Jordan 9 ¶ And Joshua said unto the children of Israel Come hither and hear the words of the LORD your God 10 And Joshua said Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites 11 Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan 12 Now therefore take ye twelve men out of the tribes of Israel out of every tribe a man 13 And it shall come to pass assoon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD the Lord of all the earth shall rest in the waters of Jordan that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above and they * Psal 114.3 shall stand upon an heap 14 ¶ And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan and the priests bearing the * Acts. 7.45 ark of the covenant before the people 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water for * 1 Chro. 12.15 Ecclus. 24.26 Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest 16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan and those that came down toward the sea of the plain even the salt sea failed were cut off and the people passed over right against Jericho 17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground until all the people were passed clean over Jordan CHAP. IV. 1 Twelve men are appointed to take twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan 9 Twelve other stones are set up in the midst of Jordan 10.19 The people pass over 14 God magnifieth Joshua 20 The twelve stones are pitched in Gilgal ANd it came to pass when all the people were clean passed * Deu. 1â— 2 over Jordan that the LORD spake unto * Ch. 3.12 Joshua saying 2 Take you twelve men out of the people out of every tribe a man 3 And command you them saying Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan out of the place where the priests feet stood firm twelve stones and ye shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging-place where you shall lodge this night 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the children of Israel out of every tribe a man 5 And Joshua said unto them Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the mâ—dst of Jordan and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel 6 That this may be a signe among you that when your children ask their fathers †Heb. to morrow in time to come saying What mean you by these stones 7 Then ye shall answer them That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD when it passed over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever 8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan as the LORD spake unto Joshua according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged and laid them down there 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood and they are there unto this day 10 ¶ For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people according to all that Moses commanded Joshua and the people hasted and passed over 11 And it came to pass when all the people were clean passed over that the ark of the LORD passed over and the priests in the presence of the people 12 And * Num. 32.27 the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the children of Israel as Moses spake unto them 13 About fourty thousand ‖ Or ready armed prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battel to the plains of Jericho 14 ¶ On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel and they feared him as they feared Moses all the days of his life 15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua saying 16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony that they come up out of Jordan 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests saying Come ye up out of Jordan 18 And it came to pass when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan and the soles of the priests feet were †Heb. plucked up lift up unto the dry land that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place and †Heb. went flowed over all his banks as they did before 19 ¶ And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first moneth and encamped in Gilgal in the east-border of Jericho 20 ¶ And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan did Joshua pitch in Gilgal 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel saying When your children shall ask their fathers †Heb. to morrow in time to come saying What mean these stones 22 Then ye shall let your children know saying Israel came over this Jordan on dry land 23 For the LORD your God dryed up the waters of Jordan from before you until ye were passed over as the LORD your God did to the Red sea * Exod. 14.21 which he dried up from before us until we were gone over 24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD that it is mighty that ye might fear the LORD your God †Heb. all days for ever CHAP. V. 1 The Canaanites are afraid 2 Joshua reneweth circumcision 10 The pass-over is kept at Gilgal 12 Manna ceaseth 13 An angel appeareth to Joshua ANd it came to pass when all the kings of the Amorites which were on the side of Jordan west-ward and all the kings of the Canaanites which were by the sea heard that the LORD had dryed up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel until we were passed over that their heart melted neither was their spirit in
daughter to wife 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz the brother of Caleb took it and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife 18 And it came to pass as she came unto him that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted off her ass and Caleb said unto her What wouldest thou 19 Who answered Give me a blessing for thou hast given me a south-land give me also springs of water and he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom south-ward were Kabzeel and Eder Jagur 22 And Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah 23 And Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan 24 Ziph. and Telem and Bealoth 25 And Hazor Hadattah and Kerioth and Hezron which is Hazor 26 Aman and Shema and Moladah 27 And Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and Bethepalet 28 And Hazar-shual and Beer-sheba and Bizjothjah 29 Baalah and lim and Azem 30 And Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah 31 And Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah 32 And Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon all the cities are twenty and nine with their villages 33 And in the valley Eshtaol and Zoreah and Ashnah 34 And Zanaoh and En-gannim Tappuah and Enam 35 Jarmuth and Adullam Socoh and Azekah 36 And Sharaim and Adithaim and Gederah ‖ Or or and Gederothaim fourteen cities with their villages 37 Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad 38 And Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel 39 Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon 40 And Cabbon and Lahmas and Kithlish 41 And Gederoth Beth-dagon and Naamah and Makkedah sixteen cities with their villages 42 Libnah and Ether and Ashan 43 And Jiphtah and Ashnah and Nezib 44 And Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah nine cities with their villages 45 Ekron with her towns and her villages 46 From Ekron even unto the sea all that lay †Heb. by the place of near Ashdod with their villages 47 Ashdod with her towns her villages Gaza with her towns her villages unto the river of Egypt and the great sea and the border thereof 48 ¶ And in the mountains Shamir and Jattir and Socoh 49 And Dannah and Kirjath-sannah which is Debir 50 And Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim 51 And Goshen Holon Giloh eleven cities with their villages 52 Arab and Dumah and Eshean 53 And ‖ Or Janus Janum and Beth-tappuah and Aphekah 54 And Humtah and * Chap. 14.15 Kirjath-arba which is Hebron and Zior nine cities with their villages 55 Maon Carmel and Ziph and Juttah 56 And Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah 57 Cain Gibeah and Timnah ten cities with their villages 58 Halhul Beth-zur and Gedor 59 And Maarath and Beth-anoth and Eltekon six cities with their villages 60 Kirjath-baal which is Kirjath-jearim and Rabbah two cities with their villages 61 ¶ In the wilderness Beth-arabah Middin and Secacah 62 And Nibshan and the city of Salt and Engedi six cities with their villages 63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem the children of Judah could not drive them out but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day CHAP. XVI 1 The general borders of the sons of Joseph 5 The border of the inheritance of Ephraim 10 The Canaanites not conquered ANd the lot of the children of Joseph †Heb. went forth fell from Jordan by Jericho unto the water of Jericho on the east to the wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el 2 And goeth out from Beth-el to * Judg. â— 26 Luz and passeth along unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth 3 And goeth down west-ward to the coast of Japhleti unto the coast of Beth-horon the nether and to Gezer and the goings out thereof are at the sea 4 So the children of Joseph Manasseh and Ephraim took their inheritance 5 ¶ And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus even the border of their inheritance on the east-side was Ataroth-addar unto Bath-horon the upper 6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north-side and the border went about east-ward unto Taanath-shiloh and passed by it on the east to Janohah 7 And it went down from from Janohah to Ataroth and to Naarath and came to Jericho and went out at Jordan 8 The border went out from Tappuah west-ward unto the river Kanah and the goings out thereof were at the sea This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families 9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh all the cities with their villages 10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day and serve under tribute CHAP. XVII 1 The lot of Manasseh 7 His coast 12 The Canaanites not driven out 14 The children of Joseph obtain another lot THere was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh for he was the * Gen. 41.51 46.20 first-born of Joseph to wit for * Gen. 50.23 Numb 32 3â— Machir the first-born of Manasseh the father of Gilead because he was a man of war therefore he had Gilead and Bashan 2 There was also a lot for * Numb 26.29 the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families for the children of Abiezer and for the children of Helek and for the children of Asriel and for the children of Shechem and for the children of Hepher and for the children of Shemida these were the male-children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families 3 ¶ But * Numb 25.33 27.1 and 36.2 Zelophehad the son of Hephir the son of Gilead the son of Machir the son of Manasseh had no sons but daughters and these are the names of his daughters Mahlah and Noah Hoglah Milcah and Tirzah 4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the princes saying The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father 5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh beside the land of Gilead and Bashan which were on the other side Jordan 6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons and the rest of Manassehs sons had the land of Gilead 7 ¶ And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah that lieth before Shechem and the border went along on the right hand into the inhabitants of En-Tappuah 8 Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim 9 And the coast descended unto the ‖ Or brook of râ—eds river Kanah south-ward of the
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-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
named Joseph who also himself was Jesus disciple 58 He went to Pilate and begged the body of Jesus then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered 59 And when Joseph had taken the body he wrapped it in a clean linen colth 60 And laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre departed 61 And there was Mary Magdalene and the other Mary sitting over against the sepulchre 62 ¶ Now the next day that followed the day of the preparation the chief priests and Pharisees came together unto Pilate 63 Saying Sir we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive After three days I will rise again 64 Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day lest his disciples come by night and steal him away and say unto the people He is risen from the dead so the last errour shall be worse then the first 65 Pilate said unto them Ye have a watch go your way make it as sure as you can 66 So they went and made the sepulchre sure sealing the stone and setting a watch CHAP. XXVIII 1 Christs resurrection is declared by an angel to the women 9 He himself appeareth unto them 11 The high priests give the souldiers money to say that he was stolen out of his sepulchre 16 Christ appeareth to his disciples 19 and sendeth them to baptize and teach all nations IN the * Mark 16.1 Joh. 20.1 end of the sabbath as it began to dawn towards the first day of the week came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre 2 And behold there ‖ Or had been was a great earthquake for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven and came and rolled back the stone from the door and sat upon it 3 His countenance was like lightning his raiment white as snow 4 And for fear of him the keepers did shake became as dead men 5 And the angel answered and said unto the women Fear not ye for I know that ye seek Jesus which was crucified 6 He is not here for he is risen as he said come see the place where the Lord lay 7 And go quickly tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead and behold he goeth before you into Galilee there shall ye see him lo I have told you 8 And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy and did run to bring his disciples word 9 ¶ And as they went to tell his disciples behold Jesus met them saying All hail And they came and held him by the feet and worshipped him 10 Then said Jesus unto them Be not afraid go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee and there shall they see me 11 ¶ Now when they were going behold some of the watch came into the city and shewed unto the chief priests all the things that were done 12 And when they were assembled with the elders and had taken counsel they gave large money unto the souldiers 13 Saying Say ye His disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept 14 And if this come to the governours ears we will perswade him and secure you 15 So they took the money and did as they were taught and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day 16 ¶ Then the eleven disciples went away into Galilee into a mountain where Jesus had appointed them 17 And when they saw him they worshipped him but some doubted 18 And Jesus came and spake unto them saying All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth 19 ¶ * Mark 16.15 Go ye therefore and teach all nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost 20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you and lo I am with you alway even unto the end of the world Amen ¶ The Gospel according to S. MARK CHAP. I. 1 The office of John the Baptist 9 Jesus is baptized 12 tempted 14 he preacheth 16 calleth Peter Andrew James and John 23 healeth one that had a devil 29 Peters mother in law 32 many diseased persons 41 and cleanseth the leper THe beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God 2 As it is written in the prophets * Mat. 3.1 Behold I send my messenger before thy face which shall preprae thy way before thee 3 * Isa 40.3 Luke 3.4 Joh. 1.23 The voice of one crying in the wilderness Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths straight 4 * Mat. 3.1 John did baptize in the wilderness and preach the baptism of repentance ‖ Or unto for the remission of sins 5 * Matt. 3.5 And there went out unto him all the land of Judea and they of Jerusalem and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan confessing their sins 6 And John was * Mat. 3.4 clothed with camels hair and with a girdle of a skin about his loyns and he did eat locusts and wilde honey 7 And preached saying There cometh one mightier then I after me the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down unloose 8 I indeed have baptized you with water but he shall baptize you with the holy Ghost 9 * Matth. 3.13 And it came to pass in those days that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee and was baptized of John in Jordan 10 And straightway coming up out of the water he saw the heavens ‖ Or eleven or rent opened and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him 11 And there came a voice from heaven saying Thou art my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased 12 * Matth. 4.1 And immediately the spirit driveth him into the wilderness 13 And he was there in the wilderness fourty days tempted of Satan and was with wilde beasts and the angels ministred unto him 14 Now after that John was put in prison * Matth. 4.12 Jesus came into Galilee preaching the gospel of the kingdom of God 15 And saying The time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand repent ye and beleeve the gospel 16 * Matth. 4.18 Now as he walked by the sea of Galilee he saw Simon and Andrew his brother casting a net into the sea for they were fishers 17 And Jesus said unto them Come ye after me and I will make you to become fishers of men 18 And straightway they forsook their nets and followed him 19 And when he had gone a little further thence he saw James the son of Zebedee and John his brother who also were in the ship mending their nets 20 And straightway he called them and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants and went after him 21 * Matth. 4.13 And they went into Capernaum and straightway on the sabbath-day he
The Song of the three children The story of Susanna The Idol Bel and the Dragon The Prayer of Manasseh I. Maccabees 16 II. Maccabees 15 The Books of the New Testament MAtthew hath chapters 28 Mark 16 Luke 24 John 21 The Acts 28 The Epistle to the Romanes 16 I. Corinthians 16 II. Corinthians 13 Galatians 6 Ephesians 6 Philippians 4 Colossians 4 I. Thessalonians 5 II. Thessalonians 3 I. Timothy 6 II. Timothy 4 Titus 3 Philemon 1 To the Hebrews 13 The Epistle of James 5 I. Peter 5 II. Peter 3 I. John 5 II. John 1 III. John 1 Jude 1 Revelation 22 ¶ The First Book of Moses called GENESIS CHAP. I. 1 The creation of heaven and earth 3 of the light 6 of the firmament 9 of the earth separated from the waters 11 and made fruitful 14 of the sun moon and stars 20 of fish and fowl 24 of beasts and cattel 26 of man in the image of God 29 Also the appointment of food IN * Psal 33.6 1â—6 5 Act. 14.15 17.24 Heb. 11.3 the beginning God created the heaven and the earth 2 And the earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters 3 And God said * 2 Cor. 4.6 Let there be light and there was light 4 And God saw the light that it was good and God divided †Heb. between the light and between the darkness the light from the darkness 5 And God called the light Day and the darkness he called Night †Heb. and the evening was and the morning was c. and the evening and the morning were the first day 6 ¶ And God said * Ps 136.5 Jer. 10.12 51.15 Let there be a †Heb. expansion firmament in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the waters 7 And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it was so 8 And God called the firmament Heaven and the evening and the morning were the second day 9 ¶ And God said * Job 38.8 Psal 33.7 136.6 Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place and let the dry-land appear and it was so 10 And God called the dry-land Earth and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas and God saw that it was good 11 And God said Let the earth bring forth †Heb. â—ender grass grass herb yeelding seed and fruit tree yeelding fruit after his kinde whose seed is in it self upon the earth and it was so 12 And the earth brought forth grass and herb yeelding seed after his kinde and the tree yeelding fruit whose seed was in it self after his kinde and God saw that it was good 13 And the evening and the morning were third day 14 ¶ And God said Let there be * Deut. 4.19 Psal 136.7 lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide †Heb. between the day and between the night the day from the night and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth aâ—d it was so 16 And God made two great lights the greater light †Heb. for the rule of the day c. to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night he made the stars also 17 And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth 18 And to * Jer. 31.35 rule over the day and over the night and to divide the light from the darkness and God saw that it was gâ—od 19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day 20 And God said * 2 Esd 6.47 Let the waters bring forth abundantly the ‖ Or creeping moving creature that hath †Heb. soul life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the †Heb. face of the firmament of heaven open firmament of heaven 21 And God created great whales and every living creature that moveth which the waters brought forth abundantly after their kinde and very winged fowl after his kinde and God saw that it was good 22 And God blessed them saying * Ch. 8.17 9.1 Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas and let fowl multiply in the earth 23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day 24 ¶ And God said Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kinde cattel and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kinde and it was so 25 And God made the beast of the earth after his kinde and cattel after their kinde and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kinde and God saw that it was good 26 ¶ And God said * Chap. 5.1 9.5 Wisd 2.23 1 Cor. 11.7 Eph. 4.24 Col. 3.10 Let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over the cattel and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth 27 So God created man in his own image in the image of God created he him * Matth. 19.4 male and female created he them 28 And God blessed them and God said unto them * Chap. 9.1 Be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that †Heb. creepeth moveth upon the earth 29 ¶ And God said Behold I have given you every herb †Heb. seeding seed bearing seed which is upon the face of all the earth and every tree in the which is the fruit of a tree yeelding seed * Chap. 9.3 to you it shall be for meat 30 And to every beast of the earth and to every fowl of the air and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth wherein there is †Heb. a living soul life I have given every green herb for meat and it was so 31 And * Ecclus 39.16 God saw every thing that he had made and behold it was very good And the evening and the morning were the sixth day CHAP. II. 1 The first Sabbath 4 The manner of the creation 8 The planting of the garden of Eden 10 and the river thereof 17 The tree of knowledge onely forbidden 19 20 The naming of the creatures 21 The making of woman and institution of marriaâ—e THus the heavens and the earth were finished and all the host of them 2 * Ex. 20.11 31.17 Deut. 5.14 Heb. 4.4 And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had
And Noah was six hundred years old when the floud of waters was upon the earth 7 ¶ And Noah went in and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him into the ark because of the waters of the floud 8 Of clean beasts and of beasts that are not clean and of fowls and of every thing that creepeth upon the earth 9 There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark the male and the female as God had commanded Noah 10 And it came to pass ‖ Or on the seventh day after seven days that the waters of the floud were upon the earth 11 ¶ In the six hundredth year of Noahs life in the second moneth the seventeenth day of the moneth the same day were all yÌ„ fountains of the great deep broken up and the ‖ Or floud-â—ates windows of heaven were opened 12 And the rain was upon the earth fourty days and fourty nights 13 In the self same day entred Noah and Shem and Ham and Japheth the sons of Noah and Noahs wife and the three wives of his sons with them into the ark 14 They and every beast after his kindâ— and all the cattel after their kinde and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kinde and every fowl after his kinde every bird of every †Heb. wing sort 15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life 16 And they that went in went in male and female of all flesh as God had commanded him and the LORD shut him in 17 And the floud was fourty days upon the earth and the waters increased and bare up the ark and it was lift up above the earth 18 And the waters prevailed and were increased greatly upon the earth and the ark went upon the face of the waters 19 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth and all the high hills that were under the whole heaven were covered 20 Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail and the mountains were covered 21 * Wisd 10.4 And all flesh died that moved upon the earth both of fowl and of cattel and of beast and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth and every man 22 All in whose nostrils was †Heb. the breath of the spirit of life the breath of life of all that was in the dry land died 23 And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground both man and cattel and the creeping things and the fowl of the heaven and they were destroyed from the earth and * Wisd 10.4 2 Pet. 2.5 Noah onely remained alive and they that were with him in the ark 24 And the waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred fifty days CHAP. VIII 1 The waters asswaye 4 The ark resteth on Ararat 7 The Raven and the Dove 15 Noah being commanded 18 goeth forth of the ark 20 He builâ—eth an altar and offereth sacrifice 21 which God accepteth and promiseth to curse the earth no more ANd God remembred Noah and every living thing and all the cattel that was with him in the ark and God made a wind to pass over the earth and the waters asswaged 2 The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped and the rain from heaven was restrained 3 And the waters returned from off the earth †Heb. in going and returning continually and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated 4 ¶ And the ark rested in the seventh moneth on the seventeenth day of the moneth upon the mountains of Ararat 5 And the waters †Heb. were in going and decreasing decreased continually until the tenth moneth in the tenth moneth on the first day of the moneth were the tops of the mountains seen 6 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of fourty days that Noah opened the window of the ark which he had made 7 And he sent forth a raven which went forth †Heb. in going forth and returning to and fro until the waters were dried up from off the earth 8 Also he sent forth a dove from him to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground 9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot and she returned unto him into the ark for the waters were on the face of the whole earth Then he put forth his hand and took her and †Heb. caused her to come pulled her in unto him into the ark 10 And he stayed yet other seven days and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark 11 And the dove came in to him in the evening and â—o in her mouth was as olive leaf pluckt off So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth 12 And he stayed yet other seven days and sent forth the dove which returned not again unto him any more 13 ¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year in the firâ—t moneth the first day of the moneth the waters were dried up from off the earth and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked and behold the face of the ground was dry 14 And in the second moneth on the seven and twentieth day of the moneth was the earth dried 15 ¶ And God spake unto Noah saying 16 Go forth of the ark thou and thy wife and thy sons and thy sons wives with thee 17 Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee of all flesh both of fowl and of cattel and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth that they may breed abundantly in the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon the earth 18 And Noah went forth and his sons and his wife and his sons wives with him 19 Every beast every creeping thing and every fowl and whatsoever creepeth upon the earth after their †Heb. families kinds went forth out of the ark 20 ¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the LORD and took of every clean beast of every clean fowl offered burnt-offerings on the altar 21 And the LORD smelled †Heb. a savour of rest a sweet savour and the LORD said in his heart I will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake for the * Chap. 6.5 Matth. 15.19 imagination of mans heart is evil from his youth neither will I again smite any more every thing living as I have done 22 †Heb. as yet all the days of the earth While the earth remaineth feed-time and harvest and cold and heat and summer and winter and day and night shall not cease CHAP. IX 1 God blesseth Noah 4 Bloud and murder are forbidden 8 Gods covenant 13 siâ—nified by the rainbowe 18 Noah replenisheth the world 20 planteth a vineyard 21 is drunken and mocked of his son 25 curseth Canaan 26 blesseth Shem 27 prayeth for Japheth 2â—
12 And he said O LORD God of my master Abraham I pray thee send me good speed this day and shew kindness unto my master Abraham 13 Behold * Verse 43. I stand here by the well of water and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water 14 And let it come to pass that the damsel to whom I shall say Let down thy pitcher I pray thee that I may drink and she shall say Drink and I will give thy camels drink also let the same be she that thou hast appointed for thy servant Isaac and thereby shall I know that thou hast shewed kindness unto my master 15 ¶ And it came to pass before he had done speaking that behold Rebekah came out who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah the wife of Nahor Abrahams brother with her pitcher upon her shoulder 16 And the damsel was †Heb. good of countenance very fair to look upon a virgin neither had any man known her and she went down to the well and filled her pitcher and came up 17 And the servant ran to meet her and said Let me I pray thee drink a little water of thy pitcher 18 And she said Drink my lord and she hasted and let down her pitcher upon her hand and gave him drink 19 And when she had done giving him drink she said I will draw water for thy camels also until they have done drinking 20 And she hasted and emptied her pitcher into the trough and ran again unto the well to draw water and drew for all his camels 21 And the man wondring at her held his peace to wit whether the LORD had made his journey prosperous or not 22 And it came to pass as the camels had done drinking that the man took a golden ‖ Or jewel for the forehead ear-ring of hall a shekel weight and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold 23 And said Whose daughter art thou tell me I pray thee is there room in thy fathers house for us to lodge in 24 And she said unto him I am the daughter of Bethuel the son of Milcah which she bare unto Nahor 25 She said moreover unto him We have both straw and provender enough and room to lodge in 26 And the man bowed down has head and worshipped the LORD 27 And he said Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth I bring in the way the LORD led me to the house of my masters brethren 28 And the damsel ran told them of her mothers house these things 29 ¶ And Rebekah had a brother and his name was Laban and Laban ran out unto the man unto the well 30 And it came to pass when he saw the ear-ring and bracelets upon his sisters hands and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister saying Thus spake the man unto me that he came unto the man and behold he stood by the camels at the well 31 And he said Come in thou blessed of the LORD wherefore standest thou without for I have prepared the house room for the camels 32 ¶ And the man came into the house and he ungirded his camels and gave straw and provender for the camels and water to wash his feet and the mens feet that were with him 33 And there was set meat before him to eat but he said I will not eat until I have told mine errand And he said Speak on 34 And he said I am Abrahams servant 35 And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly and he is become great and he hath given him flocks and herds and silver and gold and men-servants and maid-servants and camels and asses 36 And Sarah my masters wife bare a son to my master when she was old and unto him hath he given all that he hath 37 And my master made me swear saying Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell 38 But thou shalt go unto my fathers house and to my kindred and take a wife unto my son 39 And I said unto my master Peradventure the woman will not follow me 40 And he said unto me the LORD before whom I walk will send his angel with thee and prosper thy way and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred and of my fathers house 41 Then shalt thou be clear from this my oath when thou comest to my kindred and if they give not the◠one thou shalt be clear from my oath 42 And I came this day unto the well and said O LORD God of my master Abraham if now thou do prosper my way which I go 43 * Vers 13. Behold I stand by the well of water and it shall come to pass that when the virgin cometh forth to draw water and I say to her Give me I pray thee a little water of thy pitcher to drink 44 And she say to me Both drink thou and I will also draw for thy camels let the same be the woman whom the LORD hath appointed out for my masters son 45 And before I had done speaking in mine heart Behold Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder and she went down unto the well and drew water and I said unto her Let me drink I pray thee 46 And she made haste and let down her pitcher from her shoulder and said Drink and I will give thy camels drink also so I drank and she made the camels drink also 47 And I asked her and said Whose daughter art thou And she said The daughter of Bethuel Nahors son whom Milcah bare unto him and I put the ear-ring upon her face and the bracelets upon her hands 48 And I bowed down my head and worshipped the LORD and blessed the LORD God of my master Abraham which had led me in the right way to take my masters brothers daughter unto his son 49 And now if you will deal kindly and truly with my master tell me and it not tell me that I may turn to the right hand or to the left 50 Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said The thing proceedeth from the LORD we cannot speak unto thee bad or good 51 Behold Rebekah is before thee take her and go and let her be thy masters sons wife as the LORD hath spoken 52 And it came to pass that when Abrahams servant heard their words he worshipped the LORD bowing himself to the earth 53 And the servant brought forth †Heb. vessels jewels of silver and jewels of gold and raiment and gave them to Rebekah he gave also to her brother and to her mother precious things 54 And they did eat and drink he and the men that were with him and tarried all night and they rose up in the morning and he said * Vers 56. and 59. Send me away unto my master 55 And her
Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar. 2 And the LORD appeared unto him and said Go not down into Egypt dwell in the land which I shall tell thee of 3 Sojourn in this land and I will be with thee and will bless thee for unto thee and unto thy seed * Chap. 13.15 15.18 I will give all these countreys and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father 4 And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven and will give unto thy seed all these countreys and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be * Chap. 12.3 22.18 blessed 5 Because that Abraham obeyed my voice and kept my charge my commandments my statutes and my laws 6 ¶ And Isaac dwelt in Gerar. 7 And the men of the place asked him of his wife and he said She in my sister for he feared to say She is my wife lest said he the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah because she was â—air to look upon 8 And it came to pass when he had been there a long time that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window and saw and behold Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife 9 And Abimelech called Isaac and said Behold of a surety she is thy wife and how saidst thou She is my sister And Isaac said unto him Because I said Lest I die for her 10 And Abimelech said What is this thou hast done unto us one of the people might lightly have lien with thy wife and thou shouldest have brought guiltiness upon us 11 And Abimelech charged all his people saying He that toucheth this man or his wife shall surely be put to death 12 Then Isaac sowed in that land and †Heb. found received in the same year an hundred fold and the LORD blessed him 13 And the man waxed great and †Heb. went going went forward and grew until he became very great 14 For he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of ‖ Or husbandry servants And the Philistines envied him 15 For all the wells which his fathers servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father the Philistines had stopped them and filled them with earth 16 And Abimelech said unto Isaac Go from us for thou art much mightier then we 17 ¶ And Isaac departed thence and pitched his tent in the valley of Gerar and dwelt there 18 And Isaac digged again the wells of water which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them 19 And Isaacs servants digged in the valley and found there a well of †Heb. livng springing water 20 And the herdmen of Gerar did strive with Isaacs herdmen saying The water is ours and he called the name of the well ‖ That is contention Esek because they strove with him 21 And they digged another well and strove for that also and he called the name of it ‖ That is â—â—tred Sitnah 22 And he removed from thence and digged another well and for that they strove not and he called the name of it ‖ That is room Rehoboth and he said For now the LORD hath made room for us and we shall be fruitful in the land 23 And he went up from thence to Beer-sheba 24 And the LORD appeared unto him the same night and said I am the God of Abraham thy father fear not for I am with thee and will bless thee and multiply thy seed for my servant Abrahams sake 25 And he builded an altar there and called upon the name of the LORD and pitched his tent there there Isaacs servants digged a well 26 ¶ Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar and Ahuzzath one of his friends and Phichol the chief captain of his army 27 And Isaac said unto them Wherefore come ye to me seeing ye hate me and have sent me away from you 28 And they said †Heb. Seeing we saw We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee and we said Let there be now an oath betwixt us even betwixt us and thee and let us make a covenant with thee 29 †Heb. if thou shalt c. That thou wilt do us no hurt as we have not touched thee and as we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent thee a way in peace thou art now the blessed of the LORD 30 And he made them a feast and they did eat and drink 31 And they rose up betimes in the morning and sware one to another and Isaac sent them away and they departed from him in peace 32 And it came to pass the same day that Isaacs servants came and told him concerning the well which they had digged and said unto him we have found water 33 And he called it ‖ That is an oath Shebah therefore the name of the city is ‖ That is the well of the oath Beer-sheba unto this day 34 ¶ And Esau was fourty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite 35 Which * Ch. 2â— 46 were †Heb. bitterness of spirit a grief of minde unto Isaac and to Rebekah CHAP. XXVII 1 Isaac sendeth Esau for venison 6 Rebekah instructeth Jacob to obtain the blessing 15 Jacob under the person of Esau obtaineth it 30 Esau bringeth venison 33 Isaac trembleth 34 Esau complaineth and by importunity obtaineth a blessing 41 He threatneth Jacob. 42 Rebekah disappointeth it ANd it came to pass that when Isaac was old and his eyes were dim so that he could not see he called Esau his eldest son and said unto him My son And he said unto him Behold here am I. 2 And he said Behold now I am old I know not the day of my death 3 Now therefore take I pray thee thy weapons thy quiver and thy bowe and go out to the field and †Heb. hunt take me some venison 4 And make me savoury meat such as I love and bring it to me that I may eat that my soul may bless thee before I die 5 And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison and to bring it 6 ¶ And Rebekah spake unto Jacob her son saying Behold I heard thy father speak unto Esau thy brother saying 7 Bring me venison and make me savoury meat that I may eat and bless thee before the LORD before my death 8 Now therefore my son obey my voice according to that which I command thee 9 Go now to the flock and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats and I will make them savoury meat for thy father such as he loveth 10 And thou shalt bring it to thy
sojournings wherein thou art a stranger which God gave unto Abraham 5 And Isaac sent away Jacob and he went to Padan-aram unto Laban son of Bethuel the Syrian the brother of Rebekah Jacobs and Esaus mother 6 ¶ When Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Padan-aram to take him a wife from thence and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge saying Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan 7 And that Jacob obeyed his father and his mother and was gone to Padan-aram 8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan †Heb. were evil in the eyes c. pleased not Isaac his father 9 Then went Esau unto Ishmael and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abrahams son the sister of Nebajoth to be his wife 10 ¶ And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba went toward * Called Acts 7.2 Charran Haran 11 And he lighted upon a certain place and tarried there all night because the sun was set and he took of the stones of that place and put them for his pillows and lay down in that place to sleep 12 And he dreamed and behold a ladder set upon the earth and the top of it reached to heaven and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it 13 * Ch. 35.1 48.3 And behold the LORD stood above it and said I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father and the God of Isaac the land whereon thou liest to thee will I give it and to thy seed 14 And thy seed shall be as the dust of the earth thou shalt †Heb. break forth spread abroad * Deut. 12.20 to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south and in thee * Ch. 12.3 18.18 12.18 26.4 in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed 15 And behold I am with thee and will keep thee in all places whither thou goest and will bring thee again into this land for I will not leave thee until I have done that which I have spoken to thee of 16 ¶ And Jacob awaked out of his sleep and he said surely the LORD is in this place and I knew it not 17 And he was afraid and said How dreadful is this place this is none other but the house of God and this is the gate of heaven 18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning and took the stone that he had put for his pillows and set it up for a pillar and poured oyl upon the top of it 19 And he called the name of that place ‖ That is the house of God Beth-el but the name of that city was called Luz at the first 20 And Jacob vowed a vow saying If God will be with me and will keep me in this way that I go and will give me bread to eat and raiment to put on 21 So that I come again to my fathers house in peace then shall the LORD be my God 22 And this stone which I have set for a pillar shall be Gods house and of all that thou shalt give me I will surely give the tenth unto thee CHAP. XXIX 1 Jacob cometh to the well of Haran 9 He taketh acquaintance of Rachel 13 Laban entertaineth him 18 Jacob covenanteth for Rachel 23 He is deceived with Leah 28 He marrieth also Rachel and serveth for her seven years more 32 Leah beareth Reuben 33 Simeon 34 Levi 35 and Judah THen Jacob †Heb. lift up its feet went on his journey and came into the land of the †Heb. children people of the east 2 And he looked and behold a well in the field and lo there were three flocks of sheep lying by it for out of that well they watered the flocks and a great stone was upon the wells mouth 3 And thither were all the flocks gathered and they rolled the stone from the wells mouth and watered the sheep and put the stone again upon the wells mouth in his place 4 And Jacob said unto them My brethren whence be ye And they said Of Haran are we 5 And he said unto them Know ye Laban the son of Nahor And they said We know him 6 And he said unto them †Heb. Is there peace to him Is he well And they said He is well and behold Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep 7 And he said Lo †Heb. yet the day is great it is yet high day neither is it time that the cattel should be gathered together water ye the sheep and go and seed them 8 And they said We cannot until all the flocks be gathered together and till they roll the stone from the wells mouth then we water the sheep 9 ¶ And while he yet spake with them Rachel came with her fathers sheep for she kept them 10 And it came to pass when Jacob saw Rachel the daughter of Laban his mothers brother and the sheep of Laban his mothers brother that Jacob went near and rolled the stone from the wells mouth and watered the flock of Laban his mothers brother 11 And Jacob kissed Rachel and lifted up his voice and wept 12 And Jacob told Rachel that he was her fathers brother and that he was Rebekahs son and she ran and told her father 13 And it came to pass when Laban heard the †Heb. bearing tidings of Jacob his sisters son that he ran to meet him and embraced him and kissed him and brought him to his house and he told Laban all these things 14 And Laban said to him Surely thou art my bone and my flesh and he abode with him †Heb. a moneth of days the space of a moneth 15 ¶ And Laban said unto Jacob Because thou art my brother shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought tell me what shall thy wages be 16 And Laban had two daughters the name of the elder was Leah and the name of the younger was Rachel 17 Leah was tender-eyed but Rachel was beautiful and well-favoured 18 And Jacob loved Rachel and said I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter 19 And Laban said It is better that I give her to thee then that I should give her to another man abide with me 20 And Jacob served seven years for Rachel and they seemed unto him but a few days for the love he had to her 21 ¶ And Jacob said unto Laban Give me my wife for my days are fulfilled that I may go in unto her 22 And Laban gathered together all the men of the place and made a feast 23 And it came to pass in the evening that he took Leah his daughter and brought her to him and he went in unto her 24 And Laban gave unto his daughter Leah Zilpah his maid for an handmaid 25 And it came to pass that in the morning behold it was Leah and he said to Laban
