gather and worship the golden
clay. 44And in the daysm unto Daniel, and said, Of together the princes, the image that
of these kings shall the a truth it is, that your governors, and the Nebuchadnezzar the
God of heaven set up a God is a God of gods, captains, the judges, the king hath set up: 6And
kingdom, which shall and a Lord of kings, and treasurers, the whoso falleth not down
never be destroyed: and a revealer of secrets, counsellors, the sheriffs, and worshippeth shall
the kingdom shall not be seeing thou couldest and all the rulers of the the same hour be cast
left to other people, but reveal this secret. 48Then provinces, to come to into the midst of a
it shall break in pieces the king made Daniel a the dedication of the burning fiery furnace.
great man, and gave him image which
k a
broken: or, brittle Nebuchadnezzar the aloud: Chaldee with might
l n b
one...: Chaldee this with this without...: or, which was not king had set up. 3Then dulcimer: or, singing:
m
the days: Chaldee their days in hands Chaldee symphony
7
Therefore at that time, Meshach, and Abednego; and who is that God that mighty men that were
when all the people these men, O king, havec shall deliver you out of in his army to bind
heard the sound of the not regarded thee: they my hands? 16Shadrach, Shadrach, Meshach,
cornet, flute, harp, serve not thy gods, nor Meshach, and Abednego, and Abednego, and to
sackbut, psaltery, and all worship the golden answered and said to the cast them into the
kinds of musick, all the image which thou hast king, O Nebuchadnezzar, burning fiery furnace.
people, the nations, and set up. 13
Then we are not careful to 21
Then these men were
the languages, fell down Nebuchadnezzar in his answer thee in this bound in their coatsg,
and worshipped the rage and fury matter. 17If it be so, our their hosen, and their
golden image that commanded to bring God whom we serve is hats, and their other
Nebuchadnezzar the Shadrach, Meshach, and able to deliver us from garments, and were
king had set up. Abednego. Then they the burning fiery cast into the midst of
8
Wherefore at that brought these men furnace, and he will the burning fiery
time certain Chaldeans before the king. deliver us out of thine furnace. 22
Therefore
came near, and accused 14
Nebuchadnezzar spake hand, O king. 18But if not, because the king’s
the Jews. 9They spake and said unto them, Is it be it known unto thee, O commandment h
was
and said to the king trued, O Shadrach, king, that we will not urgent, and the furnace
Nebuchadnezzar, O king, Meshach, and Abednego, serve thy gods, nor exceeding hot, the
live for ever. 10Thou, O do not ye serve my gods, worship the golden flame of the fire slew
king, hast made a nor worship the golden image which thou hast those men that took up
decree, that every man image which I have set set up. Shadrach, Meshach,
that shall hear the sound up? 15Now if ye be ready 19
Then was and Abednego. 23
And
of the cornet, flute, harp, that at what time ye Nebuchadnezzar fulle of these three men,
sackbut, psaltery, and hear the sound of the fury, and the form of his Shadrach, Meshach,
dulcimer, and all kinds of cornet, flute, harp, visage was changed and Abednego, fell
musick, shall fall down sackbut, psaltery, and against Shadrach, down bound into the
and worship the golden dulcimer, and all kinds of Meshach, and Abednego: midst of the burning
image: 11
And whoso musick, ye fall down and therefore he spake, and fiery furnace. 24Then
falleth not down and worship the image which commanded that they Nebuchadnezzar the
worshippeth, that he I have made; well: but if should heat the furnace king was astonied, and
should be cast into the ye worship not, ye shall one seven times more rose up in haste, and
midst of a burning fiery be cast the same hour than it was wont to be spake, and said unto his
furnace. 12
There are into the midst of a heated. 20
And he counsellorsi, Did not we
certain Jews whom thou burning fiery furnace; commanded the mostf g
hast set over the affairs coats: or, mantles
c e h
of the province of have...: Chaldee have set no full: Chaldee filled commandment: Chaldee
f
Babylon, Shadrach, regard upon thee most...: Chaldee mighty of word
d i
true: or, of purpose strength counsellors: or, governors
cast three men bound Then Chapter 4 the magicians, the
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into the midst of the fire? Nebuchadnezzar spake, astrologers, the


They answered and said and said, Blessed be the 1
Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldeans, and the
unto the king, True, O God of Shadrach, king, unto all people, soothsayers: and I told
king. 25He answered and Meshach, and Abednego, nations, and languages, the dream before them;
said, Lo, I see four men who hath sent his angel, that dwell in all the but they did not make
loose, walking in the and delivered his earth; Peace be known unto me the
midst of the fire, and servants that trusted in multiplied unto you. 2I interpretation thereof.
