unto thee 28 And * Jos 24.12 I will send hornets before thee which shall drive out the Hivite the Canaanite and the Hittite from before thee 29 I will not drive them out from before thee in one year lest the land become desolate and the beast of the field multiply against thee 30 By little and little I will drive them out from before thee until thou be increased and inherit the land 31 And I will set thy bounds from the Red sea even unto the sea of the Philistines and from the desert unto the river for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand and thou shalt drive them out before thee 32 * Ch. 34.15 Deut. 7.2 Thou shalt make no covenant with them nor with their gods 33 They shall not dwell in thy land lest they make thee sin against me for if thou serve their gods * Deut. 7.16 Jos 23.13 Judg. 2.3 it will surely be a mare unto thee CHAP. XXIV 1 Moses is called up into the mountain 3 The people promise obedience 4 Moses buildeth an altar and twelve pillars 6 He sprinkleth the bloud of the Covenant 9 The glory of God appeareth 14 Aaron and Hur have the charge of the people 15 Moses goeth into the mountain where he continueth fourty days and fourty nights ANd he said unto Moses Come up unto the LORD thou and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel and worship ye afar off 2 And Moses alone shall come near the LORD but they shall not come nigh neither shall the people go up with him 3 ¶ And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgements and all the people answered with one voice and said * Ch. 19.8 Vers 7. Deu. 5.27 All the words which the LORD hath said will we do 4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD and rose up early in the morning and builded an altar under the hill and twelve pillars according to the twelve tribes of Israel 5 And he sent young men of the children of Israel it offered burnt-offerings and sacrificed peace-offerings of oxen unto the LORD 6 And Moses took half of the bloud and put it in basons and half of the bloud he sprinkled on the altar 7 And he took the book of the covenant and read in the audience of the people and they said * Vers 3. All that the LORD hath said will we do and be obedient 8 And Moses took the bloud and sprinkled it on the people and said Behold * 1 Pet. 1.2 Hebr. 9.20 the bloud of the covenant which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words 9 ¶ Then went up Moses and Aaron Nadab and Abihu and seventy of the elders of Israel 10 And they saw the God of Israel and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness 11 And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand also they saw God and did eat and drink 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Come up to me into the mount and be there and I will give thee tables of stone and a law commandments which I have written that thou mayest teach them 13 And Moses rose up and his minister Joshua and Moses went up into the mount of God 14 And he said unto the elders Tarry ye here for us until we come again unto you and behold Aaron and Hur are with you if any man have any matters to do let him come unto them 15 And Moses went up into the mount a cloud covered the mount 16 And the glory of the LORD abode upon mount Sinai and the cloud covered it six days and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud 17 And the sight of the glory of the LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel 18 And Moses went into the midst of the cloud and gat him up into the mount and * Ch. 34 2â— Deut. 9.9 Moses was in the mount fourty days and fourty nights CHAP. XXV 1 What the Israelites must offer for the making of the tabernacle 10 The form of the ark 17 The mercy-seat with the cherubims 23 The table with the furniture thereof 31 The candlestick with the instruments thereof ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel that they †Heb. take for ox bring me an ‖ Or heave-offering offering * Ch. 35. â— of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering 3 And this is the offering which ye shall take of them gold and silver and brass 4 And blue and purple and scarlet and ‖ Or silk fine linen goats hair 5 And rams skins died red and badgers skins and shittim-wood 6 Oyl for the light spices for anointing oyl and for sweet incense 7 Onyx-stones and stones to be set in the * Ch. 28.4 ephod and in the * Ch. 28.15 breast-plate 8 And let them make me a sanctuary that I may dwell amongst them 9 According to all that I shew thee after the pattern of the tabernacle the pattern of all the instrument thereof even so shall ye make it 10 ¶ * Ch. 37.1 And they shall make an ark of shittim-wood two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof and a cubit and a half the breadth thereof and a cubit and a half the height thereof 11 And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold within and without shalt thou overlay it shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about 12 And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it and put them in the four corners thereof and two rings shall be in the one side of it and two rings in the other side of it 13 And thou shalt make staves of shittim-wood and overlay them with gold 14 And thou shalt put the staâ—es into the rings by the sides of the ark that the ark may be born with them 15 The staves shall be in the rings of the ark they shall not be taken from it 16 And thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee 17 And thou shalt make a mercy-seat of pure gold two cubits and a half shall be the length thereof a cubit and a half the breadth thereof 18 And thou shalt make two cherubims of gold of beaten work shalt thou make them in the two ends of the mercy seat 19 And make one cherub on the one end and the other cherub on the other end even ‖ Or of the matter of the mercy-seat of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof 20 And the cherubims shall stretch forth their wings on high covering the mercy-seat
thou goest in to possess it is not as the land of Egypt from whence ye came out where thou sowedst thy seed and wateredst it with thy foot as a garden of herbs 11 But the land whither ye go to possess it is a land of hills and valleys and drinketh water of the rain of heaven 12 A land which the LORD thy God †Heb. â—â—â—â—eth careth for the eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year 13 ¶ And it shall come to pass if you shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day to love the LORD your God and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul 14 That I will give you the rain of your land in his due season the first rain and the latter rain that thou mayest gather in thy corn and thy wine and thine oyl 15 And I will †Heb. give send grass in thy fields for thy cattel that thou mayest eat and be full 16 Take heed to your selves that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods and worship them 17 And then the LORDS wrath be kindled against you and he shut up the heaven that there be no rain and that the land yeeld not her fruit and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you 18 ¶ Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul and * Chap. 6.8 hinde them for a signe upon your hand that they may be as frontlets between your eyes 19 * Ch. 4.10 6.7 And ye shall teach them your children speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way when thou liest down and when thou risest up 20 And thou shalt write them upon the door-posts of thine house and upon thy gates 21 That your days may be multiplyed and the days of your children in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give them as the days of heaven upon the earth 22 ¶ For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you to do them to love the LORD your God to walk in all his ways and to cleave unto him 23 Then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you and ye shall possess greater nations and mightier then your selves 24 * Josh 1.3 Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread shall be yours from the wilderness and Lebanon from the river the river Euphrates even unto the uttermost sea shall your coast be 25 There shall no man be able to stand before you for the LORD your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon as he hath said unto you 26 ¶ Behold I set before you this day a blessing and a curse 27 †Chap. 28. â— A blessing if ye obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day 28 And a * Chap. 28.15 curse if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day to go after other gods which ye have not known 29 And it shall come to pass when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it that thou shalt put * Chap. 27.12 13 Josh 8.33 the blessing upon mount Gerizim and the curse upon mount Ebal 30 Are they not on the other side Jordan by the way where the sun goeth down in the land of the Canaanites which dwell in the champian over against Gilgâ—l beside the plains of Moreh 31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you and ye shall possess it and dwell therein 32 And ye shall observe * Chap. â— 32 to do all the statutes and judgements which I set before you this day CHAP. XII 1 Monuments of idolatry are to be destroyed 5 The place of Gods service is to be kept 16 23 Bloud is forbidden 17 2â— 26 Holy things must be eaten in the holy place 19 The Levite is not to be forsaken 29 Idolatry is not to be enquired after THese are the statutes and judgements which ye shall observe to do in the land which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it all the days that ye live upon the earth 2 * Ch. 7.5 Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall ‖ Or inherit possess served their gods upon the high mountains and upon the hills and under every green tree 3 And * Judg. 2.2 you shall †Heb. break down overthrow their altars and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire and you shall hew down the graven images of their gods and destroy the names of them out of that place 4 Ye shall not do so unto the LORD your God 5 But unto the place which the LORD your God shall * 1 Kin. 8 2â— 2 Chr. 7.12 choose out of all your tribes to put his name there even unto his habitation shall ye seek and thither thou shalt come 6 And thither ye shall bring your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices and your tithes and heave-offerings of your hand and your vows and your free-will-offerings and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks 7 And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God and ye shall rejoyce in all that you put your hand unto ye and your housholds wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee 8 Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes 9 For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance which the LORD your God giveth you 10 But when ye go over Jordan and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about so that ye dwell in safety 11 Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there thither shall ye bring all that I command you your burnt-offerings and your sacrifices your tithes and the heave-offering of your hand and all †Heb. the choice of your vows your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD 12 And ye shall rejoyce before the LORD your God ye and your sons and your daughters and your men-servants and your maid-servants and the Levite that is within your gates sorasmuch as * Ch. 10.9 he hath no part nor inheritance with you 13 Take heed to thy self that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest 14 But in the place which the LORD shall choose in one of thy
bring thee and thy king which thou shalt set over thee unto a nation which neither thou nor thy fathers have known and there shalt thou serve other gods word and stone 37 And thou shalt become * 1 Kin. 9.7 Jer. 24.9 and 25.9 an astonishment a proverb and a by-word among all nations whither the LORD shall lead thee 38 * Mic. 6.15 Hag. 1.6 Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field and shalt gather but little in for the locust shall consume it 39 Thou shalt plant vineyards and dress them but shalt neither drink of the wine nor gather the â—rapes for the worms shall eat them 40 Thou shalt have olive-trees throughout all thy coasts but thou shalt not anoint thy self with the oyl for thine olive shall cast his fruit 41 Thou shalt beget sons and daughters but †Heb. they shall not be thine thou shalt not enjoy them for they shall go into captivity 42 All thy trees and fruit of thy land shall the locust ‖ Or possess consume 43 The stranger that is within thee shall get up above thee very high and thou shalt come down very low 44 He shall lend to thee and thou shalt not lend to him he shall be the head and thou shalt be the tail 45 Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee and shall pursue thee and overtake thee till thou be destroyed because thou hearknedst not unto the voice of the LORD thy God to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee 46 And they shall be upon thee for a signe and for a wonder and upon thy seed for ever 47 Because thou servedst not the LORD thy God with joyfulness and with gladness of heart for the abundance of all things 48 Therefore shalt thou serve thine enemies which the LORD shall send against thee in hunger and in thirst and in nakedness and in want of all thinâ—s and he shall put a yoke of iron upon thy neck until he have deâ—troyed thee 49 The LORD shall bring a nation against thee from far from the end of the earth as swift as the eagle flieth a nation whose tongue thou shalt not †Heb. bear understand 50 A nation †Heb. strong of face of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young 51 And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattel and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed which also shall not leave thee either corn wine or oyl or the increase of thy kine or flocks of thy sheep until he have destroyed thee 52 And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down wherein thou trustedst throughout all the land and he shall besiege tâ—â—e in all thy gates throughout all thy land which the LORD thy God hath given thee 53 And * Lev. 26.29 2 Kin. 6.29 Lam. 4.10 Bar. â— 3 thou shalt eat the fruit of thine own †Heb. bâ—lly body the flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters which the LORD thy God hath given thee in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee 54 So that the man that is tender among you and very delicate his eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and towards the remnant of his children which he shall leave 55 So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat because he hath nothing lest him in the siege and in the straitness wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates 56 The tender and delicate woman among you which would not adventure to for the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness her eye shall be evil towards the husband of her bosom and towards her son and towards her daughter 57 And towards her †Heb. after-birth young one that cometh out from between her feet and towards her children which she shall bear for she shall eat them for want of all things secrâ—tly in the siege and straitness wherewith thine enemy shall diâ—â—â—ess thee in thy gates 58 If thou wilt not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this 〈◊〉 that thou mayest fear this glorious and â—earful name THE LORD THY GOD 59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful and the plagues of thy seed even great plagues and of long continuance and sore sicknesses and of long continuance 60 Moreover he will bring upon thee all the diseases of Egypt which thou wast afraid of and they shall cleave unto thee 61 Also every sickness and every plague which is not written in the book of this law them will the LORD †Heb. cause to ascend bring upon thee until thou be destroyed 62 And ye shall be left few in number whereas ye were * Chap. 10.22 as the stars of heaven for multitude because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the LORD thy God 63 And it shall come to pass that as the LORD rejoyced over you to do you good and to multiply you so the LORD will rejoyce over you to destroy you and to bring you to nought and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it 64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other and there thou shalt serve other gods which neither thou nor thy fathers have known even wood and stone 65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart and failing of eyes and sorrow of minde 66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee and thou shalt fear day and night and shalt have none assurance of thy life 67 In the morning thou shalt say Would God it were even and at even thou shalt say Would God it were morning for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see 68 And the LORD shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships by the way whereof I spake unto thee Thou shalt see it no more again and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bond-men and bond-women and no man shall buy you CHAP. XXIX 2 Moses exhorteth them to obedience by the memory of the works they have seen 10 All are presented before the Lord to enter into his covenant 18 The great wrath on him that flattereth himself in his wickedness 29 Secret things belong unto God THese are the words of the covenant which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb. 2 ¶ And Moses called unto all Israel and said unto them * Exod. 19.4 Ye have seen all that the
prophesied as I was commanded and as I prophesied there was a noise and behold a shaking and the bones came together bone to his bone 8 And when I beheld lo the sinews and the flesh came up upon them and the skin covered them above but there was no breath in them 9 Then said he unto me Prophesie unto the ‖ Or breath wind prophesie son of man and say to the wind Thus saith the Lord GOD Come from the four winds O breath and breathe upon these slain that they may live 10 So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up upon their feet an exceeding great army 11 ¶ Then he said unto me Son of man these bones are the whole house of Israel behold they say Our bones are dried and our hope is lost we are cut off for our parts 12 Therefore prophesie and say unto them Thus saith the Lord God Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel 13 And ye shall know that I am the LORD when I have opened your graves O my people and brought you up out of your graves 14 And shall put my spirit in you and ye shall live and I shall place you in your own land then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it and performed it saith the LORD 15 ¶ The word of the LORD came again unto me saying 16 Moreover thou son of man take thee one stick and write upon it For Judah and for the children of Israel his companions then take another stick and write upon it For Joseph the stick of Ephraim and for all the house of Israel his companions 17 And joyn them one to another into one stick and they shall become one in thine hand 18 ¶ And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee saying Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these 19 Say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will take the stick of Joseph which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his fellows and will put them with him even with the stick of Judah and make them one stick and they shall be one in mine hand 20 ¶ And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes 21 And say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen whither they be gone and will gather them on every side and bring them into their own land 22 And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel and * Joh. 10 16. one king shall be king to them all and they shall be no more two nations neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all 23 Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols nor with their detestable things nor with any of their transgressions but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places wherein they have sinned and will cleanse them so shall they be my people and I will be their God 24 And * Isa 40.11 Jer. 23.5 and 30.9 Ch. 34.23 David my servant shall be king over them and they all shall have one shepherd they shall also walk in my judgements and observe my statutes and do them 25 And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant wherein your fathers have dwelt and they shall dwell therein even they and their children and their childrens children for ever and my servant David shall be their prince for ever 26 Moreover I will make a * Psa 89.3 Ch. 34.25 covenant of peace with them it shall be an everlasting covenant with them and I will place them multiply them will set my * 2 Cor. 6.16 sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them yea I will be * Ch. 11.20 and 14.11 their God and they shall be my People 28 And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctifie Israel when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore CHAP. XXXVIII 1 The army 8 and malice of Gog. 14 Gods judgement against him ANd the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man set thy face against * Rev. ac ◠Gog the land of Magog ‖ Or prince of the chief the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal and prophesie against him 3 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O Gog the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal 4 And * Ch. 39.2 I will turn thee back and put hooks into thy chaws and I will bring thee forth and all thine army horses and hors-men all of them clothed with all sorts of armour even a great company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords 5 Persia Ethiopia and ‖ Or Phut Libya with them all of them with shield and helmet 6 Gomer and all his bands the house of Togarmah of the northquarters and all his bands and many people with thee 7 Be thou prepared and prepare for thy self thou and all thy company that are assembled unto thee and be thou a guard unto them 8 ¶ After many days thou shalt be visited in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword and is gathered out of many people against the mountains of Israel which have been always waste but it is brought forth out of the nations and they shall dwell safely all of them 9 Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land thou and all thy bands and many people with thee 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD It shall also come to pass that at the same time shall things come into thy minde and thou shalt ‖ Or conceive a mischievous purpose think an evil thought 11 And thou shalt say I will go up to the land of unwalled villages I will go to them that are at rest that dwell ‖ Or confidently safely all of them dwelling without walls and having neither bars nor gates 12 †Heb. to spoil the spoil and to prey the prey To take a spoil and to take a prey to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations which have gotten cattel and goods that dwell in the †Heb. navel midst of the land 13 Sheba and Dedan and the merchants of Tarshish with all the young lions thereof shall say unto thee Art thou come to take a spoil hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey to carry away silver and gold to take away cattel and goods to take a great spoil 14 ¶ Therefore son of man prophesie and say unto Gog Thus saith
shall speak marvellous things against the God of gods and shall prosper till the indignation be accomplished for that that is determined shall be done 37 Neither shall he regard the god of his fathers nor the desire of women nor regard any god for he shall magnifie himself above all 38 But in his estate shall he honour the God of ‖ Or munitions †Heb. Mauzzim or as for the almighty God in his seat he shall honour yea he shall honour a god c. forces and a God whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold and silver and with precious stones and †Heb. things desired pleasant things 39 Thus shall he do in the †Heb. fortresses of munitions most strong holds with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge and increase with glory and he shall cause them to rule over many and shall divide the land for †Heb. a price gain 40 And at the time of the end shall the king of the south push at him and the king of the north shall come against him like a whirlwind with chariots and with hors men and with many ships and he shall enter into the countreys and shall overflow and pass over 41 He shall enter also into the ‖ Or goodly land †Heb. land of delight or ornament glorious land and many countreys shall be overthrown but these shall escape out of his hand even Edom and Moaâ— and the chief of the children of Ammon 42 He shall †Heb. send forth stretch forth his hand also upon the countreys and the land of Egypt shall not escape 43 But he shall have power over the treasures of gold and silver and over all the precious things of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians shall be at his steps 44 But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him therefore he sâ—â—ll go forth with great fury to destroy and utterly to make away many 45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the ‖ Or goodly †Heb. mountain of delicht of holiness glorious holy mountain yet he shall come to his end and none shall help him CHAP. XII 1 Michael shall deliver Israel from their troubles 5 Daniel is informed of the times ANd at that time shall Michael stand up the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time and at that time thy people shall be delivered every one that shall be found written in the book 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake * Matth. 25.46 Joh. 5.29 some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt 3 And they that be ‖ Or teachers wise shall * Matth. 13.43 shine as the brightness of the firmament and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever 4 But thou O Daniel shut up the words and seal the book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased 5 ¶ Then I Daniel looked and behold there stood other two the one on this side of the †Heb. lip bank of the river and the other on that side of the bank of the river 6 And one said to the man clothed in * Ch. 10. â— linen which was ‖ Or from above upon the waters of the river How long shall it be to the end of these wonders 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen which was upon the waters of the river when he * Rev. 10. â— held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time times and ‖ Or part an half and when he shall have accompâ—â—â—hed to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished 8 And I heard but I understood not then said I O my Lord what shall be the end of these things 9 And he said Go thy way Daniel for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end 10 Many shall be purified and made white and tried but the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away and †Heb. to set up the abomination c. the abomination that ‖ Or astonisheth maketh desolate set up there shall be a thousand two handred and ninety days 12 Bressed is he that waâ—tâ—th and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days 13 But go thou thy way till the and be ‖ Or and thou c. for thou shalt rest and stand in thy lâ—t at the end of the days ¶ HOSEA CHAP. I. 1 Hosea to shew Gods judgement for spiritual wheredom taketh Gomer 〈◊〉 and hath by her Jezreel 6 Lo-ruhamah 8 and Lo-ammi 10 The restauration of Judah and Israel THe word of the LORD that came unto Hosea the son of Beeri in the days of Uzziah Jotham Ahaz and Hezekiah kings of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel 2 The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea and the LORD said to Hosea Go take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms for the land hath committed great whoredom departing from the LORD 3 So he went and took Gomer the daughter of Diblaim which conceived and bare him a son 4 And the LORD said unto him Call his name Jezreel for yet a little while and I will †Heb. visit avenge the bloud of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu and will cause to cease the kingdom of the house of Israel 5 And it shall come to pass at that day that I will break the bowe of Israel in the valley of Jezreel 6 ¶ And she conceived again and bare a daughter and God said unto him Call her name ‖ That is not having obtained mercy Lo-ruhamah for †Heb. I will not and any more to I will no more have mercy upon the house of Israel ‖ Or that I should altogâ—ther pardon them but I will utterly take them away 7 But I will have mercy upon the house of Judah and will save them by the LORD their God and will not save them by bowe nor by sword nor by battel by horses nor by hors-men 8 ¶ Now when she had weaned Lo-ruhamah she conceived and bare a son 9 Then said God Call his name ‖ That is Not my people Lo-ammi for ye are not my people and I will not be your God 10 ¶ Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea which cannot be measured nor numbred * Rom. 9.25 26.
Command ¶ Appointed to be read in Churches ALMA MATER CANTABRIGIA HINC LVCEM ET POCVLA SACRA CAMBRIDGE Printed by JOHN FIELD Printer to the University MDCLXVI Cum Privilegio ¶ The Gospel according to S. MATTHEW CHAP. I. 1 The genealogie of Christ from Abraham to Joseph 18 He was conceived by the holy Ghost and born of the virgin Mary when she was espoused to Joseph 19 The angel satisfieth the misdeeming thoughts of Joseph and interpreteth the names of Christ THE book of the * Luk. 3.23 generation of Jesus Christ the son of David the son of Abraham 2 * Gen. 21.3 Abraham begat Isaac and * Gen. 25.25 Isaac begat Jacob and * Gen. 29.25 Jacob begat Judas and his brethren 3 And * Gen. 38.27 Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar and * Ruth 4.18 Phares begat Esrom and Esrom begat Aram. 4 And Aram begat Aminadab and Aminadab begat Naasson and Naasson begat Salmon 5 And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab ‖ Chr. 1.5 and Booz begat Obed of Ruth and Obed begat Jesse 6 And * Jesse begat David the king and * 1 Sam. 16.1 17.12 David the king begat Solomon of her that had been the wife of Urias 7 And * 1 Sam. 11.24 Solomon begat Roboam and Roboam begat Abia and Abia begat Asa 8 And Asa begat Josaphat and Josaphat begat Joram and Joram begat Ozias 9 And Ozias begat Joatham and Joatham begat Achaz and Achaz begat Ezekias 10 And * 1 Chr. 3.10 Ezekias begat Manasses and Manasses begat Amon and Amon begat Josias 11 And ‖ 2 King 20.21 1 Chr. 3.13 1 Some read Josias begat Jakim and Jakim begat Jeâ—â—oniaâ— Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren about the time they were carried away to Babylon 12 And after they were brought to Babylon * 1 Chr. 3.16 17. Jechonias begat Salathiel and Salathiel begat Zorobabel 13 And Zorobabel begat Abiud and Abiud begat Eliakim and Eliakim begat Azor. 14 And Azor begat Sadoc and Sadoc begat Achim and Achim begat Eliud 15 And Eliud begat Eleazar and Eleazar begat Matthan and Matthan begat Jacob. 16 And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary of whom was born Jesus who is called Christ 17 So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations 18 ¶ Now the * birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise * Luk. 1.27 When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph before they came together she was found with childe of the holy Ghost 19 Then Joseph her husband being a just man and not willing to make her a publick example was minded to put her away privily 20 But while he thought on these things behold the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream saying Joseph thou son of David fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife for that which is conceived in her is of the holy Ghost 21 * Luk. 1.31 And she shall bring forth a son and thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins 22 Now all this was done that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying 23 * Isa 7.14 Behold a virgin shall be with childe and shall bring forth a son and ‖ Or his name shall be câ—lleâ— they shall call his name Emmanuel which being interpreted is God with us 24 Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him and took unto him his wife 25 And knew her not till she had brought forth her first-born son and he called his name Jesus CHAP. II. 1 The wise-men out of the east are directed to Christ by a star 11 They worship him and offer their presents 14 Joseph fleeth into Egypt with Jesus and his mother 16 Herod slayeth the children 20 Himself dieth 23 Christ is brought back again into Galilee to Nazareth Now when * Luke 1.6 7. Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king behold there came wise-men from the east to Jorusalem 2 Saying Where is he that is born King of the Jews for we have â—en his star in the east and are come to worship him 3 When Herod the king had heard these things he was troubled and all Jerusalem with him 4 And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together he demanded of them where Christ should be born 5 And they said unto him In Bethlehem of Judea for thus it is written by the prophet 6 * Mic. 5.2 Joh. 7.42 And thou Bethlehem in the land of Juda art not the least among the princes of Juda for out of thee shall come a Governour that shall ‖ Or seed rule my people Israel 7 Then Herod when he had privily called the wise-men enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared 8 And he sent them to Bethlehem and said Go and search diligently for the young childe and when ye have found him bring me word again that I may come and worship him also 9 When they had heard the king they departed and so the star which they saw in the east went before them till it came and stood over where the young childe was 10 When they saw the star they rejoyced with exceeding great joy 11 ¶ And when they were come into the house they saw the young childe with Mary his mother and tell down and worshipped him and when they had opened their treasures they ‖ Or â—â—eed presented unto him gifts gold and frankincense and myrrh 12 And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod they departed into their own countrey another way 13 And when they were departed behold the angel of the Lord appeareth to Joseph in a dream saying Arise and take the young childe and his mother and flee into Egypt and be thou there until I bring thee word for Herod will seek the young childe to destroy him 14 When he arose he took the young childe and his mother by night and departed into Egypt 15 And was there until the death of Herod that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet saying * Hos 1â— â— Out of Egypt have I called my son 16 ¶ Then Herod when he saw that he was mocked of the wise-men was exceeding wroth and sent forth and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem and in all the coasts thereof from two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise-men 17 Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by * Jer. 31.15 Jeremy the prophet saying 18 In Rama was there a voice heard lamentation and weeping and great mourning Rachel weeping for her children and
it be known what is spoken for ye shall speak into the air 10 There are it may be so many kinds of voices in the world and none of them is without signification 11 Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me 12 Even so ye forasmuch as ye are zealous †Gr. of spirits of spiritual gifts seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church 13 Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret 14 For if I pray in an unknown tongue my spirit prayeth but my understanding is unfruitful 15 What is it then I will pray with the spirit and I will pray with the understanding also I will sing with the spirit and I will sing with the understanding also 16 Else when thou shalt bless with the spirit how shall he that occupieth the room of the unlearned say Amen at thy giving of thanks seeing he understandeth not what thou sayest 17 For thou verily givest thanks well but the other is not edified 18 I thank my God I speak with tongues more then you all 19 Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding that by my voice I might teach others also then ten thousand words in an unknown tongue 20 Brethren be not children in understanding howbeit in malice * Matth. 18.3 be ye children but in understanding be †Gr. perfect or of a ripe age men 21 In the law it is * Isa 28.11 written With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people and yet for all that will they not hear me saith the Lord. 22 Wherefore tongues are for a signe not to them that beleeve but to them that beleeve not but prophesying serveth not for them that beleeve not but for them which beleeve 23 If therefore the whole church be come together into one place and all speak with tongues there come in those that are unlearned or unbeleevers will they not say that ye are mad 24 But if all prophesie and there come in one that beleeveth not or one unlearned he is convinced of all he is judged of all 25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest and so falling down on his face he will worship God and report that God is in you of a truth 26 How is it then brethren when ye come together every one of you hath a psalm hath a doctrine hath a tongue hath a revelation hath an interpretation Let all things be done to edifying 27 If any man speak in an unknown tongue let it be by two or at the most by three and that by course and let one interpret 28 But if there be no interpreter let him keep silence in the church and let him speak to himself and to God 29 Let the prophets speak two or three and let the other judge 30 If any thing be revealed to another that fitteth by let the first hold his peace 31 For ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets 33 For God is not the authour of †Gr. tumult or unquietness confusion but of peace as in all churches of the saints 34 * 1 Tim. 2.12 Let your women keep silence in the churches for it is not permitted unto them to speak but they are commanded to be under obedience as also saith the * Gen. 3.16 law 35 And if they will learn any thing let them ask their husbands at home for it is a shame for women to speak in the church 36 What came the word of God out from you or came it unto you onely 37 If any man think himself to be a prophet or spiritual let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments of the Lord. 38 But if any man be ignorant let him be ignorant 39 Wherefore brethren covet to prophesie and forbid not to speak with tongues 40 Let all things be done decently and in order CHAP. XV. 3 By Christs resurrection 12 he proveth the necessity of our resurrection against all such as deny the resurrection of the body 21 The fruit 35 and manner thereof 51 and of the changing of them that shall be found alive at the last day MOreover brethren I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you which also you have received and wherein ye stand 2 By which also ye are saved if ye ‖ Or bold fast keep in memory †Gr. by what speech what I preached unto you unless ye have beleeved in vain 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received how that Christ died for our sins * Isa 53.5 6 c. according to the scriptures 4 And that he was buried and that he rose again the third day * Psal 16.10 according to the scriptures 5 * John 20.19 And that he was seen of Cephas then of the twelve 6 After that he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once of whom the greater part remain unto this present but some are faln asleep 7 After that he was seen of James then of all the apostles 8 * Acts 9.4 Chap. 9.1 And last of all he was seen of me also as of ‖ Or an â—â—ortive one born out of due time 9 For I am the least of the apostles that am not meet to be called an apostle because I persecuted the church of God 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain but I laboured more abundantly then they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 11 Therefore whether it were I or they so we preach and so ye beleeved 12 Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead 13 But if there be no resurrection of the dead then is Christ not risen 14 And if Christ be not risen then is our preaching vain and your faith is also vain 15 Yea and we are found false witnesses of God because we have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom he raised not up if so he that the dead rise not 16 For if the dead rise not then is not Christ raised 17 And if Christ be not raised your faith is vain ye are yet in your sins 18 Then they also which are faln asleep in Christ are perished 19 If in this life onely we have hope in Christ we are of all men most miserable 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead and become * Col. 1.28 Rev. 1.5 the first-fruits of them that slept 21 For since by man came death by man came also the
your father 18 ¶ Then Judah came near unto him and said O my lord let thy servant I pray thee speak a word in my lords ears and let not thine anger burn against thy servant for thou art even as Pharaoh 19 My lord asked his servants saying Have ye a father or a brother 20 And we said unto my lord We have a father an old man and a childe of his old age a little one and his brother is dead and he alone is left of his mother and his father loveth him 21 And thou saidest unto thy servants Bring him down unto me that I may set mine eyes upon him 22 And we said unto my lord The lad cannot leave his father for if he should leave his father his father would die 23 And thou saidest unto thy servants * Chap. 43.3 except your youngest brother come down with you you shall see my face no more 24 And it came to pass when we came up unto thy servant my father we told him the words of my lord 25 And our father said Go again and buy us a little food 26 And we said We cannot go down if our youngest brother be with us then will we go down for we may not see the mans face except our youngest brother be with us 27 And thy servant my father said unto us Ye know that my wife bare me two sons 28 And the one went out from me and I said * Ch. 37.33 Surely he is torn in pieces and I saw him not since 29 And if ye take this also from me and mischief befal him ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave 30 Now therefore when I come to thy servant my father and the lad be not with us seeing that his life is bound up in the lads life 31 It shall come to pass when he seeth that the lad is not with us that he will die and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave 32 For thy servant became surety for the lad unto my father saying * Ch. 43.9 If I bring him not unto thee then I shall bear the blame to my father for ever 33 Now therefore I pray thee let thy servant abide in stead of the lad a bondman to my lord and let the lad go up with his brethren 34 For how shall I go up to my father and the lad be not with me lest peradventure I see the evil that shall †Heb. finde my father come on my father CHAP. XLV 1 Joseph maketh himself known to his brethren 5 He comforteth them in Gods providence 9 He sendeth for his father 16 Pharaoh confirmeth it 21 Joseph furâ—sâ—eth them for their journey and exâ—orteth them to concord 25 Jacob is revived with the news THen Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him and he cryed Cause every man to go out from me and there stood no man with him while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren 2 And he †Heb. gave fâ—rth his voice in weeping wept aloud and the Egyptians and the house of Pharaoh heard 3 And Joseph said unto his brethren * Act. 7.13 I am Joseph doth my father yet live and his brethren could not answer him for they were ‖ Or terrified troubled at his presence 4 And Joseph said unto his brethren Come near to me I pray you and they came near and he said I am Joseph your brother whom ye sold into Egypt 5 Now therefore be not grieved †Heb. neither let there be anâ—er in your eyes nor angry with your selves that ye sold me hither * Ch. 50.20 for God did send me before you to preserve life 6 For these two years hath the famine been in the land and yet there are five years in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest 7 And God sent me before you †Heb. to put for you a remnant to preserve you a posterity in the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance 8 So now it was not you that sent me hither but God and he hath made me a father to Pharaoh and lord of all his house and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt 9 Haste you and go up to my father and say unto him Thus saith thy son Joseph God hath made me lord of all Egypt come down unto me tarry not 10 And thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen and thou shalt be near unto me thou and thy children and thy childrens children and thy flocks and thy herds and all that thou hast 11 And there will I nourish thee for yet there are five years of famine lest thou and thy houshold and all that thou hast come to poverty 12 And behold your eyes see and the eyes of my brother Benjamin that it is my mouth that speaketh unto you 13 And you shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt and of all that you have seen and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither 14 And he fell upon his brother Benjamins neck and wept and Benjamin wept upon his neck 15 Moreover he kissed all his brethren and wept upon them and after that his brethren talked with him 16 ¶ And the same thereof was heard in Pharaohs house saying Josephs brethren are come and it †Heb. was good in the eyes of Pharaoh pleased Pharaoh well and his servants 17 And Pharaoh said unto Joseph Say unto thy brethren this do ye lade your beasts and go get you unto the land of Canaan 18 And take your father and your housholds and come unto me and I will give you the good of the land of Egypt and ye shall eat the fat of the land 19 Now thou art commanded this do ye take you wagons out of the land of Egypt for your little ones and for your wives and bring your father and come 20 Also †Heb. let not your eye spâ—re c. regard not your stuff for the good of all the land of Egypt is yours 21 And the children of Israel did so and Joseph gave them wagons according to the †Heb. mouth commandment of Pharaoh and gave them provision for the way 22 To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver five changes of raiment 23 And to his father he sent after this manner ten asses †Heb. caâ—râ—â—ng laden with the good things of Egypt and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way 24 So he sent his brethren away and they departed and he said unto them See that ye fall not out by the way 25 ¶ And they went up out of Egypt and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father 26 And told him saying Joseph is yet alive and he is governour over all the
22 And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh Thus saith the LORD Israel is my son even my first-born 23 And I say unto thee Let my son go that he may serve me and it thou refuse to let him go behold I will slay thy son even thy first born 24 ¶ And it came to pass by the way in the inn that the LORD met him and sought to kill him 25 Then Zipporah took a sharp ‖ Or knife stone and cut off the sore-skin of her son and †Heb. made it touth cast it at his feet and said Sarely a bloudy husband art thou to me 26 So he let him go then she said A bloudy husband thou art because of the circumcision 27 ¶ And the LORD said to Aaron Go into the wilderness to meet Moses And he went and met him in the mount of God and kisâ—â—â— him 28 And Moses told Aaron all the words of the LORD who had sent him and all the signs which he had commanded him 29 ¶ And Moses and Aaron went and gathered together all the elders of the children of Israel 30 And Aaron spake all the words which the LORD had spoken unto Moses and did the signs in the sight of the people 31 And the people beseeved and when they heard that the LORD had vinted the children of Israel and that he had looked upon their affliction then they bowed their heads and worshipped CHAP. V. 1 Pharaoh ebideth Moses and Aaron for their message 5 He increaseth the Israelites task 15 He checketh their complaints 19 They cry out upon Moses and Aaron 22 Moses complaineth to God ANd afterward Moses and Aaron went in and told Pharaoh Thus saith the LORD God of Israel Let my people go that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness 2 And Pharaoh said Who is the LORD that I should obey his voice to let Israel go I know not the LORD neither will I let Israel go 3 And they said * Ch. 3. â—8 The God of the Hebrews hath met with us let us go we pray thee three days journey into the desert and sacrifice unto the LORD our God lest he fall upon us with pestilence or with the sword 4 And the king of Egypt said unto them Wherefore do ye Moses and Aaron let the people from their works get you unto your burdens 5 And Pharaoh said Behold the people of the land now are many and you make them rest from their burdens 6 And Pharaoh commanded the same day the task-masters of the people and their officers saying 7 Ye shall no more give the people straw to make brick as heretofore let them go and gather straw for themselves 8 And the tale of the bricks which they did make heretofore you shall lay upon them you shall not diminish ought thereof for they be idle therefore they cry saying Let us go and sacrifice to our God 9 †Heb. let the work â—e heavy upon the men Let there more work be laid upon the men that they may labour therein and let them not regard vain words 10 ¶ And the task-masters of the people went out and their officers and they spake to the people saying Thus saith Pharaoh I will not give you straw 11 Go ye get you straw where you can find it yet not ought of your work shall be diminished 12 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw 13 And the task-masters hasted them saying Fulfil your works your †Heb. a matter of a day in biâ— day daily tasks as when there was straw 14 And the officers of the children of Israel which Pharaohs task-masters had set over them were beaten and demanded Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in making brick both yesterday and to day as heretofore 15 ¶ Then the officers of the children of Israel came and cried unto Pharaoh saying Wherefore dealest thou thus with thy servants 16 There is no straw given unto thy servant and they say to us Make brick and behold thy servants are beaten but the fault is in thine own people 17 But he said Ye are idle ye are idle therefore ye say Let us go and do sacrifice to the LORD 18 Go therefore now and work for there shall no straw be given you yet shall ye deliver the tale of bricks 19 And the officers of the children of Israel did see that they were in evil case after it was said Ye shall not minish ought from your bricks of your daily task 20 ¶ And they met Moses and Aaron who stood in the way as they came forth from Pharaoh 21 And they said unto them The LORD look upon you and judge because you have made our savour †Heb. to stink to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh and in the eyes of his servants to put a sword in their hands to slay us 22 And Moses returned unto the LORD and said Lord wherefore â—aâ—t thou so evil intreated this people why is it that thou hast sent me 23 For since I came to Pharaoh to speak in thy name he hath done evil to this people †Heb. delivering thou so it delivered neither hast thou delivered thy people at all CHAP. VI. 1 God reneweth his promise by his name JEHOVAH 14 The geneadogy of Reuben 15 of Simeon 16 of Levi of whom came Moses and Aaron THen the LORD said unto Moses Now shalt thou see what I will do to Pharaoh for with a strong hand shall he let them go and with a strong hand shall he drive them out of his land 2 And God spake unto Moses and said unto him I am the LORD 3 And I appeared unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty but by my name JEHOVAH was I not knowâ— to them 4 And I have also established my covenant with them to give them the land of Canaan the land of their pilgrimage wherein they were strangers 5 And I have also heard the groaning of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep in bondage and I have remembred my covenant 6 Wherefore say unto the children of Israel I am the LORD and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians and I will rid you out or their bondage and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm and with great judgements 7 And I will take you to me for a people and I will be to you a God and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God which bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians 8 And I will bring you in unto the land concerning the which I did †Heb. list up my hand swear to give it to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob and I will give it you for an heritage I am the LORD 9 ¶ And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel but they hearkned not unto Moses for †Heb. shâ—rtness or
law and did obeisance and kissed him and they asked each other of their †Heb. peace welfare and they came into the tent 8 And Moses told his father in law all that the LORD had done unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians for Israels sake and all the travel the had †Heb. found them come upon them by the way c how the LORD delivered them 9 And Jethro rejoyced for all the goodness which the LORD had done to Israel whom he had delivered out of the hand of the Egyptians 10 And Jethro said Blessed be the LORD who hath delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians and out of the hand of Pharaoh who hath delivered the people from under the hand of the Egyptians 11 Now I know that the LORD is greater then all gods * Chap. 1.10 16 22 5.7 14.18 for in the thing wherein they dealt proudly he was above them 12 And Jethro Moses father in law took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God and Aaron came and all the elders of Israel to eat bread with Moses father in law before God 13 ¶ And it came to pass on the morrow that Moses sat to judge the people and the people stood by Moses from the morning unto the evening 14 And when Moses father in law saw all that he did to the people he said What is this thing that thou doest to the people why â—itteâ—t thou thy self alone and all the people stand by thee from morning unto even 15 And Moses said unto his father in law Because the people come unto me to enquire of God 16 When they have a matter they come unto me and I judge between †Heb. a man and his fellow one and another and I do make them know the statutes of God and his laws 17 And Moses father in law said unto him The thing that thou doest is not good 18 †Heb. fading thou wilt fade Thou wilt surely wear away both thou and this people that is with thee for this thing is too heavy for thee * Deut. 1.9 thou art not able to perform it thy self alone 19 Hearken now unto my voice I will give thee counsel and God shall be with thee Be thou for the people to God-ward that thou mayest bring the causes unto God 20 And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk and the work that they must do 21 Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men such as sear God men of truth hating covetousness and place such over them to be rulers of thousands and rulers of hundreds rulers of fifties and rulers of tens 22 And let them judge the people at all seasons and it shall be that every great matter they shall bring unto thee but every small matter they shall judge So shall it be easier for thy self and they shall beat the burden with thee 23 If thou shalt do this thing and God command thee so then thou shalt be able to endure and all this people shall also go to their place in peace 24 So Moses hearkned to the voice of his father in law and did all that he had said 25 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel and made them heads over the people rulers of thousands rulers of hundreds rulers of fifties and rulers of tens 26 And they judged the people at all seasons the hard causes they brought unto Moses but every small matter they judged themselves 27 ¶ And Moses let his father in law depart and he went his way into his own land CHAP. XIX 1 The people come to Sinai 3 Gods message by Moses unto the people out of the mount 8 The peoples answer returned again 10 The people are prepared against the third day 12 The mountain must not be touched 16 The fearful presence of God upon the mount IN the third moneth when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai 2 For they were departed from Rephidim and were come to the desert of Sinai and had pitched in the wilderness and there Israel encamped before the mount 3 And * Act. 7.38 Moses went up unto God and the LORD called unto him out of the mountain saying Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel 4 * Deut. 29.2 Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bare you on eagles wings and brought you unto my self 5 Now * Deut. 5.2 therefore If ye will obey my voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people for * Deut. 10.14 Pl. 24.1 all the earth is mine 6 And ye shall be unto me a * 1 Pet. 2.9 Rev. 1.6 kingdom of priests and an holy nation These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel 7 ¶ And Moses came and called for the elders of the people and laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him 8 And * Chap. 24 3 7. Deut. 5.27 2â— 17 all the people answered together and said All that the LORD hath spoken we will do And Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD 9 And the LORD said unto Moses Lo I come unto thee in a thick cloud that the people may hear when I speak with thee and beleeve thee for ever And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD 10 ¶ â—nd the LORD said unto Moses Go unto the people and sanctifie them to day and to morrow and let them wash their clothes 11 And be ready against the third day for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai 12 And thou shalt set bound unto the people round about saying Take heed to your selves that ye go not up into the mount or touch the border of it * Heb. 12.20 whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death 13 There shall not an hand touch it but he shall surely be stoned or shot through whether it be beast or man it shall not live when the ‖ Or â—ornet trumpet soundeth song they shall come up to the mount 14 ¶ And Moses went down from the mount unto the people and sanctified the people and they washed their clothes 15 And he said unto the people Be ready against the third day come not at your wives 16 And it came to pass on the third day in the morning that there were thunders and lightnings and a thick cloud upon the mount and the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud so that all the people that was in the camp trembled 17 And Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God and they stood at the nether part of the mount 18 And * Deu.
