And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
And they heard the voice OF THE LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence OF THE LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
And Cain went out from the presence OF THE LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name OF THE LORD.
And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name OF THE LORD.
Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name OF THE LORD.
And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden OF THE LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
After these things the word OF THE LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.
And, behold, the word OF THE LORD came unto him, saying, This shall not be thine heir; but he that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir.
And the angel OF THE LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
And she called the name OF THE LORD that spake unto her, Thou God seest me: for she said, Have I also here looked after him that seeth me?
For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way OF THE LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face OF THE LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
And Abraham planted a grove in Beersheba, and called there on the name OF THE LORD, the everlasting God.
And the angel OF THE LORD called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovahjireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount OF THE LORD it shall be seen.
And he said, Come in, thou blessed OF THE LORD; wherefore standest thou without? for I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.
And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire OF THE LORD.
And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name OF THE LORD, and pitched his tent there: and there Isaac's servants digged a well.
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 away in peace: thou art now the blessed OF THE LORD.
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the LORD blessed the Egyptian's house for Joseph's sake; and the blessing OF THE LORD was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
And the angel OF THE LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
And the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Moses, and he said, Is not Aaron the Levite thy brother? I know that he can speak well. And also, behold, he cometh forth to meet thee: and when he seeth thee, he will be glad in his heart.
And Moses told Aaron all the words OF THE LORD who had sent him, and all the signs which he had commanded him.
Behold, the hand OF THE LORD is upon thy cattle which is in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the oxen, and upon the sheep: there shall be a very grievous murrain.
He that feared the word OF THE LORD among the servants of Pharaoh made his servants and his cattle flee into the houses:
And he that regarded not the word OF THE LORD left his servants and his cattle in the field.
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice OF THE LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts OF THE LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night OF THE LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
And Moses said unto the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation OF THE LORD, which he will shew to you to day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.
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 ear 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 LORD that healeth thee.
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.
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 murmur against us?
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 appeared in the cloud.
And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment OF THE LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
Thou shalt not take the name OF THE LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
But the seventh day is the sabbath OF THE LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
Then shall an oath OF THE LORD be between them both, that he hath not put his hand unto his neighbour's goods; and the owner of it shall accept thereof, and he shall not make it good.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house OF THE LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
And Moses came and told the people all the words OF THE LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
And Moses wrote all the words OF THE LORD, and rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel.
And the glory OF THE LORD abode upon mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days: and the seventh day he called unto Moses out of the midst of the cloud.
And the sight of the glory OF THE LORD was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary: (a shekel is twenty gerahs:) an half shekel shall be the offering OF THE LORD.
And he said, I will make all my goodness pass before thee, and I will proclaim the name OF THE LORD before thee; and will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will shew mercy on whom I will shew mercy.
And the LORD descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name OF THE LORD.
And he said, Behold, 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 among which thou art shall see the work OF THE LORD: for it is a terrible thing that I will do with thee.
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house OF THE LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.
Take ye from among you an offering unto the LORD: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering OF THE LORD; gold, and silver, and brass,
Then a cloud covered the tent of the congregation, and the glory OF THE LORD filled the tabernacle.
And Moses was not able to enter into the tent of the congregation, because the cloud abode thereon, and the glory OF THE LORD filled the tabernacle.
For the cloud OF THE LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire.
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire.
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering OF THE LORD made by fire.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments OF THE LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments OF THE LORD concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;
When a ruler hath sinned, and done somewhat through ignorance against any of the commandments OF THE LORD his God concerning things which should not be done, and is guilty;
And if any one of the common people sin through ignorance, while he doeth somewhat against any of the commandments OF THE LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and be guilty;
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things OF THE LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering:
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments OF THE LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
His own hands shall bring the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire, the fat with the breast, it shall he bring, that the breast may be waved for a wave offering before the LORD.
This is the portion of the anointing of Aaron, and of the anointing of his sons, out of the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire, in the day when he presented them to minister unto the LORD in the priest's office;
Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge OF THE LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded.
And Moses and Aaron went into the tabernacle of the congregation, and came out, and blessed the people: and the glory OF THE LORD appeared unto all the people.
And ye shall not go out from the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: for the anointing oil OF THE LORD is upon you. And they did according to the word of Moses.
And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons' due, of the sacrifices OF THE LORD made by fire: for so I am commanded.
And Aaron said unto Moses, Behold, this day have they offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD; and such things have befallen me: and if I had eaten the sin offering to day, should it have been accepted in the sight OF THE LORD?
And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the LORD before the tabernacle OF THE LORD; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:
And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar OF THE LORD at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and burn the fat for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing OF THE LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
They shall be holy unto their God, and not profane the name of their God: for the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire, and the bread of their God, they do offer: therefore they shall be holy.
No man that hath a blemish of the seed of Aaron the priest shall come nigh to offer the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire: he hath a blemish; he shall not come nigh to offer the bread of his God.
Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, Concerning the feasts OF THE LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, even these are my feasts.
Six days shall work be done: but the seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; ye shall do no work therein: it is the sabbath OF THE LORD in all your dwellings.
These are the feasts OF THE LORD, even holy convocations, which ye shall proclaim in their seasons.
These are the feasts OF THE LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
Beside the sabbaths OF THE LORD, and beside your gifts, and beside all your vows, and beside all your freewill offerings, which ye give unto the LORD.
And it shall be Aaron's and his sons'; and they shall eat it in the holy place: for it is most holy unto him of the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire by a perpetual statute.
And the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the name OF THE LORD, and cursed. And they brought him unto Moses: (and his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan:)
And he that blasphemeth the name OF THE LORD, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name OF THE LORD, shall be put to death.
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment OF THE LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
And Moses gave the money of them that were redeemed unto Aaron and to his sons, according to the word OF THE LORD, as the LORD commanded Moses.
These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment OF THE LORD by the hand of Moses.
These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, of all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, whom Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment OF THE LORD.
These be those that were numbered of the families of the sons of Merari, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the word OF THE LORD by the hand of Moses.
According to the commandment OF THE LORD they were numbered by the hand of Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as the LORD commanded Moses.
And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the LORD for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service OF THE LORD.
And those men said unto him, We are defiled by the dead body of a man: wherefore are we kept back, that we may not offer an offering OF THE LORD in his appointed season among the children of Israel?
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering OF THE LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
At the commandment OF THE LORD the children of Israel journeyed, and at the commandment OF THE LORD they pitched: as long as the cloud abode upon the tabernacle they rested in their tents.
And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge OF THE LORD, and journeyed not.
And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment OF THE LORD they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment OF THE LORD they journeyed.
At the commandment OF THE LORD they rested in the tents, and at the commandment OF THE LORD they journeyed: they kept the charge OF THE LORD, at the commandment OF THE LORD by the hand of Moses.
And they departed from the mount OF THE LORD three days' journey: and the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD went before them in the three days' journey, to search out a resting place for them.
And when the people complained, it displeased the LORD: and the LORD heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire OF THE LORD burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire OF THE LORD burnt among them.
Then Moses heard the people weep throughout their families, every man in the door of his tent: and the anger OF THE LORD was kindled greatly; Moses also was displeased.
And say thou unto the people, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow, and ye shall eat flesh: for ye have wept in the ears OF THE LORD, saying, Who shall give us flesh to eat? for it was well with us in Egypt: therefore the LORD will give you flesh, and ye shall eat.
And Moses went out, and told the people the words OF THE LORD, and gathered the seventy men of the elders of the people, and set them round about the tabernacle.
And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath OF THE LORD was kindled against the people, and the LORD smote the people with a very great plague.
With him will I speak mouth to mouth, even apparently, and not in dark speeches; and the similitude OF THE LORD shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses?
And Moses by the commandment OF THE LORD sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.
But all the congregation bade stone them with stones. And the glory OF THE LORD appeared in the tabernacle of the congregation before all the children of Israel.
And Moses said, Wherefore now do ye transgress the commandment OF THE LORD? but it shall not prosper.
But they presumed to go up unto the hill top: nevertheless the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, and Moses, departed not out of the camp.
Because he hath despised the word OF THE LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.
And it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments OF THE LORD, and do them; and that ye seek not after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:
And they gathered themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said unto them, Ye take too much upon you, seeing all the congregation are holy, every one of them, and the LORD is among them: wherefore then lift ye up yourselves above the congregation OF THE LORD?
Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle OF THE LORD, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?
And Korah gathered all the congregation against them unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation: and the glory OF THE LORD appeared unto all the congregation.
But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people OF THE LORD.
And it came to pass, when the congregation was gathered against Moses and against Aaron, that they looked toward the tabernacle of the congregation: and, behold, the cloud covered it, and the glory OF THE LORD appeared.
Whosoever cometh any thing near unto the tabernacle OF THE LORD shall die: shall we be consumed with dying?
Out of all your gifts ye shall offer every heave offering OF THE LORD, of all the best thereof, even the hallowed part thereof out of it.
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.
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify 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.
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.
Wherefore it is said in the book of the wars OF THE LORD, What he did in the Red sea, and in the brooks of Arnon,
And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word OF THE LORD my God, to do less or more.
And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel OF THE LORD stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.
And the ass saw the angel OF THE LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and the ass turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to turn her into the way.
But the angel OF THE LORD stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.
And when the ass saw the angel OF THE LORD, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
And the angel OF THE LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.
And when the ass saw the angel OF THE LORD, she fell down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the ass with a staff.
Then the LORD opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel OF THE LORD standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:
And Balaam said unto the angel OF THE LORD, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto Balaam, Go with the men: but only the word that I shall speak unto thee, that thou shalt speak. So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.
If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the commandment OF THE LORD, to do either good or bad of mine own mind; but what the LORD saith, that will I speak?
And Israel joined himself unto Baalpeor: and the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Israel.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the LORD against the sun, that the fierce anger OF THE LORD may be turned away from Israel.
Which may go out before them, and which may go in before them, and which may lead them out, and which may bring them in; that the congregation OF THE LORD be not as sheep which have no shepherd.
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation OF THE LORD.
Take it of their half, and give it unto Eleazar the priest, for an heave offering OF THE LORD.
And of the children of Israel's half, thou shalt take one portion of fifty, of the persons, of the beeves, of the asses, and of the flocks, of all manner of beasts, and give them unto the Levites, which keep the charge of the tabernacle OF THE LORD.
Even of the children of Israel's half, Moses took one portion of fifty, both of man and of beast, and gave them unto the Levites, which kept the charge of the tabernacle OF THE LORD; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And the LORD'S anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight OF THE LORD, was consumed.
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.
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.
And Aaron the priest went up into mount Hor at the commandment OF THE LORD, and died there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the first day of the fifth month.
And Moses commanded the children of Israel according to the word OF THE LORD, saying, The tribe of the sons of Joseph hath said well.
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment OF THE LORD your God:
So I spake unto you; and ye would not hear, but rebelled against the commandment OF THE LORD, and went presumptuously up into the hill.
For indeed the hand OF THE LORD was against them, to destroy them from among the host, until they were consumed.
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments OF THE LORD your God which I command you.
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant OF THE LORD your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the LORD thy God hath forbidden thee.
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight OF THE LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger:
(I stood between the LORD and you at that time, to shew you the word OF THE LORD: for ye were afraid by reason of the fire, and went not up into the mount;) saying,
Thou shalt not take the name OF THE LORD thy God in vain: for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.
But the seventh day is the sabbath OF THE LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice OF THE LORD our God any more, then we shall die.
(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger OF THE LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments OF THE LORD your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.
And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight OF THE LORD: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers,
For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger OF THE LORD be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth OF THE LORD doth man live.
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments OF THE LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.
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.
And I fell down before the LORD, as at the first, forty days and forty 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.
Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea, saying, Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment OF THE LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.
To keep the commandments OF THE LORD, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?
And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement OF THE LORD your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,
A land which the LORD thy God careth for: the eyes OF THE LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments OF THE LORD your God, which I command you this day:
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments OF THE LORD your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing OF THE LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar OF THE LORD thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar OF THE LORD thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.
Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the sight OF THE LORD thy God.
When thou shalt hearken to the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes OF THE LORD thy God.
Ye are the children OF THE LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing OF THE LORD thy God which he hath given thee.
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar OF THE LORD thy God, which thou shalt make thee.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight OF THE LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
The priests the Levites, and all the tribe of Levi, shall have no part nor inheritance with Israel: they shall eat the offerings OF THE LORD made by fire, and his inheritance.
For the LORD thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name OF THE LORD, him and his sons for ever.
Then he shall minister in the name OF THE LORD his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the LORD.
According to all that thou desiredst OF THE LORD thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice OF THE LORD my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.
When a prophet speaketh in the name OF THE LORD, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the LORD hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him.
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the LORD thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name OF THE LORD; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:
So shalt thou put away the guilt of innocent blood from among you, when thou shalt do that which is right in the sight OF THE LORD.
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation OF THE LORD.
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation OF THE LORD; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation OF THE LORD.
An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation OF THE LORD; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation OF THE LORD for ever:
The children that are begotten of them shall enter into the congregation OF THE LORD in their third generation.
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house OF THE LORD thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar OF THE LORD thy God.
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice OF THE LORD my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
Thou shalt build the altar OF THE LORD thy God of whole stones: and thou shalt offer burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD thy God:
And Moses and the priests the Levites spake unto all Israel, saying, Take heed, and hearken, O Israel; this day thou art become the people OF THE LORD thy God.
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice OF THE LORD thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the LORD thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God.
The LORD shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments OF THE LORD thy God, and walk in his ways.
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name OF THE LORD; and they shall be afraid of thee.
And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments OF THE LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice OF THE LORD thy God.
The LORD will not spare him, but then the anger OF THE LORD and his jealousy 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.
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:
And the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:
And thou shalt return and obey the voice OF THE LORD, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice OF THE LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul. For this commandment which I command thee this day, it is not hidden from thee, neither is it far off. It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? Neither is it beyond the sea, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go over the sea for us, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it? read more But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it. See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them. show less
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
That Moses commanded the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, saying,
Take this book of the law, and put it in the side of the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against thee.
For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days; because ye will do evil in the sight OF THE LORD, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.
And of Benjamin he said, The beloved OF THE LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the LORD shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
And of Joseph he said, Blessed OF THE LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice OF THE LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing OF THE LORD: possess thou the west and the south.
So Moses the servant OF THE LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word OF THE LORD.