they have no hurt; and him, and have changed thoughta it good to shew 8
But at the last Daniel
the form of the fourth is the king’s word, and the signs and wonders came in before me,
like the Son of God. yielded their bodies, that that the high God hath whose name was
26
Then Nebuchadnezzar they might not serve nor wrought toward me. Belteshazzar, according
came near to the mouthj worship any god, except 3
How great are his signs! to the name of my god,
of the burning fiery their own God. and how mighty are his and in whom is the
furnace, and spake, and 29
Therefore I makek a wonders! his kingdom is spirit of the holy gods:
said, Shadrach, decree, That every an everlasting kingdom, and before him I told
Meshach, and Abednego, people, nation, and and his dominion is from the dream, saying, 9O
ye servants of the most language, which speak generation to Belteshazzar, master of
high God, come forth, any thing amiss against generation. the magicians, because
and come hither. Then the God of Shadrach, 4
I Nebuchadnezzar I know that the spirit of
Shadrach, Meshach, and Meshach, and Abednego, was at rest in mine the holy gods is in thee,
Abednego, came forth of shall be cut in pieces, house, and flourishing in and no secret troubleth
the midst of the fire. and their houses shall be my palace: 5I saw a thee, tell me the visions
27
And the princes, made a dunghill: dream which made me of my dream that I have
governors, and captains, because there is no afraid, and the thoughts seen, and the
and the king’s other God that can upon my bed and the interpretation thereof.
counsellors, being deliver after this sort. visions of my head 10
Thus were the visions
gathered together, saw 30
Then the king troubled me. 6Therefore of mine head in my
these men, upon whose promotedl Shadrach, made I a decree to bring bed; I sawb, and behold
bodies the fire had no Meshach, and Abednego, in all the wise men of a tree in the midst of
power, nor was an hair in the province of Babylon before me, that the earth, and the
of their head singed, Babylon. they might make known height thereof was
neither were their coats unto me the great. 11The tree grew,
changed, nor the smell k
interpretation of the and was strong, and the
of fire had passed on I make...: Chaldee a decree is dream. 7Then came in height thereof reached
them. made by me unto heaven, and the
l a
promoted: Chaldee made to I thought...: Chaldee It was
j b
mouth: Chaldee door prosper seemly before me I saw: Chaldee I was seeing
sight thereof to the end be given unto him; and and said, My lord, the dew of heaven, and let
of all the earth: 12The let seven times pass dream be to them that his portion be with the
leaves thereof were fair, over him. 17This matter hate thee, and the beasts of the field, till
and the fruit thereof is by the decree of the interpretation thereof to seven times pass over
much, and in it was meat watchers, and the thine enemies. 20The tree him; 24
This is the
for all: the beasts of the demand by the word of that thou sawest, which interpretation, O king,
field had shadow under the holy ones: to the grew, and was strong, and this is the decree of
it, and the fowls of the intent that the living whose height reached the most High, which is
heaven dwelt in the may know that the most unto the heaven, and the come upon my lord the
boughs thereof, and all High ruleth in the sight thereof to all the king: 25That they shall
flesh was fed of it. 13I kingdom of men, and earth; 21Whose leaves drive thee from men,
saw in the visions of my giveth it to whomsoever were fair, and the fruit and thy dwelling shall
head upon my bed, and, he will, and setteth up thereof much, and in it be with the beasts of
behold, a watcher and over it the basest of was meat for all; under the field, and they shall
an holy one came down men. 18This dream I king which the beasts of the make thee to eat grass
from heaven; 14He cried Nebuchadnezzar have field dwelt, and upon as oxen, and they shall
aloudc, and said thus, seen. Now thou, O whose branches the wet thee with the dew
Hew down the tree, and Belteshazzar, declare the fowls of the heaven had of heaven, and seven
cut off his branches, interpretation thereof, their habitation: 22It is times shall pass over
shake off his leaves, and forasmuch as all the wise thou, O king, that art thee, till thou know that
scatter his fruit: let the men of my kingdom are grown and become the most High ruleth in
beasts get away from not able to make known strong: for thy greatness the kingdom of men,
under it, and the fowls unto me the is grown, and reacheth and giveth it to
from his branches: interpretation: but thou unto heaven, and thy whomsoever he will.