him that †Heb. doeth sinneth through ignorance both for him that is born amongst the children of Israel and for the stranger that sojourneth among them 30 ¶ But the soul that doeth ought †Heb. with an high hand presumptuously whether he be born in the land or a stranger the same reproacheth the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from among his people 31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD and hath broken his commandment that soul shall utterly be cut off his iniquity shall be upon him 32 ¶ And while the children of Israel were in the wilderness they found a man that gathered sticks upon the sabbath-day 33 And they that found him gathering sticks brought him unto Moses and Aaron and unto all the congregation 34 And they put him * Lev. 24.12 in ward because it was not declared what should be done to him 35 And the LORD said unto Moses The man shall be surely put to death all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp 36 And all the congregation brought him without the camp and stoned him with stones and he died as the LORD commanded Moses 37 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 38 Speak unto the children of Israel and bid * Deut. 22.12 Mat. 23.5 them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue 39 And it shall be unto you for a fringe that ye may look upon it and remember all the commandments of the LORD and do them and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes after which ye use to go a whoring 40 That ye may remember and do all my commandments and be holy unto your God 41 I am the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God I am the LORD your God CHAP. XVI 1 The rebellion of Korah Dathan and Abiram 23 Moses separateth the people from the rebels tents 31 The earth swalloweth up Korah and a fire consumeth others 36 The censers are reserved to holy use 41 Fourteen thousand and seven hundred are slain by a plague for murmuring against Moses and Aaron 46 Aaron by incense stayeth the plague NOw * Ch. 27.3 Ecclus 45.18 Jude 11. Korah the son of Izhar the son of Kohath the son of Levi and Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab and On the son of Peleth sons of Reuben took men 2 And they rose up before Moses with certain of the children of Israel two hundred and fifty princes of the assembly * Ch. 26.9 famous in the congregation men of renown 3 And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron and said unto them †Heb. It is much for you Ye take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy everyone of them and the LORD is among them wherefore then lift you up your selves above the congregation of the LORD 4 And when Moses heard it he fell upon his face 5 And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company saying Even to morrow the LORD will shew who are his and who is holy and will cause him to come near unto him even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him 6 This do take you censers Korah and all his company 7 And put fire therein and put incense in them before the LORD to morrow and it shall be that the man whom the LORD doth choose he shall be holy ye take too much upon you ye sons of Levi. 8 And Moses said unto Korah Hear I pray you ye sons of Levi 9 Seemeth it but a small thing unto you that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the LORD and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them 10 And he hath brought thee near to him and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee and seek ye the priesthood also 11 For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the LORD and what is Aaron that ye murmure against him 12 ¶ And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab which said We will not come up 13 Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey to kill us in the wilderness except thou make thy self altogether a prince over us 14 Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards wilt thou †Heb. here out put out the eyes of these men we will not come up 15 And Moses was very wroth and said unto the LORD * Gen. 4 4. Respect not thou their offering I have not taken one ass from them neither have I hurt one of them 16 And Moses said unto Korah Be thou and all thy company before the LORD thou and they and Aaron to morrow 17 And take every man his censer and put incense in them and bring ye before the LORD every man his censer two hundred and fifty censers thou also and Aaron each of you his censer 18 And they took every man his censer and put fire in them and said incense thereon and stood in the door of the tabernacle of the congregation with Moses and Aaron 19 And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the glory of the LORD appeared unto all the congregation 20 And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 21 Separate your selves from among this congregation that I may consume them in a moment 22 And they fell upon their faces and said O God the God of the spirits of all flesh shall one man sin and wilt thou be wroth with all the congregation 23 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 24 Speak unto the congregation saying Get you up from about the taberlacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram 25 And Moses rose up and went unto Dathan and Abiram and the elders of Israel followed him 26 And he spake unto the congregation saying Depart I pray you from the tents of these wicked men and touch nothing of theirs lest ye be consumed in all their sins 27 So they gat up from the tabernacle of Korah Dathan and Abiram on every side and Dathan and Abiram came out and stood in the door of their tents and their wives and their sons and their little children 28 And Moses said Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works for I have not done them of mine own minde 29 If these men die †Heb. as every man dieth the common death of all men or if they be visited after the visitation of all men then
the LORD hath not sent me 30 But if the LORD †Heb. create a creature make a new thing and the earth open her mouth and swallow them up with all that appertain unto them and they go down quick into the pit then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD 31 ¶ * Ch. 27.3 Deut. 11.6 Ps 106.17 And it came to pass as he had made an end of speaking all these words that the ground clave asunder that was under them 32 And the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up their houses and all the men that appertained unto Korah and all their goods 33 They and all that appertained to them went down alive into the pit and the earth closed upon them and they perished from among the congregation 34 And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said Lest the earth swallow us up also 35 And there came out a fire from the LORD and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense 36 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 37 Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest that he take up the censers out of the burning and scatter thou the fire yonder for they are hallowed 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar for they offered them before the LORD therefore they are hallowed and they shall be a signe unto the children of Israel 39 And Eleazar the priest took the brasen censers wherewith they that were burnt had offered and they were made broad plates for a covering of the altar 40 To be a memorial unto the children of Israel that no stranger which is not of the seed of Aaron come near to offer incense before the LORD that he be not as Korah and as his company as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses 41 ¶ But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron saying Ye have killed the people of the LORD 42 And it came to pass when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation and behold the cloud covered it and the glory of the LORD appeared 43 And Moses and Aaron came before the tabernacle of the congregation 44 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 45 Get you up from among this congregation that I may consume them as in a moment and they fell upon their faces 46 ¶ And Moses said unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therein from off the altar and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the LORD the plague is begun 47 And Aaron took as Moses commanded and ran into the midst of the congregation and behold the plague was begun among the people and he put on incense and made an atonement for the people 48 And he stood between the dead and the living and the plague was stayed 49 Now they that died in the plague were fourteen thousand and seven hundred beside them that died about the matter of Korah 50 And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and the plague was stayed CHAP. XVII 1 Aarons rod among all the rods of the tribes onely flourisheth 10 It is left for a monument against the rebels ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and take of every one of them a rod according to the house of their fathers of all their princes according to the house of their fathers twelve rods write thou every mans name upon his rod. 3 And thou shalt write Aarons name upon the rod of Levi for one rod shall be for the head of the house of their fathers 4 And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony * Exod. 25.22 where I will meet with you 5 And it shall come to pass that the mans rod whom I shall choose shall blossom and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel whereby they murmure against you 6 ¶ And Moses spake unto the children of Israel and every one of their princes gave him †Heb. a rod for one prince a rod for one prince a rod apiece for each prince one according to their fathers houses even twelve rods and the rod of Aaron was among their rods 7 And Moses laid up the rods before the LORD in the tabernacle of witness 8 And it came to pass that on the morrow Moses went into the tabernacle of witness and behold the rod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded and brought forth buds and bloomed blossoms and yeelded almonds 9 And Moses brought out all the rods from before the LORD unto all the children of Israel and they looked and took every man his rod. 10 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Bring * Hebr. 9.4 Aarons rod again before the testimony to be kept for a token against the †Heb. children of rebellion rebels and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me that they die not 11 And Moses did so as the LORD commanded him so did he 12 And the children of Israel spake unto Moses saying Behold we die we perish we all perish 13 Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle of the LORD shall die shall we be consumed with dying CHAP. XVIII 1 The charge of the priests and Levites 9 The priests portion 21 The Levites portion 25 The beave-offering to the priests out of the Levites portion ANd the LORD said unto Aaron Thou and thy sons and thy fathers house with thee shall bear the iniquity of the sanctuary and thou and thy sons with thee shall bear the iniquity of your priesthood 2 And thy brethren also of the tribe of Levi the tribe of thy father bring thou with thee that they may be joyned unto thee and minister unto thee but thou and thy sons with thee shall minister before the tabernacle of witness 3 And they shall keep thy charge and the charge of all the tabernacle onely they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar that neither they nor you also die 4 And they shall be joyned unto thee and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation for all the service of the tabernacle and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you 5 And ye shall keep the charge of the sanctuary and the charge of the altar that there be no wrath any more upon the children of Israel 6 And I behold I have * Chap. 3.45 taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel to you they are given as a gift for the LORD to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation
10.2 Chap. 3.4 1 Chr. 24 2. Nadab and Abihu died when they offered strange fire before the LORD 62 And those that were numbred of them were twenty and three thousand all males from a moneth old and upward for they were not numbred among the children of Israel because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel 63 ¶ These are they that were numbred by Moses and Eleazar the priest who numbred the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho 64 But among these there was not a man of them whom Moses and Aaron the priest numbred when they numbred the children of Israel in the wilderness of Sinai 65 For the LORD had said of them They * Ch. 14.28 1 Co. 10.5 ◠shall surely die in the wilderness And there was not left a man of them save Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. CHAP. XXVII 1 The daughters of Zelophehad sue for an inheritance 6 The law of inheritances 12 Moses being told of his death sueth for a successour 18 Joshua is appointed to succeed him THen came the daughters of * Ch. 26.33 Josh 17.3 Zelophehad the son of Hepher the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh of the families of Manasseh the son of Joseph and these are the names of his daughters Mahlah Noah and Hoglah and Milcah and Tirzah 2 And they stood before Moses and before Eleazar the priest and before the princes and all the congregation by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation saying 3 Our father * Ch. 14.35 26.64 65. died in the wilderness and he was not in the company of them that gathered themselves together against the LORD in the company of Korah but died in his own sin and had no sons 4 Why should the name of our father be †Heb. diminished done away from among his family because he hath no son Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father 5 And Moses brought their cause before the LORD 6 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 7 The daughters of Zelophehad speak right thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their fathers brethren and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them 8 And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel saying If a man die and have no son then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter 9 And if he have no daughter then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren 10 And if he have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his fathers brethren 11 And if his father have no brethren then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman that is next to him of his family and he shall possess it and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgement as the LORD commanded Moses 12 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses * Deut. 32.49 Get thee up into this mount Abarim and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel 13 And when thou hast seen it thou also shalt be gathered unto thy people as * Ch. 20.24 Aaron thy brother was gathered 14 For ye * Ch. 20.24 rebelled against my commandment in the desert of Zin in the strife of the congregation to sanctifie me at the water before their eyes that is the * Ex. 17.7 water of Meribah in Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin 15 ¶ And Moses spake unto the LORD saying 16 Let the LORD the God of the spirits of all flesh set a man over the congregation 17 Which may go out before them and which may go in before them and which may lead them out and which may bring them in that the congregation of the LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd 18 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Take thee Joshua the son of Nun a man in whom is the spirit and lay thine hand upon him 19 And set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation and give him a charge in their sight 20 And thou shalt put some of thine honour upon him that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient 21 And he shall stand before Eleazar the priest who shall ask counsel for him * Exod. 28.30 after the judgement of Urim before the LORD at his word shall they go out and at his word they shall come in both he and all the children of Israel with him even all the congregation 22 And Moses did as the LORD commanded him and he took Joshua and set him before Eleazar the priest before all the congregation 23 And he laid his hands upon him and gave him a charge as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses CHAP. XXVIII 1 Offerings are be observed 3 The continual burnt-offering 9 The offering on the sabbath 11 on the new-moons 16 at the pass-over 26 in the day of first-fruits ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 Command the children of Israel and say unto them My offering and my bread for my sacrifices made by fire for †Heb. a savour of my rest a sweet savour unto me shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season 3 And thou shalt say unto them * Exod. 29.38 This is the offering made by fire which ye shall offer unto the LORD two lambs of the first year without pot †Heb. in a day day by day for a continual burnt-offering 4 The one lamb shalt thou offer in the morning and the other lamb shalt thou offer †Heb. between the two evenines at even 5 And a tenth part of an Ephah of flour for a * Lev. 2.1 meat-offering mingled with the fourth part of an * Ex. 29.40 hin of beaten oyl 6 It is a continual burnt-offering which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD 7 And the drink-offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering 8 And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even as the meat-offering of the morning and as the drink-offering thereof thou shalt offer it a sacrifice made by fire of a sweet savour unto the LORD 9 ¶ And on the sabbath-day two lambs of the first year without spot and two tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl and the drink offering thereof 10 This is the burnt offering of every sabbath beside the continual burnt-offering and his drink offering 11 ¶ And in the beginnings of your moneths ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto the LORD two young bullocks and one ram seven lambs of the first year without spot 12 And three tenth deals of flour for a meat-offering mingled with oyl for one
saying 11 Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt * Chap. 14.28 29. from twenty years old and upward shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham unto Isaac and unto Jacob because they have not †Heb. fulfilled after me wholly followed me 12 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite and Joshua the son of Nun for they have wholly followed the LORD 13 And the LORDS anger was kindled against Israel and the made them wander in the wilderness fourty years until all the generation that had done evil in the sight of the LORD was consumed 14 And behold ye are risen up in your fathers stead an increase of sinful men to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel 15 For if ye turn away from after him he will yet again leave them in the wilderness and ye shall destroy all this people 16 ¶ And they came near unto him and said We will build sheep-folds here for our cattel and cities for our little ones 17 But we our selves will go ready armed before the children of Israel until we have brought them unto their place and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land 18 We will not return unto our houses until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance 19 For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan or forward because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan east-ward 20 ¶ And * Josh 1.13 Moses said unto them If ye will do this thing if ye will go armed before the LORD to war 21 And will go all of you armed over Jordan before the LORD until he hath driven out his enemies from before him 22 And the land be subdued before the LORD then afterward ye shall return and be guiltless before the LORD and before Israel and this land shall be your possession before the LORD 23 But if ye will not do so behold ye have sinned against the LORD and be sure your sin will finde you out 24 Build ye cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth 25 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben spake unto Moses saving Thy servants will do as my lord commandeth 26 Our little ones our wives our flocks and all our cattel shall be there in the cities of Gilead 27 * Josh 4.12 But thy servants will pass over every man armed for war before the LORD to battel as my lord saith 28 So concerning them Moses commanded Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the chief fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel 29 And Moses said unto them If the children of God and the children of Reuben will pass with you over Jordan every man armed to battel before the LORD and the land shall be subdued before you then ye shall give them the land of Gilead for a possession 30 But if they will not pass over with you armed they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan 31 And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben answered saying As the LORD hath said unto thy servants so will we do 32 We will pass over armed before the LORD into the land of Canaan that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours 33 And * Deut. 2.12 Jof 12.8 22.4 Moses gave unto them even to the children of Gad and to the children of Reuben and unto halt the tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan the land with the citâ—es thereof in the coasts even the cities of the countrey round about 34 ¶ And the children of Gad built Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer 35 And Atroth Shophan and Jâ—zer and Jogbehah 36 And Beth nimrah and Beth-haran fenced cities and solds for sheep 37 And the children of Reuben built Hâ—shbon and Elealeh and Kiâ—jathaim 38 And Nebo and Baal-meon their names being changed and Shibmah and †Heb. they called by names the names of the cities gave other names unto the cities which they builded 39 And the children of * Gen. 50.23 Machir the son of Manasseh went to Gilead and took it and dispossessed the Amorite which was in it 40 And Moses gave Gilead unto Machir the son of Manasseh and he dwelt therein 41 And * Deut. 3.14 Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the small towns thereof and called them Havothâ—â—air 42 And Nobah went and took Kenath and the villages thereof and called it Nobah after his own name CHAP. XXXIII 1 Two and fourty journeys of the Israelites 50 The Canaanites aye to be destroyed THese are the journeys of the children of Israel which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron 2 And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD and these are their journeys according to their goings out 3 And they * Exod. 12.37 departed from Rameses in the first moneth on the fifteenth day of the first moneth on the morrow after the pass-over the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians 4 For the Egyptians buried all their first-born which the LORD had smitten among them upon their gods also the LORD executed judgements 5 And the children of Israel removed from Rameses and pitched in Succoth 6 And they departed from * Exod. 13.20 Succoth and pitched in Etham which is in the edge of the wilderness 7 And they removed from Etham and turned again unto Pi hahiroth which is before Baal-zephon and they pitched before Migdol 8 And they departed from before Pi-hahiroth and * Exod. 15.22 passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness and went three days journey in the wilderness of Etham and pitched in Marah 9 And they removed from Marah and * Exod. 15.27 came unto Elim and in Elim were twelve fountains of water and threescore and ten palm-trees and they pitched there 10 And they removed from Elim and encamped by the Red sea 11 And they removed from the Red sea and encamped in the * Exod. 16. â— wilderness of Sin 12 And they took their journey out of the wilderness of Sin and encamped in Dophkah 13 And they departed from Dophkah and encamped in Alush 14 And they removed from Alush and encamped at * Exod. 17. â— Rephidim where was no water for the people to drink 15 And they departed from Rephidim and pitched in the * Ex. 19.1 wilderness of Sinai 16 And they removed from the desert of Sinai and pitched * Ch. 11.24 〈◊〉 That is the graves of lusi at ‖ Kibroth-hattaavah 17 And they departed from Kibroth-hattaavah and * Câ— 11.35 encamped
hill under Ashdoth-pisgah east-ward 18 ¶ And I commanded you at that time saying The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it * Numb 32.20 ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel all that are †Heb. sons of power meet for the war 19 But your wives and your little ones and your cattel for I know that ye have much caâ—tel shall abide in your cities which I have given you 20 Until the LORD have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you and until they also possess the land which the LORD your God hath given them beyond Jordan and then shall ye * Jos 22.4 return every man unto his possession which I have given you 21 ¶ And * Numb 27.18 I commanded Joshua at that time saying Thine eyes have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto these two kings so shall the LORD do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest 22 Ye shall not fear them for the LORD your God he shall fight for you 23 And I besought the LORD at that time saying 24 O Lord GOD thou hast begun to shew thy servant thy greatness and thy mighty hand for what God is there in heaven or in earth that can do according to thy works and according to thy might 25 I pray thee let me go over and see the good land that is beyond Jordan that goodly mountain and Lebanon 26 But the LORD * Numb 20.12 Chap. 1.37 was wroth with me for your sakes and would not hear me and the LORD said unto me Let it suffice thee speak no more unto me of this matter 27 Get thee up into the top of ‖ Or the hill Pisgah and lift up thine eyes west-ward and north-ward and south-ward and east-ward and behold it with thine eyes for thou shalt not go over this Jordan 28 But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him for he shall go over before this people and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see 29 So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor CHAP. IV. 1 An exhortation to obedience 41 Moses appointeth the three cities of refuge on that side Jordan NOw therefore hearken O Israel unto the statutes and unto the judgements which I teach you for to do them that ye may live and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you 2 * Ch. 12.32 Jos 1.7 Prov. 30.6 Rev. 22.18 Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you neither shall you diminish ought from it that ye may keep the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you 3 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of * Numb â—5 4 c. Baal-peor for all the men that followed Baal-peor the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you 4 But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day 5 Behold I have taught you statutes and judgements even as the LORD my God commanded me that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it 6 Keep therefore and do them for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations which shall hear all these statutes and say Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people 7 For what nation is there so great who hath God so nigh unto them as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for 8 And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day 9 Onely take heed to thy self and keep thy soul diligently lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life but teach them thy sons and thy sons sons 10 Specially the day that thou stoodst before the LORD thy God in Horeb when the LORD said unto me Gather me the people together and I will make them hear my words that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth and that they may teach their children 11 And ye came near and stood under the mountain and the * Ex. 19.18 mountain burnt with fire unto the †Heb. heart midst of heaven with darkness clouds and thick darkness 12 And the LORD spake unto you out of the midst of the fire ye heard the voice of the words but saw no similitude †Heb. save a voice onely ye heard a voice 13 And he declared unto you his covenant which he commanded you to perform even ten commandments and he wrote them upon two tables of stone 14 ¶ And the LORD commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgements that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it 15 Take ye therefore good heed unto your selves for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the LORD spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire 16 Lest ye corrupt your selves and make you a graven image the similitude of any figure the likeness of male or female 17 The likeness of any beast that is on the earth the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air 18 The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth 19 And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars even all the host of heaven shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them which the LORD thy God hath ‖ Or â—mparted divided unto all nations under the whole heaven 20 But the LORD hath taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace even out of Egypt to be unto him a people of inheritance as ye are this day 21 Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes and sware that I should not go over Jordan and that I should not go in unto that good land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance 22 But I must die in this land I must not go over Jordan but ye shall go over and possess that good land 23 Take heed unto your selves lest ye forget the covenant of the LORD your God which he made with you and make you a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the LORD thy God hath forhidden thee 24 For * Ch. 9.3 Heb. 12.29 the LORD thy God is a consuming fire even a jealous God 25 ¶ When thou shalt beget children and childrens children and shalt have remained long in the land and shall corrupt your selves and make a graven image or the likeness of any thing and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God to provoke him to anger 26 I call heaven
land which the LORD thy God giveth thee 17 * Mat. 5.21 Thou shalt not kill 18 * Luke 18. â—0 Neither shalt thou commit adultery 19 * Ro. 13.9 Neither shalt thou steal 20 Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour 21 * Rom. 7.7 Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbours wife neither shalt thou covet thy neighbours house his field or his man-servant or his maâ—d-servant his ox or his ass or any thing that is thy neighbours 22 ¶ These words the LORD spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire of the cloud and of the thick darkness with a great voice and he added no more and he wrote them in two tables of stone and delivered them unto me 23 And it came to pass when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness for the mountain did burn with fire that ye came near unto me even all the heads of your tribes and your elders 24 And ye said behold the LORD our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness and * Ex. 19.19 we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire we have seen this day that God doth talk with man and he * Ch. 4.33 liveth 25 Now therefore why should we die for this great fire will consume us If we †Heb. add to â—ear hear the voice of the LORD our God any more then we shall die 26 For who is there of all flesh that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire as we have and lived 27 Go thou near and hear all that the LORD our God shall say and * Exod. 20.19 speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee and we will hear it and do it 28 And the LORD heard the voice of your words when ye spake unto me and the LORD said unto me I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee they have well said all that they have spoken 29 O that there were such an heart in them that they would fear me and keep all my commandments always that it might be well with them and with their children for ever 30 Go say to them Get you into your tents again 31 But as for thee stand thou here by me and I will speak unto thee all the commandments and the statutes and the judgements which thou shalt teach them that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it 32 Ye shall observe to do therefore as the LORD your God hath commanded you you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left 33 You shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you that ye may live and that it may be well with you and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess CHAP. VI. 1 The end of the law is obedience 3 An exhortation thereto NOw these are the commandments the statutes and the judgements which the LORD your God commanded to teach you that ye might do them in the land whither ye †Heb. pass over go to possess it 2 That thou mightest fear the LORD thy God to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee thou and thy son and thy sons son all the days of thy life and that thy days may be prolonged 3 ¶ Hear therefore O Israel and observe to do it that it may be well with thee and that ye may increase mightily as the LORD God of thy fathers hath promised thee in the land that floweth with milk and honey 4. Hear O Israel The LORD our God is one LORD 5 And * Chap. 10.12 Mat. 22.37 Mar. 1â— 30 Luk. 10.27 thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might 6 And * Chap. 11.18 these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart 7 And thou shalt †Heb. wâ—â—t or sâ—arâ—en teach them diligently unto thy children and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house and when thou walkest by the way and when thou liest down and when thou risest up 8 And thou shalt binde them for a signe upon thine hand and they shall be as frontlets between thine eyes 9 And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house on thy gates 10 And it shall be when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac to Jacob to give thee great and goodly cities which thou buildedâ—t not 11 And houses full of all good things which thou filledst not and wells digged which thou diggedâ—t not vineyards and olive-trees which thou plantedst not * Chap. 8.10 c. when thou shalt have eaten and be full 12 Then beware lest thou forget the LORD which brought the forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of †Heb. bond-men or servants bondage 13 Thou shalt * Chap. 10.12 20. â—3 4 fear the LORD thy God and serve him and shalt swear by his name 14 Ye shall not go after other gods of the gods of the people which are â—ound about you 15 For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee and destroy thee from off the face of the earth 16 ¶ * Mat. 4.7 Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God * Ex. 17.2 as ye tempted him in Massah 17 You shall diligently keep the commandments of the LORD your God and his testimonies and his statutes with he hath commanded thee 18 And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the â—ight of the LORD that it may be well with thee and that thou mayâ—â—t go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers 19 To cast out all thine enemies from before thee as the LORD hath spoken 20 And when thy son asketh thee †Heb. to morrâ—w in time to come saying What mean the testimonies and the statutes and the judgements which the LORD our God hath commanded you 21 Then thou shalt say unto thy son We were Pharaohs bond men in Egypt and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand 22 And the LORD shewed signs and wonders great and †Heb. evil sore upon Egypt upon Pharaoh and upon all his houshould before our eyes 23 And he brought us out from thence that â—e might bring us in to give us the land which he sware unto our fathers 24 And the LORD commanded us to do all these statutes to sear the LORD our God for our good always that he might preserve us alive as it is at this day 25 And it shall be our righteousness if we
been rebellious against the LORD from the day that I knew you 25 Thus I sell down before the LORD fourty days and fourty nights as I fell down at the first because the LORD had said he would destroy you 26 I prayed therefore unto the LORD and said O Lord GOD destroy not thy people and thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand 27 Remember thy servants Abraham Isaac and Jacob look not unto the stubbornness of this people nor to their wickedness nor to their sin 28 Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say * Numb 14.16 Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them and because he hated them he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness 29 Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm CHAP. X. 1 Gods mercy in restoring the two tables 6 in continuing the priesthood 8 in separating the tribe of Levi 10 in hearkning unto Moses his suit for the people 12 An exhortation unto obedience AT that time the LORD said unto me * Exod. 34.1 Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and come up unto me into the mount and make thee an ark of wood 2 And I will write on the tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakest and thou shalt put them in the ark 3 And I made an ark of shittim-wood and hewed two tables of stone like unto the first and went up into the mount having the two tables in mine hand 4 And he wrote on the tables according to the first writing the ten †Heb words commandments which the LORD spake unto you in the mount out of the midâ—t of the fire in the day of the assembly and the LORD gave them unto me 5 And I turned my self and came down from the mount and put the tables in the ark which I had made and there they be as the LORD commanded me 6 ¶ And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth of the children of Jaakan to * Num. 33.30 Mosera * Num. 20.28 there Aaron died and there he was buried and Eleazar his son ministred in the priests office in his stead 7 From thence they journeyed unto Gudgodah and from Gudgodah to Jotbath a land of rivers of waters 8 ¶ At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD to stand before the LORD to minister unto him and to bless in his name unto this day 9 * Num. 18.20 Wherefore Levi hath no part nor inheritance with his brethren the LORD is his inheritance according as the LORD thy God promised him 10 And I stayed in the mount according to the ‖ Or former days first time fourty days and fourty nights and the LORD heaâ—kned unto me at that time also and the LORD would not destroy thee 11 And the LORD said unto me Arise †Heb. go in journey take thy journey before the people that they may go in and possess the land which I sware unto their fathers to give unto them 12 ¶ And now Israel what doth the LORD thy God require of thee but to fear the LORD thy God to walk in all his ways and to love him and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul 13 To keep the commandments of the LORD and his statutes which I command thee this day for thy good 14 Behold the heaven and the heaven of heavens is the LORDs thy God * Psal 24.1 the earth also with all that therein is 15 Onely the LORD had a delighâ— in thy fathers to love them and he chose their seed after them even you above all people as it is this day 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart and be no more stiff-necked 17 For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords a great God a mighty and a terrible which * 2 Chr. 19.7 Job 34.19 Act. 10.34 Rom. 2.11 Gal. 2.6 Eph. 6.9 Col. 3.25 1 Pet. 1.17 regardeth not persons nor taketh reward 18 He doth execute the judgement of the fatherless and widow and loveth the stranger in giving him food and raiment 19 Love ye therefore the stranger for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt 20 * Ch. 6.13 Mat. 4.10 Luk. 4.8 Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God him shalt thou serve and to him shalt thou * Ch. 13.4 cleave and swear by his name 21 He is thy praise and he is thy God that hath done for thee these great and terrible things which thine eyes have seen 22 Thy fathers went down into Egypt * Gen. 46.27 Exod. 1.5 with threescore and ten persons and now the LORD thy God hath made thee * Gen. 15.5 as the stars of heaven for multitude CHAP. XI 1 An exhortation to obedience 2 by their own experience of Gods great works 8 by promise of Gods great blessings 16 and by threatnings 18 A careful study is required in Gods words 26 The blessing and curse is set before them THerefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God and keep his charge and his statutes and his judgements his commandments alway 2 And know you this day for I speak not with your children which have not known and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God his greatness his mighty hand and his stretched out arm 3 And his miracles and his acts which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt and unto all his land 4 And what he did unto the army of Egypt unto their horses and to their chariots how he made the water of the Red sea to overflow them as they pursued after you and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day 5 And what he did unto you in the wilderness until ye came into this place 6 And * Num. 16.31 27.3 Ps 106.17 what he did unto Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab the son of Reuben how the earth opened her mouth and swallowed them up and their housholds and their tents and all the ‖ Or living substance which followed them substance that †Heb. waâ— at their seet was in their possession in the midst of all Israel 7 But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did 8 Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day that ye may be strong and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess it 9 And that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed a land that floweth with milk and honey 10 ¶ For the land whither
tribes there thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings and there thou shalt do all that I command thee 15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee the unclean and the clean may eat thereof as of the roe-buck and as of the hart 16 * Chap. 15.23 Onely ye shall not eat the bloud ye shall pour it upon the earth as water 17 ¶ Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn or of thy wine or of thy oyl or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock nor any of thy vows which thou vowest nor thy free-will-offerings or heave-offering of thine hand 18 But thou must eat them before the LORD thy God in the place which the LORD thy God shall choose thou and thy son and thy daughter and thy man-servant and thy maid-servant and the Levite that is within thy gates and thou shalt rejoyce before the LORD thy God in all that thou puttest thine hands unto 19 * Ch. 14 27. Ecclus 7.31 Take heed to thy self that thou forsake not the Levite †Heb. all thy dayâ— as long as thou livest upon thy earth 20 ¶ When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border * Gen. 28.14 Chap. 19.8 as he hath promised thee and thou shalt say I will eat flesh because thy soul longeth to eat flesh thou mayest eat flesh whatsoever thy soul lusteth after 21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock which the LORD hath given thee as I have commanded thee and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after 22 Even as the roe-buck and the hart is eaten so thou shalt eat them the unclean and the clean shall eat of them alike 23 Onely †Heb. be strong be sure that thou eat not the bloud for the bloud is the life and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh 24 Thou shalt not eat it thou shalt pour it upon the earth as water 25 Thou shalt not eat it that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight of the LORD 26 Onely thy holy things which thou hast and thy vows thou shalt take and go unto the place which the LORD shall choose 27 And thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings the flesh and the bloud upon the altar of the LORD thy God and the bloud of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the LORD thy God and thou shalt eat the flesh 28 Observe and hear all these words which I command thee that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee for ever when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight of the LORD thy God 29 ¶ When the LORD thy God shall cut off the nations from before thee whither thou goest to possess them and thou †Heb. inheritesâ— or possesest them succeedest them and dwellest in their land 30 Take heed to thy self that thou be not snared †Heb. after tâ—oâ— by following them after that they be destroyed from before thee and that thou enquire not after their gods saying How did these nations serve their gods even so will I do likewise 31 Thou shalt not do so unto the LORD thy God for every †Heb. abomination of the. abomination to the LORD which he hateth have they done unto their gods for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods 32 What thing soever I command you observe to do it * Chap. 4.2 Josh 1.7 Prov. 3â— 6 Rev. 22.18 thou shalt not add thereto nor diminish from it CHAP. XIII 1 Enticers to idolatry 6 how near soever unto thee 9 are to be stoned to death 12 Idolatrous cities are not to be spared IF there arise among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a signe or a wonder 2 And the signe or the wonder come to pass whereof he spake unto thee saying Let us go after other gods which thou hast not known and let us serve them 3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams for the LORD your God proveth you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul 4 Ye shall walk after the LORD your God and fear him and keep his commandments and obey his voice and you shall serve him and * Ch. 10.20 cleave unto him 5 And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death because he hath †Heb. spoken revolt against the LORD spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God which brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you out of the house of bondage to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in so shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee 6 ¶ If thy brother the son of thy mother or thy son or thy daughter or the wife of thy bosom or thy friend which is as thine own soul entice thee secretly saying Let us go and serve other gods which thou hast not known thou nor thy fathers 7 Namely of the gods of the people which are round about you nigh unto thee or far off from thee from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth 8 Thou shalt not consent unto him nor hearken unto him neither shall thine eye pity him neither shalt thou spare neither shalt thou conceal him 9 But * Chap. 17.7 thou shalt surely kill him thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death and afterwards the hand of all the people 10 And thou shalt stone him with stones that he die because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt from the house of †Heb. bond-men bondage 11 And * Ch. 17.13 all Israel shall hear and fear and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you 12 ¶ If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities which the LORD thy God hath given thee to dwell there saying 13 Certain men ‖ Or naughty men the children of Belial are gone out from among you and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city saying Let us go and serve other gods which ye have not known 14 Then shalt thou enquire and make search and ask diligently and behold if it be truth and the thing certain that such abomination is wrought among you 15 Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword destroying it utterly and all that is therein
keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all tâ—ine heart and with all thy soul 11 ¶ For this commandment which I command thee this day it is not hidden from thee neither is it far off 12 * Rom. 10.6 c. It is not in heaven that thou shouldest say Who shall go up for us to heaven and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it 13 Neither is it beyond the sea that thou shouldest say Who shall go over the sea for us and bring it unto us that we may hear it and do it 14 But the word is very nigh unto thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that thou mayest do it 15 ¶ See I have set before thee this day life good and death and evil 16 In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God to walk in his ways to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgements that thou mayest live and multiply and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it 17 But if thine heart turn away so that thou wilt not hear but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods and serve them 18 I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it 19 * Chap. 4.26 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you that I have set before you life and death blessing and cursing therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may â—ive 20 That thou mayest love the LORD thy God and that thou mayest obey his voice and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life and the length of thy days that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob to give them CHAP. XXXI 1 Moses encourageth the people 7 He encourageth Joshua 9 He delivereth the law unto the priests to read it in the seventh â—ear to the people 14 God giveth a charge to Joshua 19 and a song to testifie against the people 24 Moses delivereth the book of the law to the Levites to keep 28 He maketh a protestation to the elders ANd Moses went and spake these words unto all Israel 2 And he said unto them I am an hundred and twenty years old this day I can no more go out and come in also the LORD hath said unto me * Numb 20.12 Chap. 3.27 Thou shalt not go over this Jordan 3 The LORD thy God he will go over before thee and he will destroy these nations from before thee and thou shalt possess them and Joshua he shall go over before thee * Numb 27.21 as the LORD hath said 4 And the LORD shall do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og kings of the Amorites and unto the land of them whom he destroyed 5 And * Chap. â— 2 the LORD shall give them up before your face that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you 6 Be strong and of a goood courage fear not nor be afraid of them for the LORD thy God he it is that doth go with thee he will not fail thee nor forsake thee 7 ¶ And Moses called unto Joshua and said unto him in the sight of all Israel Be strong and of a good courage for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them and thou shalt cause them to inherit it 8 And the LORD he it is that doth go before thee he will be with thee he will not fail thee neither forsake thee fear not neither be dismayed 9 ¶ And Moses wrote this law and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD and unto all the elders of Israel 10 And Moses commanded them saying At the end of every seven years in the solemnity of the * Chap. 25.1 year of release in the fâ—ast of tabernacles 11 When all Israel is come to appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose thou shalt read this law before all Israel in their hearing 12 Gather the people together men and women and children and thy stranger that is within thy gates that they may hear and that they may learn and fear the LORD your God and observe to do all the words of this law 13 And that their children which have not known any thing may hear and learn to fear the LORD your God as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it 14 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Behold thy days approach that thou must die call Joshua and present yourselves in the tabernacle of the congregation that I may give him a charge And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tabernacle of the congregation 15 And the LORD appeared in the tabernacle in a pillar of a cloud and the pillar of the cloud stood over the door of the tabernacle 16 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses Behold thou shalt †Heb. lie down sleep with thy fathers and this people will rise up and go a whoring after the gods of the strangers of the land whither they go to be amongst them and will forsake me and break my covenant which I have made with them 17 Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day and I will forsake them and I will hide my face from them and they shall be devoured and many evils and troubles shall †Heb. finde them befal them so that they will say in that day Are not these evils come upon us because our God is not amongst us 18 And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought in that they are turned unto other gods 19 Now therefore write ye this song for you and teach it the children of Israel put it in their mouths that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel 20 For when I shall have brought them into the land which I sware unto their fathers that floweth with milk and honey and they shall have eaten and filled themselves and waxen fat then will they turn unto other gods and serve them and provoke me and break my covenant 21 And it shall come to pass when many evils and troubles are befaln them that this song shall testifie †Heb. before against them as a witness for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed for I know their imagination which they †Heb. dâ— go about even now before I have brought them into the land which I sware 22 ¶ Moses
therefore wrote this song the same day and taught it the children of Israel 23 And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge and said * Jos 1.6 Be strong and of a good courage for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them and I will be with thee 24 ¶ And it came to pass when Moses had made an end of writing the words of this law in a book until they were finished 25 That Moses commanded the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD saying 26 Take this book of the law and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God that it may be there for a witness against thee 27 For I know thy rebellion and thy stiff neck behold while I am yet alive with you this day ye have been rebellious against the LORD and how much more after my death 28 Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes and your officers that I may speak these words in their ears and call heaven and earth to record against them 29 For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt your selves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you and evil will befal you in the latter days because ye will do evil in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands 30 And Moses spake in the ears of all the congregation of Israel the words of this song until they were ended CHAP. XXXII 1 Moses song which setteth forth Gods mercy and vengeance 46 He exhorteth them to set their hearts upon it 48 God sendeth him up to mount Nebo to see the land and die GIve ear O ye heavens and I will speak and hear O earth the words of my mouth 2 My doctrine shall drop as the rain my speech shall distil as the dew as the small rain upon the tender herb and as the showers upon the grass 3 Because I will publish the name of the LORD ascribe ye greatness unto our God 4 He is the Rock his work is perfect for all his ways are judgement a God of truth and without iniquity just and right is he 5 †Heb. he hath corrupted to himself They have corrupted themselves ‖ Or that they are not his children that is their blot their spot is not the spot of his children they are a perverse and crooked generation 6 Do ye thus requite the LORD O foolish people and unwise is not he thy father that hath bought thee hath he not made thee and established thee 7 ¶ Remember the days of old consider the years of †Heb. generation and generation many generations ask thy father and he will shew thee thy elders and they will tell thee 8 When the most high divided to the nations their inheritance when he separated the sons of Adam he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel 9 For the LORDs portion is his people Jacob is the †Heb. cord lot of his inheritance 10 He found him in a desert land and in the waste howling wilderness he ‖ Or compassed him about led him about he instructed him he kept him as the apple of his eye 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest fluttereth over her young spreadeth abroad her wings taketh them beareth them on her wings 12 So the LORD alone did lead him and there was no strange god with him 13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth that he might eat the increase of the fields and he made him to suck honey out of the rock and oyl out of the flinty rock 14 Butter of kine and milk of sheep with fat of lambs and rams of the breed of Bashan and goats with the fat of kidneys of wheat and thou didst drink the pure bloud of the grape 15 ¶ But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked thou art waxen fat thou art grown thick thou art covered with fatness then he forsook God which made him lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation 16 They provoked him to jealousie with strange gods with abominations provoked they him to anger 17 They sacrificed unto devils ‖ Or which were not God not to God to gods whom they knew not to new gods that came newly up whom your fathers feared not 18 Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful and hast forgotten God that formed thee 19 And when the LORD saw it he ‖ Or despised abhorred them because of the provoking of his sons and of his daughters 20 And he said I will hide my face from them I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward generation children in whom is no faith 21 They have moved me to jealousie with that which is not god they have provoked me to anger with their vanities and * Rom. 10.19 I will move them to jealousie with those which are not a people I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation 22 For a fire is kindled in my anger and ‖ Or hath burned shall burn unto the lowest hell and ‖ Or hath consumed shall consume the earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the mountains 23 I will heap mischiefs upon them I will spend mine arrows upon them 24 They shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with †Heb. burning â—oals burning heat and wâ—th bitter destruction I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them with the poyson of serpents of the dust 25 The sword without and terrour †Heb. from the chambers within shall †Heb. bereave destroy both the young man and the virgin the suckling also with the man of gray hairs 26 I said I would scatter them into corners I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely and lest they should say ‖ Or Our high hand and not the LORD hath done all this Our hand is high and the LORD hath not done all this 28 For they are a nation void of counsel neither is there any understanding in them 29 O that they were wise that they understood this that they would consider their latter end 30 How should * Jos 23.10 one chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight except their Rock had sold them and the LORD had shut them up 31 For their rock is not as our Rock even our enemies themselves being judges 32 For their vine ‖ Or is worse then the vine of Sodom c. is of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah their grapes are grapes of gall their clusters are bitter 33 Their wine is the poyson of dragons and the cruel venome of asps 34 Is not this laid up in store with
me and sealed up among my treasures 35 To me belongeth * Ecclus. 28.1 Rom. 12.19 Heb. 10.30 vengeance and recompense their foot shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make haste 36 For the LORD shall judge his people * 2 Mac. 7.6 and repent himself for his servants when he seeth that their †Heb. hand power is gone and there is none shut up or left 37 And he shall say Where are their gods their rock in whom they trusted 38 Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink-offerings let them rise up and help you and be †Heb. an hiding for you your protection 39 See now that I even I am he and there is no god with me * 1 Sam. 2 6. Tobit 13.2 wis 16.13 I kill and I make alive I wound and I heal neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven and say I live for ever 41 If I whet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on judgement I will render vengeance to mine enemies and will reward them that hate me 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with bloud and my sword shall devour flesh and that with the bloud of the slain and of the captives from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy 43 ‖ Or Praise his people ye nations or Sing ye * Rom. 15.10 Rejoyce O ye nations with his people for he will avenge the bloud of his servants and will render vengeance to his adversaries and will be merciful unto his land and to his people 44 ¶ And Moses came and spake all the words of this song in the ears of the people he and ‖ Or Joshua Hoshea the son of Nun. 45 And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel 46 And he said unto them * Chap. 6.6 and 11.18 Set your hearts unto all the words which I testifie among you this day which ye shall command your children to observe to do all the words of this law 47 For it is not a vain thing for you because it is your life through this thing ye shall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it 48 * Numb 27.12 And the LORD spake unto Moses that self-same day saying 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim unto mount Nebo which is in the land of Moab that is over against Jericho and behold the land of Canaan which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession 50 And die in the mount whither thou goest up and be gathered unto thy people as * Numb 20.25 28. and 33.38 Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor and was gathered unto his people 51 Because * Numb 20.12 13. and 27.14 ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of ‖ Or strife at Kadesh Meribah-Kadesh in the wilderness of Zin because ye sanctâ—fied me not in the midst of the children of Israel 52 Yet thou shalt see the land before thee but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel CHAP. XXXIII 1 The majesty of God 6 The blessings of the twelve tribes 26 The excellency of Israel ANd this is the blessing wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death 2 And he said the LORD came from Sinai and rose up from Seir unto them he shined forth from mount Paran and he came with ten thousands of saints from his right hand went †Heb a fire of law a fiery law for them 3 Yea he loved the people all his saints are in thy hand and they sat down at thy feet every one shall receive of thy words 4 Moses commanded us a law even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was king in Jeshurun when the heads of the people and the tribes of Israel were gathered together 6 ¶ Let Reuben live and not die and let not his men be few 7 ¶ And this is the blessing of Judah and he said Hear LORD the voice of Judah and bring him unto his people let his hands be sufficient for him and be thou an help to him from his enemies 8 ¶ And of Levi he said * Exod. 28.30 Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one whom thou didst prove at Massah and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah 9 Who said unto his father and to his mother I have not seen him neither did he acknowledge his brethren nor knew his own children for they have observed thy word and kept thy covenant 10 ‖ Or Let them teach c. They shall teach Jacob thy judgements and Israel thy law ‖ Or let them put incense they shall put incense †Heb. at thy nose before thee and whole burnt sacrifice upon thy altar 11 Bless LORD his substance and accept the work of his hands smite through the loyns of them that rise against him and of them that hate him that they rise not again 12 ¶ And of Benjamin he said The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him and the LORD shall cover him all the day long and he shall dwell between his shoulders 13 ¶ And of Joseph he said * Gen. 49.25 Blessed of the LORD be his land for the precious things of heaven for the dew and for the deep that coucheth beneath 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the sun and for the precious things †Heb. thrust forth put forth by the †Heb. moons moon 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains and for the precious things of the lasting hills 16 And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph and upon the top of the head of him that * Gen. 49.26 was separated from his brethren 17 His glory is like the firstling of his bullock and his horns are like the horns of unicorns with them he shall push the people together to the ends of the earth and they are the ten thousands of Ephraim and they are the thousands of Manasleh 18 ¶ And of Zebulun he said Rejoyce Zebulun in thy going out and Issachar in thy tents 19 They shall call the people unto the mountain there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of treasures hid in the sand 20 ¶ And of Gad he said Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad he dwelleth as a lion and teareth the arm with the crown of the head 21 And he provided the first part for himself because there in a portion of the law-giver was he
the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had and they brought them unto the valley of Achor 25 And Joshua said Why hast thou troubled us the LORD shall trouble thee this day And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fiâ—â— after they had stoned them with stones 26 And they raised over him a great heaâ— of stones unto this day So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger wherefore the name of that place was called The valley of ‖ That is trouble Achor unto this day CHAP. VIII 1 God encourageth Joshua 3 The stratagem whereby Ai was taken 29 The king thereof is hanged 30 Joshua buildeth an altar 32 writeth the law on stones 33 propoundeth blessings and cursings ANd the LORD said unto Joshua * Deu. 1.21 7.18 Fear not neither be thou dismayed take all the people of war with thee and arise go up to Ai see I have given into thy hand the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto * Ch. 6.21 Jericho and her king onely * Deu. 2â— 14 the spoil thereof and the cattel thereof shall ye take for a prey unto your selves lay thee an ambush for the city behind it 3 ¶ So Joshua arose and all the people of war to go up against Ai and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour and sent them away by night 4 And he commanded them saying Behold ye shall lie in wait against the city even behinde the city go not very far from the city but be ye all ready 5 And I and all the people that are with me will approach unto the city and it shall come to pass when they come out against us as at the first that we will flee before them 6 For they will come out after us till we have †Heb. â—ullâ—d drawn them from the city for they will say They flee before us as at the first therefore we will fâ—â—e before them 7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush and seise upon the city for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand 8 And it shall be when ye have taken the city that ye shall set the city on fire according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do See I have commanded you 9 ¶ Joshua therefore sent them forth and they went to lie in ambush and abode between Beth-el and Ai on the west-side of Ai but Joshua lodged that night among the people 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning and numbred the people and went up he and the elders of Israel before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people even the people of war that were with him went up and drew nigh and came before the city and pitched on the north-side of Ai now there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai on the west-side ‖ Or of Ai. of the city 13 And when they had set the people even all the host that was on the north of the city and †Heb. their lying in wait their liers in wait on the west of the city Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley 14 ¶ And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw it that they hasted and rose up early and the men of the city went out against Israel to battel he and all his people at a time appointed before the plain but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behinde the city 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el that went not out after Israel and they left the city open and pursued after Israel 18 And the LORD said unto Joshua Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai for I will give it into thine hand And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran assoon as he had stretched out his hand and they entred into the city and took it and hasted and set the city on fire 20 And when the men of Ai looked behinde them they saw and behold the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven and they had no †Heb. hand power to flee this way or that way and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended then they turned again and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the other issued out of the city against them so they were in the midst of Israel some on this side and some on that side and they smote them so that they * Deut. 7.2 let none of them remain or escape 23 And the king of Ai they took alive and brought him to Joshua 24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field in the wilderness wherein they chased them and when they were all â—aln on the edge of the sword until they were consumed that all the Israelites returned unto Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword 25 And so it was that all that fell that day both of men and women were twelve thousand even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 * Num. 31.22.26 Onely the cattel and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves according unto the word of the LORD which he * Vers 2. commanded Joshua 28 And Joshua burnt Ai and made it an heap for ever even a desolation unto this day 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until even-tide and assoon as the sun was down Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entring of the gate of the city and * Chap. 7.26 raise thereon a great heap of stones that remaineth unto this day 30 ¶ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel as it is written in the * Exod. 20.25 Deut. 27.5 book of the law of Moses an altar of whole stones over which no man