so God hath shewed me also thy seed 12 And Joseph brought them out from between his knees and he bowed himself with his face to the earth 13 And Joseph took them both Ephraim in his right hand towards Israels left hand and Manasseh in his left hand towards Israels right hand and brought them near unto him 14 And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it upon Ephraims head who was the younger and his left hand upon Manassehs head guiding his hands wittingly for Manasseh was the first-born 15 ¶ And * Heb. 11.21 he blessed Joseph and said God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac did walk the God which fed me all my life long unto this day 16 The Angel which redeemed me from all evil bless the lads and let my name be named on them and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac and let them †Heb. as fishes do increase grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth 17 And when Joseph saw that his father said his right hand upon the head of Ephraim it displeased him and he held up his fathers hand to remove it from Ephraâ—ms head unto Manassehs head 18 And Joseph said unto his father Not so my father for this is the first born put thy right hand upon his head 19 And his father refused and said I know it my son I know it he also small become a people and he also shall be great but truly his younger brother shall be greater then he and his seed shall become a †Heb. fulness multitude of nations 20 And he Idessed them that day saying In thee shall Israel bless saying God make thee as Ephraim and as Manasseh and he set Ephraim before Manasseh 21 And Israel said unto Joseph Behold I die but God shall be with you and bring you again unto the land of your fathers 22 Moreover I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bowe CHAP. XLIX 1 Jacob calleth his sons to bless them 3 Their blessing in particular 29 He chargeth them about his burial 33 He dieth ANd Jacob called unto his sons and said Gather your selves together that I may tell you that which shall befal you in the last days 2 Gather your selves together and hear ye sons of Jacob and hearken unto Israel your father 3 ¶ Reuben thou art my first-born my might and the beginning of my strength the excellency of dignity and the excellency of power 4 Unstable as water †Heb. do not thou excel thou shalt not excel because thou * Ch. 35.22 1 Chr. 5.1 wentest up to thy fathers bed then defiledst thou it ‖ Or my coueh is gone He went up to my couch 5 ¶ Simeon and Levi are brethren ‖ Or their swords are weapons of violence instruments of cruelt are in their habitations 6 O my soul come not thou into their secret unto their assembly mine honour be not thou united for in their anger they slew a man and in their self-will they ‖ Or houghed oxen digged down a wall 7 Cursed be their anger for it was fierce and their wrath for it was cruel I will divide them in Jacob and scatter them in Israel 8 ¶ Judah thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies thy fathers children shall bow down before thee 9 Judah is a lions whelp from the prey my son thou art gone up he stooped down he couched as a lion and as an old lion who shall rouse him up 10 The scepter shall not depart from Judah nor a law-giver from between his feet until Shiloh come and unto him shall the gathering of the people be 11 Binding his fole unto the vine and his asses cost unto the choice vine he washed his garments in wine and his clothes in the bloud of granes 12 His eyes shall be red with wine and his teeth white with milk 13 ¶ Zebulun shall dwell at the haven of the sea and he shall be for an haven of shipe and his border shall be unto Zidon 14 ¶ Issachar is a strong ass couching down between two burdens 15 And he saw that rest was good and the land that it was pleasant and bowed his shoulder to bear and became a servant unto tribute 16 ¶ Dan shall judge his people as one of the tribes of Israel 17 Dan shall be a serpent by the way †Heb. an arrow-snake an adder in the path that biteth the horsheels so that his rider shall fall backward 18 I have waited for thy salvation O LORD 19 ¶ Gad a troup shall overcome him but he shall overcome at the last 20 ¶ Out of Asher his bread shall be fat and he shall yeeld royal dainties 21 ¶ Naphthali is a hinde let loose he giveth goodly words 22 ¶ Joseph is a fruitful bough even a fruitful bough by a well whose †Heb. daughter branches run over the wall 23 The archers have sorely grieved him shot at him hated him 24 But his bowe abode in strength and the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob from thence is the shepherd the stone of Israel 25 Even by the God of thy father who shall help thee and by the Almighty who shall bless thee with blessings of heaven above blessings of the deep that lieth under blessings of the breasts and of the womb 26 The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills they shall be on the head of Joseph and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren 27 ¶ Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf in the morning he shall devour the prey and at night he shall divide the sâ—oil 28 ¶ All these are the twelve tribes of Israel and this is it that their father spake unto them and blessed them every one according to his blessing he blessed them 29 And he charged them and said unto them I am to be gathered unto my people * Ch. 47 3â— burâ— me with my fathers in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite 30 In the cave that is in the field of Machpelah which is before Mamre in the land of Canaan * Ch. 23.16 which Abraham bought with the field of Ephron the Hittite for a possession of a burying-place 31 There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife and there I buried Leah 32 The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth. 33 And when Jacob had made an end of commanding his sons he gathered up his feet into the bed and yeelded up the ghost and was gathered unto his people CHAP. L. 1 The mourning for Jacob. 4
midwives feared God and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them but saved the men-children alive 18 And the king of Egypt called for the midwives and said unto them Why have ye done this thing have saved the men-children alive 19 And the midwives said unto Pharaoh Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women for they are lively and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them 20 Therefore God dealt well with the midwives and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty 21 And it came to pass because the midwives seared God that he made them houses 22 And Pharaoh charged all his people saying Every son that is born ye shall cast into the river and every daughter ye shall save alive CHAP. II. 2 Moses is born 3 and in an ark cast into the flags 5 He is found and brought up by Pharachs daughter 11 He slayeth an Egyptian 13 He reproveth an Hebrew 15 He fleeth into Midian 21 He marrieth Zipporah 22 Gershom is born 23 God respecteth the Israelites cry ANd there went * Chap. 6.20 Num. 26.59 a man of the house of Levi and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2 And the woman conceived and bare a son and when she saw him that he was a goodly childe she * Act. 7.20 Heb. 11.23 hid him three moneths 3 And when she could not longer hide him she took for him an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch and put the childe therein and she said it in the dags by the rivers brink 4 And his sister stood afar off to wit what would be done to him 5 ¶ And the daughter of Pharaoh came down to wash her self at the river and her maidens walked along by the rivers tide and when she saw the ark among the flags she sent her maid to fetch it 6 And when she had opened it she faw the childe and behold the babe wept And she had compassion on him and said This is one of the Hebrews children 7 Then said his sister to Pharaohs daughter Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women that she may nurse the childe for thee 8 And Pharaohs daughter said unto her Go. And the maid went and called the childes mother 9 And Pharaohs daughter said unto her Take this childe away and nurse it for me and I will give thee thy wages And the woman took the childe and nursed it 10 And the childe grew and she brought him unto Pharaohs daughter and he became her son And she called his name ‖ That is drawn out Moses and the said Because I drew him out of the water 11 ¶ And it came to pass in those days when Moses was grown that he went out unto his brethren and looked on their burdens and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew one of his brethren 12 And he looked this way and that way and when he saw that there was no man he slew the Egyptian and hid him in the sand 13 And when he went out the second day behold two men of the Hebrews strove together and he said to him that did the wrong Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow 14 And he said Who made thee †Heb. a man a prince a prince and a judge over us intendest thou to kill me as thou killedst the Egyptian And Moses seared and said Surely this thing is known 15 Now when Pharaoh heard this thing he sought to slay Moses But Moses sled from the face of Pharaoh and dwelt in the land of Midian and he sat down by a well 16 Now the ‖ Or prince priest of Midian had seven daughters and they came and drew water and filled the troughs to water their fathers flock 17 And the shepherds came and drove them away but Moses stood up and helped them and watered their flock 18 And when they came to Reuel their father he said How is it that you are come so soon to day 19 And they said An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds and also drew water enough for us and watered the flock 20 And he said unto his daughters And where is he why is it that ye have left the man Call him that he may eat bread 21 And Moses was content to dwell with the man and he gave Moses Zipporah his daughter 22 And she bare him a son and he called his name * Chap. 18.3 Gershom for he said I have been a stranger in a strange land 23 ¶ And it came to pass in process of time that the king of Egypt died and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage and they cried and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage 24 And God heard their groaning and God remembred his * Gen. 15.14 c 46.4 covenant with Abraham with Isaac and with Jacob. 25 And God looked upon the children of Israel and God †Heb. knew had respect unto them CHAP. III. 1 Moses keepeth Jethro's flock 2 God appeareth to him in a burning bush 9 He sendeth him to deliver Israel 14 The name of God 15 His message to Israel NOw Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law the priest of Midian and he led the flock to the back-side of the desert and came to the mountain of God even to Horeb. 2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a * Act 7 30. flame of fire our of the midst of a bush and he looked and behold the bush burned with fire and the bush was not consumed 3 And Moses said I will now turn aside and see this great sight why the bush is not burnt 4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see God called unto him out of the midst of the bush and said Moses Moses And he said Here am I. 5 And he said Draw not nigh hither * Jos 5.15 Act. 7.33 put off thy shoes from off thy feet for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground 6 Moreover he said * Mat 22.32 Act. 7.32 I am the God of thy father the God of Abraham the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face for he was afraid to look upon God 7 ¶ And the LORD said I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt and have heard their cry by reason of their task-masters for I know their sorrows 8 And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large unto a land â—owing with milk and honey unto the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizziteâ— and the Hivites and the Jebuâ—ites 9 Now therefore behold the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them 10 Come now
searful in praises doing wonders 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand the earth swallowed them 13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation 14 * Deut. 2.25 Josh 2.9 The people shall hear and be afraid sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina 15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed the mighty men of Moab trembling shall take hold upon them all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away 16 * Deut. 2.15 Josh 2.9 Fear and dread shall fall upon them by the greatness of thine arm they shall be as still as a stone till thy people pass over O LORD till the people pass over which thou hast purchased 17 Thou shalt bring them in c plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance in the place O LORD which thou hast made for thee to dwell in in the Sanctuary O LORD which thy hands have established 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and ever 19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his hors-men into the sea and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them but the children of Israel went on dry-land in the midst of the sea 20 ¶ And Miriam the prophetess the sister of Aaron took a timbrel in her hand and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances 21 And Miriam answered them Sing ye to the LORD for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea 22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea and they went out into the wilderness of Shur and they went three days in the wilderness and sound no water 23 ¶ And when they came to Marah they could not drink of the waters of Marah for they were bitter therefore the name of it was called †That is bitterness Marah 24 And the people murmured against Moses saying What shall we drink 25 And he cried unto the Lord and the LORD shewed him a * Ecclus 38.5 tree which when he had cast into the waters the waters were made sweet there he made for them a statute and an ordinance and there he proved them 26 And said If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God and wilt do that which is right in his sight and wilt give car to his commandments and keep all his statutes I will put none of these diseases upon thee which I have brought upon the Egyptians for I am the the LORD that healeth thee 27 ¶ * Numb 33.9 And they came to Elim where were twelve wells of water and threescore and ten palm-trees and they encamped there by the waters CHAP. XVI 1 The Israelites come to Sin 2 They murmure for want of bread 4 God promiseth them bread from heaven 11 Quails are sent 14 and manna 16 The ordering of manna 25 It was not to be found on the sabbath 32 An owner of it is preserved ANd they took their journey from Elim and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin which is between Elim and Sinai on the fifteenth day of the second moneth after their departing out of the land of Egypt 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness 3 And the children of Israel said unto them Would to God we had died by the hand of the LORD in the land of Egypt when we sat by the flesh-pots and when we did eat bread to the full for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness to kill this whole assembly with hunger 4 ¶ Then said the LORD unto Moses Behold I will rain bread from heaven for you and the people shall go out and gather †Heb. the portion of a say in his day a certain rate every day that I may prove them whether they will walk in my law or no. 5 And it shall come to pass that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in it shall be twice as much as they gather daily 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel At even then ye shall know that the LORD hath brought you out from the land of Egypt 7 And in the morning then ye shall see the glory of the LORD for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD And what are we that ye murmure against 〈◊〉 8 And Moses said This shall be when the LORD shall give you in the evening â—iâ—sh to eat and in the morning bread to the fâ—ll for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmure against him And what are 〈◊〉 morning are nor against us but against the LORD 9 ¶ And Moses spake unto Aaron Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel Come near before the LORD for he hath heard your murmurings 10 And it came to pass as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel that they looked toward the wilderness and behold the glory of the LORD * Chap. 13.21 appeared in the cloud 11 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 12 I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel speak unto them saying At even ye shall eat flesh and in the morning ye shall be silled with bread and ye shall know that I am the LORD your God 13 And it came to pass that at even * Numb 11.31 the quails came up and covered the camp and in the morning the dew lay round about the host 14 And when * Numb 11.7 Psa 78.24 Wis 16.20 the dew that lay was gone up behold upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing as small as the hear frost on the ground 15 And when the children of Israel saw it they said one to another ‖ Or What is this or It is a portion It is manna for they wist not what it was And Moses said unto them * Joh. 6.31 2 Cor. 10.3 This is the bread which the LORD hath given you to eat 16 ¶ This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded Gather of it every man according to his eating an omer †Heb. by the poll or bead for every man according to the number of your †Heb. soult persons take ye every man for them which are in his tents 17 And the children of Israel did so and gathered some more some less 18 And when they did mete it with an omer * 2 Cor. 8.25 he that gathered much had nothing over and he that gathered little had no lack they gathered every man according to his eating 19 And Moses said Let no man leave of it till the morning 20 Notwithstanding they hearkned not unto Moses but some of them left of it until the morning and it bred worms and stank And Moses was wroth with
for there shall no man see me and live 21 And the LORD said Behold there is a place by me and thou shalt stand upon a rock 22 And it shall come to pass while my glory passeth by that I will put thee in a clift of the rock will cover thee with my hand while I pass by 23 And I will take away mine hand and thou shalt see my back-parts but my face shall not be seen CHAP. XXXIV 1 The tables are renewed 5 The name of the LORD proclaimed 8 Moses entreateth God to go with them 10 God maketh a covenant with them repeating certain duties of the first table 28 Moses after fourty days in the mount cometh down with the tables 29 His face shineth and be covereth it with a vail ANd the LORD said unto Moses * Deut. 10 1. Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables which thou brakeâ—â— 2 And be ready in the morning and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai and present thy self there to me in the top of the mount 3 And no man shall * Chap. 19.12 come up with thee neither let any man be seen throughout all the mount neither let the flocks nor herds feed before that mount 4 ¶ And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first and Moses rose up early in the morning and went up unto mount Sinai as the LORD had commanded him took in his hand the two tables of stone 5 And the LORD descended in the cloud and stood with him there and proclaimed the name of the LORD 6 And the LORD passed by before him and proclaimed The LORD The LORD God merciful and gracious long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth 7 Keeping mercy for thousands forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin and that will by no means clear the guilty * Chap. 20.5 Deut. 5.0 Jer. 32.18 visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and upon the childrens children unto the third and to the fourth generation 8 And Moses made haste and bowed his head toward the earth and worshipped 9 And he said If now I have found grace in thy sight O Lord let my Lord I pray thee go amongst us for it is a stiff-necked people and pardon our iniquity and our sin and take us for thine inheritance 10 ¶ And he said Behold * Deut. 5. â— I make a covenant before all thy people I will do marvels such as have not been done in all the earth nor in any nation and all the people amongst which thou art shall see the work of the LORD for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee 11 Observe thou that which I command thee this day Behold I drive out before thee the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite 12 * Chap. 22.22 Deut. 7.2 Take heed to thy self lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee 13 But ye shall destroy their altars break their †Heb. statues images and cut down their groves 14 For thou shalt worship no other god for the LORD whose name is Jealous is a * Chap. 2â— â— jealous God 15 Lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land and they go a whoring after their gods and do sacrifice unto their gods and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice 16 And thou take of * 1 King 11.2 their daughters unto thy sons and their daughters go a whoring after their gods and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods 17 Thou shalt make thee no molten gods 18 ¶ The feast of * Chap. 23.15 unleavened bread shalt thou keep Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread as I commanded thee in the time of the moneth Abib for in the * Ch. 13.4 moneth Abib thou earnest out from Egypt 19 * Chap. 22 2â— Ezek. 44.30 All that openeth the matrix is mine and every firstling among thy cattel whether ox or sheep that is male 20 But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a ‖ Or kid lamb and if thou redeem him not then shalt thou break his neck All the first-born of thy sons thou shalt redeem and none shall appear before me * Ch. 2â— 15 empty 21 ¶ * Ch. 23.12 Deut. 5.12 Luke 13.14 Six days thou shalt work but on the seventh day thou shalt rest in earing-time and in harvest thou shalt rest 22 ¶ * Ch. 23.16 And thou shalt observe the feast of weeks of the first-fruits of wheat-harvest and the feast of in-gathering at the †Heb. revelation of the year years end 23 ¶ * Chap. 23.14 17. Deut. 16.16 Thrice in the year shell all your men-children appear before the Lord GOD the God of Israel 24 For I will cast out the nations before thee and enlarge thy borders neither shall any man desire thy land when thou shalt go up to appear before the LORD thy God thrice in the year 25 * Chap 23.18 Thou shalt not offer the bloud of my sacrifice with leaven neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of pass-over be left unto the morning 26 The first of the first-fruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God Thou shalt not seethe a * Chap. 23.19 Deut. 14.21 kid in his mothers milk 27 And the LORD said unto Moses Write thou * Deut. 4.13 these words for after the tenour of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel 28 * Chap. 24.18 Deut. 9.9 And he was there with the LORD fourty days and fourty nights he did neither eat bread nor drink water and he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant the ten †Heb. words commandments 29 ¶ And it came to pass when Moses came down from mount Sinai with the two tables of testimony in Moses hand when he came down from the mount that Moses will not that the skin of his face shone while he talked with him 30 And when Aaron and all the children of Israel saw Moses behold the skin of his face shone they were afraid to come nigh him 31 And Moses called unto them and Aaron and all the rulers of the congregation returned unto him and Moses talked with them 32 And afterward all the children of Israel came nigh and he gave them in commandment all that the LORD had spoken with him in mount Sinai 33 And 4 till Moses had done speaking with them he put * 2 Cor. 3.13 a vail on his face 34 But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him he took the vail off until he came out And he came out and spake unto the children of Israel
and behold if the plague have not changed his colour and the plague be not spread it is unclean thou shalt burn it in the fire it is fret inward †Heb. whether it be bald in the head thereof or in the forehead thereof whether it be bare within or without 56 And if the priest look and behold the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it then he shall rend it out of the garment or out of the skin or out of the warp or out of the woof 57 And if it appear still in the garment either in the warp or in the woof or in any thing of skin it is a spreading plague thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire 58 And the garment either warp or woof or whatsoever thing of skin it be which thou shalt wash if the plague be departed from them then it shall be washed the second time and shall be clean 59 This is the law of the plague of leprosie in a garment of woollen or linen either in the warp or woof or any thing of skins to pronounce it clean or to pronounce it unclean CHAP. XIV 1 The rites and sacrifices in cleansing of the leper 33 The signs of leprosie in an house 48 The cleansing of that house ANd the LORD spake unto Moses saying 2 This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing He * Mat. 8.2 Maâ— â— 40 Luk. 5.12 shall be brought unto the priest 3 And the priest shall go forth out of the camp and the priest shall look and behold if the plague of leprosie be healed in the leper 4 Then shall the priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two ‖ Or sparrows birds alive and clean and cedar wood and scarlet and hyssop 5 And the priest shall command that one of the birds be killed in an earthen vessel over running water 6 As for the living bird he shall take it and the cedar-wood and the scarlet and the hyssop and shall dip them and the living bird in the bloud of the bird that was killed over the running water 7 And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the leprosie seven times and shall pronounce him clean and shall let the living bird loose †Heb. upon the face of the field into the open field 8 And he that is to be cleansed shall wash his clothes shave off all his hair and wash himself in water that he may be clean and after that he shall come into the camp shall tarry abroad out of his tent seven days 9 But it shall be on the seventh day that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eye-brows even all his hair he shall shave off and he shall wash his clothes also he shall wash his flesh in water and he shall be clean 10 And on the eighth day he shall take two he-lambs without blemish and one ew-lamb †Heb. the daughter of her year of the first year without blemish and three tenth-deals of fine flour for a meat offering mingled with oyl one log of oyl 11 And the priest that maketh him clean shall present the man that is to be made clean and those things before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 12 And the priest shall take one he-lamb and offer him for a trespass-offering and the log of oyl and * Exod. 29.24 wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD 13 And he shall slay the lamb in the place where he shall kill the sin-offering and the burnt-offering in the holy place for * Chap. 7.7 as the sin-offering is the priests so is the trespass offering it is most holy 14 And the priest shall take some of the bloud of the trespass-offering and the priest shall put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot 15 And the priest shall take some of the log of oyl and pour it into the palm of his own left hand 16 And the priest shall dip his right finger in the oyl that is in his left hand shal sprinkle of the oyl with his finger seven times before the LORD 17 And of the rest of the oyl that is in his hand shall the priest put upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of his right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot upon the bloud of the trespass-offering 18 And the remnant of the oyl that is in the priests hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD 19 And the priest shall offer the sin-offering and make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed from his uncleanness and afterward he shall kill the burnt-offering 20 And the priest shall offer the burnt-offering and the meat offering upon the altar and the priest shall make an atonement for him and he shall be clean 21 And if he be poor and †Heb. his hand reach not cannot get so much then he shall take one lamb for a trespass-offering †Heb. for a waving to be waved to make an atonement for him and one tenth-deal of fine flour mingled with oyl for a meat-offering and a log of oyl 22 And two turtle-doves or two young pigeons such as he is able to get and the one shall be a sin-offering and the other a burnt-offering 23 And he shall bring them on the eighth day for his cleansing unto the priest unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD 24 And the priest shall take the lamb of the trespass-offering the log of oyl and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before the LORD 25 And he shall kill the lamb of the trespass-offering and the priest shall take some of the bloud of the trespass-offering and put it upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the great toe of his right foot 26 And the priest shall pour of the oyl into the palm of his own left hand 27 And the priest shall sprinkle with his right finger some of the oyl that is in his left hand seven times before the LORD 28 And the priest shall put of the oyl that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed and upon the thumb of hâ—â— right hand and upon the great toe of his right foot upon the place of the bloud of the trespass-offering 29 And the rest of the oyl that is in the priests hand he shall put upon the head of him that it to be cleansed to make an atonement for him before the LORD 30 And he shall
offer the one of the turtle doves or of the young pigeons such as he can get 31 Even such as he is able to get the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering with the meat offering And the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the LORD 32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosie whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing 33 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and unto Aaron saying 34 When ye be come into the land of Canaan which I give to you for a possession and I put the plague of leprosie in a house of the land of your possession 35 And he that oweth the house shall come and tell the priest saying It seemeth to me there is as it were a plague in the house 36 Then the priest shall command that they ‖ Or prepare empty the house before the priest go into it to see the plague that all that is in the house be not made unclean and afterward the priest shall go in to see the house 37 And he shall look on the plague and behold if the plague be in the walls of the house with hollow strakes greenish or reddish which in sight are lower then the wall 38 Then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house and shut up the house seven days 39 And the priest shall come again the seventh day and shall look and behold if the plague be spread in the walls of the house 40 Then the priest shall command that they take away the stones in which the plague is they shall cast them into an unclean place without the city 41 And he shall cause the house to be scraped within round about and they shall pour out the dust that they scrape off without the city into an unclean place 42 And they shall take other stones and put them in the place of those stones and he shall take other morter and shall plaister the house 43 And if the plague come again and break out in the house after that he hath taken away the stones and after he hath scraped the house and after it is plaistered 44 Then the priest shall come and look and behold if the plague be spread in the house it is a fretting leprosie in the house it is unclean 45 And he shall break down the house the stones of it and the timber thereof and all the morter of the house and he shall carry them forth out of the city into an unclean place 46 Moreover he that goeth into the house all the while that it is shut up shall be unclean until the even 47 And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes 48 And if the priest †Heb. 〈◊〉 â—â—â—ming in shall â—â—â—eâ—n c. shall come in and look upon it and behold the plague hath not spread in the house after the house was plaistered then the priest shall pronounce the house clean because the plague is healed 49 And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds and cedar-wood and scarlet and hyssop 50 And he shall kill the one of the birds in an earthen vessel over running water 51 And he shall take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the scarlet and the living bird and dip them in the bloud of the slain bird and in the running water and sprinkle the house seven times 52 And he shall cleanse the house with the bloud of the bird and with the running water and with the living bird and with the cedar-wood and with the hyssop and with the scarlet 53 But he shall let go the living bird ort of the city into the open fields and make an atonement for the house and it shall be clean 54 This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosie and ’ Ch. 13.30 scall 55 And for the leprosie of a garment and of an house 56 And for a rising and for a scab and for a bright spot 57 To teach †Heb. in the day of the unclean and in the day of the clean when it is unclean and when it is clean this is the law of leprosie CHAP. XV. 1 The uncleanness of men in their issues 13 The cleansing of them 19 The uncleanness of women in their issues 28 Their cleansing ANd the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron saying 2 Speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them When any man hath a ‖ Or â—unning of the reins running issue out of his flesh because of his issue he is unclean 3 And this shall be his uncleanness in his issue whether his flesh run with his issue or his flesh be stopped from his issue it is his uncleanness 4 Every bed whereon he lieth that hath the issue is unclean and every †Heb. vessel thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean 5 And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 6 And he that sitteth on any thing whereon he sat that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 7 And he that toucheth the flesh of him that hath the issue shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unâ—lean until the even 8 And if he that hath the issue spit upon him that is clean then he shall wash his clothes bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 9 And what saddle soever he rideth upon that hath the issue shall be unclean 10 And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 11 And whomsoever he toucheth that hath the issue and hath not rinsed his hands in water he shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 12 And the * Chap. 9.28 vessel of earth that he touâ—heth which hath the issue shall be broken and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water 13 And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing and wash his clothes and bathe his flesh in runnâ—ng water and shall be clean 14 And on the eighth day he shall take to him two turtle-doves or two young pigeons and come before the LORD unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and give them unto the priest 15 And the priest shall offer them the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD for his issue 16 And if any mans seed of copulation go out from him then he shall wash all his flesh
in water and be unclean until the even 17 And every garment and every skin whereon is the seed of copulation shall be washed with water and be unclean until the even 18 The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the even 19 ¶ And if a woman have an issue and her issue in her flesh be bloud she shall be †Heb. in her separation put apart seven days and whosoever toucheth her shall be unclean until the even 20 And every thing that she lieth upon in her separation shall be unclean every thing also that she sitteth upon shall be unclean 21 And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 22 And whosoever toucheth any thing that she sat upon shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and be unclean until the even 23 And if it be on her bed or on any thing whereon she sitteth when he toucheth it he shall be unclean until the even 24 And if any man lie with her at all and her flowers be upon him he shall be unclean seven days and all the bed whereon he lieth shall be unclean 25 And if a woman have an issue of her bloud many days out of the time of her separation or if it run beyond the time of her separation all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation she shall be unclean 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean as the uncleanness of her separation 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean and shall wash his clothes and bathe himself in water be unclean until the even 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue then she shall number to her self seven days and after that she shall be clean 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtles or two young pigeons and bring them unto the priest to the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering and the other for a burnt-offering and the priest shall make an atonement for her before the LORD for the issue of her uncleanness 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness that they die not in their uncleanness when they defile my tabernacle that is among them 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue and of him whose seed goeth from him and is defiled therewith 33 And of her that is sick of her flowers and of him that hath an issue of the man and of the woman and of him that lieth with her which is unclean CHAP. XVI 1 How the high priest must enter into the hâ—ly place 11 The sin-offering for himself 15 The sin-offering for the people 20 The scape-goat 29 The yearly feast of the expâ—ations ANd the LORD spake unto Moses after * Chap. 10.2 the death of the two sons of Aaron when they offered before the LORD and died 2 And the LORD said unto Moses Speak unto Aaron thy brother that he * Ex. 30.10 Hebr. 9.7 come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy-seat which is upon the ark that he die not for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy-seat 3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place with a young bullock for a sin-offering and a ram for a burnt-offering 4 He shall put on the holy linen coat and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh and shall be girded with the linen girdle and with the linen mitre shall he be attired these are holy garments therefore shall he wash his flesh in water and so put them on 5 And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt-offering 6 And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself and * Hebr. 9.7 make an atonement for himself and for his house 7 And he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation 8 And Aaron shall cast lots upon the two goats one lot for the LORD and the other lot for the †Heb. Azazâ—l scape-goat 9 And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the LORDS lot †Heb. went up fell and offer him for a sin-offering 10 But the goat on which the lot fell to be the scape-goat shall be presented alive before the LORD to make an atonement with him and to let him go for a scape-goat into the wilderness 11 And Aaron shall bring the bullock of the sin offering which is for himself and shall make an atonement for himself and for his house and shall kill the bullock of the sin-offering which is for himself 12 And he shall take a censer-full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small and bring it within the vail 13 And he shall put the incense upon the fire before the LORD that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat that is upon the testimony that he die not 14 And * Hebr. â— 13 10.4 he shall take of the bloud of the bullock and * Cha. 4. â— sprinkle it with his finger upon the mercy seat east-ward and before the mercy-seat shall he sprinkle of the bloud with his finger seven times 15 ¶ Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring his bloud within the vail and do with that bloud as he did with the bloud of the bullock and sprinkle it upon the mercy-seat and before the mercy seat 16 And he shall make an atonement for the holy place because of the uncleanness of the children of Israel and because of their transgressions in all their sins and so shall he do for the tabernacle of the congregation that †Heb. dwelleth remaineth among them in the midst of their uncleanness 17 * Luk. 1 1â— And there shall be no man in the tabernacle of the congregation when he goeth in to make an atonement in the holy place until he come out and have made an atonement for himself and for his houshold and for all the congregation of Israel 18 And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the LORD and make an atonement for it and shall take of the bloud of the bullock of the bloud of the goat put it upon the horns of the altar round about 19 And he shall sprinkle of the bloud upon it with his finger seven times and cleanse it and hallow it from the uncleanness of the children of Israel
the camp in a clean place and it shall be kept for the congregation of the children of Israel for a water of separation it is a purification for sin 10 And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes and be unclean until the even and it shall be unto the children of Israel and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them for a statute for ever 11 ¶ He that toucheth the dead body of any †Heb. soul of man man shall be unclean seven days 12 He shall purifie himself with it on the third day and on the seventh day he shall be clean but if he purifie not himself the third day then the seventh day he shall not be clean 13 Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead and purifieth not himself defileth the tabernacle of the LORD and that soul shall be cut off from Israel because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him he shall be unclean his uncleanness is yet upon him 14 This is the law when a man dieth in a tent all that come into the tent and all that is in the tent shall be unclean seven days 15 And every open vessel which hath no covering bound upon it is unclean 16 And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields or a dead body or a bone of a man or a grave shall be unclean seven days 17 And for an unclean person they shall take of the †Heb. dust ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin and †Heb. living waters shall be given running water shall be put thereto in a vessel 18 And a clean person shall take hyssop and dip it in the water and sprinkle it upon the tent and upon all the vessels and upon the persons that were there and upon him that touched a bone or one slain or one dead or a grave 19 And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day and on the seventh day he shall purifie himself and wash his clothes and bathe himself in water and shall be clean at even 20 But the man that shall be unclean and shall not purifie himself that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the LORD the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him he is unclean 21 And it shall be a perpetual statute unto them that he that sprinkleth the water of separation shall wash his clothes and he that toucheth the water of separation shall be unclean until even 22 And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even CHAP. XX. 1 The children of Israel come to Zin where Miriam dieth 2 They murmure for want of water 7 Moses smiting the rock bringeth forth water at Meribah 14 Moses at Kadesh desireth passage through Edom which is denied him 22 At mount Hor Aaron resigneth his place to Eleazar and dieth THen came the children of Israel even the whole congregation into the desert of Zin in the first moneth and the people abode in Kadesh and Miriam died there and was buried there 2 And there was no water for the congregation and they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron 3 And the people * Ex. 17.2 chode with Moses and spake saying Would God that we had died * Ch. 11.33 when our brethren died before the LORD 4 And why have ye brought up the congregation of the LORD into this wilderness that we and our cattel should die there 5 And wherefore have ye made us to come up out of Egypt to bring us in unto this evil place it is no place of seed or of figs or vines or of pomegranates neither is there any water to drink 6 And Moses and Aaron went from the presence of the assembly unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation and they fell upon their faces and the glory of the LORD appeared unto them 7 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses saying 8 Take the rod and gather thou the assembly together thou and Aaron thy brother and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes and it shall give forth his water and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink 9 And Moses took the rod from before the LORD as he commmanded him 10 And Moses and Aaron gathered the congregation together before the rock and he said unto them Hear now ye rebels must we fetch you water out of this rock 11 And Moses lift up his hand and with his rod he smote the rock twice and the water came out abundantly and the congregation drank and their beasts also 12 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron Because ye beleeved me not to sanctifie me in the eyes of the children of Israel therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them 13 * Pâ— 1â—6 32 c. This is the water of ‖ That is strite Meribah because the children of Israel strove with the LORD and he was sanctified in them 14 ¶ And Moses sent messengers from Kadesh unto the king or Edom Thus saith thy brother Israel thou knowest all the travel that hath †Heb. found us befallen us 15 How our fathers went down into Egypt and we have dwelt in Egypt a long time and the Egyptians vexed us and our fathers 16 And when we cried unto the LORD he heard our voice and sent an Angel and hath brought us forth out of Egypt and behold we are in kadesh a city in the uttermost of thy border 17 Let us pass I pray thee through thy countrey we will not pass through the fields or through the vineyards neither will we drink of the water of the wells we will go by the kings high-way we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left until we have passed thy borders 18 And Edom said unto him Thou shalt not pass by me lest I come out against thee with the sword 19 And the children of Israel said unto him We will go by the high-way and if I and my cattel drink of thy water then I will pay for it I will onely without doing any thing else go through on my feet 20 And he said Thou shalt not go through And Edom came out against him with much people and with a strong hand 21 Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border wherefore Israel turned away from him 22 ¶ And the children of Israel even the whole congregation journeyed from * Chap. 33.37 kadesh and came unto mount Hor. 23 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor by the coast of the land of Edom saying 24 Aaron shall be gathered unto his people for he shall not enter into the