15
Nevertheless leave the art able; for the spirit of dominion to the end of 26
And whereas they
stump of his roots in the the holy gods is in thee. the earth. 23And whereas commanded to leave
earth, even with a band 19
Then Daniel, whose the king saw a watcher the stump of the tree
of iron and brass, in the name was Belteshazzar, and an holy one coming roots; thy kingdom shall
tender grass of the field; was astonied for one down from heaven, and be sure unto thee, after
and let it be wet with the hour, and his thoughts saying, Hew the tree that thou shalt have
dew of heaven, and let troubled him. The king down, and destroy it; yet known that the heavens
his portion be with the spake, and said, leave the stump of the do rule. 27Wherefore, O
beasts in the grass of the Belteshazzar, let not the roots thereof in the king, let my counsel be
earth: 16Let his heart be dream, or the earth, even with a band acceptable unto thee,
changed from man’s, interpretation thereof, of iron and brass, in the and break off thy sins
and let a beast’s heart trouble thee. tender grass of the field; by righteousness, and
c
Belteshazzar answered and let it be wet with the thine iniquities by
aloud: Chaldee with might
shewing mercy to the in the kingdom of men, What doest thou? 36At that the king, and his
poor; if it may be a and giveth it to the same time my princes, his wives, and
lengtheningd of thy whomsoever he will. reason returned unto his concubines, might
tranquillity. 33
The same hour was the me; and for the glory of drink therein. 3
Then
28
All this came upon thing fulfilled upon my kingdom, mine they brought the golden
the king Nebuchadnezzar: and he honour and brightness vessels that were taken
Nebuchadnezzar. 29
At was driven from men, returned unto me; and out of the temple of the
the end of twelve and did eat grass as my counsellors and my house of God which
months he walked ine the oxen, and his body was lords sought unto me; was at Jerusalem; and
palace of the kingdom of wet with the dew of and I was established in the king, and his
Babylon. 30
The king heaven, till his hairs my kingdom, and princes, his wives, and
spake, and said, Is not were grown like eagles’ excellent majesty was his concubines, drank in
this great Babylon, that I feathers, and his nails added unto me. 37Now I them. 4
They drank
have built for the house like birds’ claws. Nebuchadnezzar praise wine, and praised the
of the kingdom by the 34
And at the end of and extol and honour the gods of gold, and of
might of my power, and the days I King of heaven, all silver, of brass, of iron,
for the honour of my Nebuchadnezzar lifted whose works are truth, of wood, and of stone.
majesty? 31
While the up mine eyes unto and his ways judgment: 5
In the same hour came
word was in the king’s heaven, and mine and those that walk in forth fingers of a man’s
mouth, there fell a voice understanding returned pride he is able to abase. hand, and wrote over
from heaven, saying, O unto me, and I blessed against the candlestick
king Nebuchadnezzar, to the most High, and I Chapter 5 upon the plaister of the
thee it is spoken; The praised and honoured wall of the king’s
kingdom is departed him that liveth for ever, Belshazzar the king
1
palace: and the king
from thee. 32And they whose dominion is an made a great feast to a saw the part of the
shall drive thee from everlasting dominion, thousand of his lords, hand that wrote. 6Then
men, and thy dwelling and his kingdom is from and drank wine before the king’s countenanceb
shall be with the beasts generation to the thousand. was changed, and his
of the field: they shall generation: 35And all the
2
Belshazzar, whiles he thoughts troubled him,
make thee to eat grass inhabitants of the earth tasted the wine, so that the joints of his
as oxen, and seven are reputed as nothing: commanded to bring the loins were loosed, and
times shall pass over and he doeth according golden and silver vessels his knees smote one
thee, until thou know to his will in the army of which his fathera against another. 7
The
that the most High ruleth heaven, and among the Nebuchadnezzar had king cried aloud to c

inhabitants of the earth: taken out of the temple


d b
a lengthening...: or, an healing and none can stay his which was in Jerusalem; countenance: Chaldee
of thine error hand, or say unto him, brightnesses
e a c
in: or, upon father: or, grandfather aloud: Chaldee with might
bring in the astrologers, man in thy kingdom, in of Judah, whom the king and give thy rewardsi to
the Chaldeans, and the whom is the spirit of the my fatherg brought out another; yet I will read
soothsayers. And the holy gods; and in the of Jewry? 14I have even the writing unto the