the son of Manasseh even to the one half of the * Numb 32.39 children of Machir by their families 32 These are the countreys which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab on the other side Jordan by Jericho east-ward 33 * Chap. 18.7 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance * Numb 18.20 as he said unto them CHAP. XIV 1 The nine tribes and an half are to have their inheritance by lot 6 Caleb by priviledge obtaineth Hebron ANd these are the countreys which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan * Numb 34.17 which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance unto them 2 * Num. 26.55 and 33.54 By lot was their inheritance as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses for the nine tribes and for the half-tribe 3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half-tribe on the other side Jordan but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes Manasseh Ephraim therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land save cities to dwell in with their suburbs for their cattel and for their substance 5 * Numb 35.2 Chap. 21.2 As the LORD commanded Moses so the children of Israel did and they divided the land 6 ¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea 7 Fourty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to espie out the land and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart 8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt but I wholly * Numb 14.24 followed the LORD my God 9 And Moses sware on that day saying Surely the land whereon thy feet have troden shall be thine inheritance and thy childrens for ever because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God 10 And now behold the LORD hath kept me alive as he said these fourty and five years even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses while the children of Israel †Heb. walâ—â—d wandred in the wilderness and now lo I am this day fourscore and five years old 11 * Ecclus â—6 9 As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then even so is my strength now for war both to go out and to come in 12 Now therefore give me this mountain whereof the LORD spake in that day for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced if so be the LORD will be with me then I shall be able to drive them out as the LORD said 13 And Joshua blessed him and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance 14 * Chap. 21.12 1 Mac. 2.56 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel 15 And * Chap. 15.13 the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba which Arba was a great man among the Anakims And the land had rest from war CHAP. XV. 1 The borders of the lot of Judah 13 Calebs portion and conquest 16 Othniel for his valour hath Achsah Calebs daughter to wife 18 She obtaineth a blessing of her father 21 The cities of Judah 63 The Jebusites not conquered THis then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families * Numb 34.3 even to the border of Edom the * Numb 33.36 wilderness of Zin south-ward was the uttermost part of the south-coast 2 And their south-border was from the shore of the salt-sea from the †Heb. tongue bay that looketh south-ward 3 And it went out to the south-side to ‖ Or the going up to Acrabbim Maaleh-acrabbim and passed along to Zin and ascended up on the south-side unto Cadesh barnea and passed along to Hezron and went up to Adar and fetched a compass to Karkaa 4 From thence it passed toward Azmon and went out unto the river of Egypt and the goings out of that coast were at the sea this shall be your south-coast 5 And the east-border was the salt-sea even unto the end of Jordan and their border in the north-quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan 6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla and passed along by the north of Beth-arabah and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben 7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor and so north-ward looking toward Gilgal that is before the going up to Adummim which is on the south-side of the river and the border passed towards the waters of Enshemesh and the goings out thereof were at * 1 King â— 8 En-rogel 8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the south-side of the Jebusite the fame is Jerusalem the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom west-ward which is at the end of the valley of the giants north-ward 9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain of the water of Nephroah and went out to the cities of mount Ephron and the border was drawn to Baalah which is Kirjath-jearim 10 And the border compassed from Baalah west-ward unto mount Seir and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim which is Chesalon on the north-side went down to Beth-shemesh passed on to Timnah 11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron north-ward and the border was drawn to Shicron passed along to mount Baalah and went out unto Jabneel and the goings out of the border were at the sea 12 And the west-border was to the great sea and the coast thereof this is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families 13 ¶ And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua even * Chap. 14.15 ‖ Or Kirjath-arba the city of Arba the father of Anak which city is Hebron 14 And Caleb drove thence * Judg. 1.10 the three sons of Anak Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai the children of Anak 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher 16 ¶ And Caleb said He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher and taketh it to him will I give Achsah my
according to all that he sware unto their father and there stood not a man of all their enemâ—es before them the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand 45 * Chap. 23.14 15. There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel all came to pass CHAP. XXII 1 The two tribes and half with a blessing are sent home 10 They build the altar of testimony in their journey 11 The Israelites are offended thereat 21 They give them good satisfaction THen Joshua called the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2 And said unto them Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you 3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God 4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren as he promised them therefore now return ye and get ye unto your tents and unto the land of your possession * Num 32.33 Chap. 138. which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan 5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you * Deut. 10.12 to love the LORD your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave unto him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul 6 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away and they went unto their tents 7 ¶ Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan west-ward And when â—oshua sent them away alâ—o unto their tents then he blessed them 8 And he spake unto them saying Return with much riches unto your tents and with very much castel with silver and with gold and with brass and with â—ron and with very much raiment divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren 9 ¶ And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh whâ—ch is in the land of Canaan to go unto the countrey of Gilead to the land of their possession whereof they were possessed according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses 10 ¶ And when they came unto the borders of Jordan that are in the land of Canaan the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan a great aâ—tar to see to 11 ¶ And the children of Israel heard say Behold the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan in the borders of Jordan at the passage of the children of Israel 12 And when the children of Israel heard of it the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben and to the â—hildren of Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh into the land of Gilead Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest 14 And with him ten princes of each †Hâ—b house of 〈◊〉 father chief house a prince throughoâ—t all the tribe of Israel and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel 15 And they came unto the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half-tribe of Manasseh unto the land of Gilead and they spake with them saying 16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel to turn away this day from following the LORD in that ye have builded you an altar that ye might râ—bel this day against the LORD 17 Is the iniquity * Numb 25.4 of Peor too little for us from which we are not clâ—ansed until this day although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD 18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD and it will be seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel 19 Notwithstanding if the land of your possession be unclean then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD wherein the LORDS tabernacle dwelleth and take possession among us but rebel not against the LORD nor rebel against us in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God 20 * Chap. 7. â— 5 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel and that man perished not alone in his iniquity 21 ¶ Then the â—hildren of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel 22 The LORD God of gods the LORD God of gods he knoweth and Israel he shall know it be in rebellion or if in transgression against the LORD save us not this day 23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or meat-offering or it to offer peace-offerings thereon let the LORD himself require it 24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing saying †Heb. To morrow In time to come your children might speak unto our children saying What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel 25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you ye children of Reuben and children of Gad ye have no part in the LORD so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD 26 Therefore we said Let us now prepare to build us an altar not for burnt-offering nor for sacrifice 27 But that it may be * Gen. 31.48 Ch. 24 27. Vers 34. a witness between us and you and our generations after us that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt-offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace-offerings that your children may not say to our children in time to come Ye have no part in the LORD 28 Therefore said we that it shall be when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come that we may say again Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD which our fathers made not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices but it is a witness between us and you 29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD and turn this day from following the LORD to build an altar for burnt-offerings for meat offerings or for sacrifices besides the altar
of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle 30 ¶ And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake †Heb. it was good in their eyes it pleased them 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the children of Manasseh This day we perceive that the LORD is among us because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD †Heb. then now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD 32 ¶ And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest and the princes returned from the children of Reuben and from the children of Gad out of the land of Gilead unto the land of Canaan to the children of Israel and brought them word again 33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel and the children of Israel blessed God and did not intend to go up against them in battel to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt 34 And the chiâ—dren of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar ‖ That is A witness Ed for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God CHAP. XXIII 1 Joshua's exhortation before his death 3 by former benâ—fits 5 by promises 11 and by threatnings ANd it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about that Joshua waxed old and †Heb. come into days stricken in age 2 And Joshua called for all Israel and for their elders and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and said unto them I am old and stricken in age 3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you for the * Exod. 14.14 LORD your God is he that hath fought for you 4 Behold I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain to be an inheritance for your tribes from Jordan with all the nations that I have cut off even unto the great sea †Heb. at the sunsâ—â— west-ward 5 And the LORD your God he shall expel them from before you and drive them from out of your sight and ye shall possess their land as the LORD your God hath promised unto you 6 Be ye therefore very couragious to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses * Deu. 5. â—2 28.14 that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left 7 That ye come not among these nations these that remain amongst you neither * Ps 16.4 make mention of the name of their gods nor cause to swear by them neither serve them nor bow your selves unto them 8 ‖ Or for if you will cleave c. But cleave unto the LORD your God as ye have done unto this day 9 ‖ Or then the LORD will drive For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong but as for you no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day 10 * Lev. 26.8 Deu. 32.30 One man of you shall chase a thousand for the LORD your God he it is that fighteth for you as he hath promised you 11 Take good heed therefore unto your †Heb souls selves that ye love the LORD your God 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back and cleave unto the remnant of these nations even these that remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in unto them and they to you 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you * Exod. 23.33 Num. 33.55 Deu. â— 16 but they shall be snares and traps unto you aâ—â— scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you 14 And behold this day I am going the way of all the earth and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls that * Ch. 21.45 not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you all are come to pass unto you and not one thing hath failed thereof 15 Therefore it shall come to pass that as all good things are comâ— upon you which the LORD your God promised you so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you 16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God which he commanded you and have gone and served other gods and bowed your selves to them then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you CHAP. XXIV 1 Joshua assembleth the tribes at Shechem 2 A brief history of Gods benifits from Terah 14 He reneweth a covenant between them and God 26 A stone the witness of the covenant 29 Jâ—shua's age death and burial 32 Josephs bonâ—s are buried 33 Eleazar dieth ANd Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and they presented themselves before God 2 And Joshua said unto all the people Thus saith the LORD God of Israel * Geâ— 11.31 Judith 5.6 7. Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the floud in old time even Terah the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor and they served other gods 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the floud and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and * Gen. 21.2 gave him Isaac 4 And I gave unto Isaac * Gen. 25.26 Jacob and Esau and I gave unto * Gen. 36.8 Esau mount Seir to possess it * Gen. 46.6 but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt 5 * Ex. â— 10 I sent Moses also and Aaron and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did amongst them and afterward I brought you out 6 And I * Ex. 12.37 brought your fathers out of Egypt and you came unto the sea and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and hors-men unto * Ex. 14.9 the Red sea 7 And when they cried unto the LORD he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites which dwelt on the other side
he went against the inhabitants of Debir and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher 12 And Caleh said He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher and taketh it to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz Calebs younger brother took it and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife 14 And it came to pass when she came to him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass and Caleb said unto her What wilt thou 15 And she said unto him Give me a blessing for thou hast given me a south-land give me also springs of water And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs 16 ¶ And the children of the Kenite Moses father in law went up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah which lieth in the south of Arad and they went and dwelt among the people 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath and utterly destroyed it and the name of the city was called * Numb 21.3 Hormah 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof and Askelon with the coast thereof and Ekron with the coast thereof 19 And the LORD was with Judah and ‖ Or be possessed the mountain he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley because they had chariots of iron 20 * Numb 14.24 Jos 14.13 15.13 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb as Moses said and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day 22 ¶ And the house of Joseph they also went up against Beth-el and the LORD was with them 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el now the name of the city before was * Gen. 28.10 Luz 24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city and they said unto him Shew us we pray thee the entrance into the city and * Jos 2.14 we will shew thee mercy 25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city they smote the city with the edge of the sword but they let go the man and all his family 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and called the name thereof Luz which is the name thereof unto this day 27 ¶ * Jos 17.11 12. Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns nor Taanach and her towns nor the inhabitants of Dor and her towns nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns but the Canaanites would dwell in that land 28 And it came to pass when Israel was strong that they put the Canaanites to tribute and did not utterly drive them out 29 ¶ * Jos 16.10 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them 30 ¶ Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron nor the inhabitants of Nahalol but the Canaanites dwelt among them and became tributaries 31 ¶ Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho nor the inhabitants of Zidon nor of Ahlab nor Achzib nor Helbah nor Aphik nor of Rehob 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land for they did not drive them out 33 ¶ Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath but he dwelt among the Canaanites the inhabitants of the land nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto them 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Ajjalon and in Shaalbim yet the hand of the house of Joseph †Heb. was heavy prevailed so that they became tributaries 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from ‖ Or. Maaleb-akrabbim the going up to Akrabbim from the rock and upward CHAP. II. 1 An angel rebuketh the people at Bochim 6 The wickedness of the new generation after Joshua 14 Gods anger and pity towards them 20 The Canaanites are lest to â—rove Israel ANd an ‖ Or messenger angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim and said I made you to go up out of Egypt and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers and I said I will never break my covenant with you 2 And * Deu. 7.2 ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land * Deu. 12.3 you shall throw down their altars but ye have not obeyed my voice why have ye done this 3 Wherefore I also said I will not drive them out from before you but they shall be * Jos 23.13 as thorns in your sides and their gods shall be a * Ex. 23.33 34.12 snare unto you 4 And it came to pass when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel that the people lift up their voice and wept 5 And they called the name of that place ‖ That is weepers Bochim and they sacrificed there unto the LORD 6 ¶ And when Joshua had let the people go the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land 7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders that †Heb. prolonâ—el days after Joshua outlived Joshua who had seen all the great works of the LORD that he did for Israel 8 And Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died being an hundred and ten years old 9 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres in the mount of Ephraim on the north-side of the hill Gaash 10 And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers and there arose another generation after them which knew not the LORD nor yet the works which he had done for Israel 11 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD and served Baalim 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers which brought them out of the land of Egypt and followed other gods of the gods of the people that were round about them and bowed themselves unto them and provoked the LORD to anger 13 And they forsook the LORD and served Baal and Ashtaroth 14 ¶ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them and * Ps 44 1â— Isa 50.1 he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about so that they could not any longer stand before their
years and died and was buried in Shamir 3 ¶ And after him arose Jair a Gileadite and judged Israel twenty and two years 4 And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass-colts and they had thirty cities which are called ‖ Or the villages of Jair Havoth jair unto this day which are in the land of Gilead 5 And Jair died and was buried in Camon 6 And * Chap. 2.11 3.7 4.1 6.1 13.1 the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD and served Baalim and * Chap. 2.13 Ashâ—aroth and the gods of Syria and the gods of Zidon and the gods of Moab and the gods of the children of Ammon and the gods of the Philistines and forsook the LORD and served not him 7 ¶ And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon 8 And that year they vexed and †Heb. crushed oppressed the children of Israel eighteen years all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead 9 Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim so that Israel was sore distressed 10 ¶ And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD saying We have sinned against thee both because we have forsaken our God and also served Baalim 11 And the LORD said unto the children of Israel Did not I deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites from the children of Ammon and from the Philistines 12 The Zidonians also and the Amalekites and the Maonites did oppress you and ye cried to me and I delivered you out of their hand 13 * Deut. 32.15 Jer. 2.13 Yet ye have forsaken me and served other gods wheresore I will deliver you no more 14 Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation 15 ¶ And the children of Israel said unto the LORD We have sinned do thou unto us whatsoever †Heb. is good in thine eyes seemeth good unto thee deliver us onely we pray thee this day 16 And they put away the †Heb. gods of strangers strange gods from among them and served the LORD and his soul †Heb. was shortned was grieved for the misery of Israel 17 Then the children of Ammon were †Heb. cried together gathered together and encamped in Gilead and the children of Israel assembled themselves together and encamped in Mizpeh 18 And the people and princes of Gilead said one to another What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon he shall * Chap. 11.8 be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead CHAP. XI 1 The covenant between Jephthah and the Gileadites that he should be their head 12 The treaty of peace between him and the Ammonites is in vain 29 Jephthah's vow 32 His conquest of the Ammonites 34 He performeth his vow on his daughter NOw * Heb. 11.32 called Jephthae Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour and he was the son of †Heb. a woman an harlot an harlot and Gilead begat Jephthah 2 And Gileads wife bare him sons and his wives sons grew up and they thrust out Jephthah and said unto him Thou shalt not inherit in our fathers house for thou art the son of a strange woman 3 Then Jephthah fled †Heb. from the face from his brethren and dwelt in the land of Tob and there were gathered vain men to Jephthah and went out with him 4 ¶ And it came to pass †Heb. after days in process of time that the children of Ammon made war against Israel 5 And it was so that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob 6 And they said unto Jephthah Come and be our captain that we may fight with the children of Ammon 7 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead Did not ye hate me and expel me out of my fathers house and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress 8 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah Therefore we turn again to thee now that thou mayest go with us and fight against the children of Ammon be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead 9 And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon and the LORD deliver them before me shall I be your head 10 And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah The LORD †Heb. be the hearer between us be witness between us if we do not so according to thy words 11 Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead and the people made him head and captain over them and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh 12 ¶ And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon saying What hast thou to do with me that thou art come against me to fight in my land 13 And the king of the children of Ammon answered unto the messengers of Jephthah * Numb 21.13 Because Israel took away my land when they came up out of Egypt from Arnon even unto Jabbok and unto Jordan now therefore restore those lands again peaceably 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon 15 And said unto him Thus saith Jephthah * Deu. 2.9 Israel took not away the land of Moab nor the land of the children of Ammon 16 But when Israel came up from Egypt and walked through the wilderness unto the Red sea and came to Cadesh 17 Then * Numb 20.14 Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom saying Let me I pray thee pass through thy land but the king of Edom would not hearken thereto And in like manner they sent unto the king of Moab but he would not consent and Israel abode in Kadesh 18 Then they went along through the wilderness and compassed the land of Edom and the land of Moab and came by the east-side of the land of Moab and pitched on the other side of Arnon * Numb 21.13 and 22.36 but came not within the border of Moab for Arnon was the border of Moab 19 And * Deut. 2.26 Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites the king of Heshbon and Israel said unto him Let us pass we pray thee through thy land unto my place 20 But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast but Sihon gathered all his people together and pitched in Jahaz and fought against Israel 21 And the LORD God of Israel delivered Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel and they smote them so Israel possessed
all the land of the Amorites the inhabitants of that countrey 22 And they possessed * Deut. 2.36 all the coasts of the Amorites from Arnon even unto Jabbok and from the wilderness even unto Jordan 23 So now the LORD God of Israel hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel and shouldest thou possess it 24 Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy God giveth thee to possess So whomsoever the LORD our God shall drive out from before us them will we possess 25 * Numb 22.2 Deut. 23.4 Josh 24.9 And now art thou any thing better then Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab did he ever strive against Israel or did he ever fight against them 26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns and in Aroer and her towns and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon three hundred years why therefore did ye not recover them within that time 27 Wherefore I have not sinned against thee but thou doest me wrong to war against me the LORD the Judge be judge this day between the children of Israel and the children of Ammon 28 Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkned not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him 29 ¶ Then the spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah and he passed over Gilead and Manasseh and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon 30 And Jephthah vowed a vow unto the LORD and said If thou shalt without fail deliver the children of Ammon into mine hands 31 Then it shalt be that †Heb. that which cometh forth which shall come forth whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me when I return in peace from the children of Ammon shall surely be the LORDS ‖ Or. I will offer it c. and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering 32 ¶ So Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them and the LORD delivered them into his hands 33 And he smote them from Aroer even till thou come to Minnith even twenty cities and unto ‖ Or Abel the plain of the vineyards with a very great slaughter Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel 34 ¶ And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house and behold his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances and she was his onely childe ‖ Or he had not of his own either son or daughter †Heb. of himself beside her he had neither son nor daughter 35 And it came to pass when he saw her that he rent his clothes and said Alas my daughter thou hast brought me very low and thou art one of them that trouble me for I have opened my mouth unto the LORD and I cannot go back 36 And she said unto him My father if thou hast opened thy mouth unto the LORD do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth forasmuch as the LORD hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies even of the children of Ammon 37 And she said unto her father Let this thing be done for me Let me alone two moneths that I may †Heb. go and go down go up and down upon the mountains and bewail my virginity I and my fellows 38 And he said Go. And he sent her away for two moneths and she went with her companions and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains 39 And it came to pass at the end of two moneths that she returned unto her father who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed and she knew no man And it was a ‖ Or ordinance custom in Israel 40 That the daughters of Israel went †Heb. from year to year yearly ‖ Or to talk with to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in a year CHAP. XII 1 The Ephraimites quarrelling with Jephthah and discerned by Shibboleth art slain by the Gileadites 7 Jephthah dieth 8 Ibzan who had thirty sons and thirty daughters 11 and Elon 13 and Abdon who had fourty sons and thirty nephews judged Israel ANd the men of Ephraim †Heb. were called gathered themselves together and went north-ward and said unto Jephthah Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon and didst not call us to go with thee we will burn thine house upon thee with fire 2 And Jephthah said unto them I and my people were at great strife with the children of Ammon and when I called you ye delivered me not out of their hands 3 And when I saw that ye delivered me not I put my life in my hands and passed over against the children of Ammon and the LORD delivered them into my hand wherefore then are ye come up unto me this day to fight against me 4 Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim because they said Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites and among the Manassites 5 And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites and it was so that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said Let me go over that the men of Gilead said unto him Art thou an Ephraimite If he said Nay 6 Then said they unto him Say now Shibboleth and he said Sibboleth for he could not frame to pronounce it right Then they took him and slew him at the passages of Jordan and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites fourty and two thousand 7 And Jephthah judged Israel six years then died Jephthah the Gileadite and was buried in one of the cities of Gilead 8 ¶ And after him Ibzan of Beth-lehem judged Israel 9 And he had thirty sons and thirty daughters whom he sent abroad and took in thirty daughters from abroad for his sons And he judged Israel seven years 10 Then died Ibzan and was buried at Beth-lehem 11 ¶ And after him Elon a Zebulonite judged Israel and he judged Israel ten years 12 And Elon the Zebulonite died and was buried in Ajjalon in the countrey of Zebulun 13 ¶ And after him Abdon the son of Hillel a Pirathonite judged Israel 14 And he had fourty sons and thirty †Heb. sons sons nephews that rode on threescore and ten aâ—s-colts and he judged Israel eight years 15 And Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died and was buried in Pirathon in the land of Ephraim in the mount of the Amalekites CHAP. XIII 1 Israel is in the hand of the Philistines 2 An angel appeareth to Manoahs wife 8 The angel appeareth to Manoah 15 Manoahs sacrifice whereby the angel is discovered 24 Samson is born ANd the children of Israel †Heb. added to commit c. * Ch. 2.11 3.7 4.1 6.1 10.6 did evil again in the sight of the LORD
and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines fourty years 2 ¶ And there was a certain man of Zorah of the family of the Danites whose name was Manoah and his wife was barren and bare not 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto the woman and said unto her Behold now thou art barren and bearest not but thou shalt conceive and bear a son 4 Now therefore beware I pray thee and * Numb 6 2 3. drink not wine nor strong drink and eat not any unclean thing 5 For lo thou shalt conceive and bear a son and * Numb 6.5 1 Sam. 1.11 no rasour shall come on his head for the childe shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the Philistines 6 ¶ Then the woman came and told her husband saying A man of God came unto me and his countenance was like the countenance of an angel of God very terrible but I asked him not whence he was neither told he me his name 7 But he said unto me Behold thou shalt conceive and bear a son and now drink no wine nor strong drink neither eat any unclean thing for the childe shall be a Nazarite to God from the womb to the day of his death 8 ¶ Then Manoah intreated the LORD and said O my Lord let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us and teach us what we shall do unto the childe that shall be born 9 And God hearkned to the voice of Manoah and the angel of God came again unto the woman as she sat in the field but Manoah her husband was not with her 10 And the woman made haste and ran and shewed her husband and said unto him Behold the man hath appeared unto me that came unto me the other day 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife and came to the man and said unto him Art thou the man that spakest unto the woman And he said I am 12 And Manoah said Now let thy words come to pass †Heb. What shall be the manner of the c. How shall we order the childe and ‖ Or what shall be do †Heb. what shall be his work how shall we do unto him 13 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware 14 She may not eat of any thing that cometh of the vine neither let her drink wine or strong drink nor eat any unclean thing all that I commanded her let her observe 15 ¶ And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD I pray thee let us detain thee until we shall have made ready a kid †Heb. before thee for thee 16 And the angel of the LORD said unto Manoah Though thou detain me I will not eat of thy bread and it thou wilt offer a burnt-offering thou must offer it unto the LORD for Manoah knew not that he was an angel of the LORD 17 And Manoah said unto the angel of the LORD What is thy name that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour 18 And the angel of the LORD said unto him Why askest thou thus after my name seeing it is ‖ Or wonderful secret 19 So Manoah took a kid with a meat-offering and offered it upon a rock unto the LORD and the angel did wondrously and Manoah and his wife looked on 20 For it came to pass when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar and Manoah and his wife looked on it and fell on their faces to the ground 21 But the angel of the LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife Then Manoah knew that he was an angel of the LORD 22 And Manoah said unto his wife * Exod. 33.20 Ch. 6.22 We shall surely die because we have seen God 23 But his wife said unto him If the LORD were pleased to kill us he would not have received a burnt-offering and a meat-offering at our hands neither would he have shewed us all these things nor would as at this time have told us such things as these 24 ¶ And the woman bare a son and called his name Samson and the childe grew and the LORD blessed him 25 And the spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol CHAP. XIV 1 Samson desireth a wife of the Philistines 5 In his journey he killeth a lion 8 In a second journey be findeth honey in the carcase 10 Samsons marriate-feast 12 His riddle by his wife is made known 19 He spoileth thirty Philistines 20 His wife is married to another ANd Samson went down to Timnath and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines 2 And he came up and told his father and his mother and said I have seen a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines now therefore get her for me to wife 3 Then his father and his mother said unto him Is there never a woman among the daughters of thy brethren or among all my people that thou goest to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines And Samson said unto his father Get her for me for †Heb. she is right in mine eyes she pleaseth me well 4 But his father and his mother knew not that it was of the LORD that he sought an occasion against the Philistines for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel 5 Then went Samson down and his father and his mother to Timnath and came to the vineyards of Timnath and behold a young lion roared †Heb. in meeting him against him 6 And the spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him and he rent him as he would have rent a kid and he had nothing in his hand but he told not his father or his mother what he had done 7 And he went down and talked with the woman and she pleased Samson well 8 ¶ And after a time he returned to take her and he turned aside to see the carcase of the lion and behold there was a swarm of bees and honey in the carcase of the lion 9 And he took thereof in his hands and went on eating and came to his father and mother and he gave them and they did eat but he told not them that he had taken the honey out of the carcase of the lion 10 ¶ So his father went down unto the woman and Samson made there a feast for so used the young men to do 11 And it came to pass when they saw him that they brought thirty companions to be with him 12 ¶ And Samson said unto them I will now put forth a riddle unto you if you can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast and finde it out then I will give
dealings by all this people 24 Nay my sons for it is no good report that I hear ye make the LORDS people ‖ Or to cry out to transgress 25 If one man sin against another the judge shall judge him but if a man sin against the LORD who shall intreat for him Notwithstanding they hearkned not unto the voice of their father because the LORD would slay them 26 And the childe Samuel grew on and was in favour both with the LORD and also with men 27 ¶ And there came a man of God unto Eli and said unto him Thus saith the LORD Did I plainly appear unto the house of thy father when they were in Egypt in Pharaohs house 28 And did I choose him out of all the tribes of Israel to be my priest to offer upon mine altar to burn incense to wear an ephod before me and * Levit. 10.14 did I give unto the house of thy father all the offerings made by fire of the children of Israel 29 Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering which I have commanded in my habitation and honourest thy sons above me to make your selves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people 30 Wherefore the LORD God of Israel saith I said indeed that thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever but now the LORD saith Be it far from me for them that honour me I will honour and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed 31 Behold the days come that I will cut off thine arm and the arm of thy fathers house that there shall not be an old man in thine house 32 And thou shalt see ‖ Or the affliction of the tabernacle for all the wealth which God would have given Israel an enemy in my habitation in all the wealth which God shall give Israel and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever 33 And the man of thine whom I shall not cut off from mine altar shall be to consume thine eyes and to grieve thine heart and all the increase of mine house shall die †Heb. men â— in the flower of their age 34 And this shall be a signe unto thee that shall come upon thy two sons on Hophni and Phinehas in one day they shall die both of them 35 And I will raise me up a faithful priest that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my minde and I will build him a fure house and he shall walk before mine Anointed for ever 36 And it shall come to pasâ— that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread and shall say †Heb. Joyn. Put me I pray thee into ‖ Or somewhat about the priestbood one of the priests offices that I may eat a piece of bread CHAP. III. 1 How the word of the Lord was first revealed to Samuel 11 God telleth Samuel the destruction of Eli's house 15 Samuel though loth telleth Eli the vision 19 Samuel groweth in credit ANd the childe Samuel ministred unto the LORD before Eli and the word of the LORD was precious in those days there was no open vision 2 And it came to pass at that time when Eli was laid down in his place and his eyes began to wax dim that he could not see 3 And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple of the LORD where the ark of God was and Samuel was laid down to sleep 4 That the LORD called Samuel and he answered Here am I. 5 And he ran unto Eli and said Here am I for thou calledst me And he said I called not â—â—e down again And he went and lay down 6 And the LORD called yet again Samuel And Samuel arose and went to Eli and said Here am I for thou didst call me And he answered I called not my son lie down again 7 ‖ Or Thus did Samuel before he knew the LORD and before the word of the LORD was revealed unto him Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD neither was the word of the LORD yet revealed unto him 8 And the LORD called Samuel again the third time And he arose and went to Eli and said Here am I for thou didst call me And Eli perceived that the LORD had called the childe 9 Therefore Eli said unto Samuel Go lie down and it shall be if he call thee that thou shalt say Speak LORD for thy servant heareth So Samuel went and lay down in his place 10 And the LORD came and stood and called as at other times Samuel Samuel Then Samuel answered Speak for thy servant heareth 11 ¶ And the LORD said to Samuel Behold I will do a thing in Israel at which both the ears of * 2 Kings 21.12 every one that heareth it shall tingle 12 In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house †Heb. beginning and ending when I begin I will also make an end 13 ‖ Or And I will tell him c. * Chap. 2.29 30 31 c. For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth because his sons made themselves ‖ Or accursed vile and he †Heb. frowned not upon them restrained them not 14 And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever 15 ¶ And Samuel lay until the morning and opened the doors of the house of the LORD and Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision 16 Then Eli called Samuel and said Samuel my son And he answered Here am I. 17 And he aid What is the thing that the LORD hath said unto thee I pray thee hide it not from me God do â—o 〈◊〉 thee and †Heb. so add more also if thou hide any ‖ Or word thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee 18 And Samuel told him †Heb. aâ—â— the thines or worâ—s every whit and hid nothing from him And he said It is the LORD let him do what seemeth him good 19 ¶ And Samuel grew and the LORD was with him and did let none of his words fall to the ground 20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was ‖ Or faithful established to be a prophet of the LORD 21 And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of the LORD CHAP. IV. 1 The Israelites are overcome by the Philistines at Eben-ezer 3 They fetch the ark to the terrour of the Philistines 10 They are smitten again the ark taken Hophm and Phinehas are slain 12 Eli at the news falling backward breaketh his neck 19 Phinebas wise discouraged in her travail with
with my lord then remember thine hand-maid 32 ¶ And David said to Abigail Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me 33 And blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept me this day from coming to shed bloud and from avenging my self with mine own hand 34 For in very deed as the LORD God of Israel liveth which hath kept me back from hurting thee except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall 35 So David received of her hand that which she had brought him and said unto her Go up in peace to thine house see I have hearkned to thy voice and have accepted thy person 36 ¶ And Abigail came to Nabal and behold he held a seast in his house like the feast of a king and Nabals heart was merry within him for he was very drunken wherefore she told him nothing less or more until the morning light 37 But it came to pass in the morning when the wine was gone out of Nabal and his wife had told him these things that his heart died within him and he became as a stone 38 And it came to pass about ten days after that the LORD smote Nabal that he died 39 ¶ And when David heard that Nabal was dead he said Blessed be the LORD that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal and hath kept his servant from evil for the LORD hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head And David sent and communed with Abigail to take her to him to wife 40 And when the servants of David were come to Abigail to Carmel they spake unto her saying David sent us unto thee to take thee to him to wife 41 And she arose and bowed her self on her face to the earth and said Behold let thine hand-maid be a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord 42 And Abigail hasted and arose and rode upon an ass with five damsels of hers that went †Heb. at her feet after her and she went after the messengers of David and became his wife 43 David also took Ahinoam * Josh 25.56 of Jezreel and they were also both of them his wives 44 ¶ But Saul had given * 2 Sam. 3.14 15. Michal his daughter Davids wife to Phalti the son of Laish which was of Gallim CHAP. XXVI 1 Saul by the diseovery of the Ziphites cometh to Hachilah against David 4 David coming into the trench stayeth Abishai from killing Saul but taketh his spear and cruse 13 David reproveth Abner 18 and exhorteth Saul 21 Saul acknowledgeth his sin ANd the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah saying * Chap. 28.19 Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah which is before Jeshimon 2 Then Saul arose and went down to the wilderness of Ziph having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph. 3 And Saul pitched in the hill of Hachilah which is before Jeshimon by the way but David abode in the wilderness and he saw that Saul came after him into the wilderness 4 David therefore sent out spies and understood that Saul was come in very deed 5 ¶ And David arose and came to the place where Saul had pitched and David beheld the place where Saul lay and * Chap. 14.50 17.55 Abner the son of Ner the captain of his host and Saul lay in the ‖ Or midst of his carriages trench and the people pitched round about him 6 Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah brother to Joab saying Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp And Abishai said I will go down with thee 7 So David and Abishai came to the people by night and behold Saul lay sleeping within the trench and his spear stuck in the ground at his bolster but Abner and the people lay round about him 8 Then said Abishai to David God hath †Heb. shut up delivered thine enemy into thine hand this day now therefore let me smite him I pray thee with the spear even to the earth at once and I will not smite him the second time 9 And David said to Abishai Destroy him not for who can stretch forth his hand against the LORDS anointed and be guiltless 10 David said furthermore As the LORD liveth the LORD shall smite him or his day shall come to die or he shall descend into battel and perish 11 The LORD forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the LORDS anointed but I pray thee take thou now the spear that is at his bolster and the cruse of water and let us go 12 So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Sauls bolster and they gat them away and no man saw it nor knew it neither awaked for they were all asleep because a deep sleep from the LORD was faln upon them 13 ¶ Then David went over to the other side and stood on the top of an hill afar off a great space being between them 14 And David cried to the people and to Abner the son of Ner saying Answerest thou not Abner Then Abner answered and said Who art thou that criest to the king 15 And David said to Abner Art not thou a valiant man and who is like to thee in Israel wherefore then hast thou not kept thy lord the king for there came one of the people in to destroy the king thy lord 16 This thing is not good that thou hast done as the LORD liveth ye are †Heb. the sons of death worthy to die because ye have not kept your master the LORDS anointed and now see where the kings spear is and the cruse of water that was at his bolster 17 And Saul knew Davids voice and said Is this thy voice my son David And David said It is my voice my lord O king 18 And he said Wherefore doth my lord thus pursue after his servant for what have I done or what evil is in mine hand 19 Now therefore I pray thee let my lord the king hear the words of his servant If the LORD have stirred thee up against me let him †Heb. smell accept an offering but if they be the children of men cursed be they before the LORD for they have driven me out this day from †Heb. cleaving abiding in the inheritance of the LORD saying Go serve other gods 20 Now therefore let not my bloud fall to the earth before the face of the LORD for the king of Israel is come out to seek a flea as when one doth hunt a partridge in the mountains 21 ¶ Then said Saul I have sinned return my son David for I will no more do thee harm because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day
are dead also 5 And David said unto the young man that told him How knowest thou that Saul and Jonathan his son be dead 6 And the young man that told him said As I hapned by chance upon mount Gilboa behold Saul leaned upon his spear and lo the chariots and hors-men followed hard after him 7 And when he looked behinde him he saw me and called unto me and I answered †Heb. Behold me Here am I. 8 And he said unto me Who art thou And I answered him I am an Amalekite 9 He said unto me again Stand I pray thee upon me and slay me for ‖ Or my coat of mail or my embroidered coat hindreth me that my c. anguish is come upon me because my life is yet whole in me 10 So I stood upon him and slew him because I was sure that he could not live after that he was faln and I took the crown that was upon his head and the bracelet that was on his arm and have brought them hither unto my lord 11 Then David took hold on his clothes and * Ch. 3 3â— 13 3â— rent them and likewise all the men that were with him 12 And they mourned and wept and fasted until even for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel because they were faln by the sword 13 ¶ And David said unto the young man that told him Whence art thou And he answered I am the son of a stranger an Amalekite 14 And David said unto him * Psal 105.35 How wast thou not afraid to stretch forth thine hand to destroy the LORDS anointed 15 And David called one of the young men and said Go near and fall upon him And he smote him that he died 16 And David said unto him Thy bloud be upon thy head for thy mouth hath testified against thee saying I have slain the LORDS anointed 17 ¶ And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son 18 Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bowâ— behold it is written * Josh 10.13 in the book ‖ Or of the upricâ—e of Jasher 19 The beauty of Israel is slain upon thy high places how are the mighty faln 20 * Mieah 2.10 Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph 21 Ye mountains of Gilboa let there be no dew neither let there be rain upon you nor fields of offerings for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away the shield of Saul as though he had not been anointed with oyl 22 From the blood of the slain from the fat of the mighty the bowe of Jonathan turned not back and the sword of Saul returned not empty 23 Saul and Jonathan were lovely and ‖ Or sweet pleasant in their lives and in their death they were not divided they were swifter then eagles they were stronger then lions 24 Ye daughters of Israel weep over Saul who clothed you in scarlet with other delights who put on ornaments of gold upon your apparel 25 How are the mighty faln in the midst of the battel O Jonathan thou wast slain in thine high places 26 I am distressed for thee my brother Jonathan very pleasant hast thou been unto me thy love to me was wonderful passing the love of women 27 How are the mighty faln and the weapons of war perished CHAP. II. 1 David by Gods direction with his company goeth up to Hebron where he is made king of Judah 5 He commendeth them of Jabesh-gilead for their kindness to Saul 8 Abner maketh Ish-bosheth king of Israel 12 A mortal skirmish between twelve of Abners and twelve of Joabs men 18 Asahel is slain 25 At Abners motion Joab soundeth a retreat 32 Asahels burial ANd it came to pass after this that David enquired of the LORD saying Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah And the LORD said unto him Go up And David said Whither shall I go up And he said Unto Hebron 2 So David went up thither and his two wives also Ahinoam the Jezreelitess and Abigail Nabals wife the Carmelite 3 And his men that were with him did David bring up every man with his houshold and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron 4 * 1 Mac. 1.57 And the men of Judah came and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah and they told David saying That * 1 Sam. 31.13 the men of Jabesh-gilead were they that buried Saul 5 ¶ And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabesh-gilead and said unto them Blessed be ye of the LORD that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord even unto Saul and have buried him 6 And now the LORD shew kindness and truth unto you and I also will requite you this kindness because ye have done this thing 7 Therefore now let your hands be strengthned and †Heb. be ye the sons of valour be ye valiant for your master Saul is dead and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them 8 ¶ But Abner the son of Ner captain of †Heb. the host which was Sauls Sauls host took Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim 9 And he made him king over Gilead and over the Ashurites and over Jezreel and over Ephraim and over Benjamin and over all Israel 10 Ish-bosheth Sauls son was fourty years old when he began to reign over Israel and reigned two years but the house of Judah followed David 11 And the †Heb. number of days time that David was king in Hebron over the house of Judah was seven years and six moneths 12 ¶ And Abner the son of Ner and the servants of Ish-bosheth the son of Saul went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon 13 And Joab the son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met †Heb. them together together by the pool of Gibeon and they sat down the one on the one side of the pool and the other on the other side of the pool 14 And Abner said to Joab Let the young men now arise and play before us And Joab said Let them arise 15 Then there arose and went over by number twelve of Benjamin which pertained to Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and twelve of the servants of David 16 And they caught every one his fellow by the head and thrust his sword in his fellows side so they fell down together wherefore that place was called ‖ That is The field of strong men Helkath-hazzurim which is in Gibeon 17 And there was a very sore battel that day and Abner was beaten and the men of Israel before the servants of David 18 ¶ And there were three sons of Zeruiah there Joab and Abishai and Asahel and Asahel was as
so will I certainly do this day 31 Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth and did reverence to the king and said Let my lord king David live for ever 32 ¶ And king David said Call me Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada And they came before the king 33 The king also said unto them Take with you the servants of your lord and cause Solomon my son to ride upon †Heb. which belongeth to me mine own mule and bring him down to Gihon 34 And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel and blow ye with the trumpet and say God save king Solomon 35 Then ye shall come up after him that he may come and sit upon my throne for he shall be king in my stead and I have appointed him to be ruler over Israel and over Judah 36 And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king and said Amen the LORD God of my lord the king say so too 37 As the LORD hath been with my lord the king even so be he with Solomon and make his throne greater then the throne of my lord king David 38 So Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and caused Solomon to ride upon king Davids mule and brought him to Gihon 39 And Zadok the priest took an horn of oyl out of the tabernacle and anointed Solomon and they blew the trumpet and all the people said God save king Solomon 40 And all the people came up after him and the people piped with ‖ Or fluter pipes and rejoyced with great joy so that the earth rent with the sound of them 41 ¶ And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating and when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet he said Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar 42 And while he yet spake behold Jonathan the son of Abiathar the priest came and Adonijah said unto him Come in for thou art a valiant man and bringest good tidings 43 And Jonathan answered and said to Adonijah Verily our lord king David hath made Solomon king 44 And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and they have caused him to ride upon the kings mule 45 And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon and they are come up from thence rejoycing so that the city rang again this is the noise that ye have heard 46 And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom 47 And moreover the kings servants came to bless our lord king David saying God make the name of Solomon better then thy name and make his throne greater then thy throne and the king bowed himself upon the bed 48 And also thus said the king Blessed be the LORD God of Israel which hath given one to sit on my throne this day mine eyes even seeing it 49 And all the guests that were with Adonijah were afraid and rose up and went every man his way 50 ¶ And Adonijah feared because of Solomon and arose and went and caught hold on the horns of the altar 51 And it was told Solomon saying Behold Adonijah feareth king Solomon for lo he hath caught hold on the horns of the altar saying Let king Solomon swear unto in to day that he will not slay his servant with the sword 52 And Solomon said If he will shew himself a worthy man there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth but if wickedness shall be found in him he shall die 53 So king Solomon sent and they brought him down from the altar and he came and howed himself to king Solomon and Solomon said unto him Go to thine house CHAP. II. 1 David having given a charge to Solomon 3 of religiousness 5 of Joab 7 of Barzillai 8 of Shimei 10 dieth 12 Solomon uttâ—eâ—eth 13 Adonijiah moving Bath-sheba to sue unto Solomon for Abiathar is put tâ— dâ—ath 26 Abiathar having his life give him is detriâ—ed of the priesthood 28 Joah freeing to the borns of the altar is there slain 25 Beâ—â—â—ah is put in Joahs room and Zadok in Abâ—atrars 26 Shâ—mâ—â— conjineâ— to Jerusalem by occasion of â—coing thence to Gath is put to death NOw the days of David drew nigh that he should die and he charged Solomon his son saying 2 I go the way of all the earth be thou strong therefore and shew thy self a man 3 And keep the charge of the LORD thy God to walk in his ways to keep his statutes and his commandments and his judgements and his testimomes as it is written in the law of Moses that thou mayest * Deu. 29.9 Jo. h. 1. ◠‖ Or. dâ— wisely prosper in all that thou doest and whithersoever thou turnest thy self 4 That the LORD may continue his word which he spoke concerning me saying If thy children take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul * 2 Sam. 7.12 there shall not †Heb. bâ—â—ut off from thee from the throne fail thee said he a man on the throne of Israel 5 Moreover thou knowest also what Joab the son of Zeruiah did to me and what he did to the two captains of the hosts of Israel unto * 2 Sam. 3 2â— Abner the son of Ner and unto * 2 Sam. 20.10 Amasa the son of Jether whom he slew and †Heb. put shed the bloud of war in peace and put the bloud of war upon his girdle that was about his loyns and in his shoes that were on his feet 6 Do therefore according to thy wisdom and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace 7 But shew kindness unto the sons of * 2 Sam. 19.31 Barzillai the Gileadite and let them be of those that eat at thy table for so they came to me when I fled because of Absalom thy brother 8 And behold thou hast with thee * 2 Sam. 16.5 Shimei the son of Gera a Benjamite of Bahurim which cursed me with a †Heb. strong grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim but he came down to meet me at Jordan and I sware to him by the LORD saying * 2 Sam. 19.22 I will not put thee to death with the sword 9 Now therefore hold him not guiltless for thou art a wise man and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with bloud 10 So * Act. 2.29 13.36 David dept with his fathers and was buried in the city of David 11 And the days that David * 2 Sam. 5.4 1 Chr. 29.26 27. reigned over Israel were
year of Solomons reign over Israel in the moneth Zif which is the second moneth that he †Heb. built began to build the house of the LORD 2 And the house which king Solomon built for the LORD the length thereof was threescore cubits and the breadth thereof twenty cubits and the height thereof thirty cubits 3 And the porch before the temple of the house twenty cubits was the length thereof according to the breadth of the house and ten cubits was the breadth thereof before the house 4 And for the house he made ‖ Or windows broad within and narrow without or skewed and closed windows of narrow lights 5 ¶ And ‖ Or upon or joyning to against the wall of the house he built †Heb. floors chambers round about against the walls of the house round about both of the temple and of the oracle and he made †Heb. ribt chambers round about 6 The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad and the middle was six cubits broad and the third was seven cubits broad for without in the wall of the house he made †Heb. narrowings or rebatements narrowed rests round about that the beams should not be fastned in the walls of the house 7 And the house when it was in building was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither hammer nor ax nor any tool of iron heard in the house while it was in building 8 The door for the middle chamber was in the right †Heb shoulder side of the house and they went up with winding stairs into the middle chamber and out of the middle into the third 9 So he built the house and finished it and covered the house ‖ Or the vault-beams and the cielings with cedar with beams and boards of cedar 10 And then he built chambers against all the house five cubits high and they rested on the house with timber of cedar 11 ¶ And the word of the LORD came to Solomon saying 12 Concerning this house which thou art in building if thou wilt walk in my statutes and execute my judgements and keep all my commandments to walk in them then will I perform my word with thee * 2 Sam. 7.13 1 Chr. 22.10 which I spake unto David thy father 13 And I will dwell among the children of Israel and will not forsake my people Israel 14 So Solomon built the house and finished it 15 And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar ‖ Or from the floor of the house unto the walls c. and so vers 16. both the floor of the house and the walls of the cieling and he covered them on the inside with wood and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir 16 And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar he even built them for it within even for the oracle even for the most holy place 17 And the house that is the temple before it was fourty cubits long 18 And the cedar of the house within was carved with ‖ Or â—â—ouras knops and †Heb. openings of flowers open flowers all was celar there was no stone seen 19 And the oracle he prepared in the house within to set there the ark of the covenant of the LORD 20 And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length and twenty cubits in breadth and twenty cubits in the height thereof he overlaid it with †Heb. shut up pure gold and so covered the altar which was of cedar 21 So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle and he overlaid it with gold 22 And the whole house he overlaid with gold until he had finished all the house also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold 23 ¶ And within the oracle he made two cherubims of ‖ Or â—â—l◠†Heb. trâ—â—â—f oâ—l olive-tree each ten cubits high 24 And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub and five cubits the other wing of the cherub from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits 25 And the other cherub was ten cubits both the cherubims were of one measure and one cise 26 The height of the one cherub was ten cubits and so was it of the other cherub 27 And he set the cherubims within the inner house and * Exoâ— 25.20 ‖ Or the cherubims â—irâ—â—hed fâ—rth their wiâ—â—s they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims so that the wing of the one touched the one wall and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house 28 And he overlaid the cherubims with gold 29 And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm-trees and †Heb. opinines flowers open flowers within and without 30 And the floor of the house he overlaid with gold within and without 31 ¶ And for the entring of the oracle he made doors of olive-tree the lintel and side-posts were ‖ Or five-square a fifth part of the wall 32 The ‖ Or leâ—ves of the doors two doors also were of olive-tree and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm-trees and †Heb. openings of flowers open flowers and overlaid them with gold and spread gold upon the cherubims and up in the palm-trees 33 So also made he for the door of the temple posts of olive-tree ‖ Or four-square a fourth part of the wall 34 And the two doors were of fir-tree the two leaves of the one door were folding and the two leaves of the other door were folding 35 And he carved thereon cherubims and palm-trees and open flowers and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work 36 ¶ And he built the inner court with three rows of hewed stone and a row of cedar-beams 37 ¶ In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of the LORD laid in the moneth Zif 38 And in the eleventh year in the moneth Bul which is the eighth moneth was the house finished ‖ Or with all the appurtenances thereof and with all the ordinances thereof throughout all the parts thereof and according to all the fashion of it So was he seven years in building it CHAP. VII 1 The building of Solomons house 2 of the house of Lebanon 6 of the porch of pillars 7 of the porch of judgement 8 of the house for Pharaohs daughter 13 Hirains work of the two pillars 23 of the molten sea 27 of the ten bases 38 of the ten lavers 40 and all the vessels BUt Solomon was building his own house * Chap. 9.10 thirteen years and he finished