Now after the death of Moses the servant OF THE LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Remember the word which Moses the servant OF THE LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words OF THE LORD your God.
Behold, the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
And it shall come to pass, as soon 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 shall stand upon an heap.
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.
And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark OF THE LORD your God into the midst 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:
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.
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.
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 lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before.
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 for ever.
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice OF THE LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host OF THE LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
And the captain OF THE LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark OF THE LORD.
And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark OF THE LORD.
And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD followed them.
So the ark OF THE LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark OF THE LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark OF THE LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury OF THE LORD.
And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house OF THE LORD.
But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.
And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark OF THE LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath transgressed the covenant OF THE LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment OF THE LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word OF THE LORD which he commanded Joshua.
As Moses the servant OF THE LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
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; as Moses the servant OF THE LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
And they said unto him, From a very far country 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,
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.
And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant OF THE LORD commanded.
For it was OF THE LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Them did Moses the servant OF THE LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant OF THE LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant OF THE LORD gave them;
Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices OF THE LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them.
Forty years old was I when Moses the servant OF THE LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.
And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment OF THE LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron.
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.
But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood OF THE LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant OF THE LORD gave them.
According to the word OF THE LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt therein.
And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment OF THE LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant OF THE LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment OF THE LORD your God.
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant OF THE LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant OF THE LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word OF THE LORD by the hand of Moses.
Thus saith the whole congregation OF THE LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation OF THE LORD,
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession OF THE LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar OF THE LORD our God.
But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service OF THE LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar OF THE LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar OF THE LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand OF THE LORD.
When ye have transgressed the covenant OF THE LORD your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger OF THE LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary OF THE LORD.
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words OF THE LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant OF THE LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works OF THE LORD, that he had done for Israel.
And an angel OF THE LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.
And it came to pass, when the angel OF THE LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept.
And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works OF THE LORD, that he did for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant OF THE LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathheres, in the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he had done for Israel. read more And the children of Israel did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and served Baalim: And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, which brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, of the gods of the people that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, and provoked the LORD to anger. And they forsook the LORD, and served Baal and Ashtaroth. And the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand OF THE LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed. Nevertheless the LORD raised up judges, which delivered them out of the hand of those that spoiled them. And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments OF THE LORD; but they did not so. And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. And the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way OF THE LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. show less
And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant OF THE LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
And the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.
Whithersoever they went out, the hand OF THE LORD was against them for evil, as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had sworn unto them: and they were greatly distressed.
And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments OF THE LORD; but they did not so.
And the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way OF THE LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the commandments OF THE LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and forgat the LORD their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
Therefore the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight OF THE LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight OF THE LORD. And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm trees. So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. read more But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself alone. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat. And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber. And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over. And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. show less
And the children of Israel again did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles. And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD: for he had nine hundred chariots of iron; and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. read more And she dwelt under the palm tree of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go. And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet: and Deborah went up with him. Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab the father in law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor. And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon. And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet. But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left. Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite. And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him. Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and inquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No. Then Jael Heber's wife took a nail of the tent, and took an hammer in her hand, and went softly unto him, and smote the nail into his temples, and fastened it into the ground: for he was fast asleep and weary. So he died. And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples. So God subdued on that day Jabin the king of Canaan before the children of Israel. And the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan. show less
They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts OF THE LORD, even the righteous acts toward the inhabitants of his villages in Israel: then shall the people OF THE LORD go down to the gates.
Curse ye Meroz, said the angel OF THE LORD, curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because they came not to the help OF THE LORD, to the help OF THE LORD against the mighty.
And the children of Israel did evil in the sight OF THE LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
And there came an angel OF THE LORD, and sat under an oak which was in Ophrah, that pertained unto Joash the Abiezrite: and his son Gideon threshed wheat by the winepress, to hide it from the Midianites.
And the angel OF THE LORD appeared unto him, and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.
Then the angel OF THE LORD put forth the end of the staff that was in his hand, and touched the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed the flesh and the unleavened cakes. Then the angel OF THE LORD departed out of his sight.
And when Gideon perceived that he was an angel OF THE LORD, Gideon said, Alas, O Lord GOD! for because I have seen an angel OF THE LORD face to face.
But the Spirit OF THE LORD came upon Gideon, and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered after him.
When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword OF THE LORD, and of Gideon.
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword OF THE LORD, and of Gideon.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight OF THE LORD, and served Baalim, and Ashtaroth, and the gods of Syria, and the gods of Zidon, and the gods of Moab, and the gods of the children of Ammon, and the gods of the Philistines, and forsook the LORD, and served not him.
And the anger OF THE LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon.
Then the Spirit OF THE LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed over Gilead, and Manasseh, and passed over Mizpeh of Gilead, and from Mizpeh of Gilead he passed over unto the children of Ammon.
And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight OF THE LORD; and the LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.
And the angel OF THE LORD appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto Manoah, Of all that I said unto the woman let her beware.
And Manoah said unto the angel OF THE LORD, I pray thee, let us detain thee, until we shall have made ready a kid for thee.
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread: and if thou wilt offer a burnt offering, thou must offer it unto the LORD. For Manoah knew not that he was an angel OF THE LORD.
And Manoah said unto the angel OF THE LORD, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel OF THE LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
But the angel OF THE LORD did no more appear to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was an angel OF THE LORD.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
But his father and his mother knew not that it was OF THE LORD, that he sought an occasion against the Philistines: for at that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid, and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD came upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and slew thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave change of garments unto them which expounded the riddle. And his anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit OF THE LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.
And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou OF THE LORD, my son.
And he said unto him, We are passing from Bethlehemjudah toward the side of mount Ephraim; from thence am I: and I went to Bethlehemjudah, but I am now going to the house OF THE LORD; and there is no man that receiveth me to house.
(And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel OF THE LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
And the children of Israel inquired OF THE LORD, (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,
Then they said, Behold, there is a feast OF THE LORD in Shiloh yearly in a place which is on the north side of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goeth up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for your sakes that the hand OF THE LORD is gone out against me.
The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee OF THE LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
And he said, Blessed be thou OF THE LORD, my daughter: for thou hast shewed more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as thou followedst not young men, whether poor or rich.
And this man went up out of his city yearly to worship and to sacrifice unto the LORD of hosts in Shiloh. And the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, the priests OF THE LORD, were there.
And as he did so year by year, when she went up to the house OF THE LORD, so she provoked her; therefore she wept, and did not eat.
So Hannah rose up after they had eaten in Shiloh, and after they had drunk. Now Eli the priest sat upon a seat by a post of the temple OF THE LORD.
Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him OF THE LORD.
And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house OF THE LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.
The adversaries OF THE LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
Wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the LORD: for men abhorred the offering OF THE LORD.
And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word OF THE LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
And ere the lamp of God went out in the temple OF THE LORD, where the ark of God was, and Samuel was laid down to sleep;
Now Samuel did not yet know the LORD, neither was the word OF THE LORD yet revealed unto him.
And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house OF THE LORD. And Samuel feared to shew Eli the vision.
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet OF THE LORD.
And the LORD appeared again in Shiloh: for the LORD revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word OF THE LORD.
And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath the LORD smitten us to day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD out of Shiloh unto us, that, when it cometh among us, it may save us out of the hand of our enemies.
So the people sent to Shiloh, that they might bring from thence the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD of hosts, which dwelleth between the cherubims: and the two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, were there with the ark of the covenant of God.
And when the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD came into the camp, all Israel shouted with a great shout, so that the earth rang again.
And when the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What meaneth the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? And they understood that the ark OF THE LORD was come into the camp.
And when they of Ashdod arose early on the morrow, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the earth before the ark OF THE LORD. And they took Dagon, and set him in his place again.
And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark OF THE LORD; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
But the hand OF THE LORD was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with emerods, even Ashdod and the coasts thereof.
And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand OF THE LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.
And the Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, What shall we do to the ark OF THE LORD? tell us wherewith we shall send it to his place.
And take the ark OF THE LORD, and lay it upon the cart; and put the jewels of gold, which ye return him for a trespass offering, in a coffer by the side thereof; and send it away, that it may go.
And they laid the ark OF THE LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.
And the Levites took down the ark OF THE LORD, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Bethshemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the LORD.
And the golden mice, according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, both of fenced cities, and of country villages, even unto the great stone of Abel, whereon they set down the ark OF THE LORD: which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua, the Bethshemite.
And he smote the men of Bethshemesh, because they had looked into the ark OF THE LORD, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the LORD had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
And they sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kirjathjearim, saying, The Philistines have brought again the ark OF THE LORD; come ye down, and fetch it up to you.
And the men of Kirjathjearim came, and fetched up the ark OF THE LORD, and brought it into the house of Abinadab in the hill, and sanctified Eleazar his son to keep the ark OF THE LORD.
So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand OF THE LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
And Samuel told all the words OF THE LORD unto the people that asked of him a king. And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: He will take your sons, and appoint them for himself, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and some shall run before his chariots. And he will appoint him captains over thousands, and captains over fifties; and will set them to ear his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and instruments of his chariots. And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers. read more And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. And he will take your menservants, and your maidservants, and your goodliest young men, and your asses, and put them to his work. He will take the tenth of your sheep: and ye shall be his servants. And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the LORD will not hear you in that day. Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us; That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles. And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears OF THE LORD. And the LORD said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city. show less
And Samuel heard all the words of the people, and he rehearsed them in the ears OF THE LORD.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.
Therefore they inquired OF THE LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear OF THE LORD fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.
Now therefore stand still, that I may reason with you before the LORD of all the righteous acts OF THE LORD, which he did to you and to your fathers.
If ye will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment OF THE LORD, then shall both ye and also the king that reigneth over you continue following the LORD your God:
But if ye will not obey the voice OF THE LORD, but rebel against the commandment OF THE LORD, then shall the hand OF THE LORD be against you, as it was against your fathers.
Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight OF THE LORD, in asking you a king.
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment OF THE LORD thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the LORD have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
Samuel also said unto Saul, The LORD sent me to anoint thee to be king over his people, over Israel: now therefore hearken thou unto the voice of the words OF THE LORD.
And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed be thou OF THE LORD: I have performed the commandment OF THE LORD.
Wherefore then didst thou not obey the voice OF THE LORD, but didst fly upon the spoil, and didst evil in the sight OF THE LORD?
And Saul said unto Samuel, Yea, I have obeyed the voice OF THE LORD, and have gone the way which the LORD sent me, and have brought Agag the king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice OF THE LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word OF THE LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.
And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment OF THE LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.
And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word OF THE LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.
Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit OF THE LORD came upon David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
But the Spirit OF THE LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him.
Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a shield: but I come to thee in the name OF THE LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.
Therefore thou shalt deal kindly with thy servant; for thou hast brought thy servant into a covenant OF THE LORD with thee: notwithstanding, if there be in me iniquity, slay me thyself; for why shouldest thou bring me to thy father?
And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness OF THE LORD, that I die not:
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name OF THE LORD, saying, The LORD be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.
And he inquired OF THE LORD for him, and gave him victuals, and gave him the sword of Goliath the Philistine.
And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests OF THE LORD; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests OF THE LORD.
Therefore David inquired OF THE LORD, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the LORD said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.
Then David inquired OF THE LORD yet again. And the LORD answered him and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
And he said unto his men, The LORD forbid that I should do this thing unto my master, the LORD'S anointed, to stretch forth mine hand against him, seeing he is the anointed OF THE LORD.
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles OF THE LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
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 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 abiding in the inheritance OF THE LORD, saying, Go, serve other gods.
Now therefore, let not my blood 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.
And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes OF THE LORD, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.
And when Saul inquired OF THE LORD, the LORD answered him not, neither by dreams, nor by Urim, nor by prophets.
Because thou obeyedst not the voice OF THE LORD, nor executedst his fierce wrath upon Amalek, therefore hath the LORD done this thing unto thee this day.
And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies OF THE LORD;
And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even, for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people OF THE LORD, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.
And it came to pass after this, that David inquired OF THE LORD, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the LORD said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.
And David sent messengers unto the men of Jabeshgilead, and said unto them, Blessed be ye OF THE LORD, that ye have shewed this kindness unto your lord, even unto Saul, and have buried him.
And David inquired OF THE LORD, saying, Shall I go up to the Philistines? wilt thou deliver them into mine hand? And the LORD said unto David, Go up: for I will doubtless deliver the Philistines into thine hand.
And when David inquired OF THE LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name OF THE LORD of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.
And the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.
And David was afraid OF THE LORD that day, and said, How shall the ark OF THE LORD come to me?
So David would not remove the ark OF THE LORD unto him into the city of David: but David carried it aside into the house of Obededom the Gittite.
And the ark OF THE LORD continued in the house of Obededom the Gittite three months: and the LORD blessed Obededom, and all his household.
And it was so, that when they that bare the ark OF THE LORD had gone six paces, he sacrificed oxen and fatlings.
So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark OF THE LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.
And as the ark OF THE LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.
And they brought in the ark OF THE LORD, and set it in his place, in the midst of the tabernacle that David had pitched for it: and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the LORD.
And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name OF THE LORD of hosts.
And David said unto Michal, It was before the LORD, which chose me before thy father, and before all his house, to appoint me ruler over the people OF THE LORD, over Israel: therefore will I play before the LORD.
Wherefore hast thou despised the commandment OF THE LORD, to do evil in his sight? thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword, and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him with the sword of the children of Ammon.
Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies OF THE LORD to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.
Then David arose from the earth, and washed, and anointed himself, and changed his apparel, and came into the house OF THE LORD, and worshipped: then he came to his own house; and when he required, they set bread before him, and he did eat. Then said his servants unto him, What thing is this that thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, thou didst rise and eat bread. And he said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who can tell whether GOD will be gracious to me, that the child may live? But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he shall not return to me. read more And David comforted Bathsheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the LORD loved him. show less
And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because OF THE LORD.
And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes OF THE LORD, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance OF THE LORD?
Then there was a famine in the days of David three years, year after year; and David inquired OF THE LORD. And the LORD answered, It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.
Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance OF THE LORD?
But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because OF THE LORD'S oath that was between them, between David and Jonathan the son of Saul.
And the channels of the sea appeared, the foundations of the world were discovered, at the rebuking OF THE LORD, at the blast of the breath of his nostrils.
As for God, his way is perfect; the word OF THE LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.
And again the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them to say, Go, number Israel and Judah.