king spake, and said to days of thy fathere light heard of thee, that the king, and make known
the wise men of Babylon, and understanding and spirit of the gods is in to him the
Whosoever shall read wisdom, like the wisdom thee, and that light and interpretation. 18
O thou
this writing, and shew of the gods, was found in understanding and king, the most high God
me the interpretation him; whom the king excellent wisdom is gave Nebuchadnezzar
thereof, shall be clothed Nebuchadnezzar thy found in thee. 15And now thy father a kingdom,
with scarlet, and have a father, the king, I say, the wise men, the and majesty, and glory,
chain of gold about his thy father, made master astrologers, have been and honour: 19And for
neck, and shall be the of the magicians, brought in before me, the majesty that he
third ruler in the astrologers, Chaldeans, that they should read gave him, all people,
kingdom. 8
Then came and soothsayers; this writing, and make nations, and languages,
in all the king’s wise 12
Forasmuch as an known unto me the trembled and feared
men: but they could not excellent spirit, and interpretation thereof: before him: whom he
read the writing, nor knowledge, and but they could not shew would he slew; and
make known to the king understanding, the interpretation of the whom he would he kept
the interpretation interpretingf of dreams, thing: 16And I have heard alive; and whom he
thereof. Then was king
9
and shewing of hard of thee, that thou canst would he set up; and
Belshazzar greatly sentences, and make interpretationsh, whom he would he put
troubled, and his dissolving of doubts, and dissolve doubts: now down. 20But when his
countenanced was were found in the same if thou canst read the heart was lifted up, and
changed in him, and his Daniel, whom the king writing, and make known his mind hardened in
lords were astonied. named Belteshazzar: to me the interpretation pridej, he was deposed
10
Now the queen, by now let Daniel be called, thereof, thou shalt be from his kingly throne,
reason of the words of and he will shew the clothed with scarlet, and and they took his glory
the king and his lords, interpretation. 13
Then have a chain of gold from him: 21
And he
came into the banquet was Daniel brought in about thy neck, and was driven from the
house: and the queen before the king. And the shalt be the third ruler in sons of men; and his
spake and said, O king, king spake and said unto the kingdom. 17
Then heartk was made like
live for ever: let not thy Daniel, Art thou that Daniel answered and the beasts, and his
thoughts trouble thee, Daniel, which art of the said before the king, Let dwelling was with the
nor let thy countenance children of the captivity thy gifts be to thyself, i
be changed: 11There is a rewards: or, fee
e g j
father: or, grandfather father: or, grandfather in pride: or, to deal proudly
d f h k
countenance: Chaldee interpreting: or, of an make interpretations: Chaldee his heart...: or, he made his
brightnesses interpreter interpret, etc heart equal, etc
wild asses: they fed him 26
This is the Daniel was first: that the counsellors, and the
with grass like oxen, and interpretation of the princes might give captains, have
his body was wet with thing: MENE; God hath accounts unto them, and consulted together to
the dew of heaven; till numbered thy kingdom, the king should have no establish a royal
he knew that the most and finished it. 27TEKEL; damage. 3
Then this statute, and to make a
high God ruled in the Thou art weighed in the Daniel was preferred firm decreea, that
kingdom of men, and balances, and art found above the presidents whosoever shall ask a
that he appointeth over wanting. 28PERES; Thy and princes, because an petition of any God or
it whomsoever he will. kingdom is divided, and excellent spirit was in man for thirty days,
22
And thou his son, O given to the Medes and him; and the king save of thee, O king, he
Belshazzar, hast not Persians. 29
Then thought to set him over shall be cast into the
humbled thine heart, commanded Belshazzar, the whole realm. 4Then den of lions. 8Now, O
though thou knewest all and they clothed Daniel the presidents and king, establish the
this; 23But hast lifted up with scarlet, and put a princes sought to find decree, and sign the
thyself against the Lord chain of gold about his occasion against Daniel writing, that it be not
of heaven; and they neck, and made a concerning the kingdom; changed, according to
have brought the vessels proclamation concerning but they could find none the law of the Medes
of his house before thee, him, that he should be occasion nor fault; and Persians, which
and thou, and thy lords, the third ruler in the forasmuch as he was altereth notb.