unto the children of Israel and he offered upon the altar †Heb. to burn incense and burnt incense CHAP. XIII 1 Jeroboams hand that offered violence to him that prophesied against his altar at Beth-el withereth 6 and at the prayer of the prophet is restored 7 The prophet refusing the kings entertainment departeth from Beth-el 11 An old prophet seducing him bringeth him back 20 He is reproved by God 23 slain by a lion 26 buried by the old prophet 31 who confirmeth his prophesie 33 Jeroboams obstinacy ANd behold there came a man of God out of Judah by the word of the LORD unto Beth-el and Jeroboam stood by the altar ‖ Or to offer to burn incense 2 And he cried against the altar in the word of the LORD and said O altar altar thus saith the LORD Behold a childe shall be born unto the house of David * 2 King 23.16 Josiah by name and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee and mens bones shall be burnt upon thee 3 And he gave a signe the same day saying This is the signe which the LORD hath spoken Behold the altar shall be rent and the ashes that are upon it shall be poured out 4 And it came to pass when king Jeroboam heard the saying of the man of God which had cryed against the altar in Beth-el that he put forth his hand from the altar saying Lay hold on him And his hand which he put forth against him dried up so that he could not pull it in again to him 5 The altar also was rent and the ashes poured out from the altar according to the signe which the man of God had given by the word of the LORD 6 And the king answered and said unto the man of God Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God and pray for me that my hand may be restored me again And the man of God besought †Heb. the fate of the LORD the LORD and the kings hand was restored him again and became as it was before 7 And the king said unto the man of God Come home with me and refresh thy self and I will give thee a reward 8 And the man of God said unto the king If thou wilt give me half thine house I will not go in with thee neither will I eat bread nor drink water in this place 9 For so was it charged me by the word of the LORD saying Eat no bread nor drink water nor turn again by the same way that thou camest 10 So he went another way and returned not by the way that he came to Beth-el 11 ¶ Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethâ—el the words which he had spoken unto the king them they told also to their father 12 And their father said unto them What way went he for his sons had seen what way the man of God went which came from Judah 13 And he said unto his sons Saddle me the ass So they saddled him the ass and he rode thereon 14 And went after the man of God and found him sitting under an oak and he said unto him Art thou the man of God that camest from Judah And he said I am 15 Then he said unto him Come home with me and eat bread 16 And he said I may not return with thee nor go in with thee neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place 17 For †Heb. 〈◊〉 word was it was said to me by the word of the LORD Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest 18 He said unto him I am a prophet also as thou art and an angel spake unto me by the word of the LORD saving Bring him back with thee into thine house that he may eat bread and drink water But he lied unto him 19 So he went back with him and did eat bread in his house and drank water 20 ¶ And it came to pass as they sat at the table that the word of the LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back 21 And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah saying Thus faith the LORD Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth of the LORD and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee 22 But camest back and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of the which the LORD did say to thee Eat no bread and drink no water thy carcase shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers 23 ¶ And it came to pass after he had eaten bread and after he had drunk that he saddled for him the ass to wit for the prophet whom he had brought back 24 And when he was gone a lion met him by the way and slew him and his carcase was cast in the way and the ass stood by it the lion also stood by the carcase 25 And behold men passed by and saw the carcase cast in the way and the lion standing by the carcase and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt 26 And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof he said It is the man of God who was disobedient unto the word of the LORD therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion which hath †Heb. broken torn him and slain him according to the word of the LORD which he spake unto him 27 And he spake to his sons saying Saddle me the ass And they saddled him 28 And he went and sound his carcase cast in the way and the ass and the lion standing by the carcase the lion had not eaten the carcase nor †Heb. broken torn the ass 29 And the prophet took up the carcase of the man of God and laid it upon the ass and brought it back and the old prophet came to the city to mourn and to bury him 30 And he laid his carcase in his own grave and they mourned over him saying A las my brother 31 And it came to pass after he had buried him that he spake to his sons saying When I am dead then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried lay my bones beside his bones 32 For the saying which he cried by the word of the LORD against the altar in Beth-el and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria shall surely come to pass 33 ¶ After this thing Jeroboam returned not from his evil way but †Heb. returned and made made again of the lowest of the people priests of the high places whosoever would he †Heb. filled his hand consecrated him and he became one of the priests of the high places 34 And this thing became
sin unto the house of Jeroboam even to out it off and to destroy it from off the face of the earth CHAP. XIV 1 Abijah being sick Jeroboam sendeth his wife disguised with presents to the prophet Ahijah at Shiloh 5 Ahijah forewarned by God denounceth Gods judgement 17 Abijah dieth and is buried 19 Nadab succeedeth Jeroboam 21 Rehoboams wicked reign 25 Shishak spoileth Jerusalem 29 Abijam succeedeth Rehoboam AT that time Abijah the son of Jeroboam sell sick 2 And Jeroboam said to his wife Arise I pray thee and disguise thy self that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam and get thee to Shiloh behold there is Ahijah the prophet which told me that * Ch. 11.31 I should be king over this people 3 And take †Heb. in thine hand with thee ten loaves and ‖ Or cakes cracknels and a ‖ Or bottle cruse of honey and go to him he shall tell thee what shall become of the childe 4 And Jeroboams wife did so and arose and went to Shiloh and came to the house of Ahijah but Ahijah could not see for his eyes †Heb. stood for his hoariness were set by reason of his age 5 ¶ And the LORD said unto Ahijah Behold the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son for he is sick thus and thus shalt thou say unto her for it shall be when she cometh in that she shall feign her self to be another woman 6 And it was so when Ahijah heard the sound of her feet as she came in at the door that he said Come in thou wife of Jeroboam why feignest thou thy self to be another for I am sent to thee with †Heb. haâ—d heaâ—ie tidings 7 Go tell Jeroboam thus saith the LORD God of Israel Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people and made thee prince over my people Israel 8 And rent the kingdom away from the house of David and gave it thee and yet thou hast not been as my servant David who kept my commandments and who followed me with all his heart to do that onely which was right in mine eyes 9 But hast done evil above all that were before thee for thou hast gone and made thee other gods and molten images to provoke me to anger and hast cast me behinde thy back 10 Therefore behold * Ch. 15.29 I will bring evil upon the house of Jeroboam and will cut off from Jeroboam * Ch. 21.21 2 Kin. 9.8 him that pisseth against the wall and him that is shut up and left in Israel and will take away the remnant of the house of Jeroboam as a man taketh away dung till it be all gone 11 Him that dieth of Jeroboam in the city shall the dogs eat and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat for the LORD hath spoken it 12 Arise thou therefore get thee to thine own house and when thy feet enter into the city the childe shall die 13 And all Israel shall mourn for him and bury him for he onely of Jeroboam shall come to the grave because in him there is sound some good thing toward the LORD God of Israel in the house of Jeroboam 14 Moreover the LORD shall raise him up a king over Israel who shall cut off the house of Jeroboam that day but what even now 15 For the LORD shall smite Israel as a reed is shaken in the water and he shall root up Israel out of this good land which he gave to their fathers and shall scatter them beyond the river because they have made their groves provoking the LORD to anger 16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam who did sin and who made Israel to sin 17 ¶ And Jeroboams wife arose and departed and came to Tirzah and when she came to the threshold of the door the childe died 18 And they buried him and all Israel mourned for him according to the word of the LORD which he spake by the hand of his servant Ahijah the prophet 19 And the rest of the acts of Jeroboam how he warred and how he reigned behold they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 20 And the days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years and he †Heb. lay dowâ— slept with his fathers and Nadab his son reigned in his stead 21 ¶ And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah * 2 Chr. 12.13 Rehoboam was fourty and one years old when he began to reign and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel to put his name there and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitess 22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD and they provoked him to jealousie with their sins which they had committed above all that their fathers had done 23 For they also built them high places and ‖ Or standing images or statues images and groves on every high hill and under every green tree 24 And there were also sodomites in the land and they did according to all the abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of Israel 25 ¶ And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem 26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD and the treasures of the kings house he even took away all and he took away all the shields of gold * Chap. 10.16 which Solomon had made 27 And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the †Heb. runners guard which kept the door of the kings house 28 And it was so when the king went into the house of the LORD that the guard bare them and brought them back into the guard-chamber 29 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 30 And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days 31 And Rehoboam slept with his fathers and was buried with his fathers in the city of David and his mothers name was Naamah an Ammonitess And Abijam his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XV. 1 Abijams wicked reign 7 Asa succeedeth him 9 Asa's good reign 16 The war between Baasha and him causeth him to make a league with Benhadad 23 Jehoshaphat succeedeth Asa 25 Nadabs wicked reign 27 Baasha conspirinâ— against him executeth Abijahs prophesie 31 Nadabs acts and death 33 Baasha's wicked reign NOw in the eighteenth year of king * 2 Chr. 13.1 Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah 2 Three years reigned he in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Maachah the daughter of Abishalom 3 And he walked in all the sins of his father which he
And they took the bullock which was given them and they dressed it and called on the name of Baal from morning even until noon saying O Baal ‖ Or answer hear us But there was no voice nor any that ‖ Or heard answered And they ‖ Or leaped up and down at the altar leapt upon the altar which was made 27 And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said Cry †Heb. with a great voice aloud for he is a god either ‖ Or he meditateth he is talking or he †Heb. hath a pursuit is pursuing or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked 28 And they cried aloud and cut themselves after their manner with knives and lancers till †Heb. poured out bloud upon them the bloud gushed out upon them 29 And it came to pass when mid-day was past and they prophesied until the time of the †Heb. ascâ—â—ding offering of the evening sacrifice that there was neither voice nor any to answer nor any †Heb. attention that regarded 30 And Elijah said unto all the people Come near unto me And all the people came near unto him and he repaired the altar of the LORD that was broken down 31 And Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob unto whom the word of the LORD came saying * Gen. 32.28 2 Kings 17.34 Israel shall be thy name 32 And with the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD and he made a trench about the altar as great as would contain two measures of seed 33 And he put the wood in order and cut the bullock in pieces and laid him on the wood and said Fill four barrels with water and pour it on the burnt-sacrifice and on the wood 34 And he said Do it the second time And they did it the second time And he said Do it the third time And they did it the third time 35 And the water †Heb. went ran round about the altar and he filled the trench also with water 36 And it came to pass at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice that Elijah the prophet came near and said LORD God of Abraham Isaac and of Israel let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am thy servant and that I have done all these things at thy word 37 Hear me O LORD hear me that this people may know that thou art the LORD God and that thou hast turned their heart back again 38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and consumed the burnt sacrifice and the wood and the stones and the dust and licked up the water that was in the trench 39 And when all the people saw it they sell on their faces and they said The LORD he is the God the LORD he is the God 40 And Elijah said unto them ‖ Or Apprehend Take the prophets of Baal let not one of them escape and they took them and Elijah brought them down to the brook Kishon and slew them there 41 ¶ And Elijah said unto Ahab Get thee up eat and drink for there is ‖ Or a sound of a noise of rain a sound of abundance of rain 42 So Ahab went up to eat and to drink and Elijah went up to the top of Carmel and he cast himself down upon the earth and put his face between his knees 43 And said to his servant Go up now look toward the sea And he went up and looked and said There is nothing And he said Go again seven times 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said Behold there ariseth a little cloud out of the sea like a mans hand And he said Go up say unto Ahab †Heb. Tie or Binde Prepare thy chariot and get thee down that the rain stop thee not 45 And it came to pass in the mean while that the heaven was black with clouds and wind and there was a great rain And Ahab rode and went to Jezreel 46 And the hand of the LORD was on Elijah and he girded up his loyns and ran before Ahab †Heb. till thou come to Jezreel to the entrance of Jezreel CHAP. XIX 1 Elijah threatued by Jezebel fleeth to Beer-sheba 4 In the wilderness being weary of his life he is comforted by an angel 9 At Horeb God appeareth unto him sending him to anoint Hazael Jehu and Elisha 19 Elisha taking leave of his friends followeth Elijah ANd Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done and withal how he had slain all the prophets with the sword 2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah saying So let the gods do to me and more also if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time 3 And when he saw that he arose and went for his life and came to Beer-sheba which belongeth to Judah and left his servant there 4 ¶ But he himself went a days journey into the wilderness and came and sat down under a juniper-tree and he requested †Heb. for his life for himself that he might die and said It is enough now O LORD take away my life for I am not better then my fathers 5 And as he lay and slept under a juniper-tree behold then an angel touched him and said unto him Arise and eat 6 And he looked and behold there was a cake baken on the coals and a cruse of water at his †Heb. bolster head and he did eat and drink and laid him down again 7 And the angel of the LORD came again the second time and touched him and said Arise and eat because the journey is too great for thee 8 And he arose and did eat and drink and went in the strength of that meat fourty days and fourty nights unto Horeb the mount of God 9 ¶ And he came thither unto a cave and lodged there and behold the word of the LORD came to him and he said unto him What doest thou here Elijah 10 And he said I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant thrown down thine altars and slain thy prophets with the sword and * Rom. 11 3. I even I onely am left and they seek my life to take it away 11 And he said Go forth and stand upon the mount before the LORD And behold the LORD passed by and a great and strong wind rent the mountains and brake in pieces the rocks before the LORD but the LORD was not in the wind and after the wind an earthquake but the LORD was not in the earthquake 12 And after the earthquake a fire but the LORD was not in the fire and after the fire a still small voice 13 And it was so when Elijah heard it that he wrapped his
saith the LORD I have anointed thee king over Israel 13 Then they hasted and took every man his garment and put it under him on the top of the stairs and blew with trumpets saying Jehu †Heb. râ—â—gneth is king 14 So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram now Joram had kept Ramoth-gilead he and all Israel because of Hazael king of Syria 15 But * Ch. 8.29 king †Heb. Jehoram Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians †Heb. smote had given him when he fought with Hazael king of Syria And Jehu said If it be your minds then †Heb. let no escaper 80 c. let none go forth nor escape out of the city to go to tell it in Jezreel 16 So Jehu rode in a chariot and went to Jezreel for Joram lay there and Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram 17 And there stood a watchman on the tower in Jezreel and he spied the company of Jehu as he came and said I see a company And Joram said Take an hors-man and send to meet them and let him say Is it peace 18 So there went one on hors-back to meet him and said Thus saith the king Is it peace And Jehu said What hast thou to do with peace turn thee behinde me And the watchman told saying The messenger came to them but he cometh not again 19 Then he sent out a second on hors-back which came to them and said Thus saith the king Is it peace And Jehu answered What hast thou to do with peace turn thee behinde me 20 And the watchman told saying He came even unto them and cometh not again and the ‖ Or marching driving is like the driving of Jehu the son of Nimshi for he driveth †Heb. in maâ—â—â—ss furiously 21 And Joram said †Heb. hinde Make ready And his chariot was made ready And Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah went out each in his chariot and they went out against Jehu and †Heb. found met him in the portion of Naboth the Jezreelite 22 And it came to pass when Joram saw Jehu that he said Is it peace Jehu And he answered What peace so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witcherafts are so many 23 And Joram turned his hands and fled and said to Ahaziah There is treachery O Ahaziah 24 And Jehu †Heb. filled his hand with a bowe drew a bowe with his full strength and smote Jehoram between his arms and the arrow went out at his heart and he †Heb. bowed sunk down in his chariot 25 Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain Take up and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite for remember how that when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father * 1 King 21.29 the LORD laid this burden upon him 26 Surely I have seen yesterday the †Heb. blouds bloud of Naboth and the bloud of his sons saith the LORD and I will requite thee in this ‖ Or portion plat saith the LORD Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground according to the word of the LORD 27 ¶ But when Ahaziah the king of Judah saw this he fled by the way of the garden-house and Jehu followed after him and said Smite him also in the chariot And they did so at the going up to Gur which is by Ibleam and he fled to Megiddo and died there 28 And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David 29 And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah 30 ¶ And when Jehu was come to Jezreel Jezebel heard of it and she †Heb. put her eyes in painting painted her face and tired her head and looked out at a window 31 And as Jehu entred in at the gate she said Had Zimri peace who slew his master 32 And he lift up his face to the window and said Who is on my side who And there looked out to him two or three ‖ Or chamberlains eunuchs 33 And he said Throw her down So they threw her down and some of her bloud was sprinkled on the wall and on the horses and he trod her under foot 34 And when he was come in he did eat and drink and said Go see now this cursed woman and bury her for she is a kings daughter 35 And they went to bury her but they found no more of her then the scull and the feet and the palms of her hands 36 Wherefore they came again and told him and he said This is the word of the LORD which he spake †Heb. by the hand of by his servant Elijah the Tishbite saying * 1 King 21.23 In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel 37 And the carcase of Jezebel shall be as dung upon the face of the field in the portion of Jezreel so that they shall not say This is Jezebel CHAP. X. 1 Jehu by his letters causeth seventy of Ahabs children to be beheaded 8 He excuseth the fact by the prophesie of Elijah 12 At the shearing-house he slayeth two and fourty of Abazjahs brethren 15 He taketh Jehonadab into his company 18 By subtilty he destroyeth all the worshippers of Baal 29 Jehu followeth Jeroboams sins 32 Hazael oppresseth Israel 34 Jeboahaz succeedeth Jehu ANd Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria and Jehu wrote letters and sent to Samaria unto the rulers of Jezreel to the elders and to †Heb. nourishâ—â—â— them that brought up Ahabs children saying 2 Now assoon as this letter cometh to you seeing your masters sons are with you and there are with you chariots and horses a fenced city also and armour 3 Look even out the best and meetest of your masters sons and set him on his fathers throne and fight for your masters house 4 But they were exceedingly afraid and said Behold two kings stood not before him how then shall we stand 5 And he that was over the house and he that was over the city the elders also and the bringers up of the children sent to Jehu saying We are thy servants and will do all that thou shalt bid us we will not make any king do thou that which is good in thine eyes 6 Then he wrote a letter the second time to them saying If ye be †Heb. for me mine and if ye will hearken unto my voice take ye the heads of the men your masters sons and come to me to Jezreel by to morrow this time now the kings sons being seventy persons were with the great men of the city which brought them up 7 And it came to pass when the letter came to them that they took the kings sons and slew seventy
he began to reign and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD yet not like David his father he did according to all things as Joash his father did 4 Howbeit the high places were not taken away as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places 5 ¶ And it came to pass assoon as the kingdom was confirmed in his hand that he slew his servants * Chap. 12.20 which had slain the king his father 6 But the children of the murderers he slew not according unto that which is written in the book of the law of Moses wherein the LORD commanded saying * Deut. 24.16 Ezek. 18.20 The fathers shall not be put to death for the children nor the children be put to death for the fathers but every man shall be put to death for his own sin 7 He slew of Edom in the valley of salt ten thousand and took ‖ Ot the rock Selah by war and called the name of it Joktheel unto this day 8 ¶ Then Amaziah sent messengers to Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz son of Jehu king of Israel saying Come let us look one another in the face 9 And Jehoash the king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah saying The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon saying Give thy daughter to my son to wife and there passed by a wilde beast that was in Lebanon and trod down the thistle 10 Thou hast indeed smitten Edom and thine heart hath listed thee up glory of this and tarry †Heb. at thy house at home for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt that thou shouldest fall even thou and Judah with thee 11 But Amaziah would not hear therefore Jehoash king of Israel went up and he and Amaziah king of Judah looked one another in the face at Beth-shemesh which belongeth to Judah 12 And Judah †Heb. was smitten was put to the worse before Israel and they fled every man to their tents 13 And Jehoash king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah the son of Jehoash the son of Ahaziah at Beth-shemesh and came to Jerusalem and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim unto the corner-gate four hundred cubits 14 And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels that were found in the house of the LORD and in the treasures of the kings house and hostages and returned to Samaria 15 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jehoash which he did and his might and how he fought with Amaziah king of Judah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 16 And Jehoash slept with his fathers and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead 17 ¶ And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years 18 And the rest of the acts of Amaziah are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 19 Now * 2 Chr 25.27 they made a conspiracy against him in Jerusalem and he fled to Lachish but they sent after him to Lachish and slew him there 20 And they brought him on horses and he was buried at Jerusalem with his fathers in the city of David 21 ¶ And all the people of Judah took †2 Chr. 26.1 he iâ— called Vzziah Azariah which â—â—as sixteen years old and made him king in stead of his father Amaziah 22 He built Elath and restored it to Judah after that the king slept with his fathers 23 ¶ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria and reigned fourty and one years 24 And he did that which was evil in the fight of the LORD he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin 25 He restored the coast of Israel from the entring of Hamath unto the sea of the plain according to the word of the LORD God of Israel which he spake by the hand of his servant * Mat. 12.39 40 called Jonas Jonan the son of Amittai the prophet which was of Gath-hepher 26 For the LORD saw the affliction of Israel that it was very bitter for there was not any shut up nor any lest nor any helper for Israel 27 And the LORD said not that he would blot out the name of Israel from under heaven but he saved them by the hand of Jeroboam the son of Joash 28 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam and all that he did and his might how he warred and how he recovered Damascus and Hamath which belonged to Judah for Israel are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel 29 And Jeroboam slept with his fathers even with the kings of Israel and Zachariah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XV. 1 Azariah his good reign 5 He dying a leper Jotham succeedeth 8 Zachariah the last of Jehu his generation reigning ill is slain by Shallum 13 Shallum reigning a moneth is slain by Menahem 16 Menahem strengthneth himself by Pul. 21 Pekahiah succeedeth him 23 Pekahiah is slain by Pekah 27 Pekah is oppressed by Tiglath-pileser and slain by Hoshea 32 Jothams good reign 36 Ahaz succeedeth him IN the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign 2 Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jecholiah of Jerusalem 3 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD according to all that his father Amaziah had done 4 Save that the high places were not removed the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places 5 ¶ And the LORD smote the king so that he was a leper unto the day of his death and dwelt in a several house and Jotham the kings son was over the house judging the people of the land 6 And the rest of the acts of Azariah and all that he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 7 So Azariah slept with his fathers and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David and Jotham his son reigned in his stead 8 ¶ In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six moneths 9 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as his fathers had done he departed not from the fins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat Who made Israel to sin 10 And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired
the Reubenites and thirty with him 43 Hanan the son of Maachah and Joshaphat the Mithnite 44 Uzzia the Ashterathite Shama and Jehiel the sons of Hothan the Aroerite 45 Jediael the ‖ Or Shimrite son of Shimri and Joha his brother the Tizite 46 Eliel the Mahavite and Jeribai and Joshaviah the sons of Elnaam and Ithmah the Moabite 47 Eliel and Obed and Jasiel the Mesobaite CHAP. XII 1 The companies that came to David at Ziklag 23 The armies that came to him at Hebron NOw * 1 Sam. 27.2 these are they that came to David to Ziklag †Heb. being yet shut up while he yet kept himself close because of Saul the son of Kish and they were among the mighty men helpers of the war 2 They were armed with bowes and could use both the right hand and the left in burling stones and shooting arrows out of a bowe even of Sauls brethren of Benjamin 3 The chief was Ahiezer then Joash the sons of ‖ Or Hasmaah Shemaah the Gibeathite and Jeziel and Pelet the sons of Azmaveth and Berachah and Jehu the Antothite 4 And Ismaiah the Gibeonite a mighty man among the thirty and over the thirty and Jeremiah and Jahaziel and Johanan and Josabad the Gederathite 5 Eluzai and Jerimoth and Bealiah and Shemariah and Shephatian the Haruphite 6 Elkanah and Jesiah and Azareel and Joezer and Jashobeam the Korhites 7 And Joelah and Zebadiah the sons of Jeroham of Gedor 8 And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might and men †Heb. of the best of war fit for the battel that could handle shield and buckler whose faces were like the faces of lions and were †Heb. as the roes upon the mountains to make haste as swift as the roes upon the mountains 9 Ezer the first Obadiah the second Eliab the third 10 Mishmannah the fourth Jeremiah the fifth 11 Attai the sixth Eliel the seventh 12 Johanan the eighth Elzabad the ninth 13 Jeremiah the tenth Machbanai the eleventh 14 These were of the sons of Gad captains of the host ‖ Or one that was least could resist an hundred and the greatest a thousand one of the least was over an hundred and the greatest over a thousand 15 These are they that went over Jordan in the first moneth when it had †Heb. filled over overflown all his * Josh 3.15 banks and they put to flight all them of the valleys both toward the east and toward the west 16 And there came of the children of Benjamin and Judah to the hold unto David 17 And David went out †Heb. before them to meet them and answered and said unto them if ye be come peaceably unto me to help me mine heart shall †Heb. be one be knit unto you but if ye be come to betray me to mine enemies seeing there is no ‖ Or violence wrong in mine hands the God of our fathers look thereon and rebuke it 18 Then †Heb. the spirit clothed Amasai the spirit came upon Amasai who was chief of the captains and be said Thine are we David and on thy side thou son of Jesse peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee Then David received them and made them captains of the band 19 And there â—ell some of Manasseh to David when he came with the Philistines against Saul to battel but they helped them not for the lords of the Philistines upon advisement sent him away saying * 1 Sam. 29 4. He will fall to his master Saul †Heb. oâ— our heads to the jeopardy of our heads 20 As he went to Ziklag there fell to him of Manasseh Adnah and Jozabad and Jediael and Michael and Jozabad and Elihu and Zilthai captains of the thousands that were of Manasseh 21 And they helped David ‖ Or with a band against the band of the rovers for they were all mighty men of valour and were captains in the host 22 For at that time day by day there came to David to help him until it was a great host like the host of God 23 ¶ And these are the numbers of the ‖ Or captains or men †Heb. heads bands that were ready armed to the war and came to David to Hebron to turn the kingdom of Saul to him according to the word of the LORD 24 The children of Judah that bare shield and spear were six thousand and eight hundred ready ‖ Or prepared armed to the war 25 Of the children of Simeon mighty men of valour for the war seven thousand and one hundred 26 Of the children of Levi four thousand and six hundred 27 And Jehoiada was the leader of the Aaronites and with him were three thousand and seven hundred 28 And Zadok a young man mighty of valour and of his fathers house twenty and two captains 29 And of the children of Benjamin †Heb. brethren the kindred of Saul three thousand for hitherto †Heb. a multitude of them the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul 30 And of the children of Ephraim twenty thousand and eight hundred mighty men of valour †Heb. men of names famous throughout the house of their fathers 31 And of the half-tribe of Manasseh eighteen thousand which were expressed by name to come and make David king 32 And of the children of Issachar which were men that had understanding of the times to know what Israel ought to do the heads of them were two hundred and all their brethren were at their commandment 33 Of Zebulun such as went forth to battel ‖ Or rangers of battel or ranged in battel expert in war with all instruments of war fifty thousand which could ‖ Or set the battel in aray keep rank they were †Heb. without a heart and a heart not of double heart 34 And of Naphtali a thousand captains and with them with shield and spear thirty and seven thousand 35 And of the Danites expert in war twenty and eight thousand and six hundred 36 And of Asher such as went forth to battel ‖ Or keeping their rank expert in war fourty thousand 37 And on the other side of Jordan of the Reubenites and the Gadites and of the half-tribe of Manasseh with all manner of instruments of war for the battel an hundred and twenty thousand 38 All these men of war that could keep rank came with a perfect heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel and all the rest also of Israel were of one heart to make David king 39 And there they were with David three days eating and drinking for their brethren had prepared for them 40 Moreover they that were nigh them even unto Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali brought bread on asses and on camels and mules and on oxen and
he gathered together the priests and the Levites and said to them Go out unto the cities of Judah and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year and see that ye haste the matter howbeit the Levites hastned it not 6 And the king called for Jehoiada the chief and said unto him Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection according to the commandment of * Ex. 30 12.13 14. Moses the servant of the LORD and of the congregation of Israel for the tabernacle of witness 7 For the sons of Athaliah that wicked woman had broken up the house of God and also all the dedicate things of the house of the LORD did they bestow upon Baalim 8 And at the kings commandment they made a chest and set it without at the gate of the house of the LORD 9 And they made †Heb. a voice a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon Israel in the wilderness 10 And all the princes and all the people rejoyced and brought in and cast into the chest until they had made an end 11 Now it came to pass that at what time the chest was brought unto the kings office by the hand of the Levites and when they saw that there was much money the kings scribe and the high priests officer came and emptied the chest and took it and carried it to his place again Thus they did day by day and gathered money in abundance 12 And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house of the LORD and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house of the LORD and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house of the LORD 13 So the workmen wrought and †Heb. the healing went upon the work the work was perfected by them and they set the house of God in his state and strengthned it 14 And when they had finished it they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada whereof were made vessels for the house of the LORD even vessels to minister and ‖ Or pesâ—â—â—s to offer withal and spoons and vessels of gold and silver and they offered burnt-offerings in the house of the LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada 15 ¶ But Jehoiada waxed old and was full of days when he died an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died 16 And they buried him in the city of David among the kings because he had done good in Israel both towards God and towards his house 17 Now after the death of Jehoiada came the princes of Judah and made obeysance to the king then the king hearkned unto them 18 And they left the house of the LORD God of their fathers and served groves and idols and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass 19 Yet he sent prophets to them to bring them again unto the LORD and they testified against them but they would not give ear 20 And the spirit of God ‡ Heb. clothed came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest which stood above the people and said unto them Thus saith God Why transgress ye the commandments of the LORD that ye cannot prosper because ye have forsaken the LORD he hath also forsaken you 21 And they conspired against him and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD 22 Thus Joash the king remembred not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him but slew his son and when he died he said The LORD look upon it and require it 23 ¶ And it came to pass †Heb in the revolution of the Jur. at the end of the year that the host of Syria came up against him and they came to Judah and Jerusalem and destroyed all the princes of the people from among the people and sent all the spoil of them unto the king of †Heb. Darmesek Damascus 24 For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers so they executed judgement against Joain 25 And when they were departed from him for they left him in great diseases his own servants conspired against him for the bloud of the sons of Jehoiada the priest and slew him on his bed and he died and they buried him in the city of David but they buried him not in the sepulchres of the kings 26 And these are they that conspired against him ‖ Or Jozachar 2 King 12.21 Zabad the son of Shimeath an Ammonitess and Jehozabad the son of ‖ Or Sâ—omer Shimrith a Moabitess 27 ¶ Now concerning his sons and the greatness of the burdens laid upon him and the †Heb. sâ—unding repairing of the house behold they are written in the ‖ Or commentery story of the book of the kings And Amaziah his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXV 1 Amaziah beginneth to reign well 3 He executeth justice on the traitours 5 Having hired an army of Israelites against the Edomites at the word of a prophet he loseth the hundred talents and dismisseth them 11 He overthroweth the Edomites 10 13 The Israelites discontented with their dismission spoil as they return home 14 Amaziah proud of his victory serveth the gods of Edom and despiseth the admonitions of the prophet 17 He provoketh Joash to his overthrow 25 His reign 27 He is slain by conspiracy AMaziah * Kin. 14.1 c. was twenty and five years old when he began to reign and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem 2 And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD but not with a perfect heart 3 ¶ Now it came to pass when the kingdom was †Heb. confirmed upon him established to him that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father 4 But he slew not their children but did as it is written in the law in the book of Moses where the LORD commanded saying * Deut. 24.16 2 Kin. 14.6 Jer. 31.30 Ezek 18.20 The fathers shall not die for the children neither shall the children die for the fathers but every man shall die for his own sin 5 ¶ Moreover Amaziah gathered Judah together and made them captains over thousands and captains over hundreds according to the houses of their fathers throughout all Judah and Benjamin and he numbred them from twenty years old and above and found them three hundred thousand choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield 6 He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for
thirty and eight 46 ¶ The Nethinims the children of Ziha the children of Hashupha the children of Tabbaoth 47 The children of Keros the children of Sia the children of Padon 48 The children of Lebana the children of Hagaba the children of Shalmai 49 The children of Hanan the children of Giddel the children of Gahar 50 The children of Reaiah the children of Rezin the children of Nekoda 51 The children of Gazzam the children of Uzza the children of Phaseah 52 The children of Besai the children of Meunim the children of Nephishesim 53 The children of Bakbuk the children of Hakupha the children of Harhur 54 The children of Bazlith the children of Mchida the children of Harsha 55 The children of Barkos the children of Sisera the children of Tamah 56 The children of Neziah the children of Hatipha 57 ¶ The children of Solomons servants the children of Sotal the children of Sophereth the children of Perida 58 The children of Jaala the children of Darkon the children of Giddel 59 The children of Shephatiah the children of Hattil the children of Pochereth of Zebaim the children of ‖ Or Ami. Amon. 60 All the Nethinims and the children of Solomons servants were three hundred ninety and two 61 * Ezra 2.59 And these were they which went up also from Tel-melah Tel-haresha Cherub Addon and Immer but they could not shew their fathers house nor their ‖ Or â—edegree seed whether they were of Israel 62 The children of Delaiah the children of Tobiah the children of Nekoda six hundred fourty and two 63 ¶ And of the priests the children of Habaiah the children of Koz the children of Barzillai which took one of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite to wife and was called after their name 64 These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogie but it was not found therefore were they 〈◊〉 as polluted put from the priesthood 65 And Or the â—â—â—â—â—nour the Tirshatha said unto them that they should not eat of the most holy things till there stood up a priest with Urim and Thummim 66 ¶ The whole congregation together was fourty and two thousand three hundred and threescore 67 Beside their man-servants and their maid-servants of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven and they had two hundred fourty and five singing-men and singing-women 68 Their horses seven hundred thirty and six their mules two hundred fourty and five 69 Their camels four hundred thirty and five six thousand seven hundred and twenty asses 70 ¶ And †Heb. part some of the chief of the fathers gave unto the work the Tirshatha gave to the treasure a thousand drams of gold fifty basons five hundred and thirty priests garments 71 And some of the chief of the fathers gave to the treasure of the work twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand and two hundred pound of silver 72 And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold and two thousand pound of silver and threescore and seven priests garments 73 So the priests and the Levites and the porters and the singers and some of the people and the Nethinims and all Israel dwelt in their cities and when the seventh moneth came the children of Israel were in their cities CHAP. VIII 1 The religious manner of reading and hearing the law 9 They comfort the people 13 The forwardness of them to hear and be insirusted 16 They keep the feast of tabernacles ANd all * Ezra 3.1 the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water-gate and they spake unto Ezra the * Ezra 7.6 scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses which the LORD had commanded to Israel 2 And Ezra the priest brought the law before the congregation both of men and women and all †Heb. that understood in hearing that could hear with understanding upon the first day of the seventh moneth 3 And he read therein before the street that was before the water-gate †Heb. from the light from the morning until mid-day before the men and the women and those that could understand and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law 4 And Ezra the scribe stood upon a †Heb. tower of wood pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose and beside him stood Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Urijah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on his right hand and on his left hand Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchiah and Hashum and Hashbadana Zechariah and Meshullam 5 And Ezra opened the book in the †Heb. eyes sight of all the people for he was above all the people and when he opened it all the people stood up 6 And Ezra blessed the LORD the great God and all the people answered Amen amen with lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground 7 Also Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah Jamin Akkub Shabbethai Hodijah Maaseiah Kelita Azariah Jozabad Hanan Pelaiah and the Levites caused the people to understand the law and the people stood in their place 8 So they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and gave the sense and caused them to understand the reading 9 ¶ And Nehemiah which is ‖ Or the governouâ— the Tirshatha and Ezra the priest the scribe and the Levites that taught the people said unto all the people This day is holy unto the LORD your God mourn not nor weep for all the people wept when they heard the words of the law 10 Then he said unto them Go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy unto our Lord neither be you sorry for the joy of the LORD is your strength 11 So the Levites stilled all the people saying Hold your peace for the day is holy neither be ye grieved 12 And all the people went their way to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great mirth because they had understood the words that were declared unto them 13 ¶ And on the second day were gathered together the chief of the fathers of all the people the priests and the Levites unto Ezra the scribe even ‖ Or that they might instruct in the words of the law to understand the words of the law 14 And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded †Heb. by the hand of by Moses that the children of Israel should dwell in * Levit. 23.34 Deut. 16.13 booths in the feast of the seventh moneth 15 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities and in Jerusalem saying Go forth unto the mount and fetch olive-branches and pine-branches and myrtle branches and palm-branches and branches of thick trees to make booths as it is written 16 ¶ So
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust my skin is broken and become loathsom 6 * Ch. 16.22 Psal 90.6 102.11 103.15 144.4 Psa 40.6 Jam. 4.14 My days are swifter then a weavers shuttle and are spent without hope 7 O remember that my life is wind min eye †Heb. shall not return shall no more ‖ To see that is to enjoy see good 8 The eye of him that hath seen me shall see me no more thine eyes are upon me and ‖ That is I can live no longer I am not 9 As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more 10 He shall return no more to his house neither shall his place know him any more 11 Therefore I will not refrain my mouth I will speak in the anguish of my spirit I will complain in the bitterness of my soul 12 Am I a sea or a whale that thou settest a watch over me 13 When I say My bed shall comfort me my couch shall ease my complaint 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams and terrifiest me through visions 15 So that my soul chooseth strangling and death rather †Heb. then my bones then my life 16 I loath it I would not live alway let me alone for my days are vanity 17 * Psal 8.4 and 144 3. Heb. 2.6 What is man that thou shouldest magnifie him and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him 18 And that thou shouldest visit him every morning and try him every moment 19 How long wilt thou not depart from me nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle 20 I have sinned what shall I do unto thee O thou preserver of men why hast thou set me as a mark against thee so that I am a burden to my self 21 And why dost thou not pardon my transgression and take away mine iniquity for now shall I sleep in the dust and thou shalt seek me in the morning but I shall not be CHAP. VIII 1 Bildad sheweth Gods justice in dealing with men according to their works 8 He alledgeth antiquity to prove the certain destruction of the hypocrite 20 He applieth Gods just dealing to Job THen answered Bildad the Shuhite and said 2 How long wilt thou speak these things and how long shall the words of thy mouth be like a strong wind 3 * Deu. 32.4 2 Chr. 19.7 Dan. 9.14 Doth God pervert judgement or doth the Almight pervert justice 4 If thy children have sinned against him and he have cast them away †Heb. in the hand of their transgression for their transgression 5 * Chap. 22 23. If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes and make thy supplication to the Almighty 6 If thou wert pure and upright surely now he would awake for thee and make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous 7 Though thy beginning was small yet thy latter end should greatly increase 8 * Deut. 4.32 For enquire I pray thee of the former age and prepare thy self to the search of their fathers 9 For * Gen. 47.9 1 Chron. 29.15 Chap. 7.6 Psal 39.5 144.4 we are but of yesterday and know †Heb. not nothing because our days upon earth are a shadow 10 Shall not they teach thee and tell thee and utter words out of their heart 11 Can the rush grow up without mire can the glag grow without water 12 * Ps 129.6 Jer. 17.6 Whilest it is yet in his greenness and not cut down it withereth before any other herb 13 So are the paths of all that forget God and the * Chap. 11.20 and 18.14 Psal 112.10 Prov 10.28 hypocrites hope shall perish 14 Whos 's hope shall be cut off and whose trust shall be †Heb. a spiders house a spiders web 15 He shall lean upon his house but it shall not stand he shall hold it fast but it shall not endure 16 He is green before the sun and his branch shooteth forth in his garden 17 His roots are wrapped about the heap and seeth the place of stones 18 If he destroy him from his place then it shall deny him saying I have not seen thee 19 Behold this is the joy of his way and out of the earth shall others grow 20 Behold God will not cast away a perfect man neither will he †Heb. take the ungodly by the hand help the evil-doers 21 Till he fill thy mouth with laughing thy lips with †Heb. shouting for joy rejoycing 22 They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame and the dwelling-place of the wicked †Heb. shall not be shall come to nought CHAP. IX 1 Job acknowledging Gods justice sheweth there is no contending with him 22 Mans innocency is not to be coudemned by afflictions THen Job answered and said 2 I know it is so of a truth but how should * Ps 143.2 man be just ‖ Or. before God with God 3 If he will contend with him he cannot answer him one of a thousand 4 He is wise in heart and mighty in strength who hath hardned himself against him and hath prospered 5 Which removeth the mountains and they know not which overturneth them in his anger 6 Which shaketh the earth out of her place and the pillars thereof tremble 7 Which commandeth the sun and it riseth not and sealeth up the stars 8 * Gen. 1.6 Which alone spreadeth out the heavens and treadeth upon the †Heb. heights waves of the sea 9 * Chap 38.31 c. Amoz 5.8 Which maketh †Heb. Ash Cesil and Cimab Arcturus Orion and Pleiades and the chambers of the south 10 * Ch. 5.9 Which doeth great things past finding out yea and wonders without number 11 Lo he goeth by me and I see him not he passeth on also but I perceive him not 12 * Isa 45.9 Jer. 186. Rom. 9.20 Behold he taketh away †Heb. who can turn him away who can hinder him who will say unto him What doest thou 13 If God will not withdraw his anger the †Heb. helpers of pride or strength proud helpers do stoop under him 14 How much less shall I answer him and choose out my words to reason with him 15 Whom though I were righteous yet would I not answer but I would make supplication to my judge 16 If I had called and he had answered me yet would I not beleeve that he had hearkened unto my voice 17 For he breaketh me with a tempest and multiplieth my wounds without cause 18 He will not suffer me to take my breath but filleth me with bitterness 19 If I speak of strength â—o be is strong and if of judgement who shall set me a time to plead 20 If I justifie my self mine own mouth shall condemn me if I say I am perfect it shall also prove me perverse 21 Though I were perfect
that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare 2 ‖ Or when I shall take a set time When I shall receive the congregation I will judge up rightly 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved I bear up the pillars of it Selah 4 I said unto the fools Deal not foolishly and to the wicked Lift not up the horn 5 Lift not up your horn on high speak not with a stiff neck 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the †Heb. desert south 7 But God is the judge he putteth down one and setteth up another 8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup and the wine is red it is full of mixture and he poureth out of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out and drink them 9 But I will declare for ever I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. 10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted PSAL. LXXVI 1 A declaration of Gods majesty in the church 11 An exhortation to serve him reverently ¶ To the chief musician on Neginoth A psalm or song ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph IN Judah is God known his name is great in Israel 2 In Solem also is his tabernacle and his dwelling-place in Zion 3 There brake he the arrows of the bowe the shield and the sword and the battel Selah 4 Thou art more glorious and excellent then the mountains of prey 5 The stout-hearted are spoiled they have slept their sleep and none of the men of might have found their hands 6 At thy rebuke O God of Jacob both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep 7 Thou even thou art to be feared and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry 8 Thou didst cause judgement to be heard from heaven the earth feared and was still 9 When God arose to judgement to save all the meek of the earth Selah 10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain 11 Vow and pay unto the LORD your God let all that be round about him bring presents †Heb. to fear unto him that ought to be feared 12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes he is terrible to the kings of the earth PSAL. LXXVII 1 The psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence 10 The victory which he had consideration of Gods great and gracious works ¶ To the chief musician to Jeduthun A psalm ‖ Or for Asaph of Asaph I Cried unto God with my voice even unto God with my voice and he gave ear unto me 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord †Heb. my hand my sore ran in the night and ceased not my soul refused to be comforted 3 I remembred God and was troubled I complained and my spirit was over-whelmed Selah 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking I am so troubled that I cannot speak 5 I have considered the days of old the years of ancient times 6 I call to remembrance my song in the night I commune with mine own heart and my spirit made diligent search 7 Will the Lord cast off for ever and will he be favourable no more 8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail †Heb. to ceâ—â—ration and generation for evermore 9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies Selah 10 And I said This is my infirmity but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High 11 I will remember the works of the LORD surely I will remember thy wonders of old 12 I will meditate also of all thy work and talk of thy doings 13 Thy way O God is in the sanctuary who is so great a God as our God 14 Thou art the God that doest wonders thou hast declared thy strength among the people 15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people the sons of Jacob and Joseph Selah 16 The waters saw thee O God the waters saw thee they were afraid the depths also were troubled 17 †Heb. the clouds were poured forth with water The clouds poured out water the skies sent out a sound thine arrows also went abroad 18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven the lightnings lightned the world the earth trembled and shook 19 Thy way is in the sea and thy path in the great waters and thy foot-steps are not known 20 * Exod. 14.19 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron PSAL. LXXVIII 1 An exhortation both to learn and to preach the law of God 9 The story of Gods wrath against the incredulous and disobedient 67 The Israelites being rejected God chose Judah Zion and David ¶ ‖ Or A psalm for Asaph to give instruction Maschil of Asaph GIve ear O my people to my law incline your ears to the words of my mouth 2 * Ps 49.4 Mat. 13.35 I will open my mouth in a parable I will utter dark sayings of old 3 Which we have heard and known and our fathers have told us 4 We will not hide them from their children shewing to the generation to come the praises of the LORD and his strength and his wonderful works that he hath done 5 For he established a testimony in Jacob and appointed a law in Israel which he commanded our fathers * Deu. 4.9 6.7 that they should make them known to their children 6 That the generation to come might know them even the children which should be born who should arise and declare them to their children 7 That they might sâ—t their hope in God and not forget the works of God but keep his commandments 8 And might not be as their fathers a stubborn and rebellious generation a generation †Heb. that prepared not their heart that set not their heart aright and whose spirit was not stedfast with God 9 The children of Ephraim being armed and †Heb. throwing forth carrying bowes turned back in the day of battel 10 They kept not the covenant of God and refused to walk in his law 11 And forgat his works and his wonders that he had shewed them 12 Marvellous things did he in the sight of their fathers in the land of Egypt in the field of Zoan 13 * Exod. 14.21 He divided the sea and caused them to pass through and he made the waters to stand as an heap 14 * Ex. 13.25 14.24 In the day-time also he led them with a cloud and all the night with a light of fire 15 * Ex. 17.6 Numb 20.11 Ps 105 4â— 1 Cor. 20. 4. He clave the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as out of the great depths 16 He brought streams also out of the rock and caused
〈◊〉 from the south 4 They wandred in the wilderness in a solitary way they found no city to dwell in 5 Hungry and thirsty their soul sainted in them 6 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he delivered them out of their distresses 7 And he led them forth by the right way that they might go to a city of habitation 8 Oh that meâ— would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 9 For he satisfieth the longing soul and filleth the hungry soul with goodness 10 Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death being bound in affliction and iron 11 Because they rebelled against the words of God and contemned the counsel of the most High 12 Therefore he brought down their heart with labour they fell down and there was none to help 13 Then they cried unto the LORD in their trouble and he saved them out of their distresses 14 He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and brake their bands in sunder 15 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 16 For he hath broken the gates of brass and cut the bars of iron in sunder 17 Fools because of their transgression and because of their iniquities are afflicted 18 * Job â—3 20. Their soul abhorreth all manner of meat and they draw near unto the gates of death 19 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble he saveth them out of their distresses 20 He sent his word and healed them and delivered them from their destructions 21 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and declare his works with †Heb. singing rejoycing 23 They that go down to the sea in ships that do business in great waters 24 These see the works of the LORD and his wonders in the deep 25 For he commandeth and †Heb. maketh to stand raiseth the stormy wind which sitteth up the waves thereof 26 They mount up to the heaven they do down again to the depths their soul is melted because of trouble 27 They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man and †Heb. act their wisdom is swallowed up are at their wits end 28 Then they cry unto the LORD in their trouble and he bringeth them out of their distresses 29 He maketh the storm a calm so that the waves thereof are still 30 Then are they glad because they be quiet so he bringeth them unto their desired haven 31 Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men 32 Let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders 33 He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water-springs into dry ground 34 A fruitful land into †Heb. saltness barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein 35 * Isa 41.18 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water and dry ground into water-springs 36 And there he maketh the hungry to dwell that they may prepare a city for habitation 37 And sowe the fields and plant vineyards which may yeeld fruits of increase 38 He blesseth them also so that they are multiplied greatly and suffereth not their cattel to decrease 39 Again they are minished and brought low through oppression affliction and sorrow 40 * Job 12.21 He poureth contempt upon princes and causeth them to wander in the ‖ Or void place wilderness where there is no way 41 * 1 Sam. 2.8 Psal 113.7 8. Yet setteth he the poor on high ‖ Or after from affliction and maketh him families like a flock 42 * Job 22.19 The righteous shall see it and rejoyce and all * Job 5.16 iniquity shall stop her mouth 43 Whoso is wise and will observe those things even they shall understand the loving kindness of the LORD PSAL. CVIII 1 David encourageth himself to praise God 5 He prayeth for Gods assistance according to his promise 11 His confidence in Gods help ¶ A song or psalm of David O God my heart is fixed I will sing and give praise even with my glory 2 Awake psaltery and harp I my self will awake early 3 I will praise thee O LORD among the people and I will sing praises unto thee among the nations 4 For thy mercy is great above the heavens and thy truth reacheth unto the ‖ Or skiâ—s clouds 5 Be thou exalted O God above the heavens and thy glory above all the earth 6 * Psal 60 5. That thy beloved may be delivered save with thy right hand and answer me 7 God hath spoken in his holiness I will rejoyce I will divide Shechem and mete out the valley of Succoth 8 Gilead is mine Manasseh is mine Ephraim also is the strength of mine head Judah is my law-giver 9 Moab is my wash-pot over Edom will I cast out my shoe over Philistia will I triumph 10 Who will bring me into the strong city who will lead me into Edom 11 Wâ—lt not thou O God who hast cast us off and wilt not thou O God go forth with our hosts 12 Give us help from trouble for vain is the help of man 13 Through God we shall do valiantly for he it is that shall tread down our enemies PSAL. CIX 1 David complaining of his slanderous enemies under the person of Judas devoteth them 16 He sheweth their sin 21 Complaining of his own misery he prayeth for help 30 He promiseth thankfulness ¶ To the chief musician A psalm of David HOld not thy peace O God of my praise 2 For the mouth of the wicked and the †Heb. mouth of deceit mouth of the deceitful †Heb. have opened themselves are opened against me they have spoken against me with a lying tongue 3 They compassed me about also with words of hatred and sought against me without a cause 4 For my love they are my adversaries but I give my self unto prayer 5 And they have rewarded me evil for good and hatred for my love 6 Set thou a wicked man over him and let ‖ Or an adversary Satan stand at his right hand 7 When he shall be judged let him †Heb. go out guilty or wicked be condemned and let his prayer become sin 8 Let his days be few and * Act. 1.20 let another take his ‖ Or charge office 9 Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds and beg let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath and let the stranger spoil his labour 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him neither let there be any
loveth pureness of heart ‖ Or and hath grace in his lips for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend 12 The eyes of the LORD preserve knowledge and he overthroweth ‖ Or the matters the words of the transgressour 13 * Chap. 26.13 The slothful man saith There is a lion without I shall be slain in the streets 14 * Chap. 2. â—6 and 5.3 and 7.5 and 23.27 The mouth of strange women is a deep pit he that is abhorred of the LORD shall fall therein 15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a childe but * Chap. 13.24 and 19.18 and 23.13 and 29.15 17. the rod of correction shall drive it far from him 16 He that oppresseth the poor to increase his riches and he that giveth to the rich shall surely come to want 17 Bow down thine ear and hear the words of the wise and apply thine heart unto my knowledge 18 For it is a pleasant thing if thou keep them †Heb. in thy belly within thee they shall withal be fitted in thy lips 19 That thy trust may be in the LORD I have made known to thee this day ‖ Or trust thou also even to thee 20 Have not I written to thee excellent things in counsels and knowledge 21 That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth that thou mightest answer the words of truth ‖ Or to those that send thee to them that send unto thee 22 Rob not the poor because he is poor * Zech. 7 10. neither oppress the afflicted in the gate 23 * Job 31.21 Ch. 23.11 For the LORD will plead their cause and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them 24 Make no friendship with an angry man and with a furious man thou shalt not go 25 Lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul 26 * Ch. 6.1 11.15 Be not thou one of them that strike hands or of them that are sureties for debts 27 If thou hast nothing to pay why should he take away thy bed from under thee 28 * Deut. 19.14 27.17 Ch. 23.10 Remove not the ancient ‖ Or bound land-mark which thy fathers have set 29 Seest thou a man diligent in his business he shall stand before kings he shall not stand before †Heb. obscure men mean mâ—n CHAP. XXIII WHen thou sittest to eat with a ruler consider diligently what is before thee 2 And put a knife to thy throat if thou be a man given to appetite 3 Be not desirous of his dainties for they are deceitful meat 4 * 1 Tim. 6.9 10. Labour not to be rich cease from thine own wisdom 5 †Heb. wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not for riches certainly make themselves wings they flie away as an eagle towards heaven 6 Eat thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye neither desire thou his dainty meats 7 For as he thinketh in his heart so is he Eat and drink saith he to thee but his heart is not with thee 8 The morsel which thou hast eaten shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words 9 Speak not in the ears of a fool for he will despise the wisdom of thy words 10 * Deut. 19.14 27.17 Chap. 22.28 Remove not the old ‖ Or bound land-mark and enter not into the fields of the fatherless 11 * Job 31.21 Chap. 22.23 For their redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause with thee 12 Apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears to the words of knowledge 13 * Chap. 13.24 19.18 and 22.15 Withhold not correction from the childe for if thou beatest him with the rod he shall not die 14 Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shalt deliver his soul from hell 15 My son if thine heart be wise my heart shall rejoyce ‖ Or even I will rejoyce even mine 16 Yea my reins shall rejoyce when thy lips speak right things 17 * Psal 37.1 73.3 Chap. 3.31 24.1 Let not thine heart envy sinners but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long 18 * Ch. 24.14 For surely there is an ‖ Or reward end and thine expectation shall not be cut off 19 Hear thou my son and be wise and guide thine heart in the way 20 * Rom. 13.13 Eph. 5.18 Be not amongst wine-bibbers amongst riotous eaters †Heb. of their flesh of flesh 21 For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags 22 * Chap. 1.8 Hearken unto thy father that begat thee and despise not thy mother when she is old 23 Buy the truth and sell it not also wisdom and instruction and understanding 24 * Ch. 10.1 15.20 The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoyce and he that begetteth a wise childe shall have joy of him 25 Thy father and thy mother shall be glad and she that bare thee shall rejoyce 26 My son give me thine heart and let thine eyes observe my ways 27 * Ch. 22.14 For an whore is a deep ditch and a strange woman is a narrow pit 28 * Ch. 7.11 She also lieth in wait ‖ Or as a robber as for a prey and increaseth the transgressours among men 29 * Isa 5.11 Who hath wo who hath sorrow who hath contentions who hath babbling who hath wounds without cause who hath redness of eyes 30 They that tarry long at the wine they that go to seek mixt wine 31 Look not thou upon the wine when it is red when it giveth his colour in the cup when it moveth it self aright 32 At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like ‖ Or a cockatrice an adder 33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women and thine heart shall utter perverse things 34 Yea thou shalt be as he that lieth down †Heb. in the heart of the sea in the midst of the sea or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast 35 They have stricken me shalt thou say and I was not sick they have beaten me and †Heb. I knew it not I felt it not when shall I awake I will seek it yet again CHAP. XXIV BE not thou * Ps 37.1 c. and 73.3 Ch. 23.17 Verse 19. envious against evil men neither desire to be with them 2 * Psal 10 7. For their heart studieth destruction their lips talk of mischief 3 Through wisdom is an house builded and by understanding it is established 4 And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches 5 A wise man †Heb. is in strength is strong yea a man of knowledge †Heb. strengthneth might increaseth strength 6 * Chap. 20.18 11.14 and 15.22 For by wise