For when David was up in the morning, the word OF THE LORD came unto the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand OF THE LORD; for his mercies are great: and let me not fall into the hand of man.
And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the LORD repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel OF THE LORD was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.
And keep the charge OF THE LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
And unto Abiathar the priest said the king, Get thee to Anathoth, unto thine own fields; for thou art worthy of death: but I will not at this time put thee to death, because thou barest the ark OF THE LORD GOD before David my father, and because thou hast been afflicted in all wherein my father was afflicted.
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the LORD; that he might fulfil the word OF THE LORD, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
Then tidings came to Joab: for Joab had turned after Adonijah, though he turned not after Absalom. And Joab fled unto the tabernacle OF THE LORD, and caught hold on the horns of the altar.
And it was told king Solomon that Joab was fled unto the tabernacle OF THE LORD; and, behold, he is by the altar. Then Solomon sent Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, saying, Go, fall upon him.
And Benaiah came to the tabernacle OF THE LORD, and said unto him, Thus saith the king, Come forth. And he said, Nay; but I will die here. And Benaiah brought the king word again, saying, Thus said Joab, and thus he answered me.
Why then hast thou not kept the oath OF THE LORD, and the commandment that I have charged thee with?
And Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh king of Egypt, and took Pharaoh's daughter, and brought her into the city of David, until he had made an end of building his own house, and the house OF THE LORD, and the wall of Jerusalem round about.
Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name OF THE LORD, until those days.
And Solomon awoke; and, behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, and offered up burnt offerings, and offered peace offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.
Thou knowest how that David my father could not build an house unto the name OF THE LORD his God for the wars which were about him on every side, until the LORD put them under the soles of his feet.
And, behold, I purpose to build an house unto the name OF THE LORD my God, as the LORD spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build an house unto my name.
And it came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon's reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house OF THE LORD.
And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD.
And the great court round about was with three rows of hewed stones, and a row of cedar beams, both for the inner court of the house OF THE LORD, and for the porch of the house.
And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basons. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he made king Solomon for the house OF THE LORD:
And the pots, and the shovels, and the basons: and all these vessels, which Hiram made to king Solomon for the house OF THE LORD, were of bright brass.
And Solomon made all the vessels that pertained unto the house OF THE LORD: the altar of gold, and the table of gold, whereupon the shewbread was,
So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house OF THE LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house OF THE LORD.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
And they brought up the ark OF THE LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD unto his place, into the oracle of the house, to the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims.
And it came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house OF THE LORD,
So that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud: for the glory OF THE LORD had filled the house OF THE LORD.
And it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name OF THE LORD God of Israel.
And the LORD hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built an house for the name OF THE LORD God of Israel.
And I have set there a place for the ark, wherein is the covenant OF THE LORD, which he made with our fathers, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
And Solomon stood before the altar OF THE LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar OF THE LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
And Solomon offered a sacrifice of peace offerings, which he offered unto the LORD, two and twenty thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the children of Israel dedicated the house OF THE LORD.
The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house OF THE LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings: because the brasen altar that was before the LORD was too little to receive the burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings.
And it came to pass, when Solomon had finished the building of the house OF THE LORD, and the king's house, and all Solomon's desire which he was pleased to do,
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, when Solomon had built the two houses, the house OF THE LORD, and the king's house,
And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house OF THE LORD, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon concerning the name OF THE LORD, she came to prove him with hard questions.
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, and his cupbearers, and his ascent by which he went up unto the house OF THE LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
And the king made of the almug trees pillars for the house OF THE LORD, and for the king's house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day.
And Solomon did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and went not fully after the LORD, as did David his father.
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren the children of Israel: return every man to his house; for this thing is from me. They hearkened therefore to the word OF THE LORD, and returned to depart, according to the word OF THE LORD.
If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house OF THE LORD at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.
And, behold, there came a man of God out of Judah by the word OF THE LORD unto Bethel: and Jeroboam stood by the altar to burn incense.
And he cried against the altar in the word OF THE LORD, and said, O altar, altar, thus saith the LORD; Behold, a child shall be born unto the house of David, Josiah by name; and upon thee shall he offer the priests of the high places that burn incense upon thee, and men's bones shall be burnt upon thee.
The altar also was rent, and the ashes poured out from the altar, according to the sign which the man of God had given by the word OF THE LORD.
And the king answered and said unto the man of God, Intreat now the face OF THE LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as it was before.
For so was it charged me by the word OF THE LORD, saying, Eat no bread, nor drink water, nor turn again by the same way that thou camest.
For it was said to me by the word OF THE LORD, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word OF THE LORD, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.
And it came to pass, as they sat at the table, that the word OF THE LORD came unto the prophet that brought him back:
And he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith the LORD, Forasmuch as thou hast disobeyed the mouth OF THE LORD, and hast not kept the commandment which the LORD thy God commanded thee,
And when the prophet that brought him back from the way heard thereof, he said, It is the man of God, who was disobedient unto the word OF THE LORD: therefore the LORD hath delivered him unto the lion, which hath torn him, and slain him, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake unto him.
For the saying which he cried by the word OF THE LORD against the altar in Bethel, and against all the houses of the high places which are in the cities of Samaria, shall surely come to pass.
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.
And Judah did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
And he took away the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
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.
Because David did that which was right in the eyes OF THE LORD, and turned not aside from any thing that he commanded him all the days of his life, save only in the matter of Uriah the Hittite.
And he brought in the things which his father had dedicated, and the things which himself had dedicated, into the house OF THE LORD, silver, and gold, and vessels.
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
And he did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying OF THE LORD, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:
And he did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.
And also by the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani came the word OF THE LORD against Baasha, and against his house, even for all the evil that he did in the sight OF THE LORD, in provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam; and because he killed him.
Thus did Zimri destroy all the house of Baasha, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake against Baasha by Jehu the prophet,
For his sins which he sinned in doing evil in the sight OF THE LORD, in walking in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin which he did, to make Israel to sin.
But Omri wrought evil in the eyes OF THE LORD, and did worse than all that were before him.
And Ahab the son of Omri did evil in the sight OF THE LORD above all that were before him.
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto him, saying, Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And it shall be, that thou shalt drink of the brook; and I have commanded the ravens to feed thee there. So he went and did according unto the word OF THE LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. read more And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook. And it came to pass after a while, that the brook dried up, because there had been no rain in the land. And the word OF THE LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by Elijah. show less
So he went and did according unto the word OF THE LORD: for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto him, saying, Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee. So he arose and went to Zarephath. And when he came to the gate of the city, behold, the widow woman was there gathering of sticks: and he called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it, he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in thine hand. read more And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die. And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son. For thus saith the LORD God of Israel, The barrel of meal shall not waste, neither shall the cruse of oil fail, until the day that the LORD sendeth rain upon the earth. And she went and did according to the saying of Elijah: and she, and he, and her house, did eat many days. And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by Elijah. show less
And the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by Elijah.
And the woman said to Elijah, Now by this I know that thou art a man of God, and that the word OF THE LORD in thy mouth is truth.
And it came to pass after many days, that the word OF THE LORD came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets OF THE LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
And it shall come to pass, as soon as I am gone from thee, that the Spirit OF THE LORD shall carry thee whither I know not; and so when I come and tell Ahab, and he cannot find thee, he shall slay me: but I thy servant fear the LORD from my youth.
Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets OF THE LORD, how I hid an hundred men OF THE LORD'S prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?
And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments OF THE LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet OF THE LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
And call ye on the name of your gods, and I will call on the name OF THE LORD: and the God that answereth by fire, let him be God. And all the people answered and said, It is well spoken.
And Elijah said unto all the people, Come near unto me. And all the people came near unto him. And he repaired the altar OF THE LORD that was broken down.
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word OF THE LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
And with the stones he built an altar in the name OF THE LORD: and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.
Then the fire OF THE LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
And the hand OF THE LORD was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.
And the angel OF THE LORD came again the second time, and touched him, and said, Arise and eat; because the journey is too great for thee.
And he came thither unto a cave, and lodged there; and, behold, the word OF THE LORD came to him, and he said unto him, What doest thou here, Elijah?
And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said unto his neighbour in the word OF THE LORD, Smite me, I pray thee. And the man refused to smite him.
Then said he unto him, Because thou hast not obeyed the voice OF THE LORD, behold, as soon as thou art departed from me, a lion shall slay thee. And as soon as he was departed from him, a lion found him, and slew him.
And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight OF THE LORD.
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight OF THE LORD, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word OF THE LORD to day.
And Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet OF THE LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may inquire OF THE LORD: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou tell me nothing but that which is true in the name OF THE LORD?
And he said, Hear thou therefore the word OF THE LORD: I saw the LORD sitting on his throne, and all the host of heaven standing by him on his right hand and on his left.
But Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah went near, and smote Micaiah on the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit OF THE LORD from me to speak unto thee?
And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood; and they washed his armour; according unto the word OF THE LORD which he spake.
And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes OF THE LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
And he did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and walked in the way of his father, and in the way of his mother, and in the way of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin:
But the angel OF THE LORD said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron?
And the angel OF THE LORD said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.
So he died according to the word OF THE LORD which Elijah had spoken. And Jehoram reigned in his stead in the second year of Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah; because he had no son.
And they said unto him, Behold now, there be with thy servants fifty strong men; let them go, we pray thee, and seek thy master: lest peradventure the Spirit OF THE LORD hath taken him up, and cast him upon some mountain, or into some valley. And he said, Ye shall not send.
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 forty and two children of them.
And he wrought evil in the sight OF THE LORD; but not like his father, and like his mother: for he put away the image of Baal that his father had made.
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet OF THE LORD, that we may inquire OF THE LORD by him? And one of the king of Israel's servants answered and said, Here is Elisha the son of Shaphat, which poured water on the hands of Elijah.
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.
But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand OF THE LORD came upon him.
And this is but a light thing in the sight OF THE LORD: he will deliver the Moabites also into your hand.
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word OF THE LORD.
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name OF THE LORD his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.
And while he yet talked with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is OF THE LORD; what should I wait for the LORD any longer?
Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word OF THE LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word OF THE LORD.
And the king said unto Hazael, Take a present in thine hand, and go, meet the man of God, and inquire OF THE LORD by him, saying, Shall I recover of this disease?
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight OF THE LORD.
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight OF THE LORD, as did the house of Ahab: for he was the son in law of the house of Ahab.
And he arose, and went into the house; and he poured the oil on his head, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, I have anointed thee king over the people OF THE LORD, even over Israel.
And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants OF THE LORD, at the hand of Jezebel.
Surely I have seen yesterday the blood of Naboth, and the blood of his sons, saith the LORD; and I will requite thee in this plat, saith the LORD. Now therefore take and cast him into the plat of ground, according to the word OF THE LORD.
Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:
Know now that there shall fall unto the earth nothing of the word OF THE LORD, which the LORD spake concerning the house of Ahab: for the LORD hath done that which he spake by his servant Elijah.
And when he came to Samaria, he slew all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the saying OF THE LORD, which he spake to Elijah.
And Jehu went, and Jehonadab the son of Rechab, into the house of Baal, and said unto the worshippers of Baal, Search, and look that there be here with you none of the servants OF THE LORD, but the worshippers of Baal only.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law OF THE LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
And he was with her hid in the house OF THE LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
And the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the rulers over hundreds, with the captains and the guard, and brought them to him into the house OF THE LORD, and made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house OF THE LORD, and shewed them the king's son.
And two parts of all you that go forth on the sabbath, even they shall keep the watch of the house OF THE LORD about the king.
And to the captains over hundreds did the priest give king David's spears and shields, that were in the temple OF THE LORD.
And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple OF THE LORD.
But Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of the hundreds, the officers of the host, and said unto them, Have her forth without the ranges: and him that followeth her kill with the sword. For the priest had said, Let her not be slain in the house OF THE LORD.
And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house OF THE LORD.
And he took the rulers over hundreds, and the captains, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house OF THE LORD, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. And he sat on the throne of the kings.
And Jehoash did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD all his days wherein Jehoiada the priest instructed him.
And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house OF THE LORD, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man's heart to bring into the house OF THE LORD,
But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house OF THE LORD: and the priests that kept the door put therein all the money that was brought into the house OF THE LORD.
And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house OF THE LORD.
And they gave the money, being told, into the hands of them that did the work, that had the oversight of the house OF THE LORD: and they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, that wrought upon the house OF THE LORD,
And to masons, and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the breaches of the house OF THE LORD, and for all that was laid out for the house to repair it.
Howbeit there were not made for the house OF THE LORD bowls of silver, snuffers, basons, trumpets, any vessels of gold, or vessels of silver, of the money that was brought into the house OF THE LORD:
The trespass money and sin money was not brought into the house OF THE LORD: it was the priests'.
And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat, and Jehoram, and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, and followed the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, which made Israel to sin; he departed not therefrom.
And the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hand of Hazael king of Syria, and into the hand of Benhadad the son of Hazael, all their days.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD; he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel sin: but he walked therein.
And he said, Open the window eastward. And he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot. And he shot. And he said, The arrow OF THE LORD'S deliverance, and the arrow of deliverance from Syria: for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, yet not like David his father: he did according to all things as Joash his father did.
And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house OF THE LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not from all the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word OF THE LORD God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gathhepher.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah had done; Save that the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burnt incense still on the high places. And the LORD smote the king, so that he was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land. And the rest of the acts of Azariah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? read more So Azariah slept with his fathers; and they buried him with his fathers in the city of David: and Jotham his son reigned in his stead. In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months. And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. And Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. This was the word OF THE LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass. Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria. For Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. And the rest of the acts of Shallum, and his conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the coasts thereof from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria. And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. And Pul the king of Assyria came against the land: and Menahem gave Pul a thousand talents of silver, that his hand might be with him to confirm the kingdom in his hand. And Menahem exacted the money of Israel, even of all the mighty men of wealth, of each man fifty shekels of silver, to give to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria turned back, and stayed not there in the land. And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel? And Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years. And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. But Pekah the son of Remaliah, a captain of his, conspired against him, and smote him in Samaria, in the palace of the king's house, with Argob and Arieh, and with him fifty men of the Gileadites: and he killed him, and reigned in his room. And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years. And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin. In the days of Pekah king of Israel came Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, and took Ijon, and Abelbethmaachah, and Janoah, and Kedesh, and Hazor, and Gilead, and Galilee, all the land of Naphtali, and carried them captive to Assyria. And Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah. And the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel. In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem. And his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok. And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done. Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house OF THE LORD. Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah. And Jotham slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Ahaz his son reigned in his stead. show less
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
This was the word OF THE LORD which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons shall sit on the throne of Israel unto the fourth generation. And so it came to pass.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD: he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.
Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house OF THE LORD.
Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem, and did not that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD his God, like David his father.
And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house OF THE LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.
And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the LORD, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house OF THE LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar.
And the covert for the sabbath that they had built in the house, and the king's entry without, turned he from the house OF THE LORD for the king of Assyria.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.
And they left all the commandments OF THE LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.
And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do evil in the sight OF THE LORD, to provoke him to anger.
Also Judah kept not the commandments OF THE LORD their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that David his father did.
Because they obeyed not the voice OF THE LORD their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant OF THE LORD commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.
And Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house OF THE LORD, and in the treasures of the king's house.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple OF THE LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house OF THE LORD.
And Hezekiah received the letter of the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up into the house OF THE LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal OF THE LORD of hosts shall do this.
And it came to pass that night, that the angel OF THE LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
And it came to pass, afore Isaiah was gone out into the middle court, that the word OF THE LORD came to him, saying,
Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house OF THE LORD.
And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the LORD will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house OF THE LORD the third day?
And Isaiah said, This sign shalt thou have OF THE LORD, that the LORD will do the thing that he hath spoken: shall the shadow go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?
Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word OF THE LORD which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?
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.
And he built altars in the house OF THE LORD, of which the LORD said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house OF THE LORD.
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.
Moreover Manasseh shed innocent blood very much, till he had filled Jerusalem 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.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, and walked in all the way of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.
And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house OF THE LORD, saying,
Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house OF THE LORD, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:
And let them deliver it into the hand of the doers of the work, that have the oversight of the house OF THE LORD: and let them give it to the doers of the work which is in the house OF THE LORD, to repair the breaches of the house,
And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house OF THE LORD. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.
And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house OF THE LORD.
Go ye, inquire OF THE LORD for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath OF THE LORD that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us. So Hilkiah the priest, and Ahikam, and Achbor, and Shaphan, and Asahiah, went unto Huldah the prophetess, the wife of Shallum the son of Tikvah, the son of Harhas, keeper of the wardrobe; (now she dwelt in Jerusalem in the college;) and they communed with her.
But to the king of Judah which sent you to inquire OF THE LORD, thus shall ye say to him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, As touching the words which thou hast heard;
And the king went up into the house OF THE LORD, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house OF THE LORD.
And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the door, to bring forth out of the temple OF THE LORD all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the grove, and for all the host of heaven: and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Bethel.
And he brought out the grove from the house OF THE LORD, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and stamped it small to powder, and cast the powder thereof upon the graves of the children of the people.
And he brake down the houses of the sodomites, that were by the house OF THE LORD, where the women wove hangings for the grove.
Nevertheless the priests of the high places came not up to the altar OF THE LORD in Jerusalem, but they did eat of the unleavened bread among their brethren.
And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house OF THE LORD, by the chamber of Nathanmelech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.
And the altars that were on the top of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house OF THE LORD, did the king beat down, and brake them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.
And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word OF THE LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.
Moreover the workers with familiar spirits, and the wizards, and the images, and the idols, and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem, did Josiah put away, that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book that Hilkiah the priest found in the house OF THE LORD.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his fathers had done.
And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word OF THE LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.
Surely at the commandment OF THE LORD came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his father had done.
And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple OF THE LORD, as the LORD had said.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
For through the anger OF THE LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, until he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And he burnt the house OF THE LORD, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire.
And the pillars of brass that were in the house OF THE LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house OF THE LORD, did the Chaldees break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.
The two pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house OF THE LORD; the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
The sons of Judah; Er, and Onan, and Shelah: which three were born unto him of the daughter of Shua the Canaanitess. And Er, the firstborn of Judah, was evil in the sight OF THE LORD; and he slew him.
And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house OF THE LORD, after that the ark had rest.
And they ministered before the dwelling place of the tabernacle of the congregation with singing, until Solomon had built the house OF THE LORD in Jerusalem: and then they waited on their office according to their order.
And Shallum the son of Kore, the son of Ebiasaph, the son of Korah, and his brethren, of the house of his father, the Korahites, were over the work of the service, keepers of the gates of the tabernacle: and their fathers, being over the host OF THE LORD, were keepers of the entry.
So they and their children had the oversight of the gates of the house OF THE LORD, namely, the house of the tabernacle, by wards.
So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word OF THE LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; And inquired not OF THE LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
And inquired not OF THE LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.
Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before the LORD; and they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word OF THE LORD by Samuel.
These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word OF THE LORD concerning Israel.
And these are the numbers of the bands that were ready armed to the war, and came to David to Hebron, to turn the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word OF THE LORD.
And David said unto all the congregation of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and that it be OF THE LORD our God, let us send abroad unto our brethren every where, that are left in all the land of Israel, and with them also to the priests and Levites which are in their cities and suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us:
And the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put his hand to the ark: and there he died before God.
And David gathered all Israel together to Jerusalem, to bring up the ark OF THE LORD unto his place, which he had prepared for it.
And said unto them, Ye are the chief of the fathers of the Levites: sanctify yourselves, both ye and your brethren, that ye may bring up the ark OF THE LORD God of Israel unto the place that I have prepared for it.
So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark OF THE LORD God of Israel.
And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word OF THE LORD.
So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD out of the house of Obededom with joy.
And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, that they offered seven bullocks and seven rams.
Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
And it came to pass, as the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD came to the city of David, that Michal the daughter of Saul looking out at a window saw king David dancing and playing: and she despised him in her heart.
And when David had made an end of offering the burnt offerings and the peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name OF THE LORD.
And he appointed certain of the Levites to minister before the ark OF THE LORD, and to record, and to thank and praise the LORD God of Israel:
Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence OF THE LORD, because he cometh to judge the earth.
So he left there before the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD Asaph and his brethren, to minister before the ark continually, as every day's work required:
And Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle OF THE LORD in the high place that was at Gibeon,
To offer burnt offerings unto the LORD upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law OF THE LORD, which he commanded Israel;
Now it came to pass, as David sat in his house, that David said to Nathan the prophet, Lo, I dwell in an house of cedars, but the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD remaineth under curtains.
Either three years' famine; or three months to be destroyed before thy foes, while that the sword of thine enemies overtaketh thee; or else three days the sword OF THE LORD, even the pestilence, in the land, and the angel OF THE LORD destroying throughout all the coasts of Israel. Now therefore advise thyself what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.
And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand OF THE LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.
And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the LORD beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel OF THE LORD stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
And David lifted up his eyes, and saw the angel OF THE LORD stand between the earth and the heaven, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon their faces.
Then the angel OF THE LORD commanded Gad to say to David, that David should go up, and set up an altar unto the LORD in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
For the tabernacle OF THE LORD, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of the burnt offering, were at that season in the high place at Gibeon.
But David could not go before it to inquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel OF THE LORD.
Then David said, This is the house OF THE LORD God, and this is the altar of the burnt offering for Israel.
And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name OF THE LORD my God:
But the word OF THE LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.
Now, my son, the LORD be with thee; and prosper thou, and build the house OF THE LORD thy God, as he hath said of thee.
Only the LORD give thee wisdom and understanding, and give thee charge concerning Israel, that thou mayest keep the law OF THE LORD thy God.
Now, behold, in my trouble I have prepared for the house OF THE LORD an hundred thousand talents of gold, and a thousand thousand talents of silver; and of brass and iron without weight; for it is in abundance: timber also and stone have I prepared; and thou mayest add thereto.
Now set your heart and your soul to seek the LORD your God; arise therefore, and build ye the sanctuary OF THE LORD God, to bring the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name OF THE LORD.
Of which, twenty and four thousand were to set forward the work of the house OF THE LORD; and six thousand were officers and judges:
These were the sons of Levi after the house of their fathers; even the chief of the fathers, as they were counted by number of names by their polls, that did the work for the service of the house OF THE LORD, from the age of twenty years and upward.
Because their office was to wait on the sons of Aaron for the service of the house OF THE LORD, in the courts, and in the chambers, and in the purifying of all holy things, and the work of the service of the house of God;
And that they should keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, in the service of the house OF THE LORD.
These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house OF THE LORD, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.
All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house OF THE LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king's order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
So the number of them, with their brethren that were instructed in the songs OF THE LORD, even all that were cunning, was two hundred fourscore and eight.
Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house OF THE LORD.
The sons of Jehieli; Zetham, and Joel his brother, which were over the treasures of the house OF THE LORD.
Out of the spoils won in battles did they dedicate to maintain the house OF THE LORD.
And of the Hebronites, Hashabiah and his brethren, men of valour, a thousand and seven hundred, were officers among them of Israel on this side Jordan westward in all the business OF THE LORD, and in the service of the king.
Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:
And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom OF THE LORD over Israel.
Now therefore in the sight of all Israel the congregation OF THE LORD, and in the audience of our God, keep and seek for all the commandments OF THE LORD your God: that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance for your children after you for ever.
And the pattern of all that he had by the spirit, of the courts of the house OF THE LORD, and of all the chambers round about, of the treasuries of the house of God, and of the treasuries of the dedicated things:
Also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house OF THE LORD, and for all the vessels of service in the house OF THE LORD.
And for the altar of incense refined gold by weight; and gold for the pattern of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed: for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house OF THE LORD.
And they with whom precious stones were found gave them to the treasure of the house OF THE LORD, by the hand of Jehiel the Gershonite.
Then Solomon sat on the throne OF THE LORD as king instead of David his father, and prospered; and all Israel obeyed him.
So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant OF THE LORD had made in the wilderness.
Moreover the brasen altar, that Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made, he put before the tabernacle OF THE LORD: and Solomon and the congregation sought unto it.
And Solomon determined to build an house for the name OF THE LORD, and an house for his kingdom.
Behold, I build an house to the name OF THE LORD my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts OF THE LORD our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
Then Solomon began to build the house OF THE LORD at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the LORD appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.
The pots also, and the shovels, and the fleshhooks, and all their instruments, did Huram his father make to king Solomon for the house OF THE LORD of bright brass.
Thus all the work that Solomon made for the house OF THE LORD was finished: and Solomon brought in all the things that David his father had dedicated; and the silver, and the gold, and all the instruments, put he among the treasures of the house of God.
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion. Wherefore all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto the king in the feast which was in the seventh month. And all the elders of Israel came; and the Levites took up the ark. And they brought up the ark, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, these did the priests and the Levites bring up. read more Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude. And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims: show less
And the priests brought in the ark of the covenant OF THE LORD unto his place, to the oracle of the house, into the most holy place, even under the wings of the cherubims:
It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of musick, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house OF THE LORD;
So that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud: for the glory OF THE LORD had filled the house of God.
Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name OF THE LORD God of Israel.
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name OF THE LORD God of Israel.
And in it have I put the ark, wherein is the covenant OF THE LORD, that he made with the children of Israel.
And he stood before the altar OF THE LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory OF THE LORD filled the house.
And the priests could not enter into the house OF THE LORD, because the glory OF THE LORD had filled the LORD'S house.
And when all the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory OF THE LORD upon the house, they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground upon the pavement, and worshipped, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.
And the priests waited on their offices: the Levites also with instruments of musick OF THE LORD, which David the king had made to praise the LORD, because his mercy endureth for ever, when David praised by their ministry; and the priests sounded trumpets before them, and all Israel stood.
Moreover Solomon hallowed the middle of the court that was before the house OF THE LORD: for there he offered burnt offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the brasen altar which Solomon had made was not able to receive the burnt offerings, and the meat offerings, and the fat.
Thus Solomon finished the house OF THE LORD, and the king's house: and all that came into Solomon's heart to make in the house OF THE LORD, and in his own house, he prosperously effected.
And it came to pass at the end of twenty years, wherein Solomon had built the house OF THE LORD, and his own house,
And Solomon brought up the daughter of Pharaoh out of the city of David unto the house that he had built for her: for he said, My wife shall not dwell in the house of David king of Israel, because the places are holy, whereunto the ark OF THE LORD hath come.
Then Solomon offered burnt offerings unto the LORD on the altar OF THE LORD, which he had built before the porch,
Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house OF THE LORD, and until it was finished. So the house OF THE LORD was perfected.
And the meat of his table, and the sitting of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel; his cupbearers also, and their apparel; and his ascent by which he went up into the house OF THE LORD; there was no more spirit in her.
And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house OF THE LORD, and to the king's palace, and harps and psalteries for singers: and there were none such seen before in the land of Judah.
Thus saith the LORD, Ye shall not go up, nor fight against your brethren: return every man to his house: for this thing is done of me. And they obeyed the words OF THE LORD, and returned from going against Jeroboam.
And it came to pass, when Rehoboam had established the kingdom, and had strengthened himself, he forsook the law OF THE LORD, and all Israel with him.
And when the LORD saw that they humbled themselves, the word OF THE LORD came to Shemaiah, saying, They have humbled themselves; therefore I will not destroy them, but I will grant them some deliverance; and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishak.
So Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem, and took away the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he took all: he carried away also the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
And when the king entered into the house OF THE LORD, the guard came and fetched them, and brought them again into the guard chamber.
And when he humbled himself, the wrath OF THE LORD turned from him, that he would not destroy him altogether: and also in Judah things went well.
And now ye think to withstand the kingdom OF THE LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.
Have ye not cast out the priests OF THE LORD, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites, and have made you priests after the manner of the nations of other lands? so that whosoever cometh to consecrate himself with a young bullock and seven rams, the same may be a priest of them that are no gods.
And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge OF THE LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.
And they smote all the cities round about Gerar; for the fear OF THE LORD came upon them: and they spoiled all the cities; for there was exceeding much spoil in them.
And when Asa heard these words, and the prophecy of Oded the prophet, he took courage, and put away the abominable idols out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the cities which he had taken from mount Ephraim, and renewed the altar OF THE LORD, that was before the porch OF THE LORD.
Then Asa brought out silver and gold out of the treasures of the house OF THE LORD and of the king's house, and sent to Benhadad king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
For the eyes OF THE LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou hast done foolishly: therefore from henceforth thou shalt have wars.
And his heart was lifted up in the ways OF THE LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
And they taught in Judah, and had the book of the law OF THE LORD with them, and went about throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.
And the fear OF THE LORD fell upon all the kingdoms of the lands that were round about Judah, so that they made no war against Jehoshaphat.
And Jehoshaphat said unto the king of Israel, Inquire, I pray thee, at the word OF THE LORD to day.
But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet OF THE LORD besides, that we might inquire of him?
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire OF THE LORD: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.