thy wives, and thy kingdom. faithful, neither was 9
Wherefore king Darius
concubines, have drunk 30
In that night was there any error or fault signed the writing and
wine in them; and thou Belshazzar the king of found in him. 5Then said the decree. 10Now when
hast praised the gods of the Chaldeans slain. these men, We shall not Daniel knew that the
silver, and gold, of brass, 31
And Darius the Median find any occasion against writing was signed, he
iron, wood, and stone, took the kingdom, being this Daniel, except we went into his house;
which see not, nor hear, about threescore and find it against him and his windows being
nor know: and the God in two years old. concerning the law of his open in his chamber
whose hand thy breath God. toward Jerusalem, he
is, and whose are all thy Chapter 6 6
Then these kneeled upon his knees
ways, hast thou not presidents and princes three times a day, and
glorified: 24Then was the It pleased Darius to
1
assembled together to prayed, and gave
part of the hand sent set over the kingdom an the king, and said thus thanks before his God,
from him; and this hundred and twenty unto him, King Darius, as he did aforetime.
writing was written. princes, which should be live for ever. 7
All the 11
Then these men
25
And this is the writing over the whole kingdom; presidents of the a
that was written, MENE,
2
And over these three kingdom, the governors, decree: or, interdict
b
MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN. presidents; of whom and the princes, the altereth not: Chaldee passeth
not
assembled, and found men assembled unto the lions. 20And when he lions, them, their
Daniel praying and king, and said unto the came to the den, he children, and their
making supplication king, Know, O king, that cried with a lamentable wives; and the lions had
before his God. 12Then the law of the Medes and voice unto Daniel: and the mastery of them,
they came near, and Persians is, That no the king spake and said and brake all their
spake before the king decree nor statute which to Daniel, O Daniel, bones in pieces or ever
concerning the king’s the king establisheth servant of the living God, they came at the
decree; Hast thou not may be changed. 16Then is thy God, whom thou bottom of the den.
signed a decree, that the king commanded, servest continually, able 25
Then king Darius
every man that shall ask and they brought Daniel, to deliver thee from the wrote unto all people,
a petition of any God or and cast him into the lions? 21Then said Daniel nations, and languages,
man within thirty days, den of lions. Now the unto the king, O king, that dwell in all the
save of thee, O king, king spake and said unto live for ever. 22My God earth; Peace be
shall be cast into the den Daniel, Thy God whom hath sent his angel, and multiplied unto you. 26I
of lions? The king thou servest continually, hath shut the lions’ make a decree, That in
answered and said, The he will deliver thee. mouths, that they have every dominion of my
thing is true, according 17
And a stone was not hurt me: forasmuch kingdom men tremble
to the law of the Medes brought, and laid upon as before him innocency and fear before the God
and Persians, which the mouth of the den; was found in me; and of Daniel: for he is the
altereth not. 13
Then and the king sealed it also before thee, O king, living God, and stedfast
answered they and said with his own signet, and have I done no hurt. for ever, and his
before the king, That with the signet of his 23
Then was the king kingdom that which
Daniel, which is of the lords; that the purpose exceeding glad for him, shall not be destroyed,
children of the captivity might not be changed and commanded that and his dominion shall
of Judah, regardeth not concerning Daniel. they should take Daniel be even unto the end.
thee, O king, nor the 18
Then the king went up out of the den. So 27
He delivereth and
decree that thou hast to his palace, and Daniel was taken up out rescueth, and he
signed, but maketh his passed the night fasting: of the den, and no worketh signs and
petition three times a neither were manner of hurt was wonders in heaven and
day. 14Then the king, instruments of musick
c
found upon him, because in earth, who hath
when he heard these brought before him: and he believed in his God. delivered Daniel from
words, was sore his sleep went from him. 24
And the king the powerd of the lions.