words for though he understand he will not answer 20 Seest thou a man that is hasly ‖ Or in his matters in his words there is more hope of a fool then of him 21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a childe shall have him become his son at the length 22 * Ch 15.18 26.21 An angry man stirreth up strife and a furious man aboundeth in transgression 23 * Job 22.29 Ch. 15.33 18.12 Mat. 23.12 Lu. 14.11 A mans pride shall bring him low but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit 24 Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul he heareth cursing and bewrayeth it not 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD †Heb. shall be set on high shall he safe 26 * Ch. 19 6. Many seek †Heb. the face of a ruler the rulers favour but every mans judgement cometh from the LORD 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked CHAP. XXX 1 Agurs confession of his faith 7 The two points of his prayer 10 The meanest are not to be wronged 11 Four wicked generations 15 Four things insatiable 17 Parents are not to be despised 18 Four things hard to be known 21 Four things untolerble 24 Four things exceeding wise 29 Four things stately 32 Wrath is to be prevented THe words of Agur the son of Jakeh even the prophesie the man spake unto Ithiel even unto Ithiel and Ucal 2 Surely I am more brutish then any man and have not the understanding of a man 3 I neither learned wisdom nor †Heb. know have the knowledge of the holy 4 * Joh. 3.13 Who hath ascended up into heaven or descended * Job 38.4 c. Ps 104.3 c. Isa 40.12 c. who hath gathered the wind in his fists who hath bound the waters in a garment who hath established all the ends or the earth what is his name and what is his sons name if thou canst tell 5 * Ps 12.6 18.30 19.8 119.140 Every word of God is †Heb. purified pure he is a shield unto them that put their trust in him 6 * Deu. 4.2 12.32 Rev. 12.18 19. Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar 7 Two things have I required of thee †Heb. withhold not from me deny me them not before I die 8 Remove far from me vanity and lies give me neither poverty nor riches * Mat. 6.11 seed me with food †Heb. of my allowance convenient for me 9 * De. 32.15 Lest I be full and †Heb. bely thee deny thee and say Who is the LORD or lest I be poor and steal and take the name of my God in vain 10 †Heb. burt not with thy tongue Accuse not a servant unto his master lest he curse thee and thou be found guilty 11 There is a generation that curseth their father and doth not bless their mother 12 There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness 13 There is a generation O how * Ch. 6.17 lofty are their eyes and their eye-lids are lifted up 14 * Job 29.17 Ps 52.2 57.4 There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw-teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men 15 The horsleach hath two daughters crying Give give There are three things that are never satisfied yea four things say not †Heb. wealth It is enought 16 The grave and the barren womb the earth that is not filled with water and the fire that saith not It is enough 17 The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother the ravens of ‖ Or the brook the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me yea four which I know not 19 The way of an eagle in the air the way of a serpent upon a rock the way of a ship in the †Heb. heart midst of the sea and the way of a man with a maid 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and saith I have done no wickedness 21 For three things the earth is disquieted and for four which it cannot bear 22 * Ch 19.10 For a servant when he reigneth and a fool when he is filled with meat 23 For an odious woman when she is married and an hand-maid that is heir to her mistress 24 There be four things which are little upon the earth but they are †Heb. wise made wise exceeding wise 25 * Ch. 6.6 c. The ants are a people not strong yet they prepare their meat in the summer 26 The conies are but a feeble folk yet make they their houses in the rocks 27 The locusts have no king yet go they forth all of them †Heb. gathered together by bands 28 The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings palaces 29 There be three things which go well yea four are comely in going 30 A lion which is strongest among beasts and turneth not away for any 31 A ‖ Or horse †Heb. girt in the loyns grey-hound an he-goat also and a king against whom there is no rising up 32 If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thy self or if thou hast thought evil * Job 21.5 40.4 lay thine hand upon thy mouth 33 Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth bloud so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife CHAP. XXXI 1 Lemuels lesson of chastity and temperance 6 The afflicted are to be comforted and defended 10 The praise and properties of a good wife THe words of king Lemuel the prophesie that his mother taught him 2 What my son and what the son of my womb and what the son of my vows 3 Give not thy strength unto women nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings 4 It is not for kings O Lemuel it is not for kings to drink wine nor for princes strong drink 5 Lest they drink and forget the law and †Heb. alter pervert the judgement †Heb. of all the sons of affliction of any of the afflicted 6 * Psa 104.15 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine to those that be †Heb. bitter of soul of heavy hearts 7 Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more 8 Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all †Heb. the sons of destruction such as are appointed to destruction 9 Open thy mouth * Lev. 19.15 Deu. 1.16 judge
your glory 4 Without me they shall bow down under the priseners and they shall fall under the slain * Ch. 5.25 and 9.12 For all this his anger is not turned away but his hand is stretched out still 5 ¶ ‖ Or Wo to the Assyrian O †Heb. Asâ—ur Assyrian the rod of mine anger ‖ Or thâ—uth and the staff in their hand is mine indignation 6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge to take the spoil and to take the prey and †Heb. to lar them a treading to tread them down like the mire of the streets 7 Howbeit he meaneth not so neither doth his heart think so but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few 8 * 2 Kin. 18.24 33. and 19 10 c. For he saith Are not my princes altogether kings 9 Is not Calno as Carchemish is not Hamath as Arphad is not Samaria as Damascus 10 As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria 11 Shall I not as I have done unto Samaria and her idols so do to Jerusalem and her idols 12 Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed his whole work * 2 Kin. 19.31 upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem I will †Heb. visit upon punish the fruit †Heb. of the treatness of the heart of the stout heart of the king of Assyria and the glory of his high looks 13 For he saith By the strength of my hand I have done it and by my wisdom for I am prudent and I have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasures and I have put down the inhabitans ‖ Or like many people like a valiant man 14 And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people and as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all the earth and there was none that moved the wing or opened the mouth or peeped 15 Shall the ax boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it ‖ Or as if 〈◊〉 rod should shake them that lift it up as if the rod should shake it self against them that lift it up or as if the staff should lift up ‖ Or that which is not wood it self as if it were no wood 16 Therefore shall the Lord the LORD of hosts send among his fat ones leanness and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy One for a flame and it shall burn devour his thorns and his briers in one day 18 And shall consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field †Heb. from the soul and even to the flesh both soul and body and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth 19 And the rest of the trees of his forest shall be †Heb. number few that a childe may write them 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the remnant of Israel and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob shall no more again stay upon him that smote them but shall stay upon the LORD the holy One of Israel in truth 21 The remnant shall return even the remnant of Jacob unto the might God 22 * Ro. 9.27 For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea yet a remnant †Heb. in or amongst of them shall return * Ch. 28.22 the consumption decreed shall overflow ‖ Or in with righteousness 23 For the Lord GOD of hosts shall make a consumption even determined in the midst of all the land 24 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts O my people that dwellest in Zion be not afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod ‖ Or but be shall lift up his staff for thee and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of * Exod. 14. Egypt 25 For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction 26 And the LORD of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of * Judg. 7 2â— Chap. 9.4 Midian at the rock of Oreb and as his rod was upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt 27 And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden †Heb. shall remove shall be taken away from off thy shoulder and his yoke from off thy neck and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing 28 He is come to Aiath he is passed to Migron at Michmash he hath laid up his carriages 29 They are gone over the passage they have taken up their lodging at Geba Ramah is afraid Gibeah of Saul is fled 30 †Heb. Cryst â—ill with thy voice Lift up thy voice O daughter of Gallim cause it to be heard unto Laish O poor Anathoth 31 Madmenah is removed the inhabitants of Gebim gather themselves to flee 32 As yet shall he remain at Nob that day he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion the hill of Jerusalem 33 Behold the Lord the LORD of hosts shall top the bough with terrour and the high ones of stature shall be hewn down and the haughty shall be humbled 34 And he shall cut down the thickets of the forests with iron and Lebanon shall fall ‖ Or mightily by a mighty one CHAP. XI 1 The peaceable kingdom of the branch out of the root of Jesse 10 The victorious restauration of Israel and vocation of the Gentiles ANd there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of * Act. 13. â—3 Jesse and a branch shall grow out of his roots 2 And the spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him the spirit of wisdom and understanding the spirit of counsel and might the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD 3 And shall make him of †Heb. sent or smell quick understanding in the fear of the LORD and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes neither reprove after the hearing of his ears 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor and ‖ Or argue reprove with equity for the meek of the earth and he shall * Job 4.9 2 Thes 2.8 smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loyns and faithfulness the girdle of his reins 6 * Ch. 65 2â— The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lion and the
report 20 For the bed is shorter then that a man can stretch himself on it and the covering narrower then that he can wrap himself in it 21 For the LORD shall rise up as in mount * 2 Sam. 5.20 1 Chro. 14.11 Perazim he shall be wroth as in the valley of * Josh 10.12 2 Sam. 5.25 1 Chro. 14.16 Gibeon that he may do his work his strange work and bring to pass his act his strange act 22 Now therefore be ye not muckers lest your bands be made strong for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption even determined upon the whole earth 23 ¶ Give ye ear and hear my voice hearken and hear my speech 24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sowe doth he open and break the clods of his ground 25 When he hath made plain the face thereof doth he not cast abroad the fitches and scatter the cummin and cast in ‖ Or the wheat in the principal place and barley in the appointed place the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the ‖ Or sprit rie in their †Heb. border place 26 ‖ Or and he bindeth it in suth sort as his God doth teach him For his God doth instruct him to discretion and doth teach him 27 For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing-instrument neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin but the fitches are beaten out with a staff and the cummin with a rod. 28 Bread corn is bruised because he will not ever be threshing it nor break it with the wheel of his cart nor bruise it with his hor-men 29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working CHAP. XXIX 1 Gods heavy judgement upon Jerusalem 7 The unsatiableness of her enemies 9 The senslesness 13 and deep hypocrisie of the Jews 18.1 promise of sanctification to the godly ‖ Or O Ariel that is The lion of God WO to Ariel to Ariel ‖ Or of the city the city where David dwelt add ye year to year let them †Heb. cut off the heals kill sacrifices 2 Yet I will distress Ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it shall be unto me as Ariel 3 And I will camp against thee round about and will lay siege against thee with a mount and I will raise forts against thee 4 And thou shalt be brought down and shalt speak out of the ground and thy speech shall be low out of the dust and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit out of the ground and thy speech shall †Heb. peep of chiep. whisper out of the dust 5 Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away yea it shall be at an instant suddenly 6 Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder and with earthquake and great noise with storm and tempest and the flame of devouring fire 7 ¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel even all that fight against her and her munition and that distress her shall be as a dream of a night-vision 8 It shall even be as when a hungry man dreameth and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty or as when a thirsty man dreameth and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint and his soul hath appetite so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against mount Zion 9 ¶ Stay your selves and wonder ‖ Or take your pleasure and riot cry ye out and cry they are drunken but not with wine they stagger but not with strong drink 10 For the LORD hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep and hath closed your eyes the prophets and your †Heb. heads rulers the seers hath he covered 11 And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a ‖ Or letter book that is sealed which men deliver to one that is learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I cannot for it is sealed 12 And the book is delivered to him that is not learned saying Read this I pray thee and he saith I am not learned 13 ¶ Wherefore the Lord said * Matth. 15.8 Mark 7.6 Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precept of men 14 Therefore behold †Heb. I will add I will proceed to do a marvellous work amongst this people even a marvellous work and a wonder * Jer. 49.7 Obad. vers 8. 1 Cor. 1.19 for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid 15 Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD and their works are in the dark and they say * Ecclus 23.18 Who seeth us and who knoweth us 16 Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potters clay for shall the * Chap. 45.9 work say of him that made it He madâ— me not or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it He had no understanding 17 Is it not yet a very little while and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest 18 ¶ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness 19 The meek also †Heb. shall add shall increase their joy in the LORD and the poor among men shall rejoyce in the holy One of Israel 20 For the terrible one is brought to nought and the scorner is consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off 21 That make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate and turn aside the just for a thing of nought 22 Therefore thus saith the LORD who redeemed Abraham concerning the house of Jacob Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale 23 But when he seeth his children the work of mine hands in the midst of him they shall sanctifie my name and sanctifie the holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel 24 They also that erred in spirit †Heb. shall know understanding shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn doctrine CHAP. XXX 1 The prophet threatneth the people for their confidence in Egypt 8 and contempt of Gods word 18 Gods mercies towards his church 27 Gods wrath aâ—â— the peoples joy in the desereâ—tion of Assrria WO to the rebellious children saith the LORD that take counsel but not of me and that cover with a covering
their tents against her round about they shall feed every one in his place 4 Prepare ye war against her arise and let us go up at noon wo unto us for the day goeth away for the shadows of the evening are stretched out 5 Arise and let us go by night and let us destroy her palaces 6 ¶ For thus hath the LORD of hosts said Hew ye down trees and ‖ Or pour ouâ— the engine of shot cast a mount against Jerusalem this is the city to be visited she is wholly oppression in the midst of her 7 * Isa 57.20 As a fountain casteth out her waters so she casteth out her wickedness violence and spoil is heard in her before me continually is grief and wounds 8 Be thou instructed O Jerusalem lest my soul †Heb. be loosed or disjoynted depart from thee lest I make thee desolate a land not inhabited 9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts They shall throughly glean the remnant of Israel as a vine turn back thine hand as a grape-gatherer into the baskets 10 To whom shall I speak and give warning that they may hear behold their * Chap. 7.26 ear is uncircumcised and they cannot hearken behold the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach they have no delight in it 11 Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD I am weary with holding in I will pour it out upon the children abroad and upon the assembly of young men together for even the husband with the wife shall be taken the aged with him that is full of days 12 And their houses shall be turned unto others with their fields and wives together for I will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land saith the LORD 13 For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to * Isa 56 1â— Chap. 8.10 covetousness and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsly 14 They have * Ch. 8.11 Ezek. 13.10 healed also the †Heb. â—ruise or breath hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying Peace peace when there is no peace 15 Were they * Chap. 3.3 8.12 ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore they shall fall among them that fall at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down saith the LORD 16 Thus saith the LORD Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the * Isa 8.20 Mal. 4.4 Luk. 16.20 old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall finde * Mat. 11.29 rest for your souls but they said We will not walk therein 17 Also I set watchmen over you saying Hearken to the sound of the trumpet but they said We will not hearken 18 ¶ Therefore hear ye nations and know O congregation what is among them 19 Hear O earth behold I will bring evil upon this people even the fruit of their thoughts because they have not hearkned unto my words nor to my law but rejected it 20 * Isa 1.11 66.2 Am. 5.21 Mic. 6.6 c. To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba and the sweet cane from a far countrey your burnt-offerings are not acceptable nor your sacrifices sweet unto me 21 Therefore thus saith the LORD Behold I will lay stumbling-blocks before this people and the fathers and the sons together shall fall upon them the neighbour and his friend shall perish 22 Thus saith the LORD Behold a people cometh from the * Chap. 1.15 5.15 10.22 north countrey and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth 23 They shall lay hold on bowe and spear they are cruel and have no mercy their voice roareth like the sea and they ride upon horses set in aray as men for war against thee O daughter of Zion 24 We have heard the fame thereof our hands wax feeble anguish hath taken hold of us and pain as of a woman in travail 25 Go not forth into the field nor walk by the way for the sword of the enemy and fear is on every side 26 ¶ O daughter of my people gird thee with * Ch. 4.8 and 25.34 sackcloth and wallow thy self in ashes make thee mourning as for an onely son most bitter lamentation for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us 27 I have set thee for a tower and * Ch. 1.18 15.20 a fortress among my people that thou mayest know and try their way 28 They arâ— all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are * Ezek. 22.18 brass and iron they are all corrupters 29 The bellows are burnt the lead is consumed of the fire the founder melteth in vain for the wicked are not plucked away 30 * Isa 1.22 ‖ Or. Refuse silver Reprobate silver shall men call them because the LORD hath rejected them CHAP. VII 1 Jeremiah is sent to call for true repentance to prevent the Jews captivity 8 He rejecteth their vain confidence 12 by the example of Shiloh 17 He threatneth them for their idolatry 21 He rejecteth the saerifices of the disobedient 29 He exhorteth to mourn for their abominations in Tophet 32 and the judgements for the same THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Stand in the gate of the LORDS house and proclaim there this word and say Hear the word of the LORD all ye of Judah that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD 3 Thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel * Chap. 13.11 26.13 Amend your ways and your doings and I will cause you to dwell in this place 4 Trust ye not in lying words saying The temple of the LORD the temple of the LORD the temple of the LORD are these 5 For if ye throughly amend your ways and your doings if you throughly execute judgement between a man and his neighbour 6 If ye oppress not the stranger the fatherless and the widow and shed not innocent bloud in this place neither walk after other gods to your hurt 7 Then will I cause you to dwell in this place in the land that I gave to your fathers for ever and ever 8 ¶ Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit 9 Will ye steal murder and commit adultery and swear falsly and burn incense unto Baal and walk after other gods whom ye know not 10 And come and stand before me in this house †Heb. whereupon my name is called which is called by my name and say We are delivered to do all these abominations 11 Is * Isa 56.7 this house which is called by my name become a * Mat. 21.13 Mar. 11.17 Luk. 19.46 den of robbers in your eyes behold even I have seen it saith the LORD 12 But go ye now unto my place which was in Shiloh where I set my
likeness and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel 17 When they went they went upon their four sides and they returned not when they went 18 As for their rings they were so high that they were dreadful and their ‖ Or strakes rings were full of eyes round about them four 19 And when the living creatures went the wheels went by them and when the living creatures were lift up from the earth the wheels were lift up 20 Whithersoever the spirit was to go they went thither was their spirit to go and the wheels were lifted up over against them for the spirit ‖ Or of life of the living creature was in the wheels 21 When those went these went and when those stood these stood and when those were lifted up from the earth the wheels were lifted up over against them for the spirit ‖ Or of â—ifâ— of the living creature was in the wheels 22 And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal stretched forth over their heads above 23 And under the firmament were their wings strait the one toward the other every one had two which covered on this side and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies 24 And when they went I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters as the voice of the Almighty the voice of speech as the noise of an host when they stood they let down their wings 25 And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads when they stood and had let down their wings 26 ¶ And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne as the appearance of a sapphire-stone and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of a man above upon it 27 And I saw as the colour of amber as the appearance of fire round about within it from the appearance of his loyns even upward and from the appearance of his loyns even downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire and it had brightness round about 28 As the appearance of the bowe that is in the cloud in the day of rain so was the appearance of the brightness round about This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD and when I saw it I fell upon my face and I heard a voice of one that spake CHAP. II. 1 Ezekiels commission 6 His instruction 9 The roll of his heavy prophesie ANd he said unto me Son of man stand upon thy feet and I will speak unto thee 2 And the spirit entred into me when he spake unto me and set me upon my feet that I heard him that spake unto me 3 And he said unto me Son of man I send thee to the children of Israel to a rebellious †Heb. nations nation that hath rebelled against me they and their fathers have transgressed against me even unto this very day 4 For they are †Heb. hard of faâ—e impudent children and stiff-hearted I do send thee unto them and thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD. 5 And they whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are a rebellious house yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them 6 ¶ And thou son of man be not afraid of them neither be afraid of their words though ‖ Or rebels briers and thorns be with thee and thou dost dwell among scorpions be not afraid of their words not be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house 7 And thou shalt speak my words unto them whether they will hear or whether they will forbear for they are †Heb. rebellion most rebellious 8 But thou son of man hear what I say unto thee Be not thou rebellions like that rebellious house open thy mouth and * Rev. 10.9 eat that I give thee 9 ¶ And when I looked behold an hand was sent unto me and lo a roll of a book was therein 10 And he spread it before me and it was written within and without and there was written therein lamentations and mourning and wo. CHAP. III. 1 Ezekiel eateth the roll 4 God encourageth him 15 God sheweth him the rule of prophesie 22 God shutteth and openeth the prophets month MOreover he said unto me Son of man eat that thou findest eat this roll and go speak unto the house of Israel 2 So I opened my mouth and he caused me to eat that roll 3 And he said unto me Son of man cause thy belly to eat and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee Then did I * Rev. 10.9 eat it and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness 4 ¶ And he said unto me Son of man go get thee unto the house of Israel and speak with my words unto them 5 For thou art not sent to a people †Heb. deep of lip and heavy of tongue and so v. 6. of a strange speech and of an hard language but to the house of Israel 6 Not to many people †Heb. deep of lip and heavy of language of a strange speech and of an hard language whose words thou canst not understand ‖ Or if I had sent thee c. would they not have hearkned unto thee surely had I sent thee to them they would have hearkned unto thee 7 But the house of Israel will not hearken unto thee for they will not hearken unto me for all the house of Israel are †Heb. stiff of forehead and hard of bea rt impudent and hard-hearted 8 Behold I have made thy face strong against their faces and thy forehead strong against their foreheads 9 As an adamant harder then flint have I made thy forehead * Jer. 1.8 fear them not neither be dismayed at their looks though they be a rebellious house 10 Moreover he said unto me Son of man all my words that I shall speak unto thee receive in thine heart and hear with thine ears 11 And go get thee to them of the captivity unto the children of thy people and speak unto them and tell them Thus saith the Lord GOD whether they will hear or whether they will forbear 12 Then the spirit took me up and I heard behinde me a voice of a great rushing saying Blessed be the glory of the LORD from his place 13 I heard also the noise of the wings of the living creatures that †Heb. kissed touched one another and the noise of the wheels over against them and a noise of a great rushing 14 So the spirit listed me up and took me away and I went †Heb. bitter in bitterness in the †Heb. bot anger heat of my spirit but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me 15 ¶ Then I came
from other women in thy whoredoms whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms and in that thou givest a reward and no reward is given unto thee therefore thou art contrary 35 ¶ Wherefore O harlot hear the word of the LORD 36 Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thy filthiness was poured out and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers and with all the idols of thy abominations and by the bloud of thy children which thou didst give unto them 37 Behold therefore I will gather all thy lovers with whom thou hast taken pleasure and all them that thou hast loved with all them that thou hast hated I will even gather them round about against thee and will discover thy nakedness unto them that they may see all thy nakedness 38 And I will judge thee †Heb. with judgements of as women that break wedlock and shed bloud are judged and I will give thee bloud in fury and jealousie 39 And I will also give thee into their hand and they shall throw down thine eminent place and shall break down thy high places they shall strip thee also of thy clothes and shall take †Heb. instruments of thine ornament thy fair jewels and leave thee naked and bare 40 They shall also bring up a company against thee and they shall stone thee with stones and thrust thee through with their swords 41 And they shall * 2 Kin. 25. â— Jer. 52.13 burn thine houses with fire and execute judgements upon thee in the sight of many women and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot thou also shalt give no hire any more 42 So will I make my fury towards thee to rest and my jealousie shall depart from thee and I will be quiet and will be no more angry 43 Because thou hast not remembred the days of thy youth but hast fretted me in all these things behold therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head saith the Lord GOD and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations 44 ¶ Behold every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee saying As is the mother so is her daughter 45 Thou art thy mothers daughter that lotheth her husband and her children and thou art the sister of thy sisters which lothed their husbands and their children your mother was an Hittite and your father an Amorite 46 And thine elder sister is Samaria she her daughters that dwell aâ— thy left hand and †Heb. lesser thâ—â— thou thy younger sister that dwelleth at thy right hand is Sodom and her daughters 47 Yet hast thou not walked after their ways nor done after their abominations but ‖ Or tâ—at at was … ed as is â—mall thing as if that were a very little thing thou wast corrupted more then they in all thy ways 48 As I live saith the Lord GOD Sodom thy sister hath not done she nor her daughters as thou hast done thou and thy daughters 49 Behold this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom Pride fulness of bread and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters neither dâ—d she strengthen tâ—e hand of the poor and needy 50 And they were â—â—â—ghty and committed abomination before me therefore * Gen. 19. â—â— I took them away as I saw good 52 Neither hath Samarâ—a committâ—d half of thy sins but thou hast multâ—pâ—â—â—ed thine aâ—ominations more then they and hast justified thy sisters in all tâ—â—â—e abominations which thou hast done 52 Thou also which haâ—t judged thy sisters bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable then they they are more râ—ghteous then thou yea be thou confounded also and bear thy shame in that thou hast justified thy sisters 53 When I shall bring again their captivity the captivity of Sodom and her daughters and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them 54 That thou mayest bear thine own shame and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done in that thou art a comfort unto them 55 When thy sisters Sodom and her daughters shall return to their former estate and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate 56 For thy sister Sodom was not †Heb. for a report or bearing mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy †Heb. prides or excellencies pride 57 Before thy wickedness was discovered as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of †Heb. Aâ—am Syria and all that are round about her the daughters of the Philistines which ‖ Or spoil despise thee round about 58 Thou hast †Heb. born them born thy lewdness and thine abominations saith the LORD 59 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will even deal with thee as thou hast done which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant 60 ¶ Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant 61 Then thou shalt remember thy ways and be ashamed when thou shalt receive thy sisters thine elder and thy younger and I will give them unto thee for * Gal. 4.2 daughters but not by thy covenant 62 And I will establish my covenant wâ—th thee and thou shalt know that I am the LORD 63 That thou mayest remember and be confounded and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XVII 1Vnder the parable of two eagles and a vine 11 is shewed Gods judgement upon Jerusalem for revolting from Babylon to Egypt 22 God promiseth to plant the â—â—â—ar of the gospel ANd the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man put forth a riddle and speak a parable unto the house of Israel 3 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD A great eagle with great wings long-winged full of feathers which had †Heb. embroidering divers colours came unto Lebanon and took the highest branch of the cedar 4 He cropt off the top of his young twigs and carried it into a land of traffick he set it in a city of merchants 5 He took also of the seed of the land and †Heb. put it in a fieâ—â—â— of seed planted it in a fruitful field he placed it by great waters and set it as a willow-tree 6 And it grew and became a spreading vine of low stature whose branches turned toward him and the roots thereof were under him so it became a vine and brought forth branches and shot forth sprigs 7 There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers and behold this vine did bend her roots towards him and shot forth her branches toward him that he might water it by the
furrows of her plantation 8 It was planted in a good †Heb. field soil by great waters that it might bring forth branches and that it might bear fruit that it might be a goodly vine 9 Say thou Thus saith the Lord GOD Shall it prosper shall he not pull up the roots thereof and out off the fruit thereof that it wither it shall wither in all the leaâ—es of her spring even without great power or many people to pluck it up by the roots thereof 10 Yea behold being planted shall it prosper shall it not utterly wither when the east-wind toucheth it it shall wither in the furrows where it grew 11 ¶ Moreover the word of the LORD came unto me saying 12 Say now to the rebellious house Know ye not what these things mean tell them Behold the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem and hath taken the king thereof and the princes thereof and led them with him to Babylon 13 And hath taken of the kings seed and made a covenant with him and hath †Heb. by 〈◊〉 him that path taken an oath of him he hatâ— also taken the mighty of the land 14 That the kingdom might be base that it might not lift it self up †Heb. 〈◊〉 keep hâ—â—â—â—venant tâ— stand to it but that by keeping of his covenant it might stand 15 But he rebelled against him in sending his ambassadours into Egypt that they might give him horses and much people shall he prosper shall he escape that doâ—th such things or shall he break the covenant and be delivered 16 As I live saith the Lord GOD surely in the place where the king dwelleth that made him king whose oath he despised and whose covenant he brake even with him in the midst of Babylon he shall die 17 Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company make for him in the war by casting up mounts and building forts to cut off many persons 18 Seeing he despised the oath by breaking the covenant when lo he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape 19 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD. As I live surely mine oath that he hath despisâ—d and my covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompense upon his own head 20 And I will * Ch. 12 â—3 and 32. â— spread my net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me 21 And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword and they that remain shall be scattered towards all winds and ye shall know that I the LORD have spoken it 22 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar and will set it I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent 23 In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it and it shall bring forth boughs and bear fruit and be a goodly cedar and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing in tâ—e shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell 24 And all the treâ—s of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree have exalted the low tree have drâ—ed up the green tree and have made the dry tree to flourish I the LORD have spoken and have done it CHAP. XVIII 1 God reproveth the unjust parable of sowre grapes 5 He sheweth how he dealeth with a just father 10 with a wicked son of a just father 14 with a just son of a wicked father 19 with a wicked man repenting 24 with a just man revolting 25 He defendeth his justice 31 and exhâ—rteth to repentance THe word of the LORD came unto me again saying 2 What mean ye that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel saying The * Jer. 31.29 fathers have eaten sowre grapes and the childrens teach are set on edge 3 As I live saith the Lord GOD ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel 4 Behold all souls are mine as the soul of the father so also the soul of the son is mine the soul that sinneth it shall die 5 ¶ But it a man be just and do †Heb. judgement and justice that which is lawful and right 6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel neither hath * Levit. 1â— 20 defiled his neighbours wife neither hath come near to * Levit. 18.19 20.18 a menstruous woman 7 And hath not * Ex. 22.21 Lev. 19.15 25.14 oppressed any but hath restored to the debtour his * Ex. 22.26 Deu. 24.12 pledge hath spoiled none by violence hath * Deu. 15.7 Isa 58.7 Mat. 25.35 given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment 8 He that hath not given forth upon * Ex. 22.25 Lev. 25.36 37. Deu. 23.19 Psal 15.5 usury neither hath taken anâ— increase that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity hath executed true judgement between man and man 9 Hath walked in my statutes and hath kept my judgements to deal truly he is just he shall surely live saith the Lord GOD. 10 ¶ If he beget a son that is a ‖ Or breaker up of an house robber a shedder of bloud and ‖ Or that doeth to his brother besides any of these that doeth the like to any one of these things 11 And that doeth not any of those duties but even hath eaten upon the mountains and defiled his neighbours wife 12 Hath oppressed the poor and needy hath spoiled by violence hath not restored the pledge and hath lift up his eyes to the idols hath committed abomination 13 Hath given forth upon usury and hath taken increase shall he then live he shall not live he hath done all these abominations he shall surely die his †Heb. blouds bloud shall be upon him 14 ¶ Now lo if he beget a son that seeth all his fathers sins which he hath done and considereth and doeth not such like 15 That hath not eaten upon the mountains neither hath lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel hath not defiled his neighbours wife 16 Neither hath oppressed any †Heb. hath not gledzed the â—ledge or taken to pledge hath not withholden the pledge neither hath spoiled by violence but hath given his bread to the hungry and hath covered the naked with a garment 17 That hath taken off his hand from the poor that hath not received usury nor increase hath executed my judgements hath walked in my statutes he shall not die for the iniquity of his father he shall surely live 18 As for his father because he cruely oppressed spoiled his brother by violence and
now commit †Heb. her whoredoms whoredoms with her and she with them 44 Yet they went in unto her as they go in unto a woman that playeth the harlot so went they in unto Aholah and unto Aholibah the lewd women 45 ¶ And the righteous men they shall * Ch. 16.38 judge them after the manner of adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed bloud because they are adulteresses and bloud is in their hands 46 For thus saith the Lord GOD I will bring up a company upon them and will give them †Heb. for a removing and spoil to be removed and spoiled 47 And the company shall stone them with stones and ‖ Or â—inele them out dispatch them with their swords they shall slay their sons and their daughters and burn up their houses with fire 48 Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness 49 And they shall recompense your lewdness upon you and ye shall bear the sins of your idols and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXIV 1Vnder the parable of a boâ—ling pot â—is shewed the irrevocable destruction of Jerusalem 15 By the signe of Ezekiel not mourning for the death of his wife 19 〈◊〉 shewed the calamity of the Jews to be beyond all sorrow AGain in the ninth year in the tenth moneth in the tenth day of the moneth the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man write thee the name of the day even of this same day the king of Babylon set himself against Jerusalem this same day 3 And utter a parable unto the rebellious house and say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD Set on a pot set it on and also pour water into it 4 Gather the pieces thereof into it even every good piece the thigh and the shoulder fill it with the choice bones 5 Take the choice of the flock and ‖ Or beaâ— burn also the bones under it and make it boyl well and let them seethe the bones of it therein 6 ¶ Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD Wo to the bloudy city to the pot whose seum is therein and whose scum is not gone out of it bring it out piece by piece let no lot fall upon it 7 For her bloud is in the midst of her she set it upon the top of a rock she poured it not upon the ground to cover it with dust 8 That it might cause sury to come up to take vengeance I have set her bloud upon the top of a rock that it should not be covered 9 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD * Nah. 3.1 Hab. 2.12 Wo to the bloudy city I will even make the pile for fire great 10 Heap on wood kindle the fire consume the flesh and spice it well and let the bones be burnt 11 Then set it empty upon the coals thereof that the brass of it may be hot and may burn and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it that the scum of it may be consumed 12 She hath wearied her self with lies and her great scum went not forth out of her her scum shall be in the fire 13 In thy filthiness is lewdness because I have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthiness any more till I have caused my fury to rest upon thee 14 I the LORD have spoken it it shall come to pass and I will do it I will not go back neither will I spare neither will I repent according to thy ways and according to thy doings shall they judge thee saith the Lord GOD. 15 ¶ Also the word of the LORD came unto me saying 16 Son of man behold I take away from thee the desire of thine eyes with a stroke yet neither shalt thou mourn nor weep neither shall thy tears †Heb. 〈◊〉 run down 17 †Heb. le sileve Forbear to cry make no mourning for the dead binde the tire of thine head upon thee and put on thy shoes upon thy feet and cover not thy †Heb. upper lip and â—over 22. lips and eat not the bread of men 18 So I spake unto the people in the morning and at even my wife died and I did in the morning as I was commanded 19 ¶ And the people said unto me Wilt thou not tell us what these things are to us that thou doest so 20 Then I answered them The word of the LORD came unto me saying 21 Speak unto the house of Israel Thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will profane my sanctuary the excellency of your strength the desire of your eyes and †Heb. the pitâ— of your soul that which your soul pitieth and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left shall fall by the sword 22 And ye shall do as I have done ye shall not cover your lips nor eat the bread of men 23 And your tires shall be upon your heads and your shoes upon your feet ye shall not mourn nor weep but ye shall pine away for your iniquities and mourn one towards another 24 Thus Ezekiel is unto you a signe according to all that he hath done shall ye do and when this cometh ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD. 25 Also thou son of man shall it not be in the day when I take from them their strength the joy of their glory the desire of their eyes and †Heb. the listing up of their sâ—ul that whereupon they set their minds their sons and their daughters 26 That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee to cause thee to hear it with thine ears 27 In that day shall thy mouth be opened to him which is escaped and thou shalt speak and be no more dumb and thou shalt be a signe unto them and they shall know that I am the LORD CHAP. XXV 1 Gods venâ—eance for their insolency against the Jews upon the Ammonites 8 upon Moah and Seir 12 upon Edom 15 and upon the Philistines THe word of the LORD came again unto me saying 2 Son of man set thy face * Jer. 49.1 c. against the Ammonites and prophesie against them 3 And say unto the Ammonites Hear the word of the Lord GOD Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou saidst Aha against my sanctuary when it was profaned and against the land of Israel when it was desolate and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity 4 Behold therefore I will deliver thee to the †Heb. children men of the east for a possession and they shall set their palaces in thee and make their dwellings in thee they shall eat thy fruit and they shall drink thy milk 5 And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels and the Ammonites a couching-place for flocks and ye shall know that I am the LORD 6 For thus saith the Lord
then shall they know that I am the LORD 16 This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her the daughters of the nations shall lament her they shall lament for her even for Egypt and for all her multitude saith the Lord GOD. 17 ¶ It came to pass aâ—so in the twelfth year in the fifteenth day of the moneth that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 18 Son of man wail for the multitude of Egypt and cast them down even her and the daughters of the famous nations unto the nether parts of the earth with them that go down into the pit 19 Whom dost thou pass in beauty go down and be thou laid with the uncircumcised 20 They shall fall in the midst of them that are slain by the sword ‖ Or the 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 she is del vered to the sword draw her and all her multitudes 21 The strong among the mighty shall speak to him out of the midst of hell with them that help him they are gone down they lie uncircumcised slain by the sword 22 Asshur is there and all her company his graves are about him all of them slain faln by the sword 23 Whose graves are set in the sides of the pit and her company is round about her grave all of them slain faln by the sword which caused ‖ Or dismaâ—â—â— terrour in the land of the living 24 There is Elam and all her multitude round about her grave all of them slain faln by the sword which are gone down uncircumcised into the nether parts of the earth which caused their terrour in the land of the living yet have they born their shame with them that go down to the pit 25 They have set her a bed in the midst of the slain with all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though their terrour was caused in the land of the living yet have they born their shame with them that go down to the pit he is put in the midst of them that be slain 26 There is Meshech Tubal and all her multitude her graves are round about him all of them uncircumcised slain by the sword though they caused their terrour in the land of the living 27 And they shall not lie with the mighty that are faln of the uncircumcised which are gone down to hell †Heb. with weaponâ— of their 〈◊〉 with their weapons of war and they have said their swords under their heads but their iniquities shall be upon their bones though they were the terrour of the mighty in the land of the living 28 Yea thou shalt be broken in the midst of the uncircumcised and shalt he with them that are slain with the sword 29 There is Edom her kings and all her princes which with their might are †Heb. given or put laid by them that were slain by the sword they shall lie with the uncircumcised and with them that go down to the pit 30 There be the princes of the north all of them and all the Zidonians which are gone down with the slain with their terrour they are ashamed of their might and they lie uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword and bear their shame with them that go down to the pit 31 Pharaoh shall see them and shall be comforted over all his multitude even Pharaoh and all his army slain by the sword saith the Lord GOD. 32 For I have caused my terrour in the land of the living and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword even Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXIII 1 According to the duty of a watchman in warning the people 7 Ezekiel is admonished of his duty 10 God sheweth the justice of his ways towards the penitent and towards revolters 17 He maintaineth his justice 21Vpon the news of the taking of Jerusalem he prophesieth the desolation of the land 30 Gods judgement upon the mockers of the prophets AGain the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man speak to the children of thy people and say unto them †Heb. A land when I bring a sword upon her When I bring the sword upon a land if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchman 3 It when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet and warn the people 4 Then †Heb. he that hearing heareth whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning it the sword come and take him away his bloud shall be upon his own head 5 He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his bloud shall be upon him but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul 6 But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned it the sword come and take any person from among them he is taken away in his iniquity but his bloud will I require at the watchmans hand 7 ¶ * Chap. 3.17 c. So thou O son of man I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me 8 When I say unto the wicked O wicked man thou shalt surely die if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his bloud will I require at thine hand 9 Nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it If he do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul 10 ¶ Therefore O thou son of man speak unto the house of Israel Thus ye speak saying If our transgressions and our sins be upon us and we pine away in them how should we then live 11 Say unto them As I live saith the Lord GOD * 2 Sam. 14.14 Ch. 18.32 I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for * Chap. 18.31 why will ye die O house of Israel 12 Therefore thou son of man say unto the children of thy people The * Chap. 18 2â— righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression as for the wickedness of the wicked he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth 13 When I shall say to the righteous that he shall surely live if he trust to his own righteousness and commit iniquity all his righteousness shall not be remembred but for his iniquity that he hath committed he shall die for it 14 Again when I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die if he turn
Or interdict decree that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days save of thee O king he shall be cast into the den of lions 8 Now O king establish the decree and signe the writing that it be not changed according to the * Esth 1.19 and 8,8 law of the Medes and Persians which †Cald. passeth not altereth not 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree 10 ¶ Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed he went into his house and his windows being open in his chamber * 1 Kin. 8.48 toward Jerusalem he kneeled upon his knees * Ps 55.17 three times a day and prayed and gave thanks before his God as he did aforetime 11 Then these men assembled and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God 12 Then they came near and spake before the king concerning the kings decree Hast thou not signed a decree that every man that shall ask a petition of any God of man within thirty days save of thee O king shall be cast into the den of lions The king answered and said The thing is true according to the law of the Medes and Pertians which altereth not 13 Then answered they and said before the king That Daniel which is of the children of the captivity of Judah regardeth not thee O king nor the decree that thou hast signed but maketh his petition three times a day 14 Then the king when he heard these words was sore displeased with himself and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him 15 Then these men assembled unto the king and said unto the king Know O king that the law of the Medes and Persians is that no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed 16 Then the king commanded and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions now the king spake and said unto Daniel Thy God whom thou servest continually he will deliver thee 17 And a stone was brought and laid upon the mouth of the den and the king sealed it with his own signet and with the signet of his lords that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel 18 ¶ Then the king went to his palace and passed the night fasting neither were ‖ Or table instruments of musick brought before him and his sleep went from him 19 Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste unto the den of lions 20 And when he came to the den he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel and the king spake and said to Daniel O Daniel servant of the living God is thy God whom thou servest continually able to deliver thee from the lions 21 Then said Daniel unto the king O king live for ever 22 My God hath sent his angel and hath shut the lions mouths that they have not hurt me forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me and also before thee O king have I done no hurt 23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den so Daniel was taken up out of the den and no manner of hurt was found upon him because he beleeved in his God 24 ¶ And the king commanded and they brought those men which had accused Daniel and they cast them into the den of lions them their children and their wives and the lions had the mastery of them and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den 25 ¶ Then king Darius wrote unto all people nations and languages that dwell in all the earth Peace be multiplied unto you 26 I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel for he is the living God and stedfast for ever and his kingdom that which shall not be * Ch. 2.44 and 4.3 7 14.2â— Luk. 1.33 destroyed and his dominion shall be even unto the end 27 He delivereth and rescueth and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth who hath delivered Daniel from the †Heb. band power of the lions 28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of * Ch. 1.21 Cyrus the Persian CHAP. VII 1 Daniels vision of four beasts 9 of Gods kingdom 15 The interpretation thereof IN the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel †Cald. saâ—â— had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the ‖ Or words matters 2 Daniel spake and said I saw in my vision by night and behold the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea 3 And four great beasts came up from the sea diverse one from another 4 The first was like a lion and had eagles wings and I beheld till the wings thereof were pluckt ‖ Or wherewith and it was lifted up from the earth and made stand upon the feet as a man a mans heart was given to it 5 And behold another beast a second like to a bear and ‖ Or it raised up one dominion it raised up it self on one side and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it and they said thus unto it Arise devour much flesh 6 After this I beheld and lo another like a leopard which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl the beast had also four heads and dominion was given to it 7 After this I saw in the night-visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth it devoured and brake in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns 8 I considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn before whom there were three of the first horns pluckt up by the roots and behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man and a mouth speaking great things 9 ¶ I beheld till the thrones were cast down and the Ancient of days did sit whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wooli his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him * Rev. 5. â—â— thousand thousands ministred unto him ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him the judgement was set and the * Rev. 17.12 books were opened 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake I beheld even till the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame 12 As concerning the rest of the beasts they had their dominion taken away yet
and it shall come to pass that ‖ Or inâ—â—â—d of that in the place where it was said unto them Ye are not my people there it shall be said unto them Ye are the sons of the living God 11 * Jer. 3.18 Ezek. 34. â—3 Then shall the children of Judah and the children of Israel be gathered together and appoint themselves one head and they shall come up out of the land for great shall be the day of Jezreel CHAP. II. 1 The idolatry of the people 6 Gods judgements against them 14 His promises of reconciâ—ation with them SAy ye unto your brethren ‖ That is My people Ammi and to your sisters ‖ That is Having obtained mercâ— Ruhamah 2 Plead with your mother plead for * Isa 50.1 she is not my wise neither am I her husband let her therefore put away her * Ezek. 16.25 whoredoms out of her sight and her aduâ—teries from between her breasts 3 Lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day that she was * Ezek. 16.4 born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry land and slay her with thirst 4 And I will not have mercy upon her children for they be the children of whoredoms 5 For their mother hath played the harlot she that conceived them hath done shamefully for she said I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water my wooll and my flax mine oyl and my †Heb. drinks drink 6 ¶ Therefore behold I will hedge up thy way with thorns and †Heb. wall a wall make a wall that she shall not finde her paths 7 And she shall follow after her lovers but she shall not overtake them and she shall seek them but shall not finde them then shall she say I will go and return to my first husband for then was it better with me then now 8 For she did not know that I gave her corn and †Heb. new wine wine and oyl and multiplied her silver and gold ‖ Or wherewith they maâ—e Baal which they prepared for Baal 9 Therefore will I return and take away my corn in the time thereof and my wine in the season thereof and will ‖ Or take away recover my wooll and my flax given to cover her nakedness 10 And now will I discover her †Heb. fâ—lâ—y or viâ—lany Jewdness in the sight of her lovers and none shall deliver her out of mine hand 11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease her feast-days her new-moons and her sabbaths and all her solemn feasts 12 And I will †Heb. make desolate destroy her vines and her fig-trees whereof she hath said These are my rewards that my lovers have given me and I will make them a forest and the beasts of the field shall eat them 13 And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim wherein she burnt incense to them and she decked her self with her ear-rings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and forgat me saith the LORD 14 ¶ Therefore behold I will allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak ‖ Or frienâ—ly †Heb. to her hearâ— comfortably unto her 15 And I will give her her vineyards from thence and the valley of Achor for a door of hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt 16 And it shall be at that day saith the LORD that thou shalt call me ‖ That is My husband Ishi and shalt call me no more ‖ That is My loâ—â— Baali 17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth and they shall no more be remembred by their name 18 And in that day will I make a * Job 5.23 covenant for them with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven and with the creeping things of the ground and I will break the bowe and the sword and the battel out of the earth and will make them to lie down safely 19 And I will betroth thee unto me for ever yea I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness and in judgement and in loving kindness and in mercies 20 I will even betroth thee unto me in faithfulness and thou shalt know the LORD 21 And it shall come to pass in that day I will hear saith the LORD I will hear the heavens and they shall hear the earth 22 And the earth shall hear the corn and the wine and the oyl and they shall hear Jezreel 23 And I will sowe her unto me in the earth and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy and I * Rom. 9.26 1 Pet. 2.10 will say to them which were not my people Thou art my people and they shall say Thou art my God CHAP. III. 1 By the explation of an adulteress 4 iâ— shewed the desclation of Israel before their restauration THen said the LORD unto me Go yet love a woman beloved of her friend yet an adulteress according to the love of the LORD toward the children of Israel who look to other gods and love flagons †Heb. of crapes of wine 2 So I bought her to me for fifteen pieces of silver and for an homer of barley and an †Heb. letheâ—k half-homer of barley 3 And I said unto her Thou shalt * Deut. 27 13. abide for me many days thou shalt not play the harlot and thou shalt not be for another man so will I also be for thee 4 For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king and without a prince and without a sacrifice and â—â—thout †Heb. a standing or â—tatue an image and without an ephod and without teraphim 5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return and seek the LORD their God and * Jer. 30.9 Ezek. 34.22 David their king and shall fear the LORD and 〈◊〉 goodness in the * Isa â— 2 latter days CHAP. IV. 1 Gods judgements against the sins of the people 6 and of the priests 12 and against their idolatry 15 Judah is exhorted to take warning by Israels calamity HEar the word of the LORD ye children of Israel for the LORD hath a * Mic. 6. â— controversie with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land 2 By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and †Heb. bloudâ— bloud toucheth bloud 3 Therefore shall the land mourn and every one that dwelleth therein shall languish with the beasts of the field and with the fowls of heaven yea the fishes of the sea also shall be taken away 4 Yet let no man strive nor reprove another for thy people are as they that strive with the priest 5 Therefore shalt thou fall in the