And the king said to him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou say nothing but the truth to me in the name OF THE LORD?
Again he said, Therefore hear the word OF THE LORD; I saw the LORD sitting upon his throne, and all the host of heaven standing on his right hand and on his left. And the LORD said, Who shall entice Ahab king of Israel, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one spake saying after this manner, and another saying after that manner. Then there came out a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will entice him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go out, and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And the LORD said, Thou shalt entice him, and thou shalt also prevail: go out, and do even so. read more Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil against thee. show less
Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit OF THE LORD from me to speak unto thee?
Wherefore now let the fear OF THE LORD be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with the LORD our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts.
Moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set of the Levites, and of the priests, and of the chief of the fathers of Israel, for the judgment OF THE LORD, and for controversies, when they returned to Jerusalem.
And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear OF THE LORD, faithfully, and with a perfect heart.
And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters OF THE LORD; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, for all the king's matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and the LORD shall be with the good.
And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help OF THE LORD: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the LORD.
And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house OF THE LORD, before the new court,
Then upon Jahaziel the son of Zechariah, the son of Benaiah, the son of Jeiel, the son of Mattaniah, a Levite of the sons of Asaph, came the Spirit OF THE LORD in the midst of the congregation;
Ye shall not need to fight in this battle: set yourselves, stand ye still, and see the salvation OF THE LORD with you, O Judah and Jerusalem: fear not, nor be dismayed; to morrow go out against them: for the LORD will be with you.
And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house OF THE LORD.
And he walked in the way of Asa his father, and departed not from it, doing that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD.
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, like as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife: and he wrought that which was evil in the eyes OF THE LORD.
Wherefore he did evil in the sight OF THE LORD like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellers after the death of his father to his destruction.
And a third part shall be at the king's house; and a third part at the gate of the foundation: and all the people shall be in the courts of the house OF THE LORD.
But let none come into the house OF THE LORD, save the priests, and they that minister of the Levites; they shall go in, for they are holy: but all the people shall keep the watch OF THE LORD.
Now when Athaliah heard the noise of the people running and praising the king, she came to the people into the house OF THE LORD:
Then Jehoiada the priest brought out the captains of hundreds that were set over the host, and said unto them, Have her forth of the ranges: and whoso followeth her, let him be slain with the sword. For the priest said, Slay her not in the house OF THE LORD.
Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house OF THE LORD by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house OF THE LORD, to offer the burnt offerings OF THE LORD, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.
And he set the porters at the gates of the house OF THE LORD, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.
And Joash did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD all the days of Jehoiada the priest.
And it came to pass after this, that Joash was minded to repair the house OF THE LORD.
And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant OF THE LORD, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?
For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman, had broken up the house of God; and also all the dedicated things of the house OF THE LORD did they bestow upon Baalim.
And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house OF THE LORD.
And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the work of the service of the house OF THE LORD, and hired masons and carpenters to repair the house OF THE LORD, and also such as wrought iron and brass to mend the house OF THE LORD.
And when they had finished it, they brought the rest of the money before the king and Jehoiada, whereof were made vessels for the house OF THE LORD, even vessels to minister, and to offer withal, and spoons, and vessels of gold and silver. And they offered burnt offerings in the house OF THE LORD continually all the days of Jehoiada.
And they left the house OF THE LORD God of their fathers, and served groves and idols: and wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this their trespass.
And the Spirit of God came upon Zechariah the son of Jehoiada the priest, which stood above the people, and said unto them, Thus saith God, Why transgress ye the commandments OF THE LORD, that ye cannot prosper? because ye have forsaken the LORD, he hath also forsaken you.
And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house OF THE LORD.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, but not with a perfect heart.
Wherefore the anger OF THE LORD was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his father Amaziah did.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple OF THE LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests OF THE LORD, that were valiant men:
Then Uzziah was wroth, and had a censer in his hand to burn incense: and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy even rose up in his forehead before the priests in the house OF THE LORD, from beside the incense altar.
And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house OF THE LORD: and Jotham his son was over the king's house, judging the people of the land.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple OF THE LORD. And the people did yet corruptly.
He built the high gate of the house OF THE LORD, and on the wall of Ophel he built much.
Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: but he did not that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, like David his father:
But a prophet OF THE LORD was there, whose name was Oded: and he went out before the host that came to Samaria, and said unto them, Behold, because the LORD God of your fathers was wroth with Judah, he hath delivered them into your hand, and ye have slain them in a rage that reacheth up unto heaven.
Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath OF THE LORD is upon you.
For Ahaz took away a portion out of the house OF THE LORD, and out of the house of the king, and of the princes, and gave it unto the king of Assyria: but he helped him not.
And Ahaz gathered together the vessels of the house of God, and cut in pieces the vessels of the house of God, and shut up the doors of the house OF THE LORD, and he made him altars in every corner of Jerusalem.
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, according to all that David his father had done.
He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house OF THE LORD, and repaired them.
And said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites, sanctify now yourselves, and sanctify the house OF THE LORD God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.
For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the eyes OF THE LORD our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation OF THE LORD, and turned their backs.
Wherefore the wrath OF THE LORD was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to trouble, to astonishment, and to hissing, as ye see with your eyes.
And they gathered their brethren, and sanctified themselves, and came, according to the commandment of the king, by the words OF THE LORD, to cleanse the house OF THE LORD.
And the priests went into the inner part of the house OF THE LORD, to cleanse it, and brought out all the uncleanness that they found in the temple OF THE LORD into the court of the house OF THE LORD. And the Levites took it, to carry it out abroad into the brook Kidron.
Now they began on the first day of the first month to sanctify, and on the eighth day of the month came they to the porch OF THE LORD: so they sanctified the house OF THE LORD in eight days; and in the sixteenth day of the first month they made an end.
Then they went in to Hezekiah the king, and said, We have cleansed all the house OF THE LORD, and the altar of burnt offering, with all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread table, with all the vessels thereof.
Moreover all the vessels, which king Ahaz in his reign did cast away in his transgression, have we prepared and sanctified, and, behold, they are before the altar OF THE LORD.
Then Hezekiah the king rose early, and gathered the rulers of the city, and went up to the house OF THE LORD.
And they brought seven bullocks, and seven rams, and seven lambs, and seven he goats, for a sin offering for the kingdom, and for the sanctuary, and for Judah. And he commanded the priests the sons of Aaron to offer them on the altar OF THE LORD.
And he set the Levites in the house OF THE LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king's seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment OF THE LORD by his prophets.
And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song OF THE LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto the LORD, come near and bring sacrifices and thank offerings into the house OF THE LORD. And the congregation brought in sacrifices and thank offerings; and as many as were of a free heart burnt offerings.
And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house OF THE LORD was set in order.
And Hezekiah sent to all Israel and Judah, and wrote letters also to Ephraim and Manasseh, that they should come to the house OF THE LORD at Jerusalem, to keep the passover unto the LORD God of Israel.
Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word OF THE LORD.
Then they killed the passover on the fourteenth day of the second month: and the priests and the Levites were ashamed, and sanctified themselves, and brought in the burnt offerings into the house OF THE LORD.
And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge OF THE LORD: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD God of their fathers.
And Hezekiah appointed the courses of the priests and the Levites after their courses, every man according to his service, the priests and Levites for burnt offerings and for peace offerings, to minister, and to give thanks, and to praise in the gates of the tents OF THE LORD.
He appointed also the king's portion of his substance for the burnt offerings, to wit, for the morning and evening burnt offerings, and the burnt offerings for the sabbaths, and for the new moons, and for the set feasts, as it is written in the law OF THE LORD.
Moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in Jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the Levites, that they might be encouraged in the law OF THE LORD.
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house OF THE LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Then Hezekiah commanded to prepare chambers in the house OF THE LORD; and they prepared them,
And Kore the son of Imnah the Levite, the porter toward the east, was over the freewill offerings of God, to distribute the oblations OF THE LORD, and the most holy things.
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house OF THE LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath OF THE LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
But did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the LORD had cast out before the children of Israel.
Also he built altars in the house OF THE LORD, whereof the LORD had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.
And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house OF THE LORD.
And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight OF THE LORD, to provoke him to anger.
And he took away the strange gods, and the idol out of the house OF THE LORD, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house OF THE LORD, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
And he repaired the altar OF THE LORD, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the LORD God of Israel.
Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name OF THE LORD God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.
But he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD, as did Manasseh his father: for Amon sacrificed unto all the carved images which Manasseh his father had made, and served them;
And he did that which was right in the sight OF THE LORD, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.
Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land, and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house OF THE LORD his God.
And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house OF THE LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house OF THE LORD, to repair and amend the house:
And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house OF THE LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law OF THE LORD given by Moses.
And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house OF THE LORD. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house OF THE LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.
Go, inquire OF THE LORD for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath OF THE LORD that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word OF THE LORD, to do after all that is written in this book.
And as for the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire OF THE LORD, so shall ye say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel concerning the words which thou hast heard;
And the king went up into the house OF THE LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house OF THE LORD.
And he set the priests in their charges, and encouraged them to the service of the house OF THE LORD,
So kill the passover, and sanctify yourselves, and prepare your brethren, that they may do according to the word OF THE LORD by the hand of Moses.
So all the service OF THE LORD was prepared the same day, to keep the passover, and to offer burnt offerings upon the altar OF THE LORD, according to the commandment of king Josiah.
Now the rest of the acts of Josiah, and his goodness, according to that which was written in the law OF THE LORD,
Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD his God.
Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house OF THE LORD to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.
Jehoiachin was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three months and ten days in Jerusalem: and he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD.
And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house OF THE LORD, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.
And he did that which was evil in the sight OF THE LORD his God, and humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth OF THE LORD.
Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people, transgressed very much after all the abominations of the heathen; and polluted the house OF THE LORD which he had hallowed in Jerusalem.
But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath OF THE LORD arose against his people, till there was no remedy.
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house OF THE LORD, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.
To fulfil the word OF THE LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her sabbaths: for as long as she lay desolate she kept sabbath, to fulfil threescore and ten years.
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word OF THE LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word OF THE LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,
Who is there among you of all his people? his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and build the house OF THE LORD God of Israel, (he is the God,) which is in Jerusalem.
And some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house OF THE LORD which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God to set it up in his place:
And afterward offered the continual burnt offering, both of the new moons, and of all the set feasts OF THE LORD that were consecrated, and of every one that willingly offered a freewill offering unto the LORD.
From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt offerings unto the LORD. But the foundation of the temple OF THE LORD was not yet laid.
Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house OF THE LORD.
And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple OF THE LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.
And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the LORD; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house OF THE LORD was laid.
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand OF THE LORD his God upon him.
Now this is the copy of the letter that the king Artaxerxes gave unto Ezra the priest, the scribe, even a scribe of the words of the commandments OF THE LORD, and of his statutes to Israel.
And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellers, and before all the king's mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand OF THE LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
Watch ye, and keep them, until ye weigh them before the chief of the priests and the Levites, and chief of the fathers of Israel, at Jerusalem, in the chambers of the house OF THE LORD.
Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy OF THE LORD is your strength.
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.
They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments OF THE LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed year by year, to burn upon the altar OF THE LORD our God, as it is written in the law:
And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house OF THE LORD:
And the LORD said unto Satan, Behold, all that he hath is in thy power; only upon himself put not forth thine hand. So Satan went forth from the presence OF THE LORD.
So went Satan forth from the presence OF THE LORD, and smote Job with sore boils from the sole of his foot unto his crown.
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear OF THE LORD, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.
But his delight is in the law OF THE LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
I will praise the LORD according to his righteousness: and will sing praise to the name OF THE LORD most high.
The words OF THE LORD are pure words: as silver tried in a furnace of earth, purified seven times.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David, the servant OF THE LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said,} I will love thee, O LORD, my strength.
As for God, his way is perfect: the word OF THE LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all those that trust in him.
The law OF THE LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony OF THE LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes OF THE LORD are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment OF THE LORD is pure, enlightening the eyes.
The fear OF THE LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments OF THE LORD are true and righteous altogether.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name OF THE LORD our God.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house OF THE LORD for ever.
All the paths OF THE LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
One thing have I desired OF THE LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house OF THE LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty OF THE LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness OF THE LORD in the land of the living.
Because they regard not the works OF THE LORD, nor the operation of his hands, he shall destroy them, and not build them up.
The voice OF THE LORD is upon the waters: the God of glory thundereth: the LORD is upon many waters.
The voice OF THE LORD breaketh the cedars; yea, the LORD breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
The voice OF THE LORD shaketh the wilderness; the LORD shaketh the wilderness of Kadesh.
The voice OF THE LORD maketh the hinds to calve, and discovereth the forests: and in his temple doth every one speak of his glory.
By the word OF THE LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
The counsel OF THE LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.
Behold, the eye OF THE LORD is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy;
The face OF THE LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.
{To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant OF THE LORD.} The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies OF THE LORD shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
But the salvation of the righteous is OF THE LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble.
As we have heard, so have we seen in the city OF THE LORD of hosts, in the city of our God: God will establish it for ever. Selah.
I will go in the strength OF THE LORD GOD: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.
For in the hand OF THE LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises OF THE LORD, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.
The haters OF THE LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts OF THE LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
{Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite.} I will sing of the mercies OF THE LORD for ever: with my mouth will I make known thy faithfulness to all generations.
And let the beauty OF THE LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
Those that be planted in the house OF THE LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
The hills melted like wax at the presence OF THE LORD, at the presence OF THE LORD of the whole earth.
I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city OF THE LORD.
So the heathen shall fear the name OF THE LORD, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
But the mercy OF THE LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
Therefore was the wrath OF THE LORD kindled against his people, insomuch that he abhorred his own inheritance.
Whoso is wise, and will observe these things, even they shall understand the lovingkindness OF THE LORD.
The fear OF THE LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name OF THE LORD.
In the courts OF THE LORD'S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the LORD.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth OF THE LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.
They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name OF THE LORD I will destroy them.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name OF THE LORD I will destroy them.
The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand OF THE LORD doeth valiantly.
Blessed be he that cometh in the name OF THE LORD: we have blessed you out of the house OF THE LORD.
{A Song of degrees of David.} I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house OF THE LORD.
Whither the tribes go up, the tribes OF THE LORD, unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks unto the name OF THE LORD.
Lo, children are an heritage OF THE LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward. As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth. Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
Neither do they which go by say, The blessing OF THE LORD be upon you: we bless you in the name OF THE LORD.
{A Song of degrees.} Behold, bless ye the LORD, all ye servants OF THE LORD, which by night stand in the house OF THE LORD.