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
of wheat and barley and vines and fig-trees and pomegranates a land †Heb. of olive-tree of oyl of oyl-olive and honey 9 A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness thou shalt not lack any thing in it a land whose stones are iron and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass 10 * Chap. 6.11 12. When thou hast eaten and art full then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee 11 Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God in not keeping his commandments and his judgements and his statutes which I command thee this day 12 Lest when thou hast eaten and art full and hast built goodly houses and dwelt therein 13 And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and thy gold is multiplyed and all that thou hast is multiplied 14 Then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the LORD thy God which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt from the house of bondage 15 Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions and drought where there was no water * Num. 20.11 who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint 16 Who fed thee in the wilderness with * Exod. 16.15 manna which thy fathers knew not that he might humble thee and that he might prove thee to do thee good at thy latter end 17 And thou say in thine heart My power and the might of my hand hath gotten me this wealth 18 But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers as it is this day 19 And it shall be if thou do at all forget the LORD thy God and walk after other gods and serve them and worship them I testifie against you this day that ye shall surely perish 20 As the nations which the LORD destroyeth before your face so shall ye perish because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the LORD your God CHAP. IX 1 Moses dissâ—adeth them from the opinion of their own righteousness by rehearsing their several rebellions HEar O Israel Thou art to pass over Jordan this day to go in to possess nations greater and mightier then thy self cities great and senced up to heaven 2 A people great and tall * Num. 13.28 the children of the Anakims whom thou knowest and of whom thou hast heard say Who can stand before the children of Anak 3 Understand therefore this day that the LORD thy God is he which goeth over before thee as a * Ch. 4.24 Heb. 12.29 consuming fire he shall destroy them and he shall bring them down before thy face so shalt thou drive them out and destroy them quickly as the LORD hath said unto thee 4 Speal not thou in thine heart after that the LORD thy God hath cast them out from before thee saying For my righteousness the LORD hath brought me in to possess this land but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD doth drive them out from before thee 5 Not for thy righteousness or for the uprightness of thine heart dost thou go to possess their land but for the wickedness of these nations the LORD thy God doth drive them out from before thee and that he may perfâ—rm the word which the LORD sware unto thy fathers Abraham Isaac and Jacob. 6 Understand therefore that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness for thou art a stiff-necked people 7 ¶ Remember and forget not how thou provokedst the LORD thy God to wrath in the wilderness from the day that thou didst depart out of the land of Egypt until ye came unto this place ye have been rebellious against the LORD 8 Also in Horeb ye provoked the LORD to wrath so that the LORD was angry with you to have destroyed you 9 When I was gone up into the mount to receive the tables of stone even the tables of the covenant which the LORD made with you then * Exod. 24.28 34.28 I abode in the mount fourty days and fourty nights I neither did eat bread nor drink water 10 * Ex. 31.18 And the LORD delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the singer of God and on them was written according to all the words which the LORD spake with you in the mount out of the midâ—t of fire in the day of the assembly 11 And it came to pass at the end of fourty days and fourty nights that the LORD gave me the two tables of stone even the tables of the covenant 12 And the LORD said unto me * Exod. 32.7 Arise get thee down quickly from hence for thy people which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves they are quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them they have made them a molten image 13 Furthermore the LORD spake unto me saying I have seen this people and behold it is a stiff-necked people 14 Let me alone that I may destroy them and blot out their name from under heaven and I will make of thee a nation mightier and greater then they 15 So I turned and came down from the mount and the mount burned with fire and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands 16 And I looked and behold ye had sinned against the LORD your God and had made you a molten calf ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you 17 And I took the two tables and cast them out of my two hands and brake them before your eyes 18 And I fell down before the LORD as at the first fourty days and fourty nights I did neither eat bread nor drink water because of all your sins which ye sinned in doing wickedly in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger 19 For I was afraid of the anger and hot displeasure wherewith the LORD was wroth against you to destroy you But the LORD hearkned unto me at that time also 20 And the LORD was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him and I prayed for Aaron also the same time 21 And I took your sin the calf which ye had made and burnt it with fire and stamped it and ground it very small even until it was as small as dust and I cast the dust thereof into the brook that descended out of the mount 22 And at * Num. 11.1 3. Taberah and at * Exod. 17.7 Massah and at * Numb 11.34 Kibroth-hattaavah ye provoked the LORD to wrath 23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadesh-barnea saying Go up and possess the land which I have given you then you rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God and ye beleeved him not nor hearkened to his voice 24 You have
LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh and unto all his servants and unto all his land 3 The great temptations which thine eyes have seen the signs and those great miracles 4 Yet the LORD hath not given you an heart to perceive and eyes to see and ears to hear unto this day 5 And I have led you fourty years in the wilderness your clothes are not waxen old upon you and thy shoe is not waxen old upon thy foot 6 Ye have not eaten bread neither have you drunk wine or strong drink that ye might know that I am the LORD your God 7 And when ye came unto this place Sihon the king of Heshbon and Og the king of Bashan came out against us unto battel and we smote them 8 And we took their land and gave it for an inheritance unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh 9 * Ch. 4.6 Josh 1.7 1 King 2 3. Keep therefore the words of this covenant and do them that ye may prosper in all that ye do 10 ¶ Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God your captains of your tribes your elders and your officers with all the men of Israel 11 Your little ones your wives and thy stranger that is in thy camp from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water 12 That thou shouldest †Heb pass enter into covenant with the LORD thy God and into his oath which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself and that he may be unto thee a God as he hath said unto thee and as he hatâ— sworn unto thy fathers to Abraham to Isaac and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you onely do I make this covenant and this oath 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God and also with him that is not here with us this day 16 For ye know how we have dwelt in the land of Egypt and how we came through the nations which ye passed by 17 And ye have seen their abominations and their †Heb. dungy gods idols wood and stone silver and gold which were among them 18 Lest there should be among you man or woman or family or tribe whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God to go and serve the gods of these nations lest there should be among you a root that heareth ‖ Or a poysonful herb †Heb. râ—sk gall and wormwood 19 And it come to pass when he heareth the words of this curse that he bless himself in his heart saying I shall have peace though I walk in the ‖ Or stubbornness imagination or mine heart to add †Heb. the drunken to the thirsty drunkenness to thirst 20 The LORD will not spare him but then the anger of the LORD and his jealousie shall smoke against that man and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him and the LORD shall blot out his name from under heaven 21 And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel according to all the curses of the covenant that †Heb. is wriâ—ten are written in this book of the law 22 So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up aftâ—r you and the stranger that shall come from a far land shall say when they see the plagues of that land and the sicknesses †Heb. wherewith the LORD hath made it sick which the LORD hath laid upon it 23 And that the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt and burning that it is not sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein * Gen. 19.24 25. like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah Admah and Zeboim which the LORD overthrew in his anger and in his wrath 24 Even all nations shall say * 1 Kin. 9.8 Jer. 22.8 Wherefore hath the LORD done thus unto this land what meaneth the heat of this great anger 25 Then men shall say Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD God of their fathers which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt 26 For they went and served other gods and worshipped them gods whom they knew not and ‖ Or who had not given to them any portion whom he had not †Heb. divided given unto them 27 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against this land to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book 28 And the LORD rooted them out of their land in anger and in wrath and in great indignation and cast them into another land as it is this day 29 The secret things belong unto the LORD our God but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever that we may do all the words of this law CHAP. XXX 1 Great mercies promised unto the repentant 11 The commandment is manifest 15 Death and life are set before them ANd it shall come to pass when all these things are come upon thee the blessing and the curse which I have set before thee and thou shalt call them to minde among all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath driven thee 2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day thou and thy children with all thine heart and with all thy soul 3 That then the LORD thy God will turn thy captivity and have compassion upon thee and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the LORD thy God hath scattered thee 4 * Neh. 1 9â— If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven from thence will the LORD thy God gather thee and from thence will he fetch thee 5 And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed and thou shalt possess it and he will do thee good and multiply thee above thy fathers 6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart and the heart of thy seed to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart and with all-thy soul that thou mayest live 7 And the LORD thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies and on them that hate thee which persecuted thee 8 And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the LORD and do all his commandments which I command thee this day 9 * Chap. 28.11 And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand in the fruit of thy body and in the fruit of thy cattel and in the fruit of thy land for good for the LORD will again rejoyce over thee for good as he rejoyced over thy fathers 10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God to
hath lift up any iron and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD and sacrificed peace-offerings 32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel 33 And all Israel and their elders and officers and their judges stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD as well the stranger as he that was born among them half of them over against mount Gerizim and half of them over against mount Ebal * Deut 11.29 27.12 as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before that they should bless the people of Israel 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law the blessings and cursings according to all that is written in the book of the law 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel * Deut. 31.12 with the women and the little ones and the strangers that †Heb. walked were conversant among them CHAP. IX 1 The kings combine against Israel 3 The Gibeonites by craft obtain a league 16 for which they are condemned to perpetual bondage ANd it came to pass when all the kings which were on this side Jordan in the hills and in the valleys and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon the Hittite and the Amorite the Canaanite the Perizzite the Hivite and the Jebusite heard thereof 2 That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with Israel with one †Heb. mouth accord 3 ¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai 4 They did work wilily and went and made as if they had been embassadours and took old sacks upon their asses and wine â—ottles old and rent and bound up 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet and old garments upon them and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal and said unto him and to the men of Israel We be come from a far countrey now therefore make ye a league with us 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites Peradventure ye dwell among us and how shall we make a league with you 8 And they said unto Joshua We are thy servants And Joshua said unto them Who are ye and from whence come ye 9 And they said unto him From a very far countrey thy servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt 10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that were beyond Jordan to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan which was at Ashtaroth 11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our countrey spake to us saying Take victuals †Heb. in your 〈◊〉 with you for the journey and go to meet them and say unto them We are your servants therefore now make ye a league with us 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you but now behold it is dry and it is mouldy 13 And these bottles of wine which we filled were new and behold they be rent and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey 14 And ‖ Or ther reâ—eiâ—â—â— the men bâ— reason of their victuals the men took of their victuals and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD 15 And Joshua made peace with them and made a league with them to let them live and the princes of the congregation sware unto them 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them that they heard that they were their neighbours and that they dwelt among them 17 And the children of Israel journeyed and came unto their cities on the third day now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kirjath-jearim 18 And the children of Israel smote them not because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto chem by the LORD God of Israel and all the congregation murmured against the princes 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel now therefore we may not touch them 20 This we will do to them we will even let them live lest wrath be upon us because of the oath which we sware unto them 21 And the princes said unto them Let them live but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation as the princes had * Vers 15. promised them 22 ¶ And Joshua called for them and he spake unto them saying Wherefore have ye beguiled us saying We are very far from you when ye dwell among us 23 Now therefore ye are cursed and there shall †Heb. not be cut off from you none of you be freed from being bond-men and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God 24 And they answered Joshua and said Because it was certainly told thy servants how that the LORD thy God * Deu. 7.1 2. commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you and have done this thing 25 And now behold we are in thine hand as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us do 26 And so did he unto them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel that they slew them not 27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD even unto this day in the place which he should choose CHAP. X. 1 Five kings war against Gibeon 6 Joshua rescueth it 10 God fighteth against them with bâ—l-stones 12 The sun and moon stand still at the word of Joshua 16 The five kings are mured in a cave 22 They are brought forth 24 scornfully used 26 and banged 28 Seven kings more are conquered 43 Joshua returneth to Gilgal NOw it came to pass when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it * Ch. 6.15 as he had done to Jericho and her king so he had done to * Ch. 8.3 Ai and her king and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them 2 That they feared greatly because Gibeon was a great city as one of the †Heb. cities of the kingdom royal cities and because it was greater then Ai and all the men thereof were mighty 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king
hand 21 Swear now therefore unto me by the LORD that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my fathers house 22 And David sware unto Saul and Saul went home but David and his men gat them up unto the hold CHAP. XXV 1 Samuel dieth 2 David in Paran sendeth to Nabal 10 Provoked by Nabals churlishness he mindeth to destroy him 14 Abigail understanding thereof 18 taketh a present 23 and by her wisdom 32 pacifieth David 36 Nabal hearing thereof dieth 39 David taketh Abigail and Abinoam to be his wives 44 Michal is given to Phalti ANd * Chap. 28.3 Ecclus 46.13.20 Samuel died and all the Israelites were gathered together and lamented him and buried him in his house at Ramah And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran 2 And there was a man in Maon whose ‖ Or business possessions were in Carmel and the man was very great and he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel 3 Now the name of the man was Nabal and the name of his wife Abigail and she was a woman of good understanding and of a beautiful countenance but the man was churlish and evil in his doings and he was of the house of Caleb 4 ¶ And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep 5 And David sent out ten young men and David said unto the young men Get you up to Carmel and go to Nabal and †Heb. ask him in my name of peace greet him in my name 6 And thus shall ye say to him that liveth in prosperity Peace be both to thee and peace be to thine house and peace be unto all that thou hast 7 And now I have heard that thou hast shearers now thy shepherds which were with us we †Heb. shamed hurt them not neither was there ought missing unto them all the while they were in Carmel 8 Ask thy young men and they will shew thee wherefore let the young men finde favour in thine eyes for we come in a good day give I pray thee whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants and to thy son David 9 And when Davids young men came they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David and †Heb. rested ceased 10 ¶ And Nabal answered Davids servants and said Who is David and who is the son of Jesse there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master 11 Shall I then take my bread and my water and my †Heb. slaughter flesh that I have killed for my shearers and give it unto men whom I know not whence they be 12 So Davids young men turned their way and went again and came and told him all those sayings 13 And David said unto his men Gird you on every man his sword And they girded on every man his sword and David also girded on his sword and there went up after David about four hundred men and two hundred abode by the stuff 14 ¶ But one of the young men told Abigail Nabals wife saying Behold David sent messengers out of the wilderness to salute our master and he †Heb. flew upon them railed on them 15 But the men were very good unto us and we were not †Heb. shamed hurt neither missed we any thing as song as we were conversant with them when we were in the fields 16 They were a wall unto us both by night and day all the while we were with them keeping the sheep 17 Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do for evil is determined against our master and against all his houshold for he is such a son of Belial that a man cannot speak to him 18 ¶ Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two bottles of wine and five sheep ready dressed and five measures of parched corn and an hundred ‖ Or lumps clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs and laid them on asses 19 And she said unto her servants Go on before me behold I come after you but she told not her husband Nabal 20 And it was so as she rode on the ass that she came down by the covert of the hill and behold David and his men came down against her and she met them 21 Now David had said Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him and he hath requited me evil for good 22 So and more also do God unto the enemies of David if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall 23 And when Abigail saw David she hasted and lighted off the ass and fell before David on her face and bowed her self to the ground 24 And fell at his feet and said Upon me my lord upon me let this iniquity be and let thine hand-maid I pray thee speak in thine †Heb. ears audience and hear the words of thine hand-maid 25 Let not my lord I pray thee †Heb. lay it to his heart regard this man of Belial even Nabal for as his name is so is he Nabal is his name and folly is with him but I thine hand-maid saw not the young men of my lord whom thou didst send 26 Now therefore my lord at the LORD liveth and as thy soul liveth seeing the LORD hath withholden thee from coming to shed bloud and from †Heb. saving thy self avenging thy self with thine own hand now let thine enemies and they that seek evil to my lord be as Nabal 27 And now this ‖ Or present blessing which thine hand-maid hath brought unto my lord let it even be given unto the young men that †Heb. walk at the feet of c. follow my lord 28 I pray thee forgive the trespass of thine hand-maid for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house because my lord fighteth the battels of the LORD and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days 29 Yet a man is risen to pursue thee and to seek thy soul but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the LORD thy God and the sould of thine enemies them shall he sling out †Heb. in the midst of the bought of a sling as out of the middle of a sling 30 And it shall come to pass when the LORD shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel 31 That this shall be †Heb. no staggering or stumbling no grief unto thee nor offence of heart unto my lord either that thou hast shed bloud causless or that my lord hath avenged himself but when the LORD shall have dealt well
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
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
mountain or into some valley And he said Ye shall not send 17 And when they urged him till he was ashamed he said Send They sent therefore fifty men and they sought three days but found him not 18 And when they came again to him for he tarried at Jericho he said unto them Did I not say unto you Go not 19 ¶ And the men of the city said unto Elisha Behold I pray thee the situation of this city is pleasant as my lord seeth but the water is naught and the ground †Heb. causing to miscarry barren 20 And he said Bring me a new cruse and put salt therein And they brought it to him 21 And he went forth unto the spring of the waters and cast the salt in there and said Thus saith the LORD I have healed these waters there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land 22 So the waters were healed unto this day according to the saying of Elisha which he spake 23 ¶ And he went up from thence unto Beth-el and as he was going up by the way there came forth little children out of the city and mocked him and said unto him Go up thou bald-head go up thou bald-head 24 And he turned back and looked on them and cursed them in the name of the LORD and there came forth two she-bears out of the wood and tare fourty and two children of them 25 And he went from thence to mount Carmel and from thence he returned to Samaria CHAP. III. 1 Jehorams reign 4 Mesha rebelleth 6 Jehoram with Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom being distressed for want of water by Elisha obtaineth water and promise of victory 21 The Moabites deceived by the colour of the water coming to spoil are overcome 26 The king of Moah by sacrificing the king of Edoms son raiseth the siege NOw Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah and reigned twelve years 2 And he wrought evil in the sight of the LORD but not like his father and like his mother for he put away the †Heb. statue image of Baal that his father had made 3 Nevertheless he cleaved unto the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat which made Israel to sin he departed not therefrom 4 ¶ And Mesha king of Moab was a sheep-master and rendred unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs and an hundred thousand rams with the wool 5 But it came to pass when * Chap 1.1 Ahab was dead that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel 6 ¶ And king Jehoram went out of Samaria the same time and numbred all Israel 7 And he went and sent to Jehoshaphat the king of Judah saying The king of Moab hath rebelled against me wilt thou go with me against Moab to battel And he said I will go up * 1 Kings 22.4 I am as thou art my people as thy people and my horses as thy horses 8 And he said Which way shall we go up And he answered The way through the wilderness of Edom. 9 So the king of Israel went and the king of Judah and the king of Edom and they fetcht a compass of seven days journey and there was no water for the host and for the cattel †Heb. at their feet that followed them 10 And the king of Israel said Alas that the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab 11 But Jehoshaphat said Is there not here a prophet of the LORD that we may enquire of the LORD by him And one of the king of Israels servants answered and said Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat which poured water on the hands of Elijah 12 And Jehoshaphat said The word of the LORD is with him So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him 13 And Elisha said unto the king of Israel What have I to do with thee get thee to the prophets of thy father and to the prophets of thy mother And the king of Israel said unto him Nay for the LORD hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab 14 And Elisha said As the LORD of hosts liveth before whom I stand surely were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah I would not look toward thee nor see thee 15 But now bring me a minstrel And it came to pass when the minstrel played that the hand of the LORD came upon him 16 And he said Thus saith the LORD Make this valley full of ditches 17 For thus saith the LORD Ye shall not see wind neither shall ye see rain yet that valley shall be filled with water that ye may drink both ye and your cattel and your beasts 18 And this is but a light thing in the sight of the LORD he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand 19 And ye shall smite every fenced city and every choice city and shall fell every good tree and stop all wells of water and †Heb. grieve mar every good piece of land with stones 20 And it came to pass in the morning when the meat-offering was offered that behold there came water by the way of Edom and the countrey was filled with water 21 ¶ And when all the Moabites heard that the kings were come up to fight against them they †Heb. were cried together gathered all that were able to †Heb. gird himself with a girdle put on armour and upward and stood in the border 22 And they rose up early in the morning and the sun shone upon the water and the Moabites saw the water on the other side as red as bloud 23 And they said This is bloud the kings are surely †Heb. destroyed slain and they have smitten one another now therefore Moab to the spoil 24 And when they came to the camp of Israel the Israelites rose up and smote the Moabites so that they fled before them but ‖ Or they smote in it even smiting they went forward smiting the Moabites even in their countrey 25 And they beat down the cities and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone and filled it and they stopped all the wells of water and felled all the good trees †Heb. until he left the stones thereof in Kirharaseth onely in Kir-haraseth left they the stones thereof howbeit the slingers went about it and smote it 26 ¶ And when the king of Moab saw that the battel was too sore for him he took with him seven hundred men that drew swords to break through even unto the king of Edom but they could not 27 Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall and there was great indignation against Israel and they departed
degrees backward by which it had gone down in the †Heb. degrees dâ—al of Ahaz 12 ¶ * Isa 39. â— At that time Berodach-baladan the son of Baladan king of Babylon sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick 13 And Hezekiah hearkned unto them and shewed them all the house of his ‖ Or spiâ—â—y precious things the silver and the gold and the spices and the precious oâ—ntment and all the house of his ‖ Or â—eâ—eâ—s †Heb. 〈◊〉 armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing in his house nor in all his dominion that Hezekiah shewed tâ—em not 14 ¶ Then came Isaiah the prophet unto king Hezekiah and said unto him What said these men and from whence came they unto thee And Hezekiah said They are come from a far countrey even from Babylon 15 And he said What have they seen in thine house And Hezekiah answered All the things that are in mine house have they seen there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them 16 And Isaiah said unto Hezekiah Hear the word of the LORD 17 Behold the days come that all that is in thine house and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day * Chap. 24 13. and 25.13 Jer. 27.22 shall be carried into Babylon nothing shall be left saith the LORD 18 And of thy sons that shall issue from thee which thou shalt beget shall they take away and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon 19 Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah Good is the word of the LORD which thou hast spoken And he said ‖ Or shall there not be peace and truth c. Is it not good if peace and truth be in my days 20 ¶ And the rest of the acts of Hezekiah and all his might and how he made a pool and a conduit and brought water into the city are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 21 And Hezekiah slept with his fathers and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead CHAP. XXI 1 Manasseh his reign 3 His great idolatry 10 His wickedness causeth prophesies against Judah 17 Amon succeedeth him 19 Amons wicked reign 23 He being slain by his servants and those murderers slain by the people Josiah is made king MAnasseh * 2 Chr. 33.1 was twelve years old when he began to reign and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Hephzi-bah 2 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD cast out before the children of Israel 3 For he built up again the high places * Chap. 18.4 which Hezekiah his father had destroyed and he reared up altars for Baal and made a grove as did Ahab king of Israel and worshipped all the host of heaven and served them 4 And * Jer 3â— 34 he built altars in the house of the LORD of which the LORD said * 2 Sam. 7.13 In Jerusalem will I put my name 5 And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the LORD 6 And he made his son pass through the fire and observed times and used enchantments and dealt with familiar spirits and wizards he wrought much wickedness in the sight of the LORD to provoke him to anger 7 And he set a graven image of the grove that he had made in the house or which the LORD said to David and to Solomon his son * 1 King 8.29 and 9.3 Chap. 23.27 In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever 8 Neither will I make the feet of Israel move any more out of the land which I gave their fathers onely if they will observe to do according to all that I have commanded them and according to all the law that my servant Moses commanded them 9 But they hearkned not and Manasseh seduced them to do more evil then did the nations whom the LORD destroyed before the children of Israel 10 ¶ And the LORD spake by his servants the prophets saying 11 * Jeâ—em 15.4 Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did which were before him and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols 12 Therefore thus saith the LORD God of Israel Behold I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah that whosoever heareth of it both * 1 Sam. 3.11 his ears shall tingle 13 And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria and the plummet of the house of Ahab and I will wipe Jerulalem as a man wipeth a dish †Heb. be wipâ—th and turneth it upon the face thereof wiping it and turning it upside down 14 And I will forsake the remnant of mine inheritance and deliver them into the hand of their enemies and they shall become a prey and a spoil to all their enemies 15 Because they have done that which was evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger since the day their fathers came forth out of Egypt even unto this day 16 Moreover Manasseh shed innocent bloud very much till he had filled Jerusalem †Heb. from mouth to mouth from one end to another beside his sin wherewith he made Judah to sin in doing that which was evil in the sight of the LORD 17 ¶ Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh and all that he did and his sin that he sinned are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 18 And * 2 Chr. 33. â—0 Manasseh slept with his fathers and was buried in the garden of his own house in the garden of Uzza and Amon his son reigned in his stead 19 ¶ Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign and he reigned two years in Jerusalem and his mothers name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah 20 And he did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD as his father Manasseh did 21 And he walked in all the way that his father walked in and served the idols that his father served and worshipped them 22 And he forsook the LORD God of his fathers and walked not in the way of the LORD 23 ¶ And the servants of Amon conspired against him and slew the king in his own house 24 And the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead 25 Now the rest of the acts of Amon which he did are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah 26 And he was buried in his sepulchre in the garden of Uzzah and * Matth. 1.10
had brought their counsel to nought that we returned all of us to the wall every one unto his work 16 And it came to pass from that time forth that the half of my servants wrought in the work and the other hall of them held both the spears the shields and the bowes and the habergeons and the rulers were behinde all the house of Judah 17 They which builded on the wall and they that bare burdens with those that laded every one with one of his hands wrought in the work and with the other hand held a weapon 18 For the builders every one had his sword girded †Heb. on tâ—â— loyns by his side and so builded and he that sounded the trumpet was by me 19 ¶ And I said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people The work is great and large and we are separated upon the wall one far from another 20 In what place therefore ye hear the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us our God shall sight for us 21 So we laboured in the work and half of them held the spears from the riâ—ing of the morning till the stars appeared 22 Likewise at the same time said I unto the people Let every one with his servant lodge within Jerusalem that in the night they may be a guard to us and labour on the day 23 So neither I nor my brethren nor my servants nor the men of the guard which followed me none of us put off our clothes ‖ Or every one went with his weapon for water saving that every one put them off for washing CHAP. V. 1 The Jews complain of their debt morgage and bondage 6 Nehemiah rebuketh the usurerâ— and causeth them to make a covenant of restitution 14 He forbeareth his own allowance and keepeth hospitality ANd there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren the Jews 2 For there were that said We our sons and our daughters are many therefore we take up corn for them that we may eat and live 3 Some also there were that said We have morgaged our lands vineyards and houses that we might buy corn because of the dearth 4 There were also that said We have borrowed money for the kings tribute and that upon our lands and vineyards 5 Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren our children as their children and so we bring into bondage our sons and our daughters to be servants and some of our daughters are brought unto bondage already neither is it in our power to redeem them for other men have our lands and vineyards 6 ¶ And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words 7 Then †Heb. my heart consulted in me I consulted with my self and I rebuked the nobles and the rulers and said unto them You exact usury every one of his brother And I set a great assembly against them 8 And I said unto them We after our ability have * Levit. 23.48 redeemed our brethren the Jews which were sold unto the heathen and will you even sell your brethren or shall they be sold unto us Then held they their peace and found nothing to answer 9 Also I said It is not good that ye do ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God because of the reproach of the heathen our enemies 10 I likewise and my brethren and my servants might exact of them money and corn I pray you let us leave off this usury 11 Restore I pray you to them even this day their lands their vineyards their olive-yards and their houses also the hundredth part of the money and of the corn the wine and the oyl that ye exact of them 12 Then said they We will restore them and will require nothing of them so will we do as thou sayest Then I â—alled the priests and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise 13 Also I sheok my lap and said So God shake out every man from his house and from his labour that performeth not this promise even thus be he shaken out and †Heb. empty or void emptied And all the congregation said Amen and praised the LORD And the people did according to this promise 14 ¶ Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governour in the land of Judah from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king that is twelve years I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governour 15 But the former governours that had been before me were chargeable unto the people and had taken of them bread and wine beside fourty shekels of silver yea even their servants bare rule over the people but so did not I because of the fear of God 16 Yea also I continued in the work of this wall neither bought we any land and all my servants were gathered thither unto the work 17 Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers besides those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us 18 Now that which was prepared for me daily was one or and six choice sheep also fowls were prepared for me and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine yet for all this required not I the bread of the governour because the bondage was heavy upon this people 19 * Chap. 13.22 Think upon me my God for good according to all that I have done for this people CHAP. VI. 1 Sanballat practiseth by craft by rumour by hired prophesies to terrifie Nehemiah 15 The work is finished to the terrour of the enemies 17 Secret intelligence â—asseth â—etween the enemies and the nobles of Judab NOw it came to pass when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had buiâ—led the wall and that there was no breach left therein though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates 2 That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me saying Come let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono but they thought to do me mischief 3 And I sent messengers unto them saying I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down why should the work cease whilest I leave it and come down to you 4 Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort and I answered them after the same manner 5 Then sent Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time with an open letter in his hand 6 Wherein was written It is reported among the heathen and ‖ Or Geshem vers 2 Gashmu saith it that thou and the Jews think to rebel for which cause thou buildest the wall that thou mayest be their king according to these words 7 And thou haft also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem saying
the people went forth and brought them and made themselves booths every one upon the roof of his house and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the street of the water-gate and in the street of the gate of Ephraim 17 And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths and sat under the booths for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so and there was very great gladness 18 Also day by day from the first day unto the last day he read in the book of the law of God and they kept the feast seven days and on the eighth day was †Heb. a restraint a solemn assembly according unto the manner CHAP. IX 1 A solemn fast and repentance of the people 4 The Levites make a religious confession of Gods goodness and their wickedness NOw in the twenty and fourth day of * Chap. 8.2 this moneth the children of Israel were assembled with fasling and with sackclothes and earth upon them 2 And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all †Heb. strange children strangers and stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers 3 And they stood up in their place and read in the book of the law of the LORD their God one fourth part of the day and another fourth part they confessed and worshipped the LORD their God 4 ¶ Then stood up upon the ‖ Or seaffold stairs of the Levites Jeshua and Bani Kadmiel Shebaniah Bunni Sherebiah Bani and Chenani and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God 5 Then the Levites Jeshua and Kadmiel Bani Hashabniah Sherebiah Hodijah Shebaniah and Pethabiah said Stand up and bless the LORD your God for ever and ever and blessed be thy glorious name which is exalted above all blessing and praise 6 Thou even thou art LORD alone * Gen. 1.1 thou hast made heaven the heaven of neavens with all their host the earth and all things that are therein the seas and all that is therein and thou preservest them all and the host of heaven worshippeth thee 7 Thou art the LORD the God who didst choose * Gen. 11.31 12.1 Abram and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Caldees and gavest him the name of * Gen. 17.5 Abraham 8 And foundest his heart * Gen. 15 6. faithful before thee and madest a * Gen. 12.7 and 15.18 and 17.7 â— covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites the Hittites the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Jebusites and the Girgashites to give it I say to his seed and hast performed thy words for thou art righteous 9 * Ex. 3.7 14.10 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heardest their cry by the Red sea 10 And * Ex. 7.8 9 10 12 and 14 chap. shewedst signs and wonders upon Pharaoh and on all his servants and on all the people of his land for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them so didst thou get thee a name as it is this day 11 * Ex. 14.21 22. And thou didst divide the sea before them so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land and their persecuters thou threwest into the deeps as a stone into the * Ex. 15.10 mighty waters 12 Moreover thou * Ex. 13 21 leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar and in the night by a pillar of fire to give them light in the way wherein they should go 13 * Ex. 19.20 20.1 Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai and spakest with them from heaven and gavest them right judgements and †Heb. laws of truth true laws good statutes and commandments 14 And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath and commandedst them precepts statutes and laws by the hand of Moses thy servant 15 And * Ex. 15.14 15. gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger and * Ex. 17.6 Num 20.9 c. broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst and promisedst them that they should * Deu. 1.8 go in to possess the land †Heb. which thou hadst lift up thine hand to give them which thou hadst sworn to give them 16 But they and our fathers dealt proudly and hardned their necks and hearkned not to thy commandments 17 And refused to obey neither were mindful of thy wonders that thou didst among them but hardned their necks and in their rebellion appointed * Nu. 14.4 a captain to return to their bondage but thou art †Heb. a God of pardons a God ready to pardon graciou and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and forsookest them not 18 Yea * Ex. 32.4 when they had made them a molten calf and said This is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt and had wrought great provocations 19 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness the * Ex. 13.22 Nu. 14.14 1 Cor. 10.1 pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire by night to shew them light and the way wherein they should go 20 Thou gavest also thy * Nu. 11.17 good spirit to instruct them and withheldest not thy * Ex. 16.15 Jos 5.12 manna from their mouth and gavest them * Ex. 17.6 water for their thirst 21 Yea fourty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness so that they lacked nothing their * Deu. 8.4 clothes waxed not old and their feet swelled not 22 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations and didst divide them into corners so they possessed the land of * Nu. 21.21 c. Sihon and the land of the king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan 23 Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers that they should go in to possess it 24 So the children went in and possessed the land and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land the Canaanites and gavest them into their hands with their kings and the people of the land that they might do with them †Heb. according to their will as they would 25 And they took strong cities and a fat land and possessed houses full of all goods ‖ Or â—iâ—â—â—rns wells digged vineyards and olive-yards and †Heb. tree of food fruit-trees in abundance so they did eat and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in thy great goodness 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient rebelled against thee and cast thy law behinde their backs and slew thy * 1 Kin. 19.10 prophets with testified against them to turn them to thee they wrought great provocations