thy God keep mercy and judgement and wait on thy God continually 7 ¶ He is ‖ Or Canaan a merchant the balances of deceit are in his hand he loveth to ‖ Or deceive oppress 8 And Ephraim said Yet I am become rich I have found me out substance ‖ Or all my labours sufficâ— me not wâ— shall have punishment of iniquity in whom is sin in all my labours they shall finde none iniquity in me †Heb. which that were sin 9 And I that am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt will yet make thee to dwell in tabernacles as in the days of the solemn feast 10 I have also spoken by the prophets and I have multiplied visions and used similitudes †Heb. by the hand by the ministery of the prophets 11 Is there iniquity in Gilead surely they are vanity they sacrifice bullocks in * Chap. 4.15 and 9.15 Gilgal yea their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields 12 And Jacob * Gen. 28.5 fled into the countrey of Syria and Israel * Gen. 29.20 28. served for a wife and for a wife he kept sheep 13 * Exod. 12.50 51 and 13.3 And by a prophet the LORD brought Israel out of Egypt and by a prophet was he preserved 14 Ephraim provoked him to anger †Heb. with bitternesses most bitterly therefore shall he leave his †Heb. blouds bloud upon him and his reproach shall his Lord return unto him CHAP. XIII 1 Ephraims glory by reason of idolatry vanisheth 5 Gods anger for their unkindness 9 A promise of Gods mercy 15 A judgement for rebellion WHen Ephraim spake trembling he exalted himself in Israel but when he offended in Baal he died 2 And now †Heb. theâ— add to sin they sin more and more and have made them molten images of their silver and idols according to their own understanding all of it the work of the craftsmen they say of them Let ‖ Or the sacrifices of men the men that sacrifice kiss the calves 3 Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud and as the early dew that passeth away as the chaff that is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor and as the smoke out of the chimney 4 Yet * Isa 43.11 Chap. 12.9 I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt and thou shalt know no God but me for there is no saviour beside me 5 ¶ I did know thee in the wilderness in the land of †Heb droughts great drought 6 According to their pasture so were they filled they were filled and their heart was exalted therefore have they forgotten me 7 Therefore I will be unto them as a lion as a leopard by the way will I observe them 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps and will rent the caul of their heart and there will I devour them like a lion †Heb. the beast of the field the wilde beast shall tear them 9 ¶ O Israel thou hast destroyed thy self but in me †Heb. in thy help is thine help 10 I will be thy King where is any other that may save thee in all thy cities and thy judges of whom thou saidst Give me a king and princes 11 I gave thee a * 1 Sam. 8.5 c. 15.23 16.1 king in mine anger and took him away in my wrath 12 The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up his sin is hid 13 The sorrows of a travailing woman shall come upon him he is an unwise son for he should not stay †Heb. a timâ— long in the place of the breaking forth of children 14 I will ransom them from †Heb. the hand the power of the grave I will redeem them from death * 1 Cor. 1â— 54 55. O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction repentance shall be hid from mine eyes 15 ¶ Though he be fruitful among his brethren * Ezek. 19.12 an east-wind shall come the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness and his spring shall become drie and his fountain shall be dried up he shall spoil the treasure of all †Heb. vessels of desire pleasant vessels 16 Samaria shall become desolate for she hath rebelled against her God they shall fall by the sword their infants shall be dashed in pieces and their women with childe shall be ript up CHAP. XIV 1 An exhortation to repentance 4 A promise of Gods blessing O Israel return unto the LORD thy God for thou hast faln by thine iniquity 2 Take with you words and turn to the LORD say unto him Take away all iniquity and ‖ Or give good receive us graciously so will we render the * Heb. 13.15 calves of our lips 3 Ashur shall not save us we will not ride upon horses neither will we say any more to the work of our hands Ye are our gods for in thee the fatherless sindeth mercy 4 ¶ I will heal their backsliding I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from him 5 I will be as the dew unto Israel he shall ‖ Or blossom grow as the lily and †Heb. strike cast forth his roots as Lebanon 6 His branches †Heb. shall go shall spread and his beauty shall be as the olive-tree and his smell as Lebanon 7 They that dwell under his shadow shall return they shall revive as the corn and ‖ Or blossom grow as the vine the ‖ Or memorial sent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon 8 Ephraim shell say What have I to do any more with idols I have heard him and observed him I am like a green fir-tree from me is thy fruit found 9 Who is wise and he shall understand these things prudent and he shall know them for the ways of the LORD are right and the just shall walk in them but the transgressours shall fall therein ¶ JOEL CHAP. I. 1 Joel declaring sundry judgements of God exhorteth to obsirve them 8 and to mâ—urn 14 He prescribeth a fast for complaint THe word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel 2 Hear this ye old men and give ear all ye inhabitants of the land hath this been in your days or even in the days of your fathers 3 Tell ye your children of it and let your children tell their children and their children another generation 4 †Heb. the residue of the palmer-worm That which the palmer-worm hath the locust eaten and that which the locust hath left hath the canker-worm eaten and that which the canker-worm hath left hath the caterpiller eaten 5 Awake ye drunkards and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine because of the new wine for it is cut off from your mouth 6 For a nation is come up upon my land strong and without number whose teeth
Chron. 23.18 Gaza and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they ‖ Or carried them away with an entire captivity carried away captive the whole captivity to deliver them up to Edom. 7 But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza which shall devour the palaces thereof 8 And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon and I will turn mine hand against Ekron and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish saith the Lord GOD. 9 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Tyrus and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they delivered up the whole captivity to Edom and remembred not †Heb. the covenant of brethren the brotherly covenant 10 But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus which shall devour the palaces thereof 11 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Edom and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he did pursue his brother with the sword and †Heb. â—â—rrupted his compassiâ—â—s did cast off all pity and his anger did tear perpetually and kept his wrath for ever 12 But I will send a fire upon Teman which shall devour the palaces of Bozrah 13 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of the children of Ammon and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have ‖ Or â—ivided the mountains ript up the women with childe of Gilead that they might enlarge their border 14 But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah and it shall devour the palaces thereof with shouting in the day of battel with a tempest in the day of the whirlwind 15 And their king shall go into captivity he and his princes together saith the LORD CHAP. II. 1 Gods wrath against Moab 4 upon Judah 6 and upon Israel 9 God complaineth of their unthankfulness THis saith the LORD For three transgressions of Moah and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because he * 2 King 3.27 burnt the bones of the king of Edom into lime 2 But I will send a fire upon Moab and it shall devour the palaces of Kirioth and Moab shall die with tumult with shouting and with the sound of the trumpet 3 And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof and will slay all the princes thereof with him saith the LORD 4 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Judah and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because they have despised the law of the LORD and have not kept his commandments and their lies caused them to err after the which their fathers have walked 5 But I will send a fire upon Judah and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Israel and for four I will not turn away the punishment thereof because * Ch. 8.6 they sold the righteous for â—ilver and the poor for a pair of shoes 7 That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor and turn aside the way of the meek and a man and his father will go in unto the same ‖ Or young woman maid to profane my holy name 8 And they lay themselve down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar and they drink the wine of ‖ Or such as have fined or multied the condemned in the house of their god 9 ¶ Yet destroyed I the * Num. 21.24 Deut. 2.21 Josh 24.8 Amorite before them whose height was like the height of the cedars and he was strong as the oaks yet I destroyed his fruit from above and his foots from beneath 10 Also * Ex. 12.51 I brought you up from the land of Egypt and led you fourty years through the wilderness to possess the land of the Amorite 11 And I raised up of your sons for prophets and of your young men for Nazarites Is it not even thus O ye children of Israel saith the LORD 12 But ye gave the Nazarites wine to drink and commanded the prophets * Chap. 7.12.13 saying Prophesie not 13 Behold ‖ Or I will press your place as a cart full of sheaves presseth I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves 14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift and the strong shall not strengthen his force neither shall the mighty deliver †Heb. his soul or life himself 15 Neither shall he stand that handleth the bowe and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself 16 Aâ—â— â—e that is †Heb. sâ—ronâ— of â—â—s heart couragious among the mighty shall flee away naked in that day saith the LORD CHAP. III. 1 The necesâ—itâ— of Gods judgement against Israel 9 The publication of it with the causes thereof HEar this word that the LORD hath spoken against you O children of Israel against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt saying 2 You onely have I known of all the families of the earth therefore I will †Heb. visit upon punish you for all your iniquities 3 Can two walk together except they be agreed 4 Will a lion roar in the forest when he hath no prey will a young lion †Heb. give forth his voice cry out of his den if he have taken nothing 5 Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth where no gin is for him shall one take up a snare from the earth and have taken nothing at all 6 Shall a trumpet be blown in the city and the people ‖ Or not â—â—iâ— together not be afraid shall there be evil in a city ‖ Or and shall not the LORD do somewhat and the LORD hath not done it 7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets 8 The lion hath roared who will not fear the Lord GOD hath spoken who can but prophesie 9 ¶ Publish in the palaces at Ashdod and in the palaces in the land of Egypt and say Assemble your selves upon the mountains of Samaria and behold the great tumults in the midst thereof and the ‖ Or oppressions oppressed in the midst thereof 10 For they know not to do right saith the LORD who store up violence and ‖ Or spoil robbery in their palaces 11 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD An adversary there shall be even round about the land and he shall bring down thy strength from thee and thy palaces shall be spoiled 12 Thus saith the LORD As the shepherd †Heb. delivereth taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear so shall the children of Israel be taken out that dwell in Samaria in the corner of abed and
of Israel which is in heaven he gave them over into the power of Nebuchodonosor king of Babylon of the Caldees 16 Who pulled down the house and burnt it and carried away the people captives unto Babylon 17 But in the first year that king Cyrus reigned over the countrey of Babylon Cyrus the king wrote to build up this house 18 And the holy vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchodonosor had carried away out of the house at Jerusalem and had set them in his own temple those Cyrus the king brought forth again out of the temple at Babylon and they were delivered to ‖ Or Zorobabel which is also Sanabassar the ruler so as Zorobabel seemeth to be added to the text Ezra 1.8 Zorobabel and to Sanabassarus the ruler 19 With commandment that he should carry away the same vessels and put them in the temple at Jerusalem and that the temple of the Lord should be built in his place 20 Then the same Sanabassarus being come hither laid the foundations of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem and from that time to this being still a building it is not yet fully ended 21 Now therefore if it seem good unto the king let search be made among the ‖ Or rolls records of king Cyrus 22 And if it be found that the building of the house of the Lord at Jerusalem hath been done with the consent of king Cyrus and if our lord the king be so minded let him signifie unto us thereof 23 Then commanded king Darius to seek among the records at Babylon and so at Echatana the palace which is in the countrey of Media there was found a ‖ Or place roll wherein these things were recorded 24 In the first year of the reign of Cyrus king Cyrus commanded that the house of the Lord at Jerusalem should be built again where they do sacrifice with continual fire 25 Whos 's height shall be sixty cubits and the breadth sixty cubits with three rowes of hewn stones and one row of new wood of that countrey and the expenses thereof to be given out of the house of king Cyrus 26 And that the holy vessels of the house of the Lord both of gold and silver that Nebuchodonosor took out of the house at Jerusalem and brought to Babylon should be restored to the house at Jerusalem and be set in the place where they were before 27 And also he commanded that Sisinnes the governour of Syria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes and their companions and those which were appointed rulers in Syria and Phenice should be careful not to meddle with the place but suffer Zorobabel the servant of the Lord and governour of Judea and the elders of the Jews to build the house of the Lord in that place 28 I have commanded also to have it built up whole again and that they look diligently to help those that be of the captivity of the Jews till the house of the Lord be finished 29 And out of the tribute of Celosyria and Phenice a portion carefully to be given these men for the sacrifices of the Lord that is to Zorobabel the governour for bullocks and rams and lambs 30 And also corn salt wine and oyl and that continually every year without further question according as the priests that be in Jerusalem shall signifie to be daily spent 31 That ‖ Or drink-offerings offerings may be made to the most high God for the king and for his children and that they may pray for their lives 32 And he commanded that whosoever should transgress yea or make light of any thing afore spoken or written out of his own house should a tree be taken and he thereon be hanged and all his goods seised for the king 33 The Lord therefore whose name is there called upon utterly destroy every king and nation that stretcheth out his hand to hinder or endamage that house of the Lord in Jerusalem 34 I Darius the king have ordained that according unto these things it be done with diligence CHAP. VII 1 Sisinnes and others help forward the building 5 The temple is finished and dedicated 10 The pass-over is kept THen * Ezra 6.13 Sisinnes the governour of Celosyria and Phenice and Sathrabuzanes with their companions following the commandments of king Darius 2 Did very carefully oversee the holy works assisting the ancients of the Jews and governours of the temple 3 And so the holy works prospered when Aggeus and Zacharias the prophets prophesied 4 And they finished these things by the commandment of the Lord God of Israel and with ‖ Or the decrâ—â— the consent of Cyrus Darius and Artaxerxes kings of Persia 5 And thus was the holy house finished in †Heb. the third day Ezra 6.15 the three and twentieth day of the moneth Adar in the sixth year of Darius king of the Persians 6 And the children of Israel the priests and the Levites and other that were of the captivity that were added unto them did according to the things written in the book of Moses 7 And to the dedication of the temple of the Lord they offered an hundred bullocks two hundred rams four hundred lambs 8 And twelve goats for the sin of all Israel according to the number of the ‖ Or tribes chief of the tribes of Israel 9 The priests also and the Levites stood arayed in their vestments according to their †Heb. divisions Ezra 6.18 kindreds in the services of the Lord God of Israel according to the book of Moses and the porters at every gate 10 And the children of Israel ‖ Or with those that c. that were of the captivity held the pass-over the fourteenth day of the first moneth after that the priests and the Levites were sanctified 11 They that were of the captivity were not all sanctified together but the Levites were all sanctified together 12 And so they offered the pass-over for all them of the captivity and for their brethren the priests and for themselves 13 And the children of Israel that came out of the captivity did eat even all they that had separated themselves from the abominations of the people of the land and sought the Lord. 14 And they kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days making merry before the Lord 15 For that he had turned the ‖ Or minde counsel of the king of Assyria towards them to strengthen their hands in the works of the Lord God of Israel CHAP. VIII 1 Esdras bringeth the kings commistion to build 8 The copy of it 28 He declareth the names and number of those that came with him 61 and his journey 71 He lamenteth the sins of his people 96 and sweareth the priests to put away their strange wives ANd after these things when Artaxerxes the king of the Persians reigned came Esdras the son of Saraias the son of ‖ Aâ—ariat Ezerias the son of Helchiah the son of Salum 2 The son of
* Zattu Zamoth * Elioenai Eliadas * Eliashib Elisimus * Mattaniah Othonias Jarimoth and * Zabad Sabatus and * Aziza Sardeus 29 Of the sons of Bebai Johannes and Ananias and * Zabbai Jolabad and * Athlai Amatheis 30 Of the sons of * Bani Mani * Meshullam Olamus * Malluch Mamuchus * Adaiah Jedeus Jasubus * Sheal. Jasael and Hieremoth 31 †Of the names in verse 31 32 34 35 see Ezra 10.30 31 34 c. And of the sons of Addi Naathus and Moosias Lacunus and Naidus and Mathanias and Sesthel Balnuus and Manasseas 32 And of the sons of Annas Elionas and Aseas and Melchias and Sabbeus and Simon Chosameus 33 And of the sons of Asom * Mattenai Altaneus and * Mattithiah Matthias and * Zabad Bannaia Eliphalat and Manasses and Semei 34 And of the sons of Maani Jeremias Momdis Omaerus Juel Mabdai and Pelias and Anos Carabasion and Enasibus and Mamnitanaimus Eliasis Bannus Eliali Samis Selemias Nathanias and of the sons of Ozora Sesis Esril Azaelus Samatus Zambis Josiphus 35 And of the sons of Ethma Mazitias Zabadaias Edes Juel Banaias 36 All these had taken strange wives and they put them away with their children 37 And the priests and Levites and they that were of Israel dwelt in Jerusalem and in the countrey in the first day of the seventh moneth so the children of Israel were in their ‖ Or villagâ—â— habitations 38 * Neh. 8.1 And the whole multitude came together with one accord into the broad place of the holy porch toward the east 39 And they spake unto Esdras the priest and reader that he would bring the law of Moses that was given of the Lord God of Israel 40 So Esdras the chief priest brought the law unto the whole multitude from man to woman and to all the priests to hear the law in the first day of the seventh moneth 41 And he read in the broad court before the holy porch from morning unto mid-day before both men and women and all the multitude gave heed unto the law 42 And Esdras the priest and reader of the law stood up upon a pulpit of wood which was made for that purpose 43 And there stood up by him Matathias Sammus Ananias Azarias Urias ‖ Or Hilkiah Ezecias ‖ Or Maasiah Balasamus upon the right hand 44 And upon his left hand stood ‖ Or Pedaiah Phaldaius Misael Melchias ‖ Or Hashum Lothasubus and ‖ See Neh. 8.4 Nabarias 45 The took Esdras the book of the law before the multitude for he sat †Heb. above them all honourably in the first place in the sight of them all 46 And when he opened the law they stood all straight up So Esdras blessed the Lord God most high the God of hosts Almighty 47 And all the people answered Amen and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground and worshipped the Lord. 48 Also Jesus Anus Sarabias Adinus Jacubus Sabbateas ‖ Or Hodijah Auteas Maianeas and Calitas Azarias and Joazabdus and Ananias Biatas the Levites taught the law of the Lord making them withal to understand it 49 ‖ Then Nehemiah and Ezra the priest and scribe and the Levites that instructed the people said unto all the people Nehem. 8.9 Then spake Attharates unto Esdras the chief priest and reader and to the Levites that taught the multitude even to all saying 50 This day is holy unto the Lord for they all wept when they heard the law 51 Go then and eat the fat and drink the sweet and send part to ‖ Or the poor them that have nothing 52 For this day is holy unto the Lord and be not sorrowful for the Lord will bring you to honour 53 So the Levites published all things to the people saying This day is holy to the Lord be not sorrowful 54 Then went they their way every one to eat and drink and make merry and to give part to them that had nothing and to make great cheer 55 Because they understood the words wherein they were instructed and for the which they had been assembled II. ESDRAS CHAP. I. 1 Esdras is commanded to reprove the people 24 God threatneth to cast them off 35 to give their houses to a people of more grace then they THe second book of the prophet * Ezra 7.1 Esdras the son of Saraias the son of Azarias the son of Helchias the son of ‖ Or Shallum Sadamias the son of Sadoc the son of Achitob 2 The son of Achias the son of Phinees the son of Heli the son of Amarias the son of Aziei the son of Marimoth the son of Arna the son of Ozias the son of Borith the son of Abisei the son of Phinees the son of Eleazar 3 The son of Aaron of the tribe of Levi which was captive in the land of the Medes in the reign of Artaxerxes king of the Persians 4 And the word of the Lord came unto me saying 5 Go thy way and * Isa â— â— shew my people their sinful deeds and their children their wickedness which they have done against me that they may tell their childrens children 6 Because the sins of their fathers are increased in them for they have forgotten me and have offered unto strange gods 7 Am not I even he that brought them out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage but they have provoked me unto wrath and despised my counsels 8 Pull thou off then the hair of thy head and cast all evil upon them for they have not been obedient unto my law but it is a rebellious people 9 How long shall I forbear them unto whom I have done so much good 10 Many kings have I destroyed for their sakes * Ex. 14.28 Pharaoh with his servants and all his power have I smitten down 11 * Num. 21.24 Josh 8 and 10 and 12. And all the nations have I destroyed before them and in the east I have scattered the people of two provinces even of Tyrus and Sidon and have slain all their enemies 12 Speak thou therefore unto them saying Thus saith the Lord 13 * Ex. 14.29 I led you through the sea and in the beginning gave you a large and safe ‖ Or sheet passage * Ex. 3.10 â—â—d 4.14 I gave you Moses for a leader Aaron for a priest 14 * Ex. 13.21 I gave you light in a pillar of fire and great wonders have I done among you yet have you forgotten me saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith the Almighty Lord The * Ex. 16.13 Ps 105.40 quails were as a token for you I gave you tents for your safeguard nevertheless you murmured there 16 And triumphed not in my name for the destruction of your enemies but ever to this day do ye yet murmure 17 Where are
thy power shall be dried up as a flower when the heat shall arise that is sent over thee 51 Thou shalt be weakned as a poor woman with stripes and as one chastised with wounds so that the mighty and lovers shall not be able to receive thee 52 Would I with jealousie have so proceeded against thee saith the Lord. 53 If thou hadst not always stain my chosen exalting the stroke of thine hands and saying over their †Lat death dead when thou wast drunken 54 Set forth the beauty of thy countenance 55 The reward of thy whoredom shall be in thy bosom therefore shall thou receive recompence 56 Like as thou hast done unto my chosen saith the Lord even so shall God do unto thee and shall deliver thee into mischief 57 Thy children shall die of hunger and thou shalt fall through the sword thy cities shall be broken down and all thine shall perish with the sword in the field 58 They that be in the mountains shall die of hunger and eat their own flesh and drink their own bloud for very hunger of bread and thirst of water 59 Thou as unhappy shalt come through the sea and receive plagues again 60 And in the passage they shall rush on the idle city and shall destroy some portion of thy land and consume part of thy glory and shall return to Babylon that was destroyed 61 And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble and they shall be unto thee as fire 62 And shall consume thee and thy cities thy land and thy mountains all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire 63 Thy children shall they carry away captive and look what thou hast they shall spoil it and ‖ Or. blemish mar the beauty of thy face CHAP. XVI 1 Babylon and other places are threatned with plagues that cannot be avoided 23 and with desolation 40 The servants of the Lord must look for troubles 51 and not hide their sins 74 but leave them and they shall be delivered WO be unto thee Babylon and Asia wo be unto thee Egypt and Syria 2 Gird up your selves with clothes of sack and hair bewail your children and be sorry for your destruction is at hand 3 A sword is sent upon you and who may turn it back 4 A fire is sent among you and who may quench it 5 Plagues are sent unto you and what is he that may drive them away 6 May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood or may any one quench the fire in stubble when it hath begun to burn 7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer 8 The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can drive them away 9 A fire shall go forth from his wrath and who is he that may quench it 10 He shall cast lightnings and who shall not fear he shall thunder and who shall not be afraid 11 The Lord shall threaten and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence 12 The earth quaketh and the foundations thereof the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep and the waves of it are troubled and the fishes thereof also before the Lord and before the glory of his power 13 For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bowe his arrows that he shooteth are sharp and shall not miss when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world 14 Behold the plagues are sent and shall not return again until they come upon the earth 15 The fire is kindled and shall not be put out till it consume the foundation of the earth 16 Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again 17 Wo is me wo is me who will deliver me in those days 18 The beginning of sorrows and great mournings the beginning of famine and great death the beginning of wars and the powers shall stand in fear the beginning of evils what shall I do when these evils shall come 19 Behold famine and plague tribulation and anguish are sent as scourges for amendment 20 But for all these things they shall not turn from their wickedness nor be alway mindful of thy scourges 21 Behold victuals shall be so good cheap upon earth that they shall think themselves to be in good case and even then shall ‖ Of plagues evils grow upon earth sword famine and great confusion 22 For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine and the other that escape the hunger shall the sword destroy 23 And the dead shall be cast out as dung and there shall be no man to comfort them for the earth shall be wasted and the cities shall be cast down 24 There shall be no man lest to till the earth and to sow it 25 The trees shall give fruit and who shall gather them 26 The grapes shall ripen and who shall tread them for all places shall be desolate of men 27 So that one man shall desire to see another and to hear his voice 28 For of a city there shall be ten left and two of the field which shall hide themselves in the thick groves and in the clefts of the rocks 29 As in an orchard of olives upon every tree there are left three or four olives 30 Or as when a vineyard is gathered there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard 31 Even so in those daâ—s there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword 32 And the earth shall be laid waste and the fields thereof shall wax old and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns because no man shall travel there through 33 The virgins shall mourn having no bridegrooms the women shall mourn having no husbands their daughters shall mourn having no helpers 34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed and their husbands shall perish of famine 35 Hear now these things and understand them ye servants of the Lord. 36 Behold the word of the Lord receive it beleeve not the gods of whom the Lord spake 37 Behold the plagues draw nigh and are not slack 38 As when a woman with childe in the ninth moneth bringeth forth her son within two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb which pains when the childe cometh forth they slack not a moment 39 Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth and the world shall mourn and sorrows shall come upon it on every side 40 O my people hear my word make you ready to the battel and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth 41 He that selleth let him be as he that fleeth away and he that buyeth as one that will lose 42 He that occupieth merchandise as he that had no profit by it
hills and had laid impediments in the champian countreys 2 Wherewith he was very angry and called all the princes of Moab and the captains of Ammon and all the governours of the sea coast 3 And he said unto them Tell me now ye sons of Chanaan who this people is that dwelleth in the hill-countrey and what are the cities that they inhabit and what is the multitude of their army and wherein is their power and strength and what king is set over them or captain of their army 4 And why have they determined not to come and meet me more then all the inhabitants of the west 5 * Chap. 11.5 9. Then said Achior the captain of all the sons of Ammon Let my lord now hear a word from the mouth of thy servant and I will declare unto thee the truth concerning this people which dwelleth near thee and inhabiteth the hill-countreys and there shall no lie come out of the mouth of thy servant 6 This people are descended of the Caldeans 7 * Gen. 11.21 And they sojourned heretofore in Mesopotamia because they would not follow the gods of their father which were in the land of Caldea 8 For they ‖ Or went out of left the way of their ancestours and worshipped the God of heaven the God whom they knew so they cast them out from the face of their gods and they fled into Mesopotamia and sojourned there many days 9 Then * Gen. 12.1 their God commanded them to depart from the place where they sojourned and to go into the land of Chanaan where they dwelt and were increased with gold and silver and with very much cattel 10 But when a famine covered all the land of Chanaan they went down into Egypt and sojourned there while they were nourished and became there a great multitude so that one could not number their nation 11 Therefore the king of Egypt rose up against them and dealt subtilly with them and brought them low with labouring in * Exod. 1.8 brick and made them slaves 12 Then they cried unto their God and he smote all the land of Egypt with incurable plagues so the * Exod. 12.31 33. Egyptians cast them out of their 7s ight 13 And * Exod. 14.21 God dried the Red sea before them 14 And * Exod. 19.1 brought them †Gr. into the way of the wilderness of Sina to mount Sina and Cades Barne and cast forth all that dwelt in the wilderness 15 So they dwelt in the land of the Amorites and they destroyed by their strength all them of Esebon and passing over Jordan they possessed all the hill-countrey 16 * Josh 12.8 And they cast forth before them the Chanaanite the Pherezite the Jebusite and the Sychemite and all the Gergesites and they dwelt in that countrey many days 17 And whilest they sinned not before their God they prospered because the God that hateth iniquity was with them 18 But * Judg. 2.11 and 3.8 when they departed from the way which he appointed them they were destroyed in many battels very sore * 2 King 25.1 11. and were led captives into a land that was not theirs and the temple of their God was cast to the ground and their cities were taken by the enemies 19 But * Ezra 1.1 3. now are they returned to their God and are come up from the places where they were scattered and have possessed Jerusalem where their sanctuary is and ‖ Or have their dwellings are seated in the hill-countrey for it was desolate 20 Now therefore my lord and governour if there be any errour in this people and they sin against their God let us consider that this shall be their ruine and let us go up and we shall overcome them 21 But if there be no iniquity in their nation let my lord now pass by lest their Lord defend them and their God be for them and we become a reproach before all the world 22 And when Achior had finished these sayings all the people standing round about the tent murmured and the chief men of Holofernes and all that dwelt by the sea-side and in Moab spake that he should kill him 23 For say they we will not be afraid of the face of the children of Israel for lo it is a people that have no strength nor power †Gr. against a mighty army for a strong battel 24 Now therefore lord Holofernes we will go up and they shall be a prey to be devoured of all thine army CHAP. VI. 1 Holofernes despiseth God 7 He threatneth Achior and sendeth him away 14 The Bethulians receive and bear him 18 They fall to prayer and comfort Achior ANd when the tumult of men that were about the council was ceased Holofernes the chief captain of the army of Assur said unto Achior and all the Moabites before all the company of other nations 2 And who art thou Achior and the hirelings of Ephraim that thou hast prophesied amongst us as to day and hast said that we should not make war with the people of Israel because their God will defend them and who is God but Nabuchodonosor 3 He will send his power and will destroy them from the face of the earth and their God shall not deliver them but we his servants will destroy them as one man for they are not able to sustain the power of our horses 4 For with them we will tread them under foot and their mountains shall be drunken with their bloud and their fields shall be filled with their dead bodies and their footsteps shall not be able to stand before us for they shall utterly perish saith king Nabuchodonosor lord of all the earth for he said None of my words shall be in vain 5 And thou Achior an hireling of Ammon which hast spoken these words in the day of thine iniquity shalt see my face no more from this day until I take vengeance of this nation that came out of Egypt 6 And then shall the sword of mine army and the multitude of them that serve me pass through thy sides and thou shalt fall among their slain when I return 7 Now therefore my servants shall bring thee back into the hill-countrey and shall set thee in one of the cities of the passages 8 And thou shalt not perish till thou be destroyed with them 9 And if thou perswade thy self in thy minde that they shall not be taken let not thy countenance fall I have spoken it and none of my words shall be in vain 10 Then Holofernes commanded his servants that waited in his tent to take Achior and bring him to Bethulia and deliver him into the hands of the children of Israel 11 So his servants took him and brought him out of the camp into the plain and they went from the midst of the plain into the hill-countrey and came unto the fountains that were under Bethulia 12 And when the men of the city
saw them they took up their weapons and went out of the city to the top of the hill and every man that used a sling kept them from coming up by casting of stones against them 13 Nevertheless having gotten privily under the hill they bound Achior and cast him down and left him at the foot of the hill and returned to their lord 14 But the Israelites descended from their city and came unto him and loosed him and brought him into Bethulia and presented him to the governours of the city 15 Which were in those days Ozias the son of Micha of the tribe of Simeon and Chabris the son of Gothoniel and Charmis the son of Melchiel 16 And they called together all the ancients of the city and all their youth ran together and their women to the assembly and they set Achior in the midst of all their people Then Ozias asked him of that which was done 17 And he answered and declared unto them the words of the council of Holofernes and all the words that he had spoken in the midst of the princes of Assur and whatsoever Holofernes had spoken proudly against the house of Israel 18 Then the people fell down and worshipped God and cried unto God saying 19 O Lord God of heaven behold their pride and pity the low estate of our nation and look upon the face of those that are sanctified unto thee this day 20 Then they comforted Achior and praised him greatly 21 And Ozias took him out of the assembly unto his house and made a feast to the elders and they called on the God of Israel all that night for help CHAP. VII 1 Holofernes besiegeth Bethulia 7 and stoppeth the water from them 22 They faint and murmure against the governours 30 who promise to yeeld within five days THe next day Holofernes commanded all his army and all his people which were come to take his part that they should remove their camp against Bethulia to take afore-hand the ascents of the hill-countrey and to make war against the children of Israel 2 Then their strong men removed their camps in that day and the army of the men of war was an hundred and seventy thousand footmen and twelve thousand hors-men beside the baggage and other men that were afoot amongst them a very great multitude 3 And they camped in the valley near unto Bethulia by the fountain and they spread themselves in breadth ‖ from Dothaim Junius over Dothaim even to Belmaim and in length from Bethulia unto †Gr. bean-field Cyamon which is over against Esdraelom 4 Now the children of Israel when they saw the multitude of them were greatly troubled and said every one to his neighbour Now will these men lick up the face of the earth for neither the high mountains nor the valleys nor the hills are able to bear their weight 5 Then every man took up his weapons of war and when they had kindled fires upon their towres they remained and watched all that night 6 But in the second day Holofernes brought forth all his hors-men in the sight of the children of Israel which were in Bethulia 7 And viewed the passages up to the city and came to the fountains of their waters and took them and set garisons of men of war over them and he himself removed towards his people 8 Then came unto him all the chief of the children of Esau and all the governours of the people of Moab and the captains of the sea-coast and said 9 Let our lord now hear a word that there be not an overthrow in thine army 10 For this people of the children of Israel do not trust in their spears but in the height of the mountains wherein they dwell because it is not easie to come up to the tops of their mountains 11 Now therefore my lord fight not against them in battel-aray and there shall not so much as one man of thy people perish 12 Remain in thy camp and keep all the men of thine army and let thy servants get into their hands the fountain of water which issueth forth of the foot of the mountain 13 For all the inhabitants of Bethulia have their water thence so shall thirst kill them and they shall give up their city and we and our people shall go up to the tops of the mountains that are near and will camp upon them to watch that none go out of the city 14 So they and their wives and their children shall be consumed with famine and before the sword come against them they shall be overthrown in the streets where they dwell 15 Thus shalt thou render them an evil reward because they rebelled and met not thy person peaceably 16 And these words pleased Holofernes and all his servants and he appointed to do as they had spoken 17 So the camp of the children of Ammon departed and with them five thousand of the Assyrians and they pitched in the valley and took the waters and the fountains of the waters of the children of Israel 18 Then the children of Esau went up with the children of Ammon and camped in the hill-countrey over against Dothaim and they sent some of them toward the south and toward the east over against Ekrebel which is near unto Chusi that is upon the brook Mochmur and the rest of the army of the Assyrians camped in the plain and covered the face of the whole land and their tents and carriages were pitched to a very great multitude 19 Then the children of Israel cried unto the Lord their God because their heart failed for all their enemies had compassed them round about and there was no way to escape out from among them 20 Thus all the company of Assur remained about them both their footmen chariots and hori-men four and thirty days so that all their vessels of water failed all the inhabitants of Bethulia 21 And the ‖ Or pitâ— cisterns were emptied and they had not water to drink their fill for one day for they gave them drink by measure 22 Therefore their young children were out of heart and their women and young men fainted for thirst and fell down in the streets of the city and by the passages of the gates and there was no longer any strength in them 23 Then all the people assembled to Ozias and to the chief of the city both young men and women and children and cried with a loud voice and said before all the elders 24 God be * Exod. 5. â—â— judge between us and you for you have done us great injury in that you have not required peace of the children of Assur 25 For now we have no helper but God hath sold us into their hands that we should be thrown down before them with thirst and great destruction 26 Now therefore call them unto you and deliver the whole city for a spoil to the people of Holofernes and to all his army 27 For it is better for us
to be made a spoil unto them then to die for thirst for we will be his servants that our souls may live and not see the death of our infants before our eyes nor our wives nor our children to die 28 We take to witness against you the heaven and the earth and our God and Lord of our fathers which punisheth us according to our sins and the sins of our fathers ‖ Or leâ—t â—e do meaning Holofernes that he do not according as we have said this day 29 Then there was great weeping with one consent in the midst of the assembly and they cried unto the Lord God with a loud voice 30 Then said Ozias to them Brethren be of good courage let us yet endure five days in the which space the Lord our God may turn his mercy towards us for he will not forsake us utterly 31 And if these days pass and there come no help unto us I will do according to your word 32 And he dispersed the people every one to their own charge and they went unto the walls and towres of their city and sent the women and children into their houses and they were very low brought in the city CHAP. VIII 1 The state and behaviour of Judith a widow 12 She blameth the governours for their promise to yeeld 17 and adviseth them to trust in God 28 They excuse their promise 32 She promiseth to do something for them NOw at that time Judith heard thereof which was the daughter of Merari the son of Ox the son of Joseph the son of Oziel the son of Elcia the son of Ananias the son of Gedeon the son of Raphaim the son of Acitho the son of Eliu the son of Eliab the son of Nathanael the son of ‖ Or Samaâ—iel Samael the son of Salasadal the son of Israel 2 And Manasses was her husband of her tribe and kindred who died in the barley-harvest 3 For as he stood overseeing them that bound sheaves in the field the heat came upon his head and he fell on his bed and died in the city of Bethulia and they buried him with his fathers in the field between Dothaim and Balamo 4 So Judith was a widow in her house three years and four moneths 5 And she made her a tent upon the top of her house and put on sackcloth upon her loyns and ware her widows apparel 6 And she fasted all the days of her widowhood save the eves of the sabbaths and the sabbaths and the eves of the new-moons and the new-moons and the feasts and solemn days of the house of Israel 7 She was also of a goodly countenance and very beautiful to behold and her husband Manasses had left her gold and silver and men-servants and maid-servants and cattle and lands ‖ Or and she kept them and she remained upon them 8 And there was none that gave her an ill word for she feared God greatly 9 Now when she heard the evil words of the people against the governour that they fainted for lack of water for Judith had heard all * Chap 7 30 31 the words that Ozias had spoken unto them and that he had sworn to deliver the city unto the Assyrians after five days 10 Then she sent her waiting-woman that had the government of all things that she had to call Ozias and Chabris and Charmis the ancients of the city 11 And they came unto her and she said unto them Hear me now O ye governours of the inhabitants of Bethulia for your words that you have spoken before the people this day are not right touching this oath which ye made and pronounced between God and you and have promised to deliver the city to our enemies unless within these days the Lord turn to help you 12 And now who are you that have tempted God this day and stand in stead of God amongst the children of men 13 And now try the Lord Almighty but you shall never know any thing 14 For you cannot finde the depth of the heart of man neither can ye perceive the things that he thinketh then how can you search out God that hath made all these things and know his minde or comprehend his purpose Nay my brethren provoke not the Lord our God to anger 15 For if he will not help us within these five days he hath power to defend us when he will even every day or to destroy us before our enemies 16 Do not ‖ Or enzaze binde the counsels of the Lord our God for * Num. 23.19 God is not as man that he may be threatned neither is he as the son of man that he should be wavering 17 Therefore let us wait for salvation of him and call upon him to help us and he will hear our voice if it please him 18 For there arose none in our age neither is there any now in these days neither tribe nor family nor ‖ Or town people nor city among us which worship gods made with hands * Judâ— 2.11 and 4 1 and 6.1 as hath been aforetime 19 For the which cause our fathers were given to the sword and for a spoil and had a great fall before our enemies 20 But we know none other God therefore we trust that he will not despise us nor any of our nation 21 For if we be taken so all Judea shall lie waste and our sanctuary shall be spoiled he will require the profanation thereof at our mouth 22 And the ‖ Or fear slaughter of our brethren and the captivity of the countrey and the desolation of our inheritance will he turn upon our heads among the Gentiles wheresoever we shall be in bondage and we shall be an offence and a reproach to all them that possess us 23 For our servitude shall not be directed to favour but the Lord our God shall turn it to dishonour 24 Now therefore O brethren let us shew an example to our brethren because their hearts depend upon us and the sanctuary and the house and the altar rest upon us 25 Moreover let us give thanks to the Lord our God which trieth us even as he did our fathers 26 Remember what things he did to * Gen. 22.1 Abraham and how he tried Isaac and what hapned to * Gen. 28.7 Jacob in Mesopotamia of Syria when he kept the sheep of Laban his mothers brother 27 For he hath not tried us in the fire as he did them for the examination of their hearts neither hath he taken vengeance on us but the Lord doth scourge them that come near unto him to admonish them 28 Then said Ozias to her All that thou hast spoken hast thou spoken with a good heart and there is none that may gainsay thy words 29 For this is not the first day wherein thy wisdom is manifested but from the beginning of thy days all the people have known thy understanding because the disposition of thine heart is good 30
is well-pleasing unto him and they that love him shall be filled with the law 17 They that fear the Lord will prepare their hearts and humble their souls in his sight 18 Saying We will fall into the hands of the Lord and not into the hands of men for as his majesty is so is his mercy CHAP. III. 1 Children must honour and help both their parents 21 We may not desire to know all things 26 The incorrigible must needs perish 30 Alms are rewarded HEar me your father O children and do thereafter that ye may be safe 2 For the Lord hath given * Ex. 20.12 Deut. 5.6 the father honour over the children and hath confirmed the ‖ Or judgement authority of the mother over the sons 3 Whoso honoureth his father maketh an atonement for his sins 4 And he that honoureth his mother is as one that layeth up treasure 5 Whoso honoureth his father shall have joy of his own children and when he maketh his prayer he shall be heard 6 He that honoureth his father shall have a long life and he that is obedient unto the Lord shall be a comfort to his mother 7 He that feareth the Lord will honour his father and will do service unto his parents as to his masters 8 * Verse 2. Honour thy father and mother both in word and deed that a blessing may come upon thee from them 9 For the * Gen. 27.27 Deut. 33.1 blessing of the father establisheth the houses of children but the curse of the mother rooteth out foundations 10 Glory not in the dishonour of thy father for thy fathers dishonour is no glory unto thee 11 For the glory of a man is from the honour of his father and a mother in dishonour is a reproach unto the children 12 My son help thy father in his age and grieve him not as long as he liveth 13 And if his understanding fail have patience with him and despise him not when thou art ‖ Or in all thine ability in thy full strength 14 For the relieving of thy father shall not be forgotten and in stead of sins it shall be added to build thee up 15 In the day of thine affliction it shall be remembred thy sins also shall melt away as the ice in the fair warm weather 16 He that forsaketh his father is as a blasphemer and he that angreth his mother is cursed of God 17 My son go on with thy business in meekness so shalt thou be beloved of him that is approved 18 * Phil. 2.3 The greater thou art the more humble thy self and thou shalt finde favour before the Lord. 19 Many are in high place and of renown but * Psal 25.9 14. mysteries are revealed unto the meek 20 For the power of the Lord is great and he is honoured of the lowly 21 * Prov. 25.27 Rom. 12.3 Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee neither search the things that are above thy strength 22 But what is commanded thee think thereupon with reverence for it is not needful for thee to see with thine eyes the things that are in secret 23 Be not curious in unnecessary matters for mo things are shewed unto thee then men understand 24 For many are deceived by their own vain opinion and an evil suspicion hath overthrown their judgement 25 Without eyes thou shalt want light profess not the knowledge thereof that thou hast not 26 A stubborn heart shall fare evil at the last and he that loveth danger shall perish therein 27 An obstinate heart shall be laden with sorrows and the wicked man shall heap sin upon sin 28 ‖ Or The proud man is not healed by his punishment In the punishment of the proud there is no remedy for the plant of wickedness hath taken root in him 29 The heart of the prudent will understand a parable and an attentive ear is the desire of a wise man 30 * Ps 41.1 c. Dan. 4.27 Matth. 5.7 Water will quench a flaming fire and alms maketh an atonement for sins 31 And he that requiteth good turns is mindful of that which may come hereafter and when he falleth he shall finde a stay CHAP. IV. 1 We may not despise the poor or fatherless 11 but seek for wisdom 20 not be ashamed of some things nor gainsay the truth 30 nor be as lions in our houses MY son defraud not the poor of his living and make not the needy eyes to wait long 2 Make not an hungry soul sorrowful neither provoke a man in his distress 3 Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed and defer not to give to him that is in need 4 Reject not the supplication of the afflicted neither turn away thy face from a poor man 5 Turn not away thine eye from ‖ Or him that asketh the needy and give him none occasion to curse thee 6 For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul his prayer shall be heard of him that made him 7 Get thy self the love of the congregation and bow thy head to a great man 8 Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor and give him a friendly answer with meekness 9 Deliver him that suffereth wrongs from the hand of the oppressour and be not faint-hearted when thou sittest in judgement 10 Be as a father unto the fatherless and in stead of an husband unto their mother so shalt thou be as the son of the most High and he shall love thee more then thy mother doth 11 Wisdom exalteth her children and layeth hold of them that seek her 12 He that loveth her loveth life and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy 13 He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory and wheresoever she entreth the Lord will bless 14 They that serve her shall minister ‖ Or in the sanctuary to the holy One and them that love her the Lord doth love 15 Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations and he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely 16 If a man commit himself unto her he shall inherit her and his generation shall hold her in possession 17 For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways and bring fear and dread upon him and torment him with her discipline until she may trust his soul and try him by her laws 18 Then will she return the straight way unto him and comfort him and shew him her secrets 19 But if he go wrong she will forsake him and give him over to his own ruine 20 Observe the opportunity and beware of evil and be not ashamed when it concerneth thy soul 21 For there is a shame that bringeth sin and there is a shame which is glory and grace 22 Accept no person against thy soul and let not the reverence of any man cause thee to fall 23 And refrain not to speak †Or in time of
make thee a laughing-stock to thine enemies that malign thee 32 Take not pleasure in much good cheer neither be tied to the expense thereof 33 Be not made a beggar by banquetting upon borrowing when thou hast nothing in thy purse for thou shalt lie in wait for thine own life and be talked on CHAP. XIX 2 Wine and women seduce wise men 7 Say not all thou hearest 17 Reprove thy friend without anger 22 There is no wisdom in wickedness A Labouring man that is given to drunkenness shall not be rich and he that contemneth small things shall fall by little and little 2 Wine and women will make men of understanding to fall away and he that cleaveth to harlots will become impudent 3 Moths and worms shall have him to heritage and a bold man shall be taken away 4 * Josh 22.11 He that is hasty to give credit is light-minded and he that sinneth shall offend against his own soul 5 Whoso taketh pleasure in wickedness shall be condemned but he that resisteth pleasures crowneth his life 6 He that can rule his tongue shall live without strife and he that hateth babbling shall have less evil 7 Rehearse not unto another that which is told unto thee and thou shalt fare never the worse 8 Whether it be ‖ Or of friend or foe to a friend or foe talk not of other mens lives and if thou can't without offence reveal them not 9 For he heard and observed thee and when time cometh he will ‖ Or shew his hatred hate thee 10 If thou hast heard a word let it die with thee and be bold it will not burst thee 11 A fool travaileth with a word as a woman in labour of a childe 12 As an arrow that sticketh in a mans thigh so is a word within a fouls ‖ Or heart belly 13 * Lev. 10.17 Mat. 18.15 Admonish a friend it may be he hath not done it and if he have done it that he do it no more 14 ‖ Or reprove Admonish thy friend it may be hath not said it and if he have that he speak it not again 15 Admonish a friend for many times it is a slander and beleeve not every tale 16 There is one that slippeth in his speech but not ‖ Or willingly from his heart and who is he that hath not offended with his * Jam. 3.2 tongue 17 ‖ Or reprove Admonish thy neighbour before thou threaten him and not being angry give place to the law of the most High 18 The fear of the Lord is the first step ‖ Or of receiving him to be accepted of him and wisdom obtaineth his love 19 The knowledge of the commandments of the Lord is the doctrine of life and they that do things that please him shall receive the fruit of the tree of immortality 20 The fear of the Lord is all wisdom and in all wisdom is the performance of the law and the knowledge of his omnipotency 21 If a servant say to his master I will not do as it pleaseth thee though afterward he do it he angreth him that nourisheth him 22 The knowledge of wickedness is not wisdom neither at any time the counsel of sinners prudence 23 There is a wickedness and the same an abomination and there is a fool wanting in wisdom 24 He that hath small understanding and feareth God is better then one that hath much wisdom and transgresseth the law of the most High 25 There is an exquisite subtilty and the same is unjust and there is one that turneth aside to make judgement appear and there is a wise man that ‖ Or judgeth justi fieth in judgement 26 There is a wicked man that hangeth down his head ‖ Or in black sadly but inwardly he is full of deceit 27 Casting down his countenance and making as if he heard not where he is not known he will do thee a mischief before thou be aware 28 And if for want of power he be hindred from sinning yet when he findeth opportunity he will do evil 29 A man may be known by his look and one that hath understanding by his countenance when thou meetest him 30 A mans attire and excessive laughter and gate shew what he is CHAP. XX. 1 Of silence and speaking 10 Of gifts and gain 18 Of slipping by the tongue 24 Of lying 27 Of divers advertisements THere is a reproof that is not ‖ Or seasonable comely again some man holdeth his tongue and he is wise 2 It is much better to reprove then to be angry secretly and he that confesseth his fault shall be preserved from hurt 3 How good is it when thou art reproved to shew repentance for so shalt thou escape wilful sin 4 As is the lust of * Chap. 30.20 an eunuch to deflower a virgin so is he that executeth judgement with violence 5 There is one that keepeth silence and is found wise and another by much babbling becometh hateful 6 Some man holdeth his tongue because he hath not to answer and some keepeth silence * Ecâ—les 3.7 knowing his time 7 A wise man will hold his * Ch. 32.4 tongue till he see opportunity but a babbler and a fool will regard no time 8 He that useth many words shall be abhorred and he that taketh to himself authority therein shall be hated 9 There is a sinner that hath good success in evil things and there is a gain that turneth to loss 10 There is a gift that shall not profit thee and there is a gift whose recompence is double 11 There is an abasement because of glory and there is that lifteth up his head from a low estate 12 There is that buyeth much for a little and repayeth it seven-fold 13 * Chap. 6. â—â— A wise man by his words maketh himself beloved but the ‖ Or pleasant conceits graces of fools shall be ‖ Or lost or spilt poured out 14 The gift of a fool shall do thee no good when thou hast it neither yet of the envious for his necessity †Gr. for his eyes are many for one to receive for he looketh to receive many things for one 15 He giveth little and upbraideth much he openeth his mouth like a crier to day he lendeth and to morrow will he ask it again such a one is to be hated of God and man 16 The fool saith I have no friends I have no thank for all my good deeds and they that eat my bread speak evil of me 17 How oft and of how many shall he be laughed to scorn for he knoweth not aright what it is to have and it is all one unto him as if he had it not 18 To slip upon a pavement is better then to slip with the tongue so the fall of the wicked shall come speedily 19 ‖ Or an unpleasant fellow An unseasonable tale will always be in the mouth of the unwise 20 A
and set a diadem on thine head of the glory of the Everlasting 3 For God will shew thy brightness unto every countrey under heaven 4 For thy name shall be called of God for ever The peace of righteousness and the glory of Gods worship 5 Arise O Jerusalem and stand on high and look about toward the east and behold thy children gathered from the west unto the east by the word of the holy One rejoycing in the remembrance of God 6 For they departed from thee on foot and were led away of their enemies but God bringeth them unto thee exalted with glory as children of the kingdom 7 For God hath appointed that every high hill and banks of long continuance should be cast down and valleys filled up to make even the ground that Israel may go safely in the glory of God 8 Moreover even the woods and every sweet-smelling tree shall overshadow Israel by the commandment of God 9 For God shall lead Israel I with joy in the light of his glory with the mercy and righteousness that cometh from him CHAP. VI. 1 The cause of their captivity is their sin 3 The place whereto they were carried is Babylon the vanity of whose idols and idolatry is set forth at larâ—e in this chapter ¶ A copy of an epistle which Jeremy sent unto them which were to be led captives into Babylon by the king of the Babylonians to certify them as it was commanded him of God BEcause of the sins which ye have committed before God ye shall be led away captives into Babylon by Nabuchodonosor king of the Babylonians 3 So when ye be come unto Babylon ye shall remain there many years and for a long season namely seven generations and after that I will bring you away peaceably from thence 4 * Ps 115.4 Isa 44.8 9 10. 46.5.7 Wisd 13.10 Now shall ye see in Babylon gods of silver and of gold and of wood born upon shoulders which cause the nations to fear 5 Beware therefore that ye in no wise be like to strangers neither be ye afraid of them when ye see the multitude before them and behinde them worshipping them 6 But say ye in your hearts O Lord we must worship thee 7 For mine angel is with you and I my self caring for your souls 8 As for their tongue it is polished by the workman and they themselves are gilded and laid over with gold yet are they but false and cannot speak 9 And taking gold as it were for a virgin that loves to go gay they make crowns for the herds of their gods 10 Sometimes also the priests convey from their gods gold and silver and bestow it upon themselves 11 Yea they will give thereof to the ‖ Or which prostitute themselves openly common harlots and deck them as men with garments being gods of silver and gods of gold and wood 12 Yet cannot these gods save themselves from rust and moths though they be covered with purple raiment 13 They wipe their faces because of the dust of the temple when there is much upon them 14 And he that cannot put to death one that offendeth him holdeth a sceptre as though he were a judge of the countrey 15 He hath also in his right hand a dagger and an ax but cannot deliver himself from war and theeves 16 Whereby they are known not to be gods therefore fear them not 17 For like as a vessel that a man useth is nothing worth when it is broken even so it is with their gods when they be set up in the temple their eyes be full of dust through the feet of them that come in 18 And as the ‖ Or courts doors are made sure on every side upon him that offendeth the king as being committed to suffer death even so the priests make fast their temples with doors with locks and bars lest their gods be spoiled with robbers 19 They light them candles yea more then for themselves whereof they cannot see one 20 They are as one of the beams of the temple yet they say their hearts are †Gr. licked gnawed upon by things creeping out of the earth and when they eat them and their clothes they feel it not 21 Their faces are blacked through the smoke that comes out of the temple 22 Upon their bodies and heads sit bats swallows and birds and the cats also 23 By this you may know that they are no gods therefore fear them not 24 Notwithstanding the gold that is about them to make them beautiful except they wipe off the rust they will not shine for neither when they were molten did they feel it 25 The things wherein there is no breath are bought for ‖ Or any price a most high price 26 * Isa 46.7 They are born upon shoulders having no feet whereby they declare unto men that they be nothing worth 27 They also that serve them are ashamed for if they fall to the ground at any time they cannot rise up again of themselves neither if one let them upright can they move of themselves neither if they be bowed down can they make themselves straight but they set ‖ Or offerings gifts before them as unto dead men 28 As for the things that are sacrificed unto them their priests sell and ‖ Or spend abuse in like manner their wives lay up part thereof in salt but unto the poor and impotent they give nothing of it 29 Menstruous women and women in childbed * Lev. 12.4 eat their sacrifices by these things ye may know that they are no gods fear them not 30 For how can they be called gods because women set meat before the gods of silver gold and wood 31 And the priests sit in their temples having their clothes rent and their heads and beards shaven and nothing upon their heads 32 They rore and cry before their gods as men do at the feast when one is dead 33 The priests also take off their garments and clothe their wives and children 34 Whether it be evil that one doeth unto them or good they are not able to recompense it they can neither set up a king nor put him down 35 In like manner they can neither give riches nor money though a man make a vow unto them and keep it not they will not require it 36 They can save no man from death neither deliver the weak from the mighty 37 They cannot restore a blinde man to his sight nor help any man in his distress 38 They can shew no mercy to the widow nor do good to the fatherless 39 Their gods of wood and which are overlaid with gold and silver are like the stones that be hewn out of the mountain they that worship them shall be confounded 40 How should a man then think and say that they are gods when even the Caldeans themselves dishonour them 41 Who if they shall see one dumb that cannot speak they ‖ Or bid
him 〈◊〉 upon Bel. bring him and intreat Bel that he may speak as though he were able to understand 42 Yet they cannot understand this themselves and leave them for they have no ‖ Or sense knowledge 43 The women also with cords about them sitting in the ways burn bran for perfume but if any of them drawn by some that passeth by lie with him she reproacheth her fellow that she was not thought as worthy as her self nor her cord broken 44 Whatsoever is done among them is false how may it then be thought or said that they are gods 45 They are made of carpenters and gold-smiths they can be nothing else then the workman will have them to be 46 And they themselves that made them can never continue long how should then the things that are made of them be gods 47 For they left lies and reproaches to them that come after 48 For when there cometh any war or plague upon them the priests consult with themselves where they may be hidden with them 49 How then cannot men perceive that they be no gods which can neither save themselves from war nor from plague 50 * Ps 115.4 Wisd 13.10 For seeing they be but of wood and overlaid with silver and gold it shall be known hereafter that they are false 51 And it shall manifestly appear to all nations and kings that they are no gods but the works of mens hands and that there is no work of God in them 52 Who then may not know that they are no gods 53 For neither can they set up a king in the land nor give rain unto men 54 Neither can they judge their own cause nor redress a wrong being unable for they are as crows between heaven and earth 55 Whereupon when fire falleth upon the house of gods of wood or laid over with gold or silver their priests will flee away and escape but they themselves shall be burnt asunder like beams 56 Moreover they cannot withstand any king or enemies how can it then be thought or said that they be gods 57 Neither are those gods of wood and laid over with silver or gold able to escape either from theeves or robbers 58 Whos 's gold and silver and garments wherewith they are clothed they that are strong do take and go away withal neither are they able to help themselves 59 Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power or else a profitable vessel in an house which the owner shall have use of then such false gods or to be a door in an house to keep such things safe as be therein then such false gods or a pillar of wood in a palace then such false gods 60 For sun moon and stars being bright and sent to do their offices are obedient 61 In like manner the lightning when it breaketh forth is easie to be seen and ‖ Or the same â—ind after the same manner the wind bloweth in every countrey 62 And when God commandeth the clouds to go over the whole world they do as they are bidden 63 And the fire sent from above to consume hills and woods doeth as it is commanded but these are like unto them neither in shew nor power 64 Wherefore it is neither to be supposed nor said that they are gods seeing they are able neither to judge causes nor to do good unto men 65 Knowing therefore that they are no gods fear them not 66 For they can neither curse nor bless kings 67 Neither can they shew signs in the heavens among the heathen nor shine as the sun nor give light as the moon 68 The beasts are better then they for they can get under a covert and help themselves 69 It is then by no means manifest unto us that they are gods therefore fear them not 70 For as a scar-crow in a garden of cucumbers keepeth nothing so are their gods of wood and laid over with silver and gold 71 And likewise their gods of wood and laid over with silver and gold are like to a whitethorn in an orchard that every bird sitteth upon as also to a dead body that is cast into the dark 72 And you shall know them to be no gods by the ‖ Or purple and brightness bright purple that rotteth upon them and they themselves afterward shall be eaten and shall be a reproach in the countrey 73 Better therefore is the just man that hath none idols for he shall be far from reproach ¶ The song of the three holy children which followeth in the third chapter of DANIEL after this place fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace That which followeth is not in the Hebrew to wit And they walked unto these words Then Nebuchadnezzar verse 24. 2 Azarias his prayer and confession in the flame 24 wherewith the Caldeans about the oven were consumed but the three children within it were not hurt 28 The song of the three children in the oven ANd they walked in the midst of the fire praising God and blessing the Lord. 2 Then Azarias stood up and prayed on this manner and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire said 3 Blessed art thou O Lord God of our fathers thy name is worthy to be praised and glorified for evermore 4 For thou art righteous in all the things that thou hast done to us yea true are all thy works thy ways are right and * Psal â—â— 1â— all thy judgements truth 5 In all the things which thou hast brought upon us and upon the holy city of our fathers even Jerusalem thou hast executed true judgement for according to truth and judgement didst thou bring all these things upon us because of our sins 6 For we have sinned and committed iniquity departing from thee 7 In all things have we trespassed and not obeyed thy commandments nor kept them neither done as thou hast commanded us that it might go well with us 8 Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us and every thing that thou hast done to us thou hast done in true judgement 9 And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies most hateful forsakers of God and to an unjust king and the most wicked in all the world 10 And now we cannot open our mouths we are become a shame and reproach to thy servants and to them that worship thee 11 Yet deliver us not up wholly for thy names sake neither disanul thou thy covenant 12 And cause not thy mercy to depart from us for thy beloved Abrahams sake for thy servant Isaacs sake and for thy holy Israels sake 13 To whom thou hast spoken and promised That thou wouldest multiply their seed as the stars of heaven and as the sand that lieth upon the sea-shore 14 For we O Lord are become less then any nation and be kept under this day in all the world because of our sins 15 Neither is there at this time prince or prophet or leader or