displeased with himself, 19
Then the king arose commanded, and they 28
So this Daniel
and set his heart on very early in the brought those men prospered in the reign
Daniel to deliver him: morning, and went in which had accused of Darius, and in the
and he laboured till the haste unto the den of Daniel, and they cast reign of Cyrus the
going down of the sun to c
them into the den of d
deliver him. 15Then these instruments...: or, table power: Chaldee hand
Persian. unto it, Arise, devour the hair of his head like 14
And there was given
much flesh. 6After this I the pure wool: his throne him dominion, and
Chapter 7 beheld, and lo another, was like the fiery flame, glory, and a kingdom,
like a leopard, which had and his wheels as that all people, nations,
In the first year of
1
upon the back of it four burning fire. 10A fiery and languages, should
Belshazzar king of wings of a fowl; the stream issued and came serve him: his dominion
Babylon Daniel hada a beast had also four forth from before him: is an everlasting
dream and visions of his heads; and dominion thousand thousands dominion, which shall
head upon his bed: then was given to it. 7After ministered unto him, and not pass away, and his
he wrote the dream, and this I saw in the night ten thousand times ten kingdom that which
told the sum of the visions, and behold a thousand stood before shall not be destroyed.
matters. 2Daniel spake fourth beast, dreadful him: the judgment was 15
I Daniel was
and said, I saw in my and terrible, and strong set, and the books were grieved in my spirit in
vision by night, and, exceedingly; and it had opened. 11I beheld then the midst of my bodyc,
behold, the four winds of great iron teeth: it because of the voice of and the visions of my
the heaven strove upon devoured and brake in the great words which head troubled me. 16I
the great sea. 3And four pieces, and stamped the the horn spake: I beheld came near unto one of
great beasts came up residue with the feet of even till the beast was them that stood by, and
from the sea, diverse it: and it was diverse slain, and his body asked him the truth of
one from another. 4The from all the beasts that destroyed, and given to all this. So he told me,
first was like a lion, and were before it; and it had the burning flame. 12As and made me know the
had eagle’s wings: I ten horns. 8I considered concerning the rest of interpretation of the
beheld till the wings the horns, and, behold, the beasts, they had things. 17These great
thereof were plucked, there came up among their dominion taken beasts, which are four,
and it was lifted up from them another little horn, away: yet their livesb are four kings, which
the earth, and made before whom there were were prolonged for a shall arise out of the
stand upon the feet as a three of the first horns season and time. 13I saw earth. 18But the saints
man, and a man’s heart plucked up by the roots: in the night visions, and, of the most High shall
was given to it. 5
And and, behold, in this horn behold, one like the Son take the kingdom, and
behold another beast, a were eyes like the eyes of man came with the possess the kingdom
second, like to a bear, of man, and a mouth clouds of heaven, and for ever, even for ever
and it raised up itself on speaking great things. came to the Ancient of and ever. 19
Then I
one side, and it had 9
I beheld till the days, and they brought would know the truth of
three ribs in the mouth thrones were cast down, him near before him. the fourth beast, which
of it between the teeth and the Ancient of days was diverse fromd all
b
of it: and they said thus did sit, whose garment their lives...: Chaldee a
c
was white as snow, and prolonging in life was given body: Chaldee sheath
a d
had: Chaldee saw them from...: Chaldee from all
the others, exceeding 24
And the ten horns out much troubled me, and before him, neither was
dreadful, whose teeth of this kingdom are ten my countenance there any that could
were of iron, and his kings that shall arise: changed in me: but I deliver out of his hand;
nails of brass; which and another shall rise kept the matter in my but he did according to
devoured, brake in after them; and he shall heart. his will, and became
pieces, and stamped the be diverse from the first, great. 5And as I was
residue with his feet; and he shall subdue Chapter 8 considering, behold, an
20
And of the ten horns three kings. 25And he he goat came from the
that were in his head, shall speak great words In the third year of
1
west on the face of the
and of the other which against the most High, the reign of king whole earth, and
came up, and before and shall wear out the Belshazzar a vision touchedb not the
whom three fell; even of saints of the most High, appeared unto me, even ground: and the goat
that horn that

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