Helkai 16 Of Idd◠Zechariah of Ginnethon Meshullam 17 Of Abijah Zichri of Miniamin of Moadiah Piltai 18 Of Bilgah Shammua of Shemaiah Jehonathan 19 And of Joiarib Mattenai of Jedaiah Uzzi 20 Of Sallai Kallai of Amok Eher 21 Of Hilkiah Hathabiah of Jedaiah Nethaneel 22 ¶ The Levites in the days of Eliashib Joiada and Johanan and Jaddua were recorded chief of the fathers also the priests to the reign of Darius the Persian 23 The sons of Levi the chief of the fathers were written in the book of the * 1 Chr. 9.14 c. Chronicles even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib 24 And the chief of the Levites Hashabiah Sherebiah and Jeshua the son of Kadmiel with their brethren over against them to praise and to give thanks according to the commandment of David the man of God ward over against ward 25 Mattaniah and Bakbukiah Obadiah Meshullam Talmon Akkub were porters keeping the ward at the ‖ Or treasuries or assemblies thresholds of the gates 26 These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and in the days of Nehemiah the governour and of Ezra the priest the scribe 27 ¶ And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they fought the Levites out of all their places to bring them to Jerusalem to keep the dedication with gladness both with thanksgivings and with singing with cymbals psalteries and with harps 28 And the sons of the singers gathered themselves together both out of the plain countrey round about Jerusalem and from the villages of Netophathi 29 Also from the house of Gilgal and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem 30 And the priests and the Levites purified themselves and purified the people and the gates and the wall 31 Then I brought up the princes of Judah upon the wall and appointed two great companies of them that gave thanks whereof one went on the right hand upon the wall toward the dung-gate 32 And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the princes of Judah 33 And Azariah Ezra and Meshullam 34 Judah and Benjamin and Shemaiah and Jeremiah 35 And certain of the priests sons with trumpets namely Zechariah the son of Jonathan the son of Shemaiah the son of Mattaniah the son of Michaiah the son of Zaccur the son of Asaph 36 And his brethren Shemaiah and Azarael Milalai Gilalai Maai Nethaneel and Judah Hanani with the musical instruments of David the man of God and Ezra the scribe before them 37 And at the fountain-gate which was over against them they went up by the stairs of the city of David at the going up of the wall above the house of David even unto the water-gate east-ward 38 And the other company of them that gave thanks went over against them and I after them and the half of the people upon the wall from beyond the tower of the furnaces even unto the broad wall 39 And from above the gate of Ephraim and above the old gate and above the fish-gate and the tower of Hananeel and the tower of Meah even unto the sheep gate and they stood still in the prison gate 40 So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God and I and the hall of the rulers with me 41 And the priests Eliakim Maaseiah Miniamin Michaiah Elioenai Zechariah and Hananiah with trumpets 42 And Maaseiah and Shemaiah and Eleazar and Uzzi and Jehohanan and Malchijah and Elam and Ezer and the singers †Heb. made their voice to be beard sang loud with Jezrahiah their overseer 43 Also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoyced for God had made them rejoyce with great joy the wives also and the children rejoyced so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off 44 ¶ And at that time were some appointed over the chambers for the treasures for the offerings for the first-fruits and for the tithes to gather into them out of the fields of the cities the portions ‖ That is appointed by the law of the law for the priests and Levites †Heb. for the joy of Judah for Judah rejoyced for the priests and for the Levites †Heb. that stood that waited 45 And both the singers and the porters kept the ward of their God and the ward of the purification * 1 Chr. 25. 26. according to the commandment of David and of Solomon his son 46 For in the days of David * 1 Chr. 25.1 c. and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God 47 And all Israel in the days of Zerubbabel and in the days of Nehemiah gave the portions of the singers and the porters every day his portion and they ‖ That is set apart sanctified holy things unto the Levites * Nu. 18.25 and the Levites sanctified them unto the children of Aaron CHAP. XIII 1Vpon the reading of the law separation is made from the mixed multitude 4 Nehemiah at his return causeth the chambers to be cleansed 10 Hereformeth the offices in the house of God 15 the violation of the sabbath 23 and the marriages with strange wives ON that day †Heb. there was read they read in the book of Moses in the †Heb. ears audience of the people and therein was found writter * Deu. 23.3 that the Ammonite the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever 2 Because they met not the children of Israel with bread and with water but * Nu. 22. ◠Jos 24.9 hired Balaam against them that he should curse them howbeit our God turned the curse into a blessing 3 Now it came to pass when they had heard the law that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude 4 ¶ And before this Eliashib the priest †Heb. being set over having the oversight of the chamber of the house of our God was allied unto Tobiah 5 And he had prepared for him a great chamber where aforetime they laid the meat-offerings the frankincense and the vessels and the tithes of the corn the new wine and the oyl †Heb. the commandment of the Levites which was commanded to be given to the Levites and the singers and the porters and the offerings of the priests 6 But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king and †Heb. at the end of days after certain days ‖ Or I earnestly requested obtained I leave of the king 7 And I came to Jerusalem understood of the evil that Eliashib did for Tobiah in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God 8 And it grieved me sore therefore I cast forth all the houshold-stuff of Tobiah out of the chamber 9 Then I
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
gained when God taketh away his soul 9 * Pro. 1 28. Ezek. 8.18 Joh 9.31 Jam. 4.3 Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him 10 Will he delight himself in the Almighty will he always call upon God 11 I will teach you ‖ Or being in the hand c. by the hand of God that which is with the Almighty will I not conceal 12 Bâ—hold all ye your selves have seen it why then are ye thus altogether vain 13 This is the portion of a wicked man with God and the heritage of oppressours which they shall receive of the Almighty 14 It his children be multiplyed it is for the sword and his off-spring shall not be satisfied with bread 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death and * Psal 78.64 his widows shall not weep 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust and prepare raiment as the clay 17 He may prepare is but the just shall put it on and the innocent shall divide the silver 18 He buildeth his house as a moth and as a booth that the keeper maketh 19 The rich man shall lie down but he shall not be gathered he openeth his eyes and he is not 20 * Chap. 18.11 Terrours take hold on him as waters a tempest stealeth him awaâ— in the night 21 The east-wind carrieth him away and he departeth and as a storm hurleth him out of his place 22 For God shall cast upon him and not spare †Heb. in fleeing he would flee he would fain flee out of his hand 23 Men shall clap their hands at him and shall hiss him out of his place CHAP. XXVIII 1 There is a knowledge of natural things 12 But wisdom is an excellent gift of God SUrely there is ‖ Or a mine a vein for the silver and a place for gold where they finde it 2 Iron is taken out of the ‖ Or â—â—â—st earth and brass is molten out of the stone 3 He setteth an end to darkness and searcheth out all perfection the stones of darkness and the shadow of death 4 The floud breaketh out from the inhabitant even the waters forgotten of the foot they are dried up they are gone away from men 5 As for the earth out of it cometh bread and under it is turned up as it were fire 6 The stones of it are the place of sapphires it hath ‖ Or â—eld-oâ—e dust of gold 7 There is a path which no fowl knoweth and which the vultures eye hath not seen 8 The lions whelps have not troden it nor the fierce lion passed by it 9 He putteth forth his hand upon the ‖ Or sâ—inâ— rock he overturneth the mountains by the roots 10 He cutteth out rivers among the rocks and his eye seeth every precious thing 11 He bindeth the flouds †Heb. from weeping from overflowing and the thing that is hid bringeth he forth to light 12 But where shall wisdom be found and where is the place of understanding 13 Man knoweth not the price thereof neither is it found in the land of the living 14 * Rom. 11.33 34. The depth saith It is not in me and the sea saith It is not with me 15 †Heb. fine gold shall not be given for it It * Pro. 3.13 14. 8.11 19. 16.16 cannot be gotten for gold neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof 16 It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir with the precious onyx or the sapphire 17 The gold and the crystal cannot equal it and the exchange of it shall not be for ‖ Or vessel of fine gold iewels of fine gold 18 No mention shall be made of Or Ramoth coral or of pearls for the price of wisdom is above rubies 19 The topaz of Ethiopia shall not equal it neither shall it be valued with pure gold 20 * Ver. 12. Whence then cometh wisdom and where is the place of understanding 21 Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living and kept close from the fowls of the ‖ Or heaven air 22 Destruction and death say We have heard the same thereof with our ears 23 God understandeth the way thereof and he knoweth the place thereof 24 For he looketh to the ends of the earth and seeth under the whole heaven 25 To make the weight for the winds and he weigheth the waters by measure 26 When he made a decree for the rain and a way for the lightning of the thunder 27 Then did he see it and ‖ Or number it declare it he prepared it yea and searched it out 28 And unto man he said Behold * Ps 111 1â— Prov. 1.7 9.10 the fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding CHAP. XXIX 1 Job bemoaneth himself of his former prosperity and honour MOreover Job †Heb. aâ—â—ed tâ— take up continuâ—d his parable and said 2 Oh that I were as in moneths past as in the days when God preserved me 3 When his ‖ Or lamp candle shined upon my head and when by his light I walked through darkness 4 As I was in the days of my youth when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle 5 When the Almighty was yet with me when my children were about me 6 When I washed my steps with butter and the rock poured †Heb. with me me out rivers of oyl 7 When I went out to the gate through the city when I prepared my seat in the street 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves and the aged arose and stood up 9 The princes refrained talking and laid their hand on their mouth 10 †Heb. the voice of the nobles was hid The nobles held their peace and their tongue cleaved to the root of their mouth 11 When the ear heard me then it blessed me and when the eye saw me it gave witness to me 12 Because I delivered the poor that cried and the fatherless and him that had none to help him 13 The blessing of him that was ready to perish came upon me and I caused the widows heart to sing for joy 14 I put on righteousness and it clothed me my judgement was as a robe and a diadem 15 I was eyes to the blinde and feet was I to the lame 16 I was a father to the poor and the cause which I knew not I searched out 17 And I brake †Heb. the jaw-teeth of the â—â—inâ—ers the jaws of the wicked and †Heb. cast pluckt the spoil out of his teeth 18 Then I said I shall die in my nest and I shall multiply my days as the sand 19 My root was †Heb. opened spread out bâ— the waters and the dew lay all night upon my branch 20 My glory was †Heb. new fresh in me and my bowe was †Heb. changed renewed in my hand 21 Unto me men gave ear and waited and
thou with him spread out the skie which is strong and as a molten looking-glass 19 Teach us what we shall say unto him for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness 20 Shall it be told him that I speak if a man speak surely he shall be swallowed up 21 And now men see not the bright light which is in the clouds but the wind passeth and cleanseth them 22 †Heb gold Fair weather cometh out of the north with God is terrible majesty 23 Touching the Almighty we cannot finde him out he is excellent in power and in judgement and in plenty of justice he will not afflict 24 Men do therefore fear him he respecteth not any that are wise of heart CHAP. XXXVIII 1 God challengeth Job to answer 4 God by his mighty works convinceth Job of ignorance 31 and of imbecillity THen the LORD answered Job out of the whirlwind and said 2 Who is this that darkneth counsel by words without knowledge 3 Gird up now thy loyns like a man for I will demand of thee and †Heb. make me know answer thou me 4 * Ps 104.5 Prov. 30.4 Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth declare †Heb. if thou knoweâ—t understanding if thou hast understanding 5 Who hath laid the measures thereof if thou knowest or who hath stretched the line upon it 6 Whereupon are the †Heb. sockets foundations thereof †Heb. made to sink fastned or who laid the corner-stone thereof 7 When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy 8 * Ps 104.9 Or who shut up the sea with doors when it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb 9 When I made the cloud the garment thereof and thick darkness a swaddling-band for it 10 And ‖ Or established my deâ—ree upon it brake up for it my decreed place and set bars and doors 11 And said Hitherto shalt thou come but no further and here shall †Heb. the pride of thy waves thy proud waves be stayed 12 Hast thou commanded the morning since thy days and caused the day-spring to know his place 13 That it might take hold of the †Heb. wings ends of the earth that the wicked might be shaken out of it 14 It is turned as clay to the seal and they stand as a garment 15 And from the wicked their light is withholden and the high arm shall be broken 16 Hast thou entred into the springs of the sea or hast thou walked in the search of the depth 17 Have the gates of death been opened unto thee or hast thou seen the doors of the shadow of death 18 Hast thou perceived the breadth of the earth declare if thou knowest it all 19 Where is the way where light dwelleth and as for darkness where is the place thereof 20 That thou shouldest take it ‖ Or at to the bound thereof and that thou shouldest know the paths to the house thereof 21 Knowest thou it because thou wast then born or because the number of thy days is great 22 Hast thou entred into the treasures of the snow or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail 23 Which I have reserved against the time of trouble against the day of battel and war 24 By what way is the light parted which scattereth the east-wind upon the earth 25 Who hath divided a water-course for the overflowing of waters or a way for the lightning of thunder 26 To cause it to rain on the earth where no man is on the wilderness wherein there is no man 27 To satisfie the desolate and waste ground and to cause the bud of the tender herb to spring forth 28 Hath the rain a father or who hath begotten the drops of the dew 29 Out of whose womb came the ice and the hoary frost of heaven who hath gendred it 30 The waters are hid as with a stone and the face of the deep †Heb. is taken is frozen 31 Canst thou binde the sweet influences of ‖ Or the seven stars †Heb. Cimab Pleiades or loose the bands of †Heb. Cesil Oâ—ion 32 Canst thou bring forth ‖ Or the twelve signs Mazzaroth in his season or canst thou †Heb. guide them guide Arcturus with his sons 33 Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth 34 Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds that abundance of waters may cover thee 35 Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee †Heb. Behold us Here we are 36 * Ch. 32.8 Eccles 2.26 Who hath put wisdom in the inward parts or who hath given understanding to the heart 37 Who can number the clouds in wisdom or †Heb. who can cause to lie down who can stay the bottles of heaven 38 ‖ Or when the dust is turned into mire When the dust †Heb. is poured groweth into hardness and the clods cleave fast together 39 * Ps 104.21 Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion or fill †Heb. the life the appetite of the young lions 40 When they couch in their dens and abide in the covert to lie in wait 41 * Ps 147.9 Mat. 6.26 Who provideth for the raven his food when his young ones cry unto God they wander for lack of meat CHAP. XXXIX 1 Of the wilde goats and hindes 5 Of the wilde ass 9 the unicorn 13 the peacock stork and ostrich 19 the horse 26 the hawk 27 the eagle KNowest thou the time when the wilde goats of the rock bring forth or canst thou mark when * Psal 29.9 the hindes do calve 2 Canst thou number the moneths that they fulfil or knowest thou the time when they bring forth 3 They bow themselves they bring forth their young ones they cast out their sorrows 4 Their young ones are in good liking they grow up with corn they go forth and return not unto them 5 Who hath sent out the wilde ass free or who hath loosed the bands of the wilde ass 6 Whose house I have made the wilderness and the †Heb. saâ—â—-places barren land his dwellings 7 He scorneth the multitude of the city neither regardeth he the crying †Hâ—â— of â—â—e exâ—câ—our of the driver 8 The range of the mountains is his pasture and he searcheth after every green thing 9 Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee or abide by thy crib 10 Canst thou binde the unicorn with his band in the furrow or will he harrow the valleys after thee 11 Wilt thou trust him because his strength is great or wilt thou leave thy labour to him 12 Wilt thou beleeve him that he will bring home thy seed and gather it into thy barn 13 Gavest thou the goodly wings unto the peacocks or ‖ Or the feather of the sâ—â—ck and ostrich
sling-stones are turned with him into stubble 29 Darts are counted as stubble he laugheth at the shaking of a spear 30 †Heb. sharp pieces of the potsheâ—â—d Sharp stones are under him he spreadeth sharp-pointed things upon the mire 31 He maketh the deep to boyl like a pot he maketh the sea like a pot of ointment 32 He maketh a path to shine after him one would think the deep to be hoary 33 Upon earth there is not his like ‖ Or who behave themselves without fear who is made without fear 34 He beholdeth all high things he is a king over all the children of pride CHAP. XLII 1 Job submitteth himself unto God 7 God preferring Jobs cause maketh his friends submit themselves and accepteth him 10 He magnifieth and blesseth Job 16 Jobs age and death THen Job answered the LORD and said 2 I know that thou canst do every thing and that ‖ Or no thought of thine can be hindred no thought can be withholden from thee 3 * Chap. 38.2 Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge therefore have I uttered that I understood not things too wonderful for me which I knew not 4 Hear I beseech thee and I will speak I will demand of thee and declare thou unto me 5 I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear but now mine eye seeth thee 6 Wherefore I abhor my self and repent in dust and ashes 7 ¶ And it was so that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite My wrath is kindled against thee and against thy two friends for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right as my servant Job hath 8 Therefore take unto you now seven bullocks and seven rams and go to my servant â—ob and offer up for your selves a burnt-offering and my servant Job shall pray for you for †Heb. his face or person him will I accept lest I deal with you after your folly in that ye have not spoken of me the thing which is right like my servant Job 9 So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went and did according as the LORD commanded them the LORD also accepted †Heb. the face of Job Job 10 And the LORD turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends also the LORD †Heb. added all that had been to Job unto the double gave Job twice as much as he had before 11 Then came there unto him all his brethren and all his sisters and all they that had been of his acquaintance before and did eat bread with him in his house and they bemoaned him and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him every man also gave him a piece of money and every one an ear-ring of gold 12 So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more then his beginning for he had fourteen thousand sheep and six thousand camels and a thousand yoke of oxen and a thousand she-asses 13 He had also seven sons and three daughters 14 And he called the name of the first Jemima and the name of the second Kezia and the name of the third Keren-happuch 15 And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren 16 After this lived Job an hundred and fourty years and saw his sons and his sons sons even four generations 17 So Job died being old and full of days ¶ The book of PSALMS PSAL. I. 1 The happiness of the godly 4 The unhappiness of the ungodly BLessed * Pro. 4.14 is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ‖ Or wicked ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful 2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD * Josh 1.8 Psal 119.1 and in his law doth he meditate day and night 3 And he shall be like a tree * Jer. 17.8 planted by the rivers of water that bringeth forth his fruit in his season his leaf also shall not †Heb. fade wither and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper 4 The ungodly are not so but are * Psal 35.5 Isa 17.13 like the chaff which the wind driveth away 5 Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgement nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous 6 For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous but the way of the ungodly shall perish PSAL. II. 1 The kingdom of Christ 10 Kings are exhorted to accept it WHy * Acts 4.25 do the heathen ‖ Or tumultuously assemble rage and the people †Heb. meditate imagine a vain thing 2 The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the LORD and against his anointed saying 3 Let us break their bands asunder cast away their cords from us 4 * Pro. 1.26 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh the LORD shall have them in derision 5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and ‖ Or trouble vex them in his sore displeasure 6 Yet have I †Heb. anointed set my king †Heb. upon Zion the kill of my holiness upon my holy hill of Zion 7 I will declare ‖ Or for a decree the decree the LORD hath said unto me * Acts 13.33 Heb. 1.5 Thou art my son this day have I begotten thee 8 * Psal 72.8 Ask of me and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession 9 * Rev. 2.27 19.15 Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potters vessel 10 Be wise now therefore O ye kings be instructed ye judges of the earth 11 Serve the LORD with fear and rejoyce with trembling 12 Kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little * Prov. 16.20 Isa 30.18 Jer. 17.7 Rom. 9.33 and 10.11 1 Pet. 2.6 blessed are all they that put their trust in him PSAL. III. The security of Gods protection ¶ A psalm of David * 2 Sam. 15 14. when he fled from Absalom his son LORD how are they increased that trouble me many are they that rise up against me 2 Many there be which say of my soul There is no help for him in God Selah 3 But thou O LORD art a shield ‖ Or about for me my glory and the sister up of mine head 4 I cried unto the LORD with my voice and he heard me out of his holy hill Selah 5 * Psal 4 8. I said me dâ—wn and at I awaked for the LORD sustained me 6 * Psal 27.3 I will not â—e afâ—â—â—â— of ten thousands of people that have set themselves against me round aboâ—t
as long as the sun and men shall be blessed in him all nations shall 〈◊〉 him blessed 18 Blessed 〈◊〉 the LORD God the God of Israel who onely doth wondrous things 19 And blessed be his glorious name for ever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory Amen and amen 20 The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended PSAL. LXXIII 1 The prophet prevailing in a temptation 2 sheweth the occasion thereof the prosperity of the wicked 13 the wound given thereby diffidenâ—â— 15 the victory over it knowledge of Gods purpose in destroying of the wicked and sustaining the righteous ¶ ‖ Or A psalm for Asaph A psalm of Asaph ‖ Or. yet TRuly God is good to Israel even to such as are †Heb. clean of heart of a clean heart 2 But as for me my feet were almost gone my steps had well-nigh slipt 3 * Job 21. â— Psal 3â— 1 Jer. 12.1 For I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked 4 For there are no bands in their death but their strength is †Heb. fat firm 5 They are not †Heb. in the trouble of other men in trouble as other men neither are they plagued †Heb. with like other men 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain violence covereth them as a garment 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness †Heb. they pass the thoughts of the heart they have more then heart could wish 8 They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression they speak loftily 9 They set their mouth against the heavens and their tongue walketh through the earth 10 Therefore his people return hither and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them 11 And they say How doth God know and is there knowledge in the most High 12 Behold these are the ungodly who prosper in the world they increase in riches 13 Verily I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocency 14 For all the day long have I been plagued and †Heb. my chastisement was chastned every morning 15 If I say I will speak thus behold I should offend against the generation of thy children 16 When I thought to know this †Heb. it was labour in mine eyes it was too painful for me 17 Until I went into the sanctuary of God then understood I their end 18 Surely thou didst set them in slippery places thou castedst them down into destruction 19 How are they brought into desolation as in a moment they are utterly consumed with terrours 20 As a dream when one awaketh so O Lord when thou awakest thou shalt despise their image 21 Thus my heart was grieved and I was pricked in my reins 22 So foolish was I and †Heb. I knew not ignorant I was as a beast †Heb. with thee before thee 23 Nevertheless I am continually with thee thou hast holden me by my right hand 24 Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel and afterward receive me to glory 25 Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I desire besides thee 26 My flesh and my heart faileth but God is the †Heb. rock strength of my heart and my portion for ever 27 For lo they that are far from thee shall perish thou hast destroyed all them that go a whoring from thee 28 But it is good for me to draw near to God I have put my trust in the Lord GOD that I may declare all thy works PSAL. LXXIV 1 The prophet complaineth of the desolation of the sanctuary 10 He moveth God to help in consideration of his power 18 of his reproachful enemies of his children and of his covenant ¶ ‖ Or a psalm for Asaph to give instruction Maschil of Asaph O God why hast thou cast us off for ever why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture 2 Remember thy congregation which thou hast purchased of old the ‖ Or tribe rod of thine inheritance which thou hast redeemed this mount Zion wherein thou hast dwelt 3 Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary 4 Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations they set up their ensigns for signs 5 A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees 6 But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers 7 †Heb. they have sent thy sanctuary into tâ—â— fire They have cast sire into thy sanctuary they have defiled by casting down the dwelling-place of thy name to the ground 8 They said in their hearts Let us †Heb. break destroy them together they have burnt up all the synagogues of God in the land 9 We see not our signs there is no more any prophet neither is there among us any that knoweth how long 10 O God how long shall the adversary reproach shall the enemy blaspheme thy name for ever 11 Why withdrawest thou thy hand even thy right hand pluck it out of thy bosom 12 For God is my King of old working salvation in the midst of the earth 13 * Ex 14.21 Thou didst †Heb. break divide the sea by the strength thou brakest the heads of the ‖ Or a â—ales dragons in the waters 14 Thou brakest the heads of seviathan in pieces and gavest him to be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness 15 * Ex. 1â— â— Numb 20.11 Thou didst cleave the fountain and the floud * Jos 2.13 thou driedst up †Heb. riverâ— of stâ—â—â—â—t mighty rivers 16 The day is thine the night also is thine thou hast prepared the light and the sun 17 Thou hast set all the borders of the earth thou hast †Heb. maâ—e them made summer and winter 18 Remember this that the enemy hath reproached O LORD and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name 19 O deliver not the soul of thy turtle-dove unto the multitude of the wicked forget not the congregation of thy poor for ever 20 Have respect unto the covenant for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty 21 O let not the oppressed return ashamed let the poor and needy praise thy name 22 Arise O God plead thine own cause remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily 23 Forget not the voice of thine enemies the tumult of those that rise up against thee †Heb. â—sâ—endeth increaseth continually PSAL. LXXV 1 The prophet praiseth God 2 He promiseth to judge uprightly 4. He rebuketh the proud by consideration of Gods providence 9 He praiseth God and promiseth to execute justice ¶ To the chief musician ‖ Or destroy not Al-taschith A Psalm or long ‖ Or for Asaph of Asâ—ph UNto thee O God do we give thanks unto thee do we give thanks for
and there was not one feeble person among their tribes 38 * Ex. 12.33 Egypt was glad when they departed for the fear of them fell upon them 39 * Ex. 13.21 He spread a cloud for a covering and fire to give light in the night 40 * Ex. 16.12 c. The people asked and he brought quails and satisfied them with the bread of heaven 41 * Ex. â—â— 6 Nu. 20.11 1 Cor. 10.4 He opened the rock and the waters gushed out they ran in the dry places like a river 42 For he remembred his holy promise and Abraham his servant 43 And he brought forth his people with joy and â—is câ—osen with †Heb. singing gladness 44 * Deut. 6.10 11. Jos 3.17 And gave them the lands of the heathen and they inherited the labour of the people 45 That they might observe his statutes and keep his laws Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CVI. 1 The psalmist exhorteth to praise God 4 He prayeth for pardon of sin as God did with the fathers 7 The story of the peoples rebellion and Gods mercy 47 He concludeth with prayer and praise †Heb. Hallelujab PRaise ye the LORD O * Ps 107.1 118.1 136. â— give thanks unto the LORD for be is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 Who can utter the mighty acts of the LORD who can shew forth all his praise 3 Blessed are they that keep judgement and he that doeth righteousness at all times 4 Remember me O LORD with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people O visit me with thy salvation 5 That I may see the good of thy chosen that I may rejoyce in the gladness of thy nation that I may glory with thine inheritance 6 We have sinned with our fathers we have committed iniquity we have done wickedly 7 Our fathers understood not thy wonders in Egypt they remembred not the multitude of thy mercies * Exod. 14.11 12. but provoked him at the sea even at the Red sea 8 Nevertheless he saved them for his names sake that he might make his mighty power to be known 9 He rebuked the Red sea also and it was dried up so he led them through the depths as through the wilderness 10 And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy 11 * Exod. 14.27 15.5 And the waters covered their enemies there was not one of them left 12 * Exod. 14.31 15.1 Then beleeved they his words they sang his praise 13 * Exod. 15.24 17.2 †Heb. they made haste they forgat They soon forgat his works they waited not for his counsel 14 * Numb 11.4 1 Cor. 10.6 But †Heb. lusted a lust lusted exceedingly in the wilderness and tempted God in the desert 15 * Numb 11.31 And he gave them their request but sent leanness into their soul 16 * Num. 16.1 c. They envied Moses also in the camp and Aaron the saint of the LORD 17 * Num. 16.31 Deut. 11.6 The earth opened and swallowed up Datham and covered the company of Abiram 18 * Num. 16.35 46. And a fire was kindled in their company the flame burnt up the wicked 19 * Exod. 32.4 They made a calf in Horeb and worshipped the molten image 20 Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass 21 They forgat God their saviour which had done great things in Egypt 22 Wondrous works in the land of Ham and terrible things by the Red sea 23 * Exod. 32.10 Therefore he said that he would destroy them had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach to turn away his wrath lest he should destroy them 24 Yea they despised †Heb. a land of dâ—sirâ— the pleasant land they beleeved not his word 25 * Numb 14.2 But murmured in their tents and hearkned not unto the voice of the LORD 26 Therefore he lifted up his hand against them to overthrow them in the wilderness 27 †Heb. to make them fall To overthrow their seed also among the nations and to scatter them in the lands 28 * Numb 25.3 They joyned themselves also unto Baal-peor and ate the sacrifices of the dead 29 Thus they provoked him to anger with their inventions and the plague brake in upon them 30 * Numb 25.7 Then stood up Phinehas and executed judgement and so the plague wâ—â— stayed 31 And that was counted unto him for righteousness unto all generations for evermore 32 * Numb 20.13 They angred him also at the waters of strife so that it went ill with Moses for their sakes 33 Because they provoked his spirit so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips 34 They did not destroy the nations * Deut. 7.2 concerning whom the LORD commanded them 35 * Judg. 1.21 But were mingled among the heathen and learned their works 36 And they served their idols which were a snare unto them 37 Yea they sacrificed their sons and their daughters unto devils 38 And shed innocent bloud even the bloud of their sons and of their daughters whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan and the land was polluted with bloud 39 Thus were they defiled with their own works and went a whoring with their own inventions 40 Therefore was the wrath of the LORD kindled against his people insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance 41 And he gave them into the hand of the heathen and they that hated them ruled over them 42 Their enemies also oppressed them and they were brought into subjection under their hand 43 * Judg. 2.16 Many times did he deliver them but they provoked him with their counsel and were ‖ Or impoverished or weakned brought low for their iniquity 44 Nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry 45 * Deut. 30.3 And he remembred for them his covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercies 46 He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives 47 Save us O LORD our God and gather us from among the heathen to give thanks unto thy holy name and to triumph in thy praise 48 Blessed be the LORD God of Israel from everlasting to everlasting and let all the people say Amen Praise ye the LORD PSAL. CVII 1 The psalmist exhorteth the redeemed in praising God to observe his manifold providence 4 over travellers 10 over captives 17 over sick men 23 over sea-men 33 and in divers varieties of life O * Psal 106.1 118.1 136.1 Give thanks unto the LORD for he is good for his mercy endureth for ever 2 Let the redeemed of the LORD say so whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy 3 And gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west from the north and †Heb. from the
righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy 10 ¶ * Ch. 12.4 Who can finde a vertuous woman for her price is far above rubies 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her so that he shall have no need of spoil 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life 13 She seeketh wool and flax and worketh willingly with her hands 14 She is like the merchants ships she bringeth her food from afar 15 She riseth also while it is yet night and giveth meat to her hous-hold and a portion to her maidens 16 She considereth a field and †Heb. taketh buyeth it with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard 17 She girdeth her loyns with strength and strengthneth her arms 18 †Heb. She tasteth She perceiveth that her merchandise is good her candle goeth not out by night 19 She layeth her hands to the spindle and her hands hold the distaff 20 †Heb. She spreadeth She stretcheth out her hand to the poor yea she reacheth forth her hands to the needy 21 She is not afraid of the snow for her houshold for all her houshold are clothed with ‖ Or double garments scarlet 22 She maketh her self coverings of tapestry her clothing is silk and purple 23 Her husband is known in the gates when he sitteth among the elders of the land 24 She maketh fine linen and selleth it and delivereth girdles unto the merchant 25 Strength and honour are her clothing and she shall rejoyce in time to come 26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom and in her tongue is the law of kindness 27 She looketh well to the ways of her houshold and eateth not the bread of idleness 28 Her children arise up and call her blessed her husband also and he praiseth her 29 Many daughters ‖ Or have gotten riches have done vertuously but thou excellest them all 30 Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the LORD she shall be praised 31 Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates ¶ ECCLESIASTES or the PREACHER CHAP. I. 1 The preacher sheweth that all humane courses are vain 4 because the creatures are restless in their courses 9 they bring forth nothing new and all old things are forgotten 12 and because he hath found it so in the studies of wisdom THe word of the preacher the son of David king of Jerusalem 2 * Ps 39.5 6. 62.9 144.4 Ch. 12.8 Vanity of vanities saith the preacher vanity of vanities all is vanity 3 * Ch. 2.22 3 9. What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun 4 One generation passeth away and another generation cometh * Ps 104.5 119.90 but the earth abideth for ever 5 The sun also ariseth and the sun goeth down and †Heb. panteth hasteth to his place where he arose 6 The wind goâ—th toward the south and turneth about unto the north it whirlâ—th about continually and the wind returneth again according to his circuits 7 * Job 38.10 Ps 104.8.9 All the rivers run into the sea yet the sea is not full unto the place from whence the rivers come thither they †Heb. return to go return again 8 All things are full of labour man cannot utter it the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing 9 * Ch. 3.15 The thing that hath been it is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the sun 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said See this is new it hath been already of old time which was before us 11 There is no remembrance of former things neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after 12 ¶ I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem 13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven this sore travel hath God given to the sons of man ‖ Or to afflict them to be exercised therewith 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun and behold all is vanity and vexation of spirit 15 * Ch. 7.13 That which is crooked cannot be made straight and †Heb. defect that which is wanting cannot be numbred 16 I communed with mine own heart saying Lo I am come to great estate and have gotten * 1 Kin. 4.30 10.7 23. more wisdom then all they that have been before me in Jerusalem yea my heart †Heb. had seen much had great experience of wisdom and knowledge 17 * Ch. 2.12 7.25 And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit 18 For in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow CHAP. II. 1 The vanity of humane courses in the works of pleasure 12 Though the wise be better then the fool yet both have one event 18 The vanity of humane labour in leaving it they know not to whom 24 Nothing better then joy in our labour but that is Gods gift I Said in mine heart Go to now I will prove thee with mirth therefore enjoy pleasure and behold this also is vanity 2 I said of laughter It is mad and of mirth What doeth it 3 * Ch 1.17 I sought in mine heart †Heb. to draw my flesh with wine to give my self unto wine yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom and to lay hold on folly till I might see what was that good for the sons of men which they should do under the heaven †Heb. the number of the days of their life all the days of their life 4 I made me great works I builded me houses I planted me vineyards 5 I made me gardens and orchards and I planted trees in them of all kinde of fruits 6 I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees 7 I got me servants and maidens and had †Heb. sons of my house servants born in my house also I had great possessions of great and small cattel above all that were in Jerusalem before me 8 * 1 Kin. 9.28 10.10 14 21 c. I gathered me also silver and gold and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces I gat me men-fingers and women-fingers and the delights of the sons of men as †Heb. musical instrument instruments musical instruments and that of all sorts 9 So I was great and increased more then all that were before me in Jerusalem also my wisdom remained with me 10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them I withheld not my heart from any joy for my heart rejoyced in
strength but wisdom is profitable to direct 11 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment and †Heb. the master of the tongue a babbler is no better 12 * Pr. 10.32 12.13 The words of a wise mans mouth are †Heb. grace gracious but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself 13 The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness and the end of †Heb. his mouth his talk is mischievous madness 14 * Pr. 15.2 A fool also †Heb. multiplieth words is full of words a man cannot tell what shall be and * Ch. 3.22 6.12 what shall be after him who can tell him 15 The labour of the foolish wearteth every one of them because he knoweth not how to go to the city 16 ¶ * Is 3.3 4. Wo to thee O land when thy king is a childe and thy princes eat in the morning 17 Blessed art thou O land when thy king is the son of nobles and thy princes eat in due season for strength not for drunkenness 18 ¶ By much flothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth through 19 ¶ A feast is made for laughter and * Ps 104.15 wine †Heb. maketh glad the life maketh merry but money answereth all things 20 ¶ * Ex. 22.28 Curse not the king no not in thy ‖ Or conscience thought and curse not the rich in thy bed-chamber for a bird of the air shall carry the voice and that which hath wings shall tell the matter CHAP. XI 1 Directions for charity 7 Death in life 9 and the day of judgement in the days of youth are to be thought on CAst thy bread †Heb. upon the face of the waters upon the waters for thou shalt finde it after * Deu. 15.10 Pr. 19.17 Mat. 10.42 many days 2 Give a portion to seven and also to eight for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth 3 If the clouds be full of rain they empty themselves upon the earth and if the tree fall toward the south or toward the north in the place where the tree falleth there it shall be 4 He that observeth the wind shall not sowe and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap 5 As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with childe even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all 6 In the morning sowe thy seed and in the evening withhold not thine hand for thou knowest not whether †Heb. shall be right shall prosper either this or that or whether they both shall be alike good 7 ¶ Truly the light is sweet and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun 8 But if a man live many years and rejoyce in them all yet let him remember the days of darkness for they shall be many All that cometh is vanity 9 ¶ Rejoyce O young man in thy youth and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thy heart and in the sight of thine eyes but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgement 10 Therefore remove ‖ Or anger sorrow from thy heart and put away evil from thy flesh for childhood and youth are vanity CHAP. XII 1 The Creatour is to be remembred in due time 8 The preachers care to edifie 13 The fear of God is the chief antidote of vanity * Pr. 22.6 REmember now thy Creatour in the days of thy youth while the evil days come not nor the years draw nigh when thou shalt say I have no pleasure in them 2 While the sun or the light or the moon or the stars be not darkned not the clouds return after the rain 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble and the strong men shall bow themselves and ‖ Or the grinders fail because they grinde little the grinders cease because they are few and those that look out of the windows be darkned 4 And the doors shall be shut in the streets when the sound of the grinding is low and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird and all the daughters of musick shall be brought sow 5 Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high and fears shall be in the way and the almond-tree shall flourish and the grashopper shall be a burden and desire shall fail because man goeth to his long home and the mourners go about the streets 6 Or ever the â—ilver cord be loosed or the golden bowl be broken or the pitcher be broken at the fountain or the wheel broken at the cistern 7 * Gen. 3.19 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it 8 ¶ * Ch. 1.2 Vanity of vanities saith the preacher all is vanity 9 And ‖ Or the more wise the preacher was c. moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught the people knowledge yea he gave good heed and sought out and * 1 Kin. 4.32 set in order many proverbs 10 The preacher sought to finde out †Heb. words of delight acceptable words and that which was written was upright even words of truth 11 The words of the wise are as goads and as nails fastned by the masters of assemblies which are given from one shepherd 12 And further by these my son be admonished of making many books there is no end and much ‖ Or reading study is a weariness of the flesh 13 ¶ ‖ Or The end of the matter even all that hath-been heard is Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his commandments for this is the whole duty of man 14 For * Ro. 2.16 14.20 2 Cor. â— 10 God shall bring every work into judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil ¶ The SONG of SOLOMON CHAP. I. 1 The churches lovâ— unto Christ 5 She confesseth her deformity 7 and prayeth to be â—irested to his flock 8 Christ directeth her to the shepherds tents 9 and shewing his love to her 11 giveth her gracious promises 12 The church and Christ congratulate one another THe song of songs which is Solomons 2 Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth * Ch. 4.10 for †Heb. thy loves thy love is better then wine 3 Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth therefore do the virgins love thee 4 * Joh. 6.44 Draw me we will run after thee the king hath brought me into his chambers we will be glad and rejoyce in thee we will remember thy love more then wine ‖ Or they love thee uprightly the upright love thee 5 I am