he put him aside and commanded to bring the other and said unto him O thou seed of Chanaan and not of Juda beauty hath deceived thee and lust hath perverted thine heart 57 Thus have ye dealt with the daughters of Israel and they for fear companied with you but the daughter of Juda would not abide your wickedness 58 Now therefore tell me Under what tree didst thou take them companying together Who answered Under a ‖ Or kinde of oak holm-tree 59 Then said Daniel unto him Well thou hast also lied against thine own head for the angel of God waiteth with the sword to cut thee in two that he may destroy you 60 With that all the assembly cried out with a loud voice and praised God who saveth them that trust in him 61 And they rose against the two elders for Daniel had convctied them of false witness by their own mouth 62 And according to the law of Moses * Deut. 19.19 Prov. 19.5 they did unto them in such sort as they maliciously intended to do to their neighbour and they put them to death Thus the innocent bloud was saved the same day 63 Therefore Chelcias and his wife praised God for their daughter Susanna with Joacim her husband and all the kindred because there was no dishonesty found in her 64 From that day forth was Daniel had in great reputation in the sight of the people ¶ The history of the destruction of †Gr. Bels dragon Bel and the Dragon cut off from the end of DANIEL 19 The fraud of Bels priests is discovered by Daniel 27 and the dragon slain which was worshipped 33 Daniel is preserved in the lions â—en 42 The king doth acknowledge the God of Daniel and casteth his enemies into the same den ANd king Astyages was gathered to his fathers and Cyrus of Persia received his kingdom 2 And Daniel ‖ Or liveâ— with the king conversed with the king and was honoured above all his friends 3 Now the Babylonians had an idol called Bel. and there were spent upon him every day twelve great measures of fine flour and fourty sheep and six vessels of wine 4 And the king worshipped it and went daily to adore it but Daniel worshipped his own God And the king said unto him Why dost not thou worship Bel 5 Who answered and said Because I may not worship idols made with hands but the living God who hath created the heaven and the earth and hath sovereignty over all flesh 6 Then said the king unto him Thinkest thou not that Bel is a living god seest thou not how much he eateth and drinketh every day 7 Then Daniel smiled and said O king be not deceived for this is but clay within and brass without and did never * Ecclus 30.19 eat or drink any thing 8 So the king was wroth and called for his priests and said unto them If ye tell me not who this is that devoureth these expenses ye shall die 9 But if you can certifie me that Bel devoureth them then Daniel shall die for he hath spoken blasphemy against Bel. And Daniel said unto the king Let it be according to thy word 10 Now the priests of Bel were threescore and ten beside their wives and children and the king went with Daniel into the temple of Bel. 11 So Bels priests said Lo we go out but thou O king set on the meat and make ready the wine and shut the door fast and seal it with thine own signet 12 And to morrow when thou comest in if thou findest not that Bel hath eaten up all we will suffer death or else Daniel that speaketh falsly against us 13 And they little regarded it for under the table they had made a privy entrance whereby they entred in continually and consumed those things 14 So when they were gone forth the king set meats before Bel. Now Daniel had commanded his servants to bring ashes and those they strewed throughout all the temple in the presence of the king alone then went they out and shut the door and sealed it with the kings signet and so departed 15 Now in the night came the priests with their wives and children as they were wont to do and did eat and drink up all 16 In the morning betime the king arose and Daniel with him 17 And the king said Daniel are the seals whole And he said Yea O king they be whole 18 And assoon as he had opened the door the king looked upon the table and cried with a loud voice Great art thou O Bel and with thee is no deceit at all 19 Then laughed Daniel and held the king that he should not go in and said Behold now the pavement and mark well whose footsteps are these 20 And the king said I see the footsteps of men women and children And then the king was angry 21 And took the priests with their wives and children who shewed him the privy doors where they came in and consumed such things as were upon the table 22 Therefore the king slew them and delivered Bel into Daniels power who destroyed him and his temple 23 ‖ Some add this title Of the dragon And in that same place there was a great dragon which they of Babylon worshipped 24 And the king said unto Daniel Wilt thou also say that this is of brass so he liveth he eateth and drinketh thou canst not say that he is no living god therefore worship him 25 Then said Daniel unto the king I will worship the Lord my God for he is the living God 26 But give me leave O king and I shall slay this dragon without sword or staff The king said I give thee leave 27 Then Daniel took pitch and fat and hair and did seethe them together and made lumps thereof this he put in the dragons mouth and so the dragon burst in sunder and Daniel said ‖ Or Behold what you worship Lo These are the gods you worship 28 When they of Babylon heard that they took great indignation and conspired against the king saying The king is become a Jew and he hath destroyed Bel he hath slain the dragon and put the priests to death 29 So they came to the king and said Deliver us Daniel or else we will destroy thee and thine house 30 Now when the king saw that they pressed him sore being constrained he * Dan 6.16 delivered Daniel unto them 31 Who cast him into the lions den where he was six days 32 And in the den there were seven lions and they had given them every day ‖ Or two slaves two carcases and two sheep which then were not given to them to the intent they might devour Daniel 33 Now there was in Jewry a prophet called Habbacuc who had ‖ Or sod made pottage and had broken bread in a bowl and was going into the field for to bring it to the reapers 34 But the angel of the Lord said unto Habbacuc Go
of the shew-bread and the pouring vessels and the vials and the censers of gold and the veil and the crowns and the golden ornaments that were before the temple ‖ Or he pilled all things all which he pulled off 23 He took also the silver and the gold and the †Gr. desirable precious vessels also he took the hidden treasures which he found 24 And when he had taken all away he went into his own land having made a great massacre and spoken very proudly 25 Therefore there was great mourning in Israel in every place where they were 26 So that the princes and elders mourned the virgins and young men were made feeble and the beauty of women was changed 27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation and she that sat in the marriage-chamber was in heaviness 28 The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion 29 And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collectour of tribute unto the cities of Juda who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude 30 And spake peaceable words unto them but all was deceit for when they had given him credence he fell suddenly upon the city and smote it very sore and destroyed much people of Israel 31 And when he had taken the spoils of the city he set it on fire and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side 32 But the women and children took they captive and possessed the cattel 33 Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall and with mighty towres and made it a strong hold for them 34 And they put therein a sinful nation wicked men and fortified themselves therein 35 They stored it also with armour and victuals and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem they laid them up there and so they became a sore snare 36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary and an evil adversary to Israel 37 Thus they shed innocent bloud on every side of the sanctuary and defiled it 38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers and became strange to those that were born in her and her own children left her 39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness her feasts were turned into mourning her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt 40 As had been her glory so was her dishonour increased and her excellency was turned into mourning 41 Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom that all should be one people 42 And every one should leave his laws so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king 43 Yea many also of the Israelites consented to his religion and sacrificed unto idols and profaned the sabbath 44 For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow ‖ Or the laws and rites of the strangers of the land the strange laws of the land 45 And forbid burnt-offerings and sacrifice and drink-offerings in the temple and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days 46 And pollute the sanctuary and holy people 47 Set up altars and groves and chappels of idols and sacrifice swines flesh and unclean beasts 48 That they should also leave their children uncircumcised and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation 49 To the end they might forget the law and change all the ordinances 50 And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king he said he should die 51 In the self-same manner wrote he to his whole kingdom and appointed overseers over all the people commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice city by city 52 Then many of the people were gathered unto them to wit every one that forsook the law and so they committed evils in the land 53 ‖ Or And they made Israel hide themselves in holes in every place of succour And drove the Israelites into secret places even wheresoever they could flee for succour 54 Now the fifteenth day of the moneth Casleu in the hundred fourty and fifth year they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar and builded idol-altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side 55 And burnt incense at the doors of their houses and in the streets 56 And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found they burnt them with fire 57 And wheresoever was found with any the book of the testament or if any consented to the law †Gr. the kings commandment put him to death the kings commandment was that they should put him to death 58 Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every moneth to as many as were found in the cities 59 Now the five and twentieth day of the moneth they did sacrifice upon the idol-altar which was upon the altar of God 60 At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women †Gr. that had circumcised their children that had caused their children to be circumcised 61 And they hanged the infants about their necks and rifled their houses and slew them that had circumcised them 62 Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing 63 Wherefore they chose rather to die that they might not be defiled with meats and that they might not profane the holy covenant so then they died 64 And there was very great wrath upon Israel CHAP. II. 6 Mattathias lamenteth the case of Jerusalem 24 He slayeth a Jew that did sacrifice to idols in his presence and the kings messenger also 34 He and his are assailed on the sabbath and make no resistance 50 He dieth and instrutieth his sons 66 and maketh their brother Judas Maccabeus general IN those days ‖ Or Mattathias the son of John c. arose from Jerusalem or out of Jerusalem arose Mattathias the son of John the son of Simeon a priest of the sons of Joarib from Jerusalem and dwelt in Modin 2 And he had five sons Joannan ‖ Or who was called and so aflterward in the rest called ‖ Gaddis Caddis 3 Simon called Thassi 4 Judas who was called Maccabeus 5 Eleazar called ‖ Or Avaron or Abaron Avaran and Jonathan whose surname was Apphus 6 And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem 7 He said Wo is me wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people and of the holy city and to dwell there when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers 8 Her temple is become as a man without glory 9 Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity her infants are slain in the streets her young men with the sword of the enemy 10 What nation
and the kings forces are defeated by Judas 49 The day of this victory is kept holy every year IN the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome and came up with a few men unto ‖ Triposts Joseph Antiq lib. 12. â— 16 a city of the sea-coast and reigned there 2 And as he entred into the †Gr. house of the kingdom of his 〈◊〉 palace of his ancestours so it was that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias to bring them unto him 3 Wherefore when he knew it he said Let me not see their faces 4 So his host slew them Now when Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom 5 There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel having Alcimus who was desirous to be high priest for their captain 6 And they accused the people to the king saying Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends and driven us out of our own land 7 Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest and let him go and see what havock he hath made amongst us and in the kings land and let him punish them with all them that aid them 8 Then the king chose Bacchides a friend of the king who ruled beyond the floud and was a great man in the kingdom and faithful to the king 9 And him he sent with the wicked Alcimus whom he made high priest commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of Israel 10 So they departed and came with a great power into the land of Judea where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully 11 But they gave no heed to their words for they saw that they were come with a great power 12 Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of ‖ Or officers governours chiefmen or men in authority scribes to require justice 13 Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them 14 For said they One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with this army and he will do us no wrong 15 So he spake unto them peaceably and sware unto them saying We will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends 16 Whereupon they beleeved him howbeit he took of them threescore men and slew them in one day according to the words which he wrote 17 * Ps 79.2 3. The flesh of thy saints have they cast out their bloud have they shed round about Jerusalem and there was none to bury them 18 Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people who said There is neither truth nor †Gr. judgement righteousness in them for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made 19 After this removed Bacchides from Jerusalem and pitched his tents in Bezeth where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him and certain of the people also and when he had slain them he cast them into the great pit 20 Then committed he the countrey to Alcimus and left with him a power to aid him so Bacchides went to the king 21 But Alcimus ‖ Or laboured to defend his high priesthood contended for the high priesthood 22 And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people who after they had gotten the land of Juda into their power did much hurt in Israel 23 Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites even above the heathen 24 He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about and took vengeance of them that had ‖ Or fled from him to the enemy revolted from him so that they durst no more ‖ Or invade the countrey go forth into the countrey 25 On the other side when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company ‖ Or was groan â—ny strong had gotten the upper hand and knew that he was not able †Gr. to abide them to abide their force he went again to the king and said all the worst of them that he could 26 Then the king sent Nicanor one of his honourable princes a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel with commandment to destroy the people 27 So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force and sent unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with †Gr. peaceable friendly words saying 28 Let there be no battel between me and you I will come with a few men that I may †Gr. see your faces see you in peace 29 He came therefore to Judas they saluted one another peaceably Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence 30 Which thing after it was known to Judas to wit that he came unto him with deceit he was sore afraid of him would see his face no more 31 Nicanor also when he saw that his counsel was discovered went out to †Gr. meet Judas in battel fight against Judas besides ‖ Or Carphasalama Capharsalama 32 Where there were slain of Nicanors side about five thousand men and the rest fled into the city of David 33 After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion and there came out of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of the people to salute him peaceably and to shew him the burnt-sacrifice that was offered for the king 34 But he mocked them and laughed at them and †Gr. defiled them abused them shamefully and spake proudly 35 And swore in his wrath saying Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands if ever I come again †Gr. in peace in safety I will burn up this house and with that he went out in a great rage 36 Then the priests entred in and stood before the altar and the temple weeping and saying 37 Thou O Lord didst choose this house to be called by thy name and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people 38 Be avenged of this man his host and let them fall by the sword remember their blasphemies and suffer them not to continue any longer 39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem and pitched his tents in Bethoron where an host out of Syria met him 40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men and there he prayed saying 41 * 2 Kin. 19.35 O Lord when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed thine angel went out and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them 〈◊〉 37.26 Ecclus 4â— 21 2 Mac. 8.19 42 Even so destroy thou this host before us this day that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary and judge thou him according to his wickedness 43 So the thirteenth day of the moneth Adar the hosts joyned battel but Nicanors host was discomfitted and he himself was first slain in the battel 44
slain in battel †Or be adâ—ed or proceeded to send he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judea the second time and with them ‖ Or the â—â—â—ht wing the chief strength of his host 2 Who went forth by the way that leadeth to ‖ Or Galilea Galgala and pitched their tents before Maseloth which is in Arbela and after they had won it they slew much people 3 Also the first moneth of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem 4 From whence they removed and went to ‖ Or Berrethâ— Joseph Berea with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand hors-men 5 Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa and three thousand chosen men with him 6 Who seeing the multitude of the other army to be so great were sore afraid whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host insomuch as there abode of them no more but eight hundred men 7 When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away and that the battel pressed upon him he was sore troubled in minde and much distressed for that he had no time to gather them together 8 Nevertheless unto them that remained he said Let us arise and go up against our enemies iâ— peradventure we may be able to fight with them 9 But they dehorted him saying We shall never be able ‖ We follow here the Romane copy let us now rather save our lives and hereafter we will return with our brethren and fight against them for we are but few 10 Then Judas said God forbid that I should do this thing and flee away from them if our time be come let us die manfully for our brethren and †Gr. let us not leave any just cause behind us why our glory should be spoken against let us not slain our honour 11 With that the host of Bacchides removed out of their tents and stood over against ‖ Or the Jews them their hors men being divided into two troops and their slingers and archers going before the host and they that marched in the fore-ward were all mighty men 12 As for Bacchides he was in the right wing so the host drew near on the two parts and sounded their trumpets 13 They also of Judas side even they sounded their trumpets also so that the earth shook at the noise of the armies and the battel continued from morning till night 14 Now when Judas perceived that Bacchides and the strength of his army were on the right side he took with him all the hardy men 15 Who discomfited the right wing and pursued them unto the mount Azotus 16 But when they of the left wing saw that they of the right wing were discomfited they followed upon Judas and those that were with him hard at the heels from behinde 17 Whereupon there was a sore battel insomuch as many were slain on both parts 18 Judas also was killed and the remnant fled 19 Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers in Modin 20 Moreover they bewailed him and all Israel made great lamentation for him and mourned many days saying 21 How is the valiant man faln that delivered Israel 22 As for the other things concerning Judas and his wars and the noble acts which he did and his greatness they are not written for they were very many 23 ¶ Now after the death of Judas the wicked began to put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel and there rose up all such as wrought iniquity 24 In those days also was there a very great famine by reason whereof the countrey revolted and went with ‖ Bacchides and his company them 25 Then Bacchides chose the wicked men and made them lords of the countrey 26 And they made enquiry and search for Judas friends and brought them unto Bacchides who took vengeance of them and †Gr. mocked them used them despitefully 27 So was there a great affliction in Israel the like whereof was not since the time that a prophet was not seen amongst them 28 For this cause all Judas friends came together and said unto Jonathan 29 Since thy brother Judas died we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides and against them of our nation that are adversaries to us 30 Now therefore we have chosen thee this day to be our prince and captain in his stead that thou mayest fight our battels 31 Upon this Jonathan took the governance upon him at that time and rose up in stead of his brother Judas 32 But when Bacchides gat knowledge thereof he sought for to slay him 33 Then Jonathan and Simon his brother and all that were with him peceiving that fled into the wilderness of Thecoe and pitched their tents by the water of the pool Asphar 34 ‖ Or Which when Bacchides understood on the sabbath-day be came near Which when Bacchides understood he came near to Jordan with all his host upon the sabbath-day 35 Now Jonathan had sent his brother ‖ Josephus Antiqu. l. 13. c. â— John a captain of the people to pray his friends the Nabathites †Gr. that he might leave with them their carriage or stuff that they might leave with them their carriage which was much 36 But the children of †Gr. Ambri Jambri came out of Medaba and took John and all that he had and went their way with it 37 After this came word to Jonathan and Simon his brother that the children of Jambri made a great marriage and were bringing the bride from ‖ Or Medaha Nadabatha with a great train as being the daughter of one of the great princes of Chanaan 38 Therefore they remembred John their brother and went up and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain 39 Where they lift up their eyes and looked and behold there was much ado and great carriage and the bridegroom came forth and his friends and brethren to meet them with ‖ Or timbrels drums and ‖ Or musicians instruments of musick and many weapons 40 Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they say in ambush and made a slaughter of them in such sort as many fell down dead and the remnant fled into the mountain and they took all their spoils 41 Thus was the marriage turned into mourning and the noise of their melody into lamentation 42 So when they had avenged fully the bloud of their brother they turned again to the marish of Jordan 43 Now when Bacchides heard thereof he came on the sabbath-day unto the banks of Jordan with a great power 44 Then Jonathan said to his company Let us go up now and fight for our lives for it standeth not with us to day as in time past 45 For behold the battel is before us and behinde us and the water of Jordan on this side and that side the
I say unto you He shall not lose his reward 42 * Mat. 18.5 And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that beleeve in me it is better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and he were cast into the sea 43 * Mat. 5.27 18.8 And if thy hand ‖ Or cause thee to offend offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter into life maimed then having two hands to go into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched 44 * Isa 66.24 Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched 45 And if thy foot offend thee cut it off it is better for thee to enter halt into life then having two feet to be cast into hell into the fire that never shall be quenched 46 Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched 47 And if thine eye ‖ Or cause tâ—â—e to offend offend thee pluck it out it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye then having two eyes to be cast into hell fire 48 Where their worm dieth not and the fire is not quenched 49 For every one shall be salted with sire * Lev. 2.13 and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt 50 * Mat. 5.13 Salt is good but if the salt have lost his saltness wherewith will you leason it Have salt in your seâ—â—es have peace one with another CHAP. X. 2 Christ disputeth with the Pharisees touching divorcement 13 blesseth the children that are brought unto him 17 resolveth a rich man how he may inherit â—â—fe everlasting 23 telleth his disciples of the danger of riches 28 promiseth rewards to them that forsake any thing for the gospel 32 foretelleth his death and resurrection 35 biddeth the two ambitious suiters to think rather of suffering with him 45 and restoreth to Bartimeus his sight ANd * Mat. 19.1 he arose from thence and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan and the people resort unto him again and as he was wont he taught them again 2 ¶ And the Pharisees came to him and asked him Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife tempting him 3 And he answered said unto them What did Moses command you 4 And they said Moses suffered to write a bill of divorcement and to put her away 5 And Jesus answered and said unto them For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept 6 But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female 7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife 8 And they twain shall be one flesh so then they are no more twain but one flesh 9 What therefore God hath joyned together let no man put asunder 10 And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter 11 And he said unto them * Mat. 5.32 19.9 Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another committeth adultery against her 12 And if a woman shall put away her husband and be married to another she committeth adultery 13 ¶ * Mat. 19.13 And they brought young children to him that he should touch them and his disciples rebuked those that brought them 14 But when Jesus saw it he was much displeased and said unto them Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of God 15 Verily I say unto you Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little childe he shall not enter therein 16 And he took them up in his arms put his hands upon them and blessed them 17 ¶ * Mat. 19.15 And when he was gone forth into the way there came one running and kneeled to him and asked him Good Master what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life 18 And Jesus said unto him Why callest thou me good there is none good but one that is God 19 Thou knowest the commandments Do not commit adultery Do not kill Do not steal Do not bear false witness Defraud not Honour thy father and mother 20 And he answered and said unto him Master all these have I observed from my youth 21 Then Jesus beholding him loved him and said unto him One thing thou lackest go thy way sell whatsoever thou hast and give to the poor and thou shalt have treasure in heaven and come take up the cross and follow me 22 And he was sad at that saying and went away grieved for he had great possessions 23 ¶ And Jesus looked round about and saith unto his disciples How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! 24 And the disciples were astonished at his words But Jesus answereth again and saith unto them Children how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle then for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God 26 And they were astonished out of measure saying among themselves Who then can be saved 27 And Jesus looking upon them saith With men it is impossible but not with God for with God all things are possible 28 ¶ * Mat. 19.27 Then Peter began to say unto him Lo we have left all and have followed thee 29 And Jesus answered and said Verily I say unto you There is no man that hath left house or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my sake and the gospels 30 But he shall receive an hundred-sold now in this time houses and brethren and sisters and mothers and children and lands with persecutions and in the world to come eternal life 31 * Mat. 19.30 But many that are first shall be last and the last first 32 ¶ * Mat. 20.17 And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem and Jesus went before them and they were amazed and as they followed they were afraid And he took again the twelve and began to tell them what things should happen unto him 33 Saying Behold we go up to Jerusalem and the Son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and unto the scribes and they shall condemn him to death and shall deliver him to the Gentiles 34 And they shall mock him and shall scourge him and shall spit upon him and shall kill him and the third day he shall rise again 35 ¶ * Mat. 20 2â— And James and John the sons of Zebedee come unto him saying Master we would that thou shouldest do for us whatsoever we shall desire 36 And he said unto them What would ye that I should do for you 37 They said unto him Grant unto us that we may sit one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand in thy glory 38 But Jesus said unto them Ye know not
robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet 23 And bring hither the fatted calf and kill it and let us eat and be merry 24 For this my son was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found And they began to be merry 25 Now his elder son was in the field and as he came and drew nigh to the house he heard musick and dancing 26 And he called one of the servants and asked what these things meant 27 And he said unto him Thy brother is come and thy father hath killed the fatted calf because he hath received him safe found 28 And he was angry and would not go in therefore came his father out and intreated him 29 And he answering said to his father Lo these many years do I serve thee neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment and yet thou never gavest me a kid the I might make merry with my friends 30 But as soon as this thy son was come which hath devoured thy living with harlots thou hast killed for him the fatted calf 31 And he said unto him Son thou art ever with me and all that I have is thine 32 It was meet that we should make merry and be glad for this thy brother was dead and is alive again and was lost and is found CHAP. XVI 1 The parable of the unjust steward 14 Christ reproveth the by poâ—risie of the covetous Pharisees 19 The rich glutton and Lazarus the begger ANd he said also unto his disciples There was a certain rich man which had a steward and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods 2 And he called him and said unto him How is it that I hear this of thee give an account of thy stewardship for thou mayest be no longer steward 3 Then the steward said within himself What shall I do for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship I cannot dig to beg I am ashamed 4 I am resolved what to do that when I am put out of the stewardship they may receive me into their houses 5 So he called every one of his lords debters unto him and said unto the first How much owest thou unto my lord 6 And he said An hundred ‖ The word Batus in the original containeth nine gallons three quarts measures of oyl And he said unto him Take thy bill and sit down quickly and write fifty 7 Then said he to another And how much owest thou And he said An hundred ‖ The word here interpreted a measure in the original containeth about fourteen bushels and a pottle measures of wheat And he said unto him Take thy bill and write fourscore 8 And the lord commended the unjust steward because he had done wisely for the children of this world are in their generation wiser then the children of light 9 And I say unto you Make to your selves friends of the ‖ Or riches mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitations 10 He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much 11 If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous ‖ Or riches mammon who will commit to your trust the true riches 12 And if ye have not been faithful in that which is another mans who shall give you that which is your own 13 ¶ * Matth. 6.24 No servant can serve two masters for either he will hate the one and love the other or else he will hold to the one and despise the other Ye cannot serve God and mammon 14 And the Pharisees also who were covetous heard all these things and they derided him 15 And he said unto them Ye are they which justifie your selves before men but God knoweth your hearts for that which is highly esteemed amongst men is abomination in the sight of God 16 * Matth. 11.11 The law and the prophets were until John since that time the kingdom of God is preached and every man preasseth into it 17 * Matth. 5 1â— And it is easier for heaven and earth to pass then one tittle of the law to fail 18 * Matth. 5.32 Whosoever putteth away his wife and marrieth another committeth adultery and whosoever marrieth her that is put away from her husband committeth adultery 19 ¶ There was a certain rich man which was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day 20 And there was a certain begger named Lazarus which was laid at his gate full of sores 21 And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich mans table moreover the dogs came and licked his sores 22 And it came to pass that the begger died and was carried by the angels into Abrahams bosom the rich man also died and was buried 23 And in hell he lift up his eyes being in torments and seeth Abraham afar off and Lazarus in his bosom 24 And he cried and said Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame 25 But Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life-time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented 26 And besides all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence 27 Then he said I pray thee therefore father that thou wouldst send him to my fathers house 28 For I have five brethren that he may testifie unto them lest they also come into this place of torment 29 Abraham saith unto him They have Moses and the prophets let them hear them 30 And he said Nay father Abraham but if one went unto them from the dead they will repent 31 And he said unto him If they hear not Moses and the prophets neither will they be perswaded though one rose from the dead CHAP. XVII 1 Christ teacheth to avoid occasions of offence 3 One to forgive another 6 The power of faith 7 How we are bound to God and not he to us 11 He healeth ten lepers 22 Of the kingdom of God and the coming of the Son of man THen said he unto the disciples * Matth. 18.7 It is impossible but that offences will come but wo unto him through whom they come 2 It were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and he cast into the sea then that he should offend one of these little ones 3 ¶ Take heed to your selves * Matth. 18.23 If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him 4 And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day
from beneath I am from above ye are of this world I am not of this world 24 I said therefore unto you that ye shall die in your sins for if ye beleeve not that I am he ye shall die in your sins 25 Then said thâ—y unto him Who art thou And Jesus saith unto them Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning 26 I have many things to say and to judge of you but he that sent me is true and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him 27 They understood not that he spake to them of the Father 28 Then said â—esâ—â— unto them When ye haâ—e lift up the Son of man then shall ye know that I am he and that I do nothing of myself but as my Father hath taught me I speak these things 29 And he that sent me is with me the Father hath not left me alone for I do always those things that please him 30 As he sâ—ake these words many beleeved on him Then said Jesus to those Jews which beleeved on him If ye continue in my word then are ye my disciples indeed 32 And ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free 33 ¶ They answered him We be Abrahams seed and were never in bondage to any man how sayest thou Ye shall be made free 34 Jesu answered them Verily verily I say unto you * Rom. 6.20 1 Pet. 2.19 Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever but the Son abideth ever 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free ye shall be free indeed 37 I know that ye are Abrahams seed but ye seek to kill me because my word hath no place in you 38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father and ye do that which ye have seen with your father 39 They answered and said unto him Abraham is our father Jesus saith unto them If ye were Abrahams children ye would do the works of Abraham 40 But now ye seek to kill me a man that hath told you the truth which I have heard of God this did not Abraham 41 Ye do the deeds of your father Then said they to him We be not born of fornication we have one Father even God 42 Jesus said unto them If God were your Father ye would love me for I proceeded forth and came from God neither came I of my self but he sent me 43 Why do ye not understand my speech even because ye cannot hear my word 44 * 1 John 3.8 Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him When he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a liar and the father of it 45 And because I tell you the truth ye beleeve me not 46 Which of you convinceth me of sin And if I say the truth why do ye not beleeve me 47 * 1 John 4.6 He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God 48 Then answered the Jews and said unto him Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast a devil 49 Jesus answered I have not a devil but I honour my Father and ye do dishonour me 50 And I seek not mine own glory there is one that seeketh judgeth 51 Verily verily I say unto you If a man keep my saying he shall never see death 52 Then said the Jews unto him Now we know that thou hast a devil Abraham is dead and the prophets and thou sayest If a man keep my saying he shall never taste of death 53 Art thou greater then our father Abraham which is dead and the prophets are dead whom makest thou thy self 54 Jesus answered If I honour my self my honour is nothing it is my Father that honoureth me of whom ye say that he is your God 55 Yet ye have not known him but I know him and if I should say I know him not I shall be a liar like unto you but I know him and keep his saying 56 Your father Abraham rejoyced to see my day and he saw it and was glad 57 Then said the Jews unto him Thou art not yet fifty years old and hast thou seen Abraham 58 Jesus said unto them Verily verily I say unto you Before Abraham was I am 59 Then took they up stones to cast at him but Jesus hid himself went out of the temple going through the midst of them so passed by CHAP. IX 1 The man that was born blinde restored to sight 8 He is brought to the Pharisees 13 They are offended at it and excommunicate him 35 but he is received of Jesus and confesseth him 39 Who they are whom Christ enlightneth ANd as Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blinde from his birth 2 And his disciples asked him saying Master who did sin this man or his parents that he was born blinde 3 Jesus answered Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents but that the works of God should be made manifest in him 4 I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh when no man can work 5 As long as I am in the world * Chap. 1.9 I am the light of the world 6 When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and he ‖ Or spread the clay upon the eyes of the blinde man anointed the eyes of the blinde man with the clay 7 And said unto him Go wash in the pool of Siloam which is by interpretation Sent. He went his way therefore and washed and came seeing 8 ¶ The neighbours therefore and they which before had seen him that he was blinde said Is not this he that sat and begged 9 Some said This is he others said He is like him but he said I am he 10 Therefore said they unto him How were thine eyes opened 11 He answered and said A man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed mine eyes and said unto me Go to the pool of Siloam and wash and I went and washed and I received sight 12 Then said they unto him Where is he He said I know not 13 ¶ They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blinde 14 And it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes 15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight He said unto them He put clay upon mine eyes and I washed and do see 16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees This man is not of God because he keepeth not the sabbath-day Others said How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles And there was a division among them 17 They say unto the blinde man again What sayest thou of him
the stone which was set at nought of you builders which is become the head of the corner 12 Neither is their salvation in any other for there is none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved 13 ¶ Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus 14 And beholding the man which was healed standing with them they could say nothing against it 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council they conferred among themselves 16 Saying What shall we do to these men for that indeed a notable miracle hath been done by them is manifest to all them that dwell in Jerusalem and we cannot deny it 17 But that it spread no further among the people let us straitly threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man in this name 18 And they called them and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus 19 But Peter and John answered and said unto them Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more then unto God judge ye 20 For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen heard 21 So when they had further threatned them they let them go finding nothing how they might punish them because of the people for all men glorified God for that which was done 22 For the man was above fourty years old on whom this miracle of healing was shewed 23 ¶ And being let go they went to their own company and reported all that the chief priests and elders had said unto them 24 And when they heard that they lift up their voice to God with one accord and said Lord thou art God which hast made heaven and earth and the sea and all that in them is 25 Who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said * Psal 2.1 Why did the heathen rage and the people imagine vain things 26 The kings of the earth stood up and the rulers were gathered together against the Lord and against his Christ 27 For of a truth against thy holy childe Jesus whom thou hast anointed both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered together 28 For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done 29 And now Lord behold their threatnings and grant unto thy servants that with all boldness they may speak thy word 30 By stretching forth thine hand to heal and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy childe Jesus 31 ¶ And when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and they spake the word of God with boldness 32 And the multitude of them that beleeved were of one heart and of one soul neither said any of them that ought of the things which he possessed was his own but they had all things common 33 And with great power gave the apostles witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus and great grace was upon them all 34 Neither was there any among them that lacked for as many as were possessours of lands or houses sold them and brought the prices of the things that were sold 35 And laid them down at the apostles feet and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need 36 And Joses who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas which is being interpreted The son of consolation a Levite and of the countrey of Cyprus 37 Having land sold it and brought the money and laid it at the apostles feet CHAP. V. After that Ananias and Sapphira his wife for their hypocrisie at Peters rebuke had faln down dead 12 and that the rest of the apostles had wrought many miracles 14 to the increase of the faith 17 the apostles are again imprisoned 19 but delivered by an angel bidding them to preach openly to all 21 When after their teaching accordingly in the temple 29 and before the council 33 they are in danger to be killed through the advice of Gamaliel a great counsellour among the Jews they be kept alive 40 and are but beaten for which they glorifie God and cease no day from preaching BUt a certain man named Ananias with Sapphira his wife sold a possession 2 And kept back part of the price his wife also being privy to it and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles feet 3 But Peter said Or to deceive Ananias why hath Satan filled thine heart ‖ to lie the holy Ghost and to keep back part of the price of the land 4 Whiles it remained was it not thine own and after it was sold was it not in thine own power why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart thou hast not lied unto men but unto God 5 And Ananias hearing these words fell down and gave up the ghost and great fear came on all them that heard these things 6 And the young men arose wound him up and carried him out and buried him 7 And it was about the space of three hours after when his wife not knowing what was done came in 8 And Peter answered unto her Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much And the said Yea for so much 9 Then Peter said unto her How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord behold the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door and shall carry thee out 10 Then fell she down straight-way at his feet and yeelded up the ghost and the young men came in and found her dead and carrying her forth buried her by her husband 11 And great fear came upon all the church and upon as many as heard these things 12 ¶ And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people and they were all with one accord in Solonions porch 13 And of the rest durst no man joyn himself to them but the people magnified them 14 And beleevers were the more added to the Lord multitudes both of men and women 15 Insomuch that they brought forth the sick ‖ Or in every street into the streets and laid them on beds and couches that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them 16 There came also a multitude out of the cities round about unto Jerusalem bringing sick folks and them which were vexed with unclean spirits and they were healed every one 17 ¶ Then the high priest rose up and all they that were with him which is the sect of the Sadducees and were filled with ‖ Or enâ—y indignation 18 And laid their hands on the apostles and put them in the common prison 19 But the angel of the Lord by night opened the prison doors and brought
them forth and said 20 Go stand and speak in the temple to the people all the words of this life 21 And when they heard that they entred into the temple early in the morning and taught But the high priest came and they that were with him and called the council together and all the senate of the children of Israel and sent to the prison to have them brought 22 But when the officers came and found them not in the prison they returned and told 23 Saying The prison truly found we shut with all safety and the keepers standing without before the doors but when we had opened we found no man within 24 Now when the high priest and the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things they doubted of them whereunto this would grow 25 Then came one and told them saying Behold the men whom ye put in prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people 26 Then went the captain with the officers and brought them without violence for they feared the people lest they should have been stoned 27 And when they had brought them they set them before the council and the high priest asked them 28 Saying * Chap. â— 18 Did not we straitly command you that you should not teach in this name and behold ye have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring this mans blood upon us 29 ¶ Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said We ought to obey God rather then men 30 The God of our fathers raised up Jesus whom ye slew and hanged on a tree 31 Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a Prince and a Saviour for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins 32 And we are his witnesses of these things and so is also the holy Ghost whom God hath given to them that obey him 33 ¶ When they heard that they were cut to the heart and took counsel to slay them 34 Then stood there up one in the council a Pharisee named Gamaliel a doctour of law had in reputation among all the people and commanded to put the apostles forth a little space 35 And said unto them Ye men of Israel take heed to your selves what ye intend to do as touching these men 36 For before these days rose up Theudas boasting himself to be some body to whom a number of men about four hundred joyned themselves who was slain and all as many as ‖ Or beleeved obeyed him were scattered and brought to nought 37 After this man rose up Judas of Galilee in the days of the taxing and drew away much people after him he also perished and all even as many as obeyed him were dispersed 38 And now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this counsel or this work be of men it will come to nought 39 But if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it lest haply ye be found even to fight against God 40 And to him they agreed and when they had called the apostles and beaten them they commanded that they should not speak in the name of Jesus and let them go 41 ¶ And they departed from the presence of the council rejoycing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name 42 And daily in the temple and in every house they ceased not to teach and preach Jesus Christ CHAP. VI. 1 The apostles desirous to have the poor regarded for their bodily sustenance as also careful themselves to dispense the word of God the food of the soul 3 appoint the office of deaconship to seven chosen men 5 of whom Stephen a man full of faith and of the holy Ghost is one 12 who is taken of those whom he coâ—founded in disputing 13 and after falsly accused of blasphemy against the law and the temple ANd in those â—ays when the number of the disciples was multiplied there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration 2 Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them and said It is not reason that we should leave the word of God and serve tables 3 Wherefore brethren look ye out among you seven men of honest report full of the holy Ghost and wisdom whom we may appoint over this business 4 But we will give our selves continually to prayer and to the ministery of the word 5 ¶ And the saying pleased the whole multitude and they chose Stephen a man full of faith and of the holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenas and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch 6 Whom they set before the apostles and when they had prayed they laid their hands on them 7 And the word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem greatly and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith 8 And Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and miracles among the people 9 ¶ Then there arose certain of the synagogue which is called the synagogue of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and of them of Citicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen 10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake 11 Then they suborned men which said We have heard him speak blasphemous words against Moses and against God 12 And they stirred up the people and the elders and the scribes and came upon him and caught him and brought him to the council 13 And set up false witnesses which said This man ceaseth not to speak blasphemous words against this holy place and the law 14 For we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place and shall change the ‖ Or rises customs which Moses delivered us 15 And all that sat in the council looking stedfastly on him saw his face as it had been the face of an angel CHAP. VII 1 Stephen permitted to answer to the accusation of blasphemy 2 sheweth that Abraham worshipped God rightly and how God chose the fathers 20 before Moses was born and before the tabernacle and temple were built 37 that Moses himself witnessed of Christ 44 and that all outward ceremonies were ordained according to the heavenly pattern to last but for a time 51 reprehending their rebellion and murdering of Christ the just one whom the prophets foretold should come into the world 54 whereupon they stone him to death who commendeth his soul to Jesus and humbly prayeth for them THen said the high priest Are these things so 2 And he said Men brethren and fathers hearken The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia before he dwelt in Charran 3 And said unto him * Gen. 12.1 Get thee out of thy countrey and from thy kindred and come into the land which I shall shew thee 4 Then came he out of the land
of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charran and from thence when his father was dead he removed him into this land wherein ye now dwell 5 And he gave him none inheritance in it no not so much as to set his foot on yet he promised that he would give it to him for a possession and to his seed after him when as yet he had no childe 6 And God spake on this wise that his seed should sojourn in a strange land and that they should bring them into bondage and entreat them evil four hundred years 7 And the nation to whom they shall be in bondage will I judge said God and after that shall they come forth and serve me in this place 8 * Gen. 1â— 9 And he gave him the covenant of circumcision * Gen. 21.3 and so Abraham begat Isaac and circumcised him the eighth day * Gen. 23.26 and Isaac begat Jacob and * Gen. 29.31 c. Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs 9 * Gen. 37.28 And the patriarchs moved with envy sold Joseph into Egypt but God was with him 10 And delivered him out of all his afflictions * Gen. 41.37 and gave him favour and wisdom in the sight of Pharaoh king of Egypt and he made him governour over Egypt and all his house 11 Now there came a dearth over all the land of Egypt and Chanaan and great affliction and our fathers found no sustenance 12 * Gen. 42.1 But when Jacob heard that there was corn in Egypt he sent out our fathers first 13 * Gen. 45.4 And at the second time Joseph was made known to his brethren and Josephs kindred was made known unto Pharaoh 14 Then sent Joseph and called his father Jacob to him and all his kindred threescore and fifteen souls 15 * Gen. 46.5 So Jacob went down into Egypt * Gen. 49.33 and died he and our fathers 16 And were carried over into Sychem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem 17 But when the time of the promise drew night which God had sworn to Abraham the people grew and multiplied in Egypt 18 Till another king arose which knew not Joseph 19 The same dealt subtilly with our kindred and evil entreated our fathers so that they cast out their young children to the end they might not live 20 * Exod. 2.2 In which time Moses was born and * Hebr. 11.23 was ‖ Or fair to God exceeding fair and nourished up in his fathers house three moneths 21 And when he was cast out Pharaohs daughter took him up and nourished him for her own son 22 And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians and was mighty in words and in deeds 23 And when he was full fourty years old it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel 24 * Exod. 2.11 And seeing one of them suffer wrong he defended him and avenged him that was oppressed and smote the Egyptian 25 For he supposed his brethren would have understood how that God by his hand would deliver them but they understood not 26 * Exod. 2.13 And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove and would have set them at one again saying Sirs ye are brethren why do ye wrong one to another 27 But he that did his neighbour wrong thrust him away saying Who made thee a ruler and a judge over us 28 Wilt thou kill me as thou didst the Egyptian yesterday 29 Then fled Moses at this saying and was a stranger in the land of Madian where he begat two sons 30 * Exod. 3.2 And when fourty years were expired there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a busn 31 When Moses saw it he wondred at the fight and as he drew near to behold it the voice of the Lord came unto him 32 Saying I am the God of thy fathers the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. Then Moses trembled and durst not behold 33 Then said the Lord to him Put off thy shoes from thy feet for the place where thou standest is holy ground 34 I have seen I have seen the affliction of my people which is in Egypt and I have heard their groaning and am come down to deliver them And now come I will send thee into Egypt 35 This Moses whom they refused saying Who made the a ruler and a judged the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hands of the angel which appeared to him in the bush 36 He brought them out after that he had * Exod. â— 9 shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt and in the Red Sea * Exod. 16.1 and in the wilderness fourty years 37 ¶ This is that Moses which said unto the children of Israel * Deut. 18 1â— A Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren ‖ Or as mâ—self like unto me him shall ye hear 38 * Exod. 19.3 This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sina and with our fathers who received the lively oracles to give unto us 39 To whom our fathers would not obey but thrust him from them and in their hearts turned back again into Egypt 40 * Exod 32.1 Saying unto Aaron Make us gods to go before us for as for this Moses which brought us out of the land of Egypt we wot not what is become of him 41 And they made a calf in those days and offered sacrifice unto the idol and rejoyced in the works of their own hands 42 Then God turned and gave them up to worship the host of heaven as it is written in the book of the prophets * Amos 5.25 O ye house of Israel have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of fourty years in the wilderness 43 Yea ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch and the star of your god Remphan figures which ye made to worship them and I will carry you away beyond Babylon 44 Our fathers had the tabernacle of witness in the wilderness as he had appointed speaking unto Moses * Exod. 25.40 that he should make it according to the fashion that he had seen 45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into the possession of the Gentiles whom God drave out before the face of our fathers unto the days of David 46 Who found favour before God and desired to finde a tabernacle for the God of Jacob. 47 * 1 Chr. 17.12 But Solomon built him an house 48 Howbeit * Chap. 17.24 the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands as saith the prophet 49 * Isa 66.1 2. Heaven is
are baptized THere was a certain man in Cesarea called Cornelius a centurion of the band called the Italian band 2 A devout man and one that feared God with all his house which gave much alms to the people and prayed to God alway 3 He saw in avision evidently about the ninth hour of the day an angel of God coming in to him and saying unto him Cornelius 4 And when he looked on him he was afraid and said What is it Lord And he said unto him Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God 5 And now send men to Joppa and call for one Simon whose surname is Peter 6 He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner whose house is by the sea-side he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do 7 And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed he called two of his houshold-servants and a devout souldier of them that waited on him continually 8 And when he had declared all these things unto them he sent them to Joppa 9 ¶ On the morrow as they went on their journey and drew nigh unto the city Peter went up upon the house-top to pray about the sixth hour 10 And he became very hungry and would have eaten but while they made ready he fell into a trance 11 And saw heaven opened and a certain vessel descending unto him as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth 12 Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth and wilde beasts and creeping things and fowls of the air 13 And there came a voice to him Rise Peter kill and eat 14 But Peter said Not so Lord for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean 15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time What God hath cleansed that call not thou common 16 This was done thrice and the vessel was received up again into heaven 17 Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean behold the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simons house and stood before the gate 18 And called and asked whether Simon which was surnamed Peter were lodged there 19 ¶ While Peter thought on the vision the spirit said unto him Behold three men seek thee 20 Arise therefore and get the down and go with them doubting nothing for I have sent them 21 Then Peter went down to the men which were sent unto him from Cornelius and said Behold I am he whom ye seek what is the cause wherefore ye are come 22 And they said Cornelius the centurion a just man and one that feareth God and of good report among all the nation of the Jews was warned from God by an holy angel to send for thee into his house and to hear words of thee 23 Then called he them in and lodged them And on the morrow Peter went away with them and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him 24 And the morrow after they entred into Cesarea and Cornelius waited for them and had called together his kinsmen near friends 25 And as Peter was coming in Cornelius met him and fell down at his feet and worshipped him 26 But Peter took him up saying Stand up I my self also am a man 27 And as he talked with him he went in and found many that were come together 28 And he said unto them Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company or come unto one of another nation but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean 29 Therefore came I unto you without gainsaying assoon as I was sent for I ask therefore for what intent ye have sent for me 30 And Cornelius said Four days ago I was fasting until this hour and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house and behold a man stood before me in bright clothing 31 And said Cornelius thy prayer is heard and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God 32 Send therefore to Joppa and call hither Simon whose surname is Peter he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea-side who when he cometh shall speak unto thee 33 Immediately therefore I sent to thee and thou hast well done that thou art come Now therefore are we all here present before God to hear all things that are commanded thee of God 34 ¶ Then Peter opened his mouth and said * Deut. 10.17 Rom. 2.11 1 Pet 1 17. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons 35 But in every nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him 36 The word which God sent unto the children of Israel preaching peace by Jesus Christ he is Lord of all 37 That word I say you know which was published throughout all Judea and began from Galilee after the baptism which John preached 38 How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for God was with him 39 And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem whom they slew and hanged on a tree 40 Him God raised up the third day and shewed him openly 41 Not to all the people but unto witnesses chosen before of God even to us who did eat and drink with him after he rose from the dead 42 And he commanded us to preach unto the people and to testifie that it is he which was ordained of God to be the Judge of quick and dead 43 * Jer. 31.34 Mic. 7.18 To him give all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever beleeveth in him shall receive remission of sins 44 ¶ While Peter yet spake these words the holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word 45 And they of the circumcision which beleeved were astonished as many as came with Peter because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the holy Ghost 46 For they heard them speak with tongues and magnifie God Then answered Peter 47 Can any man forbid water that these should not be baptized which have received the holy Ghost as well as we 48 And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days CHAP. XI 1 Peter being accused for going in to the Gentiles 5 maketh his defence 18 which is accepted 19 The gospel being spread into Phenice and Cyprus and Antâ—och Barnabas is sent to confirm them 26 The disciples there are first called Christians 27 They send relief to the brethren in Judea in time of famine ANd the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God 2 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem they that were of the circumcision