Praise ye the LORD. Praise ye the name OF THE LORD; praise him, O ye servants OF THE LORD.
My mouth shall speak the praise OF THE LORD: and let all flesh bless his holy name for ever and ever.
Let them praise the name OF THE LORD: for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven.
The fear OF THE LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
The curse OF THE LORD is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.
The fear OF THE LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
The fear OF THE LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
The fear OF THE LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
The way OF THE LORD is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity.
In the fear OF THE LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Better is little with the fear OF THE LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear OF THE LORD men depart from evil.
There are many devices in a man's heart; nevertheless the counsel OF THE LORD, that shall stand.
The fear OF THE LORD tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
The spirit of man is the candle OF THE LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.
The king's heart is in the hand OF THE LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.
The eyes OF THE LORD preserve knowledge, and he overthroweth the words of the transgressor.
The mouth of strange women is a deep pit: he that is abhorred OF THE LORD shall fall therein.
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear OF THE LORD all the day long.
Hear the word OF THE LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah.
But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth OF THE LORD hath spoken it.
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain OF THE LORD'S house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
And many people shall go and say, Come ye, and let us go up to the mountain OF THE LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word OF THE LORD from Jerusalem.
Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear OF THE LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
For the day OF THE LORD of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty, and upon every one that is lifted up; and he shall be brought low:
And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear OF THE LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear OF THE LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.
In that day shall the branch OF THE LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
For the vineyard OF THE LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work OF THE LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law OF THE LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Therefore is the anger OF THE LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Also I heard the voice OF THE LORD, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.
Ask thee a sign OF THE LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal OF THE LORD of hosts will perform this.
Through the wrath OF THE LORD of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
And the spirit OF THE LORD shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear OF THE LORD;
And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear OF THE LORD: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge OF THE LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Howl ye; for the day OF THE LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
Behold, the day OF THE LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath OF THE LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.
And the people shall take them, and bring them to their place: and the house of Israel shall possess them in the land OF THE LORD for servants and handmaids: and they shall take them captives, whose captives they were; and they shall rule over their oppressors.
In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name OF THE LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand OF THE LORD of hosts, which he shaketh over it.
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel OF THE LORD of hosts, which he hath determined against it.
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard OF THE LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty OF THE LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
Wherefore glorify ye the LORD in the fires, even the name OF THE LORD God of Israel in the isles of the sea.
For in this mountain shall the hand OF THE LORD rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill.
Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty OF THE LORD.
But the word OF THE LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.
Wherefore hear the word OF THE LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
Thou shalt be visited OF THE LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
That this is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law OF THE LORD:
Behold, the name OF THE LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:
Ye shall have a song, as in the night when a holy solemnity is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goeth with a pipe to come into the mountain OF THE LORD, to the mighty One of Israel.
For through the voice OF THE LORD shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.
For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath OF THE LORD, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear OF THE LORD is his treasure.
For the indignation OF THE LORD is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.
The sword OF THE LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.
For it is the day OF THE LORD'S vengeance, and the year of recompences for the controversy of Zion.
Seek ye out of the book OF THE LORD, and read: no one of these shall fail, none shall want her mate: for my mouth it hath commanded, and his spirit it hath gathered them.
It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory OF THE LORD, and the excellency of our God.
And the ransomed OF THE LORD shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
And it came to pass, when king Hezekiah heard it, that he rent his clothes, and covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the house OF THE LORD.
And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it: and Hezekiah went up unto the house OF THE LORD, and spread it before the LORD.
For out of Jerusalem shall go forth a remnant, and they that escape out of mount Zion: the zeal OF THE LORD of hosts shall do this.
Then the angel OF THE LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house OF THE LORD.
Then said Hezekiah to Isaiah, Good is the word OF THE LORD which thou hast spoken. He said moreover, For there shall be peace and truth in my days.
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received OF THE LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way OF THE LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
And the glory OF THE LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth OF THE LORD hath spoken it.
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit OF THE LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
That they may see, and know, and consider, and understand together, that the hand OF THE LORD hath done this, and the Holy One of Israel hath created it.
Hear ye this, O house of Jacob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Judah, which swear by the name OF THE LORD, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness.
And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes OF THE LORD, and my God shall be my strength.
Thus saith the LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because OF THE LORD that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Who is among you that feareth the LORD, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name OF THE LORD, and stay upon his God.
For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden OF THE LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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 dragon?
Therefore 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.
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.
Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury OF THE LORD, the rebuke of thy God.
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.
Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his days, and the pleasure OF THE LORD shall prosper in his hand.
And all thy children shall be taught OF THE LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants OF THE LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because OF THE LORD thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.
Also the sons of the stranger, that join themselves to the LORD, to serve him, and to love the name OF THE LORD, to be his servants, every one that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and taketh hold of my covenant;
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory OF THE LORD shall be thy rereward.
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy OF THE LORD, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the LORD; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth OF THE LORD hath spoken it.
So shall they fear the name OF THE LORD from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit OF THE LORD shall lift up a standard against him.
The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all they from Sheba shall come: they shall bring gold and incense; and they shall shew forth the praises OF THE LORD.
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name OF THE LORD thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee; and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; and they shall call thee, The city OF THE LORD, The Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
The Spirit OF THE LORD GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year OF THE LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;
To appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees of righteousness, the planting OF THE LORD, that he might be glorified.
But ye shall be named the Priests OF THE LORD: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.
And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth OF THE LORD shall name.
Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand OF THE LORD, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention OF THE LORD, keep not silence,
And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed OF THE LORD: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
I will mention the lovingkindnesses OF THE LORD, and the praises OF THE LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit OF THE LORD caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed OF THE LORD, and their offspring with them.
Hear the word OF THE LORD, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice OF THE LORD that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand OF THE LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain OF THE LORD shall be many.
And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the LORD out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the LORD, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house OF THE LORD.
To whom the word OF THE LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.
Then the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Moreover the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond tree.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a seething pot; and the face thereof is toward the north.
Hear ye the word OF THE LORD, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:
O generation, see ye the word OF THE LORD. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the LORD, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant OF THE LORD: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.
At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne OF THE LORD; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name OF THE LORD, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the LORD our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice OF THE LORD our God.
For this gird you with sackcloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger OF THE LORD is not turned back from us.
I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence OF THE LORD, and by his fierce anger.
Therefore I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way OF THE LORD, nor the judgment of their God.
I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way OF THE LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.
To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word OF THE LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in it.
Therefore I am full of the fury OF THE LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
Stand in the gate OF THE LORD'S house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word OF THE LORD, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the LORD.
Trust ye not in lying words, saying, The temple OF THE LORD, The temple OF THE LORD, The temple OF THE LORD, are these.
But thou shalt say unto them, This is a nation that obeyeth not the voice OF THE LORD their God, nor receiveth correction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment OF THE LORD.
How do ye say, We are wise, and the law OF THE LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word OF THE LORD; and what wisdom is in them?
Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth OF THE LORD hath spoken, that he may declare it, for what the land perisheth and is burned up like a wilderness, that none passeth through?
Yet hear the word OF THE LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
Therefore thus saith the LORD of the men of Anathoth, that seek thy life, saying, Prophesy not in the name OF THE LORD, that thou die not by our hand:
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword OF THE LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger OF THE LORD.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto me the second time, saying, Take the girdle that thou hast got, which is upon thy loins, and arise, go to Euphrates, and hide it there in a hole of the rock. So I went, and hid it by Euphrates, as the LORD commanded me. And it came to pass after many days, that the LORD said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there. read more Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing. Then the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem. show less
And say unto them, Hear ye the word OF THE LORD, ye kings of Judah, and all Judah, and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, that enter in by these gates:
And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house OF THE LORD.
And say, Hear ye the word OF THE LORD, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle.
Then came Jeremiah from Tophet, whither the LORD had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court OF THE LORD'S house; and said to all the people,
Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house OF THE LORD, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.
Then Pashur smote Jeremiah the prophet, and put him in the stocks that were in the high gate of Benjamin, which was by the house OF THE LORD.
For since I spake, I cried out, I cried violence and spoil; because the word OF THE LORD was made a reproach unto me, and a derision, daily.
Inquire, I pray thee, OF THE LORD for us; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon maketh war against us; if so be that the LORD will deal with us according to all his wondrous works, that he may go up from us.
And say, Hear the word OF THE LORD, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates:
Then they shall answer, Because they have forsaken the covenant OF THE LORD their God, and worshipped other gods, and served them.
Mine heart within me is broken because of the prophets; all my bones shake; I am like a drunken man, and like a man whom wine hath overcome, because OF THE LORD, and because of the words of his holiness.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth OF THE LORD.
For who hath stood in the counsel OF THE LORD, and hath perceived and heard his word? who hath marked his word, and heard it?
Behold, a whirlwind OF THE LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
The anger OF THE LORD shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.
And when this people, or the prophet, or a priest, shall ask thee, saying, What is the burden OF THE LORD? thou shalt then say unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD.
And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden OF THE LORD, I will even punish that man and his house.
And the burden OF THE LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, OF THE LORD of hosts our God.
But since ye say, The burden OF THE LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD; Because ye say this word, The burden OF THE LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden OF THE LORD;
The LORD shewed me, and, behold, two baskets of figs were set before the temple OF THE LORD, after that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the carpenters and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
From the thirteenth year of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, even unto this day, that is the three and twentieth year, the word OF THE LORD hath come unto me, and I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye have not hearkened.
And the slain OF THE LORD shall be at that day from one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth: they shall not be lamented, neither gathered, nor buried; they shall be dung upon the ground.
Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court OF THE LORD'S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD'S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:
So the priests and the prophets and all the people heard Jeremiah speaking these words in the house OF THE LORD.
Why hast thou prophesied in the name OF THE LORD, saying, This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house OF THE LORD.
When the princes of Judah heard these things, then they came up from the king's house unto the house OF THE LORD, and sat down in the entry of the new gate OF THE LORD'S house.
Therefore now amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice OF THE LORD your God; and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.
Then said the princes and all the people unto the priests and to the prophets; This man is not worthy to die: for he hath spoken to us in the name OF THE LORD our God.
And there was also a man that prophesied in the name OF THE LORD, Urijah the son of Shemaiah of Kirjathjearim, who prophesied against this city and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah:
Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels OF THE LORD'S house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.
But if they be prophets, and if the word OF THE LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house OF THE LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house OF THE LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
And it came to pass the same year, in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the fourth year, and in the fifth month, that Hananiah the son of Azur the prophet, which was of Gibeon, spake unto me in the house OF THE LORD, in the presence of the priests and of all the people, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, I have broken the yoke of the king of Babylon. Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels OF THE LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon: And I will bring again to this place Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah, with all the captives of Judah, that went into Babylon, saith the LORD: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon. read more Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house OF THE LORD, Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels OF THE LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place. Nevertheless hear thou now this word that I speak in thine ears, and in the ears of all the people; The prophets that have been before me and before thee of old prophesied both against many countries, and against great kingdoms, of war, and of evil, and of pestilence. The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the LORD hath truly sent him. Then Hananiah the prophet took the yoke from off the prophet Jeremiah's neck, and brake it. And Hananiah spake in the presence of all the people, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Even so will I break the yoke of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon from the neck of all nations within the space of two full years. And the prophet Jeremiah went his way. Then the word OF THE LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying, Go and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; Thou hast broken the yokes of wood; but thou shalt make for them yokes of iron. For thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; I have put a yoke of iron upon the neck of all these nations, that they may serve Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; and they shall serve him: and I have given him the beasts of the field also. Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The LORD hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie. Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD. So Hananiah the prophet died the same year in the seventh month. show less
Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the vessels OF THE LORD'S house, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took away from this place, and carried them to Babylon:
Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house OF THE LORD,
Even the prophet Jeremiah said, Amen: the LORD do so: the LORD perform thy words which thou hast prophesied, to bring again the vessels OF THE LORD'S house, and all that is carried away captive, from Babylon into this place.
Then the word OF THE LORD came unto Jeremiah the prophet, after that Hananiah the prophet had broken the yoke from off the neck of the prophet Jeremiah, saying,
Hear ye therefore the word OF THE LORD, all ye of the captivity, whom I have sent from Jerusalem to Babylon:
The LORD hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that ye should be officers in the house OF THE LORD, for every man that is mad, and maketh himself a prophet, that thou shouldest put him in prison, and in the stocks.
Behold, the whirlwind OF THE LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.
The fierce anger OF THE LORD shall not return, until he have done it, and until he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it.
Hear the word OF THE LORD, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off, and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.
Therefore they shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to the goodness OF THE LORD, for wheat, and for wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.
So Hanameel mine uncle's son came to me in the court of the prison according to the word OF THE LORD, and said unto me, Buy my field, I pray thee, that is in Anathoth, which is in the country of Benjamin: for the right of inheritance is thine, and the redemption is thine; buy it for thyself. Then I knew that this was the word OF THE LORD.
Then came the word OF THE LORD unto Jeremiah, saying, Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me? Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it: And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger. read more For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before me from their youth: for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith the LORD. For this city hath been to me as a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the day that they built it even unto this day; that I should remove it from before my face, Because of all the evil of the children of Israel and of the children of Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger, they, their kings, their princes, their priests, and their prophets, and the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem. And they have turned unto me the back, and not the face: though I taught them, rising up early and teaching them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. But they set their abominations in the house, which is called by my name, to defile it. And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin. show less
Moreover the word OF THE LORD came unto Jeremiah the second time, while he was yet shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
The voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of them that shall say, Praise the LORD of hosts: for the LORD is good; for his mercy endureth for ever: and of them that shall bring the sacrifice of praise into the house OF THE LORD. For I will cause to return the captivity of the land, as at the first, saith the LORD.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto Jeremiah, saying, Thus saith the LORD; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season; Then may also my covenant be broken with David my servant, that he should not have a son to reign upon his throne; and with the Levites the priests, my ministers. As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither the sand of the sea measured: so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me. read more Moreover the word OF THE LORD came to Jeremiah, saying, Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the LORD hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them. Thus saith the LORD; If my covenant be not with day and night, and if I have not appointed the ordinances of heaven and earth; Then will I cast away the seed of Jacob, and David my servant, so that I will not take any of his seed to be rulers over the seed of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob: for I will cause their captivity to return, and have mercy on them. show less
Yet hear the word OF THE LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of thee, Thou shalt not die by the sword:
Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house OF THE LORD, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.