years old for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of †Heb. breaking destruction 6 For the waters of Nimrim shall be †Heb. desolations desolate for the hay is withered away the grass faileth there is no green thing 7 Therefore the abundance they have gotten and that which they have laid up shall they carry away to the ‖ Or â—aâ—ley of the Arbians brook of the willows 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab the howling thereof unto Eglaim and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim 9 For the waters of Dimon shall be full of blood for I will bring †Heb. additions more upon Dimon lions upon him that escapeth of Moab and upon the remnant of the land CHAP. XVI 1 Moab is exhorted to yield obedience to Christs kingdom 6 Moab is threatned for her pride 9 The prophet bewaileth her 12 The judgement of Moab SEnd ye the lamb to the ruler of the land from ‖ Or Petr◠†Heb. a rock Sela to the wilderness unto the mount of the daughter of Zion 2 For it shall be that as a wandring bird ‖ Or a nest forsaken cast out of the nest so the daughters of Moab shall be at the fords of Arnon 3 †Heb. Bring Take counsel execute judgement make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noon-day hide the outcasts bewray not him that wandreth 4 Let mine outcasts dwell with thee Moab be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler for the †Heb. wringer extortioner is at an end the spoiler ceaseth †Heb. the treader down the oppressours are consumed out of the land 5 And in mercy * Dan. 7.14.27 Mâ—c 4.7 Lu. 1 4â— shall the throne be ‖ Or prepared established and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David judging and seeking judgement and hasting righteousness 6 ¶ We have heard of the * Jer. 48.27 pride of Moab he is very proud even of his haughtiness and his pride and his wrath but his lies shall not be so 7 Therefore shall Moab * Jer. 48.20 howl for Moab every one shall howl for the foundations of Kir-hareseth shall ye ‖ Or mutter mourn surely they are stricken 8 For the fields of Heshbon languish and the vine of Sibmah the lords of the heathen have broken down the principal plants thereof they are come even unto Jazer they wandred through the wilderness her branches are ‖ Or plucked up stretched out they are gone over the sea 9 ¶ Therefore I will bewail with the weeping of Jazer the vine of Sibmah I will water thee with my tears O Heshbon and Elealeh for ‖ Or the alarm is faln upon c. the shouting for thy summer-fruits and for thy harvest is faln 10 And * Jer. 48.33 gladness is taken away and joy out of the plentiful field and in the vineyards there shall be no singing neither shall that * be shoutâ—ng the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses I have made their vintage-shouting to cease 11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab and mine inward parts for Kir-haresh 12 ¶ And it shall come to pass when it is seen that Moab is weary on the high place that he shall come to his sanctuary to pray but he shall not prevail 13 This is the word that the LORD hath spoken concerning Moab since that time 14 But now the LORD hath spoken saying Within three years as the years of an hireling and the glory of Moab shall be contemned with all that great multitude and the remnant shall be very small and ‖ Or not many feeble CHAP. XVII 1 Syria and Israel are threatned 6 A remnant shall forsake idolatry 9 The rest shall be plagued for their impiety 12 The wo of Israels enemies THe burden of Damascus Behold Damascus is taken away from being a city and it shall be a ruinous heap 2 The cities of Aroer are forsaken they shall be for flocks which shall lie down and none shall make them afraid 3 The fortress also shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom from Damascus and the remnant of Syria they shall be as the glory of the children of Israel saith the LORD of hosts 4 And in that day it shall come to pass that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean 5 And it shall be as when the harvest-man gathereth the corn and reapeth the ears with his arm and it shall be as he that gathereth ears in the valley of Rephaim 6 ¶ Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it as the shaking of an olive-tree two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof saith the LORD God of Israel 7 At that day shall a man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the holy One of Israel 8 And he shall not look to the altars the work of his hands neither shall respect that which his fingers have made either the groves or the ‖ Or suâ—-images images 9 ¶ In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough and an uppermost branch which they left because of the children of Israel and there shall be desolation 10 Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants and shalt set it with strange slips 11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish but the harvest shall be ‖ Or removed in the day of inheritance and there shall be deadly sorrow a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow 12 ¶ Wo to the ‖ Or noise multitude of many people which make a noise like the noise of the seas and to the rushing of nations that make a rushing like the rushing of ‖ Or manâ— mighty waters 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters but God shall rebuke them and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like ‖ Or the-â—â—â— dowâ— a rolling thing before the whirlwind 14 And behold at evening-tide trouble and before the morning he is not this is the portion of them y spoil us and the lot of them that rob us CHAP. XVIII 1 God in care of his people will destroy the Ethiopians 7 An access thereby shall crow unto the church Wo to the land shadowing with wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia 2 That sendeth ambassadours by the sea even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters saying Go ye swift messengers to a nation Or out-spread and
the Ethiopians captives young and old naked and bare-foot even with their buttocks uncovered to the †Heb. nakedness shame of Egypt 5 And they shall be afraid and ashamed of Ethiopia their expectation and of Egypt their glory 6 And the inhabitant of this ‖ Or countrey isle shall say in that day Behold such is our expectation whither we flee for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria and how shall we escape CHAP. XXI 1 The prophet bewailing the captivity of his people seeth in a vision the fall of Babylon by the Medes and Persians 11 Edom scorning the prophet is moved to repentance 13 The set time of Arabia's calamity THe burden of the desert of the sea As whirlwinds in the south pass through so it cometh from the desert from a terrible land 2 A †Heb. hard grievous vision is declared unto me the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously and the spoiler spoileth go up O Elam besiege O Media all the sighing thereof have I made to cease 3 Therefore are my loyns filled with pain pangs have taken hold upon me as the pangs of a woman that travaileth I was bowed down at the hearing of it I was dismayed at the seeing of it 4 ‖ Or My minde wandred My heart panted fearfulness affrighted me the night of my pleasure hath he †Heb. put turned into fear unto me 5 Prepare the table watch in the watch towre eat drink arise ye princes and anoint the shield 6 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Go set a watchman let him declare what he seeth 7 And he saw a chariot with a couple of hors-men a chariot of asses and a chariot of camels and he hearkned diligently with much heed 8 And ‖ Or cried as a lion he cried A lion my lord I stand continually upon the * Hab. 2.1 watch-towre in the day-time and I am set in my ward ‖ Or every niâ—ht whole nights 9 And behold here cometh a chariot of men with a couple of hors-men and he answered and said * Jer. 51.8 Rev. 14 8. 18.2 Babylon is faln is faln and all the graven images of her gods he hath broken unto the ground 10 O my threshing and the †Heb. son corn of my floor that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts the God of Israel have I declared unto you 11 ¶ The burden of Dumah He calleth to me out of Seir Watchman what of the night watchman what of the night 12 The watchman said The morning cometh and also the night if ye will enquire enquire ye return come 13 ¶ The burden upon Arabia In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge O ye travelling companies of Dedanim 14 The inhabitants of the land of Tema ‖ Or bring â—e brought water to him that was thirsty they prevented with their bread him that fled 15 For they fled ‖ Or for fear †Heb. from the face from the swords from the drawn sword and from the bent bowe and from the grievousness of war 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me Within a year according to the years of an hireling and all the glory of Kedar shall fail 17 And the residue of the number of †Heb. bowes archers the mighty men of the children of Kedar shall be diminished for the LORD God of Israel hath spoken it CHAP. XXII 1 The prophet lamenteth the invasion of Jury by the Persians 8 He reproveth their humane wisdom and worldly joy 15 He prophesieth Shebna's deprivation 20 and Eliakim prefiguring the kingdom of Christ his substitution THe burden of the valley of vision What aileth thee now that thou art wholly gone up to the hous-tops 2 Thou that art full of stirs a tumultuous city a joyous city thy slain men are not slain with the sword nor dead in battel 3 All thy rulers are fled together they are bound †Heb. of the boâ—e by the archers all that are found in thee are bound together which have fled from far 4 Therefore said I * Jer. 4.19 and 9.1 Look away from me †Heb. I will be bitter in weeping I will weep bitterly labour not to comfort me because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people 5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision breaking down the walls and of crying to the mountains 6 And Alam bare the quiver with chariots of men and hors-men and Kir †Heb. made naked uncovered the shield 7 And it shall come to pass that †Heb. the choice of thy valleys thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots and the hors-men shall set themselves in aray ‖ Or towards at the gate 8 ¶ And he discovered the covering of Judah and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest 9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David that they are many and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool 10 And ye have numbred the houses of Jerusalem and the houses have ye broken down to fortifie the wall 11 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping and to mourning and to baldness and to girding with sackcloth 13 And behold joy and gladness slaying oxen and killing sheep eating flesh and drinking wine * Ch. 5â— 12 Wild. 2.6 let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die 14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die saith the Lord GOD of hosts 15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts Go get thee unto this treasurer even unto Shebna which is over the house and say 16 What hast thou here and whom hast thou here that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here ‖ Or O he as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock 17 Behold ‖ Or the LORD who covered thee with an excellent covering and clothed thee â—oâ—ceously shall surely c. vers 18. the LORD will carry thee away with †Heb. the captivity of a man a mighty captivity and will surely cover thee 18 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a †Heb. large of spaceâ— large countrey there shalt thou die and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lords house 19 And I will drive thee from thy station and from thy state shall he pull thee down 20 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of
is my law * Matth. 10.28 fear ye not the reproach of men neither be ye afraid of their revilings 8 For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wool but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation 9 ¶ Awake awake put on strength O arm of the LORD awake as in the ancient days in the generations of old Art thou not it that hath cut Rahab and wounded the * Psal 74.13 14. Ezek. 29.3 dragon 10 Art thou not it which hath * Exod. 14.21 dried the sea the waters of the great deep that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over 11 Therefore * Chap. 35.10 the redeemed of the LORD shall return and come with singing unto Zion and everlasting joy shall be upon their head they shall obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and mourning shall flee away 12 I even I am he that comforteth you who are thou that thou shouldest be afraid * Psal 118.6 of a man that shall die and of the son of man which shall be made * Ch. 40.6 1 Pet. 1.24 as grass 13 And forgettest the LORD thy maker that hath stretched forth the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressour as if he ‖ Or made himself ready were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressour 14 The captive exile hastneth that he may be loosed and that he should not die in the pit nor that his bread should fail 15 But I am the LORD thy God that * Jer. 31.35 divided the sea whose waves roared the LORD of hosts is his name 16 And I have put my words * Chap. 49.2 3. in thy mouth and have covered thee in the shadow of mine hand that I may plant the heavens and lay the foundations of the earth and say unto Zion Thou are my people 17 ¶ * Chap. 52.1 Awake awake stand up O Jerusalem which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling and wrung them out 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up 19 * Chap. 47.9 These two things †Heb. bapned are come unto thee who shall be sorry for thee desolation and †Heb. breaking destruction and the famine and the sword by whom shall I comfort thee 20 Thy sons have fainted they lie at the head of all the streets as a wilde bull in a net they are full of the fury of the LORD the rebuke of thy God 21 ¶ Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine 22 Thus saith thy Lord the LORD and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people Behold I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it again 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soul Bow down that we may go over and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over CHAP. LII 1 Christ perswadeth the church to beleeve his free redemption 7 to receive the ministers thereof 9 to joy in the power thereof 11 and to free themselves from bondage 13 Christs kingdom shall be exalted * Chap. 5.17 AWake awake put on thy strength O Zion put on thy beautiful garments O Jerusalem the holy city for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean 2 Shake thy self from the dust arise and sit down O Jerusalem loose thy self from the hands of thy neck O captive daughter of Zion 3 For thus saith the LORD Ye have sold your selves for nought and ye shall be redeemed without money 4 For thus saith the Lord GOD My people went down aforetime into * Gen. 45.6 Egypt to sojourn there and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause 5 Now therefore what have I here saith the LORD that my people is taken away for nought they that rule over them make them to howl saith the LORD and my name continually every day is * Ezek. 36.20 23. Rom. 2.24 blasphemed 6 Therefore my people shall know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold it is I. 7 ¶ * Nah. 1.15 Ro. 10.15 How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Zion Thy God reigneth 8 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the LORD shall bring again Zion 9 ¶ Break forth into joy sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem for the LORD hath comforted his people he hath redeemed Jerusalem 10 The LORD hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations and * Ps 98.2 Lu. 3.6 all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God 11 ¶ * 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 Depart ye depart ye go ye out from thence touch no unclean thing go ye out of the midst of her be ye clean that bear the vessels of the LORD 12 For ye shall not go out with haste nor go by flight for the LORD will go before you and the God of Israel will †Heb. gather you up be your rereward 13 ¶ Behold my servant shall ‖ Or prosper deal prudently he shall be exalted and extolled and be very high 14 As many were astonied at thee his * Ch. 53.3 visage was so marred more then any man and his form more then the son of men 15 So shall he sprinkle many nations the kings shall shut their mouths at him for that * Rom. 15.21 which had not been told them shall they see and that which they had not heard shall they consider CHAP. LIII 1 The prophet complaining of incredulity excuseth the scandal of the cross 4 by the benefit of his passion 10 and the good success thereof * Joh. 12.38 Ro. 10.16 WHo hath beleeved our ‖ Or doctrine †Heb. 3◠He bearing report and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he hath no form nor comliness and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him 3 * Ch 52.14 Mar. 9.12 He is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief and ‖ Or. be bid as it
home there is as death 21 They have heard that I sigh there is none to comfort me all mine enemies have heard of my trouble they are glad that thou hast done it thou wilt bring the day that thou hast ‖ Or â—â—â—laimed called and they shall be like unto me 22 Let all their wickedness come before thee and do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions for my sighs are many and my heart is saint CHAP. II. 1 Jeremiah lamenteth the misery of Jerusalem 20 He complaineth thereof to God HOw hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel and remembred not his footstool in the day of his anger 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob and hath not pitted he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah he hath †Heb. male to south brought them down to the ground he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof 3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about 4 He hath bent his bowe like an enemy he stood with his right hand as an adversary and slew †Heb. all the desireable of the eye all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion he poured out his fury like fire 5 The Lord was as an enemy he hath swallowed up Israel he hath swallowed up all her palaces he hath destroyed his strong holds and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation 6 And he hath violently * Ps 80.12 and 89.40 Isa 5.5 taken away his ‖ Or â—edâ—e tabernacle as if it were of a garden he hath destroyed his places of the assembly the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest 7 The Lord hath cast off his altar he hath abhorred his sanctuary he hath †Heb. Sout up given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces they have made a noise in the house of the LORD as in the day of a solemn feast 8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion he hath stretched out a line he hath not withdrawn his hand from †Heb. swallowing up destroying therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament they languished together 9 Her gates are sunk into the ground he hath destroyed and broken her bars her king and her princes are among the Gentiles the law is no more her * Ps 74.9 prophets also finde no vision from the LORD 10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground and keep silence they have cast up dust upon their heads they have girded themselves with sackcloth the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears my bowels are troubled my liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings ‖ Or saint swoon in the streets of the city 12 They say to their mothers Where is corn and wine when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city when their soul was poured out into their mothers bosom 13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee what thing shall I liken to thee O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I equal to thee that I may comfort thee O virgin daughter of Zion for thy breach is great like the sea who can heal thee 14 Thy * Jer. 2.8 and 5.31 and 14.14 and 23.16 prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment 15 All that pass †Heb. by the way by clap their hands at thee they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the câ—ty that men call * Ps 48.2 the perfection of beauty the joy of the whole earth 16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee they hiss and gnash the teeth they say We have swallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen it 17 The LORD hath done that which he had * Lev. 26.16 devised he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old he hath thrown down and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoyce over thee he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord O wall of the daughter of Zion * Jer. 14.17 Ch. â— 16 let tears run down like a river day and night give thy self no rest let not the apple of thine eye cease 19 Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord lift up thy hands towards him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street 20 ¶ Behold O LORD and consider to whom thou hast done this shall the women eat their fruit and children ‖ Or swaddled with their hands of a span long shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the LORD 21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets my virgins and my young men are fain by the sword thou hast slain them in the day of thy anger thou hast killed and not pitied 22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrours round about so that in the day of the LORDS anger none escaped nor remained those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed CHAP. III. 1 The faithful bewall their â—alamities 22 By the mercies of God they nourish their hope 37 They acknowledge Gods justice 55 They pray for deliverance 64 and venâ—eance on their enemies I Am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath 2 He hath led me and brought me into darkness but not into light 3 Surely against me is he turned he turneth his hand against me all the day 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my bones 5 He hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and travel 6 He hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old 7 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out he hath made my chain heavy 8 Also when I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer 9 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone the hath made my paths crooked 10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a
to them of the captivity at Tel-abib that dwelt by the river of Chebar and I sat where they sat and remained there astonished among them seven days 16 And it came to pass at the end of seven days that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 17 * Ch. 33.7 Son of man I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel therefore hear the word at my mouth and give them warning from me 18 When I say unto the wicked Thou shalt surely die and thou givest him not warning nor speakest to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life the same wicked man shall die in his iniquity but his bloud will I require at thine hand 19 Yet if thou warn the wicked and he turn not from his wickedness nor from his wicked way he shall die in his iniquity but thou hast delivered thy soul 20 Again when a * Ch. 18.24 righteous man doth turn from his †Heb. righteousnesses righteousness and commit iniquity and I lay a stumbling-block before him he shall die because thou hast not given him warning he shall die in his sin and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembred but his bloud will I require at thine hand 21 Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man that the righteous sin not and he doth not sin he shall surely live because he is warned also thou hast delivered thy soul 22 ¶ And the hand of the LORD was there upon me and he said unto me Arise go forth into the plain and I will there talk with thee 23 Then I arose and went forth into the plain and behold the glory of the LORD stood there as the glory which I * Ch. 1. saw by the river of Chebar and I fell on my face 24 Then the spirit entred into me and set me upon my feet and spake with me and said unto me Go shut thy self within thine house 25 But thou O son of man behold they shall put bands upon thee and shall binde thee with them and thou shalt not go out among them 26 And I will make thy tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not be to them †Heb. a man reproving a reprover for they are a rebellious house 27 But when I speak with thee I will open thy mouth and thou shalt say unto them Thus saith the Lord GOD He that heareth let him hear and he that forbeareth let him forbear for the are a rebellious house CHAP. IV. 1Vnter the type of a siege is shewed the time from the defection of Jeroboam to the captivity 9 By the provision of the siege is shewed the hardness of the famine THou also son of man take thee a tile and lay it before thee and pourtray upon it the city even Jerusalem 2 And lay siege against it and build a fort against it and cast a mount against it set the camp also against it and set ‖ Or chief leaders battering rams against it round about 3 Moreover take thou unto thee ‖ Or a flat plate or slice an iron pan and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city and set thy face against it and it shall be besieged and thou shalt lay siege against it this shall be a signe to the house of Israel 4 Lie thou also upon thy left side and lay the iniquity of the house of Israel upon it according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon it thou shalt bear their iniquity 5 For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity according to the number of the days three hundred and ninety days * Nu. 14.34 so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel 6 And when thou hast accomplished them lie again on thy right side and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah fourty days I have appointed thee †Heb. a day for a year a day for a year each day for a year 7 Therefore thou shalt set thy face toward the siege of Jerusalem and thine arm shall be uncovered and thou shalt prophesie against it 8 And behold I will lay bands upon thee and thou shalt not turn thee †Heb. from thy side to thy side from one side to another till thou hast ended the days of thy siege 9 ¶ Take thou also unto thee wheat and barley and beans and lentiles and millet and ‖ Or spelt fitches and put them in one vessel and make thee bread thereof ascording to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof 10 And thy meat which thou shalt eat shall be by weight twenty shekels a day from time to time shalt thou eat it 11 Thou shalt drink also water by measure the sixth part of an hin from time to time shalt thou drink 12 And thou shalt eat it as barley cakes and thou shalt bake it with dung that cometh out of man in their sight 13 And the LORD said Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles whither I will drive them 14 Then said I Ah Lord GOD behold my soul hath not been polluted for from my youth up even till now have I not eaten of that which dieth of it self or is torn in pieces neither came there abominable flesh into my mouth 15 Then he said unto me Lo I have given thee cows dung for mans dung and thou shalt prepare thy bread therewith 16 Moreover he said unto me Son of man behold I will break the * Lev. 16.26 Ch. 5.16 14.13 staff of bread in Jerusalem and they shall eat bread by weight and with care and they shall drink water by measure and with astonishment 17 That they may want bread and water and be astonied one with another and consume away for their iniquity CHAP. V. 1Vnder the type of hair 5 is shewed the judgement of Jerusalem for their rebellion 12 by famine sword and dispersion ANd thou son of man take thee a sharp knife take thee a barbours rasour and cause it to pass upon thine head and upon thy beard then take thee balances to weigh and divide their hair 2 Thou shalt burn with fire a third part in the midst of the city when the days of the siege are fulfilled and thou shalt take a third part and smite about it with a knife and a third part thou shalt scatter in the wind and I will draw out a sword after them 3 Thou shalt also take thereof a few in number and binde them in thy †Heb. wings skirts 4 Then take of them again and cast them into the midst of the fire and burn them in the fire for thereof shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel 5 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD This is Jerusalem I have set it
Behold it is cast into the fire for fewel the fire devoureth both the ends of it and the midst of it is burnt †Heb. will it prosper is it meet for any work 5 Behold when it was whole it was †Heb. made sit meet for no work how much less shall it be meet yet for any work when the fire hath devoured it and it is burned 6 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD As the vine tree among the trees of the forest which I have given to the fire for fewel so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem 7 And I will set my face against them they shall go out from one fire and another fire shall devour them and ye shall know that I am the LORD when I set my face against them 8 And I will make the land desolate because they have †Heb. tresâ— assedâ— trespass committed a trespass saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XVI 1Vnder the similitude of a wretched infant is shewed the natural state of Jerusalem 6 Gods extraordinary love towards her 15 Her monstrous whoredom 35 Her grievous judgement 44 Her sin matching her mother and exceeding her sisters Sodom and Samarta calleth for judgements â—0 Mercy is promised her in the end AGain the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man cause Jerusalem to know her abominations 3 And say Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem Thy †Heb. cutting out or habitation birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan thy father was an Amorite and thy mother an Hittite 4 And as for thy nativity in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut neither wast thou washed in water ‖ Or when I looked upon thee to supple thee thou wast not salted at all nor swaddled at all 5 None eye pitied thee to do any of these unto thee to have compassion upon thee but thou wast cast out in the open field to the lothing of thy person in the day that thou wast born 6 ¶ And when I passed by thee and saw thee ‖ Or. troden under foot polluted in thine own bloud I said unto thee when thou wast in thy bloud Live yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy bloud Live 7 I have †Heb. made thee a million caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field and thou hast increased and waxen great and thou art come to †Heb. ornament of ornaments excellent ornaments thy breasts are fashioned and thine hair is grown whereas thou wast naked and bare 8 Now when I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold thy time was the time of love and I spread my skirt over thee and covered thy nakedness yea I sware unto thee and entred into a covenant with thee saith the Lord GOD and thou becamest mine 9 Then washed I thee with water yea I throughly washed away thy †Heb. blouds bloud from thee and I anointed thee with oyl 10 I clothed thee also with broidered work shod thee with badgers skin I girded thee about with fine linen I covered thee with silk 11 I decked thee also with ornaments and I put bracelets upon thine hands and a chain on thy neck 12 And I pat a jewel on thy forehead and ear-rings in thine ears and a beautiful crown upon thine head 13 Thus wast thou decked with gold and silver and thy raiment was of fine linen and silk and broidered work thou didst eat fine flour and honey and oyl and thou wast exceeding beautiful and thou didst prosper into a kingdom 14 And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty for it was perfect through my comliness which I had put upon thee saith the Lord GOD. 15 ¶ But thou didst trust in thine own beauty and playedst the hatlet because of thy renown and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by his it was 16 And of thy garments thou didst take and deckedst thy high places with divers colours and playedst the harlot thereupon the like things shall not come neither shall it be so 17 Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver which I had given thee and madest to thy self images †Heb. of a male of men and didâ—t commit whoredom with thâ—m 18 And tookest thy broidered garmenâ—s and coveredst them and thou hast set mine oyl and mine incense before them 19 My meat also which I gave thee fine flour and oyl and honey wherewith I fed thee thou hast even set it before them for †Heb. a savour of rest a sweet savour and thus it was saith the Lord GOD. 20 Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters whom thou hast born unto me and these hast thou sacrificed unto them †Heb. to devour to be devoured is this of thy whoredoms a small matter 21 That thou hast slain my children and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them 22 And in all thine aâ—ominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembred the days of thy youth when thou wast naked and bare and wast polluted in thy bloud 23 And it came to pass after all thy wickedness wo wo unto thee saith the Lord GOD 24 That thou hast also built unto thee an ‖ Or brothel-house eminent place and hast made thee an high place in every street 25 Thou hast built thy high place at every head of the way and hast made thy beauty to be abhorred and hast opened thy feet to every one that pâ—ssed by and multiplied thy whoredoms 26 Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours great of flesh and hast increased thy whoredoms to provoke me to anger 27 Behold therefore I have stretched out my hand over thee and have diminished thine ordinary food and delivered thee unto the will of them that hate thee the ‖ Or cities daughters of the Philistines which are ashamed of thy lewd way 28 Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians because thou wast unsatiable yea thou hast played the harlot with them and yet couldest not be satisfied 29 Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Calâ—ea and yet thou wast not satisfied hâ—rewith 30 How weak is thine heart saith the Lord GOD seeing thou doest all these things the work of an imperious whorish woman 31 ‖ Or in thy â—auâ—hters is thine c. In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way and makest thine â—igh place in every street and hast not been as an harlot in that thou scornest hire 32 But as a wife that commiteth adultery which taketh strangers in stead of her husband 33 They give giâ—ts to all whores but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers and †Heb. bâ—â—oâ—st hirest thâ—m that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom 34 And the contrary is in thee
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
GOD Because thou hast clapped thine †Heb. hand hands and stamped with thy †Heb. foot feet and rejoyced in †Heb. soul heart with all thy despite against the land of Israel 7 Behold therefore I will stretch out mine hand upon thee and will deliver thee for ‖ Or â—waâ— a spoil to the heathen and I will cut thee off the people and I will cause thee to perish out of the countreys I will destroy thee and thou shalt know that I am the LORD 8 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD * Jer. 48.1 c. Because that Moab and Seir do say Behold the house of Judah is like unto all the heathen 9 Therefore behold I will open the †Heb. shoulder of Moab side of Moab from his cities which are on his frontiers the glory of the countrey Beth-jeshimoth Baal-meon and Kiriathaim 10 Unto the men of the east ‖ Or against the children of Ammon with the Ammonites and will give them in possession that the Ammonities may not be remembred among the nations 11 And I will execute judgements upon Moab and they shall know that I am the LORD 12 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD Because that Edom hath dealt against the house of Judah †Heb. hâ— revenging reveâ—gement by taking vengeance and hath greatly offended and revenged himself upon them 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD I will also stretch out mine hand upon Edom and will cut off man and beast from it and I will make it desolate from Teman and ‖ Or they shall fall by the sword unto Dedan they of Dedan shall fall by the sword 14 And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury and they shall know my vengeance saith the Lord GOD. 15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart to destroy it ‖ Or with perpetual hatred for the old hatred 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will stretch out mine hand upon the Philistines and I will cut off the Cherethims and destroy the remnant of the ‖ Or haven of the sea sea-coast 17 And I will execute great †Heb. vengeances vengeance upon them with furious rebukes and they shall know that I am the LORD when I shall lay my vengeance upon them CHAP. XXVI 1 Tâ—rus for insulting against Jerusalem is threatned 7 The power of Nebuchadrezzar against her 15 The mourning and astonishment of the sea at her fall ANd it came to pass in the eleventh year in the first day of the moneth that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man because that Tyrus hath said against Jerusalem Aha she is broken that was the gates of the people she is turned unto me I shall be replenished now she is laid waste 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I am against thee O Tyrus and will cause many nations to come up against thee as the sea causeth his waves to come up 4 And they shall destroy the walls of Tyrus and break down her towers I will â—â—râ—pâ— her duâ—t from her and make her like the top of a roâ—k 5 It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea for I have spoken it saith the Lord GOD and it shall become a spoil to the nations 6 And her daughters which are in the field shall be slain by the sword and they shall know that I am the LORD 7 ¶ For thus saith the Lord GOD Behold I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon a king of kings from the norâ—h with horses and with chariots and with hors-men and companies and much people 8 He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field and he shall make a fort against thee and ‖ Or pour out the enzine of shâ—t cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee 9 And he shall set engines of war against thy walls and with his axes he shall break down thy towers 10 By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee thy walls shall shake at the noise of the hors-men and of the wheels and of the chariots when he shall enter into thy gates †Heb. according to the entriuâ—â— of a city brokâ—â— up as men enter into a city wherein is made a breach 11 With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets he shall slay thy people by the sword and thy strong garisons shall go down to the ground 12 And they shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls and destroy †Heb. houses of thy desire thy pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water 13 * Isa 24.8 Jer. 7.34 16.9 And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard 14 And I will make thee like the top of a rock thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon thou shalt be built no more for I the LORD have spoken it saith the Lord GOD. 15 ¶ Thus saith the Lord GOD to Tyrus Shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall when the wounded cry when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee 16 Then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay away their robes and put off their broidered garments they shall clothe themselves with †Heb. tremblings trembling they shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at every moment and be astonished at thee 17 And they shall take up a * Rev. 18.9 lamentation for thee and say to thee How art thou destroyed that wast inhabited †Heb. of the seas of sea-faring men the renowned city which wast strong in the sea she and her inhabitants which cause their terrour to be on all that haunt it 18 Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall yea the isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure 19 For thus saith the Lord GOD When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited when I shall bring up the deep upon thee and great waters shall cover thee 20 When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit with the people of old time and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth in places desolate of old with them that go down to the pit that thou be not inhabited and I shall set glory in the land of the living 21 I will make thee †Heb. terrours a terrour and thou shalt be no more though thou be sought for
yet shalt thou never be found again saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXVII 1 The rich supply of Tyrus 26 The great and unrecoverable fall thereof THe word of the LORD came again unto me saying 2 Now thou son of man take up a lamentation for Tyrus 3 And say unto Tyrus O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea which art a merchant of the people for many isles Thus saith the Lord GOD O Tyrus thou hast said I am †Heb. perfect of beauty of perfect beauty 4 Thy borders are in the †Heb. heart midst of the seas thy builders have perfected thy beauty 5 They have †Heb. built made all thy ship-boards of fir-trees of Senir they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee 6 Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars ‖ Or they have made try hatches of ivory wed troden †Heb. the daughter the company of the Ashurites have made thy benches of ivory brought out of the isles of Chittim 7 Fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was that which thou spreadest forth to be thy sale ‖ Or purple and scarlet blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was that which covered thee 8 The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners thy wise men O Tyrus that were in thee were thy pilots 9 The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy ‖ Or stoppers of chinks †Heb. strengthners calkers all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise 10 They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army thy men of war they hanged the shield and helmet in thee they set forth thy comeliness 11 The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about and the Gammadims were in thy towers they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about they have made thy beauty perfect 12 Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kinds of riches with silver iron tin and lead they traded in thy fairs 13 Javan Tubal and Meshech they were thy merchants they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy ‖ Or merchandise market 14 They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and hors-men and mâ—les 15 The men or Dedan were thy merchants many isles were the merchandise of thine hand they brought thee for a present horns of ivory and ebony 16 Syria was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of †Heb. thâ— wâ—rkâ— the wares of thy making they occupied in thy fairs with emeralds purple and broidered work and fine linen and coral and †Heb. chrâ—seprasâ—â— agate 17 Judah and the land of Israel they were thy merchants they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith and Pannag and honey and oyl and ‖ Or â—â—â—in balm 18 Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making for the multitude of all riches in the wine of Helbon and white wooll 19 Dan also and Javan ‖ Or Meuzal going to and fro occupied in thy fairs bright iron cassia and calamus were in thy market 20 Dedan was thy merchant in †Heb. clothes of freedom precious clothes for chariots 21 Arabia and all the princes of Kedar †Heb. they were the merchants of thy hand they occupied with thee in lambs and rams and goats in these were they thy merchants 22 The merchants of Sheba and Raamah they were thy merchants they occupied in thy fairs with chief of all spices and with all precious stones and gold 23 Haran and Canneh and Eden the merchants of Sheba Asshur and Chilmad were thy merchants 24 These were thy merchants in ‖ Or excelent things all sorts of things in blue †Heb. foldings clothes and broidered work and in chests of rich apparel bound with cords and made of cedar among thy merchandise 25 The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market and thou wast replenished and made very glorious in the midst of the seas 26 ¶ Thy rowers have brought thee into great waters the east-wind hath broken thee in the †Heb. heart midst of the seas 27 Thy * Rev. 18.9 c. riches and thy fairs thy merchandise thy mariners and thy pilots thy calkers and the occupiers of thy merchandise and all thy men of war that are in thee ‖ Or even withal and in all thy company which is in the midst of thee shall fall into the †Heb. heart midst of the seas in the day of thy ruine 28 The ‖ Or water suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of of thy pilots 29 And all that handle the oar the mariners and all the pilots of the sea shall come down from their ships they shall stand upon the land 30 And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee and shall cry bitterly and shall cast up dust upon their heads they shall wallow themselves in the ashes 31 And they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee and gird them with sackcloth and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing 32 And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee and lament over thee saying What city is like Tyrus like the destroyed in the midst of the sea 33 When thy wares went forth out of the seas thou filledst many people thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise 34 In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the depths of the waters thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall 35 All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee and their kings shall be fore afraid they shall be troubled in their countenance 36 The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee thou shalt be †Heb. terrours a terrour and †Heb. shalt not be for ever never shalt be any more CHAP. XXVIII 1 Gods judgement upon the prince of Tyrus for his sacrilegious pride 11 A lamentation of his great glory corrupted by sin 20 The judgement of Zidon 24 The restauration of Israel THe word of the LORD came again unto me saying 2 Son of man say unto the prince of Tyrus Thus saith the Lord GOD Because thine heart is lined up and thou hast said I am a god I sit in the seat of God in the †Heb. heart midst of the seas * Isa 31.3 yet thou art a man and not God though thou set thine heart as the heart of God 3 Behold thou art wiser then Daniel there is no secret that they can hide from thee 4 With thy wisdom and with thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures 5 †Heb. by the greatness of