Peter 19 And when Herod had sought for him and found him not he examined the keepers and commanded that they should be put to death And he went down from Judea to Cesarea and there abode 20 ¶ And Herod ‖ Or hare an hostile minde intending war was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon but they came with one accord to him and having made Blastus †Gr. that was over the kings bed-chamber the kings chamberlain their friend desired peace because their countrey was nourished by the kings countrey 21 And upon a set day Herod arayed in royal apparel sat upon his throne and made an oration unto them 22 And the people gave a shout saying It is the voice of a god and not of a man 23 And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him because he gave not God the glory he was eaten of worms gave up the ghost 24 ¶ But the word of God grew and multiplied 25 And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem when they had fulfilled their ‖ Or charge Chap. 11.29 30 ministery and took with them John whose surname was Mark. CHAP. XIII 1 Paul and Barnabas are chosen to go to the Gentiles 7 Of Sergius Paulus and Elimas the sorcerer 14 Paul preacheth at Antioch that Jesus is Christ 42 The Gentiles beleeve 45 but the Jews gainsay and blaspheme 46 where upon they turn to the Gentiles 48 As many as were ordained to life beleeved NOw there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers as Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger and Lucius of Cyrene and Manaen ‖ Or Heâ—ods foster-â—rother which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch and Saul 2 As they ministred to the Lord and fasted the holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas Saul for the work whereunto I have called them 3 And when they had fasted and prayed and laid their hands on them they sent them away 4 ¶ So they being sent forth by the holy Ghost departed unto Seleucia and from thence they sailed to Cyprus 5 And when they were at Salamis they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews and they had also John to their minister 6 And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos they â—ound a certain sorcerer a false prophet a Jew whose name was Bar-jesus 7 Which was with the deputy of the countrey Sergius Paulus a prudent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God 8 But Elymas the sorcerer for so is his name by interpretation withstood them seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith 9 Then Saul who also is called Paul filled with the holy Ghost set his eyes on him 10 And said O full of all subtilty and all mischief thou childe of the devil thou enemy of all righteousness wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord 11 And now behold the hand of the Lord is upon thee and thou shalt be blinde not seeing the sun for a season And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand 12 Then the deputy when he saw what was done beleeved being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. 13 Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos they came to Perga in Pamphylia and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem 14 ¶ But when they departed from Perga they came to Antioch in Phidia and went into the synagogue on the sabbath-day and sat down 15 And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them saying Ye men and brethren if ye have any word of exhortation for the people say on 16 Then Paul stood up and beckning with his hand said Men of Israel and ye that fear God give audience 17 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people * Exod. 1.1 when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt * Exod. 13.14.16 and with an high arm brought he them out of it 18 And about the time of fourty years †Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 perhaps for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as a nurse beareth or feedeth her childe Deut. 1.31 2 Mac. 7.27 according to the Septuag and so Chrylost suffered he their manners in the wilderness 19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan * Josh 14.2 he divided their land to them by lot 20 And after that * Judg. 3.9 he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years until Samuel the prophet 21 * 1 Sam. 8.5 And afterward they desired a king God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis a man of the tribe of Benjamin by the space of fourty years 22 And when he had removed him * 1 Sam. 16.13 he raised up unto them David to be their king to whom also he gave testimony and said * Psal 89.20 I have found David the son of Jesse a man after mâ—â—e own heart which shall fulfil all my will 23 * Isa 11.1 Of this mans seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Saviour Jesus 24 * Mat. 3.1 When John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel 25 And as John fulfilled his course he said * John 1.20 Whom think ye that I am I am not be But behold there cometh one after me whole shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose 26 Men and brethren children of the stock of Abraham and whosoever among you feareth God to you is the word of this salvation sent 27 For they that dwell at Jerusalem and their rulers because they knew him not nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day they have fulfilled them in condemning him 28 * Mat. 27.22 And though they found no cause of death in him yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain 29 And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulchre 30 * Matth. 28.6 But God raised him from the dead 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem who are his witnesse unto the people 32 And we declare unto you glad tidings how that the promise which was made unto the fathers 33 God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children in that he hath raised up Jesus again as it is alâ—o written in the second psalm * Psal 2.7 Hebr. 1.5 Thou art my Son this day have I begotten thee 34 And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead now no more to return to corruption he said on this wise * Isa 55.3 I will give you the sure †Gr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉
the flesh to live after the flesh 13 For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the deeds of the body ye shall live 14 For as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the sons of God 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear but ye have received the * Gal. 4.6 Spirit of adoption whereby we cry Abba Father 16 The Spirit it self beareth witness with our spirit that we are the children of God 17 And if children then heirs heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ if so be that we suffer with him that we may be also glorified together 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us 19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God 20 For the creature was made subject to vanity not willingly but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope 21 Because the creature it self also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God 22 For we know that ‖ Or every creature the whole creation groaneth and travelleth in pain together until now 23 And not only they but our selves also which have the first-fruits of the Spirit even we our selves groan within our selves waiting for the adoption to wit the * Luke 21.28 redemption of our body 24 For we are saved by hope But hope that is seen is not hope for what a man seeth why doth he yet hope for 25 But if we hope for that we see not then do we with patience wait for it 26 Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the Spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered 27 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the minde of the Spirit ‖ Or that because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God 28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose 29 For whom he did foreknow he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the first-born among many brethren 30 Moreover whom he did predestinate them he also called and whom he called them he also justified and whom he justified them he also glorified 31 What shall we then say to these things If God be for us who can be against us 32 He that spared not his own Son but delivered him up for us all how shall he not with him also freely give us all things 33 Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect It is God that justifieth 34 Who is he that condemneth It is Christ that died yea rather that is risen again who is even at the right hand of God who also maketh intercession for us 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall tribulation or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or peril or sword 36 As it is written * Psal 44.22 For thy sake we are killed all the day long we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter 37 Nay in all these things we are more then conquerers through him that loved us 38 For I am perswaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come 39 Nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. CHAP. IX 1 Paul is sorry for the Jews 7 All the seed of Abraham were not the children of the promise 18 God hath mercy upon whom he will 21 The potter may do with his clay what he list 25 The calling of the Gentiles and rejecting of the Jews were foretold 32 The cause why so few Jews embraced the righteousness of faith I Say the truth in Christ I lie not my conscience also bearing me witness in the holy Ghost 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart 3 For I could wish that myself were ‖ Or separated accursed from Christ for my brethren my kinsmen according to the flesh 4 Who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory and the ‖ Or testaments covenants and the giving of the law and the service of God and the promises 5 Whose are the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came who is over all God blessed for ever Amen 6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect For they are not all Israel which are of Israel 7 Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children but in * Gen. 21.12 Isaac shall thy seed be called 8 That is They which are the children of the flesh these are not the children of God but * Gal. 4.28 the children of the promise are counted for the seed 9 For this is the word of promise * Gen 18.10 At this time will I come and Sara shall have a son 10 And not onely this but when Rebecca also had conceived by one even by our father Isaac 11 For the children being not yet born neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might stand not of works but of him that calleth 12 It was said unto her The * Gen. 25.23 ‖ Or greater elder shall serve the ‖ Or lesser younger 13 As it is written * Mal. 1.2 3. Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated 14 What shall we say then Is there unrighteousness with God God forbid 15 For he saith to Moses * Exod. 33.19 I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion 16 So then it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God which sheweth mercy 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh * Exod. 9.16 Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up that I might shew my power in thee and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he hardneth 19 Thou wilt say then unto me Why doth he yet finde fault For who hath resisted his will 20 Nay but O man who art thou that ‖ Or answerest again or disputest with God repliest against God * Isa 45.9 shall the thing formed say to him that formed it Why hast thou made me thus 21 Hath not the * Jer. 18.6 Wis 15.7 potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour 22 What if God willing
possible ye would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me 16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth 17 They zealously affect you but not well yea they would exclude ‖ Or us you that you might affect them 18 But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing and not onely when I am present with you 19 My little children of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you 20 I desire to be present with you now and to change my voice for ‖ Or I am perplezed for you I stand in doubt of you 21 Tell me ye that desire to be under the law do ye not hear the law 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons the one by a bond-maid the other by a free-woman 23 But he who was of the bond-woman was born after the flesh but he of the free-woman was by promise 24 Which things are an allegory for these are the two ‖ Or testaments covenants the one from the mount Sinai which gendereth to bondage which is Agar 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia and ‖ Or is in the some rank with answereth to Jerusalem which now is and is in bondage with her children 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free which is the mother of us all 27 For it is written * Is 54.1 Rejoyce thou barren that bearest not break forth and cry thou that travailest not for the desolate hath many more children then she which hath an husband 28 Now we brethren as Isaac was are * Rom. 9.8 the children of promise 29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now 30 Nevertheless what saith the scripture * Gen. 21.10 Cast out the bond-woman and her son for the son of the bond-woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman 31 So then brethren we are not children of the bond-woman but of the free CHAP. V. 1 He moveth them to stand in their liberty 3 and not to observe circumoision 13 but rather love which is the sum of the law 19 He reckoneth up the works of the flesh 22 and the fruits of the Spirit 25 and exhorteth to walk in the Spirit STand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free and be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage 2 Behold I Paul say unto you that * Act 15.2 if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing 3 For I testifie again to every man that is circumcised that he is a debtour to do the whole law 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you whosoever of you are justified by the law ye are faln from grace 5 For we through the Spirit wait for the hope of righteousness by faith 6 For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but faith which worketh by love 7 Ye did run well ‖ Or who did drive you back who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth 8 This perswasion cometh not of him that calleth you 9 * 1 Cor. 5.6 A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord that you will be none otherwise minded but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgement whosoever he be 11 And I brethren if I yet preach circumcision why do I yet suffer persecution then is the offence of the cross ceased 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you 13 For brethren ye have been called unto liberty onely use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by love serve one another 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word even in this * Lev. 19.18 Mat. 22.39 Rom. 13.9 Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self 15 But if ye bite and devour one another take heed that ye be not consumed one of another 16 This I say then Walk in the Spirit and ‖ Or fulfil not ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would 18 But if ye be led by the Spirit ye are not under the law 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery fornication uncleanness lasciviousness 20 Idolatry witchcraft hatred variance emulations wrath strife seditions heresies 21 Envyings murders drunkenness revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have also told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is Love joy peace long-suffering gentleness goodness faith 23 Meekness temperance against such there is no law 24 And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the ‖ Or pasâ—ions affections and lusts 25 If we live in the Spirit let us also walk in the Spirit 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory provoking one another envying one another CHAP. VI. 1 He moveth them to deal mildly with a brother that hath slipped 2 and to bear one anothers burden 6 to be liberal to their teachers 9 and not weary of welt doing 12 He sheweth what they intend that preach circumcision 14 He glorieth in nothing save in the cross of Christ BRethren ‖ Or although if a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spiritual restore such an one in the spirit of meekness considering thy self lest thou also be tempted 2 Bear ye one anothers burdens and so fulfil the law of Christ 3 For if a man think himself to be something when he is nothing he deceiveth himself 4 But let every man prove his own work and then shall he have rejoycing in himself alone and not in another 5 For * 3 Co. 3.8 every man shall bear his own burden 6 * 1 Cor. 9.14 Let him that is taught in the word communicate unto him that teacheth in all good things 7 Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap 8 For the that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting 9 And * 2 Thes 3.13 let us not be weary in well-doing for in due season we shall reap if we faint not 10 As we have therefore opportunity let us do good unto all men especially unto them who are of the houshold of faith 11 Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand 12 As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh they constrain you to be circumcised onely lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ 13 For neither they themselves who are
place to the devil 28 Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour working with his hands the thing which is good that he may have ‖ Or to distribute to give to him that needeth 29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth but that which is good ‖ Or to edifie profitably to the use of edifying that it may minister grace unto the hearers 30 And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption 31 Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil-speaking be put away from you with all malice 32 And * 2 Cor. 2.10 Col. 3.12 13. be ye kinde one to another tender-hearted forgiving one another even as God for Christs sake hath forgiven you CHAP. V. 2 After general exhortations to love 3 to flee fornication 4 and all uncleanness 7 not to converse with the wicked 15 to walk warily and to be 18 filled with the Spirit 22 he descendeth to the particular duties how wives ought to obey their husbands 25 and husbands ought to love their wives 32 even as Christ doth his church BE ye therefore followers of God a dear children 2 And * Joh. 13.24 15.12 walk in love as Christ also hath loved us and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour 3 But * Col. 3.5 1 Thes 4.3 c. fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness let it not be once named amongst you as be cometh saints 4 Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks 5 For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor covetous man who is an idolater hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God 6 Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of ‖ Or unbelief disobedience 7 Be not ye therefore partakers with them 8 For ye were sometimes darkness but now are ye light in the Lord walk as children of light 9 For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth 10 Proving what is acceptable unto the Lord. 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret 13 But all things that are ‖ Or discovered reproved are made manifest by the light for whatsoever doth make manifest is light 14 Wherefore he saith * Isa 60.1 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light 15 * Col. 4.5 See then that ye walk circumspectly not as fools but as wise 16 Redeeming the time because the days are evil 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise but understanding what the will of the Lord is 18 And be not drunk with wine wherein is excess but be filled with the Spirit 19 Speaking to your selves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord 20 Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ 21 Submitting your selves one to another in the fear of God 22 * Col. 3.18 Tit. 2.5 1 Pet. 3.1 Wives submit your selves unto your own husbands as unto the Lord. 23 For * 1 Cor. 11.3 the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church and he is the Saviour of the body 24 Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing 25 * Col. 3.19 Husbands love your wives even as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for it 26 That he might sanctifie and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing but that it should be holy and without blemish 28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies he that loveth his wife loveth himself 29 For no man ever yet hated his own flesh but nourisheth and cherisheth it even as the Lord the church 30 For we are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones 31 * Gen 2.24 Mat. 19.5 Mar. 10.7 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother and shall be joyned unto his wife and they * 1 Cor. 6.16 two shall be one flesh 32 This is a great mystery but I speak concerning Christ the church 33 Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself and the wife see that she reverence her husband CHAP. VI. 1 The duty of children to ward their parents 5 of servants toward their masters 10 Our life is a warfare 12 not onely against flesh and bloud but also spiritual enemies 13 The complete armour of a Christian 18 and how it ought to be used 21 Tychicus is commended * Col. 3.10 CHildren obey your parents in the Lord for this is right 2 * Ex. 20.12 Deu. 5.16 Ecclus. 3.8 Mat. 15.4 Mar. 7.10 Honour thy father and mother which is the first commandment with promise 3 That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long on the earth 4 And * Col. 3.21 ye fathers provoke not your children to wrath but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. 5 * Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 1 Pet. 2.18 Servants be obedient to them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembing in singleness of your heart as unto Christ 6 Not with eye-service as men-pleasers but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart 7 With good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men 8 Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth the same shall he receive of the Lord whether he be bond or free 9 And ye masters do the same things unto them ‖ Or moderating forbearing threatning knowing that ‖ Some read both your and their master your master also is in heaven * Wisd 6.7 Ecclus 35.12 Rom. 2.11 neither is there respect of persons with him 10 Finally my brethren be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might 11 Put on the whole armour of God that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil 12 For we wrestle not against flesh and bloud but against principalities against powers against the rulers of the darkness of this world against ‖ Or wicked spirits spiritual wickedness in ‖ Or heavenly high places 13 Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day and ‖ Or having overcome all having done all to stand 14 Stand
be blameless the husband of one wife vigilant sober ‖ Or modest of good behaviour given to hospitality apt to teach 3 ‖ Or Not ready to quarrel and offer wrong as one in wine Not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous 4 One that ruleth well his own house having his children in subjection with all gravity 5 For if a man know not how to rule his own house how shall he take care of the church of God 6 Not I a novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil 7 Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil 8 Likewise must the deacons be grave not double-tongued not given to much wine not greedy of filthy lucre 9 Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience 10 And let these also first be proved then let them use the office of a deacon being found blameless 11 Even to must their wives be grave not slanderers sober faithful in all things 12 Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife ruling their children and their own houses well 13 For they that have ‖ Or ministreâ—â— used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus 14 These things write I unto thee hoping to come unto thee shortly 15 But if I tarry long that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God which is the church of the living God the pillar and ‖ Or stay ground of the truth 16 And without controversie great is the mystery of godliness God was manifest in the flesh justified in the Spirit seen of angels preached unto the Gentiles beleeved on in the world received up into glory CHAP. IV. 1 He foretelleth that in the latter times there shall be a departure from the faith 6 And to the end that Timothy might not fail in doing his duty be furnisheth him with divers precepts belonging thereto NOw the Spirit speaketh expresly that * 2 Tim. 3.1 in the latter times some shall depart from the saith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils 2 Speaking lies in hypocrisie having their conscience seared with a hot iron 3 Forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from meats which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which beleeve and know the truth 4 For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving 5 For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer 6 If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine whereunto thou hast attained 7 But refuse profane and old wives fables and exercise thy self rather unto godliness 8 For bodily exercise profiteth ‖ Or for a little time little but godliness is profitable unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come 9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation 10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men specially of those that beleeve 11 These things command and teach 12 Let no man despise thy youth but be thou an example of the beleevers in word in conversation in charity in spirit in faith in purity 13 Till I come give attendance to reading to exhortation to doctrine 14 Neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by prophesie with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery 15 Meditate upon these things give thy self wholly to them that thy profiting may appear ‖ Or in all things to all 16 Take heed unto thy self and unto thy doctrine continue in them for in doing this thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee CHAP. V. 1 Rules to be observed in reproving 3 Of widows 17 Of elders 23 A precept for Timothies health 24 Some mens sins go before unto judgement and some mens do follow after REbuke not an elder but intreat him as a father and the younger men as brethren 2 The elder women as mothers the younger as sisters with all purity 3 Honour widows that are widows indeed 4 But if any widow have children or nephews let them learn first to shew ‖ Or kindness piety at home and to requite their parents for that is good and acceptable before God 5 Now she that is a widow indeed and desolate trusteth in God and continueth in supplications and prayers night and day 6 But she that liveth ‖ Or delicately in pleasure is dead while she liveth 7 And these things give in charge that they may be blameless 8 But if any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own ‖ Or kindred house he hath denied the faith and is worse then an infidel 9 Let not a widow be ‖ Or chosen taken into the number under threescore years old having been the wife of one man 10 Well reported of for good works if she have brought up children if she have lodged strangers if she have washed the saints feet if she have relieved the afflicted if she have diligently followed every good work 11 But the younger widows refuse for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ they will marry 12 Having damnation because they have cast off their first faith 13 And withal they learn to be idle wandring about from house to house and not onely idle but tattlers also and busie-bodies speaking things which they ought not 14 I will therefore that the younger women marry bear children guide the house give none occasion to the adversary †Gr. for their railing to speak reproachfully 15 For some are already turned aside after Satan 16 If any man or woman that beleeveth have widows let them relieve them and let not the church be charged that it may relieve them that are widows indeed 17 * 1 Cor. 9 14. Gal. 6.6 Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they who labour in the word and doctrine 18 For the scripture saith * Deut 25.4 Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn and * Marth 10.10 The labourer is worthy of his reward 19 Against an elder receive not an accusation but ‖ Or under before two or three witnesses 20 Them that sin rebuke before all that others also may fear 21 I charge thee before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that thou observe these things ‖ Or without prejudice without preferring one before another doing nothing by partiality 22 Lay hands suddenly on no man neither be partaker
not seen ye love in whom though now ye see him not yet beleeving ye rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory 9 Receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 10 Of which salvation the prophets have enquired and searched diligently who prophesied of the grace that should come unto you 11 Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signifie when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 12 Unto whom it was revealed that not unto themselves but unto us they did minister the things which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the holy Ghost sent down from heaven which things the angels desire to look into 13 Wherefore gird up the loyns of your minde be sober and hope †Gr. perfectly to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ 14 As obedient children not fashioning your selves according to the former lusts in your ignorance 15 But as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation 16 Because it is written * Lev. 11.44 19.2 20.7 Be ye holy for I am holy 17 And if ye call on the Father * Deu. 10.17 Rom. 2.11 who without respect of persons judgeth according to every mans work pass the time of your sojourning here in fear 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers 19 But with the precious bloud of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot 20 * Rom. 16.25 Col. 1.26 1 Tim. 1.10 Tit. 1.2 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world but was manifest in these last times for you 21 Who by him do beleeve in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory that your faith and hope might be in God 22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned * Rom. 12.10 Ch. 2.17 love of the brethren see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently 23 Being born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 24 ‖ Or for that For * Isa 40.6 Jam. 2.10 all flesh is as grass and all the glory of man as the flower of grass The grass withereth and the flower thereof salleth away 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you CHAP. II. He deborteth them from the breach of charity 4 shewing that Christ is the foundation whereupon they are built 11 He beseecheth them also to abstain from fleshly lusts 13 to be obedient to magistrates 18 and teacheth servants how to obey their masters 20 patiently suffering for well-doing after the example of Christ WHerefore laying aside all masice and all guile and hypocrifies and envies and all evil-speakings 2 As new born-babes desire the sincere milk of the word that ye may grow thereby 3 It so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious 4 To whom coming as unto a living stone disallowed indeed of men but chosen of God and precious 5 Ye also as lively stones ‖ Or be ye built are built up a spiritual house an holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 6 Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture * If. 28.16 Rom. 9 3â— Behold I lay in Sion a chief corner-stone elect precious and he that beleeveth on him shall not be confounded 7 Unto you therefore which beleeve he is ‖ Or an honour precious but unto them which be disobedient * Ps 118.22 Mat. 21.42 Act. 4 11. the stone which the builders disallowed the same is made the head of the corner 8 * If. 8.14 Rom. 9.33 And a stone of stumbling a rock of offence even to them which stumble at the word being disobedient whereunto also they were appointed 9 But ye are a chosen generation * Ex. 19.6 Rev. 1.6 c 5.10 a royal priesthood an holy nation ‖ Or a purchased people a peculiar people that ye should shew forth the ‖ Or vertues praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light 10 * Hos 2.23 Rom. 9.25 Which in time past were not a people but are now the people of God which had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy 11 Dearly beloved I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims * Rom. 13.14 Gal. 5. â—6 abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul 12 * On. 2.16 Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that ‖ Or wherein whereas they speak against you as evil-doers * Mat. 5.16 they may by your good works which they shall behold glorifie God in the day of vnitation 13 * Ro. 13.1 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the king as supreme 14 Or unto governours as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well 15 For so is the will of God that with wel-doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men 16 As free and not †Gr. having using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness but as the servants of God 17 ‖ Or esteem Honour all men Love the brother-hood Fear God Honour the king 18 * Eph. 6.5 Col. 3.22 Tit. 2.9 Servants be subject to your masters with all fear not onely to the good and gentle but also to the froward 19 For this is ‖ Or thank thank-worthy if a man for conscience toward God endure grief suffering wrongfully 20 For what glory is it if when ye be buffeted for your faults ye shall take it patiently but if when ye do well and suffer for it ye take it patiently this is ‖ Or think acceptable with God 21 For even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered ‖ Some read for you for us leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps 22 * Is 13.9 Who did no sin neither was guile found in his mouth 23 Who when he was reviled reviled not again when he suffered he threatned not but ‖ Or committed his cause committed himself to him that judgeth righteously 24 * Is 53.4 5 6. Mat. 8.17 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body ‖ Or to on the tree that we being dead to sin should live unto righteousness by whole stripes ye were healed 25 For ye were as sheep going astray but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls CHAP. III. 1
and was manifested unto us 3 That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you that ye also may have fellowship with us and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ 4 And these things write we unto you that your joy may be full 5 This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that * Joh. 8.12 God is light and in him is no darkness at all 6 If we say that we have fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lie and do not the truth 7 But if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and * Heb. 9.14 Rev. 1.5 the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 8 * 1 Kin. 8.46 Pr. 20.9 Eccl. 7.20 If we say that we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us 9 If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness 10 If we say that we have not sinned we make him a liar and his word is not in us CHAP. II. 1 He comforteth them against the sins of infirmity 3 Rightly to know God is to keep his commandments 9 to love our brethren 15 and not to love the world 18 We must beware of sâ—ducers 20 from whose deceits the godly are safe preserved by perseverance in faith and â—oliness of life MY little children these things write I unto you that ye sin not And if any man sin * Heb. 9. â—â— we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ the righteous 2 And he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours onely but also for the sins of the whole world 3 And hereby we do know that we know him if we keep his commandments 4 He that saith I know him and keepeth not his commandments is a liar and the truth is not in him 5 But whoso keepeth his word in him verily is the love of God perfected hereby know we that we are in him 6 He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk even as he walked 7 Brethren * 2 Joh. â— I write no new commandment unto you but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning the old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning 8 Again a new commandment I write unto you which thing is true in him and in you because the darkness is past and the true light now shineth 9 He that saith he is in the light and hateth his brother is in darkness even until now 10 * Ch. 3 1â— He that loveth his brother abideth in the light and there is none †Gr scandal occasion of stumbling in him 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness and walketh in darkness and knoweth not whither he goeth because that darkness hath blinded his eyes 12 I write unto you little children because your sins are forgiven you for his names sake 13 I write unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I write unto you young men because you have overcome the wicked one I write unto you little children because ye have known the Father 14 I have written unto you fathers because ye have known him that is from the beginning I have written unto you young men because ye are strong and the word of God abideth in you and ye have over come the wicked one 15 Love not the world neither the things that are in the world If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him 16 For all that is in the world the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father but is of the world 17 And the world passeth away and the lust thereof but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever 18 Little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time 19 They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us 20 But ye have an unction from the holy One and ye know all things 21 I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth but because ye know it and that no lie is of the truth 22 Who is a har but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ He is Antichrist that denieth the Father and the Son 23 Whosoever denieth the Son the same hath not the Father but he that acknowledgeth the Son hath the Father also 24 Let that therefore abide in you which ye have heard from the beginning If that which ye have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father 25 And this is the promise that he hath promised us even eternal life 26 These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you 27 But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you But as the same anointing teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lie and even as it hath taught you ye shall abide in ‖ Or it him 28 And now little children abide in him that when he shall appear we may have confidence and not be ashamed before him at his coming 29 If ye know that he is righteous ‖ Or know ye ye know that every one that doeth righteousness is born of him CHAP. III. 1 He declareth the singular love of God towards us in making us his sons 3 who therefore ought obediently to keep his commandments 11 as also brotherly to love one another BEhold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not 2 Beloved now are we the sons of God and it doth not yet appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is 3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure 4 Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law for sin is the transgression of the law 5 And ye know that he was manifested * Isa 53.6 c. to take away our sins and in him is no sin 6 Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not whosoever sinneth hath not seen him neither known him 7 Little children let no man deceive you he that doeth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous 8 * Joh. 8.44 He that committeth sin is of the devil for the
not God hath made him a liar because he beleeved not the record that God gave of his Son 11 And this is the record that God hath given to us eternal life and this life is in his Son 12 He that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life 13 These things have I written unto you that beleeve on the name of the Son of God that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may beleeve on the name of the Son of God 14 And this is the confidence that we have ‖ Or concerning him in him that * Ch. 3.22 if we ask any thing according to his will he heareth us 15 And if we know that he hear us whatsoever we ask we know that we have the petitions that we desired of him 16 If any man see his brother sin a sin which is not unto death he shall ask and he shall give him life for them that sin not unto death * Mat. 12.31 Mar. 3.23 There is a sin unto death I do not say that he shall pray for it 17 All unrighteousness is sin and there is a sin not unto death 18 We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 19 And we know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness 20 And we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding that we may know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ This is the true God and eternal life 21 Little children keep your selves from idols Amen ¶ The second epistle of S. JOHN He exhorteth a certain honourable matron with her children to persevere in Christian love and belief 8 lest they lose the reward of their former profession 10 and to have nothing to do with those seducers that bring not the true doctrine of Christ Jesus THe elder unto the elect lady and her children whom I love in the truth and not I onely but also all they that have known the truth 2 For the truths sake which dwelleth in us and shall be with us for ever 3 Grace be with you mercy and peace from God the Father and from the Lord Jesus Christ the Son of the Father in truth and love 4 I rejoyced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth as we have received a commandment from the Father 5 And now I beseech thee lady * 1 Joh. 1.7 not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee but that which we had from the beginning that we love one another 6 And this is love that we walk after his commandments This is the commandment that as ye have heard from the beginning ye should walk in it 7 For many deceivers are entred into the world who confess not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh This is a deceiver and an antichrist 8 Look to your selves that we lose not those things which we have ‖ Or gained Some copies read which ye have gained but that ye receive c. wrought but that we receive a full reward 9 Whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God he that abideth in the doctrine of Christ he hath both the Father and the Son 10 If there come any unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house neither bid him God speed 11 For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds 12 Having many things to write unto you I would not write with paper and ink but I trust to come unto you and speak †Gr. mouth to mouth face to face that our joy may be full 13 The children of thy elect sister greet thee Amen ¶ The third epistle of S. JOHN He commendeth Gaius for his piety 5 and hospitality 7 to true preachers 9 complaining of the unkinde dealing of ambitious Diotrephes on the contrary side 11 whose evil example is not to be fâ—llowed 12 and giveth special testimony to the good report of Demetrius THe elder unto the welbeloved Gaius whom I love ‖ Or truly in the truth 2 Beloved I ‖ Or pray wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health even as thy soul prospereth 3 For I rejoyced greatly when the brethren came and testified of the truth that is in thee even as thou walkest in the truth 4 I have no greater joy then to hear that my children walk in truth 5 Beloved thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren and to strangers 6 Which have born witness of thy charity before the church whom if thou bring forward on their journey after a godly sort thou shalt do well 7 Because that for his names sake they went forth taking nothing of the Gentiles 8 We therefore ought to receive such that we might be fellow-helpers to the truth 9 I wrote unto the church but Diotrephes who loveth to have the preeminence among them receiveth us not 10 Wherefore if I come I will remember his deeds which he doeth prating against us with malicious words and not content therewith neither doth he himself receive the brethren and forbiddeth them that would and casteth them out of the church 11 Beloved follow not that which is evil but that which is good He that doeth good is of God but he that doeth evil hath not seen God 12 Demetrius hath good report of all men and of the truth it self yea and we also bear record and ye know that our record is true 13 I had many things to write but I will not with ink and pen write unto thee 14 But I trust I shall shortly see thee and we shall speak †Gr. mouth to mouth face to face Peace be to thee Our friends salute thee Greet the friends by name ¶ The general epistle of S. JUDE He exhorteth them to be constant in the profession of the faith 14 False teachers are crept in to seduce them for whose damnable doctrine and manners horrible punishment is prepared 20 whereas the godly by the assistance of the holy Spirit and prayers to God may persevere and grow in grace and keep themselves and recover others out of the snares of those deceivers JUde the servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James to them that are sanctified by God the Father and preserved in Jesus Christ and called 2 Mercy unto you and peace and love be multiplied 3 Beloved when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation it was needful for me to write unto you and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares who were before of old ordained to this condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our God
11 for his kingdom 14 for his providence 17 for his saving mercy ¶ Davids psalm of praise I Will extol thee my God O King and I will bless thy name for ever and ever 2 Every day will I bless thee and I will praise thy name for ever and ever 3 Great is the LORD and greatly to be praised †Heb. and of his greatness there is no searth and his greatness is unsearchable 4 One generation shall praise thy works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts 5 I will speak of the glorious honour of thy majesty and of thy wondrous †Heb. thines or words works 6 And men shall speak of the might of thy terrible acts and I will †Heb. declare 〈◊〉 declare thy greatness 7 They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness and shall sing of thy righteousness 8 * Exod. 34.6 7. Nu. 14.18 Psal 86.5 15. and 102.8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion slow to anger and †Heb. great in mercy of great mercy 9 The LORD is good to all and his tender mercies are over all his works 10 All thy works shall praise thee O LORD and thy saints shall bless thee 11 They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom and talk of thy power 12 To make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom 13 Thy kingdom is †Heb. a kingdom of all ages an everlasting kingdom and thy dominion endureth throughout all generations 14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall and raiseth up all those that be bowed down 15 The eyes of all ‖ Or look unto thee wait upon thee and thou-givest them their meat in due season 16 Thou openest thine hand and satisfiest the desire of every living thing 17 The LORD is righteous in all his ways and ‖ Or merciful or bâ—â—â—tiful holy in all his works 18 The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him to all that call upon him in truth 19 He will fulfil the desire of them that fear him he also will hear their cry and will save them 20 The LORD preserveth all them that love him but all the wicked will he destroy 21 My mouth shall speak the praise of the LORD and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever PSAL. CXLVI 1 The psalmist voweth perpetual praises to God 3 He exborteth not to trust in man 5 God for his power justice mercy and kingdom is onely worthy to be trusted †Heb. Hal e lessujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise the LORD O my soul 2 While I live will I praise the LORD I will sing praises unto my God while I have any being 3 * Psal 118.8 9. Put not your trust in princes nor in the son of man in whom there is no ‖ Or salvation help 4 His breath goeth forth he returneth to his earth in that very day his thoughts perish 5 Happy is he that hath the God of Jacob for his help whose hope is in the LORD his God 6 Which made heaven and earth the sea and all that therein is which keepeth truth for ever 7 Which executeth judgement for the oppressed which giveth food to the hungry the LORD looseth the prisoners 8 The LORD openeth the eyes of the blinde the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down the LORD loveth the righteous 9 The LORD preserveth the strangers he relieveth the fatherless and widow but the way of the wicked he turneth upside down 10 * Exod. 15.18 The LORD shall reign for ever even thy God O Zion unto all generations Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVII 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his care of the church 4 his power 6 and his mercy 7 to praise him for his providence 12 to praise him for his blessings upon the kingdom 15 for his power over the meteors 19 and for his ordinances in the church PRaise ye the LORD for it is good to sing praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely 2 The LORD doth build up Jerusalem he gathereth together the outcasts of Israel 3 He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their †Heb. griefs wounds 4 He telleth the number of the stars he calleth them all by their names 5 Great is our Lord and of great power †Heb. of his understanding there is no number his understanding is infinite 6 The LORD listeth up the meek he casteth the wicked down to the ground 7 Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving sing praise upon the harp unto our God 8 Who covereth the heaven with clouds who prepareth rain for the earth who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains 9 * Job 38.41 Psal 104.27 28. He giveth to the beast his food and to the young ravens which cry 10 He delighteth not in the strength of the horse he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man 11 The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him in those that hope in his mercy 12 Praise the LORD O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion 13 For he hath strengthned the bars of thy gates he hath blessed thy children within thee 14 †Heb. who maketh thy border peace He maketh peace in thy borders and filleth thee with the †Heb. fat of wheat finest of the wheat 15 He sendeth forth his commandment upon earth his word runneth very swiftly 16 He giveth snow like wool he scattereth the hoar frost like ashes 17 He casteth forth his ice like morsels who can stand before his cold 18 He sendeth out his word and melteth them he causeth his wind to blow and the waters flow 19 He sheweth †Heb. his words his word unto Jacob his statutes and his judgements unto Israel 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation and as for his judgements they have not known them Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLVIII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the celestial 7 the terrestrial 11 and the rational creatures to praise God †Heb. Hallelujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise ye the LORD from the heavens praise him in the heights 2 Praise ye him all his angels praise ye him all his hosts 3 Praise ye him sun and moon praise him all ye stars of light 4 Praise him ye heavens of heavens and ye waters that be above the heavens 5 Let them praise the name of the LORD for he commanded and they were created 6 He hath also stablished them for ever and ever he hath made a decree which shall not pass 7 Praise the LORD from the earth ye dragons and all deeps 8 Fire and hail snow and vapour stormy wind fulfilling his word 9 Mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedars 10 Beasts and all cattel creeping things and †Heb. birds of wing flying fowl 11 Kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of the earth 12 Both young
men and maidens old men and children 13 Let them praise the name of the LORD for his name alone is †Heb. exalted excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven 14 He also exalteth the horn of his people the praise of all his saints even of the children of Israel a people near unto him Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CXLIX 1 The prophet exhorteth to praise God for his love to the church 5 and for that power which he hath given to the church to rule the consciences of men †Heb. Hallelujah PRaise ye the LORD Sing unto the LORD a new song and his praise in the congregation of saints 2 Let Israel rejoyce in him that made him let the children of Zion be joyful in their King 3 Let them praise his name ‖ Or with the pipe in the dance let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp 4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people he will beautifie the meek with salvation 5 Let the saints be joyful in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds 6 Let the high praises of God be †Heb. in their throat in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments upon the people 8 To binde their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron 9 * Deut. 7 1 2. To execute upon them the judgement written this honour have all his saints Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CL. 1 An exhortation to praise God 3 with all kinde of instruments †Heb. Hallelujah PRaise ye the LORD Praise God in his sanctuary praise him in the firmament of his power 2 Praise him for his mighty acts praise him according to his excellent greatness 3 Praise him with the sound of the ‖ Or cornet dance praise him with the psaltery and harp 4 Praise him with the timbrel and ‖ Or pipe dance praise him with stringed instruments and organs 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals 6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD Praise ye the LORD ¶ The PROVERBS CHAP. I. 1 The use of the proverbs 7 An exhortation to fear God and beleeve his word 10 to avoid the enticings of sinners 20 Wisdom complaineth of her contempt 24 She threatneth her contemners THe proverbs of Solomon the son of David king of Israel 2 To know wisdom and instruction to perceive the words of understanding 3 To receive the instruction of wisdom justice and judgement and †Heb. equities equity 4 To give subtilty to the simple to the young man knowledge and ‖ Or advisement discretion 5 A wise man will hear and will increase learning and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels 6 To understand a proverb and ‖ Or an eloquent speech the interpretation the words of the wise and their dark sayings 7 ¶ * Job 28.28 Psal 111.10 Chap. 9.10 The fear of the LORD is ‖ Or the principal part the beginning of knowledge but fools despise wisdom and instruction 8 My son hear the instruction of thy father and forsake not the law of thy mother 9 For they shall be †Heb. an adding an ornantent of grace unto thy head and chains about thy neck 10 ¶ My son if sinners entice thee consent thou not 11 If they say Come with us let us lay wait for bloud let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause 12 Let us swallow them up alive as the grave and whole as those that go down into the pit 13 We shall finde all precious substance we shall fill our houses with spoil 14 Cast in thy lot among us let us all have one purse 15 My son walk not thou in the way with them refrain thy foot from their path 16 * Isa 59.7 Rom. 3.15 For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed bloud 17 Surely in vain the net it spread †Heb. in the eyes of every thing that hath a wing in the sight of any bird 18 And they lay wait for their own bloud they lurk privily for their own lives 19 So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which taketh away the life of the owners thereof 20 ¶ †Heb. wisdoms that is excellent wisdom * Chap. 8.1 Wisdom crieth without she uttereth her voice in the streets 21 She crieth in the chief place of concourse in the openings of the gates in the city she uttereth her words saying 22 How long ye simple ones will ye love simplicity and the scorners delight in their scorning and fools hate knowledge 23 Turn you at my reproof behold I will pour out my spirit unto you I will make known my words unto you 24 ¶ * Isa 65.12 and 66.4 Jer 7.13 Ezek. 8.18 Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel and would none of my reproof 26 I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh 27 When your fear conveth as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind when distress and anguish cometh upon you 28 * Job 27.9 Psa 1.15 Jer. 1.11 and 14.12 Mic. 3.4 Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not finde me 29 For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD 30 They would none of my counsel they despised all my reproof 31 Therefore shall they ear of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices 32 For the ‖ Or ease of the simple turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them 33 But whoso hearkneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil CHAP. II. 1 Wisdom promiseth godliness to her children 10 and safety from evil company 20 and direction in good ways My son if thou wilt receive my words and hide my commandments with thee 2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom and apply thine heart to understanding 3 Yea if thou criest after knowledge and †Heb. givest thy voice liftest up thy voice for understanding 4 * Mat. 13.44 If thou seekest her as silver and searchest for her as for hid treasures 5 Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD and finde the knowledge of God 6 * 1 King 3.9 Jam. 1.5 For the LORD giveth wisdom out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding 7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly 8 He keepeth the paths of judgement and preserveth the way of his saints 9 Then shalt thou understand righteousness and judgement and equity yes every good path 10 ¶ When wisdom entreth into thine heart and knowledge
wives unto others and their fields to them that shall inherit them for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to * Isa 56.11 Ch. 6.13 covetousness from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsly 11 For they have * Ch. 6 1◠healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly saying * Ezek. 13.10 Peace peace when there is no peace 12 Were they * Chap. 3.3 and 6.15 ashamed when they had committed abomination nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore shall they fall among them that fall in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down saith the LORD 13 ¶ ‖ Or In gathering I will consume I will surely consume them saith the LORD there shall be no grapes * Isa 5.1 〈◊〉 on the vine nor figs on the * Mat. 21 1◠Luk. 13 ◠c. fig-tree and the leaf shall fade and the things that I have given them shall pass away from them 14 Why do we sit still assemble your selves and let us enter into the defenced cities and let us be silent there for the LORD our God hath put us to silence and given us * Ch. 9.15 23.15 water of ‖ Or poison gall to drink because we have sinned against the LORD 15 We * Ch. 14.10 looked for peace but no good came and for a time of health and behold trouble 16 The snorting of his horses was heard from * Ch. 4.15 Dan the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones for they are come and have devoured the land and †Heb. the fulness thereof all that is in it the city and those that dwell therein 17 For behold I will send serpents cockatrices among you which will not be * Ps 58.4.5 charmed and they shall bite you saith the LORD 18 ¶ When I would comfort my self against sorrow my heart is faint †Heb. upon in me 19 Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people †Heb. because of the countrey of them that are far off because of them that dwell in a far countrey Is not the LORD in Zion is not her king in her why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with strange vanities 20 The harvest is past the summer is ended and we are not saved 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt I am black astonishment hath taken hold on me 22 Is there no * Ch 46.11 balm in Gilead is there no physician there why then is not the health of the daughter of my people †Heb. gone up recovered CHAP. IX 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the Jews for their manifold sins 9 and for their judgement 12 Disobedience is the cause of their bitter calamity 17 He exhorteth to mourn for their destruct on 22 and to trust not in themselves but in God 25 He threatneth both Jews and Gentiles †Heb. Who will give my head c. OH * Isa 22.4 Chap. 4.19 that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people 2 Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of way-faring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all adulterers and assembly of treacherous men 3 And they bend their tongues like their howe for lies but they are are valiant for the truth upon the earth for they proceed from evil to evil and they know not me saith the LORD 4 * Ch. 12.6 Mic. 7.5 6. Take ye heed every one of his ‖ Or friend neighbour and trust ye not in any brother for every brother will utterly supplant and every neighbour will walk with slanders 5 And they will ‖ Or mock deceive every one his neighbour and will not speak the truth they have taught their tongue to speak lies and weary themselves to commit iniquity 6 Thine habitation is in the midst of deceit through deceit they refuse to know me saith the LORD 7 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts Behold I will melt them and try them for how shall I do for the daughter of my people 8 Their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh * Psal 12.2 120.3 deceit one speaketh * Psal 28.3 peaceably to his neighbour with his mouth but †Heb. in the midst of him in heart he layeth ‖ Or wait for him his wait 9 ¶ * Chap. 5.9 29. Shall I not visit them for these things saith the LORD shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing and for the ‖ Or pastures habitations of the wilderness a lamentation because they are ‖ Or desolate burnt up so that none can pass through them neither can men hear the voice of the cattel †Heb. from the fowl even to c. both the fowl of the heavens and the breast are fled they are gone 11 And I will make Jerusalem heaps and * Chap. 10.22 a den of dragons and I will make the cities of Judah †Heb. desolation desolate without an inhabitant 12 ¶ Who is the wise man that may understand this and who is be to whom the mouth of the LORD hath spoken that he may declare it for what the land perisheth and is burnt up like a wilderness that none passeth through 13 And the LORD saith Because they have forsaken my law which I set before them and have not obeyed my voice neither walked therein 14 But have walked after the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination of their own heart and after Baalim which their fathers taught them 15 Therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts the God of Israel Behold I will feed them even this people * Chap. 8.14 23.15 with wormwood and give them water of gall to drink 16 I will * Levit. 26.33 scatter them also among the heathen whom neither they nor their fathers have known and I will send a sword after them till I have consumed them 17 ¶ Thus saith the LORD of hosts Consider ye and call for the mourning-women that they may come and send for cunning women that they may come 18 And let them make haste and take up a wailing for us that our eyes may run down with tears and our eye-lids gush out with waters 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion How are we spoiled we are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land because our dwellings have cast us out 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD O ye women and let your ear receive the word of his mouth and teach your daughters wailing and every one her neighbour lamentation 21 For death is come up into our
windows and is entred into our palaces to cut off the children from without and the young men from the streets 22 Speak Thus saith the LORD Ever the carcases of men shall fall as dung upon the open field and as the handful after the harvest-man and none shall gather them 23 ¶ Thus saith the LORD Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches 24 But * 1 Cor. 1.21 2 Cor. 10.17 let him that glorieth glory in this that he understandeth and knoweth me that I am the LORD which exercise loving kindness judgement and righteousness in the earth for in these things I delight saith the LORD 25 ¶ Behold the days come saith the LORD that I will †Heb. visit upon punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised 26 Egypt and Judah and Edom and the children of Ammon and Moab and all that are †Heb. cut off into corners or having the corners of their hair polled in the * Chap. 25.23 utmost corners that dwell in the wilderness for all these nations are uncircumcised and all the house of Israel are * Rom. 2.28 29. uncircumcised in the heart CHAP. X. 1 The unequal comparison of God and idols 17 The prophet exhorteth to flee from the calamity to come 19 He lamenteth the spoil of the tabernacle by foolish pastours 23 He maketh an bumble supplication HEar ye the word which the LORD speaketh unto you O house of Israel 2 Thus saith the LORD Learn not the way of the heathen and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven for the heathen are dismayed at them 3 For the †Heb. statutes or ordinances are vanity customs of the people are vain for one cutteth a tree out of the forest the work of the hands of the workman with the ax 4 They deck it with silver and with gold they fasten it with nails and with hammers that it move not 5 They are upright as the palm-tree * Ps 15.5 but speak not they must needs be * Isa 45.1 7. born because they cannot go be not afraid of them for * Isa 41.13 they cannot do evil neither also is it in them to do good 6 Forasmuch as there is none * Psal 86.1 10. like unto thee O LORD thou art great and thy name is great in might 7 * Rev. 15.4 Who would not fear thee O king of nations for ‖ Or it liketh thee to thee doth it appertain forasmuch as among all the wise men of the nations and in all their kingdoms there is none like unto thee 8 But they are †Heb. in one or at once altogether * Isa 41 2â— Hab. 2.18 Zec. 10.2 brutish and foolish the stock is a doctrine of vanities 9 Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish and gold from Uphaz the work of the work man and of the hands of the founder blue and purple is their clothing they are all the work of cunning men 10 But the LORD is the †Heb. God of truth true God he is the living God and an †Heb. King of eternity everlasting King at his wrath the earth shall tremble and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation 11 Thus shall ye say unto them The gods that have not made the heavens and the earth even they shall perish from the earth and from under these heavens 12 He * Gen. 1.1 6. Ch. 51.15 hath made the earth by his power he hath established the world by his wisdom and hath stretched out the heavens by his discretion 13 When he uttereth his voice there is a ‖ Or nâ—ise multitude of waters in the heavens and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth he maketh lightnings ‖ Or for rain with rain and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures 14 Every man ‖ Or is more brutish then to know is * Chap. 51.17 18. brutish in his knowledge every founder is confounded by the graven image for his molten image is falshood and there is no breath in them 15 They are vanity and the work of errours in the time of their visitation they shall perish 16 * Chap. 51.19 The portion of Jacob is not like them for he is the former of all things and Israel is the rod of his inheritance the LORD of hosts is his name 17 ¶ Gather up thy wares out of the land O †Heb. inhabitress inhabitant of the fortress 18 For thus saith the LORD Behold I will sling out the inhabitants of the land at this once and will distress them that they may finde it so 19 ¶ Wo is me for my hurt my wound is grievous but I said Truly this is a grief and I must bear it 20 My tabernacle is spoiled and all my cords are broken my children are gone forth of me and they are not there is none to stretch forth my tent any more and to set up my curtains 21 For the pastours are become brutish and have not sought the LORD therefore they shall not prosper and all their flocks shall be scattered 22 Behold the noise of the bruit is come and a great commotion out of the * Chap. 1.15 5.15 6.22 north-countrey to make the cities of Judah desolate and a * Chap. 9.11 den of dragons 23 ¶ O LORD I know that the * Prov. 16.1 20.24 way of man is not in himself it is not in man that walketh to direct his steps 24 O LORD * Psal 6.1 38. â— Chap. 30.11 correct me but with judgement not in thine anger lest thou †Heb. diminish me bring me to nothing 25 * Psal 79.6 Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not and upon the families that call not on thy name for they have eaten up Jacob and devoured him and consumed him and have made his habitation desolate CHAP. XI 1 Jeremiah proclaimeth Gods covenant 8 rebuketh the Jews disobeying thereof 11 prophesieth evils to come upon them 18 and upon the men of Anathoth for conspiring to kill Jeremiah THe word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD saying 2 Hear ye the words of this covenant and speak unto the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem 3 And say thou unto them Thus saith the LORD God of Israel * Deut. 27.26 Gal. 3.10 Curled be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant 4 Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt from the iron furnace saying * Lev. 26.3 12. Obey my voice and do them according to all which I command you so shall ye be my people and I will be your God 5 That I may perform the * Deut. 7 1â— oath which I have sworn unto your