And I brought them into the house OF THE LORD, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan, the son of Igdaliah, a man of God, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the door:
Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah: and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words OF THE LORD, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.
And Jeremiah commanded Baruch, saying, I am shut up; I cannot go into the house OF THE LORD:
Therefore go thou, and read in the roll, which thou hast written from my mouth, the words OF THE LORD in the ears of the people in the LORD'S house upon the fasting day: and also thou shalt read them in the ears of all Judah that come out of their cities.
And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words OF THE LORD in the LORD'S house.
Then read Baruch in the book the words of Jeremiah in the house OF THE LORD, in the chamber of Gemariah the son of Shaphan the scribe, in the higher court, at the entry of the new gate OF THE LORD'S house, in the ears of all the people.
When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words OF THE LORD,
Then the word OF THE LORD came to Jeremiah, after that the king had burned the roll, and the words which Baruch wrote at the mouth of Jeremiah, saying,
But neither he, nor his servants, nor the people of the land, did hearken unto the words OF THE LORD, which he spake by the prophet Jeremiah.
Then Zedekiah the king sent, and took Jeremiah the prophet unto him into the third entry that is in the house OF THE LORD: and the king said unto Jeremiah, I will ask thee a thing; hide nothing from me.
But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver thee. Obey, I beseech thee, the voice OF THE LORD, which I speak unto thee: so it shall be well unto thee, and thy soul shall live.
Now the word OF THE LORD came unto Jeremiah, while he was shut up in the court of the prison, saying,
That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut themselves, with offerings and incense in their hand, to bring them to the house OF THE LORD.
Whether it be good, or whether it be evil, we will obey the voice OF THE LORD our God, to whom we send thee; that it may be well with us, when we obey the voice OF THE LORD our God.
But if ye say, We will not dwell in this land, neither obey the voice OF THE LORD your God,
And now therefore hear the word OF THE LORD, ye remnant of Judah; Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; If ye wholly set your faces to enter into Egypt, and go to sojourn there;
And now I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice OF THE LORD your God, nor any thing for the which he hath sent me unto you.
And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words OF THE LORD their God, for which the LORD their God had sent him to them, even all these words,
So Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces, and all the people, obeyed not the voice OF THE LORD, to dwell in the land of Judah.
So they came into the land of Egypt: for they obeyed not the voice OF THE LORD: thus came they even to Tahpanhes.
As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name OF THE LORD, we will not hearken unto thee.
Because ye have burned incense, and because ye have sinned against the LORD, and have not obeyed the voice OF THE LORD, nor walked in his law, nor in his statutes, nor in his testimonies; therefore this evil is happened unto you, as at this day.
Moreover Jeremiah said unto all the people, and to all the women, Hear the word OF THE LORD, all Judah that are in the land of Egypt:
Therefore hear ye the word OF THE LORD, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the LORD, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord GOD liveth.
For this is the day OF THE LORD GOD of hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour, and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood: for the Lord GOD of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.
The word OF THE LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against the Philistines, before that Pharaoh smote Gaza.
O thou sword OF THE LORD, how long will it be ere thou be quiet? put up thyself into thy scabbard, rest, and be still.
Cursed be he that doeth the work OF THE LORD deceitfully, and cursed be he that keepeth back his sword from blood.
Therefore hear the counsel OF THE LORD, that he hath taken against Edom; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitations desolate with them.
The word OF THE LORD that came to Jeremiah the prophet against Elam in the beginning of the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah, saying,
Because of the wrath OF THE LORD it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be wholly desolate: every one that goeth by Babylon shall be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.
Shout against her round about: she hath given her hand: her foundations are fallen, her walls are thrown down: for it is the vengeance OF THE LORD: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.
The LORD hath opened his armoury, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation: for this is the work OF THE LORD GOD of hosts in the land of the Chaldeans.
The voice of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in Zion the vengeance OF THE LORD our God, the vengeance of his temple.
Therefore hear ye the counsel OF THE LORD, that he hath taken against Babylon; and his purposes, that he hath purposed against the land of the Chaldeans: Surely the least of the flock shall draw them out: surely he shall make their habitation desolate with them.
For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, OF THE LORD of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.
Flee out of the midst of Babylon, and deliver every man his soul: be not cut off in her iniquity; for this is the time OF THE LORD'S vengeance; he will render unto her a recompence.
The LORD hath brought forth our righteousness: come, and let us declare in Zion the work OF THE LORD our God.
Make bright the arrows; gather the shields: the LORD hath raised up the spirit of the kings of the Medes: for his device is against Babylon, to destroy it; because it is the vengeance OF THE LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
And the land shall tremble and sorrow: for every purpose OF THE LORD shall be performed against Babylon, to make the land of Babylon a desolation without an inhabitant.
My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger OF THE LORD.
We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries OF THE LORD'S house.
And he did that which was evil in the eyes OF THE LORD, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.
For through the anger OF THE LORD it came to pass in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had cast them out from his presence, that Zedekiah rebelled against the king of Babylon.
And burned the house OF THE LORD, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire:
Also the pillars of brass that were in the house OF THE LORD, and the bases, and the brasen sea that was in the house OF THE LORD, the Chaldeans brake, and carried all the brass of them to Babylon.
The two pillars, one sea, and twelve brasen bulls that were under the bases, which king Solomon had made in the house OF THE LORD: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.
The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath 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.
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 toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary OF THE LORD?
Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day OF THE LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation OF THE LORD.
The anger OF THE LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed OF THE LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
The word OF THE LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand OF THE LORD was there upon him.
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory OF THE LORD. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Then the spirit took me up, and I heard behind me a voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory OF THE LORD from his place.
So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand OF THE LORD was strong upon me.
And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
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.
Then I arose, and went forth into the plain: and, behold, the glory OF THE LORD stood there, as the glory which I saw by the river of Chebar: and I fell on my face.
And say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word OF THE LORD GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys; Behold, I, even I, will bring a sword upon you, and I will destroy your high places.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath OF THE LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand OF THE LORD GOD fell there upon me.
Then he brought me to the door of the gate OF THE LORD'S house which was toward the north; and, behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz.
And he brought me into the inner court OF THE LORD'S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple OF THE LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple OF THE LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.
Then the glory OF THE LORD went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness OF THE LORD'S glory.
Then the glory OF THE LORD departed from off the threshold of the house, and stood over the cherubims.
And the cherubims lifted up their wings, and mounted up from the earth in my sight: when they went out, the wheels also were beside them, and every one stood at the door of the east gate OF THE LORD'S house; and the glory of the God of Israel was over them above.
Moreover the spirit lifted me up, and brought me unto the east gate OF THE LORD'S house, which looketh eastward: and behold at the door of the gate five and twenty men; among whom I saw Jaazaniah the son of Azur, and Pelatiah the son of Benaiah, princes of the people.
And the Spirit OF THE LORD fell upon me, and said unto me, Speak; Thus saith the LORD; Thus have ye said, O house of Israel: for I know the things that come into your mind, every one of them.
Again the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, thy brethren, even thy brethren, the men of thy kindred, and all the house of Israel wholly, are they unto whom the inhabitants of Jerusalem have said, Get you far from the LORD: unto us is this land given in possession. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come. Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel. read more And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence. And I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take the stony heart out of their flesh, and will give them an heart of flesh: That they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God. show less
And the glory OF THE LORD went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.
The word OF THE LORD also came unto me, saying, Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of a rebellious house, which have eyes to see, and see not; they have ears to hear, and hear not: for they are a rebellious house.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, what is that proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth? Tell them therefore, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will make this proverb to cease, and they shall no more use it as a proverb in Israel; but say unto them, The days are at hand, and the effect of every vision. For there shall be no more any vain vision nor flattering divination within the house of Israel. read more For I am the LORD: I will speak, and the word that I shall speak shall come to pass; it shall be no more prolonged: for in your days, O rebellious house, will I say the word, and will perform it, saith the Lord GOD. Again the word OF THE LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off. Therefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; There shall none of my words be prolonged any more, but the word which I have spoken shall be done, saith the Lord GOD. show less
Again the word OF THE LORD came to me, saying, Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days to come, and he prophesieth of the times that are far off.
Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word OF THE LORD;
Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day OF THE LORD.
Again the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD unto Jerusalem; Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all. read more 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. And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live. I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare. 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 entered into a covenant with thee, saith the Lord GOD, and thou becamest mine. Then washed I thee with water; yea, I throughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil. I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers' skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck. And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head. 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 oil: and thou wast exceeding beautiful, and thou didst prosper into a kingdom. And thy renown went forth among the heathen for thy beauty: for it was perfect through my comeliness, which I had put upon thee, saith the Lord GOD. But thou didst trust in thine own beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy fornications on every one that passed by; his it was. 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. Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them, And tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them: and thou hast set mine oil and mine incense before them. My meat also which I gave thee, fine flour, and oil, and honey, wherewith I fed thee, thou hast even set it before them for a sweet savour: and thus it was, saith the Lord GOD. Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter, That thou hast slain my children, and delivered them to cause them to pass through the fire for them? And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood. And it came to pass after all thy wickedness, (woe, woe unto thee! saith the Lord GOD;) That thou hast also built unto thee an eminent place, and hast made thee an high place in every street. 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 passed by, and multiplied thy whoredoms. Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger. 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 daughters of the Philistines, which are ashamed of thy lewd way. 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. Thou hast moreover multiplied thy fornication in the land of Canaan unto Chaldea; and yet thou wast not satisfied herewith. How weak is thine heart, saith the Lord GOD, seeing thou doest all these things, the work of an imperious whorish woman; In that thou buildest thine eminent place in the head of every way, and makest thine high place in every street; and hast not been as an harlot, in that thou scornest hire; But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband! They give gifts to all whores: but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom. And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee, therefore thou art contrary. Wherefore, O harlot, hear the word OF THE LORD: Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them; Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy. And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare. They shall also bring up a company against thee, and they shall stone thee with stones, and thrust thee through with their swords. And they shall burn thine houses with fire, and execute judgments upon thee in the sight of many women: and I will cause thee to cease from playing the harlot, and thou also shalt give no hire any more. So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry. Because thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, but hast fretted me in all these things; behold, therefore I also will recompense thy way upon thine head, saith the Lord GOD: and thou shalt not commit this lewdness above all thine abominations. Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter. Thou art thy mother's daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite. And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters. Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways. As I live, saith the Lord GOD, Sodom thy sister hath not done, she nor her daughters, as thou hast done, thou and thy daughters. Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy. And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good. Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done. Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters. When I shall bring again their captivity, the captivity of Sodom and her daughters, and the captivity of Samaria and her daughters, then will I bring again the captivity of thy captives in the midst of them: That thou mayest bear thine own shame, and mayest be confounded in all that thou hast done, in that thou art a comfort unto them. When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate. For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride, Before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of thy reproach of the daughters of Syria, and all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, which despise thee round about. Thou hast borne thy lewdness and thine abominations, saith the LORD. For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant. Then thou shalt remember thy ways, and be ashamed, when thou shalt receive thy sisters, thine elder and thy younger: and I will give them unto thee for daughters, but not by thy covenant. And I will establish my covenant with thee; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD. show less
The word OF THE LORD came unto me again, saying, What mean ye, that ye use this proverb concerning the land of Israel, saying, The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge? As I live, saith the Lord GOD, ye shall not have occasion any more to use this proverb in Israel. Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Yet ye say, The way OF THE LORD is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?
Yet saith the house of Israel, The way OF THE LORD is not equal. O house of Israel, are not my ways equal? are not your ways unequal?
And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire OF THE LORD, and sat before me.
And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word OF THE LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
And the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are even the dross of silver. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem.
The word OF THE LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity. And the names of them were Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus were their names; Samaria is Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. read more And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours, Which were clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses. Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself. Neither left she her whoredoms brought from Egypt: for in her youth they lay with her, and they bruised the breasts of her virginity, and poured their whoredom upon her. Wherefore I have delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted. These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms. She doted upon the Assyrians her neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men. Then I saw that she was defiled, that they took both one way, And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion, Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity: And as soon as she saw them with her eyes, she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea. And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her mind was alienated from them. So she discovered her whoredoms, and discovered her nakedness: then my mind was alienated from her, like as my mind was alienated from her sister. Yet she multiplied her whoredoms, in calling to remembrance the days of her youth, wherein she had played the harlot in the land of Egypt. For she doted upon their paramours, whose flesh is as the flesh of asses, and whose issue is like the issue of horses. Thus thou calledst to remembrance the lewdness of thy youth, in bruising thy teats by the Egyptians for the paps of thy youth. Therefore, O Aholibah, thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side; The Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses. And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments. And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. They shall also strip thee out of thy clothes, and take away thy fair jewels. Thus will I make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom brought from the land of Egypt: so that thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more. For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand of them whom thou hatest, into the hand of them from whom thy mind is alienated: And they shall deal with thee hatefully, and shall take away all thy labour, and shall leave thee naked and bare: and the nakedness of thy whoredoms shall be discovered, both thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. I will do these things unto thee, because thou hast gone a whoring after the heathen, and because thou art polluted with their idols. Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; therefore will I give her cup into thine hand. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou shalt drink of thy sister's cup deep and large: thou shalt be laughed to scorn and had in derision; it containeth much. Thou shalt be filled with drunkenness and sorrow, with the cup of astonishment and desolation, with the cup of thy sister Samaria. Thou shalt even drink it and suck it out, and thou shalt break the sherds thereof, and pluck off thine own breasts: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD. Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms. The LORD said moreover unto me; Son of man, wilt thou judge Aholah and Aholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations; That they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands, and with their idols have they committed adultery, and have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass for them through the fire, to devour them. Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths. For when they had slain their children to their idols, then they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and, lo, thus have they done in the midst of mine house. And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments, And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil. And a voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with the men of the common sort were brought Sabeans from the wilderness, which put bracelets upon their hands, and beautiful crowns upon their heads. Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them? 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. And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands. For thus saith the Lord GOD; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled. And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire. Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness. 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. show less
Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
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;
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first day of the month, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
Moreover the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created. Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire. read more Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found in thee. By the multitude of thy merchandise they have filled the midst of thee with violence, and thou hast sinned: therefore I will cast thee as profane out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire. Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee. Thou hast defiled thy sanctuaries by the multitude of thine iniquities, by the iniquity of thy traffick; therefore will I bring forth a fire from the midst of thee, it shall devour thee, and I will bring thee to ashes upon the earth in the sight of all them that behold thee. All they that know thee among the people shall be astonished at thee: thou shalt be a terror, and never shalt thou be any more. show less
In the tenth year, in the tenth month, in the twelfth day of the month, the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
And it came to pass in the seven and twentieth year, in the first month, in the first day of the month, the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
For the day is near, even the day OF THE LORD is near, a cloudy day; it shall be the time of the heathen.