the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon †Heb. fair of branches with fair branches and with a shadowing shroud and of an high stature and his top was among the thick boughs 4 The waters ‖ Or nourished made him great the deep ‖ Or brought him up set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants and sent out her ‖ Or conduits little rivers unto all the trees of the field 5 Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field and his boughs were multiplied and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters ‖ Or when it sent them forth when he shot forth 6 All the * Dan 4. fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring forth their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations 7 Thus was he fair in his greatness in the longth of his branches for his root was by great waters 8 The cedars in the * Gen. â— garden of God could not hide him the fir-trees were not like his boughs and the cheâ—nut trees were not like his branches not any tree in the garden of God was like unto him in his beauty 9 I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches so that all the trees of Eden that were in the garden of God envied him 10 ¶ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD Because thou hast lifted up thy self in height and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs and his heart is lifted up in his height 11 I have therefore delivered him into the hand of the mighty one of the heathen †Heb. in dâ—ink be shall aâ— unto kinâ— he shall surely deal with him I have driven him out for his wickedness 12 And strangers the terrible of the nations have cut him off and have left him upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are faln and his boughs are broken by all the rivers of the land and all the people of the earth are gone down from his shadow and have left him 13 Upon his ruine shall all the fowls of the heaven remain and all the beasts of the field shall be upon his branches 14 To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs neither their tree ‖ Or stand upon themselves for their height stand up in their height all that drink water for they are all delivered unto death to the nether parts of the earth in the midst of the children of men with them that go down to the pit 15 Thus saith the Lord GOD In the day when he went down to the grave I caused a mourning I covered the deep for him and I restrained the flouds thereof and the great waters were stayed and I caused Lebanon †Heb. to be black to mourn for him and all the trees of the field fainted for him 16 I made the nations to shake at the sound of his fall when I cast him down to hell with them that descend into the pit and all the trees of Eden the choice and best of Lebanon all that drink water shall be comforted in the nether parts of the earth 17 They also went down into hell with him unto them that be slain with the sword and they that were his arm that dwelt under his shadow in the midst of the heathen 18 ¶ To whom art thou thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden yet shall thou be brought down with the trees of Eden unto the nether parts of the earth thou shalt lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that be slain by the sword this is Pharaoh and all his multitude saith the Lord GOD. CHAP. XXXII 1 A lamentation for the fearful fall of Egypt 11 The sword of Babylon shall destroy it 17 It shall be brought down to hell among all the uncircumcised nations ANd it came to pass in the twelfth year in the twelfth moneth in the first day of the moneth that the word of the LORD came unto me saying 2 Son of man take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say unto him Thou art like a young lion of the nation and thou art aâ— a whale in the seas and thou camest forth with thy rivers ‖ Or â—eaâ—on and troubledst the waters with thy feet and fouledst their rivers 3 Thus saith the Lord GOD I will therefore * Chap. 12 13. 17.20 spread out my net over thee with a company of many people and they shall bring thee up in my net 4 Then will I leave thee upon the land I will cast thee forth upon the open field and will cause all the fowls of the heaven to remain upon thee and I will fill the beasts of the whole earth with thee 5 And I will lay thy flesh upon the mountains and fill the valleys with thy height 6 I will also water with thy bloud ‖ Or the land of thy swimming the land wherein thou swimmest even to the mountains and the river shall be full of thee 7 And when I shall ‖ Or extinâ—â—st put thee out * Isa 13.12 Joâ—l 2.21 and 3.15 Matth. 24 2â— I will cover the heaven and make the stars thereof dark I will cover the sun with a cloud and the moon shall not give her light 8 All the †Heb. â—â—it of the light in heaven brought lights of heaven will I make †Heb. them dark dark over thee and set darkness upon thy land saith the Lord GOD. 9 I will also †Heb. provâ—ke to anger of grief vex the hearts of many people when I shall bring thy destruction among the nations into the countreys which thou haâ—t not known 10 Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shall brandish my sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every man for his own life in the day of thy fall 11 ¶ For thus saith the Lord GOD The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee 12 By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall the terrible of the nations all of them and they shall spâ—â—l the pomp of Egypt and all the multitude thereof shall be destroyed 13 I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from besides the great waters neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them 14 Then will I make their waters deep and cause their rivers to run like oyl saith the Lord GOD. 15 When I shall make the land of Egypt desolate and the countrey shall be †Heb. desolate from 〈◊〉 fulness thereof destitute of that whereof it was full when I shall smite all them that dwell therein
border of Reuben from the east-side unto the west-side a portion for Judah 8 ¶ And by the border of Judah from the east-side unto the west-side shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth and in length as one of the other parts from the east-side unto the west-side and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it 9 The oblation that ye shall offer unto the LORD shall be of five and twenty thousand in length and of ten thousand in breadth 10 And for them even for the priests shall be this holy oblation toward the north five and twenty thousand in length and toward the west ten thousand in breadth and toward the east ten thousand in breadth and toward the south five and twenty thousand in length and the sanctuary of the LORD shall be in the midst thereof 11 ‖ Or the sanctified portion shall be for the priests It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok which have kept my ‖ Or ward or ordinance charge which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray as the Levites went astray 12 And this oblation of the land that is offered shall be unto them a thing most holy by the border of the Levites 13 And over against the border of the priests the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length and ten thousand in breadth all the length shall be five and twenty thousand and the breadth ten thousand 14 And they shall not sell of it neither exchange nor alienate the first-fruits of the land for it is holy unto the LORD 15 ¶ And the five thousand that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand shall be a profane place for the city for dwelling and for suburbs and the city shall be in the midst thereof 16 And these shall be the measures thereof the north side four thousand and five hundred and the south-side four thousand and five hundred and on the east-side four thousand and five hundred and the west-side four thousand and five hundred 17 And the suburbs of the city shall be toward the north two hundred and fifty and toward the south two hundred and fifty and toward the east two hundred and fifty and toward the west two hundred and fifty 18 And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand east-ward and ten thousand west-ward and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city 19 And they that serve the city shall serve it out of all the tribes of Israel 20 All the oblation shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand ye shall offer the holy oblation four-square with the possession of the city 21 ¶ And the residue shall be for the prince on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east-border and west-ward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west-border over against the portions for the prince and it shall be the holy oblation and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof 22 Moreover from the possession of the Levites and from the possession of the city being in the midst of that which is the princes between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin shall be for the prince 23 As for the rest of the tribes from the east-side unto the west-side Benjamin shall have †Heb. one portion a portion 24 And by the border of Benjamin from the east-side unto the west-side Simeon shall have a portion 25 And by the border of Simeon from the east-side unto the west-side Issachar a portion 26 And by the border of Issachar from the east-side unto the west-side Zebulun a portion 27 And by the border of Zebulun from the east-side unto the west-side Gad a portion 28 And by the border of Gad at the south-side south-ward the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of †Heb. Meribah-kadesh strife in Kadesh and to the river toward the great sea 29 This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance and these are their portions saith the Lord GOD. 30 ¶ And these are the goings out of the city on the north-side four thousand and five hundred measures 31 And the gates of the city shall be after the names of the tribes of Israel three gates north-ward one gate of Reuben one gate of Judah one gate of Levi. 32 And at the east-side four thousand and five hundred and three gates and one gate of Joseph one gate of Benjamin one gate of Dan. 33 And at the south-side four thousand and five hundred measures and three gates one gate of Simeon one gate of Issachar one gate of Zebulun 34 At the west-side four thousand and five hundred with their three gates one gate of Gad one gate of Asher one gate of Naphtali 35 It was round about eighteen thousand measures and the name of the city from that day shall be †Heb. Jebovah-shammah The LORD is there ¶ The book of DANIEL CHAP. I. 1 Jehoiakims captivity 3 Ashpenaz taketh Daniel Hananiah Misharl and Azariab 8 They refusing the kings portion do prosper with pulse and water 17 Their excellency in wisdom IN the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah * 2 Kin. 24.2 ◠Chr. 36.6 came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem and besieged it 2 And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of God which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god and he brought the vessels into the treasure-house of his god 3 ¶ And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs that he should bring certain of the children of Israel and of the kings feed and of the princes 4 Children in whom was no blemish but well-favoured and skilful in all wisdom and cunning in knowledge and understanding science and such as had ability in them to stand in the kings palace and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Caldeans 5 And the king appointed them a daily provision of the kings meat and of †Heb. 〈◊〉 wine of 〈◊〉 drink the wine which he drank so nourishing them three years that at the end thereof they might stand before the king 6 Now among these were of the children of Judah Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah 7 Unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names for he gave unto Daniel the name of Belteshazzar and to Hananiah of Shadrach and to Mishael of Meshach and to Azariah of Abed-nego 8 ¶ But Daniel purposed in his
heart that he would not defile himself with the portion of the kings meat nor with the wine which he drank therefore he requested of the prince of the eunuchs that he might not defile himself 9 Now God had brought Daniel into favour and tender love with the prince of the eunuchs 10 And the prince of the eunuchs said unto Daniel I fear my lord the king who hath appointed your meat and your drink for why should he see your faces †Heb. sadder worse liking then the children which are of your ‖ Or term or continuance sort then shall ye make me endanger my head to the king 11 Then said Daniel to ‖ Or the sieward Melzar whom the prince of the eunuchs had set over Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah 12 Prove thy servants I beseech thee ten days and let them give us †Heb. of pulse pulse †Heb. that we may eat c. to eat and water to drink 13 Then let our countenances be looked upon before thee and the countenance of the children that eat of the portion of the kings meat and as thou seest deal with thy servants 14 So he consented to them in this matter and proved them ten days 15 And at the end of ten days their countenances appeared fairer and fatter in flesh then all the children which did eat the portion of the kings meat 16 Thus Melzar took away the portion of their meat and the wine that they should drink and gave them pulse 17 ¶ As for these four children God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom and ‖ Or be made Daniel understand Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams 18 Now at the end of the days that the king had said he should bring them in then the prince of the eunuchs brought them in before Nebuchadnezzar 19 And the king commauned with them and among them all was found none like Daniel Hananiah Mishael and Azariah therefore stood they before the king 20 And in all matters of †Heb. wisdom of understanding wisdom and understanding that the king enquired of them he found them ten times better then all the magicians and astrologers that were in all his realm 21 And Daniel continued even unto the first year of king Cyrus CHAP. II. 1 Nebuchadnezzar forgetting his dream requireth it of the Caldeans by promises and threatnings 10 They acknowledging their inability are judged to die 14 Daniel obtaining some respite findeth the dream 19 He blesseth God â—4 He staying the decree is brought to the king 31 The dream 36 The interpretation 4â— Daniels advancement ANd in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams wherewith his spirit was troubled and his sleep brake from him 2 Then the king commanded to call the magicians and the astrologers and the sorcerers and the Caldeans for to shew the king his dreams so they came and stood before the king 3 And the king said unto them I have dreamed a dream and my spirit was troubled to know the dream 4 Then spake the Caldeans to the king in Syriack * Ch. 3.9 O king live for ever tell thy servants the dream we will shew the interpretation 5 The king answered and said to the Caldeans The thing is gone from me it ye will not make known unto me the dream with the interpretation thereof ye shall be * Ch. 3.29 †Câ—ld maâ—e pieces cut in pieces and your houses shall be made a dunghil 6 But it ye shew the dream and the interpretation thereof ye shall receive of me gifts and ‖ Or see ch 5. â—7 rewards and great honour therefore shew me the dream and the interpretation thereof 7 They answered again and said Let the king tell his servants the dream and we will shew the interpretation of it 8 The king answered and said I know of certainty that ye would †Cald. buy gain the time because ye see the thing is gone from me 9 But if ye will not make known unto me the dream there is but one decree for you for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me till the time be changed therefore tell me the dream and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof 10 ¶ The Caldeans answered before the king and said There is not a man upon the earth that can shew the kings matter therefore there is no king lord nor ruler that asked such things at any magician or astrologer or Caldean 11 And it is a rare thing that the king requireth and there is none other that can shew it before the king except the gods whose dwelling is not with flesh 12 For this cause the king was angry and very furious and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon 13 And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain 14 ¶ Then Daniel †Câ—â—d â—â—swered answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the ‖ Or chief marshal †Câ—ld chief of the executioners or slaughter-men captain of the kings guard which was gone forth to slay the wise-men of Babylon 15 He answered and said to Arioch the kings captain Why is the decree so hasty from the king Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel 16 Then Daniel went in and desired of the king that he would give him time and that he would shew the king the interpretation 17 Then Daniel went to his house and made the thing known to Hananiah Mishael and Azariah his companions 18 That they would desire mercies †Cald. from before God of the God of heaven concerning this secret ‖ Or that they should not destroy Daniel c. that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon 19 ¶ Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night-vision then Daniel blessed the God of heaven 20 Daniel answered and said * Ps â—13 2 115.18 Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever for wisdom and might are his 21 And be changeth the times and the seasons he removeth kings and setteth up kings he giveth wisdom unto the wise and knowledge to them that know understanding 22 He revealeth the deep and secret things he knoweth what is in the darkness and the light dwelleth with him 23 I thank thee and praise thee O thou God of my fathers who hast given me wisdom and might and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee for thou hast now made known unto us the kings matter 24 ¶ Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon he went and said thus unto him Destroy not the wise men of Babylon bring me in before the king and I will shew unto the king the interpretation 25 Then Arioch brought
day and the prophet also shall fall with thee in the night and I will †Heb. cut â—ff deâ—troy thy mother 6 ¶ My people are †Heb. cut off destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God I will also forget thy children 7 As they were increased so they sinned against me therefore will I change their glory into shame 8 They eat up the sin of my people and they †Heb. lift up their soul to their iniquity let their heart on their iniquity 9 And there shall be * Isa 24.2 like people like priest and I will †Heb. visit upon punish them for their ways and †Heb. cause to return reward them their doings 10 For they shall eat and not have enough they shall commit whoredom and shall not increase because they have left off to take heed to the LORD 11 Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart 12 ¶ My people ask counsel at their stocks and their staff declareth unto them for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err and they have gone a whoring from under their God 13 They sacrifice upon the tops of the mountains and burn incense upon the hills under oaks and poplars and elms because the shadow thereof is good therefore your daughters shall commit wheredom and your spouses shall commit adultery 14 ‖ Or shall I not c. I will not punish your daughters when they commit whoredom nor your spouses when they commit adultery for themselves are separated with whores and they sacrifice with harlots therefore the people that doth not understand shall ‖ Or be punished fall 15 ¶ Though thou Israel play the harlot yet let not Judah offend and come not ye unto Gilgal neither go ye up to * 1 King â—2 29 Beth-aven nor swear The LORD liveth 16 â—or Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer now the LORD will â—eeâ— them as a lamb in a large place 17 Ephraim is joyned to idols let him alone 18 Their drink †Heb. â—â—â—e is sowre they have committed whoredom continually her †Heb. â—â—eldâ— rulers with shame do love Give ye 19 The wind hath bound her up in her wings and they shall be ashame because of their sacrifices CHAP. V. 1 Gods judâ—ements against the priests the people and the princes of Israel for tâ—â—â—r manifold sins 15 until they repent HEar ye this O priests and hearken ye house of Israel and give ye ear O house of the king for judgement is toward you because ye have been a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor 2 And the revolter are profound to make slaughter ‖ Or 〈◊〉 c. though I have been †Heb. a 〈◊〉 a rebuker of them all 3 I know Ephraim and Israel is not hid from me for now O Ephraim thou committest whoredom and Israel is defiled 4 †Heb. they will not give ‖ Or their doings will not suffer thâ—m They will not frame their doings to turn unto their God for the spirit of whoredoms is in the midst of them and they have not known the LORD 5 And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity Judah also shall fall with them 6 They shall go with their flocks and with their herds to seek the LORD but they shall not finde him he hath withdrawn himself from them 7 They have dealt treacherously against the LORD for they have begottâ—n strange children now shall a moneth devour them with their portions 8 Blow ye the cornet in Gibeah and the trumpet in Ramah cry aloud at Beth-aven after thee O Benjamin 9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be 10 The princes of Judah were like them that remove the bound thereâ—oâ—â— I will pour out my wrath upon them like water 11 Ephraim is oppressed and broken in judgement because be willingly walked after the commandment 12 Therefore will I be unto Ephraim as a moth and to the house of Judah as ‖ Or a worn rottenness 13 When Ephraim saw his sickness and Judah saw his wound then went Ephraim to the Assyrian and sent ‖ Or to the king of Jareb or to the king that sâ—ould plead to king Jareb yet could he not heal you nor cure you of your wound 14 For I will be unto Ephraim as a lion and as a young lion to the house of Judah I even I will tear and go away I will take away and none shall rescue him 15 ¶ I will go and return to my place †Heb. till they be guilty till they acknowledge their offence and seek my face in their affliction they will seek me early CHAP. VI. 1 An exhortation to repentance 4 A complaint of their untowardness and iniquity COmâ— and let us return unto the LORD for he hath torn and he will heal us he hath smitten and he will binde us up 2 * 1 Cor. 15.4 Afâ—er two days will he revive us in the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his sight 3 Then shall we know if we follow on to know the LORD his going forth is prepared as the morning and he shall come unto us as the rain as the latter and former rain unto the earth 4 ¶ O Ephraim what shall I do unto thee O Judah what shall I do unto thee for your ‖ Or mercy or kindness goodness is as a morning cloud and as the early dew it goeth away 5 Therefore have I hewed them by the prophets I have slain them by the words of my mouth ‖ Or that the judgements might be c. and thy judgements are as the light that goeth forth 6 For I desired * 1 Sam â—5 22 Eccles 5.1 Mat. 9.13 12. â— mercy and not sacrifice and the knowledge of God mâ—re then burnt-offerings 7 But they ‖ Or like Adam like men have transgressed the covenant there have they dealt treacherously against me 8 Gâ—â—ead is a city of them that work iniquity and is ‖ Or â—unning â—or bloud polluted with â—lâ—â—d 9 And as troups of robbers wait for a man so the company of priests murder in the way †Heb with one shoulder or to Sâ—eâ—hem by consent for the commit ‖ Or enormity Jewdness 10 I â—ave seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel there is the whoredom of Ephraim Israel is defiled 11 Also O Judah he hath set an harvest for thee when I returned the captivity of my people CHAP. VII 1 A reproof of manifold sins 11 Gods wrath against them for their hypocrisie WHen I would have healed Israel then the iniquity of Ephraim was discovered and the
†Heb. according to righteousness moderately and he * Lev. 26.4 Deut. 11.14 will cause to come down for you the rain the former rain and the latter rain in the first moneth 24 And the floors shall be full of wheat and the fats shall overflow with wine and oyl 25 And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten the canker-worm and the caterpiller and the palmer-worm my great army which I sent among you 26 And ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the LORD your God that hath dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never be ashamed 27 And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the LORD your God and none else and my people shall never be ashamed 28 ¶ And it shall come to pass afterward that I * Isa 44 3. Act. 2.17 will pour out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions 29 And also upon the servants and upon the hand-maids in those days will I pour out my spirit 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth bloud and fire and pillars of smoke 31 * Ch. 3.15 The sun shall be turned into darkness and the moon into bloud before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come 32 And it shall come to pass that * Rom. 10.13 whosoever shall call on the name of the LORD shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in Jerusalem shall be deliverance as the LORD hath said and in the remnant whom the LORD shall call CHAP. III. 1 Gods judgements against the enemies of his people 9 God will be known in his judgement 18 His blessing upon the church FOr behold in those days and in that time when I shall bring again the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem 2 I will also gather all nations and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel whom they have scattered among the nations and parted my land 3 And they have cast lots for my people and have given a boy for a harlot and sold a girl for wine that they might drink 4 Yea and what have ye to do with me O Tyre and Zidon and all the coasts of Palestine will ye render me a recompence and if ye recompense me swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head 5 Because ye have taken my silver and my gold and have carried into your temples my goodly †Heb. desirable pleasant things 6 The children also of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto †Heb. the sins of the Grecians the Grecians that ye might remove them far from their border 7 Behold I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them and will return your recompence upon your own head 8 And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah and they shall sell them to the Sabeans to a people far off for the LORD hath spoken it 9 ¶ Proclaim ye this among the Gentiles †Heb. sanctifie prepare war wake up the mighty men let all the men of war draw near let them come up 10 * Isa 2.4 Beat your plow-shares into swords and your ‖ Or sithes pruning-hooks into spears let the weak say I am strong 11 Assemble your selves and come all ye heathen and gather your selves together round about thither ‖ Or the LORD shall bring down cause thy mighty ones to come down O LORD 12 Let the heathen be wakened and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about 13 * Rev. 14.15 Put ye in the sickle for the harvest is ripe come get you down for the press is full the sats overflow for their wickedness is great 14 Multitudes multitudes in the valley of ‖ Or concision or threshing decision for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision 15 The * Ch. 2.31 sun and the moon shall be darkned and the stars shall withdraw their shining 16 The LORD also shall * Jer. 25.30 Amos 1.2 roar out of Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the heavens and earth shall shake but the LORD will be the †Heb. place of repair or harbour hope of his people and the strength of the children of Israel 17 So shall ye know that I am the LORD your God dwelling in Zion my holy mountain then shall Jerusalem be †Heb. holiness holy and there shall no * Rev. 23.27 strangers pass through her any more 18 ¶ And it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall * Amos 9.13 drop down new wine and the hills shall flow with milk and all the rivers of Judah shall †Heb. go flow with waters and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the LORD and shall water the valley of Shittim 19 Egypt shall be a desolation and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness for the violence against the children of Judah because they have shed innocent bloud in their land 20 But Judah shall ‖ Or abide dwell for ever and Jerusalem from generation to generation 21 For I will cleanse their bloud that I have not cleansed ‖ Or even I the LORD that dwelleth in Zion for the LORD dwelleth in Zion ¶ AMOS CHAP. I. 1 Amos sheweth Gods judgement upon Syria 6 upon the Philistines 9 upon Tyrus 11 upon Edom 13 upon Ammon THe words of Amos who was among the herdmen of Tekoa which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel two year before the * Zec 14.5 earthquake 2 And he said the LORD will * Jer. 25.30 Joel 3.16 roar from Zion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn and the top of Carmel shall wither 3 Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of Damascus ‖ Or yea for four and for four I will not ‖ Or â—oâ—vâ—rt it or let it he quiet and to verse 6. c. turn away the punishment thereof because they have threshed Gilead with threshing-instruments of iron 4 But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael which shall devour the palaces of Ben-hadad 5 I will break also the bar of Damascus and cut off the inhabitant from ‖ Or Bikath-aven the plain of Aven and him that holdeth the sceptre from ‖ Or Betheden the house of Eden and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir saith the LORD 6 ¶ Thus saith the LORD For three transgressions of * 2
‖ Or on the his feet in Damascus in a couch 13 Hear ye and testifie in the house of Jacob saith the Lord GOD the God of hosts 14 That in the day that I shall ‖ Or punish Isâ—â—el for visit the transgressions of Israel upon him I will also visit the altars of Beth-el and the horns of the altar shall be cut off and fall to the ground 15 And I will smite the winter-house with the summer-house and the houses of ivory shall perish and the great houses shall have an end saith the LORD CHAP. IV. 1 He reproveth Israel for oppression 4 for Idolatry 6 and for their incorrigibleness HEar this word ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountain of Samaria which oppress the poor which crush the needy which say to their masters Bring and let us drink 2 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness that lo the days shall come upon you that he will take you away with hooks and your posterity with fish-hooks 3 And ye shall go out at the breaches every cow at that which is before her and ‖ Or ye shall cast away the things of the palace ye shall cast them into the palace saith the LORD 4 ¶ Come to Beth-el and transgress at Gilgal multiply transgression and bring your sacrifices every morning and your tithes after †Heb. three years of days three years 5 And †Heb. offer by burning offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven and proclaim and publish the free-offerings for †Heb. so ye love this liketh you O ye children of Israel saith the Lord GOD. 6 ¶ And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities and want of bread in all your places yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LORD 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you when there were yet three moneths to the harvest and I caused it to rain upon one city and caused it not to rain upon another city one piece was rained upon and the piece whereupon it rained not withered 8 So two or three cities wandred unto one city to drink water but they were not satisfied yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LORD 9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew ‖ Or the multitude of your gardens c. did the palmer-worm c. when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees increased the palmer-worm devoured them yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LORD 10 I have sent among you the pestilence ‖ Or in the way after the manner of Egypt your young men have I slain with the sword †Heb. with the captivity of your horses and have taken away your horses and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LORD 11 I have overthrown some of you as God overthrew * Gen. 19 24.25 Sedom and Gomorrah and ye were as a firebrand pluckt out of the burning yet have ye not returned unto me saith the LORD 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee O Israel and because I will do this unto thee prepare to meet thy God O Israel 13 For lo he that formeth the mountains and createth the ‖ Or spirit wind and declareth unto man what is his thought that maketh the morning darkness and treadeth upon the high places of the earth the LORD the God of hosts is his name CHAP. V. 1 A lamentation for Israel 4 An exhortation to repentance 21 God rejecteth their hypocritical service HEar ye this word which I take up against you even a lamentation O house of Israel 2 The virgin of Israel is faln she shall no more rise she is forsaken upon her land there is none to raise her up 3 For thus saith the Lord GOD The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten to the house of Israel 4 ¶ For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel Seek ye me and ye shall live 5 But seek not * Chap. 4.4 Beht-el nor enter into Gilgal and pass not to Beer-sheba for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity and Beth-el shall come to nought 6 Seek the LORD and ye shall live lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph and devour it and there be none to quench it in Beth-el 7 Ye who turn judgement to wormwood and leave off righteousness in the earth 8 Seek him that maketh the * Job â— â— and 38. â—â— seven stars and Orion and turneth the shadow of death into the morning and maketh the day dark with night that * Chap. 9.6 calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth the LORD is his name 9 That strengthneth the †Heb. spoil spoiled against the strong so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress 10 They hate him that rebuketh in the gate and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly 11 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor and ye take from him burdens of wheat * Zeph. 1.13 ye have built houses of hewn stone but ye shall not dwell in them ye have planted †Heb. vineyards of desire pleasant vineyards but ye shall not drink wine of them 12 For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins they afflict the just they take ‖ Or a ransom a bribe and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right 13 Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time for it is an evil time 14 Seek good and not evil that ye may live and so the LORD the God of hosts shall be with you as ye have spoken 15 * Ps 34.14 97.10 Rom. 12.9 Hate the evil and love the good and establish judgement in the gate it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph 16 Therefore the LORD the God of hosts the Lord saith thus Wailing shall be in all streets and they shall say in all the high-ways Alas alas and they shall call the husbandman to mourning and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing 17 And in all vineyards shall be wailing for I will pass through thee saith the LORD 18 * Isa 5.19 Jer. 30.7 Joel 2.2 Zeph. 1.15 Wo unto you that desire the day of the LORD to what end is it for you the day of the LORD is darkness and not light 19 As if a man did flee from a lion and a bear met him or went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall and a serpent hit him 20 Shall not the day of the LORD be darkness and not light even very dark and no brightness in it 21 ¶ * Isa 1.11 Jer. 6.20 I hate I despise your feast-days and I will not ‖
A famine of the word threatned THus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me and behold a basket of summer-fruit 2 And he said Amos what seest thou and I said A basket of summer-fruit Then said the LORD unto me The end is come upon my people of Israel I will not again pass by them any more 3 And the songs of the temple †Heb. shall howl shall be howlings in that day saith the Lord GOD there shall be many dead bodies in every place they shall cast them forth †Heb. be silent with silence 4 ¶ Hear this O ye that swallow up the needy even to make the poor of the land to fail 5 Saying When will the ‖ Or moneth new-moon be gone that we may sell corn and the sabbath that we may †Heb. open set forth wheat making the ephah small and the shekel great and †Heb. perverting the balances of deceit falsifying the balances by deceit 6 That we may buy the poor for * Chap. 2.6 silver and the needy for a pair of shoes yea and sell the refuse of the wheat 7 The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob Surely I will never forget any of their works 8 Shall not the land tremble for this and every one mourn that dwelleth therein and it shall rise up wholly as a floud and it shall be cast out and drowned as by the floud of Egypt 9 And it shall come to pass in that day saith the Lord GOD that I will cause the sun to go down at noon and I will darken the earth in the clear day 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loyns and baldness upon every head and I will make it as the mourning of an onely son and the end thereof as a bitter day 11 ¶ Behold the days come saith the Lord GOD that I will send a famine in the land not a famine of bread nor a thirst for water but of hearing the words of the LORD 12 And they shall wander from sea to sea and from the north even to the east they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD and shall not finde it 13 In that day shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst 14 They that swear by the sin of Samaria and say Thy god O Dan liveth and the manner of Beer-sheba liveth even they shall fall and never rise up again CHAP. IX 1 The certainty of the desolation 11 The restoring of the tabernacle of David I Saw the Lord standing upon the altar and he said Smite the ‖ Or chapiter or knop lintel of the door that the posts may shake and ‖ Or wound them cut them in the head all of them and I will slay the last of them with the sword he that fleeth of them shall not flee away and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered 2 * Psal 139.8 c. Though they dig into hell thence shall mine hand take them though they climb up to heaven thence will I bring them down 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel I will search and take them out thence and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea thence will I command the serpent and he shall bite them 4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies thence will I command the sword and it shall slay them and * Jer. 44.11 I will set mine eyes upon them for evil and not for good 5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land and it shall melt and all that dwell therein shall mourn and it shall rise up wholly like a floud and shall be drowned as by the floud of Egypt 6 It is he that buiâ—deth his ‖ Or spheres †Heb. ascensions * Ps 104.3 stories in the heaven and hath founded his ‖ Or bundle troup in the earth he that * Chap. 5.8 calleth for the waters of the sea and poureth them out upon the face of the earth the LORD is his name 7 Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me O children of Israel saith the LORD Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt and the * Jer. 47.4 Philistines from Caphtor and the Assyrians from Kir 8 Behold the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob saith the LORD 9 For lo I will command and I will †Heb. cause to move sift the house of Israel among all nations like as corn is sifted in a sive yet shall not the least †Heb. stone grain fall upon the earth 10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword which say The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us 11 ¶ In that day will I raise up the * Act. 15.16 tabernacle of David that is faln and †Heb. hâ—â—â—e or wall close up the breaches thereof and I will raise up his ruines and I will build it as in the days of old 12 That they may possess the ramnant of Edom and of all the heathen †Heb. upon whom my name is called which are called by my name saith the LORD that doeth this 13 Behold the days come saith the LORD that the plowman shall overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes him that †Heb. draweth forth soweth seed and the mountains shall drop ‖ Or nâ—w wine * Joel 3.18 sweet wine and all the hills shall melt 14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel and they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them and they shalt plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof they shall also make gardens and eat the fruit of them 15 And I will plant them upon their land and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them saith the LORD thy God ¶ OBADIAH 1 The destruction of Edom 3 for their pride 10 and for their wrong unto Jacob. 17 The salvation and victory of Jacob. THe vision of Obadiah Thus saith the Lord GOD concerning Edom. * Jer. 49.14 We have heard a rumour from the LORD and an ambassadour is sent among the heathen Arise ye and let us rise up against her in battel 2 Behold I have made thee small among the heathen thou art greatly despised 3 ¶ The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock whose habitation is high that saith in his heart Who shall bring me down to the ground 4 * Jer. 49.16 Though thou exalt thy self as the eagle and though thou set thy nest among the stars thence will I bring thee down saith the
enemies THe burden of Nineveth The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite 2 ‖ Or The LORD is a jealous Gâ—â— and revenger c. God is * Ex. 20.5 jealous and the LORD revengeth the LORD revengeth and †Heb. that cath furâ— is furious the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies 3 The LORD is â—â—ed 32 6 7. slow to anger and great in power and will not at all acquit the wicked the LORD hath his way in the wirlwind and in the storm and the clouds are the dust of his feet 4 He rebuketh the sea maketh it dry and drieth up all the rivers Bashan languisheth and Carmel the flower of Lebanon languisheth 5 The mountains quake at him and the hills melt and the earth is burnt at his presence yea the world and all that dwell therein 6 Who can stand before his indignation and who can †Heb stand up abide in the fierceness of his anger his fury is poured out like fire and the rocks are thrown down by him 7 The LORD is good a ‖ Or strength strong hold in the day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him 8 But with an overrunning floud he will make an utter end of the place thereof and darkness shall pursue his enemies 9 What do ye imagine against the LORD he will make an utter end affliction shall not rise up the second time 10 For while they be folden together as thorns and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry 11 There is one come out of thee that imagineth evil against the LORD †Heb. a counsellâ—ur of Beâ—â—al a wicked counsellour 12 Thus saith the LORD ‖ Or It the would have been at peace so should they have been many and so should they have been shorn and he should have pasâ—ed away Though they be quiet and likewise many yet thus shall they be †Heb. shorn cut down when he shall pass through though I have afflicted thee I will afflict thee no more 13 For now will I break his yoke from off thee and will burst thy bonds in sunder 14 And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee that no more of thy name be sown out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image I will make thy grave for thou art vile 15 Behold upon the * Isa 52.7 Rom. 10.15 mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings that publisheth peace O Judah †Heb. feast keep thy solemn feasts perform thy vows for †Heb. Belial the wicked shall no more pass through thee he is utterly cut off CHAP. II. The fearful and victorions armies of God againse Ninevth ‖ Or The disperser or hammer HE that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face keep the munition watch the way make thy loyns strong fortify thy power mightily 2 * Isa 10.12 For the LORD hath turned away ‖ Or the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel for the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vinâ—-branches 3 The shield of his mighty men is made red the valiant men are ‖ Or died scarlet in scarlet the chariots shall be with ‖ Or fiery torches flaming torches in the day of his preparation and the fir-trees shall be terribâ—y shaken 4 The chariots shall rage in the streets they shall justle one against another in the broad ways †Heb. their show they shall seem like torches they shall run like the lightnings 5 He shall recount his ‖ Or gâ—lants worthies they shall stumble in their walk they shall make haste to the wall thereof and the †Heb covering or coverer defence shall be prepared 6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened and the palace shall be ‖ Or molten dissolved 7 And ‖ Or that which was established or there was a stand made Huzzab shall be ‖ Or discovered led away captive she shall be brought up and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves tabering upon their breasts 8 But Nineveh is ‖ Or from the days that she hath been of old like a pool of water yet they shall flee away Stand stand shall they cry but none shall ‖ Or cause them to turn look back 9 Take ye the spoil of silver take the spoil of gold ‖ Or and their infinite store c. for there is none â—nd of the store and glory out of all the ‖ Heb. vessels of desire pleasant furniture 10 She is empty and void and waste and the * Isa 13.7 8. heart melteth and the knees smite together and much pain is in all loyns and the faces of them all gather blackness 11 Where is the dwelling of the lions and the feeding-place of the young lions where the lion even the old lion walked and the lions whelp and none made them afraid 12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and his dens with ravine 13 Behold I am against thee saith the LORD of hosts and I will burn her chariots in the smoke and the sword shall devour thy young lions and I will cut off thy prey from the earth and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard CHAP. III. The miserable ruine of Nineveh Wo to the †Heb. city of blouds * Ezek. 24.9 Hâ—â— 2.12 bloudy city it is all full of lies and robbery the prey departeth not 2 The noise of a whip and the noise of the rattling of the wheels and of the pransing horses and of the jumping chariots 3 The hors-man lifteth up both †Heb. the flamâ— of the sword and the lightning of the spear the bright sword and the glittering spear and there is a multitude of slain and a great number of carcases and there is none end of their corpses they stumble upon their â—orpses 4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favoured harlot the mistress of witchcrafts that selleth nations through her whoredoms and families through her witchcrafts 5 Behold I am against thee saith the LORD of hosts and * Isa 47.3 Ezek. 16.37 I will discover thy skirts upon thy face and I will shew the nations thy nakedness and the kingdoms thy shame 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee vile and will set thee as a gazing-stock 7 And it shall come to pass that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee and say Nineveh is laid waste who will bemâ—an her Whence shall I seek â—omforters for thee 8 Art thou better then ‖ Or nourishing †Heb. no Amon. populous No that was situate among the rivers that had
LORD go forth and fight against those nations as when he fought in the day of battel 4 ¶ And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives which is before Jerusalem on the east and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west and there shall be a very great valley and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north and half of it toward the south 5 And ye shall flee to the valley of ‖ Or my mountains the mountains ‖ Or when he shall touch the valley of the mountains to the place he separated for the valley of the mountains shall reach unto Azal yea ye shall flee like as ye fled from before the * Am. 1.1 earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah and the LORD my God shall come and all the saints with thee 6 And it shall come to pass in that day that the light shall not be †Heb. precious clear nor †Heb. thickness dark 7 But ‖ Or the day shall be one it shall be * Rev. 22.5 one day which shall be known to the LORD not day nor night but it shall come to pass that at * Isa 60.19 Rev. 21.23 evening-time it shall be light 8 And it shall be in that day that living * Ezek. 47.1 Joel 3.18 Rev. 22.1 waters shall go out from Jerusalem half of them toward the ‖ Or eastern former sea and half of them toward the hinder sea in summer and in winter shall it be 9 And the LORD shall be King over all the earth in that day shall there be one LORD and his name one 10 All the land shall be ‖ Or compassed turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem and it shall be lifted up and ‖ Or shall abide inhabited in her place from Benjamins gate unto the place of the first gate unto the corner-gate and from the tower of Hananiel unto the kings wine-presses 11 And men shall dwell in it and there shall be no more utter destruction but Jerusalem ‖ Or shall abide shall be safely inhabited 12 ¶ And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet and their eyes shall consume away in their holes and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth 13 And it shall come to pass in that day that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour 14 And ‖ Or thou also O Judah shalt Judah also shall fight ‖ Or against at Jerusalem and the wealth of all the heathen round about shall be gathered together gold and silver and apparel in great abundance 15 And so shall be the plague of the horse of the mule of the camel and of the ass and of all the beasts that shall be in these tents as this plague 16 ¶ And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King the LORD of hosts and to keep the feast of tabernacles 17 And it shall be that whoso will not come up of all the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King the LORD of hosts even upon them shall be no rain 18 And if the family of Egypt go not up and come not †Heb. upon whom there is not that have no rain there shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite the heathen that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles 19 This shall be the ‖ Or sin punishment of Egypt and the punishment of all nations that come not up to keep the feast of tabernacles 20 ¶ In that day shall there be upon the ‖ Or bridles bells of the horses HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD and the pots in the LORDs house shall be like the bowls before the altar 21 Yea every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be Holiness unto the LORD of hosts and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them and seethe therein and in that day there shall be no more the * Isa 35.8 Joel 3.17 Rev. 21.27 â—2 15 Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts ¶ MALACHI CHAP. I. 1 Malachi complaineth of Israels unkindness 6 of their irreligiousness 12 and profaneness THe burden of the word of the LORD to Israel †Heb. by the hand of Malachi by Malachi 2 I have loved you saith the LORD yet ye say Wherein hast thou loved us was not Esau Jacobs brother saith the LORD yet I * Rom. 9.13 loved Jacob 3 And I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness 4 Whereas Edom saith We are impoverished but we will return and build the desolate places thus saith the LORD of hosts They shall build but I will throw down and they shall call them The border of wickedness and the people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever 5 And your eyes shall see and ye shall say The LORD will be magnified ‖ Or upon †Heb. from upon from the border of Israel 6 ¶ A son honoureth his father and a servant his master if then I be a father where is mine honour and if I be a master where is my fear saith the LORD of hosts unto you O priests that despise my name and ye say Wherein have we despised thy name 7 ‖ Or bring unto c. Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar and ye say Wherein have we polluted thee In that ye say The table of the LORD is contemptible 8 And if ye offer the blinde †Heb. to sacrifice for sacrifice is it not evil and if ye offer the lame and sick is it not evil offer it now unto thy governour will he be pleased with thee or accept thy person saith the LORD of hosts 9 And now I pray you beseech †Heb. the face of God God that he will be gracious unto us this hath been †Heb. from your hand by your means will he regard your persons saith the LORD of hosts 10 Who is there even among you that would shut the doors for nought neither do ye kindle fire on mine altar for nought I have no pleasure in you saith the LORD of hosts neither will I accept an * Isa 1.11 Jer. 6.20 Am. 5.21 offering at your hand 11 For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name and a pure offering for my name
of the Lord our God and to give us †Heb. 〈◊〉 Ezra 9.8 food in the time of our servitude 80 Yea when we were in bondage we were not forsaken of our Lord but he made us gracious before the kings of Persia so that they gave us food 81 Yea and honoured the temple of our Lord and raised up the desolate Sion that they have given us a sure abiding in Jewry and Jerusalem 82 And now O Lord what shall we say having these things for we have transgressed thy commandments which thou gavest by the hand of thy servants the prophets saying 83 That the land which ye enter into to possess as an heritage is a land polluted with the pollutions of the strangers of the land and they have filled it with their uncleanness 84 Therefore now shall ye not joyn your daughters unto their sons neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons 85 Moreover you shall never seek to have peace with them that ye may be strong and eat the good things of the land and that ye may leave the inheritance of the land unto your children for evermore 86 And all that is befaln is done unto us for our wicked works and great sins for thou O Lord didst make our sins light 87 And didst give unto us such a root but we have turned back again to transgress thy law and to mingle our selves with the uncleanness of the nations of the land 88 ‖ Or be not angry c Mightest not thou be angry with us to destroy us till thou hadst left us neither root seed nor name 89 O Lord of Israel thou art true for we are left a root this day 90 Behold now are we before thee in our iniquities for we cannot stand any longer by reason of these things before thee 91 And as Esdras in his prayer made his confession weeping and lying flat upon the ground before the temple there gathered unto him from Jerusalem a very great multitude of men and women and children for there was great weeping among the multitude 92 Then Jechonias the son of Jeelus one of the sons of Israel called out and said O Esdras we have sinned against the Lord God we have married strange women of the nations of the land and now is all Israel ‖ Or exalted Deu. 28.13 Baruch 2.5 aloft 93 Let us make an oath to the Lord that we will put away all our wives which we have taken of the heathen with their children 94 Like as thou hast decreed and as many as do obey the law of the Lord. 95 Arise and put in execution for to thee doth this matter appertain and we will be with thee dovaliantly 96 So Esdras arose and took an oath of the chief of the priests and Levites †Heb. and all Israel Ezâ—a 10.5 of all Israel to do after these things and so they sware CHAP. IX 1 Esdras assembleth all the people 10 They promise to put away the strange wives 20 The names and number of them that did so 4â— The law of Moses is read and declared before all the people 49 They weep and are put in minde of the feast-feast-day THen Esdras rising from the court of the temple went to the chamber of Joanan the son of Eliasib 2 And remained there and did eat no meat nor drink water mourning for the great iniquities of the multitude 3 And there was a proclamation in all Jewry and Jerusalem to all them that were of the captivity that they should be gathered together at Jerusalem 4 And that whosoever met not there within two or three days according as the elders that bare rule appointed their cattel should be seised to the use of the temple and himself ‖ Vtterly destroyed Josh 10.8 cast out from them that were of the captivity 5 And in three days were all they of the tribe of Juda and Benjamin gathered together at Jerusalem the twentieth day of the ninth moneth 6 And all the multitude sat trembling in the broad court of the temple because of the present â—â—ul weather 7 So Esdras arose up and said unto them Ye have transgressed the law in marrying strange wives thereby to increase the sins of Israel 8 And now by confession give glory unto the Lord God of our fathers 9 And do his will and separate your selves from the heathen of the land and from the strange women 10 Then cried the whole multitude and said with a loud voice Like as thou hast spoken so will 〈◊〉 do 11 But forasmuch as the people are many and it is foul weather so that we cannot stand without and this is not a work of a day or two seeing our sin in these things is spread far 12 Therefore let the rulers of the multitude ‖ Or stand stay and let all them of our habitations that have strange wives come at the time appointed 13 And with them the rulers and judges of every place till we turn away the wrath of the Lord from us for this matter 14 Then Jonathan the son of Azael and Ezechias the son of Theocanus accordingly took this matter upon them and Mosollam and Levis and Sabbatheus helped them 15 And they that were of the captivity did according to all these things 16 And Esdras the priest chose unto him the principal men of their families all by name and in the first day of the tenth moneth they sat together to examine the matter 17 So their cause that held strange wives was brought to an end in the first day of the first moneth 18 And of the priests that were come together and had strange wives there were found 19 Of the son of Jesus the son of Josedec and his brethren ‖ Or Maasias Matthelas and Eleazar and ‖ Or Jarib Joribus and ‖ Or Gedaliab Joadanus 20 And they gave their hands to put away their wives and to offer †Heb. a ram rams to make reconcilement for their ‖ Or purification errours 21 And of the sons of Emmer Ananias and Zabdeus and * Harim Eanes and * Maasiah Sameius and * Jehiel Hiereel and * Vzziah Azarias 22 And of the sons of * Pashur Phaisur Elionas Massias Ismael and Nathanael and * Jozabad Ocidelus and * Elasah Talsas 23 And of the Levites Jozabad and Semis and * Kelaiah Colius who was called * Kelitah Calitas and * Pethahiah Patheus and Judas and Jonas 24 Of the holy singers * Eliashib Eleazurus Bacchurus 25 Of the porters Sallumus and * Telem Tolbanes 26 Of them of Israel of the sons of * Parosh Phoros * Bamiah Hiermas and * Jesiah Eddias and Melchias and * Miamin Measus and Eleazar and * Malchiah Asibias and Baanias 27 Of the sons of Ela Matthanias Zacharias and * Jehiel Hierielus and Hieremoth and * Abdi Aedias 28 And of the sons of
alone and through none other by me also they shall be ended and by none other 7 Then answered I and said What shall be the parting asunder of the times or when shall be the end of the first and the beginning of it that followeth 8 And he said unto me From Abraham unto Isaac when Jacob and Esau were born of him * Gen. 25.26 Jacobs hand held ‖ Or from the beginning first the heel of Esau 9 For Esau is the end of the world and Jacob is the beginning of it that followeth 10 The hand of man is betwixt the heel and the hand other question Esdras ask thou not 11 ¶ I answered then and said O Lord that bearest rule if I have found favour in thy sight 12 I beseech thee shew thy servant the end of thy tokens whereof thou shewedst me part the last night 13 So he answered and said unto me Stand up upon thy feet and hear a mighty sounding voice 14 And it shall be as it were a great ‖ Or earthquake motion but the place where thou standest shall not be moved 15 And therefore when it speaketh be not afraid for the word is of the end and the foundation of the earth is understood 16 And way because the speech of these things trembleth and is moved for it knoweth that the end of these things must be changed 17 And it hapned that when I had heard it I stood up upon my feet and hearkned and behold there was a voice that spake and the sound of it was like the sound of many waters 18 And it said Behold the days come that I will begin to draw nigh and to vnit them that dwell upon the earth 19 And will begin to make inquisition of them what they be that have hurt unjustly with their unrighteousness and when the affliction of Sion shall be fulfilled 20 And when the world that shall begin to vanish away shall be ‖ Ot â—â—aâ—â—d finished then will I shew these tokens the books shall be opened before the firmament and they shall see all together 21 And the children of a year old shall speak with their voices the women with childe shall bring forth untimely children of three or four moneths old and they shall live and be raised up 22 And suddenly shall the sown places appear unsown the full store-houses shall suddenly be found empty 23 And the trumpet shall give a sound which when every man heareth they shall be suddenly afraid 24 At that time shall friends fight one against another like enemies and the earth shall stand in fear with those that dwell therein the springs of the fountains shall stand still and in three hours they shall not run 25 Whosoever remaineth from all these that I have told thee shall escape and see my salvation and the end of your world 26 And the men that are received shall see it who have not tasted death from their birth and the heart of the inhabitants shall be changed and turned into another meaning 27 For evil shall be put out and deceit shall be quenched 28 As for faith it shall flourish corruption shall be overcome and the truth which hath been so long without fruit shall be declared 29 And when he talked with me behold I looked by little and little upon him before whom I stood 30 And these words said he unto me I am come to shew thee the time of the night to come 31 If thou wilt pray yet more and fast seven days again I shall tell thee greater things ‖ See ch 13. vers 52. by day then I have heard 32 For thy voice is heard before the most High for the Mighty hath seen thy righteous dealing he hath seen also thy chastity which thou hast had ever since thy youth 33 And therefore hath he sent me to shew thee all these things and to say unto thee Be of good comfort and fear not 34 And hasten not with the times that are past to think vain things that thou mayest not hasten from the latter times 35 And it came to pass after this that I wept again and fasted seven days in like manner that I might fulfiâ— the three weeks which he told me 36 And in the eighth night was my heart vexed within me again and I began to speak before the most High 37 For my spirit was greatly set on fire and my soul was in distress 38 And I said O Lord thou speakest from the beginning of the creation even the first day and saidest thus * Gen. â— 1 Let heaven and earth be made and thy word was a perfect work 39 And then was the spirit and darknesses and silence were on every side the sound of mans voice was not yet formed 40 Then commandedst thou a fair light to come forth of thy treasures that thy work might appear 41 Upon the second day thou madest the spirit of the firmament and commandedst it to part asunder and to make a division betwixt the waters that the one part might go up and the other remain beneath 42 Upon the third day thou didst command that the waters should be gathered in the seventh part of the earth six parts hast thou died up and kept them to the intent that of these some being planted of God and tilled might serve thee 43 For as soon as thy word went forth the work was made 44 For immediately there weâ— great and innumerable fruit and many and divers pleasures for the taste and flowers of unchangeable colour and odours of wonderful smell and this was done the third day 45 * Gen. 1.14 Upon the fourth day thou commandedst that the sun should shine and the moon give her light and the stars should be in order 46 And gavest them a charge to do * Gen. 1.15 Deut. 4.19 service unto man that was to be made 47 Upon the fifth day thou saidest unto the seventh part * Gen. 1.20 where the waters were gathered that it should bring forth living creatures fowls and fishes and so it came to pass 48 For the dumb water and without life brought forth living things at the commandment of God that all people might praise thy wondrous works 49 Then didst thou ordain two living creatures the one thou calledâ—t ‖ Bebemoth Enoch and the other Leviathan 50 And didst separate the one from the other for the seventh part namely where the water was gathered together might not hold them both 51 Unto Enoch thou gavest one part which was dried up the third day that he should dwell in the same part wherein are a thousand hills 52 But unto Leviathan thou gavest the seventh part namely the moist and hast kept him to be devoured of whom thou wilt and when 53 Upon the sixth day thou gavest commandment unto the earth that before thee it should bring forth beasts cattel and creeping things 54 And after these Adam also whom thou madest lord of all thy creatures
three days I will speak other things unto thee and declare unto thee mighty and wondrous things 57 Then went I forth into the field giving praise and thanks greatly unto the most High because of his wonders which he did in time 58 And because he governeth the same and such things as fall in their seasons and there I sat three days CHAP. XIV 1 A voice out of a bush â—aâ—eth Esdras 10 and telleth him that the world waxeth old 22 He desireth because the law was burnt to write all aâ—ain 24 and is bid to get swift writers 39 He and they are filled with understanding 45 But he is charged not to publish all that is written ANd it came to pass upon the third day I sat under an oak and behold there came a voice out of a bush over against me and said Esdras Esdras 2 And I said Here am I Lord and I stood up upon my feet 3 Then said he unto me * Exed 3.2 8. In the bush I did manifestly reveal my self unto Moses and talked with him when my people served in Egypt 4 And I sent him and led my people out of Egypt and brought him up to the mount of Sinai where I held him by me a long season 5 And told him many wondrous things and shewed him the secrets of the times and the end and commanded him saying 6 These words shalt thou declare and these shalt thou hide 7 And now I say unto thee 8 That thou lay up in thy heart the signs that I have shewed and the dreams that thou hast seen and the interpretations which thou hast heard 9 For thou shalt be taken away from all and from henceforth thou shalt remain with my son and with such as be like thee until the times be ended 10 For the world hath lost his youth and the times begin to was old 11 For the world is divided into twelve parts and the ten parts of it are gone already and half of a tenth part 12 And there remaineth that which is after the half of the tenth part 13 Now therefore set thine house in order and reprove thy people comfort such of them as be in trouble and 〈◊〉 renounce corruption 14 Let go from thee mortal thoughts cast away the burdens of man put off now the weak nature 15 And set aside the thoughts that are most heavy unto thee and haste thee to flee from there times 16 For * Matth. 4.7 yet greater evils then those which thou hast seen happen shall be done hereafter 17 For look how much the world shall be weaker through age so much the more shall evils increase upon them that dwell therein 18 For the truth is fled far away and leasing is hard at hand for now hasteth the vision to come which thou hast seen 19 Then answered I before thee and said 20 Behold Lord I will go as thou hast commanded me and reprove the people which are present but they that shall be born afterward who shall admonish them thus the world is set in darkness and they that dwell therein are without light 21 For thy law is hurnt therefore no man knoweth the things that are done of thee or the works that shall begin 22 But if I have found grace before thee send the holy Ghost into me and I shall write all that hath been done in the world since the beginning which were written in thy law that men may finde thy path and that they which will live in the latter days may live 23 And he answered me saying Go thy way gather the people together and say unto them that they seek thee not for fourty days 24 But look thou prepare thee many ‖ Or â—â—tâ—â—â—es to write on Seever 44. box trees and take with thee Sarea Dabria Selemia ‖ Or 〈◊〉 Ecanus and Asiel these five which are ready to write swiftly 25 And come hither and I shall light a candle of understanding in thine heart which shall not be put out till the things be performed which thou shalt begin to write 26 And when thou hast done some things shalt thou publish and some things shalt thou shew secretly to the wise to morrow this hour shalt thou begin to write 27 Then went I forth as he commanded and gathered all the people together and said 28 Hear these words O Israel 29 * Gen. 47.4 Our fathers at the beginning were strangers in Egypt from whence they were delivered 30 * Act. 7.53 And received the law of life which they kept not which ye also have transgressed after them 31 Then was the land even the land of Sion parted among you by lot but your fathers and ye your selves have done unrighteousness and have not kept the ways which the Highest commanded you 32 And for as much as he is a righteous judge he took from you in time the thing that he had given you 33 And now are you here and your brethren amongst you 34 Therefore if so be that you will subdue your own understanding and reform your hearts ye shall be kept alive and after death ye shall obtain mercy 35 For after death shall the judgement come when we shall live again and then shall the names of the righteous be manifest and the works of the ungodly shall be declared 36 Let no man therefore come unto me now nor seek after me these fourty days 37 So I took the five men as he commanded me and we went into the field and remained there 38 And the next day behold a voice called me saying Esdras * Ezek. 3.2 open thy mouth and drink that I give thee to drink 39 Then opened I my mouth and behold he reached me a full cup which was full as it were with water but the colour of it was like fire 40 And I took it and drank and when I had drunk of it my heart uttered understanding and wisdom grew in my breast for my spirit strengthned my memory 41 And my mouth was opened and shut no more 42 The Highest gave understanding unto the five men and they wrote the wonderful visions of the night that were told which they knew not and they sat fourty days and they wrote in the day and at night they are bread 43 As for me I spake in the day and I held not my tongue by night 44 In fourty days they wrote ‖ Or 〈◊〉 hundred and four two hundred and four books 45 And it came to pass when the fourty days were fulfilled that the Highest spake saying The first that thou hast written publish openly that the worthy and unworthy may read it 46 But keep the seventy last that thou mayest deliver them onely to such as be wise among the people 47 For in them is the spring of understanding the fountain of wisdom and ‖ Or the 〈◊〉 of knowledge the stream of knowledge 48 And I did so CHAP. XV. 1 This prophesie is certain 5 God will take vengeance
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
But the people were very thirsty and compelled us to do unto them as we have spoken and to bring an oath upon our selves which we will not break 31 Therefore now pray thou for us because thou art a godly woman and the Lord will send us rain to fill our cisterns and we shall faint no more 32 Then said Judith unto them Hear me and I will do a thing which shall go throughout all generations to the children of our nation 33 You shall stand this night in the gate and I will go forth with my waiting-woman and within the days that you have promised to deliver the city to our enemies the Lord will visit Israel by mine hand 34 But enquire not you of mine act for I will not declare it unto you till the things be finished that I do 35 Then said Ozias and the princes unto her Go in peace and the Lord God be before thee to take vengeance on our enemies 36 So they returned from the tent and went to their wards CHAP. IX 1 Judith humbleth her self 2 and prayeth God to prosper her purpose against the enemies of his sanctuary THen Judith fell upon her face and put ashes upon her head and uncovered the sackcloth wherewith she was clothed and about the time that the incense of that evening was offered in Jerusalem in the house of the Lord Judith cried with a loud voice and said 2 O Lord God of my Father * Gen. 34.2 25. Simeon to whom thou gavest a sword to take vengeance of the strangers who loosened the girdle of a maid to defile her and discovered the thigh to her shame and polluted her virginity to her reproach for thou saidst It shall not be so and yet they did so 3 Wherefore thou gavest their rulers to be slain so that they died their bed in bloud being deceived and smotest the servants with their lords and the lords upon their thrones 4 And hast given their wives for a prey and their daughters to be captives and all their spoils to be divided amongst thy dear children which were moved with thy zeal and abhorred the pollution of their bloud and called upon thee for aid O God O my God hear me also a widow 5 For thou hast wrought not onely those things but also the things which fell out before and which ensued after thou hast thought upon the things which are now and which are to come 6 Yea what things thou didst determine were ready at hand and said Lo we are here for all thy ways are prepared and thy judgements are in thy fore-knowledge 7 For behold the Assyrians are multiplied in their power they are exalted with horse and man they glory in the strength of their footmen they trust in shield and spear and bowe and sling and know not that thou art the Lord that breakest the battles the Lord is thy name 8 Throw down their strength in thy power and bring down their force in thy wrath for they have purposed to defile thy sanctuary and to pollute the tabernacle where thy glorious name resteth and to cast down with sword the horn of thy altar 9 Behold their pride and send thy wrath upon their heads give into mine hand which am a widow the power that I have conceived 10 * Judg. 4.21 and 5.26 Smite by the deceit of my lips the servant with the prince and the prince with the servant break down their stateliness by the hand of a woman 11 * Judg. 7.2.2 Chr. 14.11 16.8 20.6 For thy power standeth not in multitude nor thy might in strong men for thou art a God of the afflicted an helper of the oppressed an upholder of the weak a protectour of the forlorn a saviour of them that are without hope 12 I pray thee I pray thee O God of my father and God of the inheritance of Israel Lord of the heavens and earth Creatour of the waters King of every creature hear thou my prayer 13 And make my speech and deceit to be their wound and stripe who have purposed cruel things against thy covenant and thy hallowed house and against the top of Sion and against the house of the possession of thy children 14 And make every nation and tribe to acknowledge that thou art the God of all power and might and that there is none other that protecteth the people of Israel but thou CHAP. X. 3 Judith doth set forth her self 10 She and her maid go forth into the camp 17 The watch take and conduct her to Holofernes NOw after that she had ceased to cry unto the God of Israel and bad made an end of all these words 2 She rose where she had fain down and called her maid and went down into the house in the which she abode in the sabbath-sabbath-days and in her feast-feast-days 3 And pulled off the sackcloth which she had on and put off the garments of her widowhood and washed her body all over with water and anointed her self with precious ointment and braided the hair of her head and put on a †Gr. â—atre tire upon it and put on her garments of gladness wherewith she was clad during the life of Manasses her husband 4 And she took sandals upon her feet and put about her her bracelets and her chains and her rings and her ear-rings and all her ornaments and decked her self bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her 5 Then she gave her maid a bottle of wine and a cruse of oyl and filled a bag with parched corn and lumps of figs and with fine bread so she ‖ Or wrapped or parked folded all these things together and said them upon her 6 Thus they went forth to the gate of the city of Bethulia and found standing there Ozias and the ancients of the city Chabris and Charmis 7 And when they saw her that her countenance was altered and her apparel was changed they wondred at her beauty very greatly and said unto her 8 The God the God of our fathers give thee savour and accomplish thine enterprises to the glory of the children of Israel and to the exaltation of Jerusalem then they worshipped God 9 And she said unto them Command the gates of the city to be opened unto me that I may go forth to accomplish the things whereof you have spoken with me so they commanded the young men to open unto her as she had spoken 10 And when they had done so Judith went out she and her maid with her and the men of the city looked after her until she was gone down the mountain and till she had passed the valley and could see her no more 11 Thus they went straight forth in the valley and the first watch of the Assyrians met her 12 And took her and asked her Of what people art thou and whence comest thou and whither goest thou And she said I am a woman of the Hebrews and am fled from them for
words surely if thou do as thou hast spoken thy God shall be my God and thou shalt dwell in the house of king Nabuchodonosor and shalt be renowned through the whole earth CHAP. XII 2 Judith will not â—at of Holofernes meat 7 She tarried three days in the camp and every night went forth to pray 13 Bagoas moveth her to be merry with Holofernes 20 who for joy of her company drunk much THen he commanded to bring her in where his plate was set and bade that they should prepare for her of his own meats and that she should drink of his own wine 2 And Judith said I * Gen. 43.32 Dan. 1.8 Tob. 1.11 will not eat thereof lest there be an offence but provision shall be made for me of the things that I have brought 3 Then Holofernes said unto her If thy provision should fail how should we give thee the like for there be none with us of thy nation 4 Then said Judith unto him As thy soul liveth my lord thine hand-maid shall not spend those things that I have before the Lord work by mine hand the things that he hath determined 5 Then the servants of Holofernes brought her into the tent and she slept till midnight and she arose when it was towards the morning watch 6 And sent to Holofernes saying Let my Lord now command that thine hand maid may go forth unto prayer 7 Then Holofernes commanded his guard that they should not stay her thus she abode in the camp three days and went out in the night into the valley of Bethulia and washed her self in a fountain of water by the camp 8 And when she came out she besought the Lord God of Israel to direct her way to the raising up of the children of her people 9 So she came in clean and remained in the lent until she did eat her meat at evening 10 And in the fourth day Holofernes made a feast to his own servants onely and called none of the officers to the banquet 11 Then said he to Bagoas the eunuch who had charge over all that he had Go now and perswade this Hebrew woman which is with thee that she come unto us and eat and drink with us 12 For lo it will be a shame for our person if we shall let such a woman go not having had her company for if we draw her not unto us she will laugh us to scorn 13 Then went Bagoas from the presence of Holofernes and came to her and he said Let not this fair damsel fear to come to my lord and to be honoured in his presence and drink wine and be merry with uâ— and be made this day as one of the daughters of the Assyrians which serve in the house of Nabuchodonosor 14 Then said Judith unto him Who am I now that I should gainsay my lord surely whatsoever pleaseth him I will do speedily and it shall be my joy unto the day of my death 15 So she arose and decked her self with her apparel and all her womans attire and her maid went and laid soft skins on the ground for her over against Holofernes which she had received of Bagoas for her daily use that she might sit and eat uâ—on them 16 Now when Judith came in and sat down Holofernes his heart was ravished with her and his minde was moved and he desired greatly her company for he waited a time to deceive her from the day that he had seen her 17 Then said Holofernes unto her Drink now and be merry with us 18 So Judith said I will drink now my lord because my life is magnified in me this day more then all the days since I was borâ— 19 Then she took and ate and drank before him what her maid had prepared 20 And Holofernes took great delight in her and drank much more wine then he had drunk at any time in one day since he was bâ—rn CHAP. XIII 2 Judith is left alone with Holofernes in his tent 4 She prayeth God to give her strength 7 She cut off his head while he slept 10 and returned with it to Bethulia 17 They saw it and commend her NOw when the evening was come his servants made haste to depart and Bagoas shut his tent without and dismissed the waiters from the presence of his lord and they went to their beds for they were all weary because the feast had been long 2 And Judith was left alone in the tent and Holofernes lying along upon his bed for he was filled with * Eccluâ— 31.20 25 wine 3 Now Judith had commanded her maid to stand without her bed-chamber and to wait for her coming forth as she did daily for she said she would go forth to her prayers and she spake to Bagoas according to the same purpose 4 So all went forth and none was left in the bed-chamber neither little nor great Then Judith standing by his bed said in her heart O Lord God of all power look at this present upon the works of mine hands for the exaltation of Jerusalem 5 For now is the time to help thine inheritance and to execute mine enterprises to the destruction of the enemies which are risen against us 6 Then she came to the pillar of the bed which was at Holofernes head and took down his fauchion from thence 7 And approached to his bed and took hold of the hair of his head and said Strengthen me O Lord God of Israel this day 8 And she smote twice upon his neck with all her might and she took away his head from him 9 And tumbled his body down from the bed and pulled down the canopy from the pillars and anon after she went forth and gave Holofernes his head to her maid 10 And she put it in her bag of meat so they twain went together according to their custom unto prayer and when they passed the camp they compassed the valley and went up the mountain of Bethulia and came to the gates thereof 11 Then said Judith afar off to the watchmen at the gate Open open now the gate God even our God is with us to shew his power yet in Jerusalem and his forces against the enemy as he hath even done this day 12 Now when the men of her city heard her voice they made haste to go down to the gate of their city and they called the elders of the city 13 And then they ran all together both small and great for it was strange unto them that she was come so they opened the gate and received them and made a fire for a light and stood round about them 14 Then she said to them with a loud voice Praise praise God praise God I say for he hath not taken away his mercy from the house of Israel but hath destroyed our enemies by mine hands this night 15 So she took the head out of the bag and shewed it and said unto them Behold the head of Holofernes the chief captain of
is a testimony and plants bearing fruit that never come to ripeness and a standing pillar of salt is a monument of an unbeleeving soul 8 For regarding not wisdom they gat not onely this hurt that they knew not the things which were good but also left behinde them to the world a memorial of their foolishness so that in the things wherein they offended they could not so much as be hid 9 But wisdom delivered from pain those that attended upon her 10 When the righteous fled from his brothers wrath she guided him in right paths shewed him the kingdom of God and gave him knowledge of holy things made him rich in his travels and multiplied the fruit of his labours 11 In the covetousness of such as oppressed him she stood by him and made him rich 12 She defended him from his enemies and kept him safe from those that lay in wait and in a sore conflict she gave him the victory that he might know that godliness is stronger then all 13 * Gen. 37.28 39.7 Act 7.10 When the righteous was sold she forsook him not but delivered him from sin she went down with him into the pit 14 And left him not in bonds till she brought him the sceptre of the kingdom and ‖ Or the power of them that ruled over him power against those that oppressed him as for them that had accused him she shewed them to be liars and gave him perpetual glory 15 * Ex. 1.10 12.42 She delivered the ‖ Or holy righteous people and blameless seed from the nation that oppressed them 16 She entred into the soul of the servant of the Lord and * Exod. 5.1 withstood dreadful kings in wonders and signs 17 Rendred to the righteous a reward of their labours guided them in a marvellous way and was unto them for a cover by day and a ‖ Or flame light of stars in the night-season 18 * Exod. 14.21 22. Psal 78.13 Brought them through the Red sea and led them through much water 19 But she drowned their enemies and cast them up out of the bottom of the deep 20 Therefore the righteous spoiled the ungodly and * Exo. 15.1 praised thy holy name O Lord and magnified with one accord thine hand that sought for them 21 For wisdom opened the mouth of the dumb and made the tongues of them that cannot speak eloquent CHAP. XI 5 The Egyptians were punished and the Israelites reserved in the same thing 15 They were plagued by the same things wherein they sinned 20 God could have destroyed them otherwise 23 but he is merciful to all SHe prospered their works in the hand of the holy prophet 2 * Exod. 16.1 They went through the wilderness that was not inhabited and pitched tents in places where there lay no way 3 * Exod. 17.10 11. They stood against their enemies and were avenged of their adversaries 4 When they were thirsty they called upon thee and water was given them out of the flinty rock and their thirst was quenched out of the hard stone 5 For by what things their enemies were punished by the same they in their need were benefited 6 For in stead of a fountain of a perpetual running river troubled with foul bloud 7 For a manifest reproof of that commandment whereby the infants were slain thou gavest unto them abundance of water by a means which they hoped not for 8 Declaring by that thrist then * Exod. 7.20 how thou hadst punished their adversaries 9 For when they were tried albeit but in mercy chastised they knew how the ungodly were judged in wrath and tormented thirsting in another manner then the just 10 For these thou didst admonish and try as a father but the other as a severe king thou didst condemn and punish 11 Whether they were absent or present they were vexed alike 12 For a double grief came upon them and a groaning for the remembrance of things past 13 For when they heard by their own punishments the other to be benefited they ‖ Or perceived had some feeling of the Lord. 14 For whom they rejected with scorn when he was long before thrown out at the casting forth of the infants him in the end when they saw what came to pass they admired 15 But for the foolish devices of their wickedness wherewith being deceived they worshipped serpents void of reason and vile beasts thou didst send a multitude of unreasonable beasts upon them for vengeance 16 That they might know that wherewithal a man sinneth by the same also shall he be punished 17 For thy almighty hand that made the world of matter without form wanted not means to send among them a multitude of bears or fierce lions 18 Or unknown wilde beasts full of rage newly created breathing out either a fiery vapour or filthy sents of scattered smoke or shooting horrible sparkles out of their eyes 19 Whereof not onely the harm might dispatch them at once but also the terrible sight utterly destroy them 20 Yea and without these might they have faln down with one blast being persecuted of vengeance and scattered abroad through the breath of thy power but thou hast ordered all things in measure and number and weight 21 For thou canst shew thy great strength at all times when thou wilt and who may withstand the power of thine arm 22 For the whole world before thee is as a ‖ Or little weight little grain of the balance yea as a drop of the morning dew that falleth down upon the earth 23 But thou hast mercy upon all for thou canst do all things and winkest at the sins of men because they should amend 24 For thou lovest all the things that are and abhorrest nothing which thou hast made for never wouldest thou have made any thing if thou hadst hated it 25 And how could any thing have endured if it had not been thy will or been preserved if not called by thee 26 But thou sparest all for they are thine O Lord thou lover of souls CHAP. XII 2 God did not destroy those of Chanaan all at once 12 If he had done so who could control him 19 But by sparing them be taught us 27 They were punished with their gods FOr thine uncorruptible Spirit is in all things 2 Therefore chastnest thou them by little and little that offend and warnest them by putting them in remembrance wherein they have offended that leaving their wickedness they may beleeve on thee O Lord. 3 For it was thy will to destroy by the hands of our fathers both those ‖ Or ancient old inhabitants of thy holy land 4 Whom thou hatedst for doing most odious works of ‖ Or sorceries witchcrafts and wicked sacrifices 5 And also those merciless murderers of children and devourers of mans flesh and the feasts of bloud 6 With their priests out of the midst of their idolatrous crue and the parents that killed with their own