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the third month, in the first day of the month, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
And it came to pass in the twelfth year, in the twelfth month, in the first day of the month, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying,
Again the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. read more He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me. When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul. Therefore, O thou son of man, speak unto the house of Israel; Thus ye speak, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live? Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel? show less
Yet the children of thy people say, The way OF THE LORD is not equal: but as for them, their way is not equal.
Yet ye say, The way OF THE LORD is not equal. O ye house of Israel, I will judge you every one after his ways.
Now the hand OF THE LORD was upon me in the evening, afore he that was escaped came; and had opened my mouth, until he came to me in the morning; and my mouth was opened, and I was no more dumb.
Moreover the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against mount Seir, and prophesy against it, And say unto it, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O mount Seir, I am against thee, and I will stretch out mine hand against thee, and I will make thee most desolate. I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the LORD. read more Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee. Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth. And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword. I will make thee perpetual desolations, and thy cities shall not return: and ye shall know that I am the LORD. Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; whereas the LORD was there: Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee. And thou shalt know that I am the LORD, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume. Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. Thus saith the Lord GOD; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate. As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolate, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be desolate, O mount Seir, and all Idumea, even all of it: and they shall know that I am the LORD. show less
Also, thou son of man, prophesy unto the mountains of Israel, and say, Ye mountains of Israel, hear the word OF THE LORD:
Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word OF THE LORD GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen that are round about;
And when they entered unto the heathen, whither they went, they profaned my holy name, when they said to them, These are the people OF THE LORD, and are gone forth out of his land.
The hand OF THE LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit OF THE LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones, And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry. And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord GOD, thou knowest. Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word OF THE LORD. read more Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live: And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the LORD. So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone. And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them. Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live. So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army. Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts. Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel. And ye shall know that I am the LORD, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves, And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. show less
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word OF THE LORD.
The word OF THE LORD came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these? read more Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. And the sticks whereon thou writest shall be in thine hand before their eyes. And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all: Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God. And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them. And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever. Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore. show less
And the word OF THE LORD came unto me, saying, Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him, And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: read more Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee. Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them. After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, and is gathered out of many people, against the mountains of Israel, which have been always waste: but it is brought forth out of the nations, and they shall dwell safely all of them. Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee. Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought: And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land. Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil? Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it? And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts, thou, and many people with thee, all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army: And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes. Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them? And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face. For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel; So that the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the heaven, and the beasts of the field, and all creeping things that creep upon the earth, and all the men that are upon the face of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground. And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man's sword shall be against his brother. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. show less
In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand OF THE LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.
And the glory OF THE LORD came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.
So the spirit took me up, and brought me into the inner court; and, behold, the glory OF THE LORD filled the house.
Then brought he me the way of the north gate before the house: and I looked, and, behold, the glory OF THE LORD filled the house OF THE LORD: and I fell upon my face.
And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house OF THE LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.
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.
In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word OF THE LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Neither have we obeyed the voice OF THE LORD our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.
The word OF THE LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.
The beginning of the word OF THE LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house OF THE LORD, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind OF THE LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways OF THE LORD are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house OF THE LORD; the priests, the LORD'S ministers, mourn.
Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house OF THE LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
Alas for the day! for the day OF THE LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.
Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day OF THE LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;
And the LORD shall utter his voice before his army: for his camp is very great: for he is strong that executeth his word: for the day OF THE LORD is great and very terrible; and who can abide it?
Let the priests, the ministers OF THE LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?
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.
And it shall come to pass, that 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.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day OF THE LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have despised the law OF THE LORD, and have not kept his commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after the which their fathers have walked:
And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name OF THE LORD.
Now therefore hear thou the word OF THE LORD: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.
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:
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 find it.
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.
For the day OF THE LORD is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head.
But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence OF THE LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish: so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish from the presence OF THE LORD.
Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him, Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence OF THE LORD, because he had told them.
But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is OF THE LORD.
The word OF THE LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.
O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit OF THE LORD straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?
But in the last days it shall come to pass, that the mountain of the house OF THE LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it.
And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain OF THE LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word OF THE LORD from Jerusalem.
But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth OF THE LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
For all people will walk every one in the name of his god, and we will walk in the name OF THE LORD our God for ever and ever.
But they know not the thoughts OF THE LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.
And he shall stand and feed in the strength OF THE LORD, in the majesty of the name OF THE LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth.
O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness OF THE LORD.
I will bear the indignation OF THE LORD, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid OF THE LORD our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Behold, is it not OF THE LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity?
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory OF THE LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup OF THE LORD'S right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
The word OF THE LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.
Hold thy peace at the presence OF THE LORD GOD: for the day OF THE LORD is at hand: for the LORD hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.
And it shall come to pass in the day OF THE LORD'S sacrifice, that I will punish the princes, and the king's children, and all such as are clothed with strange apparel.
The great day OF THE LORD is near, it is near, and hasteth greatly, even the voice of the day OF THE LORD: the mighty man shall cry there bitterly.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day OF THE LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger OF THE LORD come upon you, before the day OF THE LORD'S anger come upon you.
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day OF THE LORD'S anger.
Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea coast, the nation of the Cherethites! the word OF THE LORD is against you; O Canaan, the land of the Philistines, I will even destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant.
This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people OF THE LORD of hosts.
For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call upon the name OF THE LORD, to serve him with one consent.
I will also leave in the midst of thee an afflicted and poor people, and they shall trust in the name OF THE LORD.
In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word OF THE LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,
Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice OF THE LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him, and the people did fear before the LORD.
And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people; and they came and did work in the house OF THE LORD of hosts, their God,
In the seventh month, in the one and twentieth day of the month, came the word OF THE LORD by the prophet Haggai, saying,
In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word OF THE LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying,
And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple OF THE LORD:
Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation OF THE LORD'S temple was laid, consider it.
And again the word OF THE LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying,
In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word OF THE LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
Upon the four and twentieth day of the eleventh month, which is the month Sebat, in the second year of Darius, came the word OF THE LORD unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,
And they answered the angel OF THE LORD that stood among the myrtle trees, and said, We have walked to and fro through the earth, and, behold, all the earth sitteth still, and is at rest.
Then the angel OF THE LORD answered and said, O LORD of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?
And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel OF THE LORD, and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him.
And I said, Let them set a fair mitre upon his head. So they set a fair mitre upon his head, and clothed him with garments. And the angel OF THE LORD stood by.
Then he answered and spake unto me, saying, This is the word OF THE LORD unto Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.
For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes OF THE LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
And speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh the LORD of hosts, saying, Behold the man whose name is The BRANCH; and he shall grow up out of his place, and he shall build the temple OF THE LORD:
Even he shall build the temple OF THE LORD; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.
And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple OF THE LORD.
And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple OF THE LORD, and ye shall know that the LORD of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice OF THE LORD your God.
And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word OF THE LORD came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;
And to speak unto the priests which were in the house OF THE LORD of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?
Again the word OF THE LORD of hosts came to me, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury. Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain OF THE LORD of hosts the holy mountain. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age. read more And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the LORD of hosts. Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will save my people from the east country, and from the west country; And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness. show less
Thus saith the LORD; I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called a city of truth; and the mountain OF THE LORD of hosts the holy mountain.
Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Let your hands be strong, ye that hear in these days these words by the mouth of the prophets, which were in the day that the foundation of the house OF THE LORD of hosts was laid, that the temple might be built.
The burden of the word OF THE LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes of Israel, shall be toward the LORD.
Ask ye OF THE LORD rain in the time of the latter rain; so the LORD shall make bright clouds, and give them showers of rain, to every one grass in the field.
And it was broken in that day: and so the poor of the flock that waited upon me knew that it was the word OF THE LORD.
And the LORD said unto me, Cast it unto the potter: a goodly price that I was prised at of them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them to the potter in the house OF THE LORD.
The burden of the word OF THE LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
In that day shall the LORD defend the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and he that is feeble among them at that day shall be as David; and the house of David shall be as God, as the angel OF THE LORD before them.
And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name OF THE LORD: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.
Behold, the day OF THE LORD cometh, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.
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 Canaanite in the house OF THE LORD of hosts.
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.
But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table OF THE LORD is polluted; and the fruit thereof, even his meat, is contemptible.
For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he is the messenger OF THE LORD of hosts.
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness OF THE LORD which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.
And this have ye done again, covering the altar OF THE LORD with tears, with weeping, and with crying out, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, or receiveth it with good will at your hand.
Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied him? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil is good in the sight OF THE LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where is the God of judgment?
Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day OF THE LORD:
But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel OF THE LORD appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken OF THE LORD by the prophet, saying,
Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel OF THE LORD had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:
And when they were departed, behold, the angel OF THE LORD appeareth to Joseph in a dream, saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and flee into Egypt, and be thou there until I bring thee word: for Herod will seek the young child to destroy him.
And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken OF THE LORD by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.
But when Herod was dead, behold, an angel OF THE LORD appeareth in a dream to Joseph in Egypt,
For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way OF THE LORD, make his paths straight.
And the multitudes that went before, and that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name OF THE LORD; Hosanna in the highest.
For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name OF THE LORD.
And, behold, there 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.
The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way OF THE LORD, make his paths straight.
And they that went before, and they that followed, cried, saying, Hosanna; Blessed is he that cometh in the name OF THE LORD:
Blessed be the kingdom of our father David, that cometh in the name OF THE LORD: Hosanna in the highest.
According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple OF THE LORD.
And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand OF THE LORD was with him.
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face OF THE LORD to prepare his ways;
And, lo, the angel OF THE LORD came upon them, and the glory OF THE LORD shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.
(As it is written in the law OF THE LORD, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;)
And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law OF THE LORD, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
And when they had performed all things according to the law OF THE LORD, they returned into Galilee, to their own city Nazareth.
As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way OF THE LORD, make his paths straight.
Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and verily I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until the time come when ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name OF THE LORD.
Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name OF THE LORD: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.
And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word OF THE LORD, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way OF THE LORD, as said the prophet Esaias.
Took branches of palm trees, and went forth to meet him, and cried, Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name OF THE LORD.
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm OF THE LORD been revealed?
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name OF THE LORD shall be saved.
Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence OF THE LORD;
Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit OF THE LORD? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.
When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice OF THE LORD came unto him,
(For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name OF THE LORD Jesus.)
And they, when they had testified and preached the word OF THE LORD, returned to Jerusalem, and preached the gospel in many villages of the Samaritans.
And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples OF THE LORD, went unto the high priest,
And he commanded them to be baptized in the name OF THE LORD. Then prayed they him to tarry certain days.
Then remembered I the word OF THE LORD, how that he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost.
And the hand OF THE LORD was with them: and a great number believed, and turned unto the Lord.
And immediately the angel OF THE LORD smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways OF THE LORD?
And now, behold, the hand OF THE LORD is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.
Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine OF THE LORD.
And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word OF THE LORD: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed.
But we believe that through the grace OF THE LORD Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.
Paul also and Barnabas continued in Antioch, teaching and preaching the word OF THE LORD, with many others also.
And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word OF THE LORD, and see how they do.
This man was instructed in the way OF THE LORD; and being fervent in the spirit, he spake and taught diligently the things OF THE LORD, knowing only the baptism of John.
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word OF THE LORD Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name OF THE LORD Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.
And this was known to all the Jews and Greeks also dwelling at Ephesus; and fear fell on them all, and the name OF THE LORD Jesus was magnified.
But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received OF THE LORD Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words OF THE LORD Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Then Paul answered, What mean ye to weep and to break mine heart? for I am ready not to be bound only, but also to die at Jerusalem for the name OF THE LORD Jesus.
And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name OF THE LORD.
For who hath known the mind OF THE LORD, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day OF THE LORD Jesus.
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name OF THE LORD Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
Now concerning virgins I have no commandment OF THE LORD: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy OF THE LORD to be faithful.
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things OF THE LORD, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.
Have we not power to lead about a sister, a wife, as well as other apostles, and as the brethren OF THE LORD, and Cephas?
Ye cannot drink the cup OF THE LORD, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers OF THE LORD's table, and of the table of devils.
For I have received OF THE LORD that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup OF THE LORD, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood OF THE LORD. But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup. For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body. For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
But when we are judged, we are chastened OF THE LORD, that we should not be condemned with the world.
If any man think himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him acknowledge that the things that I write unto you are the commandments OF THE LORD.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work OF THE LORD, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
Now if Timotheus come, see that he may be with you without fear: for he worketh the work OF THE LORD, as I also do.
As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day OF THE LORD Jesus.
Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ's gospel, and a door was opened unto me OF THE LORD,
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit OF THE LORD is, there is liberty.
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory OF THE LORD, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit OF THE LORD.
Always bearing about in the body the dying OF THE LORD Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
Knowing therefore the terror OF THE LORD, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.
Providing for honest things, not only in the sight OF THE LORD, but also in the sight of men.
It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations OF THE LORD. 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. And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.
The grace OF THE LORD Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks OF THE LORD Jesus.
I therefore, the prisoner OF THE LORD, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called,
And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition OF THE LORD.
Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive OF THE LORD, whether he be bond or free.
That ye might walk worthy OF THE LORD unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name OF THE LORD Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.
Knowing that OF THE LORD ye shall receive the reward of the inheritance: for ye serve the Lord Christ.
And ye became followers of us, and OF THE LORD, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Ghost:
For from you sounded out the word OF THE LORD not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.
For this we say unto you by the word OF THE LORD, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming OF THE LORD shall not prevent them which are asleep.
For yourselves know perfectly that the day OF THE LORD so cometh as a thief in the night.
Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence OF THE LORD, and from the glory of his power;
But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved OF THE LORD, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Finally, brethren, pray for us, that the word OF THE LORD may have free course, and be glorified, even as it is with you:
The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy OF THE LORD in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.
And the servant OF THE LORD must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening OF THE LORD, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:
James, a servant of God and OF THE LORD Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting.
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming OF THE LORD. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name OF THE LORD, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.
Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end OF THE LORD; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.
Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name OF THE LORD:
But the word OF THE LORD endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
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 against them that do evil.
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge OF THE LORD and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.
That ye may be mindful of the words which were spoken before by the holy prophets, and of the commandment of us the apostles OF THE LORD and Saviour:
But the day OF THE LORD will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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