of the Lord and in the sixth place he imparted them understanding and in the seventh speech an interpreter of the cogitations thereof 6 Counsel and a tongue and eyes ears and a heart gave he them to understand 7 Withal he filled them with the knowledge of understanding and shewed them good and evil 8 He set his eye upon their hearts that he might shew them the greatness of his works 9 He gave them to glory in his marvellous acts for ever that they might declare his works with understanding 10 And the elect shall praise his holy name 11 Beside this he gave them knowledge and the law of life for an heritage 12 He made an everlasting covenant with them and shewed them his judgements 13 Their eyes saw the majesty of his glory and their ears heard his glorious voice 14 And he said unto them Beware of all unrighteousness and he * Exod. 20. 21. 22. 23. gave every man commandment concerning his neighbour 15 Their ways are ever before him and shall not be hid from his eyes 16 Every man from his youth is given to evil neither could they make to themselves fleshy hearts for stony 17 For * Deut. 32.8.9 in the division of the nations of the whole earth he set a * Rom. 13 1. ruler over every people but * Deu. 4 2â— 10.15 Israel is the Lords portion 18 Whom being his first-born he nourisheth with discipline and giving him the light of his love doth not forsake him 19 Therefore all their works are as the sun before him and his eyes are continually upon their ways 20 None of their unrighteous deeds are hid from him but all their sins are before the Lord. 21 But the Lord being gracious and knowing his workmanship neither left nor forsook them but spared them 22 The * Chap. 29.12 13. alms of a man is as a fignet with him and he will keep the good deeds of man as the apple of the eye and give repentance to his sons and daughters 23 * Matth. 25.21 35 Afterwards he will rise up and reward them and render their recompence upon their heads 24 * Acts 3.19 But unto them that repent he granted them return and comforted those that failed in patience 25 * â—er 3.12 Return unto the Lord and forsake thy sins make thy prayer before his face and ‖ Or lessen thy offence offend less 26 Turn again to the most High and turn away from iniquity for he will lead thee out of darkness into the ‖ Or illumination sight of health and hate thou abounation vehemently 27 * Psal 6 5. Is 38.18 19â— Who shall praise the most High in the grave in stead of them which live and give thanks 28 Thanksgiving perisheth from the dead as from one that is not the living and found in heart shall praise the Lord. 29 How great is the loving kindness of the Lord our God and his compassion unto such as turn unto him in holiness 30 For all things cannot be in men because the son of man is not importal 31 * Job 25.4 5â— What is brighter then the sun yet the light thereof faileth and flesh and bloud will imagine evil 32 He vieweâ—t the power of the height of heaven and all men are but earth and â—thes CHAP. XVIII 4 Gods works are to be wondred at 9 Mans life is short 11 God is merâ—â—â—â—d 15 Do not blewish thy good deeds withâ—ll words 22 Defer not to be justified 3â— Follow not thy lusts Hâ— that liveth for ever * Gen. 1. 〈◊〉 created all things in general 2 The Lord onely is righteous and there is none other but he 3 Who governeth the world with the palm of his hand and all things they his will for he is the King of all by his power * Lev. 10 1â— dividing 〈◊〉 things among them from profane 4 To whom hath he given power to declare his works * Psal 10â— 2 and who shall find out his noble acts 5 Who shall number the strength of his majesty and who shall also tell out his mercies 6 As for the wondrous works of the Lord there may nothing be taken from them neither may any thing be put unto them neither can the ground of them be found out 7 When a man hath done then he beginneth and when he leaveth off then he shall be doubtful 8 What is man and whereto serveth he what is his good and what is his evil 9 * Psal 90.10 The number of a mans days at the most are an hundred years 10 As a drop of water unto the sea and a gravel-stone in comparison of the sand so are a * 2 Pet. 3.8 thousand years to the days of eternity 11 Therefore is God patient with them and poureth forth his mercy upon them 12 He saw and perceived their end to be evil therefore he multiplied his compassion 13 The mercy of man is toward his neighbour but the mercy of the Lord is upon all flesh he reproveth and nurtureth and teacheth and bringeth again as a shepherd his flock 14 He hath mercy on them that receive discipline and that diligently seek after his judgements 15 * Chap. 41 22. Myson blemish not thy good deeds neither use uncomfortable words when thou givest any thing 16 Shall not the dew asswage the heat so is a word better then a gift 17 Lo is not a word better then a gift but both are with a gracious man 18 A fool will upbraid churlishly and a gift of the envious consumeth the eyes 19 Learn before thou speak and use physick or ever thou be sick 20 Before judgement * 1 Cor. 11.28 35. examine thy self and in the day of visitation thou shalt finde mercy 21 Humble thy self before thou be sick and in the time of sins shew repentance 22 Let nothing hinder thee to pay thy vow in due time and defer not until death to be justified 23 Before thou prayest prepare thy self and be not as one that tempteth the Lord. 24 * Chap. 7.17 36. Think upon the wrath that shall be at the end and the time of vengeance when he shall turn away his face 25 When thou hast enough remember the time of hunger and when thou art rich think upon poverty and need 26 From the morning until the evening the time is changed and all things are soon done before the Lord. 27 * Prov. 28.14 A wise man will fear in every thing and in the day of sinning he will beware of offence but a fool will not observe time 28 Every man of understanding knoweth wisdom and will give praise unto him that found her 29 They that were of understanding in sayings became also wise themselves and poured forth exquisite parables 30 * Rom. 6.6 13.14 Go not after thy lusts but refrain thy self from thine appetites 31 If thou givest thy soul the desires that please her she will
temple 3 In his days the * 1 King 7.23 cistern to receive water being in compass as the sea was covered with plates of brass 4 He took care of the temple that it should not fall and fortified the city against besieging 5 How was he honoured in the midst of the people in his coming out of †Gr. the house of the â—â—il the sanctuary 6 He was as the morning star in the midst of a cloud and as the moon at the full 7 As the sun shining upon the temple of the most High and as the rainbowe giving light in the bright clouds 8 And as the flower of roses in the spring of the year as lilies by the rivers of waters and as the branches of the frankincense tree in the time of summer 9 As fire and incense in the censer and as a vessel of beaten gold set with all manner of precious stones 10 And as a fair olive-tree budding forth fruit and as a cypress tree which groweth up to the clouds 11 When he put on the robe of honour and was clothed with the perfection of glory when he went up to the holy altar he made the garment of holiness honourable 12 When he took the portions out of the priests hands he himself stood by the hearth of the altar compassed with his brethren round about as a young cedar in Libanus and as palm-trees compassed they him round about 13 So were all the sons of Aaron in their glory and the oblations of the Lord in their hands before all the congregation of Israel 14 And finishing the service at the altar that he might adorn the offering of the most high Almighty 15 He stretched out his hand to the cup and poured of the bloud of the grape he poured out at the foot of the altar a sweet-smelling savour unto the most high King of all 16 Then shouted the sons of Aaron and sounded the ‖ Or trumpets beacon forth with the 〈◊〉 silver trumpets and made a great noise to be heard for a remembrance before the most High 17 Then all the people together hasted and fell down to the earth upon their faces to worship their Lord God almighty the most High 18 The singers also sang praises with their voices with great variety of sounds was there made sweet melody 19 And the people besought the Lord the most High by prayer before him that is merciful till the solemnity of the Lord was ended and they had finished his service 20 Then he went down and lifted up his hands over the whose congregation of the children of Israel to give the blessing of the Lord with his lips and to rejoyce in his name 21 And they bowed themselves down to worship the second time that they might receive a blessing from the most High 22 Now therefore bless ye the God of all which onely doth wondrous things every where which exalteth our days from the womb and dealeth with us according to his mercy 23 He grant us joyfulness of heart and that peace may be in our days in Israel for ever 24 That he would confirm his mercy with us and deliver us at his time 25 There be two manner of nations which my heart abhorreth and the third is no nation 26 They that sit upon the mountain of Samaria and they that dwell amongst the Philistines and that foolish people that dwell in Sichem 27 Jesus the son of Sirach of Jerusalem hath written in this book the instruction of understanding and knowledge who out of his heart poured forth wisdom 28 Blessed is he that shall be exercised in these things and he that sayeth them up in his heart shall become wise 20 For if he do them he shall be strong to all things for the light of the Lord leadeth him who giveth wisdom to the godly Blesses be the Lord forever Amen amen CHAP. LI. ¶ A prayer of Jesus the son of Sirach I Will thank thee O Lord and King and praise thee O God my Saviour I do give praise unto thy name 2 For thou art my defender and helper and hast preserved my body from destruction and from the snare of the slandrous tongue and from the lips that forge lies and hast been mine helper against mine adversaries 3 And hast delivered me according to the multitude of thy mercies and greatness of thy name from †Gr. the gnashing of the teeth the teeth of them that were ready to devour me and out of the hands of such as sought after my life and from the manifold afflictions which I had 4 From the choking of fire on every side and from the mids of the fire which I kindled not 5 From the depth of the besly of hell from an unclean tongue and from sying words 6 By an accusation to the king from an unrighteous tongue my soul drew near even unto death my life was near to the hell beneath 7 They compassed me on every side and there was no man to help me I looked for the succour of men but there was none 8 Then thought I upon thy mercy O Lord and upon thy acts of old how thou deliverest such as wait for thee and savest them out of the hands of the enemies 9 Then lifted I up my supplication from the earth and prayed for deliverance from death 10 I called upon the Lord the Father of my Lord that he would not leave me in the days of my trouble and in the time of the proud when there was no help 11 I will praise thy name continually and will sing praise with thanksgiving and so my prayer was heard 12 For thou savedst me from destruction and deliveredst me from the evil time therefore will I give thanks and praise thee and bless thy name O Lord. 13 When I was yet young or ever I ‖ Or went astray went abroad I desired wisdom openly in my prayer 14 I prayed for her before the temple and will seek here out even to the end 15 Even from the flower till the grape was ripe hath my heart delighted in her my foot went the right way from my youth up sought I after her 16 I howed down mine ear a little and received her and gat much learning 17 I profited therein therefore will I ascribe the glory unto him that giveth me wisdom 18 For I purposed to do after her and earnestly I followed that which is good so shall I not be confounded 19 My soul hath wrestled with her and in my doings I was exact I stretched forth my hands to the heaven above and bewailed my ignorances of her 20 ‖ Or I got understanding I directed my soul unto her and I found her in pureness I have had my heart joyned with her from the beginning therefore shall I not be forsaken 21 My ‖ Or bowâ—lâ— heart was troubled in seeking her therefore have I gotten a good possession 22 The Lord hath given me a tongue for my reward and I will
because it is of Moses * Gen. 17.10 but of the fathers and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man 23 If a man on the sabbath-day receive circumcision ‖ Or without breaking the law of Moses that the law of Moses should not be broken are ye angry at me because I have made a man every whit whole on the sabbath-day 24 * Deu. 1.16 Judge not according to the appearance but judge righteous judgemenâ— 25 Then said some of them of Jerusalem Is not this he whom they seek to kill 26 But lo he speaketh boldly and they say nothing unto him do the rulers know indeed that this is the very Christ 27 Howbeit we know this man whence he is but when Christ cometh no man knoweth whence he is 28 Then cried Jesus in the temple as he taught saying Ye both know me and ye know whence I am and I am not come of my self but he that sent me is true whom ye know not 29 But I know him for I am from him and he hath sent me 30 Then they sought to take him but no man laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come 31 And many of the people beleeved on him and said When Christ cometh will he do mo miracles then these which this man hath done 32 ¶ The Pharisees heard that the people murmured such things concerning him and the Pharisees and the chief priests sent officers to take him 33 Then said Jesus unto them Yet a little while am I with you and then I go unto him that sent me 34 * Chap. 1â— 33 Ye shall seek me and shall not finde me and where I am thither ye cannot come 35 Then said the Jews among themselves Whither will he go that we shall not finde lam will he go unto the dispersed among the ‖ Or Greeks Gentiles and teach the Gentiles 36 What manner of saying is this that he said Ye shall seek me and shall not finde me and where I am thither ye cannot come 37 * Levit. 23.36 In the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink 38 * Deut. 18.15 He that beleeveth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water 39 * Isa 44. â— Joel 2.28 But this spake he of the Spirit which they that beleeve on him should receive for the holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified 40 ¶ Many of the people therefore when they heard this saying said Of a truth this is the prophet 41 Others said This is the Christ But some said Shall Christ come out of Galilee 42 * Mat. 2.5 Hath not the scripture said That Christ cometh of the seed of David and out of the town of Bethlehem where David was 43 So there was a division among the people because of him 44 And some of them would have taken him but no man laid hands on him 45 ¶ Then came the officers to the chief priests and Pharisees and they said unto them Why have ye not brought him 46 The officers answered Never man spake like this man 47 Then answered them the Pharisees Are ye also deceived 48 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees beleeved on him 49 But this people who knowâ—th not the law are cursed 50 Nichodemus saith unto them * Ch. 3.2 he that came to Jesus by night being one of them 51 * Deu. 17.8 c. 19.15 Doth our law judge any man before it hear him and know what he doeth 52 They answered and said unto him Art thou also of Galilee Search and look for out of Galilee ariseth no prophet 53 And every man wâ—nt unto his own house CHAP. VIII 1 Christ delivereth the woman taken in adultery 12 He preacheth himself the light of the world and justifieth his doctrine 33 answereth the Jews that boasted of Abraham 59 and conveyeth himself from their cruelty JEsus went unto the mount of Olives 2 And early in the morning he came again into the temple and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught them 3 And the scribes and Pharisees brought unto him a woman taken in adultery and when they had set her in the midst 4 They say unto him Master this woman was taken in adultery in the very act 5 * Levit. 2â— 10 Now Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned but what sayest thou 6 This they said tempting him that they might have to accuse him But Jesus stooped down and with his finger wrote on the ground as though he heard them not 7 So when they continued asking him he lift up himself and said unto them * Deu. 17.7 He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her 8 And again he stooped down and wrote on the ground 9 And they which heard it being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one beginning at the eldest even unto the last and Jesus was left alone and the woman standing in the midst 10 When Jesus had lift up himself and saw none but the woman he said unto her Woman where are those thine accusers hath no man condemned thee 11 She said No man Lord. And Jesus said unto her Neither do I condemn thee go and sin no more 12 ¶ Then spake Jesus again unto them saying * Chap. 1.5 and 9.3 I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life 13 The Pharisees therefore said unto him Thou bearest record of thy self thy record is not true 14 Jesus answered and said unto them * Cha. 5.31 Though I hear record of my self yet my record is true for I know whence I came and whither I go but ye cannot â—ell whence I come and whither I go 15 Ye judge after the flesh I judge no man 16 And yâ—t if I judge my judgement is true for I am not alone but I and the Father that sent me 17 * Deu. 17.6 Mat. 18 1â— It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true 18 I am one that bear witness of my self and the Father that sent me beareth witness of me 19 Then said they unto him Where is thy Father Jesus answered Ye neither know me nor my Father if ye had known me ye should have known my Father also 20 These words spake Jesus in the treasury as he taught in the temple and no man laid hands on him for his hour was not yet come 21 Then said Jesus again unto them I go my way and ye shall seek me and shall die in your sins whither I go ye cannot come 22 Then said the Jews Will he kill himself because he saith Whither I go ye cannot come 23 And he said unto them Ye are
a man take of you if a man exalt himself if a man smite you on the face 21 I speak as concerning reproach as though we had been weak howbeit wherein soever any is bold I speak foolishly I am bold also 22 Are they Hebrews * Phil. 3.5 so am I are they Israelâ—tâ—s so am I are they the seed of Abraham so am I 23 Are they ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in prisons more frequent in deaths oft 24 Of the Jews five times received I * Deu. 25.3 fourty stripes save one 25 Thrice was I * Act. 16.22 beaten with rods * Act. 14.19 once was I stoned thrice I * Act. 27. suffered shipwrack a night and a day I have been in the deep 26 In journeying often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils by mine own countreymen in perils by the heathen in perils in the city in perils in the wilderness in perils in the sea in perils among false brethren 27 In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness 28 Besides those things that are without that which cometh upon me daily the care of all the churches 29 Who is weak and I am not weak who is offended I burn not 30 If I must needs glory I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities 31 The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not 32 * Act. 9.24 In Damascus the governour under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garison desirous to apprehend me 33 And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall and escaped his hands CHAP. XII 1 For commending of his apostleship though he might glory of his wonderful revelations 9 yet he rather chooseth to glory of his infirmities 11 blaming them for forcing him to this vain boasting 14 He promiseth to come to them again but yet altogether in the affection of a father 20 although he feareth he shall to his grief finde many offenders and publick disorders there IT is not expedient for me doubtless to glory I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago whether in the body I cannot tell or whether out of the body I cannot tell God knoweth such an one caught up to the third heaven 3 And I knew such a man whether in the body or out of the body I cannot tell God knoweth 4 How that he was caught up into paradise and heard unspeakable words which it is not ‖ Or. posâ—â—tâ—â—e lawful for a man to utter 5 Of such an one will I glory yet of my self I will not glory but in mine infirmities 6 For though I would desire to glory I shall not be a fool for I will say the truth but now I forbear lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be or that he heareth of me 7 And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations there was given to me a * See Ezek. 28.24 thorn in the flesh the messenger of Satan to buffet me lest I should be exalted above measure 8 For this thing I besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from me 9 And he said unto me My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me 10 Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities in reproaches in necessities in persecutions in distresses for Christs sake for when I am weak then am I strong 11 I am become a fool in glorying ye have compelled me for I ought to have been commended of you for in nothing am I behinde the very chiefest apostles though I be nothing 12 Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience in signs and wonders and mighty deeds 13 For with is it wherein ye were inferiour to other Churches except it be that * Chap. 11.9 I my self was not burdensom to your forgive me this wrong 14 Behold the third time I am ready to come to you and I will not be burdensom to you for I seek not yours but you for the children ought not to lay up for the parents but the parents for the children 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for †Gr. your souls you though the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved 16 But be it so I did not burden you nevertheless being crafty I caught you with guile 17 Did I make a gain of you by any of them whom I sent unto you 18 I desired Titus with him I sent a brother did Titus make a gain of you walked we not in the same Spirit walked we not in the same steps 19 Again think you that we excuse our selves unto you we speak before God in Christ but we do all things dearly beloved for your edifying 20 For I fear lest when I come I shall not finde you such as I would and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not lest there be debates envyings wraths strifes backbitings whisperings swellings tumults 21 And lest when I come again my God will humble me among you and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed CHAP. XIII 1 He threatneth severity and the power of his apostleship against obstinate sinners 5 and advising them to a trial of their faith 7 and to reformation of their sins before his coming 11 be concludeth his epistle with a general exhortation and a prayer THis is the third time I am coming to you * Deut. 19.15 In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established 2 I told you before and foretel you as if I were present the second time and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have finned and to all other that if I come again I will not spare 3 Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me which to you-ward is not weak but is mighty in you 4 For though he was crucified through weakness yet he liveth by the power of God For we also are weak ‖ Or with him in him but we shall live with him by the power of God toward you 5 Examine your selves whether ye be in the faith prove your own selves know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 6 But I trust that ye shall know that we are not reprobates 7 Now I pray to God that ye do no evil not that we should appear approved but that ye should do that which is
He teacheth the duty of wives and husbands to each other 8 exhorting all men to unity and love 14 and to suffer persecution 19 He declareth also the benefits of Christ toward the old world LIkewise * Eph. 5.22 Col. 3.18 ye wives is in subjection to your own husbands that if any obey not the worâ— they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives 2 While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear 3 * â— Tim. 2.9 Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair and of wearing of goâ—â— or of putting on of apparel 4 But let it be the hidden man or the heart in that which is not corruptible even the ornament of a meeâ— and quiet spirit which is in the sight of God of great price 5 For after this manner in the old time the holy women also who trusted in God adorned themselves being in subjection unto their own husbands 6 Even as Sara obeyed Abraham * Gen. 18.12 calling him lord whose †Gr. children daughters ye are as long as ye do well are not afraid with any amazement 7 Likewise ye husbands dwell with them according to knowledge giving honour unto the wise as unto the weaker vessel and as being heirs together of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindâ—ed 8 Finally be ye all of one minde having compassion one of another ‖ Or loving to the brethren love as brethren be pitiful be courteous 9 * Pr. 17.13 20.22 Rom. 12.17 2 Th. 5.15 Not rendring evil for evil or raising for raising but contrariwise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing 10 * Ps 34.12 c. he that will love life and see good days let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that they speak no guile 11 Let him * Is 1.16 eschew evil and do good let him seek peace ensure it 12 For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous and his ears are open unto their prayers but the face of the Lord is †Gr. upon against them that do evil 13 And who is he that will harm you if ye be followers of that which is good 14 * Mat. 5.10 But and if ye suffer for righteousness sake happy are ye and * Is 8.12 13. be not afraid of their terrrour neither be troubled 15 But sanctifie the Lord God in your hearts and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and ‖ Or reverence fear 16 * Ch. 2.12 Having a good conscience that whereas they speak evil of you as of evil doers they may be ashamed that fastly accuse your good conversation in Christ 17 For it is better if the will of God be so that ye suffer for wel-doing then for evil-doing 18 For Christ also hath * Rom. 5.6 Heb. 9.38 once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God being put to death in the flesh but quickned by the Spirit 19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison 20 Which sometime were disobedient * Gen. 6. when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah while the ark was a preparing wherein few that is eight souls were saved by water 21 The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us nor the putting away of the fifth of the flesh but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ 22 Who is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him CHAP. IV. 1 He exhorteth them to cease from sin by the example of Christ and the consideration of the general end that now approacheth 12 and comforteth them against persecution FOrasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same minde for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men but to the will of God 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles when we walked in lasciviousness lusts excess of wine revellings banquettings and abominable idolatries 4 Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of riot speaking evil of you 5 Who shall give account to him that is ready to judge the quick and the dead 6 For for this cause was the gospel preached also to them that are dead that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit 7 But the end of all things is at hand be ye therefore sober and watch unto prayer 8 And above all things have fervent charity among your selves for * Pr. 1â— 12 charity ‖ Or will shall cover the multitude of sins 9 * Rom. 12.13 Heb. 13.2 Use hospitality one to another without grudging 10 * Rom. 12.6 As every man hath received the gift even so minister the same one to another as good stewards of the manifold grace of God 11 If any man speak let him speak as the oracles of God if any man minister let him do it as of the ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified through Jesus Christ to whom be praise and dominion for ever and ever Amen 12 Beloved think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you as though some strange thing happened unto you 13 But rejoyce in as much as ye are partakers or Christs sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed ye may be glad also with exceeding joy 14 * Mat. â— 11 If ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are ye for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you on their part he is evil spoken of but on your part he is glorified 15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer or as a thief or as an evil-doer or as a busie-body in other mens matters 16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian let him not be ashamed but let him glorifie God on this behalf 17 For the time is come that judgement must begin at the house of God and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God 18 * Pr. 11.31 And if the righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear 19 Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well-doing as unto a faithful Creatour CHAP. V. 1 He exhorteth the elders to feed their flocks 5 the younger to obey 8 and all to be sober
roareth and when he had cried seven thunders uttered their voices 4 And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices I was about to write and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered and write them not 5 And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth * Dan. 12.7 lifted up his hand to heaven 6 And sware by him that liveth for ever and ever who created heaven and the things that therein are and the earth and the things that therein are and the sea and the things which are therein that there should be time no longer 7 But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel when he shall begin to sound the mystery of God should be finished as he hath declared to his servants the prophets 8 And the voice which I heard from heaven spake unto me again and said Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth 9 And I went unto the angel and said unto him Give me the little book And he said unto me * Ezek. 2.8 and 3.3 Take it and eat it up and it shall make thy belly bitter but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey 10 And I took the little book out of the angels hand and ate it up and it was in my mouth sweet as honey and assâ—on as I had eaten it my belly was bitter 11 And he said unto me Thou must prophesie again before many peoples and nations and tongues and kings CHAP. XI 3 The two witnesses prophesie 6 They have power to shut heaven that it ram not 7 The beast shall fight against them and kill them 8 They lie unburied 11 and after three days and an half rise again 14 The second wo is past 15 The seventh trumpet soundeth ANd there was given me a reed like unto a rod and the angel stood saying Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and them that worship therein 2 But the court which is without the temple †Gr. cast out leave out and measure it not for it is given unto the Gentiles and the holy city shall they tread under foot fourty and two moneths 3 And ‖ Or I will give unto my two witnesses that they may prophesie I will give power unto my two witnesses and they shall prophesie a thousand two hundred and threescore days clothed in sackcloth 4 These are the * Zech. 4.3.11.14 two olive trees and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth 5 And if any man will hurt them fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed 6 These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophesie and have power over waters to turn them to bloud and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will 7 And when they shall have finished their testimony the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit shall make war against them and shall overcome them and kill them 8 And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified 9 And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an hall and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves 10 And they that dwell upon the earn shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send gifts one to another because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth 11 And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entred into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them 12 And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them Come up hither And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud and their enemies beheld them 13 And the same hour was there a great earthquake and the tenth part of the city fell and in the earthquake ware slain †Gr. names of men of men seven thousand and the remnant were affrighted and gave glory to the God of heaven 14 The second wo is past and behold the third wo cometh quickly 15 And the seventh angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign for ever and ever 16 And the four and twenty elders which sat before God on their seats fell upon their faces and worshipped God 17 Saying We give thee thanks O Lord God Almighty which art and wast and art to come because thou hast taken to thee thy great power and hast reigned 18 And the nations were angry and thy wrath is come and the time of the dead that they should be judged and that thou shouldest give reward unto thy servants the prophets and to the saints and them that fear thy name small and great and shouldest destroy them which ‖ Or corrupt destroy the earth 19 And the temple of God was opened in heaven and there was seen in his temple the ark of his testament and there were lightnings and voices and thundrings and an earthquake and great hail CHAP. XII 1 A woman clothed with the sun travaileth 4 The great red dragon standeth before her ready to devour her childe 6 when she was delivered she fleeth into the wilderness 7 Michael and his angels fight with the dragon and prevail 13 The dragon being cast down into the earth persecuteth the woman ANd there appeared a great ‖ Or signe wonder in heaven a woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet and upon her head a crown of twelve stars 2 And she being with childe cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered 3 And there appeared another ‖ Or signe wonder in heaven and behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads 4 And his tail drew the third part of the stars of heaven and did cast them to the earth and the dragon stood before the woman which was ready to be delivered for to devour her childe assoon as it was born 5 And she brought forth a man-childe who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her childe was caught up unto God and to his throne 6 And the woman fled into the wilderness where she hath a place prepared of God that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days 7 And there was war in heaven Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and the dragon fought and his angels 8 And prevailed not neither was there place found any more in heaven 9 And the great dragon was cast out that
he begat Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years and begat sons and daughters 11 And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years and he dyed 12 ¶ And Cainan lived seventy years and begat †Gr. Maâ—alaâ—l Mahalaleel 13 And Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and fourty years and begat sons and daughters 14 And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years and he dyed 15 ¶ And Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years and begat †Heb. Jâ—râ—â— Jared 16 And Mahalaleel lived after he begat Jared eight hundred and thirty years and begat sons and daughters 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years and he dyed 18 ¶ And Jared lived an hundred sixty two years he begat Enoch 19 And Jared lived after he begat Enoch eight hundred years and begat sons and daughters 20 And all the daâ—s of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years and he dyed 21 ¶ And Enoch lived sixty and five years and begat †Gr. Mathusalâ— Methuselah 22 And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years and begat sons and daughters 23 And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years 24 And * Eccluâ— 44.16 Heb. 11.5 Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him 25 ¶ And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years and begat †Heb. Lâ—mech Lamech 26 And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years and begat sons and daughters 27 And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years and he dyed 28 ¶ And Lamech lived an hundred eighty two years begat a son 29 And he called his name †Gr. Noâ— Noah saying This same shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands because of the ground which the LORD hath curled 30 And Lamech lived after he begat Noah five hundred ninety and five years and begat sons and daughters 31 And all the days of Lamech were seven hundred seventy and seven years and he died 32 And Noah was five hundred years old and Noah begat Shem Ham and Japheth CHAP. VI. 1 The wickedness of the world which provoked Gods wrath and caused the floud 8 Noah findeth grace 14 The order form and end of the Ark. ANd it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them 2 That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them wives of all which they chose 3 And the LORD said My Spirit shall not always strive with man for that he also is flesh yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years 4 There were giants in the earth in those days and also after that when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men and they bare children to them the same became mighty men which were of old men of renown 5 ¶ And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that ‖ Or the whole imagination The Hebrew word signifieth not onely the imagination but also the purposes and desires every imagination of the thoughts of his * Ch. 8.21 Mat. 15 19. heart was onely evil †Heb. every day continually 6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart 7 And the LORD said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth †Heb. from man unto beast both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fowls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made them 8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD 9 ¶ These are the generations of Noah * Ecclus 44.17 2 Pet. 2.5 Noah was a just man and ‖ Or upright perfect in his generations and Noah walked with God 10 And Noah begat three sons Shem Ham and Japheth 11 The earth also was corrupt before God and the earth was filled with violence 12 And God looked upon the earth and behold it was corrupt for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth 13 And God said unto Noah The end of all flesh is come before me for the earth is filled with violence through them and behold I will destroy them ‖ Or from the earth with the earth 14 ¶ Make thee an ark of Gopher-wood †Heb. nests rooms shalt thou make in the ark and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch 15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of the length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits the breadth of it fifty cubits and the height of it thirty cubits 16 A window shalt thou make to the ark and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof with lower second and third stories shalt thou make it 17 And behold I even I do bring a floud of waters upon the earth to destroy all flesh wherein is the breath of life from under heaven and every thing that is in the earth shall die 18 But with thee will I establish my covenant and thou shalt come into the ark thou and thy sons and thy wife and thy sons wives with thee 19 And of every living thing of all flesh two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark to keep them alive with thee they shall be male and female 20 Of fowls after their kinde and of cattel after their kinde of every creeping thing of the earth after his kinde two of every sort shall come unto thee to keep them alive 21 And take thou unto thee of all food that is eaten and thou shalt gather it to thee and it shall be for food for thee and for them 22 * Heb. 11.7 Thus did Noah according to all that God commanded him so did he CHAP. VII 1 Noah with his family and the living creatures enter into the ark 17 The beginning increase and continuance of the floud ANd the * 2 Pet. 2.5 LORD said unto Noah Come thou and all thy house into the ark for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation 2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by †Heb. seven seven sevens the male and his female and of beasts that are not clean by two the male and his female 3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens the male and the female to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth 4 For yet seven days and I will cause it to rain upon the earth fourty days and fourty nights and every living substance that I have made will I †Heb. blot out destroy from off the face of the earth 5 And Noah did according unto all that the LORD commanded him 6
of Eliseus 17 and of Ezekias THen stood up * 1 King 17.1 Elias the prophet as fire and his word burnt like a lamp 2 He brought a sore famine upon them and by his zeal he diminished their number 3 By the word of the Lord he ‖ Or made heaven to â—â—liup shut up the heaven * 1 King 18.38 2 King 1.10 12. and also three times brought down fire 4 O Elias how wast thou honoured in thy wondrous deeds and who may glory like unto thee 5 * 1 Kin. 17.21 22. Who didst raise up a dead man from death and his soul from the ‖ Or grave place of the dead by the word of the most High 6 * 2 King 2.16 Who broughtest kings to destruction and honourable men from their ‖ Or seat bed 7 Who heardest the rebuke of the Lord in Sinai * 1 King 19.17 and in Horeb the judgement of vengeance 8 * 1 Kin. 19.15 16. Who anointed kings to take vengeance and prophets to succeed after him 9 * 2 King 2.11 Who wast taken up in a whirlwind of fire and in a chariot of fiery horses 10 Who wast ‖ Or written of ordained * â—â—al 4.5 for reproofs in their times to pacifie the wrath of the Lords judgement before it brake forth into fury and to turn the heart of the father unto the son and to ‖ Or establâ—sh restore the tribes of Jacob. 11 Blessed are they that saw thee and ‖ Or were â—â—ernâ—â— with love slept in love for we shall surely live 12 * 2 Kings 2.11 15. Elias it was who was covered with a whirlwind and Eliseus was filled with his spirit whilest he lived he was not moved with the presence of any prince neither could any bring him into subjection 13 ‖ Or nothing No word could overcome him * 2 Kings 13.21 and after his death his body prophesied 14 He did wonders in his life and at his death were his works marvellous 15 For all this the people repented not neither departed they from their sins * 2 King 18.11 12. till they were spoiled and carried out of their land and were scattered through all the earth yet there remained a small people and a ruler in the house of David 16 Of whom some did that which was pleasing to God and some multiplied sins 17 Ezekias fortified his city and * 2 King 20.20 brought in water into the midst thereof he digged the hard rock with iron and made wells for waters 18 In his time * 2 King 18.13 Sennacherib came up and sent Rabsaces and lift up his hand against Sion and boasted proudly 19 Then trembled their hearts and hands and they were in pain as women in travail 20 But they called upon the Lord which is merciful and stretched out their hands towards him and immediately the holy One heard them out of heaven and delivered them by the ‖ Or hand ministery of Esay 21 * 2 King 19.35 Isa 37.36 Tob. 1.18 1 Mac. 7.41 2 Mac. 8.19 He smote the host of the Assyrians his angel destroyed them 22 For Ezekias had done the thing that pleased the Lord and was strong in the ways of David his father as Esay the prophet who was great and faithful in his vision had commanded him 23 * 2 Kin. 20.10 11. Isa 38.8 In his time the sun went backward and he lengthned the kings life 24 He saw by an excellent spirit what should come to pass at the last and he comforted them that mourned in Sion 25 He shewed what should come to pass for ever and secret things or ever they came CHAP. XLIX 1 The praise of Josias 4 of David and Ezekias 6 of Jeremy 8 of Ezekiel 11 Zorobabel 12 Jesus the son of Josedee 13 Of Nâ—â—mias Enoch Seth Sem and Adam THe remembrance of * 2 King 22.1 2 Chr. 34 1. Josias is like the composition of the perfume that is made by the art of the apothecary it is sweet as honey in all mouths and as musick at a banquet of wine 2 He ‖ Or prâ—shered behaved himself uprightly in the conversion of the people and took away the abominations of iniquity 3 * 2 〈◊〉 23. â— 2 Chr. 34.3 He directed his heart unto the Lord and in the time of the ungodly he established the worship of God 4 All except David and Ezekias and Josias were defective for they forsook the law of the most High even the kings of Juda failed 5 Therefore he gave their ‖ Or horn power unto others and their glory unto a strange nation 6 * 2 Kings 25.9 They burnt the chosen city of the sanctuary and made the streets desolate ‖ Or by the hand of Jeremy according to the prophesie of Jeremias 7 For they * Jer. 38.6 entreated him evil who nevertheless was a prophet * Jer. 1. â— sanctified in his mothers womb that he might root out and afflict and destroy and that he might build up also and plant 8 * Ezek. 1.3 15. It was Ezekiel who saw the glorious vision which was shewed him upon the chariot of the cherubims 9 For he * Ezek. 13.11 38.9 16 22. made mention of the enemies under the figure of the rain and ‖ Or did good directed them that went right 10 And of the twelve prophets let the memorial be blessed and * Ch. 46.12 let their bones flourish again out of their place for they comforted Jacob and delivered them by assured hope 11 How shall we magnifie * Ezra 3. â— Hag. 2.24 Zorobabel even he was a signet on the right hand 12 So was * Ezra 3.2 Hag. 1.12 and 2.2 Zech. 3 1. Jesus the son of Josedec who in their time builded the house and set up an holy temple to the Lord which was prepared for everlasting glory 13 * Neh. 7.1 And among the elect was Neemias whose renown is great who raised up for us the walls that were faln and set up the gates and the bars and raised up our ruines again 14 But upon the earth was no man created like * Gen. 5 24. Heb. 11.5 Enoch for he was taken from the earth 15 Neither was there a man born like unto * Gen. 41.44 42.6 45.8 Joseph a governour of his brethren and a stay of the people whose bones were regarded of the Lord. 16 * Gen. 5.3 11.10 Sem and Seth were in great honour among men and so was Adam above every living thing in the creation CHAP. L. 1 Of Simon the son of Onias 22 How the people were taught to praise God and pray 27 The conclusion SImon the high priest the son of Onias who in his life repaired the house again and in his days fortified the temple 2 And by him was built from the foundation the double height the high fortress of the wall about the